CPOV

All hell just broke loose and I am waiting to find out, exactly what is going on. All I am sure of is I awoke at 5:20 am to gunfire outside the main house and then explosions. I have been taken to an underground safe-room along with Mia,Gail, Barney, Flynn, Dr D, the two nurses and Taylor, still unconscious on a stretcher and Sawyer, a heavily armed Sawyer, I might add. Welch, Ryan and Reynolds have joined Gates security and will help in any way possible. My concern is that the explosions were the helicopters. I had time to look out the window before security escorted us to this underground room I didn't even know existed. It snowed last night, about 8 inches. If we ever had to leave here on foot, I don't think we could. None of us are prepared for a trek in the snow.

Suddenly, there is a terrific boom from up above and everything goes black. I fear part of the house above just exploded. My sister is beyond hysterical, screaming at the top of her lungs, wanting to know why I have to be so rich, why can't I be normal? I shrug, there's no talking to her when she is this upset. After a moment a generator kicks in and the lights and fan come back on. Gail has remained remarkably calm. I am very proud of her. I try to comfort my sister but she wants no part of me. Flynn and Gail take over. Dr D let's Flynn know he has sedatives on him if he needs them, but Flynn shakes him off. I look in the corner and Barney is sleeping. You can smell cordite and just acrid smoke. I know we are safe but even Sawyer is tense. I wonder how this fits in with everything else, but my thoughts are too scattered to even consider the matter.

My throw away phone rings. Its Welch. The front entrance to the house has been completely blown away. Two choppers exploded, the other is damaged from debris. There are three dead infiltrators and one of Gates people is down as well. The consensus of professional opinion is we need to leave here as fast as we can. Gates is sending two 16 passenger choppers to get us out of here. They will be here in 90 minutes.

Frankly, that's fine with me, but where the hell are we going to go? Welch confirms what I secretly feared. We are going back to Escala. It will be secure by the time we get there. I mentally curse but verbally thank Welch and ask when can we leave the safe room. He advises Sawyer knows how to open it manually, he just needs to wait for back up to make sure the egress is safe.

I look over at Dr D. "Today is day 5. " I point to the prone body of Taylor. "You need to start waking him up as fast as you can. "

Dr D nods and says he already started.

I my watch. It's 6:18 am. Vaguely, I wonder how Ana is doing and I hope Gate's security is keeping her safe. I need to send Gail to her sister and Mia to my parents. Flynn should probably join his family in England as well. For, once, Mia won't be a problem. She is so fucking terrified, she is demanding extra security. Gates people will escort her to my parents and up the security there substantially.

As soon as Taylor is fully conscious I'm dismissing Dr D and the nurses. The less innocents involved, the better. Anyway, that's my plan but nothing has been going to plan for a while. I need Taylor, Welch simply doesn't understand me the way Taylor does. They have very different ways of approaching problems. Welch is a kind of 'let me think it over and decide then'. While Taylor reacts immediately with this is what we are going to do' He is decisive and confident. He never even considers my questioning his judgement and on the very few occasions I have questioned, his reasoning was flawless.

WPOV

The events of this morning put a whole different spin on our various theories. This was a blatant, no holds barred, kill Grey now and fuck anyone who gets in the way. It speaks of desperation. I really don't understand what the fuck is happening. I don't like going back to Escala but what alternative is there?

I wonder about Ana and if there was an attack against her as well? We'll know more as the day grows older. I understand Gates is furious. He is taking it very personally because this is where he would have taken his family under similar circumstances. I was told Gates will be speaking with Grey later in the day when more information is available, but that he will be reassuring Grey that he will spare no expense and use all of influence to help him untangle this mess and to keep the Grey family safe.