So this is shorter, but school is crazy, but I hope you enjoy.

Mark stared at the coffee table in the Senior Shannon home, everyone was there. He downed his fifth shot and looked at his father-in-law, "What if she never comes back? I mean it's been three weeks."

Jim shook his head, "She's a Shannon…And a Reynolds. She's out there. We just have to find her." He poured himself the rest of the bottle's worth of scotch before he sat down next to the distraught soldier. "You and I are going out tomorrow, be ready."

"Yes, Sir."

.

.

.

Maddy laid half on Lucas, half next to him, their naked bodies covered by nothing but a torn blanket.

"Are you alright Love?" He asked as he softly ran his finger tips up and down her spine, Alicia sleeping in the adjoining tree he added and connected with a bridge.

"Yeah, just thinking," of Mark, of home. But she wouldn't add that. Not with Lucas holding her.

"She never thought of herself as an actress or any good at lying, but she was good enough at faking feelings to keep him calm.

Maddy wasn't afraid for her life each time he kissed her or took her to his bed. No, she was afraid that he would get mad and hurt Alicia as punishment.

So she played along at loving him, she kissed him back, held his hand with a false smile. Maddy remembered doing this when she dated Mark for the first year of courtship.

But as horrible as it was for her to pretend to love him, it was worst to think of Mark and the baby she held now. She often worried that the stress would kill her growing baby, or that she wouldn't be able to get Alicia back to Terra Nova.

"Love?"

Her eyes rose to met his blue orbs and she was brought back to a terrible reality, "Sorry, what?"

"I want to go on a walk tomorrow, when Licia takes her nap," he cupped her cheek and pulled her to his lips.

She always thought kissing was intimate, and you always felt SOMETHING, but with Lucas, there was nothing, just the feel of skin. Maddy would move her lips against his to ensure he was still under the influence of the lie woven around him.

"she smiled and nodded. "Can I take my bag, there might be some…uh…flowers for Licia. You know how much she likes them." Maddy smiled when he nodded and laid her head back on his chest.

.

.

.

They walked on the path, hand in hand, Maddy stopped every once in a while when she found a day flower, sticking them in her bag, "Love?"

"Yes, Luc-Dear." She said without looking at him.

"When I hacked the EYE, I noticed that your medical files said, pregnant. Are you?" he grabbed her waist and pulled her to him.

"Well yes, I…uh…didn't…know how you'd take the news." She reached into her bag absentmindedly and grabbed the almost empty bottle of Prenatal vitamins and unscrewed the cap.

Lucas took the bottle and poured a couple of pills in his hand before passing them to Maddy, "I can go to Terra Nova and get more." He looked at her and she smiled.

"I'd like that, and Licia and I can Stay in the house, safe and sound.

He nodded and they continued their walk, Lucas didn't even notice that she left her bag full of Day flowers behind.

.

.

.

Mark walked around the area a second time. He felt drawn here since it was filled with Day flowers, the flowers he had shown Maddy on their first unsupervised date. It was already nightfall and he and jim were about to go back.

His eye caught sight of a black blob. Upon closer inspection, he learned it was a bag filled with Day flowers.

He ripped the bag open looked at the tag. Maddy Shannon, which had been crossed out and the name Reynolds had been written above it.

She was alive, and she left this here for him.

Mark looked around, she had to be close.

.

.

.

Lucas walked in with a worried look on his face, "We have to go, now."

"What, Lucas," she tried to calm him, Licia pressed against her side as she sat on her mother's hip. He grabbed items and stuffed them into duffle bags. "Honey, what is going on?"

He turned and cupped her face, kissing her deeply and with all urgency. "As I was leaving Terra Nova, I walked by the glen and saw two soldiers there. They are so clos, we have to get out of here." He went back to packing as she sat on the bed.

"We can't, I can't." she whispered, but he heard as if she were screaming.

He looked at her and walked to the bed where she was seated, Licia still in her lap. "What do you mean? We have to, we can go to the Badlands and meet up with-"

"When I had Alicia, there were complications. They said I couldn't have any more kids, but now I am, and if something happens again, the baby could die, I could die too, but I need my babies to live." She squeezed his hand to get her point across.

"The Phoenix Group has medics, and if worse comes to worse, I'll bring your mother here to help you." He rubbed her arms and stood up. "Now I'll finish packing, you just lay down and keep Alicia calm. We are leaving at dawn, Love."

Maddy cried silently as she lost hope of every seeing her family again. Of every seeing Mark again.

I should be mean and make you all wait a week for the net chapter. But hey you're lucky, I'm a nice person. Review please and tell me what you think of this chapter.