Lucas and Evie: A Farpointe Initiative Origin Story by Hubble Aaron

Author:Hubble, Aaron [Hubble, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

A smile lit Evie's face as she scanned the message on the screen. The medication the boys had stolen was now being put to good use in Australia, of all places. Most of the continent was an R3 stronghold, so the medication would be helping those actively fighting the CPF which, she admitted, gave her great joy. They had flirted with the idea of finding a transport bound for Australia and joining the fight, but with Samantha still in the ag camp there was no way Lucas could leave. Leaving might mean life to them, but it was death for Samantha.

Evie swiped quickly at the screen, deleting the message. While vague and veiled, a message possibly sent from someone in the resistance was dangerous no matter what it said.

Someday, the three of them would join the resistance. Evie, Lucas, and Samantha, freedom fighters for the betterment of humanity.

She smiled at the thought. She had never met Samantha, but Lucas talked of her so often that she felt she already knew the woman who'd raised her husband after their parents had died in the plague. Freeing Samantha might be the easy part. Keeping her husband alive was proving to be the greater challenge. For a man with such a great tactical mind, he had a hard time sticking to his great tactical plans. The risks he took were so unnecessary.

Evie could feel worry creeping into her mind. She needed to head it off before it turned into something worse. In her mind, worry was like a single termite that found its way into the wooden floor joists of a house and then invited its termite buddies over for drinks. All of a sudden there was a whole termite community hidden under your feet, eating away at the very floor you walked on. Eventually, that floor would collapse into the basement in one gigantic, chaotic mess.

For Evie, that was worry. It was one little thought that wiggled its way into her mind and contained the power to send her nice, ordered, everyday life collapsing into debilitating depression.

Kneeling before a simple wooden trunk, she pulled out a leather-bound notebook and lovingly caressed the intricate cross pattern carved into the rich brown leather. The cross took her back to a much simpler time when her mother and father had packed her and her two brothers into the back of a minivan and drove to church. Evie had loved church: loved the music, loved the stories from the Bible, loved the warmth that seemed to flow from the people in the building.

That was all gone now.

Her family, the church, Bibles; the CPF had made sure of that. They'd done a bang-up job of taking away any hope people might still hold on to.

Evie quickly rose and closed the trunk as the worries began to assault her mind like mortars lobbed from an enemy camp. She crossed the small, one-room apartment, settled into her favorite chair, and unwound the leather lace that held the notebook closed.

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