(This story is for Fany and Amahy. thank you very much)
Mistake, again
"Stop asking me, Lucas!"
"You're mindless. But I understand: a man in love with you, who wants to marry you, is such a burden…" he answers, ironically.
"I just want to remind you that you're still in a prison cell for… Wait, let me remember… Oh, yes, the attempted homicide of your father, the destruction of
many of the colony's buildings, and then… oh, well, I nearly forgot the dozens of corpses you left behind!"
"I love you."
"You don't, I'm just the only one left."
It is true, she is the only thing he has left. He has her and the hatred of his fatherburning inside.
And he has a knife.
"I love you, Skye. And if it had been just sex between us, you wouldn't be back."
"You know, I like taking care of the wretched. Do they give you enough to eat?"
"Of course they don't. The colony struggles against hunger and my father locks up everyone, so the jailbirds get only the leftovers of the leftovers. Yesterday they
arrested one of the last Sixers. I heard him screaming for hours in the interrogation room. So, is that my father's justice?"
"It's a war, Lucas. Your folks instead just opened fire on men, women and
children. Innocent civilians. Well done!"
She turns and she leaves.
All Lucas can do is listen to the by-now-usual prison's noises: Carter whistling, a Sixer who has been crying for days, one of the few survivors of the Phoenix
mercenary group who is screaming and swearing in order to get some food.
A day like any other.
He corrupted a guard to have that knife. His father is pushing his luck, even his
subordinates began to question his realm of terror.
Tonight, when the guard will change, he will flee. And finally he'll have the upper
hand on the commander.
He'll finally have his revenge.
(Several hours later)
When they bring him back to his cell, he has some more bruises.
And, for good measure, he just came to know that he'll be father.
An accidental son. With Skye. An unwanted son.
He shouted to her while they dragged him away: "Do you know what has been my worst mistake? Bumping you against that Rover. And then leaving you there.
Everything could've happened to you. I thought that the Rover could've protected you long enough for someone to find you, but I made a huge mistake. I
was too angry. Damn, a beast beast could've come…"
They pushed him out Boylan's bar, but he managed to shout again: "I won't leave you again, I'll do everything you want. I'll be here if you want to keep this
child…"
He's not sure if she has heard this last sentence, because his father's soldierstook him and dragged him away with violence.
He lost again. He's back in a cell, the same one from which he fled a few hours
ago. Such an asshole.
He did not revenge his mother, nor the wretched life to which his father has condemned him. He did not stop the tyrant. He did not win, not even this time.
When they slam him against the cell's wall, the scars on his back, another sweet present from his father, announce their presence.
Oh, no, he has not forgotten what he has done to him. He will never forget.
For Terra Nova's justice. Yeah… what a despicable farce!
Now it's night. Lucas doesn't see a single star from the small slit on the top of his cell.
But someone is passing by the external wall of the building. He hears a bucket, a metal bucket, violently hitting the bars.
"Bucket!" he shouts.
Only silence. Whoever they were, now they're gone.
It was her. With that small gesture, she let him know everything he needed.
She will keep their baby.
Lucas falls asleep. He has to rest.
Now he has a tomorrow.