A Family (x reader)

Ethan's family

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When the outbreak started, Ethan's father were ordered by the government to take the plane they had at the base they lived close by and fly to a location with as much supplies as they could collect. The area hasn't been badly touched by the apocalypse, it was small and was barely populated. They have been there since the beginning. Close to them, they have an oil rig working again and therefore have gasoline for their vehicles and aircrafts. (I haven't figured all this out yet, so I'm just writing something right now. Felt like I needed to explain why they still manage to fly and drive. But for the others that don't live there, the fuel is limited and expensive now though, because of the poor access to it.)

Ethan's family and friends are therefore safe at one of the few places doing better than most. But the leaders there are now hesitant about bringing any survivors from the places they have managed to get in contact with.

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Ethan's old team is going on a trip to a city that has been made after the apocalypse, to get an impression of how it's going out there. It's a quick in quick out stealth mission. They are going to act normal and check out the city, then bring back a report.

After the apocalypse Edward Stone joined Ethan's former team after the apocalypse. His father originally did something else important in the military and government. But because of Ethan's absence, he was asked to also be an extra to the team, from the lack of numbers. He was someone that they knew would work well with the team, being a close friend and considers them family.

Mary Stone, Ethan's mother, argues for Edward and the team leader to bring her on the trip, they reluctantly agrees. They hadn't held a funeral for Ethan yet. She's having a hard time coming to terms with their son's death. But after they found out that there had been a city created and maybe more, she used that as a new argument that Ethan might still be alive. But they all thought he was gone.

They hadn't heard anything, no signs at all. Most cities have managed to communicate with the others, and if Ethan was alive, he would've at least tried to contact them.

But Ethan just hasn't been able to get to the ones that has the ability to communicate like that, when he had been close, something happened and he was forced to leave, to protect you and your kids.

They asked people they have contact with, the ones that are located nearest the area they know Ethan was since he was going to the airport. They told them it was very bad in that area, and they hadn't heard of any survivors from anywhere near there and much less of people travelling in and around it. If Ethan had been on a plane already, they would know for sure that he didn't make it, because no one would survive the crash all the planes made during the chaos.

Jake Stone is on the team, he's Ethan's younger brother. Ryan Foster is the new leader of the team, he has taken Ethan's place. He used to be his second. Greyson Eaton, who also was on the team, is Foster's second now.
(Inspired by the characters Rick Flag and Lt. GQ Edwards in 'Suicide Squad'. I kind of imagine Jake as the character that's does that fist-dump scene with GQ in the movie, I couldn't figure out what his name was. But you can of course imagine them however you want.)

Charles is one of the eldest on the team, same age as Edward. The two joined the military at the same time. Unlike Edward, Charles had been on Ethan's team before this. Sullivan is the youngest.
(Inspired by the characters Cole and Reg Slivko from 'Kong: Skull Island'.)

Two members of the team died, they have been replaced by Gabriel and Lenny who wasn't on the team when Ethan led it.

(I might change some names later, because I'm not satisfied with all of these.)

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Mary is almost like a mother to some of the guys on Ethan's former team, having taken them in as family. They lived close to the military base Ethan worked and lived at, where also his team was located.

He was in charge of a lot more soldiers and was also an instructor, teaching from the base. Charles worked as something from the base and had people he were in charge of so to speak, Foster and Grey had theirs, and the rest worked under them again, but Ethan was in charge of all of them. Whenever he was going on a mission, the people on his team were the ones he brought with him, unless he needed someone specific.

They all specialised in certain skills and worked well together. Edward was the only one not working under Ethan, he has a higher rank and did different work for the military, but he worked from the same base. And his wife, Mary, was his secretary, she started working again after Jake also had moved out. Jake had an apartment in town like most of the others. But Ethan lived at the base, and often just strolled over to his parent's house, since they were the base's neighbours after all. Everyone else on the team were often at the Stone's house.

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Everyone on the team and Mary dresses a bit more scrappy and dirty than the guards staying with the plane, hoping to blend in the city they're going to. They fly to an airstrip that isn't too far, leave guards with the plane and drive the truck out of the aircraft to get to the city. Seeing the city they go in smaller groups to see as much as possible.

Eventually meeting up later, they sit down somewhere to talk about what they've seen. Mary suddenly glances around.

"Eddy." She says patting her husband's shoulder as she looks around. "I have that gut feeling. The one about my children."

Edward frowns. "What do you mean?"

"I.. I'm not sure, I just have to.." Mary start's jogging in a direction.

"Mary!" Edward shouts, he groans and run after her.

The others also run after them. They follow her around a corner and see her staring at something. There's a truck parked with the back doors open, in it sits a woman with a child.

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