"Anyways Jim, I send Wash out there to search for Lea's bag and maybe buy us some good will, but that's what I wanted to talk to you about, when do you think we can start a debriefing? Today, tomorrow?" Taylor asks him.
"Might want to give her a little more time than that." Taylor advises.
"Sixers!" The men on the watch posts then shout, pointing at two approaching armored vehicles with many of the armed to the teeth sixers on board.
"Everyone inside, clear this place." Taylor orders and the civilians all retreat to their homes or shelter while most if not all of the soldiers gather at the gates.
The sixers get the tied up Washington and another soldier of the colony out of the vehicles, presenting them to Taylor and his men. The two had been ambushed when they went looking for Lea's bag.
"They've come for the girl, whoever they have on the inside tipped them she's here." Taylor tells Jim.
"Raise the gate." He then orders, stepping in front of the gates with his platoon of soldiers, stopping almost within arms reach of Mira, who's waiting in front of her group of sixers.
"Talk." Taylor tells her.
"You have something that belongs to me. I want her back." Mira demands calmly.
"Is that why you've abducted my people?" Taylor questions.
"Just returning the favor Taylor." Mira answers.
"The girl came to us." Taylor informs her.
"I don't believe you, I think your people took her." Mira tells him.
"We both know that's not true." Taylor replies.
"Just give her the damn brat and lets be done with her." Scott chimes in sourly, sitting ontop of the raised gates, his gigantic sword lying in his lap.
"You want your people back, so give me the girl." Mira offers.
"This is not a negotiation. The girl will decide her own fate. If she wants to leave with you, she's free to do so." Taylor says.
"Then bring her out here and let's find out." Mira tells him.
"As soon as you release my people." Taylor replies.
"Let them go." Mira orders her men, who are confused, but follow her order, chatting amongst themselves with wonder.
"Shannon, bring the girl out here." Taylor orders Jim, who then leaves to fetch Lea, who was staying with Josh and Zoey.
Minutes later Jim steps outside the gates with Lea, bringing her over to Mira.
"Lea, look at me. Tell them you want to come home." Mira tells the girl harshly.
"I ran away. I'm not going back with you. I'll stay here." Lea says, grabbing onto Jim's hand fearfully.
"Keep her then. She's nothing to me." Mira tells Taylor.
"This is the second time you've come to my gates and threatened the colony, there won't be a third. Next time I'm going to war." Taylor informs Mira confidently, who then leaves with her men while Taylor and his men go back to normal business once the sixers are out of sight.
"I want a list of everybody who went outside the gate from when she got here to 0900 this morning. In that time window the spy must've gotten in contact with the sixers. Let's hope we can find him." Taylor tells Jim, walking further into the colony with Jim and Lea.
"And you peanut. You were great out there. You weren't even scared huh? You know when you turn 18 I might have to put you in uniform." Taylor tells the little girl.
"I like uniforms." Lea replies.
"Look, I know you heard some pretty terrible things about me and I don't know how life is out there with the sixers, but look around, people are happy here. Safe and nobody gets scraps." Taylor tells her.
"I don't like scarps." Lea says.
"Alright, I'm going to leave you in good hands." Taylor tells Lea, nodding towards Jim, who then leads Lea back to his home.
That evening the Shannon's welcome Lea into Terra Nova, since the girl decided to stay while unknown to them, Scott is leaning against their outside wall, his blade resting beside him.
That same evening when everyone is heading to bed Maddy is reading a story again, when she hears a voice from outside her window.
"Huh?" She murmurs, stepping over to the window and peers out, but can't see anything.
"I could've sworn I heard something." She whispers to herself, throwing over a robe and steps out of her home, looking around the corner, only to see Scott napping against their wall.
"Scott?" She asks in a whisper once she walked over to him, seeing him mumble in his sleep.
"Hey Scott. Calm down." Maddy says gently, grabbing his hand when she sees him covered in sweat.
At the girls contact he shoots up, jumping backwards, putting some distance between himself and Maddy before calming down once he realizes it's her.
"Maddy? What are you doing up?" Scott asks surprised, walking back over to the girl, retaking his spot against the Shannon's wall.
"I heard you talk in your sleep apparently." Maddy tells him, pointing to the window over his head.
"Sorry." Scott apologizes.
"Are you OK? You don't look so good. You're covered in sweat and look like you haven't slept in four days." Maddy tells him concerned, sitting down next to him.
"It's only been two. And apparently I can't even do that right." He sighs disappointed in himself, looking at his hands tiredly.
"Talk to me. What is all this about? What was up with our neighbor this morning?" Maddy asks.
"I told you already. That girl is lying. I'm just here to keep an eye on you and your family." Scott says.
"How can you say she's lying? Mira wanted her back… what would be the point of that?" Maddy questions.
"Mira is just playing the commander like a fiddle. She knows him almost as good as me and Wash. She knows that kids are his biggest weakness." Scott tells Maddy.
"Scott, I want to believe you… but my parents say she's just a normal girl and I can't see her lying either." Maddy tells him.
"I get it. That's why I'm keeping guard. Or well was intending to before I nodded off." Scott says.
"Fine. I guess there's nothing either of us can do to fully convince the other, so I'm going to go to bed now. You should sleep too. Afterall, what good would you be if you can't stay awake during a fight?" Maddy tells him, knowing it'll push a button and make him sleep as well.
"Ugh, fine. But I'm staying right out here!" Scott insists.
"That's OK with me. Good night Scott." Maddy tells him with a small smile, giving him a chaste kiss and a quick wave before she heads back into the house and her room.
Once inside she takes a pillow she doesn't need and sticks it out of her window.
"Here, I doubt the floor is comfortable like that." She whispers out of her window, while Scott accepts the pillow with a quiet thank you. The two of them soon fall asleep, Scott being calmed down by Maddy's scent lingering on the pillow lulling him to sleep and Maddy by hearing the faint breathing of her boyfriend just outside of her window.
The next day Jim relays the information about who could have gotten in contact with the sixers to the commander and the two pay one of Malcom's science team members a visit, since he came in with the sixers and was working beyond the gates, alone during the timeframe they're looking into.
While they are busy with that Maddy and Elisabeth bring Lea to school, but once the two women left Lea rushes back out of the school building.
That noon Washington fetches Jim, because there was a break in at a couple's house. Once the two get there they see that someone opened up a hidden compartment in the house and Washington tells Jim that the house belonged to Mira originally.
The two then start a search party for Lea and catch her trying to escape the colony over the apple plantation.
"Hey, what's going on here kiddo, what did you take from that couple's house?" Jim asks, surprising Lea when he shows up behind her suddenly.
She tries to escape but Washington and another soldier cut her off and they take her into custody.
|Command center|
"You were right Scott, Mira sent her to infiltrate Terra Nova. She's been lying to us the whole time." Jim says, standing in the settlement's command center, talking to Taylor, Scott and Washington.
"Mira played me. She knew I'd let a kid in and not sent it away, especially if they showed up at our door trying to get her back." Taylor says disappointed.
"She's the perfect spy. Young enough to be sympathetic but old enough to be capable." Washington agrees.
"First chance she got, she broke into the house and got this container. Whatever it is. Does it open?" Jim says.
"Sealed shut, no visible seams." Taylor says, inspecting the stolen container.
"If I may." Scott says, taking the object out of his hand, running a transformed hand over the top of the container, not even leaving scratches with his hardened and sharpened werewolf nails.
"Ask the girl how to open it." Washington suggests.
"Nah. She won't be of any use. I know these things. They respond to a certain genetic sequence, so without the right sequence, it's garbage. Well I guess you could chuck it pretty hard." Scott tells them, juggling the weird looking box in one hand.
"Hmm. Bring her in." Taylor tells Washington, who then fetches Lea from outside the hut.
"Have a seat kiddo. Look, I'm not going to ask you why you did it. But the commander and I have a job to do, we'll ask a few questions and need you to be honest. Do you understand?" Jim tells Lea calmly, while she sits down in a chair intimidated, while Scott transforms, to use his senses to pick up when Lea's lying by listening to her heartbeat and smelling her scent for changes.
"Lea, look at me. Do you know what this is?" Taylor asks the girl, showing her the box with her shrugging her shoulders in response.
"Is it a weapon?" Washington questions, only to be met with silence.
"Lea, no more lies OK? Why does Mira want it?" Jim asks.
"I don't know. Mira didn't say. She just told me to get it, so I did." Lea informs him.
"But why? Why would you do that?" Jim asks.
"Because Mira's got my brother. She said she was going to hurt him if I didn't steal that box." Lea tells them with Taylor looking disappointed.
"Take her to pod 0." Taylor tells Washington and the woman brings the girl to lockup.
"What do you think?" Jim asks Scott.
"She didn't lie. At least not about the brother. The box… I don't know." Scott tells them.
"Taylor, if she's telling the truth about her brother, then we should send a few people just in case." Jim tells the commander.
"I'm not going to expand colony resources without reason. And I think we both know that even Mira won't stoop so low as to hurt an innocent kid." Taylor tells Jim.
"But what if that kid's really going to be hurt?" Jim asks.
"If. If we could be certain that Lea hasn't been tricked with that claim by Mira as well." Taylor says.
"Commander…" Jim tries to argue, but Taylor shoots him down, telling him "the answer is no. And that's an order."
"You've got a wife, children. Go home." Taylor tells Jim with a tired sigh and the former cop follows his suggestions, heading home.
"I know what you're going to say, so go ahead and gloat." Taylor tells Scott, the sole remaining visitor in the command center.
"Nah, not with this. I know that kids strike a sore spot for you. Otherwise I probably would've been publicly executed 5 years ago." Scott tells the older man sympathetically.
"Just, next time… Trust my instincts. Everytime I or anyone else ignores them is as if what those scientist bastards in 2140 did to me is all for nothing." Scott tells Taylor with a comradely pat on his shoulder, before heading out too, going to check on the Shannons, partially due to his desire to be around Maddy and also because he's weary of Jim's actions regarding Lea's brother.
|Shannon house|
"Do you think Mira would really hurt Lea's little brother?" Elisabeth asks Jim, the family, except Zoey having gathered in the living room to get filled in.
"Scott's the only way to somewhat tell if she's telling the truth. And while he says that Lea's concern for her brother is real… Taylor thinks that it's just a lie Mira told her." Jim replies solemnly.
"I'm gonna go for a walk." Maddy says, sounding exhausted and leaves the house, after collecting her jacket.
"What's with her?" Josh asks, gloating.
"She quit the job at the hospital yesterday because she didn't have the stomach for it as it turns out and the last two days the situation with Scott…" Elisabeth says.
"Oh, did the over-achiever only sort of achieve?" Josh asks.
"Josh, stop talking." Jim tells his son, who head to his room in reply.
Maddy, after hearing about Lea heads to the command center to look for Scott.
"Hello Commander Taylor?" She asks, knocking on the door, peering inside timidly.
"Maddy. What can I do for you?" He asks.
"Uhm, I'm actually just looking for Scott. But since he's not here do you have an idea where he is?" The young woman asks.
"Hmm. Well I assumed he's gone to your house, but it's also possible he went to his house in Nova to continue cleaning it up." Taylor informs her.
"My house? Why would he come to our house?" Maddy asks surprised.
"Well, from the way he was eyeing your father I'm assuming he's fearing that your dad will do something stupid and he wants to do something about it. I'm hoping keep him from storming off to confront the sixers, but It's Scott we're talking about here, so…" Taylor tells Maddy.
"OK, thank you Commander Taylor." Maddy says, turning to leave, but he stops her.
"Wait a second please. I'm guessing you already know most of this, but I think it's good to catch you up to date with everything regarding Scott, since the two of you seem to have started dating." Taylor says, offering her a seat, which she takes reluctantly.
"There's no need to be scared. There's just some things with Scott, that you should be aware off, before you two get more serious and you get scared off I'd rather you shoot him down now. He may come over as ruthless, but in reality he's constantly seeking validation." Taylor tells Maddy, seeing her nervousness.
"Well, I heard from your dad that you saw him knock down your neighbors house. Something like that has happened before. It's partially because how his mental state is changed by his abilities and the other reason is that no one here in Nova, beside me, Wash and a few Scientists truly realize how important he is to our survival here and don't show him the respect he deserves." Taylor explains.
"I guessed something along the line, but what do you mean he's important for the colony's survival?" Maddy asks the Commander.
"Well, in simplest terms he's keeping the dino's off our backs." Taylor explains.
"I think everyone's aware that he's fighting the dinos we run into. That's why most of the civilians are scared of him I assume." Maddy says.
"No, you misunderstood me. He's keeping the dino's off our backs the whole time. Even right now as we're speaking." Taylor informs her.
"How?" Maddy asks.
"Basically, he's killing whatever comes in the outer range of Nova and everything else gets scared off for a while, he's established himself as the top of the food chain so to speak. At least in this area." Taylor explains.
"Wow. I didn't know that. Why doesn't anyone know about this? Wouldn't this help with how everyone treats him?" Maddy asks Taylor surprised.
"Maybe, but it also makes us vulnerable and will cause a lot of panic in the community. I mean what if Scott would get ill for a while, everyone would freeze up and our society would break down at the first sight of a dino." Taylor tells Maddy.
"I see. And Scott's OK with it?" Maddy asks the commander.
"Well, I think he's just used to the way things are now that he's not expecting another result if everyone knew exactly what he contributes. And he knows what this knowledge would bring with itself." Taylor says with a sigh, looking at a picture with Scott and an older kid, who Maddy assumes is the commanders son, that's sitting on his desk.
"Anyways, I just wanted you to know so if you feel like you can't handle being in a relationship with him the two of you wouldn't get too serious and cause more harm than good." Taylor tells Maddy.
"I understand. And thank you for looking out for Scott. But it doesn't change how I feel about him, so I'm gonna go look for him now." Maddy tells the commander and leaves the house, heading back to her own house, quickly peeking into Scott's home but doesn't see him there.
When she's approaching her home she sees a familiar figure lying atop of the large fence behind her house relaxed.
"Hey!" She shouts up to Scott, standing at the fence he's lying on.
"Hi." He replies, looking down with a wave of his hand.
"I need to talk to you." Maddy says, stepping onto the first part of the fence, hanging onto it for dear life with her arms shaking like crazy.
"What are you doing?" Scott asks amused, sitting up with his legs dangling over the fence while he's looking down at his girlfriend, who's looking like she's about to have a melt down while attempting to climb the enormous fence.
Scott, seeing her freeze up pushes off the fence, landing on the ground two meters behind her in a crouch and goes over to Maddy, who's feet are just within arms reach, about two to three meters off the ground.
"Maddy." Scott says gently, standing behind her.
"I can do it." She says, her eyes closed while shaking with fear.
"Fine then." Scott says and she thinks he's leaving her alone on the fence, only to feel an warm arm wrap around her waist from her right side, with Scott standing next to her.
"If you really want to, then let's climb the fence." He tells her, giving her a supportive smile, with his fangs slightly sticking out, while he's clawing himself into the fence with the hand not supporting her.
"O…OK." Maddy nods timidly, and reaches up, for the next piece of the fence with one arm.
"Good, now grab on and move your other arm together with your legs." Scott whispers to her, focusing on her, keeping his arm steady around her waist to reassure her and climbs onto the next step in tandem with her.
"Good. Now, first calm down." He instructs, pushing her waist closer to fence.
"And next, just repeat the process four more times and we're on top." Scott tells her.
"OK. Here I go." Maddy says, calming down a bit and repeats the actions for the next two fence parts, when they are at the third however One of her hands slips and she falls backwards, screaming in panic, only for Scott to tighten his hold on her waist and jump up with one leg before pulling Maddy in, so she's literally standing pressed between himself and the fence.
"You're Fine. I got you, nothing will happen to you." Scott tells her calmingly, holding her steady.
"What happened"? Jim asks, storming outside with Elisabeth and Josh after hearing his daughter's scream.
"Uhh, this is not what it looks like." Scott tells them awkwardly, holding onto Maddy, who's slowly getting her breathing under control.
"What is it then?" Jim asks grumpily.
"Scott's helping me learn how to climb." Maddy informs her family, her voice still shaking with fear after almost falling.
"Why are you trying to learn how to climb?" Josh asks amused at his sister's particularly uncomfortable situation.
"I don't know, I wanted to talk to Scott and I just started and then I wanted to finish this." Maddy says, close to crying from embarrassment and desperation.
"It's fine sweety, we'll leave you two to it then. Make sure you don't hurt yourselves." Elisabeth says, pushing the males of her family inside, despite their protests, Jim wanting to make sure Maddy is safe and Josh to laugh at his sister.
"Maddy, don't cry OK? This isn't exactly the easiest task to do, I bet half of the soldiers here wouldn't even get this far up." Scott tells her, pushing against her, when she set her feet on the bar below and he removes his hand from her waist, turning her head to face him and brushing over her cheek lovingly.
"It's just… I need to do this." Maddy says with desperation.
"That's fine. Just say the word and we'll keep going. And I promise I won't help, other than catching you." Scott tells her.
"OK. Then, let's keep going." Maddy says, shaking out her hands twice, before grabbing onto the bar she's pressed against.
"OK, you got it?" Scott asks.
"Yeah, I'm secure.
"Good." Scott says, putting one arm further outside and wraps the other back around her waist, before pushing his legs off and pulling himself next to her on the bar.
"Then, let's keep going." Scott says once he's ready.
Maddy then continues to climb to the top of the fence, slipping up once more but she manages to catch herself that time without Scott's help.
"Congratulations. You've reached the top." Scott tells her when Maddy's sitting with her legs clamped around the large log acting at a bar of the fence.
"Here." Scott then says, pickig her up by her waist and placing her ontop of the metal part holding two halves of the fence up, where she has more surface area, which also isn't round.
"Thanks." She says, her face flushed from the adrenaline running through her and a bit from embarassement.
"Soo, if you don't mind me asking, why did you want to climb the fence?" Scott asks curiously, sitting on the log with one leg propped up and the other dangling from the side.
"I wanted to talk to you, and when I started and you came down… I just wanted to prove to myself, that I don't give up on everything." Maddy informs him.
"Well, goal achieved. You almost scared me to death, but you did it." Scott tells her with a chuckle.
"Thanks, for helping me and letting me try doing this on my own." Maddy thanks him shyly.
"Anytime." Scott says, taking one of the hands she has on the metal platform in a vice-like grip and gives the back of it a kiss, before putting it back on its spot, letting his hand stay over it reassuringly.
"So, what did you want to talk about anyways?" Scott asks.
"I wanted to apologize, for not believing you about Lea." She says guiltily.
"Hey, don't worry. I probably should apologize for making such big scenes with your neighbor and trying to drag you out of your house the other day." Scott says awkwardly.
"No, you don't. You were right and you were only protecting me… us." Maddy says, correcting herself at the end of the sentence when she looks down at her family, waving towards them awkwardly with Jim and Elisabeth having come outside to check on her.
"Anyways, it's all good now. I mean even Taylor didn't believe me and he knows me for 7 years. We only know each other for what? 3 weeks?" Scott says.
"Right… only 3 weeks." She says saddened.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Scott asks concerned at her mood.
"It's just… Man I feel stupid for saying this, but I always felt like I knew you, like for a really long time and now that you say it, it has only been three weeks and I barely know anything about you." She tells him, glumly.
"Well we only started dating, but what would you like to know?" He asks cheekily.
Maddy then proceeds to riddle him with some questions, which he answers as truthfully as possible, ranging from his past to his guilty pleasures, with Scott asking her to share the same information about her as well.
"Well, Now that we've spend an hour and a half getting to know each other better, why don't you tell me why you wanted to prove yourself that you're not a quitter." Scott tells Maddy, the two of them having changed their seating, so that she's sitting across his lap with Scott having taken her spot on the metal platform.
"Well, I think for the most part it's because I quit working with my mom yesterday. I just couldn't handle the sights and smells, I don't know why I never came across it before, but when I was faced with helping her treat wounds, I … just couldn't." She tells him.
"And the other part?" Scott asks, rubbing her back to show support with one hand.
"I spoke to Taylor earlier and he told me a few things about you. Most of which I already knew, but he asked me to end it now, if I'm having any doubts." Maddy tells him scared of how he'll regret.
"And do you? Have doubts I mean." Scott asks worried himself.
"It's not really doubts, I just don't know how I'm supposed to keep up with you. I mean you're basically the third in command, you alone keep the dino's away. You're able to perform such miraculous physical feats… meanwhile I can't even handle seeing a pustule without having to throw up." She tells him downcast.
"Mads, listen to me here. There is no one smarter than you in this entire colony, well maybe your mom, but I chuck that up to life experience. And while what you said about me is all true, it's nothing I'm really proud of." Scott tells her.
"What? How can you not be proud of keeping everyone alive? You're a freaking hero." Maddy says shocked.
"Maddy. These abilities, I got them against my will. If I'm being honest, I'd rather spend my days at the forge, but since I'm not fully human anymore… I need to go out there and prove my dominance." Scott tells her, looking into the jungle beyond the fence.
"So you are not worried about growing tired of having me around, even if I can't keep up with everything you can do?" She asks blushing.
"No, if anything with you by my side I'm happier than I have been in years." Scott tells her, tilting her head slightly to give her a passionate kiss.
"Because you have a girlfriend and can do stuff like that again?" She asks with a smirk.
"Well there is that." He laughs,
"But when I'm with you, talking like this, I feel almost normal. Like I belong." He tells her.
"You know for someone who claims to be anti-social you are one hell of a sweet-talker." Maddy says, giving him a kiss while she wraps her arms around his shoulders.
In that moment Jim leaves the Shannon's house in a hurry.
"Ugh, and here goes your father again. Ruining the moment." Scott scoffs, giving her a peck on her nose.
"Why, what's going on?" Maddy asks confused, only seeing her father walk down a path leading to the plaza.
"I'll tell you later, I need to make sure I don't lose him." Scott says, sliding his hands underneath her, lifting her in his arms before he drops down the fence, landing in a crouch with one knee and lets her feet touch solid ground moments later.
"See you soon Maddy Shannon." Scott says, getting up to leave, but turns back to face her and pulls her in for one more kiss, which lasts about 20 seconds, before he stops it, mumbling "God, how I hate your father's timing sometimes. I gotta go now." With that Scott runs after her father, leaving Maddy standing behind her house with a big smile, waving her boyfriend good-bye happily before heading inside her home.
"So, how'd climbing go? You were out there a long time." Elisabeth asks, noticing the large smile on Maddy's face.
"It was fine." She says, trying to not show her giddiness but then basically skips into her room happily.
|three hours later – jungle |
"Do you even know where you're going?" Jim asks, sitting behind Scott on his personal Quad.
"Would you kindly shut up, and who of us has been here for 7 years huh?" Scott counters annoyedly, driving them towards the general direction the sixers stay in.
"Well if we're right here, then where is everyone?" Jim asks.
Scott sniffs the air a few times and then turns off the Quad, pulling it up to the side.
"Get off, we're here and stop complaining the whole time, you're making respecting you as my girlfriend's father really hard." Scott tells him while they walk through the jungle, before Scott stops suddenly with Jim continuing ahead, walking right into a trap, suspending him upside down from a rope.
"My my, too bad I don't have a camera. The mighty Jim Shannon caught in a trap." Scott taunts jokingly
"Could you shut up and cut me down?" Jim asks.
"Yeah, yeah. Cool your jets." Scott tells him, pulling him down by grabbing his hand with the rope made of vines stretching and Scott reaches up with the other arm, slicing through it with his combat knife, before putting it back in its sheath on his hip, next to the machete he has secured on his lower back, with his bowie knife being in a leg pouch on his opposite leg.
"Here, take this. But don't get crazy you hear me?" Scott tells Jim, handing him a gun he took from the armory before leaving with the bull headed cop insisting they go check on Lea's brother, as well as his bowie knife.
"What am I supp…" Jim tries to ask, but Scott puts his hand over his mouth and makes a shushing motion, before pulling him over to a bush, hiding in it when three sixers step into the area, only to see the trap empty.
"It was cut, someone is here." One of the men says and moments later Scott jumped out of the bush, knocking the guy out by hitting him over the back of his head with the butt of the knife and grabs another man by the back of his neck with an transformed hand.
"What are you doing here?" The man chokes out, dropping his gun to the floor while raising his hands, nodding for the last person to do the same.
"Jim, care to answer that question." Scott says, keeping his hold strong on the guys's neck while Jim steps out of the bush, taking the gun the other guy dropped and collects the rifle hanging from the unconscious guy's shoulders.
"We came looking for Lea's brother." Jim explains.
Minutes later Jim is talking with Mira while Scott is keeping their backs free, still holding onto the guys neck.
"Ah, ah, ah. Put it down. You don't want me to make a mess here right?" Scott tells a man behind him, who grabbed onto an old school revolver, with bullets instead of the more common sound based weapons nowadays.
"How are you doing that?" The man asks fearful, putting the weapon back down.
"I have my ways." Scott says, turning to face him, Showing him red glowing eyes.
During his talk with Mira Jim doesn't get much out of her, other than that Taylor is wanted dead by people in 2149 and that Mira is working for them in order to get to see her daughter again. The real reason as to why Terra Nova was created originally he doesn't find out though.
After their brief talk Jim and Scott are allowed to leave with Sam, Lea's brother.
"So, how much did you hear?" Jim asks Scott, when he gets on the Quad, sitting behind the teen with Sam sitting in between the two.
"Pretty much everything. Sorry, but I couldn't risk Mira snapping and ripping out by future father-in-law's throat." Scott tells him with a playful wink.
"Just drive." Jim says, shaking his head in a mixture of amusement and annoyance.
After reuniting the two children Jim and Scott are on their way to the cop's home.
"You go on ahead rest. I'll report to Taylor." Scott tells the mand while they are walkig.
"That won't be necessary, why don't the two of you do it right here." Taylor says, joining the two on their walk.
"How did you two make it out of there with the boy? Any casualties?" Taylor asks.
"Nah. And Mira let us go. She didn't have use of the boy now anyways, since Lea's been caught and he's just another mouth to feed." Scott tells the commander.
"Still, just letting you go… that doesn't sound like Mira, not at all." Taylor says.
"Well, maybe she wanted to convince us of something, like that the sixers aren't that bad." Jim says.
"And did they?" Taylor asks.
"Not really. They weren't the best of hosts, you see." Jim remarks.
"Did she say anything I should know about?" Taylor asks.
"Nah, just that some people in 2149 want you dead." Scott says in a relaxed manner.
"Fine. Rest up you two and don't pull such reckless stunts again, you especially Shannon." Taylor says.
"Why me?" Jim asks surprised.
"Cause I know Scott can handle himself. You… you're still getting used to how things run around here." Taylor tells him, giving the two a fake salute while heading to his own quarters.
"Hah. Take that, I even got seniority over you." Scott laughs.
"Yeah, yeah." Jim grumbles.
"So, want to explain what I saw earlier behind our house?" Jim asks expectantly.
"What? You'd have preferred me to let your daughter drop 6 meters?" Scott asks challengingly.
"Ugh. Just, if you do get… closer, make sure to do it out of my sight. And with her approval, cause otherwise I don't care how strong you are, I'll shove a gun up your ass and blow you to the moon." Jim warns his daughter's boyfriend.
"Not to worry. If there is anything you can blindly trust me with, it's keeping your daughter safe and happy." Scott says with fully seriousness.
"Good." Jim replies and enters his home, with Scott following him, much to his surprise.
"I'm back." Jim says and Elisabeth comes out of their room to greet him.
"And you brought Scott with you…" She says surprised.
The three of them then hear a loud "HUH?!" before the door to Maddy's room is closed in record time.
"What is that about?" Jim asks quizzical, glaring at Scott.
Elisabeth takes her husbands hand and retreats to their room, while telling Scott "give her a minute."
Scott shrugs his shoulders in reply and walks around the home, seeing a few drawings left on a table, obviously made by Zoey.
Scott looks at one, where Zoey has drawn her family on it, with 7 figures on the picture and the names: Daddy, Mommy, Maddy, Zoey, Josh, Scott and Skye written underneath them.
"Hmm." Scott sighs, seeing the stick figure with his ex- girlfriends name under it.
"What're you looking at there?" Maddy asks chirpily, stepping out of her room.
"Oh, your sister left a drawing lying around." He says awkwardly, trying to hide his discomfort at seeing his ex-girlfriend's name on the picture.
"What is it?" She asks concerned at seeing his nervous expression and looks at the drawing.
"hah, well you know Zoey's young and doesn't really get everything that's going on yet." Maddy says.
"Yeah, sorry I shouldn't have looked around." Scott says.
"It's fine. And I'm sure I can explain to Zoey that you and I aren't there yet." Maddy says.
"Huh? Haha, you thought I was bothered by me being on there?" Scott laughs quietly, following Maddy to her room.
"You weren't?" She asks surprised.
"No, it's more. Well seeing Skye on there, brought up certain… painful memories." Scott tells her, with Josh overhearing it from the room beside his sister, annoyed at the late-night conversation Maddy and Scott are having.
"Oh, right. I'm such a clutz. Sorry." Maddy says embarrassed.
"No, you're not. You're perfect." Scott says, kissing her while putting his hand on the girl's cheek, while Maddy closes the door behind them.
"So, what was with you shutting the door in my face?" Scott asks her, sitting down next to Maddy when she takes a seat on her bed.
"Uhm. I…" Maddy says nervously, trying to hide something under her covers, but Scott picks up on it and reaches over her, carefully taking the plastic box with a retainer inside.
"You were worried about this?" Scott says, trying to hold in his laughter.
"Shut up. I can't help that I have to wear it." Maddy says upset.
"I'm not laughing about that. Here, put it in, I'm sure you'll still be the most beautiful girl in my eyes." Scott tells her, handing her back the box and Maddy turns away, putting in her retainer, before looking back towards Scott.
"And, what do you think?" She asks insecurely.
"Drop- Dead- Gorgeous." Scott says, giving her a kiss on each cheek in between the words, causing her face to light up beet red.
"Well, anyways I came by to check if you're doing OK after our little climbing adventure earlier." Scott tells her.
"Actually. Yeah, I'm great. Maybe a little sore in the hands but other than that I've never been better. Thank you again for helping me do it on my own." Maddy thanks him, giving him a peck, before she crawls into his lap and deepens the kiss, pushing Scott back on her bed, with him wrapping one arm around her waist and the other brushes over her arm.
After a bit of the two of them kissing Scott sits up and lifts Maddy off himself carefully.
"Something wrong?" She asks quietly, not wanting her family to be able to listen in on them.
"I think we should stop here for today. It's late and it doesn't feel right to get too much into this with your family basically four feet away in all directions." Scott tells Maddy, holding her hands gingerly, while she's standing in front of him.
"OK, You're right. Of course, sorry I got a little carried away." She stammers, blushing.
"Hey. Relax, I was as much part of this as you, there's nothing to be embarrassed about Mads." Scott says, standing up and embracing her, pulling her close to himself while running his hand through her hair, before giving her a kiss and stepping out of the embrace half a minute later.
"Won't you stay over tonight?" Maddy asks, holding onto his hand.
"It's late and I liked it when you were here last night, even if you were outside our house.
"Sure. But I'll sleep on the couch otherwise Jim will get a heart attack." Scott tells her, giving her a chase kiss before stepping out into the living room and looks towards the parent's room, where Jim is sticking his head out of, raised by the noise of his daughter's door.
"Relax I'm crashing on your couch not Maddy's room." Scott tells him.
"Oh, how wonderful." Jim replies sarcastically, before stepping back into his room and joining his wife in their bed.
"Be nice to Scott. He's a good kid and he's making Maddy very happy." Elisabeth tells her husband.
"You know he can hear us, right?" Jim says.
"Only if I want to." The two parents hear as reply from the living room.
"I hate that kid." Jim groans.
