Disclaimer- I still don't own Terra Nova

Okay sorry for the late updates, school has been taking up a lot of my time, but I'm trying to update at least every other day.

Anyways, here's the answer to the cliff hanger. Enjoy, though this one's quite sad...

.xoxo


Mark's strength was beginning to really weaken, it took everything he had to just try to aim at the huge carnivorous dino was on their trail. They had barely escaped his last attack, the carno's jaws clamping around the back of the rover, lifting it slightly. Taylor had swore, stepping on the pedal of the rover furiously while he shot at the dinosaur. With a outraged cry, the carno let the rover go, but not before attempting to eat Mark, successfully taking a small bite out of his shooting arm. He screamed in pain, never have been the recipient of a dino's jaws. He managed to relocate back inside the rover as Taylor drove away, carno still at their heels. It was at that moment that Mark had a fleeting thought that caused grief to wash over him.

He might never come back to Maddy

He was glad that he never promised he would always come back to her, it was a promise that would have been made in vain. Both knew that his homecoming would never be up to him. He had the will to survive, but sometimes will wasn't enough.

They were riding towards the east, when Taylor suddenly turned the rover towards the north, and considering how far east they were, there was only one thing in their north path.

The coast.

"Taylor, what are you doing?" Mark looked at his commanding officer as if he was crazy.

The coast? He was driving them towards a dead end.

"I know what I'm doing Reynolds" he snapped, his eyes cold.

Mark fell silent, and shot back at the carno, his arm giving out under the amount of pain it caused, and the blast gun slipping out and falling on the ground, quickly crushed by the carno's claw.

Mark swore loudly, both at the amount of blood that oozed out of his arm, and the blast gun that was gone.

Taylor commented nothing, and if he was scared that they had no weapons anymore -Taylor's gun having run out of ammo a long time ago- he didn't show it.

When the coast became visible, Taylor turned to Mark, his expression serious.

"Won't be long now"

Realization dawned on Mark, knowing exactly what Taylor was going to do.

"We'll never make it" Mark said.

Taylor nodded, and Mark glanced at his dog tags, his thoughts drifting to Maddy.

Taylor planned to throw the rover overboard, into the churning black sea. He knew that was the only way to keep the carno from killing them, or from finding the rest of the soldiers and scientists in the trees. The others would come back for them, after getting more soldiers and rovers for an emergency rescue. Mark knew he would probably die, with the wounds on his leg and arm, he wouldn't be able to swim fast enough. Taylor was exhausted, and the wound on his shoulder looked especially inflamed. They had both lost a lot of blood. They would be lucky if the drowned before one of the things in the ocean got to them first. He had heard stories, and they weren't pretty.

"We'll never make it" Mark repeated, his voice accepting.

Taylor nodded again, and turned to Mark right before the rover fell.

"You would have made an excellent lieutenant."

The rover was lurched off the cliff, both Mark and Taylor letting their bodies lift up out of their seats, being tossed inside the rover like rag dolls.

Mark fingered his dog tags, the button bringing to life his favorite picture of Maddy, one he took of her while she was unaware that one day on the flower field, wanting to see her face one last time.

With a force similar to hitting a wall, the rover was sucked into the ocean, the salty water enveloping Mark and Taylor.

Mark closed his eyes, the salt stinging his wounds, and let his body sink lower into the rover seat, his oxygen escaping him slowly.


Maddy screamed, having woken up in cold sweat. She didn't stop screaming, her body shaking with hysterics, her mother quickly rising from her own sleeping bag cradling her daughter, whose small frame was being racked with sobs, awaking everyone in their wing of the tree as well as the few remaining soldiers and men in the opposite platform.

Elizabeth tried to stop her daughter in her panic attack, but Maddy just screamed and sobbed, yelling Mark's name at the top of her lungs, her tears overflowing her face, her breathing uneven.

"Mark is fine" Elizabeth tried to soothe her, before Maddy lashed out at her, jumping out of her mother's arms and staring at her, her eyes wild and crazed.

"DON'T LIE TO ME!" She stood her body still heaving from all the sobs, and collapsed on the floor, remembering her nightmare, cradling her knees and rocking herself.

She remembered the sound of the splash, the sound of Mark's voice saying her name for the last time, she saw him fall through water.

"He's gone…" She whispered, sobbing to herself, and rocking back and forth, her eyes blind with tears and her heart numb with grief.


This one made me sad to write, and I'm not sure where I'm taking this but... I guess we'll see. I'm not sure if Mark will die or not... Idk.. I'm feeling depressed after just losing my favorite nyx lipstick :'( but I'm sure I'll find it soon lol... As for Mark, like I said, we'll see... I kinda like messing with your emotions *evil laugh* Maybe he'll live, maybe he won't...

Anyways until the next update :3

.xoxo