I'd like to thank everyone who is keeping up reading this and those who have reviewed. It really encourages me to update quickly and gives me more inspiration. I'll not ramble on, so here it is.

Taylor and the rest of the members of the colony that attended the funeral hadn't been far away from the noise that erupted. His last contact with Wash and Reynold's had been at the funeral, he'd guessed that maybe neither of them wanted to talk due to the emotions of the day. However the loud screech and what sounded like something heavy been thrown to the ground gave him cause for concern. In his rover he was accompanied by Guzman. He'd thought it only fair that he'd be able to attend the funeral, so he put Jim in charge of the colony for him to be able to. Guzman had also been close to the deceased soldiers, maybe not as close as both Reynold's and Wash but still they had some sort of connection. He even thought for a brief moment that the bond Guzman had with Coal was something more than friendship. His soldiers were not aloud in fact forbidden to have relationships exceeding friendship. But why? Yes, personal feeling could cloud judgement. But wouldn't that happen anyway? He knew then at that point that his mind was drifting to Wash. Alicia Washington the goddess, the celestial being, the supreme image of a perfect woman. A woman, yes, and didn't he know it. Stop. Just stop. He thought to himself. His furrowed expression slightly worrying Guzman. In that second he was brought back by another screech. It had been too long since the last contact, even if Wash didn't want to talk she could sure as hell answer yes and no. He grabbed the radio in front of Guzman and brought it to his mouth to talk.

"Lieutenant Washington come in." He paused waiting for a reply. He frowned. It didn't take this long to reply.

"Reynold's come in." Surely Reynold's could answer.

"I don't like the sound of this." He said moving his head to look at Guzman.

"Lieutenant! ... Lieutenant!"

She couldn't move. Could hardly breathe. Shooting pains darted up and down her chest. She brought her hands up to see what was restricting her but was stopped by Reynolds softly pulling them back down to her side.

"Thank god your awake. Just stay still. Help will be here soon." He stated sure relief in his voice.

She opened her eyes slowly and waited for them to adjust. It seemed that the rover had flipped over which now meant that she was laying on the inside of the rover roof. She looked down at her lower body and saw the inflicter of her pain. A sharp metal shard had made an entrance through her abdomen she winced at the sight. Reynolds placed a soothing hand on her shoulder, with his other hand he placed a piece of ripped fabric (perhaps torn from his shirt) and surrounded the metal shard to stop the bleeding. Alicia again moved her hands to inspect the injury but Reynolds moved his hand away from her shoulder to swat it away once again. Another screech erupted from the tree line.

"We … we need to get out of here. It's not safe. The Sixers could come back any minute." Alicia said clearly agitated at the thought of the Sixers having the upper hand and catching them unaware.

"It's no safer out there and I don't think it was the Sixers who attacked us. If it was the Sixers we'd be dead by now or at least captured." Reynolds was obviously confused and by the sound of his voice suffering from some sort of injury himself. Alicia turned her head to look him over. Other than a gash to the forehead and bruising to his cheek there were no other apparent injuries.

"Ribs" He stated. "Seat belt must have caused a break. Nothing I cant handle though." He said with a slight smile to reinforce that he was in fact okay and she needn't worry. "How are you doing?"

"I've felt better." She huffed.

"You've looked better." Alicia gave him a raised eyebrow and glare. "I mean not that you look ugly or anything I mean your a pretty lady, I mean soldier, I mean ….what I'm trying to say is that you look like your in pain." He rubbed his head annoyed that he'd embarrassed himself in front of his Lieutenant. Alicia had an amused look on her face watching her soldier dig his hole deeper and deeper. She chuckled only for a wince to follow, her hand quickly shot up to clutch her abdomen.

"I need to get out of here" She said as the pain finally eased. Reynolds began shaking his head.

"No way am I moving you. We cant risk aggravating the wound."

"What about the radio? Cant you get Taylor?" Alicia said, her desperation was showing through.

"The radio broke ma'am. I undid my seatbelt and searched around for it after I checked that you were alive." He was interrupted by Alicia's unladylike grunt and interjection "It takes a lot more to take me out!"

"As I was saying..." he continued with a smirk on his face "I found the radio smashed then heard that loud screech again. Figured it was safer in the upside down rover than on the dirt path or in the jungle. That's when you began to moan. You were still in your belt so I undid it and lowered you onto the inside of the rovers roof. I thought you were dying so I called your name see if I could wake you. You kinda scared me."

Alicia melted and her face softened. She had a great relationship with Mark. She was his Lieutenant, going out drinking with your soldiers wasn't perhaps a typical normal thing to do. However it wasn't like she had sexual feelings for Reynold's, that thought made her cringe slightly. She'd been accused by Jim of mothering Reynolds, Alicia awarded this with a hard punch to Jim's upper arm.

Alicia noticed the long silence that had occurred between her and Reynolds. She lifted her hand and placed it on Reynolds shoulder.

"I'm proud of you, you know" She said with a smile. Reynolds beamed down at her.

"Really?" He replied more enthusiastically than needed.

"Course. I mean, I may not show how proud I am but hell Reynolds your one of the best soldiers I've ever had the privilege to train." If it was even possible his smile got wider.

"Thanks Lieutenant. It really means a lot coming from you." He paused for a second and then continued "I kinda wish my foster parents and real parents were here to see how far I've come."

"Tell me about your real parents." Alicia asked weakness showing in her voice.

"Well there's not much to tell. I didn't get to meet them. I was told that my dad was an aggressive drunk and used to beat my mother. He raped her one night whilst he was drunk and got her pregnant with me. I was told that he'd gone missing afterwards, the police thought it was my mother but they couldn't prove anything without a body. She gave birth to me and then disappeared. Before she left she put me up for adoption. She told the lady who was advising her on the adoption process that she didn't want me to know her name or be able to contact her. She said that it would be too painful for me and for her."

"I'm sorry Mark. It must be terrible not to know who your parents are, but I can understand why your mother did what she did. It must be common for women to go through this when a traumatic event like that happens to them. More common than you would think." She coughed slightly. "Given the option. Would you like to meet them now?" She asked.

"Not so much my dad, although I'd like to know what he was like when he was sober, that's if he's alive. I'm sure if she did kill him that bastard deserved it. I'd love to meet my mother, I don't blame her for what happened. Maybe she had no one to help her through the trauma. I just wish she'd got in contact with me before I came to Terra Nova."

Alicia began coughing again and her eyes began to flutter closed.

"Hey. You need to stay awake okay." His eyes lowered to her injury only to see the blood soaked make-shift bandage. Blood had also began seeping through to his hand covering it. It was only then that he saw the blood pooling from her back. The metal shard must have gone straight through her back as well. His eyes shot back to her face in horror. Her breathing was shallow and her eyes were fixed closed.

"Wash! Alicia!" He shouted.

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