It had been close. They could have all been killed.
Green caressed Zarek's hair. The small baby boy having slept through all the noise. So small and so innocent.
She raised her gaze back to Bobby........and the girl.
Oddly enough......the girl had met her gaze.......as if she had known that Green was going to look at her.
A brief image flashed before her eyes......she didn't understand the image.....it was just a flash of something.
"DarIcan'tbelieveitsyou."
"Ican'tbelieveit."
"Areyouok."
The voices of the children mumbled out as D'artagnan was envolped by the hord of children. They all hugged him and touched him. They were all smiling. It was the first time she had seen them happy.
The children had all known about D'artagnan. They had a special connection with each other. They all knew each other....and they all loved one another.
She felt happy. Happy that she had united her son with his brothers and sisters. She smiled at the happy faces of her children. She heard a gurgling noise. She looked down and found Zarek and Zander awake and smiling at her.
Of course..............they could feel the laughter radiating off of the children.
"Are you our father?" she heard D'artagnan say.
She quickly looked up to see D'artagnan facing Bobby and the girl.
Bobby's eyes shifted from Dar to Mona. Then back again. Just as he opened his mouth the girl spoke up for him.
"No Dar.......this is our uncle. Uncle Bob." the girl explained.
D'artagnan's eyes fell, as Miss Green's eyes widened.
The girl had said our uncle. Her uncle. That meant that.....the girl was her......daughter?
The girl turned to look at Green. She knew those eyes. Green would have bet her life on it.
The girl slowly approached Green.
"Hi mom." she said without emotion in her voice.
Green just stared at the girl, trying to process everything that had just happened. It took her a good five minutes just staring at the girl who stood in front of her. As a realization dawned on her, the rage in her eyes made her blue eyes seem red.
"LLLYYYYLLLLEEEE!!!!!!!" Green yelled out as she got up.
Bobby swallowed. He had his back to Mona....he was looking at Emily. Emily's face showed the fear that reflected Bobby's. Bobby looked into his wife's eyes and then slowly turned around.
He never knew what hit him. Well he knew what.....he just never expected it to be so soon. Green had hit him square across the face. He had landed on the floor and was now looking up at the woman he called sister. He looked into her eyes.
For the first time since this whole ordeal had begun..........he saw that all too familiar look in her eyes. A look that radiated hate.............discust................death.
Her eyes were cold. Cold like they use to be.
God help him.
"You.......knew." she whispered out in the most dangerous voice he had ever heard come out of her.
He shivered for the first time in fear of his sister.
"You knew all about them being held in that hell hole." she growled out.
Bobby could do nothing but watch as her hand reached out and grabbed him by his shirt.
"You kept my children underground all of these years, you sick son of a...." Green continued to growl out.
"NO! HE DIDN'T! He tried to save us......unlike some people I can think of." the girl spoke up with anger vibrating off of her words.
When Green interpreted the words.......she felt a stab of pain.
"He's my Pop. He's the man that raised me while other people enjoyed their lives." the girl continued.
Again Green felt a stab of pain. This girl.....................her daughter............obviously blamed her for what had happened to them.
"He...." she began in a tightly controlled voice, "he knew where you were all of this time. He put you down their....and he used your love for him to blind you about what he was doing." Green reasoned out loud.
The girls face contorted into a 'what are you talking about face'.
"NO! HE SAVED MY LIFE!" the girl yelled out.
"Mona, I didn't PUT HER down there.....I didn't put either of them down there. I swear.....I swear it on my childrens life." Bobby swore while staring in her eyes.
"Hey!" the girl exclaimed with an 'EXCUSE ME!' face.
Bobby rolled his eyes at the girls outburst.
Green tugged on Bobby's shirt bringing him close to her face.
"Why should I believe a word you say? You've kept my children from me." She asked him in a murderous tone.
"WILL YOU LISTEN TO ME!!! I'M TELLING YOU THE TRUTH!!! I'll explain everything. Can you actually compose yourself to act like a human being for 5 minutes while I explain?" asked the girl with anger and discust radiating from her voice.
Green turned her eyes up to the girl. The girls brown eyes blazing sword daggers at her. Green glanced back at Bobby. She brought her line of sight back up to the girls eyes. Slowly she stood up, keeping her eyes locked with the girl.
The girl nodded and sighed out a heavy sigh.
"I'm listening!" Green said as she stared daggers at Bobby from across the seat. Bobby just stared daggers back. Since the whole incident he had grown angry with Mona. The anger of all the years coming to accumilate all in this point in time.
The girl eyed both of the adults. Her gaze finally coming to rest on Green's.
"I was born August 3, 1982. I'm a triplet.....as you've probably found out by now." The girl began.
"I was raised in the Centre for the first two years in my life. Then............one day a man took me."
"Bobby!" Green hissed out.
"No." the girl stated.
Green looked back at the girl.
"It was Mr. Raines." The girl answered.
Green's eyebrows furrowed.
"He took me out of the Centre. I was little. I could sense his thoughts......but I didn't know what it meant back then. He took me to where Uncle Bobby lived."
Green's eyes never wavered from the girl's as the tale continued.
"He took me into the woods. Told me that I was going to meet someone special. Uncle Bobby came not an hour later.............but he brought someone else.......a friend." The girl looked over at Bobby, his eyes were closed and his face was of sadness.
Suddenly Bobby got up and went to the back of the plane.
At this action Green followed him with her eyes. When he was out of view, she turned her eyes back to the girl, now with a curious look on her face.
The girl's eyes now had unshed tears in them.
"When.....ah.....(her voice choking on the tears that threatened to come)......when Raines saw him.............................he grabbed me................and uncle Bobby's friend." The girl stuttered out as the tears had begun to fall.
She had a look of perplexion on her face.
"Why didn't I understand what he was about to do I'll never know." she confessed.
"He....he had sweepers point guns at our heads.....and.....I....I was crying......I was really scared........" the girl said as the tears had stopped, her demenor calmed.
"Uncle Bobby had a rifel...........his friend and him were planning to go hunting. Mr. Raines knew all about it. Knew what he needed to do to make Uncle Bobby his....................................he told him who I was.................what I was............................and he looked at me..................................and I could read his thoughts........................that he couldn't kill a child....................................kill his own neice.............................I had reached out both of my hands.......................begging him to hold me as the Sweeper held me back."
The girl then looked down to the ground as tears again came down her face.
"I'll never forget his eyes.....................I'll never forget the tears that he was shedding as he looked at his friend.....................................his friend was crying soundlessly..........................................I heard his thoughts................................he knew who Bobby would pick to live...........................................and he understood." the girl cried out the words.
"Uncle Bobby raised his rifel...."
Green's eyes closed for the first time since the story began. She knew the ending.
"Uncle Bobby begged for his friends forgiveness with his eyes.....................and his friend gave him it.................................and then.....................the shot rang out." The girl said calmly as her eyes met Green's once more.
"He made a life altering choice.....................to kill his best friend...................to save me.........................so don't you ever accuse him of anything else................than loving me too much." the girl said as she got up and followed the path Bobby had taken.
Green sat there staring into space. Processing the information.......but one thing kept her from trusting Bobby.
If he had known about her daughter all of these years....................why didn't he tell her? Why would he not tell her about her daughter after all the events that they had been through that day.
Why, if he loved her, would she be held at Donoterase?
Why would Bobby try to kill her and Jarod at every turn?
Why?