:DDDDD I'm in such a good mood today!:D So I think I will write!
I dedicate this Chapter to: Underdogwriter2410. I am so pleased with your review! I love it when people leave such kind reviews like that. I am so honored that I am one of the writers who dragged you into this 'fandom.' It makes me feel so special when I know that it was my work and my writing that made someone come to love fanfiction and feel so much closer to whatever the story is about. It almost brings tears to my eyes and makes me feel so much more confident as a writer. I was so nervous first posting this because back then, there were like... NO Skye/Lucas fics and I didn't know what the reaction was going to be, but now I can see that the couple has become so widely popular that my story (one of the first lucas/skye fics) has obtained over 300 reviews. That is the most I can ask for and it means so much that you are one of those special people who contributed to my success and motivation. Thank you SO SO MUCH. I love you all!
I really hope you all enjoy this next chapter. (I'm sure TheWater'sChild will enjoy it) I worked so hard on it. Thank you! I keep all of you at the front of my mind and deep in my heart. Love you:) But before I start I gotta go get a bowl of ice cream. This chapter is going to be a toughie...
~NumberSixteen
Taylor watched Skye storm out the door and toward home. His mouth was gaping and he couldn't muster up any words to say about the topic. He saw one of the soldiers standing guard at the wall shift uncomfortably. He'd completely forgotten they were there. He shook his head, trying to clear it and murmered a dismissal to the soldiers. They hurried out and down the steps, anything to get out of the awkward silence.
The Commander slumped down in his chair again and rubbed his temples, trying to ward off his oncoming headache. He sighed before he felt his eyes droop and sleep beginning to come over him.
"Father..." The voice echoed. Taylor stood in a dark space, stripped of any weapons and clothes besides a damp t-shirt and cargo pants. "Oh Father..." The voice mocked him again.
"What do you want! Who are you!" Taylor shouted. The voice was slightly muffled but laughed in response. An icy chill ran down the Commander's back. That laugh. That sickeningly familiar sound that he could identify anywhere. "Lucas! Lucas, where are you! Come out where I can see you!"
But the voice never responded. Instead he heard someone panting behind him. He swung around to see a girl with brown hair looking down. Her arms hugged herself and her clothes were tattered and torn. Her feet were bare and she shied her face away from him. "Skye..." He whispered.
"Oh lovely Skye..." There was the voice again, only this time it was to his right. Taylor swung around to see the jade green eyes brimming with insanity and a grin only one of evil intentions could possibly muster up. "Oh beautiful Skye... So sweet, so pretty, so... vulnerable..." Taylor grit his teeth as he saw Lucas take a step closer to Skye.
"Don't touch her. Don't get anywhere near her. You are no son of mine." Taylor spat at Lucas.
"Oh really? What will you do to stop me?" Lucas dared to take another side step. Skye hadn't moved. Hadn't bothered to look up. Had just stood there, whimpering occasionally but continuing to hug herself tightly.
"Whatever it takes." Taylor tried to move but suddenly it felt like his feet were glued to the ground. "What?" He looked down and tried to move his feet but vines with deadly thorns had curled up from the blackness and swirled themselves around his boots. He didn't dare pull free but instead looked to the girl before him. "Skye!" Lucas had taken another step and was slowly moving toward her. He was getting close. Too close. "Skye look at me!" She didn't move. "Skye! Lucas is going to get you! Hasn't he had enough with you? Aren't you sick of him? Look at me! Come to me! Anything!" Lucas had a vicious grin on his face, Taylor could have sworn every one of his teeth were sharp as canines and gleaming with hunger and delight.
"SKYE!" Taylor screamed, finally pulling against the vines swearing as the thorns cut through his boots and dug deep into his skin. But he fought. "SKYE LOOK AT ME! Save yourself!"
Suddenly her head jerked up. Her eyes were black as coal as they stared into the Commanders eyes solomly. Every ounce of sadness and betrayal bored out of them and straight into the Commanders heart. "I can't."
The shock of the entire situation was making the commander reckless and desperate. "Why not, Skye! Come to me, I will save you! You can trust me!"
"I can never trust you. I can only trust Lucas." Her voice sounded so small, so lost. So betrayed... Her small arms struggled to keep in her sobs as she hugged herself tighter. Lucas was only two steps away now.
The Commander fought for an answer. "You can trust me! Skye you can trust me! I will never betray you!"
Skye shook her head as Lucas finally reached her. "You already did." Lucas held out his hand to her and she turned to meet his eyes. She tentitively reached out and took his hand.
"NO! Skye!" The Commander shouted, screamed even.
She suddenly stiffened, her back going erect and her limbs straightened and flexed completely. Her head flew back so that she stared up and she opened her mouth to let out a blood curdling scream. Agony and pain and all the suffering he knew she was enduring outside of this dream world was released in this scream. Lucas just smiled vividly, his eyes dancing with complete and utter entertainment. He always did like being in control.
Suddenly, blood started to trickle out of the sides of Skye's mouth and from the corners of her eyes. Her hair grew flat and suddenly began to fall out. All the flesh on her body seemed to be sucked away from her bones until her clothes started to slide off her and every rib on her rib cage was countable. Her cheeks became hollow and her eyes lost every last bit of emotion and fire until they suddenly died out and she slumped to the ground, losing all life within her. She was gone.
"SKYE!" Taylor heard himself scream and he felt the poison from the thorns beginning to set in and take it's official toll on him. He got one last look into his son's jade green eyes before he blacked out.
"Commander!" Taylor snapped awake as he felt his shoulder being shaken. "Commander wake up!"
Taylor blinked away sleep and pushed back the eventful and disturbing dream to the back of his mind to deal with later. His neck hurt like hell. He rolled it and stretched. Had he fallen asleep in his chair? "Yes Jim?"
Jim Shannon was giving him a difficult look. "You may be in charge here, but I'd sure as hell like to know why everyone knows about Skye's pregnancy test. The entire colony is talking about it."
"What?" Taylor asked incredulously.
Skye finally had cleared away her tears and had grown hungry but of course could find nothing appeasing in her house. She ventured outside to go down to the market before it was closed. Almost the second she left her house she knew something was up. The looks and whispers. The judgemental remarks under peoples breath. She could almost swear she heard someone call her a kiniving whore. What the hell was going on?
She'd arrived at the market in enough time to purchase a meal suitable enough for her but she continued to only get strange looks from people in the market place. People avoided eye contact and conversation with her. It was almost like the entire market had grown quiet since she arrived. She paid for some fruit without exchanging any words but the price with the shop keeper as they too avoided all eye contact. It was strange almost..
"Skye." A quiet voice resounded behind her. Skye started slightly before turning around to find a blue eyed boy with long brown hair. He looked down at his shoes nervously but she still slapped his arm playfully.
"Goodness Josh! You gotta quit scaring me!" She gave him a grin to distract herself from the dead silence around them. Everyone around them was watching them intently.
"Can we talk?" Josh muttered, shuffling his feet slightly, still avoiding all other communication with her.
"Err... Sure. What's wrong with everyone anyway?" Skye blurted out.
"Just... Come one." Josh grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of the market.
"Josh!" Skye called to him as he kept dragging her through the colony, as far away from people as possible. "Josh! Stop! Tell me what is going on!"
Josh finally swung around angrily and dropped her wrist. His eyes were clouded with pain and confusion. "Okay, fine! How about we start with you telling me who the hell you slept with!"
Skye gaped at him. "..What?" She asked incredulously.
"God Skye, don't act stupid! Everyone knows about your pregnancy test! So let's hear it! Who are you tramping around with?" Josh practically yelled at her.
Skye took a shaky step back, taking in the information. "How... How did... you know about that?"
Josh sucked in an angry breath. "Mark told me."
Skye took in a sharp intake of breath. "Who?"
"Mark! Mark Reynolds! The one who was in that god damned room with you when you told the Commander!" Josh bellowed to her. He couldn't contain his anger and hurt anymore. "I can't believe you did this to me, Skye! I thought we had something special! But you just go tramping around! Are you even pregnant?"
Skye felt her heart contract in sadness. "No! I'm not! And I'm not whoring around!"
"Don't feed any more lies to me! I thought you were the most down to earth person I've ever met! You were beautiful, smart, funny, and a hell of a friend to my sister! I thought you were the whole package! My ideal girl! But instead, you're a kiniving, cheating, backstabbing little bitch!"
SLAP! "How dare you." Skye had tears running down her face. She turned around and began running toward her house as quickly as her feet would carry her. She didn't stop the sobs. She didn't care about the people watching her as she ran. She didn't care. She wanted out. All she wanted was Lucas. To be in his arms beside a warm fire under the stars. Sharing a piece of fruit on a hot day. Laughing as his genius mind tried to do simple things. She wanted to kiss him so badly it made her heart ache with sadness.
She flew through her front door, slamming it and locking all the locks. She pulled all the shutters and blinds closed and shut all the lights off. She dropped the bag of fruit on the floor and it spilled out all over, but she didn't bother to pick it up. She just ran to her bed and curled into the blankets, letting all the tears out. No feeling in the world could compare to the feeling she felt now. Heartbreak, humiliation, and betrayal all at once. And she wondered for the first time if Lucas actually loved her or just sent her back here to get rid of her. She convinced herself of the second, making this so much worse.
"She's still locked up in her house?" Maddy asked somberly as she and her father walked by. "Will she ever come out? It's been a week since everyone found out. I sure hope she's eating and getting better.."
Jim shrugged sadly as they continued to walk by. "Have you tried getting her to come out today?"
"Yeah, I went to check on her this morning, but still got nothing. I really hope she's okay..." Maddy almost whispered the last part.
"Well considering what she went through, I doubt she is." Jim words were no where near encouraging to Maddy. She was so angry with Mark already that conversations like this about Skye with anyone made her more upset with him.
"I just can't believe all that's happened to her." Maddy muttered as they finally reached the market place.
"Me too, me too..." Jim responded before they both realized the commotion coming from the front gates of the colony. People were backed up and huddling eachother.
The Commander's voice ripped through the air. "Shannon! You're needed immediately!" Jim glanced at his daughter once before racing up to the commander who was standing in front of all the citizens of Terra Nova. Maddy hurried behind her father until she caught up with him.
When she arrived the commander had already been through half the explaination. "Yeah I don't know what he's doing here but he is demanding to come inside."
"What do you think he's after? He's making it too easy to arrest and imprison him." Jim asked the Commander curiously.
"Who?" Maddy jumped in but the pair ignored her.
"I don't know, Shannon. All I know is that there is something inside of these gates he wants." Taylor shrugged.
Jim nodded. "Let me talk to him through the gates. I'll try to reason with him."
Taylor nodded and followed behind Jim as they approached the gate to the colony. "Lucas!" Jim came up to the gates. Lucas was up as close to Jim as he could. His eyes gleamed menacingly and hungrily. Jim respected his quiet greeting. "What can Terra Nova do for you today?"
Lucas licked his lips. "I want to see Skye."
OOOOOO! Suspenseful, huh?:) Crammed chapter... -wipes forhead- that took FOREVER! But it's long and that's the point. I thought you all deserved a nice long chapter after the crappy short one I gave you yesterday. I'm so happy for reviews so if you want another chapter soon, leave a review! Love you guys!:D
~NumberSixteen