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AN – I know, it's been far too long since I've updated, but this semester had more classes meaning more homework and just more work in general for me. And I have been working on another Falling Skies story that I started, Will to Survive, so I decided to focus on that for the time being. But I'm back now! So this chapter is a little short, but I hope you guys like it! Please review and

Enjoy!

*Maggie finds out what all happened between Tom and Pope*

"You go out on one food scouting mission and you miss everything." Maggie commented to Ben as he told her that Pope and his gang had been kicked out of the 2nd Mass, "So, what did he do this time?"

"At first it was the usual. Blame my Dad for everything, refusing to help, and tell him that he is a hypocrite. Then it got to the point where my Dad took the gun in Pope's hand and put it against his head and told Pope if he thought it was best that he had to die, then do it."

"What?" Maggie asked with disbelief and shock, sitting down at the table with her cup of coffee.

"Yeah. Then Pope said that killing him would be to easy. After that, Dad told him and anyone who wanted to go with him to be gone by tomorrow." Ben finished as he sat down across from her with his own cup.

"Well, your Dad was crazy to do that, but kicking Pope out was a good call. If you ask me, he should've been kicked out a long time ago." Maggie said.

"Not going to argue with that." Ben agreed, then saw Matt coming towards them out of the corner of his eye.

"Hey Matt, what's up?" Ben asked as his younger brother came to stand beside him.

"Have you seen Hal? He should've been off from sentry duty by now, but I can't find him." Matt replied.

"No, haven't seen him for a few hours. Maybe he went bed. After all, we're leaving early in the morning and it's not like many of us have been getting much sleep lately." Ben suggested, even though he could tell something about that was off. Hal usually stayed up and tried to help as much as possible before someone basically ordered him to get some rest. And Matt looked very worried.

"Maybe." Matt responded.

"He might be with your Dad or Weaver." Maggie chimed in, also noticing the look on the youngest Mason's face.

"He's not with Weaver. I saw him telling some of the other fighters which vehicles to drive. Hal wasn't with him. And I haven't seen Dad around either." Matt informed them, and Ben now was getting a little worried as well as more confused.

He couldn't really say anything about their Dad. His behavior had been off ever since he had gotten back the moon, but Hal was not the type of person to just up and disappear. Given their family track record, Hal knew that it would only cause his family and Maggie to start worrying. Before Ben could say anything else, Anne, who he had not noticed at all, came over to them.

"There you guys are. I was looking for you two." Anne started, but Matt instantly cut her off.

"Do you know where Hal is?"

"That's actually what I came to talk to you guys about. Hal and your Dad left to go scout ahead for us." Anne informed them.

"What?" Maggie was stunned that they were only being told about this now.

"When did they decide this? And how come we didn't know about this until now?" Ben asked Maggie's unspoken question.

"It was a very sudden thing. Your Dad and Hal were out doing a short patrol and saw a few skitters and thought it would be best to go ahead and make sure there won't be any trouble on the road. Since we're heading out tomorrow and they wanted to get head start, so they had to go quickly." Anne explained.

"But, Hal didn't even come and say goodbye." Matt replied, remembering how before every single mission Hal went on, he would always come and say goodbye.

"I know, but it was such a rushed thing. We'll meet up with them soon, don't worry. Everything's fine. Get some sleep alright?" Anne assured them, and walked away, taking a deep breath as the guilt for lying to her stepsons and friend started to settle into her stomach.

*Anne and Weaver talk about Tom and Hal*

"Anne?" Weaver said as he stood in the doorway to Anne and Tom's room. The doctor was currently packing her bags with her and Tom's clothes.

"You okay?" The Colonel asked.

"I'm fine. Just need to finish packing. One of us should probably pack Hal's stuff. He's not going to be able to do it, and with that stupid note on the wall, no one else can. Unless of course we want to tell the truth." Anne replied, not stopping her actions at all.

"I can do it. But, are you okay?" Weaver asked.

"My husband is gone to save his son, my stepson, from a man who is willing to kill them both out of revenge. And I now have to keep lying to my other stepsons in order to keep them from going out and possibly getting themselves killed, in order to help their Dad and brother." Anne replied.

"You know Tom. He'll be back, with Hal. It's not the first time Tom and Pope have gone at it either. They'll be fine." Weaver tried to assure her, but she shook her head.

"Not like this. If they aren't back in 72 hours, I'm going after them." Anne informed him.

"Anne, you can't." Weaver told her.

"And why can't I?" Anne demanded to know.

"Because if you do, Ben, Matt, and Maggie will find out, unless of course you want to bring them with you. And we have no idea where Pope has Hal. Even Tom didn't know. After 72 hours, we'll be a long way from here, and a lot farther from where Pope is." Weaver explained. Anne looked like she wanted to argue, but didn't say anything as she sat down on the bed. He waited for a response, but when he didn't get one, he walked over to his friend.

"I don't like this situation anymore than you do, but there isn't anything we can do about it. If we want to give Tom and Hal their best chance of getting out alive, we have to play by Pope's rules right now, and that means only Tom can go. And if we want to keep Ben, Matt, and Maggie from doing something stupid, we have to keep this from them."

"I know. But, they will figure it out, that Tom and Hal aren't scouting ahead if they don't come back soon." Anne pointed out, knowing that neither of Tom's sons were idiots, nor was Maggie.

"Then we will tell them, but we can't let them go out to try and find them. They'll probably do more harm than good." Weaver answered. Anne nodded, though still looked angry and frustrated. Weaver didn't blame her, this was not an easy position to be in, but they didn't have a choice.

"Get some sleep. It's late, and we leave first thing." Weaver told her and waited until she nodded before he headed for his own room to get some sleep himself.

As he walked towards his room, Weaver found himself praying that both his friend, and his friend's son would somehow be okay, and get out of this alive. Because if they didn't, one specific criminal was going to regret the day he ever came across the 2nd Mass.

AN – I know, it's a little short but besides these scenes, I couldn't think of anything else to add. I know a lot of people, myself included, are unhappy with the way the writers handled Hal's kidnapping but since I'm trying to keep this all canon, I thought I would expand on the characters reasoning for why they did what they did. If there is any episode you guys want missing scenes for, let me know and I will see what I can do. Next chapter will be dealing with scenes from 5x05 Non-Essential Personnel. Though I don't know when I'll be able to finish it because I do unfortunately have finals coming up, and Will to Survive to finish. But I promise I will get to it as soon as I can.

To Jubs – Thank you so much for your reviews! I'm so glad you are enjoying my stories and I am happy that I can add some Hal fanfics for you. As you might've guessed, Hal is my favorite character too. Will to Survive actually gets updated once a week, because I do get behind at writing sometimes because of schoolwork. Next chapter will be up on Wednesday, so not much longer. Again, thank you so much, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.