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AN - So sorry for the wait. I totally meant to update sooner, but the whole end-of-the-semester assignments hit me hard than I thought it would. Not too mention I got into another TV show. Oops. I decided to split this chapter into two, because there is so many stuff I want to cover with this episode, and I didn't want to make you guys wait any longer. So here is part 1 of 3x06 missing scenes. Please review and of course...
Enjoy!
*Tom and family get Hal back to Charleston and tells Weaver what happened*
"He's alive." Tom told them, relief flooding his voice. Hal's head was still bleeding heavily due to the gunshot, but he was alive. Maggie held her boyfriend protectively in her arms. Ben and Matt sat beside their brother, all wanting him to wake up, but he didn't.
Tom pulled off his jacket, and pressed it against his son's injury to slow down the bleeding. That was when the door to the room burst open and Anthony, with a few other soldiers came into the room, guns drawn and ready to fire.
"We're fine, but Hal's hurt. We need a stretcher." Tom said, lifting his arm to try to defend Hal when he saw all the guns, knowing they'd be pointed at his son. Anthony ordered two soldiers to go get a stretcher and the rest to stand down, knowing any threat was neutralized for the moment.
"Is he okay?" Anthony asked, getting down on his knees beside Tom.
"I don't know. We need to get him to the infirmary, and get the bug out of him." Tom replied. The door opened again, and the two soldiers re-entered the room carrying a stretcher. Weaver was right behind them.
"What happened?" The Colonel asked, seeing Hal being laid on the stretcher, Tom holding his jacket against his son's head.
"He tried to shoot himself. I'll explain later, but we need to get him out of here." Tom told him as he got to his feet while Maggie took over pressing the jacket against Hal's head. Weaver quickly saw how shaky his friend was, and remembered how Tom had hurt his ankle. Spying the cane laying abandoned on the floor, he bent down, picked it up, and handed it to the President.
"Thanks." The father said, and looked back to his son who was now on the stretcher was being lifted off the ground. It was at that moment that Weaver realized that Ben, Matt, and Maggie were there.
"How the h*ll do you three get in here?" Weaver demanded to know. He wasn't surprised that they disobeyed him, but he was ticked off.
"Can't we discuss that later?" Ben asked. Weaver looked at the group. Maggie still by Hal's head, keeping pressure on his injury, while Ben stood to the side, holding Matt back so Maggie and the soldiers could get Hal on the stretcher and out of the room. Weaver nodded and they headed out.
*Tom tells Ben and Matt about what the rebel skitter said*
What was so weird about being used as a mouth piece for the skitters, is that Ben could never really remember what they had said using his voice. When he would enter into a skitter's or an Overlord's brain, he was entirely in control. Letting the skitter leader use him though, was letting down his barriers and fully submitting to the alien. So, when the skitter leader released his hold, and Ben saw the look on his father's face, he knew that something important just happened.
"What did he say?" Despite feeling a sudden fear of the answer, Ben had to know. Tom looked up from a device in his hand to Ben's face.
"Go get Matt, and Maggie too." And that was all that Tom said, and looked back down at the weird thing that the skitter had given him. Ben stared at his father for a few moments, trying to figure out the look on his face, but followed his instructions.
Ben didn't have to go very far. Matt was sitting on one of the chairs beside Maggie in the waiting room. He didn't even have to announce his presence as they were both keeping their eyes on the door. They both immediately got to their feet and met him half-way.
"Dad wants to talk to us." Ben tried to hide the worry he had been feeling all day in his voice. Matt's face however, told him that he failed. Together, with his big brother's girlfriend, and his little brother, they entered the room where Tom was waiting.
His Dad was still standing in the same spot, staring at the device the skitter leader had given him. He looked up though when he heard the door open.
"Well, what did he say?" Ben repeated his earlier question.
"This device can kill the bug, but, there's a risk. We don't know if it will work for sure, and if there isn't a bug," At that, Tom paused.
"What? What will happen if the bug is gone?" Maggie pressed.
"It will kill Hal."
The entire room was silent. Nobody really knew what to say. They had been given a potentially cure, but if they were wrong, and the bug had actually left, Hal would pay the price.
"We can't do it. Not unless we are sure that the bug is still there." Maggie protested.
"But how can we make sure? Lourdes is still waiting for the results from the blood panel she ran, and if the bug is invisible to those tests, then we still won't know if it is there or not." Tom explained.
"Why don't we just wait for him to wake up. If the bug is still there, then it will show, won't it?" Matt suggested, desperate for a solution that wouldn't end with his big brother's death.
"If it is still there, it knows it's caught, it's going to try to play us, make us think he's not being controlled anymore." Tom told them, the room went silent again. No one knew what to say, because no matter what choice they made, the risks were too high.
*Tom decides to go ahead with the procedure*
Tom came back to the infirmary after his talk with Marina. He still had no clue what choice to make. Either one could end with him losing his son, and he couldn't let that happen. He promised himself, after Rebecca died, that would not lose any of their sons. He had already broken that promise when Ben was taken, and now with Lexi and Anne, he was not going to break it again.
The waiting room was surprisingly empty, which Tom appreciated. He wondered if Weaver had anything to do with it. While he hadn't actually heard anything, he was positive that there were many people who were calling Hal out as a traitor and should be tried for it.
Continuing past the waiting room and down the hallway, Tom found Lourdes, looking at a chart. She lifted her gaze to the father when she heard him approach.
"Are those the results?" He asked.
"Yup, and nothing. Our medical equipment was not designed to find alien technology. I have no clue if it is accurate or not." Lourdes informed him.
"Is he awake yet?" Tom wondered.
"No, not yet."
"I want to see him." Lourdes was about to protest. Even though they had restrained Hal down on the stretcher, he could still be a threat. But then she saw the look on Tom's face, and she nodded.
The young doctor led Tom to a door farther down the hall, and opened it for him. Tom went inside to find his son lying shirtless on a table, and completely strapped down. The Mason father went over to him, and ran his hand through Hal's black hair.
"I'm sorry." Hal told Tom, tears running down his face, his hands holding the gun firmly under his chin.
"Hal!" Tom cried out.
Tom shook off the memory, the sound of the gun going off echoing through his ears.
"Tom?" The President didn't realize that Lourdes had entered the room. He pulled himself away from his son went over to the doctor. He reached in his jacket pocket, pulled out the device the rebel skitter had given him, and handed it to her.
"We have no idea if the bug is gone or not, but I do know that Hal would rather die than continue to live with Karen controlling him and causing him to hurt anyone else. And I am not going to let her take him from me." Tom told her. Lourdes nodded, and while Tom went to go inform his sons and Maggie, Lourdes started to prep for the procedure.
