Hey everyone! I am so sorry it has taken literal years to update. So much in my life has changed and I need to rededicate myself to writing. I am so thankful to all of you who have stuck by me and been patient. I hope to update again soon. I have a new poll up as well for all of my current stories and some new ones I have been working on. This one is not close to the end but defiantly getting there. Once again, my apologies about the length in time it has taken me. I hope to update this story soon as well again. Thank you!
Everyone had gone to sleep, I was the only one in the house that was still awake. I looked at the clock, red numbers blinking at me telling me it was 2:00 am. I laid in the bed, restless, groaning in frustration. After we had watched the newscast over and over we all got into a huge argument. John and I knew we couldn't let them into the Arc. Sam and Mary Ann argued that it was an excuse for us to come out of hiding.
"What do you think will happen if they find out you had babies with the C24 in your system?" Mary Ann said. "It'll be worse than anything Sam can do to them."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Sam asked on the defensive.
"It means that those are babies not lab rats." Mary Ann said.
"I am a scientist." Sam said shocked.
"Can we seriously not do this now?" I said.
"We don't know what survived up there. They open those doors we could have an apocalypse on our hands." John said. "We can't let that happen Sam." He said looking at Mary Ann then to me. "We didn't lose almost everyone we love for the world to perish."
After that we had all gone our separate ways.
With what everyone had said John and I both knew something was going to happen. I sat up in the bed looking over at John, his light snoring could be heard as he slept the night away. I had come too far to see this world fall apart. I slowly stood up out of the bed, sneaking off into the babies' room. Both of them were sound asleep as well, they had finally started sleeping through the night a couple nights ago. Which logically speaking was unusual since they were so young. Maybe that was proof enough for me that they had the C24 in their system. They were learning faster. Their little bodies moved up and down with each tiny breath. Part of me wanted to wake them up to play with them, but how could I? They looked so peaceful and content. Satisfied that they were alright I walked into the living room. After the argument Mary Ann had packed her stuff and finally moved into the guest room we had set up for her. Her usual makeshift bed was gone. I sat on the couch and turned on the TV.
I don't know what hurt John more. The country that he had fought for now wanted him and dubbed him as a fugitive or the fact that the Sergeant he trusted more than anything, the one who helped us after we came back to the surface was the Sergeant who was reopening the Arc. The same news story was on the majority of the stations, not anything different as it was earlier in the day.
"You should be sleeping." Mary Ann said as she walked into the room and sat next to me. We stared at the TV in silence. I glanced over at her, my one and only friend left in this world that wasn't my husband. The one person I could always trust, and who always had faith in me.
"I'm sorry about earlier." I said.
"Pish Posh. Don't even worry about it. We are all under an extreme amount of stress." She said, always the forgiving type.
"If Sergeant Wilson really is looking for us and reopening the arc, it won't be long until he either finds us or releases a nightmare upon Earth." I said staring at the TV again. The man in question was on the screen talking about finding us. "I'm worried about my babies. I can't let them get their hands on them."
I thought about the scientists keeping them in cages, experimenting on them, having them never knowing what a childhood was or could be.
"He won't find you." Mary Ann said quietly not really believing herself, and it showed in her tone.
"Wilson makes Sarge look like a child with army dolls. He'll find us, and we will never see anyone ever again." I said.
"Then why are you and John so eager to give yourselves to him?" She asked.
"Because us being confined to a cell and experimented on would be better than world inhalation." I said thinking about it. "But maybe it doesn't have to be both of us."
"Maddie-"
"Mary Ann, you've done do much for us, I never be able to repay you." I explained. "But I have one more thing I need you to do for me." The realization of what needed to be done came over me. "Tomorrow, I'll be turning myself in. Whether John is with me or not, they will probably be satisfied with one of us."
"Maddie, you can't do this. What will happen to your children? They'll grow up without a mom?"
"I want you to take care of my children. I want you to take them to my fallout shelter-house in the desert. I can wire you money before I turn myself in."
"What about John? What about Sam?"
"Sam is a pain in my ass, she's on her own." I said bluntly.
"And John?" she asked. Tears fell down my cheeks. "You should talk to him about this, they're his kids too. And you're the love of his life, I don't think he would know what to do without you."
"I think it's a great idea." John said from behind us. Mary Ann and I both jumped at the sound of his voice and turned to him. "The only problem I have is your safety and Sam."
He walked over to us the back of the couch separating us.
"I only care about our babies and you. Sam can decide on what she is going to do, she's an adult." I said.
"I have a safe house on the east coast I can send her to. If she drives, she'll be there in a couple days." John said, always wanting to take care of everyone.
"So it's settled then." I said. "We're going to stop this and turn ourselves in."
"I guess so." John said running a hand through his hair. Mary Ann sat next to me shaking her head.
"You two are crazy." She said.
"You would have to be to see what we have." I said with a smirk at John.
"That's true." John said as he bent down and kissed the top of my head.
It was that moment, that I felt everything would be relatively alright.