a/n: sg1 and sg4 stood for 'shadow government', I know its corny, but, it was all I could come up with. Kinda hard to make an e-mail address for a government conspirator.
To Save the World
Part 11
~**~**~**~
Noises upstairs, lots of crashing and banging. This is worse than last time.
"Is there anyway they can get in?" Kimberly questions, "What I mean is, are we safe down here?"
"God I hope so." I think out loud. Earning some worried looks from the others. "Er…I mean. Yes, we should be safe. The only way to get in is through the remote control openers. And we all have ours right? Nobody left theirs topside?"
Everybody grumbles an 'I have mine' or 'got mine right here' or something along those lines, and I breath easily. "Good. We just have to sit here and let the storm pass I assume."
"Dana, when is this going to stop. We've already had to relocate once before because of him. Where are we going to go now? I don't know how many paranoid friends John's uncle has." Monica states, "This is are only place left. What are we going to do?"
I simply shake my head. "I don't know."
~**~**~**~
They've been going at it for half an hour now. We've got the occasional camera up there, so we know to what extent the search is going. And, subtle is the farthest thing from it. They're tearing the place up, and it's a good thing that we kept in mind what happened the last time and made sure no information was upstairs. But, since it seems we're going to have to leave here as soon as possible, we ourselves have been tearing the underground apart. Getting every bit of information, packing it, and making sure nothing was left in the lab.
Well, looky there, nervous Dana has resurfaced.
"Dana!" Alan says, "Stop pacing."
I sit down, ok no more pacing.
I hear a crash from the upstairs.
This is not good, this is not good, this is not good.
"Dana." Gibson warns, "I'm having a hard enough time paying attention to what THEY'RE saying, I don't need YOUR nervous thoughts clouding my mind."
"Sorry Gib, how about I go check on the kids, Monica, you and Kim want to come with?"
They nod and we go to check on the children, all of whom are asleep. Except for Caden.
"Here." I say to Tru. "Hand him to me, he's always fussy about going to sleep. Wont most of the time unless I sing to him or something." She places him in my arms, "Why don't you and Nathan go and find your parents. I'm sure that they're worried enough as it is, it would be a comfort for you two to be with them."
The two 17 year olds nod and exit the room. Kim picks up the sleeping Katherine and Monica picks up J.J. (John Jr.), who is also asleep. I start to rock Caden back in forth and hum him his song, he falls asleep not to long after I start. I stroke his chin and continue to rock.
Will wakes up and looks around bemused. "Momma." He says, I look up at him.
"What is it honey?"
"What wrong?"
"Nothing, go back to sleep."
"Will you hold me?" He yawns.
"Sure." I reply, I place Caden into his crib and Will climbs into my lap.
"Sing to me momma."
"Sure…sing what?"
"Bullfrog song."
Monica chuckles and I start to slowly sing to him. "Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine. Never understood a single word he said. But, I helped him drink his wine." He mumbles the parts of the chorus with me as I sing. After the second verse he's sleeping soundly, and snoring lightly. I place him back into his bed and sit back on the chair, placing my face in my hands.
"You three might what to be in here for this." Hannah announces from the doorway, Tru and Nathan coming in behind her. "The twins will watch the children."
"I resent that." Tru calls out, "I've got a name." a/n: take it from a twin, everybody refers to my sister and I as 'the twins', arg! It's the most annoying thing!
"Yeah. Why must everybody do that?" He groans. Then looks towards me, "But what she says holds true, you guys are going to want to see it. We've had time to talk with our parents, they're fine, as are we. Go. We'll watch the kids."
All three of us nod and file out the door behind Hannah. Each stealing one last glance at our children, or child in Kimberly's place. We rush into the living room where everybody is located. They're all standing around various computers, staring at something, seemingly stunned.
"What's going on?" Kim muses.
Gibson turns, "They're all gone. Every last one of them, they just left."
"Why?"
He shakes his head, "I don't know. Nobody was thinking anything about it, all they thought about was 'time to go', to say the least, I'm baffled."
Marita turns as well, and then points at a screen, "And apparently, we have a friend in the FBI."
"What do you mean?" Monica questions.
"There's a note. Written on the table, in plain view of a camera. After everybody had gone this one guy lingered behind, then took a sharpie and wrote, 'I have information vital to you. I will be in touch.'"
"What did this guy look like?" I ask.
"Couldn't tell, ski mask. For all we know it was a woman." Skinner shrugs. "I guess we just sit and wait for contact."
"Sit and wait." Monica says, "That's what we're going to do, be sitting ducks and wait for a possible informant? What if it's a trap? What do we do then?"
"It's not a trap." Gibson says.
"How so?"
"He was thinking genuinely."
"That doesn't mean anything if he knows that you're here with us." Alan offers. "He could have been deceiving us for all we know. Monica's right, I don't think sitting and waiting is the best thing we could do."
The boss in Skinner rears his ugly head, "What else is there to do?" He says sternly. "We cant very well just go out there and hope nobody finds us. Can we?"
"It would be better than just waiting here to die." Hanna states, "We could split up, get aliases, live normal again. Move to different location, multiple targets are harder to control than having us in one large cluster. I mean, think about it, they're thinking that we're in hiding, and that's how we're going to stay. They found us once…we went back into hiding. They're going to figure that we do the same thing again."
"But, what if this informant actually wants to help us?" Dr. Smalls offers.
"If he really wants to help us, he'll make it a point to find us." Langly states. "Guys, I hate to admit this, but she's right. We should split up and go back to living on the surface. They're finally thinking like us."
Hannah and Alan smile.
"Are we really going to do this?" Diane asks. "After all this time, we're going to leave?"
"It's not as if we're going to stop the vaccination." I say, "We all know by now what to do, we can continue to make it. And, with us being at different locations we can make more, it could really help us. Even with the possibility of somebody finding us."
"So, we're doing this." Mulder states. "When?"
"We should as soon as possible," Vikki says, "Just in case they come back for more." She motions to the screen.
Frohike nods, "Ok. We'll get started now."
~**~**~**~
4 days later
"Ok," Ryan says, "Vikki, Tru, Nathan, and I are done packing."
"As are we." Kim states. "We're ready to go."
A chorus of, 'we're ready', or 'us toos' fills the air. It looks like we're all ready to go.
"Ken and Becky should be here anytime soon." John says. "Everybody's got their new information?"
I nod, the Mulder family was the first to get their new ID's. We're now the Carter's. William Carter, Katherine Carter, Will Jr. Carter, Melissa Carter, and Caden Carter. We kept the kids names, because Caden and Melissa were both born after the fact, and Will is a common name, plus most of the time there will be a son named for his fathers namesake. We're moving to Tampa, Florida. I picked that one.
John, Monica, J.J., and Angel now have the last name Williams. Nicholas Williams, Amanda Williams, Jonathan James Williams (otherwise known as J.J; they had been calling him J.J for a while now, because of Jonathan Jr. so, they didn't want to change his name and confuse him), and they also kept it Angel Joy Williams. They're moving to Tallahassee, Florida. So they're not too far away from us, but they're still close.
John (Byers), Kim, and Katherine, are now the Murray's. Caleb Murray, Rachel Murray, and Katherine Murray. They're moving to Raleigh, North Carolina, along with Langly, (a.k.a Daniel Smith) and Frohike (a.k.a Elliot Green).
Mom and Skinner have decided to act as a married couple, the Lewis's. Mom's changing her name to Sarah and Skinner's to Joshua. They're moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Gibson has decided to go with them, as their nephew who's parents recently died, Paul Welling.
Ryan, Vikki, Tru, and Nathan are changing their last name to Walker, they're now Jack Walker, Stephanie Walker, Tracy Walker, and Sean Walker. They're moving to Charleston, South Carolina. Diane is moving close by, to Hilton Head Island, that way they can be close, she's changing her name to Nicole Robertson.
The lone gunmen somehow got a way to get us enough money to buy the necessary houses, furniture, and then some. He's gotten us the requirements for the jobs we will need, Mulder's got his degree in psychology, and mine in biology, then the completion of med school. So, he's going to go into psychology, and I will be a doctor. As far as I know both Monica and John are going back into law enforcement, detectives, I think. The gunmen have their journalism, and Kim is going to be a stay at home mom, Mom's not going to work, but Skinner's also going into law enforcement, the lone gunmen gave him the title Captain in front of his name. Ryan was a lawyer before, and he's going back into law, a prosecutor. And Vikki's going back to teaching. Tru and Nathan are going to go to college locally, at the branch of USC in Charleston. I'm not yet sure what they're going to major in though.
The houses have been bought, as have the cars, everything is ready to go. We leave tomorrow.
~**~**~**~
a/n: so it won't be confusing with the new names, the only time they'll refer to each other with their aliases is when they're in public. Hopefully it won't be that confusing. Anyway, thank you to those who have reviewed!
To Save the World
Part 11
~**~**~**~
Noises upstairs, lots of crashing and banging. This is worse than last time.
"Is there anyway they can get in?" Kimberly questions, "What I mean is, are we safe down here?"
"God I hope so." I think out loud. Earning some worried looks from the others. "Er…I mean. Yes, we should be safe. The only way to get in is through the remote control openers. And we all have ours right? Nobody left theirs topside?"
Everybody grumbles an 'I have mine' or 'got mine right here' or something along those lines, and I breath easily. "Good. We just have to sit here and let the storm pass I assume."
"Dana, when is this going to stop. We've already had to relocate once before because of him. Where are we going to go now? I don't know how many paranoid friends John's uncle has." Monica states, "This is are only place left. What are we going to do?"
I simply shake my head. "I don't know."
~**~**~**~
They've been going at it for half an hour now. We've got the occasional camera up there, so we know to what extent the search is going. And, subtle is the farthest thing from it. They're tearing the place up, and it's a good thing that we kept in mind what happened the last time and made sure no information was upstairs. But, since it seems we're going to have to leave here as soon as possible, we ourselves have been tearing the underground apart. Getting every bit of information, packing it, and making sure nothing was left in the lab.
Well, looky there, nervous Dana has resurfaced.
"Dana!" Alan says, "Stop pacing."
I sit down, ok no more pacing.
I hear a crash from the upstairs.
This is not good, this is not good, this is not good.
"Dana." Gibson warns, "I'm having a hard enough time paying attention to what THEY'RE saying, I don't need YOUR nervous thoughts clouding my mind."
"Sorry Gib, how about I go check on the kids, Monica, you and Kim want to come with?"
They nod and we go to check on the children, all of whom are asleep. Except for Caden.
"Here." I say to Tru. "Hand him to me, he's always fussy about going to sleep. Wont most of the time unless I sing to him or something." She places him in my arms, "Why don't you and Nathan go and find your parents. I'm sure that they're worried enough as it is, it would be a comfort for you two to be with them."
The two 17 year olds nod and exit the room. Kim picks up the sleeping Katherine and Monica picks up J.J. (John Jr.), who is also asleep. I start to rock Caden back in forth and hum him his song, he falls asleep not to long after I start. I stroke his chin and continue to rock.
Will wakes up and looks around bemused. "Momma." He says, I look up at him.
"What is it honey?"
"What wrong?"
"Nothing, go back to sleep."
"Will you hold me?" He yawns.
"Sure." I reply, I place Caden into his crib and Will climbs into my lap.
"Sing to me momma."
"Sure…sing what?"
"Bullfrog song."
Monica chuckles and I start to slowly sing to him. "Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine. Never understood a single word he said. But, I helped him drink his wine." He mumbles the parts of the chorus with me as I sing. After the second verse he's sleeping soundly, and snoring lightly. I place him back into his bed and sit back on the chair, placing my face in my hands.
"You three might what to be in here for this." Hannah announces from the doorway, Tru and Nathan coming in behind her. "The twins will watch the children."
"I resent that." Tru calls out, "I've got a name." a/n: take it from a twin, everybody refers to my sister and I as 'the twins', arg! It's the most annoying thing!
"Yeah. Why must everybody do that?" He groans. Then looks towards me, "But what she says holds true, you guys are going to want to see it. We've had time to talk with our parents, they're fine, as are we. Go. We'll watch the kids."
All three of us nod and file out the door behind Hannah. Each stealing one last glance at our children, or child in Kimberly's place. We rush into the living room where everybody is located. They're all standing around various computers, staring at something, seemingly stunned.
"What's going on?" Kim muses.
Gibson turns, "They're all gone. Every last one of them, they just left."
"Why?"
He shakes his head, "I don't know. Nobody was thinking anything about it, all they thought about was 'time to go', to say the least, I'm baffled."
Marita turns as well, and then points at a screen, "And apparently, we have a friend in the FBI."
"What do you mean?" Monica questions.
"There's a note. Written on the table, in plain view of a camera. After everybody had gone this one guy lingered behind, then took a sharpie and wrote, 'I have information vital to you. I will be in touch.'"
"What did this guy look like?" I ask.
"Couldn't tell, ski mask. For all we know it was a woman." Skinner shrugs. "I guess we just sit and wait for contact."
"Sit and wait." Monica says, "That's what we're going to do, be sitting ducks and wait for a possible informant? What if it's a trap? What do we do then?"
"It's not a trap." Gibson says.
"How so?"
"He was thinking genuinely."
"That doesn't mean anything if he knows that you're here with us." Alan offers. "He could have been deceiving us for all we know. Monica's right, I don't think sitting and waiting is the best thing we could do."
The boss in Skinner rears his ugly head, "What else is there to do?" He says sternly. "We cant very well just go out there and hope nobody finds us. Can we?"
"It would be better than just waiting here to die." Hanna states, "We could split up, get aliases, live normal again. Move to different location, multiple targets are harder to control than having us in one large cluster. I mean, think about it, they're thinking that we're in hiding, and that's how we're going to stay. They found us once…we went back into hiding. They're going to figure that we do the same thing again."
"But, what if this informant actually wants to help us?" Dr. Smalls offers.
"If he really wants to help us, he'll make it a point to find us." Langly states. "Guys, I hate to admit this, but she's right. We should split up and go back to living on the surface. They're finally thinking like us."
Hannah and Alan smile.
"Are we really going to do this?" Diane asks. "After all this time, we're going to leave?"
"It's not as if we're going to stop the vaccination." I say, "We all know by now what to do, we can continue to make it. And, with us being at different locations we can make more, it could really help us. Even with the possibility of somebody finding us."
"So, we're doing this." Mulder states. "When?"
"We should as soon as possible," Vikki says, "Just in case they come back for more." She motions to the screen.
Frohike nods, "Ok. We'll get started now."
~**~**~**~
4 days later
"Ok," Ryan says, "Vikki, Tru, Nathan, and I are done packing."
"As are we." Kim states. "We're ready to go."
A chorus of, 'we're ready', or 'us toos' fills the air. It looks like we're all ready to go.
"Ken and Becky should be here anytime soon." John says. "Everybody's got their new information?"
I nod, the Mulder family was the first to get their new ID's. We're now the Carter's. William Carter, Katherine Carter, Will Jr. Carter, Melissa Carter, and Caden Carter. We kept the kids names, because Caden and Melissa were both born after the fact, and Will is a common name, plus most of the time there will be a son named for his fathers namesake. We're moving to Tampa, Florida. I picked that one.
John, Monica, J.J., and Angel now have the last name Williams. Nicholas Williams, Amanda Williams, Jonathan James Williams (otherwise known as J.J; they had been calling him J.J for a while now, because of Jonathan Jr. so, they didn't want to change his name and confuse him), and they also kept it Angel Joy Williams. They're moving to Tallahassee, Florida. So they're not too far away from us, but they're still close.
John (Byers), Kim, and Katherine, are now the Murray's. Caleb Murray, Rachel Murray, and Katherine Murray. They're moving to Raleigh, North Carolina, along with Langly, (a.k.a Daniel Smith) and Frohike (a.k.a Elliot Green).
Mom and Skinner have decided to act as a married couple, the Lewis's. Mom's changing her name to Sarah and Skinner's to Joshua. They're moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Gibson has decided to go with them, as their nephew who's parents recently died, Paul Welling.
Ryan, Vikki, Tru, and Nathan are changing their last name to Walker, they're now Jack Walker, Stephanie Walker, Tracy Walker, and Sean Walker. They're moving to Charleston, South Carolina. Diane is moving close by, to Hilton Head Island, that way they can be close, she's changing her name to Nicole Robertson.
The lone gunmen somehow got a way to get us enough money to buy the necessary houses, furniture, and then some. He's gotten us the requirements for the jobs we will need, Mulder's got his degree in psychology, and mine in biology, then the completion of med school. So, he's going to go into psychology, and I will be a doctor. As far as I know both Monica and John are going back into law enforcement, detectives, I think. The gunmen have their journalism, and Kim is going to be a stay at home mom, Mom's not going to work, but Skinner's also going into law enforcement, the lone gunmen gave him the title Captain in front of his name. Ryan was a lawyer before, and he's going back into law, a prosecutor. And Vikki's going back to teaching. Tru and Nathan are going to go to college locally, at the branch of USC in Charleston. I'm not yet sure what they're going to major in though.
The houses have been bought, as have the cars, everything is ready to go. We leave tomorrow.
~**~**~**~
a/n: so it won't be confusing with the new names, the only time they'll refer to each other with their aliases is when they're in public. Hopefully it won't be that confusing. Anyway, thank you to those who have reviewed!
