The three of them led Ana back into their helicopter, the woman named Sara let her put her arms around her shoulders for support as they loaded everyone inside. At first Ana still felt out of it...she had been raped, beaten, and taken past the point of no return in her mind. She felt almost as if she wasn't all there...it hadn't sunk it yet that she had killed everyone in the camp.
But they were taking her away from this, and something...deep down inside her, knew that everything was gonna be okay.
Inside the chopper, Ana met the forth man named McDermott...he was in his late forties, a gruff look about him, and wide and darting eyes.
He worked the CB radio which was placed inside.
He seemed friendly enough, and happy that they had found her.
They all settled down, and Ana could tell from their faces...she must have been he first "new" person they had seen in years. She sat down and took a deep sigh as the engine started.
Sara offered her water, and took a quick glance over her now thinning wounds. She said once they got back she would get a closer look since the light wasn't to good inside the chopper.
They lifted off and started to fly past deserted cities, and empty fields and swamps in the pitch darkness.
Sara sat there, as everyone seemed to be trying to hold back their happiness for finding someone else.
Sara sat closer to Ana...seeing how she must have been suffering for post dramatic shock, and placed her smooth hand on top of Ana's rough and dirty one.
"You okay"
Ana glanced out the window.
"Not really..."
"What happened back there"
Ana bit her lower lip...she knew she wouldn't be able to say everything, it hurt to much.
She told Sara and her and her friends that all first met when this whole thing started, were holding up on some island in the middle of the Great Lakes, they stayed there for almost four years until two weeks ago when a boat arrived.
She told Sara about them shooting Nicole, and how she ran...others got away, she said...but they caught her.
Sara didn't say anything about Michael, or her having Hunter...and him getting away with Terry, something deep down inside her knew that if she told the others she was a mother...they might treat her different, and maybe tell her the truth that the chances of them making it were slim to none.
She had to believe that Terry and him got away...she just had to.
She told Sara about what they did to her...about the rapes, and the beating, and last about how she killed them all.
She felt dirty just saying it out loud.
But Sara only gave her a strong look, tears almost filling her in dark brown eyes.
She told Ana she was sorry, and how everything was gonna be all right.
Ana then asked where they were going, Sara told her that they were holding up in an underground military bunker since this whole thing started.
There was a small group of scientists, counting herself and two others.
And a group of soldiers.
Sara told Ana that they had been holding off there since the government gave them orders.
"Where am I" Ana finally asked, confused.
"Florida."
Ana couldn't believe it...had they taken her that far without her even knowing.
She knew she would never find Terry or Hunter again.
Sara asked if she had any idea where the other people in her group where...Ana didn't know.
But she tried to cheer her up a little...she was safe now, and nothing was gonna hurt her.
Just then the chopper started to lower...they were back.
