They're swept away and nothing is what it seems,
the feeling of belonging to your dreams.

"This is Captain Baird! Can anyone read me!? I need help! We have wounded and KIA along with everything else being fucked!" A voice called through to the command radio.

Baird shot up from the computer he was fiddling with, to hear the call.

"Is that Jackie baby?" Cole asked.

"Can someone answer the fucking call! Dammit command where the fucking hell are you!? You bastards" the call came through again in Jack's voice.

"Yep that's her, she always was good with poetry" Baird said.

"What happened?" Marcus asked coming into the small room.

"This is Captain Baird of Whisper squad calling in for back up or evac immediately" gunfire could be heard in the distance. "Sargent Tate and the others are dead, corporal Woods and I are the only surviving members we are wounded and low on ammo. Command are you there?" Jack's voice was full of desperation and pain.

"This is Sargent Fenix, what the hell is going on out there?" Marcus said through the radio in the command center.

"Too...much..." Her responses were breaking up. "...Lot's...of... fucking Kyrll!" the response cleared a little giving them an answer. "Trying...to... back...base...fifteen clicks...way" She answered static was still interfering despite the amount of power going in to clear it up.

"Coperal...sorry...I...for...what...I...said...about...you" she added before it went dark in static.

Cole looked at Baird who was about to lose it. "She's fine. She can handle locust and this is no different" Baird said quickly.

"Baird...she can't make that" Dom said.

"Santiago I'm not giving up on her. You haven't for Maria so I'm not for her!" Baird snarled.

"Maria is different she isn't in a Kryll nest Baird, Jack is just a kid" Marcus frowned at the corporal.

"Jack survived on a locust prison barge after I first lost her. If she can survive that she can do this" Baird said. They left him behind to hear the rest of the transmission of her distress call playing over and over again.

Jack gripped in pain as Terry helped her run and limp towards the nearest shelter. A bomb went off nearby making her duck her head into his shoulder.

"Jack it's okay. I'm not going to let them hurt us" Terry said comforting her as they ran at maniac pace.

"We are going to make it" he pulled her gently to the ground as they avoided Kryll.

Jack looked up the sky to see them swarming above lucky they couldn't reach them inside the shelter. This was hell, half of the night waster on trying to find a road back home. Jack thought if it looked like death was coming she had once last request to do.

"Terry...," she started. He looked at her and the blood on his stomach and face was starting to come out again. "I think we should get married" she said.

"We are remember?" he said joking.

"No I mean, uh, I mean right now here" she said. He half smiled.

"Honey I agree but you picked a shit date to do this" he said at least trying to lift the depression.

"Honey I know. Okay do you take me Jaqueline Renée Baird to be your fucked up un-true to the whatever law we have these days wife?" she asked.

"I do" he joked.

"I do to" Jack said back as they clinged to each other to keep warm.

"You know next time this happens I'm bringing a shotgun along" Terry said.

"Why?" she asked curling up to him feeling pain shoot through her leg.

"So we can have a 'shotgun wedding' what do you think?" he asked.

"Okay, that's just terrible and you know it" she played along.

They sat in silence for a few minutes trying to catch their breaths. They got up after he had to hep her up gently and strongly half carrying her they kept going and Jack pulled out her pistol running out of ammo and firing it as hard as she could without the concussion interfering. A Krylle swooped them causing them to go hade in a ditch area with cover to hide them as daylight approached. Jack fiddled with her radio as it was the only one working as Woods fell asleep.

When I get back I'm going to kill anyone who makes bad jokes like that again. She swore to herself. But when she did get back, it would be all to late.

Baird lent against the radio half asleep and praying that her voice the one that sounded as pretty as Lilly's but as sarcastic and hard as his would come through. He just waited knowing and feeling how hopeless he was to try to help her.

"This is Baird here" the voice finally came through.

"I don't know whether command is going to receive this but I doubt it because no signal is going to hear this but, I don't care. I stopped caring years ago what happened to me after this world turned to hell, sometimes I try to catch myself actually giving a damn but then I remember how fucked up this life turned out to be because no one is going to help you. Not just for you unless they want something in return" she said.

He looked up in surprise. No wonder she rejected him with this view of the world but then again this was what he thought of it once to before someone changed his mind years ago that no matter how hard it was and that nothing went planned it was out of their control and to get over it. She kept talking though as if to prove she was alive.

"Hmm one thing I think you should know is that you're not the only person who claims they are my family. You're actually my fifth. Most of the others are dead though" She admitted obviously now talking about him not knowing where or if he was listening.

"I guess the one thing I miss and remember from the old world before the locust was the way you told me stories when I was a little kid. They made me laugh and cry, I always remember how you'd put the goggles on my forehead and the dog tags around my neck, the way you would promise me you'd come back for me always. When I believed that so much I, I uh...never wanted to let that go but I had to because if I hadn't I would be so stuck in the past my life would fail. I said I hated you because I didn't want to go back there ever, I hate the past because if you linger too much on it you never move forward" Jack continued.

Static started interfering again.

"And if you can hear me dad I'm-" it broke off.

He had enough of waiting, there was nothing he could do but have to wait though! Baird sighed and went to her garage checking her things again before knocking over a small metal box which had coffee labeled on the side. It shook but not of the sound of coffee, he opened it t smell of coffee was definitely there but inside was his old dog tags and Lilly's wedding ring along with a picture of them all sitting in a park together. Jack looked too innocent then for him to believe what he had seen two days ago was her.

"Run home Jack, just run"