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"W-what?"
"I'm sorry that we didn't tell you before," she heard Leon say, genuine regret in his voice. "But please know that no matter whether we have the same DNA or not, no matter what, you are still our daughter."
Rae let out a breath she did not realize she was holding. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"We were so worried of how you would react. What you would think of us. It was wrong of us. I see that now," Leon replied.
"So..." Rae trailed off as she thought about things "...that means that when I was told my father had ordered my attempted murder, that actually means my biological father?"
"Yes, that has to be it."
Rae wanted to know. "Who's my father?"
There was silence at the other end. "I don't know. We never found out who any of your biological parents were."
"Then how did you find me?"
"One night, Margaret and I were watching TV when we heard a noise right outside our front door. It was a crying sound. We went to the door and opened it. To our surprise, you were there. You were a baby, wrapped up tightly in blankets. There was no note. No sign of who your parents were or were you had come from. No sign that anyone else had been there. It was like you had just magically appeared. So we adopted you."
THE MOON
Alan watched through his heads-up display in his helmet as MAX traveled over to the dome. He was seeing from MAX's perspective. MAX reached the door. It raised one of it's claws and a laser bolt shone from it's claw and cut a hole in the door. MAX rolled through the doorway and it's robotic eyes/video cameras looked around. There was a corridor, but it was empty. MAX detected a life sign up ahead. It headed in the direction of the person, keeping invisible and silent.
Alan's heads-up display disappeared and was replaced by a holographic map with a red circle beeping, coming closer to him. Then the beep disappeared. Frowning, he ran another scan. Nothing. No sign of anything. He looked around, but could not see anything or anyone.
Suddenly he felt something hit him on the helmet very,very hard and he passed out.