Maddy cried silently, watching Mark lay in the back, unmoving and still smoking slightly. She studied him for a moment, and frowned at the marks. Half his body was burned badly, discolored. The other was relatively undamaged. Like some weird dichotomy.

Maddy was interrupted by a bouncing rocking motion and looked ahead to see a road of large branches. She looked back and saw his head lolling around, she could see all the burns on his face and neck now, some were even starting to fill with pus. She climbed back as well as she could with her small baby bulge and knelt next to him.

"Oh Mark, Oh," Maddy's voice cracked, thick with tears, she reached out to touch him.

"I wouldn't," Mira called back, her eyes could be seen by Maddy in the rearview mirror. "The burns are bad, and if something of a different texture, a cloth for instance, touches it and is pulled away, well the skin comes with."

Maddy was momentarily stunned by Mira's medical knowledge, as if reading her mind Mira added, "My people have had enough for us to know."

She nodded and looked back down at her husband, placing her hands on the floor of either side of his head, as if to protect him. Maddy looked up to see how far they were from Terra Nova.

"Am I dead, Baby?" A mumbled groan came from beneath her. She looked down, hair curtain around her face, so all she saw was Mark.

"Oh God, baby, are you okay?" She cried and almost smacked herself while she sobbed, "What am I saying. you're so hurt, what happened?"

He opened his mouth slightly, but she starts talking again. "Wait, no, don't say anything, you could have some serious throat damage." She jumped when one of her tears landed on his face and he shivered. "I'm sorry," She moved to touch his cheek but stopped again. "I love, you."

"I want to feel you so bad. Please Maddy." He begged weakly and started to groan and shake all over.

"Mark, don't try to move, I'll touch you, just don't worry." She reached out and gently stroked her fingers over his less damaged side, just his cheek bone.

"Oh that feels so good baby," He sighed, a lot of the pent up tension being brushed away by her fingers. She did this a few more times, then gentle leaned down and kissed his cheek, "I love you Maddy." He whispered before she pulled away.

"Mark, please just rest, and don't you dare doo such a stupid thing again," She whisper yelled.

"I would do it a thousand times over, for my Angel-," he said something else, but she couldn't pick it up as he fell asleep. She still stroked his cheek, as if to hang on to him.

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"We're almost there, just hold on." Mira roared, and the rover bounced. They were within seeing distance of Terra Nova now, and it had been almost four hours since Mark fell asleep.

Maddy watched the gate lower, and told Mira to get her close to it. Jumping out, she waved her hands yelling that Mark was hurt. The gate rose as Maddy climbed back in.

She looked at Mark. He had to live. He had to for her.

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"Doctor Shannon," turning to the frantic soldiers, she gasped as Mark was carried into the infirmary.

"I need all staff on minor cases, with me NOW." Ordering the stunned people into action, this was her army. Her eyes caught sight of Maddy, rushing in after her husband, dirt and muck on her face.

Elizabeth reached out and grabbed her daughter, "My baby." Was all she whispered. She hugged Maddy before looking her over. Torn clothes, dirty hair, dull eyes. That struck the doctor the most, her bright eyes were now dull. What had Lucas done to her?

"Fix him Mom, Please." Tears fell from her eyes, as she began to rub her stomach. Her own mother nodded and went to the OR to perform the need surgery.

"MADDY," Skye called out and hugged her sister-in-law, followed into the infirmary, by Josh, Jim, Zoe, Alicia, and Nathaniel, all pulling her into a hug.

They greeted each other, before taking seats in the room, waiting for the burned young man to recover or die.

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"Okay, Everyone," one of the nurses called them, "Mark is out of surgery, but he is not out of the woods. Not only did he sustain second and third degree burns, but he was shot in the chest, we recovered the bullet and patched him-"

"So the stitches will have to heal?"

"That and he suffered some nasty smoke damage to his throat and lungs, we fixed as much as we could, now we just have to replace the untreatable with cloned lungs. But he is awake."

Maddy sobbed. The man she loved was going to live, and she could certainly live with the scars, "Can….I see him now?...Please." She begged, wiping away tears. The nurse nodded, "Only immediate family."

Maddy rushed into the room and lost her breath. His entire torso and half his body was bandaged in white, and tubes were everywhere. She walked to his bedside and took his hand. The nurse pushed a chair behind her and she sat, sliding it closer to the bed.

"Mark?" Her voice cracked, before she cleared it, "Mark, I really love you no matter what." She whispered and grabbed his un-bandaged hand, petting it.

"I love you more than life itself." He rasped back, and sighed, "Come here." He struggled to open his good arm and waited for her to climb into bed with him. He wrapped his arm tightly around her and let her rest her head on his shoulder. Careful not to lay her head on his injuries.

"If you ever do something like that again, I will never let you into the bedroom again."

"And if you ever go out into the jungle with a crazed psychopath again, I will never try to get you pregnant again." She gasped and kissed his neck.

"You wouldn't, sides I got Licia back."

"Okay, we'll try for a dozen more." He promised, sliding his good hand down and rubbing her stomach.

They laid like that for several hours, before Maddy's mother pulled her away to check the baby.

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Maddy, Alicia Washington, Skye, and her mother, all stood in the ultrasound room, prepping Maddy with the gel. As she slid it around on her stomach, Elizabeth started.

"Maddy, are you alright?" fingers brushed against her daughter's high cheek bone.

"Well, I'm probably malnourished, but Lucas stole prenatal pills for the baby, and the cuts and bruises will-"

"Maddy!" Her mother reached up and grabbed her shoulder, "I meant did he hurt you baby. My Baby, are YOU alright?" She looked at her daughter.

Maddy looked around the room at her friends and family, "I will heal I think, and he was gentle if I pretend to love him. And I didn't want him to hurt Licia." She was choking, and covered her face with her hands.

She felt them close in on her and tightly embraced her. "I should finish this, we are probably getting this gel all over us." Elizabeth cried, and Maddy laughed when the three women sported cold jelly stripes. They waited until the baby was visible and fawned over it.

"It's a boy, oh Maddy." Her mother looked at her, and watched her daughter smile slowly.

"I can't wait," The whisper was barely audible, but they all smiled non-the-less. As Maddy and her ,opther were wiping away the gel from her stomach. "Hey Wash, you never told me how you survived the shot." The older woman laughed.

"Shrapnel, from a grenade back before I met the Commander. It got lodged in my head, and they said I'd live with it, too cheap to pay for its removal. But I think all in all it turned out for the best." They all smiled and left the room to tell the family.

Things were finally getting back together again.

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Lucas drove into camp with a smile on his face. He killed that wife stealing bastard. And all he wanted to do was to have His wife in his arms…And his bed.

He nodded to the soldiers and met with Rorac and Shanler.

"Well, where did you move my wife?" He asked, expecting to be taken directly to her.

"Uh, Sir, one of our rovers, is missing, along with your wife." There was that second of calm before the storm. That tiny little second.

"YOU FUCKING BASTARDS, WHAT DO YOU MEAN?" His voice echoed of the walls of the cave, "YOU IDIOT'S. SHE'S MINE AND YOU LET HER GET AWAY?" Lucas glared at them as he spit his anger.

"Sir, it is for the best, I mean think of the baby." Rorac said quickly and jumped when Lucas smiled.

"It is isn't it? The baby will be healthy, and she will get any help she needs, hell maybe, maybe when I take Terra Nova again, we can have a home together and everything." Lucas smiled and walked off towards his work station to catch up on all that work he had been putting off to spend time with his family.

He would go see Maddy in the Morning.