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title: Tearing down the walls.

author: Rodlox.

quotation: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" -Ronald Reagan.

note: all errors in spelling are my own.

(please inform me of any errors)

summary: Richard and Marco's POVs on how the season might well end, and the lesson drawn.

plot bunny: what do all of the sick 4400s have in common?

spoilers: The Fifth Page.

Author's Note:Yes, I'm ignoring the episode 'Mommy's Bosses'...that means that the Jordan's still dead & Shawn is still in charge of the Center.

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Richard's POV:

Other than how we're tearing down all the walls, everything's getting back to normal. The plague's been cured, everyone's been released from quarantine, and its just business as usual once again. If it weren't for the walls.

I'm told NTAC was behind the plague, suppressing something in our bodies. But the other fact's something even NTAC couldn't control, that every 4400 who got sick was an isolated case. Each of the returnees who got the feverdots as they're called now, none of them had regular contact with their fellow 4400s, or had turned their backs on them. Shawn, Maia, Eric, Lily, and everyone else who didn't live in a house with or an enclave of returnees, all had to go back to Camp Dekker.

So down come the walls. Some of them, at least to start us off. When I was a boy, my mom would always tell me, my brothers and cousins, don't fight. Together, you're unbeatable,' the same lesson I learned in the Air Force. The same lesson as now . . . Only now there isn't much of an option.

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MARCO'S POV:

It doesn't make sense. The places worldwide where returnees lived under one roof, were places with the lowest occurance of miracles being worked. New Zealand and Madagascar, each with seventy returnees, each had only one talent arise.

Health or powers, hellova choice to gice the people you sent back in time. Is it their idea of a wake-up call?

beeep beeep beeep beeep goes my watch, reminding me to wrap up my report and sign out. I'm still grateful to Director Jarvis for not having me resign over recent events. Right now I'm off to help Diana move into her new house. I want Maia to have the opportunity to grow up,' she told me this morning when the topic came up, 'and right now, the Center is the best place for her to do that.' And I'd spent the rest of the day on my report and trying to disprove her statement...no luck.

Everything's back to normal. Or as normal as we can get.

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The End.