A/N: I would to say thanks to those two people that reviewed on my story, and to the four that put my story on their alert list. Thanks!


The next morning Rea woke up to the sunlight streaming into her window. She rolled over so that it wouldn't be in her eyes, moaning, but then let out a little scream when she rolled onto her hurt arm. She sat straight up cradling her throbbing arm.

"I really have to get used to this thing!" she yelled at herself.

Now wide awake she threw the covers off herself getting out of bed, and looking over at the clock the read 8:00 am. She grabbed another spare uniform and went into the bathroom. She took a quick shower and changed into her clothes. She brushed out her shoulder length hair and with great difficulty, managed to put it up in a bun. When her hair was up she set her brush down and leaned into the mirror looking at her appearance more closely. She frowned at what she saw. Her flawless skin was marred a few tiny scratched on her face that were barely visible, and were almost gone, but the major one was one right above her right eye that was about three inches long. It was a deep cut that she had received from a piece of flying metal that had missed her helmet and hit her instead. She had been lucky it hadn't hit her eye or neck, or she might not have been standing there now. She didn't even want to think about what her arm looked like. She remembered the blood coming from it and the pain, when she was lying down on her back in the behind her bunker. She remembered she had glanced at it and screamed. She knew that there was a very deep and long gash that traveled from almost her shoulder to her broken wrist.

She frowned more and then looked away from the mirror walking out of the bathroom. She put her brush and nightclothes away. She put on her leather guard that held her watch and then grabbed her room key and money, and put them in her pants pocket. She then grabbed her hat and put it on before heading down to the small diner, that she had eaten dinner in last night, for breakfast.

She sat down in the small both next to the window and looked over the menu. She had the same waitress as last night and quickly ordered some eggs, bacon, and sausage and sat there staring out the window and watching the people pass by. The waitress came back with her food and set it on the table, not bothering to disturb Rea, like she had the night before.

When the waitress left Rea looked at her food and sighed. She picked up her fork and started eating. Halfway through her meal she started to move her food around on her plate, thinking to herself. 'Stupid arm! I could still be out there fighting! I miss my boys and I wish I was still out there fighting with them. I hope they are alright and are taking care of one another…oh…who am I kidding. There trained soldiers and can take care of themselves. I worry to much…but…I still miss them.' she sighed again and not thinking she was going to eat anymore she called for her bill. She paid it and left a tip and then left the diner.

She figured that if there was anyway to find her sister it would be walking around the town. She went into a bookstore and browsed around. She was kind of fond of reading now since that was mostly what she did when she on duty. It was either that or right when the others were busy. She browsed for a few minutes not really finding anything she liked or already had and then left the bookstore and entered a clothing store. She looked through the cloths noticing some of the new fashions, one in particular, caught her attention, and that was camouflage, she smiled to herself without realizing it. When she was leaving she past by a rack of sunglasses and having lost her pair somewhere, she decided she could buy a pair. She tried on a few, finally settling with a small pair, that had slightly rectangular lenses that were blood red, and had a black frame on them. She bought them and then walking out of the store she took the tag off and slipped them on.

She looked at her watch as saw that it was already 1:00 pm. She had seen no sigh of her sister, or her husband and son. She was beginning to think that she might be staying in that hotel longer then she had hoped. She sighed again and walked into a candy shop on the corner. She couldn't remember the last time she had a piece of candy, but knew it had to be at least 2 ½ years, that was when she left for the war. She looked through the different choices and settling on her favorite brand, Wonka Chocolates, she bought a Chilly Chocolate Crème.

She walked out of the shop unwrapping it and taking a bite from it. She smiled to herself, it was so good, and it had been way to long since she had one. How did she ever live with herself without it. She walked over to a small park and sat down on one of the benches. She was facing a playground that had little children running around playing with there parents keeping a close eye on them. She finished her candy bar and got up to throw the wrapper in a garbage can, before walking back over to her bench and sitting down.

Once comfortable she leaned her head back closing her eyes. She sat like that for a few minutes listening to the children play and the birds singing. But her head shot up and her eyes opened, when she heard someone shout her name a knew exactly who it was.

"Aunt Rea! Aunt Rea! Is that you?", said a childish voice. Rea smiled and stood up walking towards the boy who was now sprinting towards her. "It is you!" Charlie exclaimed as he reached her and hugged her.

"Hey Charlie! How are you? Congrats on winning the factory." Rea said returning her nephews hug.

"I'm fine. I was worried about you and was wondering when you would be coming back and now you're here and I'm so happy!" he said giving her another hug.

"Hey Rea", said Elizabeth Bucket, smiling, when she finally made it over to them.

"Hey 'Liz" Rea said giving her older sister a hug. "Its great to see you."

"And you." Elizabeth replied. She then took notice of Rea's sling and got a worried expression on her face. "Rea…what happened? Are you alright? How long have you been here?"

"I'm fine, just not used to the stupid thing. I've hit so many times, its not funny. As for what happened I rather tell everyone at the same time. And I got here yesterday and couldn't get into the factory gates so I got a room at the hotel." Rea answered her sister's questions.

"Oh, I'm sorry you didn't get in yesterday. None of were out of the factory and we were all doing something. I guess none of really looked out of the windows to see if anyone was there." Elizabeth apologized.

"It's alright." Rea said smiling.

"Well, why don't we get you inside and you can see how we fixed up your room. I'm sure you'll love it." Elizabeth said smiling.

"Yea! You can meet Mr. Wonka!" Charlie said cheerfully. He took off ahead of them already starting to hatch a plan for Mr. Wonka and his Aunt.

"Charlie! Wait! I need to go get my bag at the hotel and check out!" Rea called after him, as her and Elizabeth ran to catch up to him, but he hadn't stopped. "Plus I got something cool for you!" she yelled and laughed as he stopped dead in his tracks.

The two caught up to him and they all headed to wear Rea had been staying. She told them to wait in the lobby as she went upstairs to fetch her bag. She then walked over to the counted and handed the attendant her room key and checked out.

When she got over to Charlie and Elizabeth she sat her bag on the floor and opened the top of it. She reached into it going all the way to the bottom of her bag and pulled out a helmet. It was a military issued tan camouflage helmet, that was still in pretty good condition.

"Here you are Charlie." Rea said handing it over to him. "Now you have a complete army set. It was my old one, but I got issued a new one about a year ago, and I hung onto that one for you."

Charlie took it and looked it over before looking up at Rea smiling. "Thank you so much Aunt Rea!" he said hugging her. He pulled away and then put it on posing, making the two woman laugh.

"Alright, off to the factory." Elizabeth said before they made their way out of the lobby, with Charlie still wearing the helmet.

While Rea was walking with Elizabeth and Charlie, she remembered that the old man had said that they didn't open the gates to go in and out of the factory. Rea looked over at Elizabeth and asked, "So, how do you get in the factory if you don't use the front gates?"

Elizabeth laughed at her sister, "Well, Mr. Wonka has another set of gates behind the factory. Those are the ones that we use. They're hidden by the factory, due to the fact that is like a door, and nobody knows that they are their."

"Oh, I see." Rea said, mentally hitting herself for not thinking if there were back gates.

They quickly made their way around that back of the factory and Charlie pulled out a key to unlock the small gate like door. They then walked up the side of the factory and entered through door on the side of the building, that was almost on the front of the building. Elizabeth had commented that 'Mr. Wonka likes to make things difficult. This place is almost like a maze. You'll be sure to get lost.'