I DO NOT OWN FALLING SKIES! I'm so sorry I haven't updated in such a long time! I'll hopefully be adding a 2nd new chapter later tonight also just to show how sorry I am!

BEN POV

I felt myself gain control of my body again, all my senses returned and my vision came back to my eyes, allowing me to see the blood bath that surrounded me. Hal laid on his stomach with a harness in his hands, and bullet holes in his stomach. Maggie had collapsed near him, her clothes were blood stained and torn and I assumed she'd also been shot. Lastly my eyes fell on Karen, she had a single gun shot wound in her back and a twisted smile was spread across her face, from one ear to the other.

"Ben!" I heard a familiar voice call. I looked behind my shoulder and saw my father with a gun pointed at where Karen was standing just seconds ago. "

"Dad? Is that really you? How did you find-" I questioned, running into his arms.

"Don't worry, I'm here!" He cut me off. "Weaver and I got worried and managed to get some of the soldiers from the 2nd mass to follow you out here, we split up when we ran into an army of skitters a few miles back, Weaver and I figured you'd be in trouble if there were skitters so we kept going until we found you here. Where's Hal? And is that Diego I see?" Tom Mason explained while looking curiously at Diego who lurked over Karen's body.

My gaze dropped to the Earth's soil and then moved over to Hal and Maggie's bodies. "Dad... I'm sorry I.. I couldn't hear anything I wasn't sure what was happening... Karen had it all planned out she knew I'd be here and she had those damn skitters control me, I tried to fight it but I couldn't! I tried to help Hal I did! I-"

"Shh!" Tom whispered in Ben's ear. Hushing him, calming him down. "It's okay! We'll get them back to Charleston and they'll be just fine, Anne will save them!" Tom did his best to sound convincing and to sound confident but he couldn't help the tears that blurred his vision and the fear that clouded his head, he knew that when a harness was ripped off the subjects always died, so that's what would happen to Hal. He didn't want to think that, he wanted to think positive, but he couldn't, not with the awful sight of his son's bleeding out body laying right in front of his eyes.

Weaver came out of the forest with a few of the soldiers from the 2nd mass at his sides. "What the hell happened here?" Weaver asked.

"I'll explain on the road, no time now, tell your men to pick up Hal, Diego and Maggie, we need to get them back to the trucks as soon as possible! Lets go, go, go!" Tom shouted at Weaver pointing at Hal and Maggie's bodies.

Weaver nodded and commanded his men to grab the 3 kids and run them back to the 2nd mass.

"Wait! What about Karen?" I asked. Turning my attention to her unconscious body.

"What about her?" Tom asked.

"Are we just going to leave her out here?"

"Why the hell wouldn't we son? She's as good as hell and don't we want her that way?" Weaver replied beckoning for me to follow them into the woods.

I looked down at Karen one final time. I tried to turn my head away and join Weaver and my dad but something kept me standing there with my eyes glued on Karen. I felt my spikes light up on my back and I watches in horror as Karen's eyes opened.

"Go on Ben, you know what to do." Karen whispered, her voice more sinister than ever. I nodded my head in agreement, "I know what to do." I repeated.

And with that I turned around and ran back towards my father and Weaver who were already in the woods, they hadn't seen my conversation with Karen.

"Perfect, I know what to do." I repeated one last time in my mind.

ANNE POV

I had just finished my morning check up on Lourdes, she had finally woken up but she had a severe concussion, she wasn't ready to be up on her feet yet. I was on my way to the nurse's station to fill out her chart.

As I was walking I realized how quiet Charleston was without the 2nd mass, there were no constant arguments breaking out, or threats being made, I hadn't even seen a single fun drawn since the run in with Hal and General Bressler. My thoughts immediately were consumed by the general's face. We had a team of surgeons work on him and try to get the bullet out but it was into deep for what little technology we had, we'd closed him up hoping that the bullet wouldn't start an infection.

I arrived at the nurse's station and reached for Lourdes' chart when the main doors to the med wing slammed opened and I watched as Hal, Maggie, and Diego were all rushed in on stretchers, followed by Tom who had dried tears up and down his face and bags under his eyes. "Someone get me Dr. Glass!" He was screaming.

I immediately ran towards him, my lab coat flowing at my sides. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw the state of Hal.

"Has he been.." I couldn't even say the word, I was too afraid of the answer.

I looked up at Tom who nodded his head.

"Harnessed..." Ben murmured, his spikes had stopped glowing and he was back to the normal Ben Mason for now.

"Get me Dr. Hanson ASAP! I need a blow torch and get me drugs! I'm going to need lots of drugs for these patients!" I screamed as she pushed open the door to a substitute operating room, the 3 patients were rushed inside and placed on sterilized counter tops.

"Tom you remember how we deharnessed those kids don't you?"

Tom nodded and wiped the tears from his face, trying to stand tall and strong.

"Will you help me with Diego's harness?" I asked grabbing a blow torch from a nurse's hands.

"Of course, anything Anne." Tom answered wrapping his hands around the harness, ready to gradually pull it off as Anne melted its binds that clung on to Diego's skin.

A tall male doctor ran into the room placing latex gloves on his hands. "Dr. Glass? What do you need?" He asked grabbing a temp blade and scalpel from a tray of medical instruments.

"2 G-S-Ws to the chest, 1 on each patient and the male patient has had a harness removed by hand." I explained looking up at Dr. Hansen and firing up my blow torch. I expected to see him move immediately when he heard my explanation but he just stood there.

"Dr. Glass.. The male patient.. A harness removal by hand is.. Fatal, he's a lost cause I can't help him." Dr. Hansen murmured, shaking his head in dismay.

"I know what I said Dr. Hansen, your job is to take my orders and follow the rules! We try to save every patient that enters those doors! Are you going to choose to not honor that code?"

"It's pointless! He's practically dead already!"

"Dr. Hansen! Please, I'm not a doctor but that patient you're calling dead is my son, I really want him a live, so please, just please... Try?" Tom asked, his voice shaking with sadness.

Dr. Hansen nodded, not aware the patients father was in the room. "Of course, I'm sorry sir." He whispered.

Leaving Dr. Hansen to the gun shot wounds Tom and I removed Diego's harness in success and all that was left was to wait for Hal and Maggie. We waited for hours, hoping Dr. Hansen's work was going smoothly when he finally came out of the operating room he nodded his head at Anne.

"Are they okay?" Tom asked.

Anne placed her hand on Tom's shoulder. "It's up to them now." She replied.

So sorry I have failed to update regularly! Let me know what you thought of the chapter! Should I make dr. Hansen a regular character? I kinda want to make a love triangle with him Anne and Tom! What do you think? Also what do you think of this ben side plot? His spikes are glowing again! Thanks for all the follows and reviews and favorites! thank you to the guest reviews as well! Mean so much! Thanks hopefully adding another chapter by the end of the night! Xxxx!