A/N: Just had to push some last minute updates out before the New Year. I've got lots of things planned for 2012 (and Apocalypse is NOT among them!) so stick around guys! Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this year brings you all great success, happiness, and a lot of inspiration! So for this chapter, I've decided to explore what it must have been like for Mark and Maddy to be apart during the episodes Occupation/Resistance. They must have been so worried for one another. And I've set this to the song "Lucky" by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat. Hope you enjoy it and review it!

Chapter 14: Lucky

Song: Lucky

Artists: Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat

Summary: Those days apart were not easy for Mark and Maddy…

Do you hear me? I'm talking to you across the water, across the deep blue ocean under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying…

Mark stared directly ahead of him, eyes searching slowly for movement in the vicinity of the trench he was hiding in. They had been staking this same point out for two days already without yielding results. He was hoping, wishing for someone to come along—a familiar face. He was praying it would be Maddy, but he knew it would probably be a soldier from the colony if anyone. His mind began to wander.

What was Maddy doing right now? Was she alright? Was she in hiding with her family? What if they had taken everyone in the colony prisoner? Was she hurt in the fighting? What if…

He immediately shook the thought from his head. If he had made it out of the bombing alive, she definitely had to have made it out of the fighting. The most recent intelligence reports had stated that Lieutenant Washington had surrendered the colony—the right move given the lives at stake. Apparently the citizens were at least semi-free to move about under surveillance. He was far more at risk out here than Maddy was in there, he decided, shifting his gun as he remained hidden in the burrow.

"Maddy…" he thought, fighting the urge to speak the words out loud. "Maddy I'm here. I'm fine. I'm waiting for you…"

Boy I hear you in my dreams. I feel your whisper across the sea. I keep you with me in my heart. You make it easier when life gets hard…

Maddy entered the house just as the search lights came on. Physically and mentally exhausted, she flopped down on her bed, closing her eyes and wanting to forget the chaos around her. Everything at home had a gloomy air of resignation about it. Her mother still wasn't home. She was being forced to help heal the men who had come in, guns blazing, and torn apart their colony—their home. With her father still in a coma, things were very bleak. Zoe was fearful, scarcely leaving the room they shared—she was curled up sleeping at the moment. Josh was still grieving. He spent hours cooped up in his room, strumming on his guitar to take away the pain. The melancholy tune reached her ears as she lay still in the darkness. She was the only one still trying to function normally—someone had to provide basic care for the family. But even she had moments of doubt. They were usually about Mark…

She hadn't been told much about the explosion that had un-tethered the time fracture—only that Mark had not been brought back among the dead or injured. This had to mean he had made it out of there and was probably in hiding. This gave her hope. Of course, with the military unit's whereabouts unknown, anything could have happened over the course of the last two days. She willed herself to think positive things—he was safe, waiting for the opportunity to strike back and get her and her family out of there. He might be thinking about her right now, even, planning to sneak back into Terra Nova to be with her. But her mind slowly slipped into darker imaginings. He had been injured in the explosion and was vulnerable, lying in pain in some makeshift camp, slowly bleeding out without anyone to help him. He had been shot by one of the invaders and lay alone, missing, somewhere in the wilderness. He was…

A tear hit the pillow as she buried her face in it. There was no way…he had told her he loved her. He had promised never to let anything happen to her. She needed him now. There was no way…

Maddy drifted into an uneasy sleep. Mark came to her in a dream—more like a vision. "Maddy," he whispered to her in her sleep. "Maddy I'm here. I'm fine. I'm waiting for you…" She awoke with a renewed spirit. Surely he had to be fine. She had read somewhere that people with really close bonds could sometimes detect one another's thoughts—sort of like telepathy. Twins had it quite often—surely two people as close to each other as they were had it too? He was fine. He was coming home to her.

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend, lucky to have been where I have been, lucky to be coming home again…

Mark awoke with a start as daylight streamed onto his face. He had returned to camp that night after a long day of disappointment. No one had gotten the message in the bullets yet. But he held out hope that someone would. Maybe even Dr. Shannon! Perhaps he would be reunited with Maddy soon…

Maddy set about her day as routinely as she could. Make the bed, make breakfast, clean something…keep busy. But no matter how hard she tried to focus she couldn't help but think back to the dream she had of Mark. She hoped this whole telepathy thing was true. She kept replaying their last kiss. His words to her. She knew he was coming home. He had to be. He couldn't just say he loved her and then never come back. She told herself this over and over, hoping that she could make him materialize in front of her with just hope alone.

They don't know how long it takes, waiting for a love like this. Every time we say goodbye I wish we had one more kiss. I'll wait for you. I promise you, I will…

It was the third day of sentry duty for Mark. It wasn't getting any easier. He was getting anxious. What if intel had been wrong? What if they had moved all the colonists off? Or worse? Surely someone would have gotten the message by now. Some part of him entertained the notion that it would be Maddy. She was resourceful—she would figure out the Commander's code. But realistically she wouldn't have access to the wounded. If anyone was going to figure out the code it would be Dr. Shannon. But what were the odds that she would examine the bullets she pulled from these Phoenix soldiers' bodies?

It would be several more days before Mr. Shannon would stumble into the rendezvous point. Mark breathed a sigh of relief when he spotted the sheriff approach. He could have hugged him! If Mr. Shannon was here, than the rest of the Shannon family had to be alright, too! His first question to him was if Maddy was okay. It was such a relief to hear she was. The rest of the plan came easily, and if it went off without a hitch then they would soon be together again.

Maddy, too, had been relieved to hear that Mark was okay. A huge weight was lifted off her the second her father had come through the door, playing dumb, with an armed "escort." Her first question had been about her favorite soldier and her father had told her, quite happily, that he was alive and in good health. It was only a matter of time before he came home to her…

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend, lucky to have been where I have been, lucky to be coming home again. Lucky we're in love in every way, lucky to have stayed where I have stayed, lucky to be coming home someday…

It was several days more before the reunion occurred, and it occurred under heavy circumstances. Maddy had heard Alicia Washington die—die to save her and her family. The ride to the camp took all night and the reunion was bittersweet. She was in Mark's arms again, but she would be minus one friend—a friend who had given herself up to allow Maddy that moment with her boyfriend.

She had leapt from the rhino the second it had stopped, searching through the faces at the camp desperately, hoping to find him. She had been dismayed when Reilly had told her Mark was on sentry duty. Reilly, in her kindness, instructed Dunham to take over Mark's shift. Maddy was eternally grateful. She spent all afternoon in Mark's arms, catching up in between kisses and hugs. She didn't care that anyone could have stumbled upon them. They were together after so many days apart, and even if they weren't in the colony, they were home…

A/N: This was a little muse that's been wandering aimlessly in my head for a few days screaming "let me out!" So I did! Probably not the best I've ever written but I hoped you like it. This is one of my favorite songs for this couple and I couldn't think of a more appropriate scene to use it in. Please leave a review and HAPPY NEW YEAR!