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(Herculaneum, Year: 77 A.D.)

Zoe was watching Marc as he fought with Uncle Theon…well he wasn't her uncle but he let her call him uncle. They had wooden swords and were swinging at each other…she wished her dad was here to stop them before their hurt each other.

"Sam, are they mad at each other?" She whispered over the wolf that sat between them.

"No, they do this a lot, Dad says he will train me like this when I am older so I will be strong too." He's eyes never strayed from the fight.

"Promise you won't get hurt?" She asked as Leah plopped down beside her.

"He needs a good hit to the head, might make him smarter." Leah laughed as her brother scowled and huffed, becoming silent.

"I don't think you need a hit to the head." Zoe assured and he smiled…but just a little, or so he says.

(Terra Nova, Year: 85 million years in the past)

The Spanish flu cases reached one hundred eleven. Martial law was declared two days prior and Malcolm was still working on the terminus in secret. Apparently since he had blue prints of the last one he didn't have to play with the data board.

Doctor Shannon was sitting at her desk when she couched and cleared her throat, she needs to go home and relax, when Malcolm comes in. "Elizabeth…I know I said we would have something like four or five months before I could finish the terminus, well guess what." He sat on the corner of the desk she sat at.

"What?"

"Try two or three months, I bypassed a system entirely," He smiled and she jumped up to hug him.

"That's-" His lips immediately found hers, and she pulled back her hands on his chest and his cupping her elbows. "Malcolm!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," He repeated the words several more times. "I just….am really happy to be getting Maddy and Zoe back."

"Just don't do it again." She sighed, "I'm going to head home, you should too." She let out another soft cough and grabbed her things as he left, say he was sorry again and telling her goodnight.

(Herculaneum, Year: 77 A.D.)

Marc stared at his bed, his wife's clothed shoulder. She had a terrible night, and he tried to comfort her. Maybe it was because he was a soldier, maybe it was because years of training and abuse has hardened him to feel nothing when he kills someone. He didn't know, but he knew that what he did with the aid of his wife had deeply unseated her.

She cried silently much of the night, before clutching him tightly, he finally got her to sleep when he sang an old soldier song to her, his lips pressed into her soft hair.

But he watched her now, it was the late in the morning, but he wanted her to regain her strength after a late night.

"I love you." He whispered into her hair, before kissing her lips gently. As soon as he left the room her eyes opened.

What was she to think? He constantly told her, even showed her how he loved her, kissing her, bringing her flowers, throwing petals of roses and lavenders around their room and on their bed. Even some of the petals were in her hair.

And every night he made love to her, always gentle, never doing something she didn't want. He even turned down prostitutes he saw often because, as he put it, they weren't her.

He did all these things for her, made her understand that she was his only…goddess. And yet, she didn't know if she loved him or if she was infatuated. But she was certainly afraid of loving someone, she never loved someone outside her family before.

(Terra Nova, Year: 85 million years in the past)

Elizabeth woke up in the middle of the night, she covered her mouth as she coughed harder. "Liz, you good?" Jim asked tiredly, sitting up and rubbing her back.

"I-I don't think so." She jumped up and pulled out their med kit, she grabbed the thermometer and stuck it in her mouth as she got some pills and a glass of water.

(Herculaneum, Year: 77 A.D.)

"Maddy?" Zoe lifted her arms, demanding to be held by her sister. "Where's Mars?" Come to think of it…where was that tiger?

"Let's go find him." She walked through the house with the girl in hand. They rounded many corners, getting to areas that Maddy has never been before. She saw a shadow in the corner. "What are you doing over here Mars?" She asked, placing Zoe down. He let out a gruff noise and turned to the door.

"Marc?" He had his back to the doorway, but turned quickly.

"Wife?" He smiled, a blade in hand. "Come here." Waving her over, she took slow steps forward. As soon as she was close, he pressed the handle into her palm and watched her stare at it. "It's for you, I had kept Alexandria's knife." He dropped his smile, "She didn't have it with her when-" Maddy just nodded and hugged him.

"Teach me how to use it, I need to be able to fight off many, should they threaten me or our family." Maddy was very serious, as guilty as she felt over aiding in Nero's death, she also knew that it had to be done.

"Tonight, before bed." He kissed her and took Zoe's hand. "I have a surprise for you two." He called for the tiger to follow, which happily followed Maddy.

(Terra Nova, Year: 85 million years in the past)

Elizabeth was sitting in the quarantine room, terrified and staring at Jim through the glass. She grabbed the phone and talked to him. "Jim, I know you won't want to here this, but you need to get Malcolm into quarantine too." She already knew she was sick, just hoping she didn't give it to Malcolm when he kissed her.

"Why, I mean I'm not sick-"

"He kissed me, when we were talking about the terminus. And go to Taylor-"

"I'll kill him." Jim hissed, scowling at her. "I'll-"

"JIM!" She fell into a coughing fit, "Tell Taylor that if this flu get worse, and if the Terminus is fixed, we may very well send all the healthy people to Maddy, in Ancient Rome." She huffed, holding her dizzy head.

(Herculaneum, Year: 77 A.D.)

Maddy was going through the motions, blade in hand as Marc behind her and guiding her body with his large hands whispering over her skin. She had been performing dancer like movements, the knife cutting the air with an almost silent hiss.

"So graceful," He kissed the back of her neck but she shook her head. "Stop, I need to speak with you." He sat down and took the knife to place on the table.

"Are you tired Marc?" She set herself in his lap as his arms secured her to him.

"No, but in three days, we are going to the city of Rome." He kissed her shoulder as she pulled away.

"What, no Marc, We can't leave."

(Terra Nova, Year: 85 Million years in the past)

Malcolm was staring at Elizabeth, he was checked out and cleared, but Elizabeth was not. In fact when he came to see her the next morning after Jim came to him, she was barely conscious and battling a high fever.

Hang on Liz, just hand on. He prayed and grabbed some paper, he needed to write a note to Maddy.

(Herculaneum, Year: 77 A.D.)

Maddy was smoothing her hands over the sharp blade Marc had given her. Laying back into her husband's strong chest, she already knew his blue eyes were on her olive skin or he would smell her silken hair.

She had tried to convince him to stay in Herculaneum, but he said they had to go because that is where he does most of his business every few years. She had argued with him, tried to seduce him into staying, she even told him the gods would get angry if he left. But he was set on going to Rome with his family.

"Maddy." She twisted a little to look at him. "You and the children will stay here if you wish. But I must leave."

"No!" She lay on her stomach now, pulling herself close to her husband. "No, please don't leave."

"Maddy, I must-"

"No, you said yourself it would take a little over a year to get there and back, I can't have you gone for that long, please." She ran her fingers through his short hair. "Please."

"Maddy-"

"You need to stay, in a few months time I will be able to bare your children, and we will be in my home…please." Her throat was closing up as she tried to tell him how important it was to stay without outright telling him things he wouldn't understand.

"I will be back sooner than you think." He kissed her. "I have until tomorrow night before I must leave you and the children. Please make this easy for me." He kissed her, and she just buried her face in his shoulder and started crying, she honestly didn't want Marc to leave her.

(Terra Nova, Year: 85 million years in the past)

Malcolm had Elizabeth put in a coma, to slow the infection and give her more time, that was what they needed. Time.

"Macolm, hurry and finish that Terminus." Jim said quietly as he held his wife's hand. "Maddy can help you make something…a vaccine, she's smart like that, but she can help. We need her." Doctor Wallace nodded and went to the labs after kissing Liz's temple.

"Get better, I need someone to tempt me and fight Jim over." He whispered to her and left.

Jim was right, they needed Maddy.

(Herculaneum, Year: 77 A.D.)

Marc was looking at his daughter's freshly painted pots when a flash blinded him and a paper fell into his hands.

"Maddy?" He called her over and gave it to her, watching her face go into a frown, pale, then her cover her mouth.

"My mother is sick, there is a sickness going around, they said they would bring us through when it is safe." She wiped tears away.

"Are you going to be okay?" He kissed her cheek and wiped away more tears.

"I don't know, but if my mother dies, I don't know what to do." She looked to her husband. "Hold me?" She asked and he quickly did as she said, pulling her close.

This was alost to much for his little wife, killing a man who threatened her and her family, now about to lose he mother.

What was Maddy supposed to do? What if her mother died? How would she tell Zoe?

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