A/N: Thank you for all the amazing reviews :-D and Also please not all medical and pregnant baby stuff purely fiction! So please let it slide for the story's sake.. Cheers! and enjoy!

Kate woke up and looked at the clock on Malcolm's side of the bed. She carefully pried herself from Malcolm's arms and reached for her glass of water she kept on her bedside table. Only to find it was empty. In her groggy state she hadn't realised that the glass had been full when she went to sleep. So she got up from bed and walked into the kitchen. She had been filling up the glass of water when a chem. light lit up on the dining table. Kate's eyes flicked to the source and went wide. The glass overflowed with water onto her hand and into the sink.

There at the dining table in the glow of the chem. light Jane Caetano sat at the table with a sonic pistol turned to its highest setting pointed at Kate. Kate had to admit that she was oddly more disappointed than afraid even as the gun made a high pitched squeal as it powered up.

"I have to say I'm genuinely surprised, you didn't hear me come in" Caetano spoke in a low voice as Kate turned off the tap and placed glass carefully in the sink.

"I'm a heavy sleeper these days" Kate remarked as she mentally catalogued the weapons and which was the closest to her and how she could subtly activate her panic alarm.

"Also a creature of habit, every night at this time you always wake up and have a glass of get up and refill it and then go back to bed" Caetano told her. Kate tried to remain calm as adrenalin kicked and her body was screaming at her to run or to act but her mind told her the best course was to talk it out and try and punch her panic button on her tags.

"Press the alarm or whatever they gave you to alert them to my presence. Go ahead" Caetano mocked her as Kate had already reached to her neck but her hand stopped as she realised that Caetano was in the house sitting at her dining table. No way would the person watching the security feeds miss that which meant something was wrong. Very wrong. She looked to the oven and noted that it's time display was off and the standby light wasn't out.

"I assume you've taken care of all the soldiers on the perimeter and have suspended the security systems. So what's the point in pressing a useless button?" Kate asked her as she stayed behind the counter it was the only cover she would have if the woman pulled the trigger. She had only two things she had to do and that was survive and protect herself, unborn child and Malcolm who she could already hear stirring in the bedroom. Obviously Taylor's training hadn't included stealth as Kate could hear Malcolm move around and pull the sonic pistol from the bedside table drawer. Luckily Caetano wasn't as observant as Kate assumed her to be.

"I'm so glad you're calm and understanding" Caetano told her giving Kate a warm smile as she misconstrued Kate's deductions of the situation as acceptance.

"Calm, yes. Understanding? Far from it. Why don't you explain it to me without the gun pointed at me it's making me nervous" Kate suggested Caetano in a casual but cool tone. Caetano looked slightly off kilter by Kate's words.

"She isn't afraid, look at her she isn't afraid… How can someone so close to death be so accepting unless they know their penance is death" the man told Caetano as he stood behind Kate with his hands on the Redhead's shoulders. Caetano shook her head as she remember Kate's question.

"Is it true? What he said? that this is your penance?" Caetano asked Kate as she gestured to the man at Kate's shoulder. Kate looked to her shoulder and saw no one there. She kept her expression neutral as she just watched the woman talk to herself. Obviously she was in some kind of delusion or hallucinating, Kate didn't care which as all she cared about was getting out of the room. It was the first time she had wanted to leave a fight behind and let someone else take her place.

"No, I'm afraid. I'm just good at not showing it, my family wasn't big on displaying emotions. You know I thought you were alone in this but I guess I've made too many assumptions about you. Haven't I?" Kate asked feeding into the woman's delusions to keep her talking as she slowly inched towards the knife block, she didn't dare look to the bedroom door in fear of giving away Malcolm's presence.

"Tell me why are you going to kill me?" Kate asked her.

"Don't answer her, she is stalling." The soldier said appearing at Caetano's side.

"She has a right to know why" the meek woman said making Caetano look over her shoulder seeing the woman cower in the corner ringing her hands.

"Stop talking and execute her now or abort" the soldier said.

"No, don't abort-" the man with the knife said. He and the soldier started getting into an argument about whether to go or stay and Caetano looked between them and Kate, her head starting to hurt from all the noise and concentrating hard on keeping her hand steady with the gun.

"Shut up! Shut up!" Caetano shouted.

"The powers out" Taylor remarked as he pulled his pants back on in the dark. Their 'one hour' was going to have to be postponed as he had a bad feeling. A break in at power relay station on the west side and now a power outage.

"The backups should have kicked in already" Alicia commented as she knew as well as he that there was no reason for the power to be out. "Maybe we've blown a fuse" Alicia said as she picked her silk wrapper up off the floor. She knew as soon as she heard his fly close they would not be continuing their fun.

Taylor's comm. buzzed to life and he pulled it out of his pocket and answered. "Taylor, here go ahead"

"Whole east side of the Colony and Command Centre has gone dark" Guzman said over the comm. Taylor moved to the kitchen and opened the slats of the front window to look outside to confirm what Guzman was telling. He tried to see the soldiers stationed outside his house but it was pitch black.

"Have all the soldiers on duty checked in?" Taylor asked. He couldn't hear anything amiss. The colony was quiet but no quieter than it normally was at the current hour.

"They are right now, still waiting for 10 more posts to check in" Guzman said. Taylor whistled a bird call out the window that he used with his soldiers when their comm. systems went down or they were OTG trying to remain inconspicuous. He waited for the call back but he heard nothing.

"Send extra soldiers my house now." Taylor ordered Guzman.

Kate had thought she was having a mental breakdown but the woman in front of her was making her feel like her worst mental day look like Olivia having a tantrum where one minute it was the end of the world and the next over it. Like it never happened to begin with. She kept edging closer to the knife block only pausing when Caetano looked at her.

"What are you doing?" Caetano asked her as her attention snapped back to Kate. It was at this time Malcolm made his appearance catching Caetano's attention and three things happened in mere seconds apart of one another.

The first was Caetano swung her sonic pistol in the direction of Malcolm who fired his sonic pistol first, his blast missed Caetano completely and hit the chem lamp. The second thing was Kate who pulled the second smallest knife from the board and threw it at Caetano. The knife imbedded itself into the shoulder of the arm Caetano was holding her weapon. The woman cried out in pain and her swung back firing her weapon in Kate's direction all in the space of mere seconds.

Kate ducked taking cover behind the counter just as the sonic blast passed over the bench and room went dark. The kitchen cabinets where her head had been exploded and Kate covered her head as broken glass and crockery rained down on her and the floor.

She heard the woman curse as she pulled the knife from her arm and knife drop to the floor and scatter. The sound of the Chem. light hit the floor and shattered as they all stopped as they room went dark.

"Kate, run!" Malcolm shouted, Kate cursed as Malcolm gave away his position and she knew he wouldn't hide. She acted quickly and ignored the broken glass imbedding itself into the skin of her feet and hands as she scrambled d through the broken glass and debris and got to her feet she closed the gap between her and Malcolm and tackled him to the ground, Malcolm rolled her so his back was facing the door in perfect timing as Caetano fired off another blast which hit the bedroom door and the force made the door explode and pushed Kate and Malcolm hard into side of the bed frame. Kate's shoulder hit the side of the bed frame hard and she blacked out before she felt the glass and wood pieces fly at them.

Alicia had changed into her pyjamas of a loose t-shirt and short shorts while Taylor geared up. They hadn't heard any sign of danger from Kate's house but he was preparing to storm the place when the extra soldiers showed up. Guzman was still attempting to get into contact with the last soldiers and organise off duty soldiers with Jim. The east side of the colony had gone dark and backup generators weren't kicking in there was a team of engineers attempting to get the power back on when they heard the sound of sonic weapons fire followed by glass shattering.

Alicia stood up out of reflex as she was used to jumping into action.

"Guzman, I have gun fire at Kate's place. Where are those soldiers?" Taylor demanded into his Comm.

"Copy that" Guzman said there was a brief pause before he spoke "the soldiers should be there now" Guzman said, Taylor moved to the window and opened the frosted glass slats of the window to take a look outside and heard the footfalls of his soldiers coming.

"I'm going over to Kate's. You stay here with the kids, Kate's gun is still in the dresser drawer. Don't open this door for anyone but me" Taylor told Alicia as he pulled on his boots. He moved to her and gave her a passionate kiss. "We'll continue what we started later" he told her.

"You better" Alicia told him as she opened the door, he ran out and she closed the door and locked it before she headed to the bedroom.

Taylor stepped out onto his front porch to greet his men and organise them as quickly as possible.

A few moments earlier,

"What's the situation?" Mira asked Carter as they had run straight from their houses to Kate's when the power went out. They were running on gut instinct that the power outage had been planned by the killer as it knocked out the security measures and also disorientated Taylor's men as they would have to check in and reorganise and prioritise to a set of standard procedures that they were trained to use in the event of a black out.

"Well the killer is in there sitting in the dark. Talk about having a pair" Carter said as he passed his binoculars to Mira. Mira looked through the binoculars and saw the heat signature of who she assumed to be Kate walking into the kitchen with another heat signature sitting at the dining table. There was a third they assumed to be Malcolm as he was in the bedroom.

"Damnit" Mira said as the killer turned on a chem. light momentarily blinding Mira's night vision. She placed the binoculars down and blinked a few times allowing her eyes to readjust. "Options?" she asked him.

Before he could answer they heard a cry of pain followed by a sonic blast and the sound of exploding glass.

"Blow in the back door and surprise is on our side." Carter offered.

"I want her alive" Mira told him as she handed him her second sonic pistol. He gave a nod as he took the weapon and they got up and ran to the back door.

Mira fired the first shot and the back veranda door shattered, they came straight into the room as the chem. lights for the house kicked in. The woman who had killed her friends swung her gun and pointed it at them and stopped as she couldn't decide who to shoot first.

Mira caught sight of Malcolm and Kate's bodies lying on the floor of their bedroom as she could see Malcolm was covering Kate's body with his own. She couldn't see if they were dead but there was a pool of blood forming on the floor.

"You're Caetano's wife"

"Widow" Caetano corrected.

"Why are you killing my people? Your husband's friends and family?" Mira demanded.

"You're criminals, filth of society. You all deserved to die I was doing my civic duty" the woman spat venomously.

"Civic duty, interesting choice for your last words" Mira sneered at Caetano.

Caetano seemed to sense what was coming as she went to pull her trigger but Mira pulled her trigger first. The sonic blast was so strong it made the woman's head snap back with a sickly crunch before she slumped to the floor.

Mira and Carter both turned as they heard Kate moan in pain, they rushed to her and Malcolm. Malcolm had glass and wood debris sticking out of his back and flank but still breathing. They carefully pulled Malcolm off just as Taylor and his men came into house. Carter stashed his gun under the bed and Mira quickly placed her gun in Kate's hand.

"You shot Caetano" Mira told Kate who looked completely disorientated as she came to. They only hoped she was conscious enough to back their story up but it was going to be a hard sell as the redhead couldn't even hold the gun. Carter and Mira exchanged looks before they turned around and put on a good show.

"About time! We need medical assistance over here now!" Carter shouted over his shoulder at Taylor and his soldiers.

"Mira, Carter back away from them now" Taylor ordered in a deadly tone, Mira and Carter raised their hands slowly and backed away from Kate and Malcolm. Taylor saw the blood and Malcolm's prone form while Kate weakly held a sonic pistol looking completely disorientated as she was suffering the aftershock of a high energy sonic blast.

Taylor knelt down and felt for Malcolm's pulse as he felt a weak but steady pulse. He threw out orders to Guzman to get the medical teams into the house and to call the infirmary to prepare for in coming.

Kate's ears were ringing and the voices around her sounded distant as she couldn't focus her mind. Her mind was a boggled mess as she tried to recall what happened she saw Mira and Carter and the soldiers and knew she was safe and Malcolm had been right in front of her.

Her whole body sang with pain but she couldn't begin to tell where it hurt the most but she knew she had to find Malcolm. She saw the gun in her right hand and wondered how the hell it got there. It fell from her hand onto the floor with a thud not that she had meant to drop it but her hand refused to grip the gun. She pushed through the pain and tried to sit up but she didn't release her hand was slick with blood slipped. Luckily someone caught her before she thudded on the floor and then she realised it was Taylor.

"Nice catch" Kate slurred Taylor gave a pained smile as he knew the woman should not be in any shape to be making jokes.

"You're ok, don't move" Taylor told Kate, the medics were civilians and as such wouldn't touch a patient who was armed. Luckily Kate had dropped the gun on her without being asked but it was useless as Taylor knew a blast that turned a door into scrap was enough to scramble anyone's brains for a few hours. He was amazed she was even conscious.

Jim had picked up the gun and moved out of the way as Kate vainly tried to sit up but her hand slipped in the blood luckily Taylor caught her and she looked up at the man focussing on him.

"Where's Malcolm?" Kate asked Taylor as he carefully cradled her upper body. He could feel her blood on his arms and her right arm hung loose. He couldn't help but notice her hands were bloody and were minced with glass in them.

"Being taken to the infirmary, you're next but the medics need to stabilise you" Taylor said as Kate's left hand grappled the front of his shirt as she was trying to hold onto him as he was the only stable thing in her world.

"I think I might be sick" she told him in a droll tone as tears ran down her face.

"I won't be offended if you do" Taylor told her.

"Commander, we need you to step back" the medic said softly.

"No, don't-" Kate didn't finish the sentence as her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she passed out.

"Kate? Kate?" he said trying to wake her but it didn't work. He felt for her pulse and felt minor relief as it was strong and steady.

"Commander" the medic pressed. Taylor lowered Kate's upper body and stepped back. He watched as the medics stepped forward and got to work on Kate conferring over the comm. before they put her on a stretcher and rushed her out of the house.

Taylor turned to Mira and Carter who were currently standing to the side of the room looking right at home in the chaos. Somehow he couldn't let go of how convenient it was to find two ex-sixers at the scene of a crime. It irked him how they beat him to the scene and how he hadn't acted fast enough for Kate and Malcolm.

"Tell me why you're here" he demanded of them. Mira folded her arms and lifted her chin in slight defiance and glared at him as it apparent old habits died hard. Even if the two were on better terms it was a delicate relationship. One only Kate was able to keep from falling apart as Mira and Taylor both had the tendency to be obstinate.

"We came to save Kate. I knew as soon as the lights went out the killer would use the dark to her advantage and storm the guards and the house. Simple deduction" Mira told him in a matter of factorial manner.

"You came unarmed?" Taylor asked them. Mira and Carter both gave a tilt of the head as if to say 'didn't think about it'.

"Three against one seemed like good odds to me and hey there's more than one way to kill a person. Many of them not involving a gun" Carter answered contrarily as he watched Jim move around the body and looking around the room. He really hoped Jim wasn't as switched on as he led people to believe.

"What happened when you arrived?" Taylor asked as he and Guzman were doing their own 'cop' impressions.

"The woman was dead, Kate holding the gun put two and two together" Mira said, Taylor and Guzman exchanged looks like they didn't believe the two but couldn't just lock them up on a suspicion.

"Right" Taylor said not convinced by the answer or Mira and Carter's reasons for being there but then the two weren't going to say much as they didn't want to incriminate themselves.

"Look we aren't going anywhere so if you want to lynch us tomorrow by all means. I don't know about Mira but I would like to go home and get a solid 5 hours before I get to work on making the glass to replace all the broken windows and doors in this place" Carter told them.

"You'll be escorted home and Jim will be by tomorrow to take your statements" Taylor told them. Carter and Mira both inclined their heads as if to say 'goodbye' and what Taylor said was agreeable with them. Taylor motioned to a couple of soldiers and geve them their orders and watched Carter and Mira leave.

"They are lying" Guzman said in a low voice to Taylor.

"Let's give them the benefit of the doubt" Taylor said before they turned and moved to Jim who was had been taking photos of room and the body for the records. "Shannon" he said catching the man's attention.

"It's Mrs Jane Caetano. She's a widow with one son, Kate and I met her once she appeared to be completely sane actually the last person I'd pick to do this. It doesn't feel right" Jim told them.

"She fits the description of the woman Kate described. She was married to a sixer but didn't know he was one until the sixers separated from the colony. Mira brought his body back for burial" Guzman said giving back history on the dead woman lying on the floor.

"Really?" Jim asked surprised Mira would risk exposure like that to deliver the remains of a body to the colony.

"Well she left the body on the outskirts of the field before the gates and disappeared. We did the right thing by the remains. We'll have to figure out an arrangement for her boy now he's an orphan" Taylor said as he looked at the angle the woman was lying with a broken neck and looked to where Kate had been lying with the gun.

"Something wrong Shannon?" Guzman asked Jim who seemed to be having the same thoughts as Taylor that something wasn't adding up with the scenario.

"I'm sure it's nothing" Jim remarked with a sigh as he rubbed the back of his neck. He walked over to roughly where Kate had been lying avoiding the blood on the floor. He pointed his hand in a gun shape to the body before dropping his hand and gave a shrug before walking back to them. Taylor didn't need to do a recreation to know it was impossible for Kate to have shot the woman but he didn't want to go through the mess of pinning murder on Carter or Mira as they saved Kate. He'd rather scratch it off as self defence and get on with life.

"It looks like it was self defence" Taylor told Jim in a firm tone that translated to 'drop it'.

"I don't agree" Shannon said in a low voice as he didn't want to create a scene in front of Taylor's soldiers. He preferred they share their differences behind closed doors to save face.

"I'm not surprised. Guzman, I want the body taken to the morgue and the broken windows boarded up. Shannon you have the place until tomorrow 10am then I'm handing it over Carter and his partner for clean up and repair. I'll be in the infirmary" Taylor said Guzman gave a nod and Taylor left the house knowing Jim would follow him.

"That's not enough time" Jim said as he had followed Taylor out of the house just as the older man predicted.

"It's plain to see Kate killed the woman in self defence." Taylor said as he turned to face Jim.

"So you've decided to pretend you didn't see what I did? Falsify evidence-" Jim started in a daring tone.

"Have I asked that of you?" Taylor asked Jim.

"You keep saying it's self defence when it obviously isn't" Jim said.

"It looks like it to me. If you don't believe so then make your case" Taylor said with a shrug.

"You saw the body it was laying the wrong way for Kate to have shot her and then there is the fact that Kate was barely coherent enough to hold the gun let alone shoot it" Jim said.

"So what are you saying?"

"Mira and Carter got to Caetano before you did and killed her then pinned on Kate. they know if it's her it's self defence" Jim stated.

"Or Mira and Carter are telling the truth about Kate shooting Caetano, you can't tell by looking at the direction a body is lying and predict what angle she was shot at without a proper autopsy" Taylor said.

"My gut-"

"Oh your infamous gut. Do me a favour and take an antacid Shannon. We caught a break, you shouldn't be making accusations when you haven't got a leg to stand on. Finish your prelims and clear the house, tomorrow we will talk with Mira and Carter. If Kate and Malcolm are able to talk we'll get their side of the story" Taylor told him.

"And if it doesn't match up?" Jim asked.

"We'll address that if it happens" Taylor said as it amazed him how Jim just picked and chose when the rules applied to him and the others in the colony.

"Aren't you curious why Mira and Carter were there and how did they get there before you?" Jim asked Taylor.

"Only by seconds, it's not a race and I'm not curious as Mira and Carter see Kate as one of them. I'm sure they have been keeping a close eye on her themselves ever since the last threat. Now you should go clear the house and collect evidence" Taylor told him.