<Episode 51>
Outside of the occasional murmur their van was relatively quiet. Sparky and the others kept glancing back back at him with some concern. Although the chimp glances were filled with contempt. Right now he wasn’t paying them any attention. His thoughts were back at the Habitat, with Rachel. With what he did to keep her out of this one. Leaning back against the van he voiced the only thought going through his head, “She’s going to kill me.”
“More than likely she’ll thank God your alive,” Sparky spoke up, “then she’ll kill you.” He was joking but nobody was laughing, although a couple of them did groan. Jack didn’t respond at all. “I know, I know shut up Sparky.”
“You did what you had to do,” Arron said. “Rachel wasn’t listening to reason.”
“It doesn’t make me feel any better,” Jack said softly.
“Don’t worry man,” Sparky told him. “She’ll get over it sooner or later. She’ll never let you forget it but she’ll get over it.”
“How much longer to the rendezvous point,” Jason barked.
“About twenty minutes,” their driver announced.
“How much resistance do you think we’re going to get?”, Sparky asked out loud.
“I guess you’ll find out when we get there,” Arron told him.
“I wasn’t really looking for an answer.”
Again Jack tuned them out and his mind went back to her.
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“Uh,” Rachel grunted as she came to her senses. It took her a couple of moments to realize where she was. She was a little confused to find Jack’s jacket on top of her. Trying to sit up she felt a small patch of pain on her stomach. Putting a hand on it she remembered everything. “If he’s survives I’m going to kill him.”
“I don’t think he’ll try and stop you.” She looked around to find Melissa sitting beside her. “He took the foil with him in case you’re wondering.” It took her a moment to process what she meant. Then she looked inside the hood, it was empty. “I told Jaime to find him a cap or something to hold it place when he sees him.”
“So Jaime knows.”
“I didn’t give him the whole story, or go into any details.” Rachel held the jacket tightly in her hands. “So have you have come back to your senses now or am I going to have to get Emily to beat some into you?”
“There’s no point now is there?”, she said bitterly.
“Well it’s hard to blame Jack for what he did when you weren’t giving him much of a choice. Seriously Rachel what was going through your head?”
“I had to be there for him,” was all she said.
“You do realize how dangerous this is going to be right?”, she asked. “Jack doesn’t need to be worrying about you getting hurt in the chaos.”
“I know all right, I know,” she snapped. “I just can’t shake this feeling he’s not going to make it. And I didn’t want him to be alone if he…,” she couldn’t finish it. Melissa put a comforting arm around her and held her as the tears started to fall.
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