Maddy petted her stomach as a strong hand lead her through the area, fire where there wasn't blackened earth, and scorch marks where there wasn't fire.

She coughed and covered her mouth with her shirt as much as she could. Breaking through the brush and ushered into a rover, she watched through the window as it started up and drove away from the fire.

Maddy could see all the fire now, and could now tell that it wasn't just a fire, but a volcanic eruption. Ashen clouds hung over the spurting mountain.

She felt her muscles in her stomach clench, and breathed, trying to relax herself after the frightening situation. A bump hit her stomach wall and she realized it was a kick, followed by several more. When one hit her lung and made her begin to gasp for air, she gasped. The baby had turned already, the thought scared her worse than a volcano.

"How did this happen? Hm? Didn't Lucas chart out every major disaster in this future?" Mire interrogated, barking at the driver, she looked back at the rest of the occupants and locked on Maddy. Ebony eyes examined the young woman as she rubbed her stomach, rocking every so slightly and mumbling something with closed eyes.

"Alright?" Her strong voice alerted Maddy of her presence, midnight hands rubbed over her back.

"I,uh…think that the baby is….ah, kicking hard… oh shhhh baby." She groaned rubbing her lower stomach.

Mira smiled, but only for a second before she remembered that this kid was a Shannon. "It will pass, you r blood pressure probably woke him up. He was telling you to settle down." She smiled once more before she left.

Maddy breathed, heart slowing, she felt the kicks getting less frequent, and she smiled. Her baby was alive.

She just hope Alicia was alright too.

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Lucas drove as fast as he could to the Camp after he got a broken radio message about the fire. Worry, fear that something happened to Maddy ate at his heart.

He crested the ridge and found black skies and red forests. As he drove by one particularly burned out path he saw a large Hadrosaurs broke through the brush, covered in flame and screaming.

He shivered, as it tripped and rolled to the ground where it flailed and died. What if his Maddy was burning? He stepped on the gas and crashed through several burning branches.

Coming to a stop at the camp, he jumped out with a cloth over his mouth and nose, squinting through the ash and smoke.

He was grabbed by a set of strong hands and thrown back against the rover. One of the strong hands held him down by the throat. "Where is she?" A barking growl came from a dark silhouette in the light of the fire.

"Maddy? Like hell I would tell you." Lucas wrapped one leg around The man's own and brought his other leg down on his thigh. A grunt sounded from the shadowed man as he stumbled back for a moment. Lucas sat up and reached for his pistol, "I will never let you have what's mine."

Air rushed from his lungs as his legs were swept out from beneath him and his shoulders came in contact with the ground.

"Where?" The man was holding him down again, but Lucas could see his face now.

"Your that bastard that kept my wife for so long. Reynolds, right?" He used his pistol to swipe across the his face, effectively dislodging the bigger man.

Lucas stumbled to his feet and pointed his pistol directly at Mark's dark figure, "You will never have what's mine." He pulled the trigger and Mark's chest exploded in a flurry of blood and bone.

He looked around a moment and noted that all the rovers, excluding his, were gone. Smiling, he climbed into his rover and drove away, Leaving Mark to burn.

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"Maddy?" she turned toward the caller and smiled tiredly at Mira, "You don't love him, Lucas I mean."

She dropped her smile and started crying. They were in their own section of the cave system they were taking shelter in until they could find a new home.

"I have never loved him, how could I?" She covered her face with her hands and rocked on her heels again, as if to rock her now upset baby, kicking in her stomach.

"Tell me, I won't tell him." She assured and Maddy let it flow. The pain she had been bottling up for the last months, and Alicia's creation. Mira watched her with a cool expression, before grabbing her her arm and sneaking along the wall of the cave. "What are you doing?"

"How do you think I had Sienna? I never spoke of a husband because a monster made me have her and I couldn't afford a abortion. But damn, how grateful I was not to. She is my everything, but if I had to live with her father. Well, I don't know how you did it for this long." Poking her head out of the cave she pulled her to a rover, "Besides we have to give that baby a chance."

"How did you?"

"Lucas and I talk, he expressed his concerns about you, that's why I was with you in the first place." She dragged Maddy into the passenger seat of the small rover, getting it started and driver away quickly.

"You need to understand," she roared above the air rushing pass them as they raced towards the dimming fires. "Luicas can NEVER know I helped you, or I may never see Sienna again."

"Not a soul will know." The pregnant woman promised.

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They were passing right bay the now destroyed camp, when Maddy caught sight of a rover. A Terra Nova rover at that.

She screamed for Mira to stop and rolled out of the rover to search the new one. She turned around and looked over the landscape, "Maddy nothing could have survived out there, this is even trashed," she said kicking the burned rover.

"I'll take only a few minute. Promise." Picking over the burned branches and ashen ground she searched for something of somebody.

Her eyes caught onto a silver sleeping bag like thing. She remembered Mark telling her that they were used to protect firefighters and soldiers in the middle of forest fires. She knelt beside it and ripped the top open. Breath leaving her body.

It was Mark, and he had burns all over his face and whatever body she could see. "She called out to Mira, and they dragged the bag with Mark in it to their rover. Placing him into the back they gunned it to Terra Nova.

Maddy just hoped that they would get there soon. In time to save her husband. She was certainly out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I hope you like this, and please review, I am on the fence about killing off Mark in my story or not. Just tell me what you think. Have a wonderful weekend lovlies.