Hello Guys:) So Chapter 32 already? Holy cow!:) Thats a LOT:) So anyway I got a lot of good responses from the last chapter and it made me so happy! So thank you all for reviewing and following my story! I'm bummed that it's ending soon! But yeah... haha so enjoy this chapter!:) Love you guys!

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~NumberSixteen

"Let me OUT!" Skye hurled herself against Commander Taylor's door for the umteenth time, trying to break it down. "You can't keep me in here!" Her efforts were futile. What was she to do? Her mind jumped to conclusions. Would they kill Lucas? The more she thought about it, the more it seemed likely. Finally she broke and slipped to her knees, clanging the on the hardwood floors of the house. Tears stained her cheeks as she burried her face in her hands. Why couldn't she get things right? Why couldn't she just be happy? Why did she have to lose everybody she ever loved?

She knew it was dark when the front door finally opened and she heard boots coming down the hallway. She jolted up and sprinted for the bathroom. She didn't want to see him. She'd rather die in the bathroom alone than speak to him. She slammed the door and flicked the lock. The boots stopped outside the door. A soft knock followed by words.

"Skye?"

Skye felt like vomiting. The voice so soft and gentle, worried even. But it was the voice of the man who had just taken away her everything. She curled up on the soft rug, hugging her knees to her chest and focused herself on a flickering lightbulb.

"Skye.. Come out so we can talk. Please. You can't stay in there forever."

Skye bit her lip. "No." A fresh tear rolled down her cheek.

"Why not?" The voice was still alluring and gentle.

Skye stole a breath. "You know very well why."

"Skye... You don't understand.."

What? Did he seriously... WHAT! Skye's mind was set to boiling as her strong-headedness got to her. She snapped to her feet and threw open the door with so much force it flew into the wall behind it and created a significant hole where the door handle is. She stalked out, her eyes flaring with new renowned fire. "Excuse me? I don't understand? What about you! You forced me away from him! You took him, locked him up, and heaven knows only what you do with him! How dare you! How dare you! I love that man! I love him everything that I have and I will never learn to love another!"

The Commander sucked in his breath and took a daring step toward her. "But that's the thing, Skye! You don't love him! You just think that you do!"

Slap!

"You don't know anything about love." Skye's tone was much lower, but fifty times more menacing.

The Commander looked to Skye. Her eyes burning with hatred, betrayal, and all else he could think of. He just stared at her. He knew she was right. Just look at him and his son's relationship. If things would have been different, this wouldn't be happening. He would have been happy his son and Skye were in love. He would have celebrated it even. But that wasn't the circumstance. His son had turned into an evil, twisted psychopath with nothing on his mind but destruction. He'd corrupt and destroy sweet little Skye before she stood a chance to him. Or she'd learn to be like him, using betrayal and false trust to get what she wants. But maybe she could be the light in his son's darkness, soften him, and bring down a few of his cold stone walls that he sheltered himself behind. So many possibilities.. Yet here she was and the only word that Commander Nathaniel Taylor could think of to describe her state was broken.

She was broken.

The strong, free spirit he'd seen grow up that had no bounds or anyone to tie her down, had been broken. This wasn't a teenager going against the grain. It was a full fledged woman so deeply intertwined in the bounds of love that she was blinded and only saw the most important thing. And that happened to be Lucas Taylor.

Taylor took a deep breath and looked back down at the girl standing before him. For the first time in weeks, she held her head high as she used to. Nothing of her poor stature and state would fool him of her strength. The bags under her eyes, the ratty clothes, the gaunt limbs, and the matted hair only made her seem more intimidating. So he caved. "He wishes to meet with you. Only under your consent at least."

Skye's eyes widened slightly in surprise.

"Clean up a little and get some sleep. You may see him tomorrow." Taylor motioned to the door, allowing her to leave.

"I want to see him tonight though." Skye's defiance snuck back into her words as she spat them at him.

The Commander shook his head. "Not while you look like that. I'm sure that will only hurt my son further."

Skye's eyes narrowed as she took a step toward the door. "He's not your son anymore, Commander."

Taylor felt like he'd been stabbed. His heart sunk with the last statement as he watched her retreating figure go out the door. How did he end up here? That is something he hoped would work itself out in time enough.

Lucas let out an angry yell as he stalked around the brig cell in absolute irritation and anger. They took her away! How many females in his life will he lose? So far, he'd lost them all. He wasn't going to lose this one. He had to have her. She was his entire world. Those weeks without her had been nothing but torture as he sought to find a better life for them. When he'd heard about her possible pregnancy he couldn't take it anymore. He had to have her back. So he sucked up all his pride and strode to the gates of Terra Nova to get her back.

He should have known that his father and the god forsaken Shannon boy would get in the way. If he hadn't hated Josh before, oh he hated him now. The awful things he wanted to do to that boy ran through him like a drug.

He pounded his fist back into the wall, pushing past the dull pain in his hand as it collided with cold metal.

He heard a door open down the hall of his cell and boots scuffed down the hallway. "Lucas."

"You again? How may I everbe of service to my oh so loving father of mine?" The mocking attitude practically dripped off of Lucas's words. Lucas rolled his eyes after giving his father a slight curtsie and turning his back to him, lollygagging around the cell.

"You have your wish." This perked Lucas's ears. He turned to the man who said the words.

"Did I hear you correct father?"

The Commander nodded. "You did. You get what you want, son. Skye agreed to come visit you tomorrow morning."

"Agreed? Or was allowed?" Lucas couldn't keep the playful but irritating smirk off his face as he toyed with his father.

The Commander sniffed at him non-chalantly. "Just be gentle with her. She's much more fragile now if you didn't see for yourself."

"But her strength is as plentiful as ever, am I right?" Lucas pressed.

The Commander just stared at his son, but he couldn't stop the recognition from crossing his features slightly.

Lucas drabbled on with just as much non-chalance as his father had. "After all... She wouldn't have convinced you to let her come here to meet me if she wasn't strong. Am I right?"He cast his father the darkest, most knowing look he could muster. The smirk on his lips could have made the Commander fume smoke from anger.

His father didn't reply before turning and storming back down the hallway with the little dignity he had.

Heh... How was that? I thought that went well! Well in case you were wondering why I was gone, I broke my laptop and was short a computer! But I just got this chapter wrapped up before my creative writing class ended. So I will try a little harder to find time and computers to write! I'm sorry, guys! I wish there was more I could do! D:

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~NumberSixteen