A/N: HEYA! Thank you all for the reviews as always they make me smile! Now I have to preface I'm not a computer whiz so there is a plot device in this you'll just have to pretend is correct/ exists and is totally awesome! Enjoy!
Kate didn't know exactly when she drifted off but when she woke up she found the large plex on the wall was on with some weird cartoon playing and a little boy with dark brown hair and pale complexion sitting next to her leaning his head on her arm eating a biscuit completely enthralled in the show.
She shifted as she was sitting at an odd angle and the boy looked up at her with curious eyes. "Hey, you must be Sean" she said in a low voice to him with a smile. She looked over to see Evan was asleep in the same chair he had been in last night. The little boy was a carbon copy for his father except he had hazel eyes. The boy broke his biscuit in half and offered it to Kate.
"Thanks" Kate said taking the biscuit, she broke off a small bit and ate it. She nearly gagged at how bad it tasted but finished the bit in her mouth. She heard Evan chuckle and she looked to him to see him looking at her. Obviously he saw her face.
"Food shortages. Ration cubes are the only thing on offer at the moment" he told her.
"It's worse than the scrambled eggs in an MRE bag" Kate said over Sean's head. Evan looked at her oddly as he had no clue what an MRE bag was.
"I'll take your word for it. But I agree it's inedible luckily and sadly the kids don't know better, I on the other hand suffer through it" Evan said with a wry smile as he watched his son lean his head on Kate's arm completely at ease. He knew Sean believed Kate was family in some form as she had red hair and pale skin just like his mother otherwise he wouldn't be so comfortable. It made him ache as he wished his kids had more family to depend on and he was also glad Kate was at ease to let his son sit with her without pushing him away.
"Well in the land of honey and milk, you and the kids will be eating real vegetables and fruits and rather strange looking but tasty meats" Kate told him.
"Oh don't be cruel" he said mockingly as he got up from his chair and stretched. "I'm making coffee you want some?" he asked as he got up from his chair and stretched.
"No it's all yours. I actually hate the stuff." she told him, he gave a nod and walked into the kitchen. Kate looked down at Sean.
"Tell me do you speak?" she asked Sean, he looked up at her and smiled nodding. Evan watched as Kate proceeding asking his son in several different languages which one he spoke and making faces making his son laugh until she stopped at French as Sean stood up on the couch excited at being able to practice. He was learning it in day care along with Mandarin, they believed the younger the child learned another language the better. Kate laughed and spoke in French to his son. Evan smiled and went to making coffee, he understood Mandarin as he spent a few years in Beijing but French was Lena's suggestion as her parents were French.
"I'm gonna call you frog legs if you keep this up" Evan heard Kate say to Sean in a teasing tone.
"I'm not a frog but I have legs" Sean said in English Kate chuckled. He was about to turn see what was happening when he felt someone tug on his pant leg he looked down and saw a sleepy Olivia looking up at him. She held out her arms in a 'pick me up' motion and made noises that he translated to meaning 'pick me up daddy', he smiled as he picked her up.
"Hey Olive, how you doing?" he asked as he kissed her forehead. The little girl yawned and tucked her face in his neck as he went back to making coffee. Olivia was not a morning person, she got up early but never happily it took her a good ten minutes to wake up and then she'd be hungry like clockwork, just like her mother.
He felt Olivia move her head when she heard the laughing from couch. He turned around to see Kate playing with Sean and his toys, he was trying to teach her the finer points of reptangles. Lego but in the shape of turtles, Kate obviously was not putting the pieces together the way Sean wanted.
A knock sounded at the door and Evan wondered if Mr Keenan could smell the coffee beans brewing because the smell was heavenly.
When he pulled open the door he found an African American woman in her late thirties dressed in dark denim and leather jacket her left arm hung loosely by her side. Blood dripped onto the floor while her right hand and arm was being clutched but a little girl who looked like miniature version of her mother. "Evan Washington, I assume Kate Renshaw is here?" she asked in an exhausted tone.
"Mira?" Kate said from behind Evan he touched his arm "It's ok she's with us" Kate told Evan, he nodded and allowed Mira entrance into his home. He closed the door and turned the lock before he and Olivia went back to the kitchen.
"How did you find us?" Kate asked Mira. She noted the blood droplet on the floor. "What happened to you?"
"Sienna, be a good girl and go sit and read your books" Mira said, the little girl released her mother's hand and went to the couch sitting down as she was told. She looked at Evan appraising him for a moment.
"He's on our side" Kate said before Mira asked.
"My Employer tried to terminate me last night" Mira said as she slowly peeled off her jacket to reveal her upper arm bandaged but with blood seeping through. Kate assumed to be a bullet graze. "My new house got shot up pretty bad."
"And you came here?" Kate asked as Evan left them in the Kitchen to tend to the children for a moment and get a med kit from his bathroom.
"Don't worry I wasn't tracked, after my last meeting I emptied my bank account 6 sectors from my home and removed the tracker in my daughter and myself so we couldn't be tracked. I prefer living without an electronic trail. Anyway Sienna and I were having dinner when my house was made into Swiss cheese. We got out of the house while they were still putting holes in it. Like I said you don't need to worry we weren't followed, I made sure of that"
"So how did you find us?"
"Logic, I figured you would go after family be it Lt Washington's or Taylor's. Taylor has no one here but Lt Washington does. So here I am. You should know my employer Clayton Russell doesn't know about you and Maddy yet but he has Taylor, Guzman and Jim in the laboratories of the New Hope Plaza. I'm sure one of them will crack" Mira told Kate.
"Even if its drug induced, I agree we can't risk it. Luckily I already have an idea but it needs work and I need the schematics of the Hope plaza building and other information I don't have to get it in working order" Kate told her. Mira pulled out a data stick out of her back pocket and handed it to Kate.
"What's this?" Kate asked.
"Everything you need to know to break in, on my way here I procured the information as I knew you wouldn't want to leave the men behind." Mira said.
"Here let me fix that up" Evan said to Mira as he had come back with a med kit. Kate looked to the lounge room to see Maddy with the kids distracting them and making sure they were behaving. Mira gave a nod allowing him to treat her wound.
"Hey Maddy? There a plex over where you are that isn't being used?" Kate asked, Maddy looked around and picked up a spare and brought to Kate.
"You mind?" She asked Evan, he shook his head and Kate turned on the plex and plugged in memory chip and accessed the information. While Evan cleaned and healed Mira's wound with Derma-spray Kate looked over the information.
Guzman was tossed into an interrogation room after he had spent two demoralising hours being stripped and showered, poked and prodded by scientists and medical technicians before being given white scrubs and his clothes and tags taken away.
He looked at Clayton Russell who sat in a suit looking incredibly smug and comfortable at the metal table and chairs. He played with the corner of a plex.
"Have a seat" Clayton said gesturing to the empty chair opposite him. Guzman sat down and looked at the man in his late 50's with pure disgust as Clayton had traded his honour, dignity, tags and guns for a suit and huge pay check. Any relation between the man Guzman knew a few years ago and the one sitting in front of him were purely coincidental and something to be suspicious of.
"I've spoken with Commander Taylor and Jim Shannon thus it now your turn"
"It's nice know I still rank at the bottom or the ladder. Tell me do I have to worry about my prostate?" Guzman asked sarcastically.
"No, you're in perfect health" Clayton told him.
"Excellent, how many more physicals will I have to have before you let me go?" Guzman asked.
"Let you go?" Clayton said with a laugh, he shook his head "You're not going anywhere" he told Guzman.
"Then could I get my own room?"
"You can if you share information about Terra Nova" Clayton said.
"Oh I think I've shared more than enough with your scientists" Guzman drawled.
"All I want to know is the population, defences and about this woman" Clayton said as he activated the plex and showed a photo of Kate in an old Military photo.
"She's pretty but I don't know her" Guzman said as he looked at the photo feigning interest.
"Please don't insult my intelligence. I know she appeared in Terra Nova over 6 months ago, that she was supposed to be transported back here for scientific study and harvesting. Her medical records are amazing, no DNA degradation from a lifetime in heavy pollution, healthy organs and fertile. I'm told many couples are willing to pay a lot of money for the chance to have a beautiful healthy baby and umbilical cord blood? Oh that would go for millions" Clayton said.
"You'd turn her into a human incubator that's sick" Guzman said disgusted at the man's greed.
"If you're that infatuated with her then I'm sure we can arrange for you to be her breeding partner. You are apparently a very fertile man yourself" Clayton remarked, Guzman made a face of disgust at the notion.
"There's a compliment I didn't need to hear" Guzman said.
"Oh don't pretend the idea hasn't crossed your mind" Clayton drawled, Guzman was tempted to tell Clayton that he knew Kate and he really didn't see her that way. Kate was a beautiful woman he couldn't deny that but that didn't change he had no desire to get naked with said woman and have a child.
"I prefer to have a traditional family where I raise my own children" Guzman said.
"Something you're not doing so well at with your daughter who is 85 million years in the past"
"Which means nothing I tell you will get me what I want. So I have to ask what it is I get from helping you" Guzman said folding his arms, he was never going to give the man any information but it now became imperative that if they got back to the past that they truly destroy the fracture as Clayton would put all the other members of the colony through medicals and use them all as organ donors or worse.
"So your plan?" Mira asked after an hour passed, Kate had been completely engrossed in the plex while the others ate ration cubes and pretended it was a normal Thursday morning. Evan, Maddy, Kate and Mira were standing in the kitchen while the kids were watching a movie on the large plex screen in the lounge room.
"Ok" Kate said she moved so she was standing opposite Evan, Maddy and Mira in the small kitchen. "Evan here has to make a serum so the kids and he can cross through the temporal rift, that's a long story all you need to know is that it can be done. How much cash do you have?" Kate asked Mira who shot her a questioning look.
"Depends on what you want to do?" Mira asked.
"I'll need legitimate ID, clothing, hair dye and make up for me. I'm too recognisable with this red hair" Kate said grimacing as she really had no desire to dye it. "Also we need a centrifuge and medical gear to siphon blood. Ask him for a list" Kate said gesturing to Evan.
"Siphon blood? What do you need blood for?" Mira asked.
"We need the plasma in my blood to make the serum. So blood donation will be today so tomorrow I'm in fighting shape-" Kate said.
"What are you planning?" Evan asked cutting Kate off.
"An escape, your lab is ten levels above where Taylor and the others are being held. So I'm going to go in with Evan under the guise of being an engineer he's wooing to the company by showing off the facilities and I will plant a virus in this sector of the core computer" Kate said as she flashed the schematics of the building to the others and pointed to different floors.
"What?" Evan said getting lost and also because he didn't think he'd have to play much of a part in it.
"I think you missed out some parts of the plan. Why don't you start from the beginning?" Mira asked.
Kate took a deep breath and started from the beginning of her plan. She told them of how she would go in under the disguise of a prospective employee with Evan, they would play their roles as he gave a tour selling her the benefits of the place while she planted a data stick with a low tech virus into the main core that networked the computers.
The virus would spread and compromise security measures setting off fire alarms and during that time Evan would get the information on where the next three rifts were predicted to form. By which time her nasty virus will have knockout the power systems in the building and thus during the rushed evacuation she and Evan would slip away and Kate would break Taylor and the others out of their cell and get them to the nearest fire exit. The technicians she assumed would be able to restore partial power and security by the time they exited the building giving them a head start to get to their designated cars. Mira and her daughter would be in one car and Maddy and Evan's kids in another.
Evan held his hand up at this point making Kate pause in her telling of what had to be the most insane plan he had ever heard.
"Yes?" Kate said as if she were the teacher of the class.
"Computer virus won't work. The computer malware detectors and firewalls would pick it up in no time and squash it" Evan said.
"Not a low tech worm with teeth circa 21st century. The filters wouldn't recognise it as it's antiquated by your standards" Kate said as though she had an answer to everything.
"Oh and you happen to have one on you?" Evan said incredulously. He was having serious doubts about this woman.
"No, but I know some of the coding for one and Maddy is a genius between the two of us we can cook one up today or would you like me to try and attempt to blow up a whole building?" Kate asked them, she gave a shrug as if to say 'I'm easy with either plan'.
"We could do it" Maddy said Evan and Mira looked at her "The computer virus not the blowing up of the building. It has happened before the computer core crash in 2119 was from an old Trojan horse program that slipped through the filters. If we make our worm with orders to replicate and infect the computers and force malfunctions it would be easy to do and would take the computer techs a while to clean it up even forcing a total shut down of their mainframe and data servers" Maddy said correcting their assumption.
"See, it can be done and this way no one has to die." Kate said.
"Ok so you need medical equipment, an ID and clothing" Mira said.
"You can borrow my wife's clothing" Evan said the women looked at him oddly as he was offering his dead wife's wardrobe.
"You sure?"
"You two are about the same size though she was a bit shorter but same slim frame" Evan said.
"Ok, it'll save money for the other stuff" Kate said she moved to her bag and pulled out a brick of cash and handed it to Mira.
"I'll go out and source your ID and medical equipment along with the makeup and Hair dye. Any colour preference?" Mira asked.
"Brunette and temporary" Kate said, Mira gave a laugh and nodded at the request.
"Ok and if I have any spare money left over I'll buy some food and a rally pack" Mira said to Kate who nodded. "You mind keeping an eye on Sienna?" Mira asked.
"Not a problem. Now, when your guy is making up my background information remember to make sure I have a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering with honours and diploma in languages and what kind of masters would I need?" Kate said looking to Evan who was making a list of what he needed Mira to get for him to make the serum.
"Masters in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics" Evan provided with his list of equipment. Mira looked over the list and gave a nod.
"I'd say copy my personnel file but I don't need someone connecting the dots about me still being around" Kate said.
"Ok" Mira said.
"I'll call in sick saying Olivia is sick. It's not uncommon so they won't suspect anything" Evan said.
"Ok, you alright with all this?" Kate asked him.
"Yeah, it's just a little unreal. I'm not usually into the whole James Bond routine of things but it'll be worth it" Evan said before he turned to the phone at the wall and dialled work.
A few hours later,
Evan and the kids were playing and having fun, he decided he'd take the day off completely and just be with his kids while Maddy and Kate worked together on making their virus. Mira had gone out leaving her daughter Sienna in their care, the seven year old was a quiet and shy girl it took an hour to coax her in to playing with the others but now they were having a ball playing.
Evan looked to Kate and Maddy even now and then hearing them argue quietly about something not working or something that needed correcting.
"You can't write it like that" Maddy said in a low voice.
"We have to plan for all contingencies" Kate told her.
"But this could-" Maddy started only for Kate to cut her off.
"I know" Kate said firmly. "But it has to be done. There comes a point when it's us or them" Kate told Maddy. The young woman nodded her head reluctantly agreeing. Evan wondered exactly they were planning to do as he knew Kate was keeping a lot of the plan to herself and wondered what she was hiding. Her plans were ludicrous yet Mira and Maddy were going to follow her which meant the woman was known to pull off the impossible. The fact that Mira trusted her daughter with Kate spoke volumes as they weren't exactly the closest of friends.
"How do you even know the coding for that?" Maddy asked.
"Eidetic memory, I was friends with a guy who had this script as a poster in his lounge room. He liked to tell me all about the virus that brought the internet to its knees" Kate told Maddy dramatically as she finished writing out the complex computer coding from memory. Maddy looked over the design of their computer virus in all he life she never believed she would be doing something that could get her executed for treason.
"Relax Maddy, its worst case scenario" Kate told her as if she could read Maddy's guilt and fears at their plan.
A knock sounded at the front door and Evan got up to answer it, Kate looked around the side to see a delivery guy with a dolly trolley with several boxes on it.
"A delivery Kate Shannon?" the guy said, Kate hopped off her seat and walked up to the guy.
"That's me" she said, she really hoped Mira had come up with a more original name than that for her new Alias.
"Good, sign here" he said holding out a plex. Kate scribbled a 'K' and an 'S' before handing it back. She and Evan picked up the boxes and placed them inside the hallway until the trolley was empty.
"Cheers" Kate said.
"Have a good day" the man said before walking away with his trolley in tow. Evan closed the door and looked at the boxes, he recognised the Hayashi insignias on the box. He did want to know how Mira procured the equipment.
"Is this everything?" Kate asked as she opened a box and lifted out a microscope, she inspected it like a curious child before putting it back in the box.
"Looks like it. We'll put it in my bedroom away from the kids" Evan said as he lifted one of the boxes. It took them about an hour to unpack and set everything up.
"Ok, shall we raid the closet for your new outfit?" Evan asked as he moved to the wardrobe and opened it up to his wife's side. After two years he still didn't have the heart or will to empty the clothes out. Part him believed if he kept it he could still believe his wife was still there and the other said one day Olivia would want to play dress ups so there was no rush to throw it away.
"How long ago did your wife pass away again?" Kate asked. Evan wondered if the woman had ever heard of tact but he had to say he found it refreshing that while she didn't tip toe around the subject she was respectful.
"Two years ago, she died during childbirth with Olivia. I haven't had the heart to clear out her things" Evan admitted as he looked at the clothes and shoes.
"She didn't happen to own a pair of pants?" Kate asked politely as she looked at all the suit jacket and skirts.
"Ah I think she had one suit with pants because what you're wearing won't pass muster at my work" Evan said as he reached in and pulled out a navy blue pin stripe suit ensemble and handed it to her. "Her only suit with pants. She liked wearing skirts said god gave her legs why not use them to her advantage" he said with a shrug. Kate smiled as she knew that mode of thought well.
"Cheers" Kate said as she pulled the pants off and held them to her hips and frowned as they were too short it looked like she was going to have to wear a skirt.
"Ok, skirt it is...umm Shoes?" she asked as she folded the pants back on to the coat hander and exchanged it for a grey tweed suit with long black pencil skirt. The jacket had ¾ sleeves with puffed, pleated shoulders and princess seams front and back all trimmed with soft black leather.
"Take your pick" he said.
"Is this weird for you?" Kate asked him because she definitely felt weird going through the wardrobe belonging to his dead wife.
"No why?" he asked.
"Well I'm picking through you late wife's clothing and I have nearly the same physical attributes she does. It's just weird" Kate said uncomfortably.
"Actually she was shorter than you, her hair was a darker shade of red, and her eyes were hazel. There's also the fact she was way hotter than you" he said with a smile.
"Thanks" Kate said pretending to be insulted though she didn't take any offence as she knew she wouldn't have to worry about him hitting on her. She picked up a pair of black patent leather shoes with pointy toes and 6 inch stiletto heels. Evan's late wife wasn't a believer in kitten heels as all her shoes were stiletto. She pulled the thick matching belt to go with the jacket to accentuate her waist and stepped back with the clothes.
"Done shopping?" he asked.
"Yeah, thanks" Kate said as she tried on the shoes. She was definitely feeling like the ugly sister in Cinderella as the shoes pinched. She found with the extra height nearly made her feel the same height as Evan. She just hoped the suit wasn't too tight.
"Not a problem" he said as he held her steady as she slipped off the heels.
Terra Nova,
The storm had passed and combat engineers and soldiers were moving rubble and debris from what used to be the half of the secondary research labs. Alicia watched on from a distance with Elisabeth. Dr Haynes had been pulled out with ease and taken to the infirmary with minor scrapes and bruises, she was mainly in shock.
The rest of the colony was returning their houses to assess the damage and taking down all the measures they had done to protect their homes such as boards on the windows and untying furniture. The sky that had been almost black with clouds was now clear blue skies with a few clouds here and there but nothing to be concerned with.
"We found him." Baz said, he started yelling to the soldiers to start lifting a heavy piece of debris, less than a minute later Malcolm's unconscious and bloodied body was pulled out of the rubble and put onto a stretcher and shoved into the back of a rhino with Elisabeth shouting orders to her medical team being driven back to the Infirmary.
Alicia watched from a far knowing she was useless in her current state and slightly annoyed she couldn't help. She hated being an observer. Baz walked over to her, she saw the blood on his hands which was obviously Malcolm's as the older man had no visible wounds.
"Doesn't look good" Baz commented about Malcolm.
"We'll just have to hope he pulls through. Tell me how this happened" Alicia said.
"the force of the winds picked up the iron frames we use for housing. They made a mess around the place but nothing that can't be fixed. We had them secured for the storm but I found some of the cords, they were frayed and heavily fatigued. I should have double checked"
"It's ok, it's no one's fault. Just something that happened. Everything will be fine but we'll need to clear the debris and clean up the blood. I'll double up this side of the fence with more soldiers. We don't need nykorapters smelling the blood and giving us grief. If there is anything else you need just radio me" Alicia said Baz gave a nod.
"Ok, well I better get back to it" Baz said.
2150,
"How long are they going to keep us in this room?" Jim asked as he looked out the Perspex wall of their cell watching the scientists go about their business. He, Taylor and Guzman had been in the tiny room for hours with the occasional break for tests and physicals. He was waiting for the real torturing to begin but was starting to think being trapped in a room with Guzman and Taylor. Especially after Taylor had his morning constitutional, Jim was sure he would die from suffocation from the ungodly smell. Luckily the air filtration system was functioning as it cleared out the smell after about 10 minutes.
"Probably until you crack it. Relax Shannon" Taylor told Jim, he knew the man was having problems with being confined as it reminded him of his time in Golad but it was starting to grate.
"I wish I could but I'm worried about other things and I don't like being trapped in a box and being pulled out for a couple of hours to be poked and prodded like a lab rat!" he shouted as he banged on the wall making a couple of scientist nearby jump in surprise.
"Shannon take it down a notch" Taylor said, it had been a long morning for them all cramped in the small room hadn't helped their disposition or their little meet and greets with Clayton. Taylor wanted to throttle the man for the things he had told him in that room but didn't as he knew he needed his strength.
"Oh I'm sorry but shouldn't we be trying to get out of here?" Jim asked in a low voice.
"There is no way out" Guzman said.
"Unless we talk and we are not doing that"
"Even if we talk we aren't going to be freed" Guzman said he had only been returned to the room a few minutes ago.
"Really? Did Mr Clayton Russell tell you that?" Jim asked in a snarky fashion as he wanted to be back in Terra Nova right now drinking a coffee and breathing the fresh air of a sunny day.
"He asked me about some redheaded woman and if I divulged the population numbers and defences of the Colony he'd make sure I became her breeding partner" Guzman said.
"Why didn't I get that offer?" Jim asked. Taylor and Guzman raised their eyebrows at him as Jim was a married man and they all knew they were talking about Kate. "I get threatened with prison time and Guzman gets a woman you can understand my confusion. It's hardly fair" Jim said.
"Apparently I'm very potent but if you think you're more of a Stallion than me go ahead and cut yourself a deal" Guzman offered in a mocking tone before they broke up into laughter at the absurdity of it.
"Here" Mira said handing Kate a backpack filled with everything Kate had requested for herself. Kate was currently lying on Evan's bed with her arm hooked up with IV drip sent up with a rally pack of vitamins and minerals, Evan had taken a pint of her blood and was currently working on the serum. While Maddy was outside babysitting the kids and keeping them preoccupied.
"Oh wow glasses this is original cover" Kate said sarcastically as she put on the thin rectangle shaped glasses she had pulled from the bag. The other contents was some makeup, perfume and hair dye. Something about the glasses was oddly familiar but she didn't comment as she liked wearing glasses it gave her carte blanche to be as nerdy and intelligent as she wanted to be.
"And here's your ID" Mira said ignoring Kate's tone, Kate activated the interface and looked at the official photo of herself with dark brunette hair looking serious with the glasses on. Something about it was entirely too familiar about it. Then it struck her that it was one of her previous alias with some tweaks on the dates and some added credentials.
"Jacqueline Washburn, seriously? You used one of my old aliases. You just got them to change the photo slightly along with the dates and added things. I thought I said not to use one of my past aliases there will be a trail" Kate said.
"It'll be fine and anyway that's how false identities are made" Mira said, Kate shook her head in disbelief and hoped the ID passed muster the next day.
"May I?" Evan asked taking a break from his work. Kate handed the ID over to him. "Hey we went to the same university" he said with a smile. Mira and Kate looked at him and he felt like an idiot as he realised that it wasn't true. "Right, plausible background for why I know you besides your stellar credentials. I think I need a brain break" Evan said
"It's too much for you isn't it?" Kate asked him with a hint of humour in her tone.
"I'm in awe of you, scientifically speaking of course. You know that you have the lowest levels of blood impurities I have ever seen. You're practically a new born which is impossible for a woman of your age. It's remarkable, did you grow up in a dome all your life?" he asked her, Mira and Kate exchanged looks before Kate answered.
"Yeah, I'm from 2016" Kate told him.
"Excuse me?" Evan said as he was pretty sure he didn't hear her correctly.
"I lived in a completely different time to you and everyone else before I was displaced to Terra Nova" Kate told him.
"Well that explains a lot" Evan said accepting her for her word that she was from the 21st century. Kate looked at him oddly. "You have a lot of idioms and turns of phrases I don't know and you look to Maddy to explain things you should know. I don't get by on my looks alone" he said with a smug smile.
"Don't worry no one thought you were getting by on your looks alone" Kate replied dryly.
Terra Nova,
"Elisabeth, what's his prognosis?" Alicia asked as she looked through the window to the operating room. Inside Malcolm laid on a table with several staff surrounding him, monitoring his vitals and hanging up fresh blood packs and IV drip.
"Not good, he's suffered a cerebral edema and his brain is swelling quite severely. Right now I'm replenishing his blood loss and hoping he'll stabilise but I think I may have to cut into his skull to relieve the pressure" Elisabeth said, Alicia cursed under her breath.
"How much brain damage are we talking about?"
"I don't know it's too soon to make any assumptions but it's not good. We need to get Kate back here as soon as possible" Elisabeth said.
"I've been trying to get a hold of them but all I'm getting is static. The soldiers are stretched out thin as it is." Alicia gave a sigh "I'll send Carter and Reilly out" Alicia said making a compromise.
In 2150,
The Friday morning, Kate stepped out of the bathroom in the suit ensemble, she wore the black pencil skirt dress which finished just a few inches about her knees any higher and it would be indecent. It fit alright but was a little loose in the hips and bust. But the jacket covered up the slight bagginess in those areas. It luckily was a snug fit. Her hair dyed a light chocolate brown was in a casual yet professional up do with a few strands loose to frame her face. She donned a little eyeliner, bronzer and red lipstick with the glasses on she looked nothing like herself.
"Wow, you look different" Maddy said in awe as she handed Kate her ID and purse with rebreather and the data stick.
"Yeah, we could almost be related except the eyes" Evan joked as he had been momentarily stunned by the sight of Kate. Her grey eyes stood out more than they did before with the bronzer and darker hair. He adjusted his tie as he was wearing a well tailored grey suit, looking professional. He spent a good portion of the morning packing up clothing and toys for the kids along with his own gear, he made sure to pack some mementos of Lena, both their grandparents for him to pass to the kids later in life and also for Alicia as he knew she would have wanted their grandfather's pocket watch.
He and the kids had their injections and he double checked and found it had worked they all had a molecular signature identical to Kate's. He knew the reason their body's didn't reject it was due to the low toxicity and impurities in Kate's blood which meant her Plasma was equally as clean and more readily absorbed.
Everything was ready and the cars packed. His kids would be in the car waiting with Maddy for him and Kate. His nerves were beginning to fray as it had been so long since he had to deceive anyone in a long time but as he looked at Kate who was completely at ease.
"Thanks always wanted to be a Washington" Kate said with an amused smile as she straightened her jacket and checked herself in the mirror one last time. "So I'll be going with Mira to the building while you take your car and park it outside where we agreed with Maddy in the car with the kids. I'll meet you in the lobby as planned" Kate said as she double checked her purse again.
"Are you repeating this for my benefit or yours?" Evan asked.
"A bit of both. Let's go" Kate said.