Maddy was relaxing by the pool, her feet in the water as her daughter wiggled on the surface, her godfather holding her up. The olive skinned woman had no idea that her infant would love to swim so much.
"Look at her go!" Skye laughed, wearing a two piece swimsuit as opposed to the one piece that Mari wore.
"She looks so happy, I wish Mark could see-"
"Maddy!" a rover pulled into the area and Mark jumped out. "Thank god," He grabbed her and pulled her close. "The portal reopened." He was breathing hard, but was talking to all of them. "I need to get you somewhere safe. They are packing huge guns-"
And explosion was heard and screaming, but it wasn't at the colony. A roar then a yelp….something was attacking the phoenix group.
"What do you think that is?" She asked as Mark grabbed their things.
"I don't know, but we're leaving. Malcolm found a cave system that would hold the entire colony and we're all going there." Mark was urgent as he moved them into the rover, Lucas in the front seat as Maddy was placed in back with Skye and her daughter.
Driving by, all Maddy could register was green flying by the vehicle and the sounds of more explosions and screeching. She wondered what was going on, as the rover drove into the cave, slowing down and turning on the lights.
"The colony should already be here with as much equipment and food as could be taken….I'm told that they tried to make Terra Nova as unusable as possible." Mark pulled the rover to the side and helped Maddy out of it, her pregnant belly making it hard for her to move.
"Where is my family?" She was shaking, she barely survived the first time the phoenix group was around, but how the hell had they returned?
Mark didn't answer her and walked her through the tunnels, Mari in one arm as the free hand rested on his wife's lower back, Skye and Lucas a step behind them.
Soon reunited with her family they found out that the tunnels were miles long and could fit all of them, the commander having made sure everyone was safe and sound before retiring back to his wife who was with the Shannon family and in extension her stepson and Skye.
"Shh…Austin sweetheart, everything is fine." The baby wailed out, upset as ever but they couldn't seem to fix it….that is until Mari crawled to Wash and ended up hugging the baby in her arms, kissing all over his face and whispering out 'wow's and 'night night' softly.
For a moment all the fear of the day, the fact that they were on the verge of losing their second chance was forgotten by the simply action of a tiny baby hugging and comforting another infant.
Maddy felt her stomach clench up and shuffled in the dimness to her mother, the only light coming from a small electric lantern. She whispered to her mother, telling her of her discomfort as another strike ran through her stomach that had all her muscles and nerves bunching.
"Alright, let's see." Her mother took her off as everyone stayed focused on the baby's enjoying the distraction of the sweet cuteness. "Maddy are you okay?" She knew her mother was talking about more that physical.
"No, no." She trembled as another shock ran through her, a cold sweat breaking out across her forehead.
"Do you want to talk about it."
"No, I'll get through it, just give me something for my stomach." She sighed and started telling her the symptoms she was having. Maddy gulped when her mother returned with a needle.
"This is a muscle relaxant, it will help with your muscles, we don't want those contractions to start an early appearance from those little guys." She saw how Maddy petted her stomach.
"Will there even be a world, clean and undestroyed for these little guys to live in? or will it be another 2149 that they have to live through?" Brows furrowed she looked to her mother for an answer.
"I don't know Maddy, but we will get through this." The older woman hugged her daughter, rubbing up and down her back. "Let's get back before they miss us."
"I'm right behind you, I think I might go to the bathroom." She waited for her mother to leave before getting to her feet, not an easy task for a woman as far along as her.
Walking to the outside, she sat in a little cliff over hang, the air chilly as it poured around her. "You know," She wasn't really talking to anyone, seeing as everyone was inside and away from the harsh weather. "I have been good all my life, I thought I was getting rewarded by coming here. But know you, you ever you are," now she was looking at the sky, angry with tear filled eyes. "Had to play with me like I was some kind of toy to drag through the mud until her stitches come apart. So you decide to get me married, not so bad, then have an egotistical psycho develop an obsession about me, about me giving him an heir, almost killed my husband, teased us with freedom before letting those damn monsters come to destroy this place."
She felt her throat tighten. "Only to get rid of them and give me Robby and Jade Barwick….who the hell do you think you are? And what do you want from me? Why are you going to make my children's lives living hell?" Thick tears streamed down her face as she yelled, letting everything out. Yes she was angry because it wasn't fair that her children were going to starve to death in a place that was supposed to be their only hope. She dropped her face into her hands and sobbed.
Large puffs of warm breath washed over the back of her neck and spine, looking up she saw the large blue eyes of the Slasher. The one that always seemed to watch over her. She sniffled and, with a raspy voice, said the only name needed. "Oh, Alex."
He grunted and hummed, dropping his head to see her eye to eye. "Oh, Alex, what are we going to do? Those soldiers are going to destroy everything. You'll die off, and so will everything else." He hummed in disapproval and used the flat part of his head to gently pushed her until she was safely inside the cave.
Leaving off to make Mrs. Reynolds happy.
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Mark was getting twitchy, Maddy was gone for too long and he needed to find her. He left to find her at the entrance of the cave system, shaking from the cold. "Jesus, Maddy are you trying to freeze to death?" He took off his coat and placed it on her shoulders before draping a blanket he brought with him over her.
"Sorry, just thinking." Sighing, her led her back into the safety of the caves.
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Sleeping on her back next to her husband, Maddy had Mari curled up against her protruding belly, she woke up to whispering, but didn't know who it was from.
"What are you doing?" Maddy smiled as her daughter continued to whispered nonsense baby talk to her stomach, patting her mother's side every once in a while.
She laid there listening to her little one when a sudden screech had her struggling to sit up, Mark jerking awake next to her. He helped her up and the three of them made their way to the sound.
They had searched the area that they heard the noise, giving up as Mari sleepily curled againt her mother's breastbone.
As they left through the tunnels a loud screeching had them turned towards the entrance.
It was raining hard outside, the wet season had come not too long ago and almost every night there was practically flash floods all around.
Lightning struck somewhere outside and illuminated the outside, and silhouetting the creature just outside the cave.
It started in, limping but coming to her. And she stayed perfectly still, waiting for it.
The slasher collapsed not far from her, dragging a single claw through the dirt, as if it was drawing or writing.
She started walking towards the monsters creature, raising the little light she had to see it. Maddy made out two very important things, one; it had blue eyes, two; there was a lot of blood.
"Alex, Oh no. Mark get my mother, and Malcolm." She walked quickly to the dinosaur, it grunting its discomfort as it moved to rest his head on her lap, ear against her stomach. "Please hurry." She passed him Marina before he left her to find the good doctor.
Petting his head, she felt the soft feathers, tiny almost invisible, but so very soft and defiantly there. "It's gonna be alright Alex."
It kept digging at the dirt floor, stopping and moving so that the next flash of lightening would show her. It was an exact replica of the four year old Alex Jensen's picture of her Mark and himself. He had drawn it days before his death and Maddy kept it in a small picture frame in the Mari's room. The baby always fascinated by it and the Power Ranger he once had.
"I'm not going to let you die again Alex, I wasn't fast enough last time, but I promise I will do everything to save you this time." As she said this the large blues eyes looked up at her with every emotion a dinosaur shouldn't be able to express. Fear, hope, sadness….understanding.
"I promise."
Please review, I cried the last part of this chapter. Anyways, I still love to hear from you especially about this chapter because I basically pulled it out of….to put it politely….my rear end.