Base Alexandria

Chapter 12 More to Worry About

I had no idea of knowing what was going on with either my daughter or Kyle, but I had to trust that they were ok and doing fine. I was doing my best to keep an eye on the council members and I had a feeling they were watching me as well. 

“Where is he?!?”

The council members weren't my only problem though. Amanda was busting through my office door and she didn’t look very happy. I try not to show it but sometimes my wife scares me more than anything in this world, and considering Samantha has gone back to the place that almost killed her once, I wouldn't doubt if my wife tried to actually kill me today.

“Hank Briggs, where is my daughter?”

“She’s on a scouting-

I could feel the palm of her hand connecting with my face and it stung like hell. I forget she hits a little harder than most females would and i guess samantha really is a lot like her mother.

“Don’t lie to me Hank. Where is she?”

I got up and calmly closed the door behind her to stop all the staring eyes from looking into the office.

“Amanda, she’s on a black ops mission.”

“To where?”

“The Rebel base.”

At first she was quiet, but I could feel her anger building in the air. It felt like there was a grey cloud swirling in the office as soon as her facial expression changed. First she stares at you wit piercing eyes, then she scrunches her lips up as she gets ready to yell, and finally her face starts twitching as she’s trying to keep control. 

“Aman-”

Instead of a slap this time it’s a right hook to the face, and that was a little irritating. When we were younger we had our little play fights and goofy moments and she has never held back on her punches even if we were just joking around, I mean the woman knows how to hold her own but we’ve never seriously hit each other before.

“I can understand why you’d be upset-”

She tried to hit me again but I was ready this time. I caught her hand mid swing and held it in place as long as I could.

“I love you Amanda, but if you hit me again we’re going to have a problem.”

She snatched her arm away and walked over to the window.

“You got five minutes to explain.”

I tried to explain everything to her as best I could, from the day my brother left to now. By the time I was done explaining she seemed bothered by something.

“I should have told you and i'm sorry that i didn’t, but i didn’t know how you’d react, and i didn’t want you to worry.”

“She’s my only daughter Hank. Of course i'm going to worry. It’s been three days. Did you think I wouldn't notice my daughter not being here? Or her husband for that matter? Now we have more to be concerned about.”

“What do you mean?”

“I have to show you something Hank, i should have told you years ago but it wasn’t the right time and now...i can see that it is.”

When it had gotten dark I met her at her lab in the hospital where everything seemed calm and quiet. I hadn’t been in her actual lab since Samantha's surgery when I almost lost my little girl.

“Twelve years and i still don't understand how you come here everyday.”

She came and put her hand on my shoulder and looked up at me with her soft eyes.

“My daughter is still alive, Hank and I try not to dwell on the past. Yes it was hard at first all that blood but at the end of the day she made it.”

“I know that you still think it’s your fault babe but, there’s no way you could have seen it happen.”

She gave me a soft kiss on the lips.

“Then I started to believe that everything happens for a reason.”

She typed in something on her computer and something started to rise from the floor.

“You remember the metal the council members gave to us for her arm and leg?”

“Yea what about it?

“This is a piece of some of that metal that i kept for research purposes and for years the metal seemed to be just regular metal.”

She opened the lid of the jar and picked the metal up with tongs and placed it on her work table. Like it was a delicate little flower, then she pulled out all kinds of gadgets to try and break it. Knives, a saw, but nothing even put a scratch on it. She even put it in another metal container and poured a couple of drops of acid on it. Still nothing. Finally she pulled out a mini flamethrower and this time it shielded itself.

“Hank, from what i can see this isn’t normal metal, it’s not even from this world so that means that if you explained to me is what's going on then-”

“My brother was right. Amanda you know nothing about any of this do you understand? If the council members find out what we know I'm not sure what they would do.”

“You’re my husband Hank, if they take you they’re taking me too.”

“Please Amanda, if something happens to me you have to tell everyone and you can’t do that if we’re both dead. Now promise me you don’t know anything.”

“Ok Hank.”