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Hunt For Hope

- Monday. April 12th, 2032.

The first rays of sun were beginning to shine in through the curtained window as Cedar eased herself out of the bed and fixed up her wrinkled clothing.

She took one last look at the still sleeping Luca before walking out of the bedroom and stepping out onto the front porch where Miguel was sitting on the steps.

"Uncle Iggy, what are you doing?". The teen asked.

"I'm gonna help you find Boone, Tony's staying behind to take care of the kid". Miguel answered as he got up and jogged down the steps.

The duo left the gated community and walked for a while until they left the city behind and the view was replaced by the rural part of the area.

Once they reached a woodland area Cedar walked over a boarded up hole in the ground, she was thankful she'd been looking down because she saw a familiar brand burned into the wood.

"Iggy, come over here". Cedar called out in a hushed voice.

"What is it?". Miguel asked, bending down at Cedar's level. "Is that -?".

Cedar nodded grimly. "One of Alden or David's hide out's must be under here".

Miguel reached for the handle on the board and eased the hidden door open before climbing down the few steps that led to who knows where. "Stay behind me alright?".

The teen nodded, drawing her pistol out as she and her uncle walked down a tunnel that led to a closed metal door.

Miguel eased the metal door open and Cedar raced forwards despite his earlier warning, gasping at who she saw. "Mom!?".

The miraculously alive Serena Blake turned around at the sound of her daughter's voice. "Cedar?".

From the corner of her vision Cedar could see her father backed against the corner, his wrist was shackled to the wall and his eye patch was gone, exposing his destroyed eye to the elements.

"Mom, whatever you're doing, it's a horrible idea". Cedar said in a calm voice.

"Cedar I'm fine, please just get out of here!". Boone pleaded, his voice bleeding with exhaustion.

"Shut up!". Serena snapped, pointing her pistol back at Boone. "That man is a monster, you don't know the things he's done".

Cedar shook her head. "Actually I do, he told me what he did, what he was forced to do to you".

Serena let out a watery scoff. "You don't know what It's like to be violated and held against your will for over a year!".

The teen felt tears slip down her cheeks as she replied. " I was held against my will by Alden himself for four months, he raped me without a second thought".

Serena just stared at her daughter with an expression Cedar couldn't quite figure out as she cocked her pistol and aimed it straight at Boone's heart.

The teen jumped in front of her father as the bullet came whizzing towards her almost like it was in slow motion

Her stomach felt like it had been burnt by a fire poker as the bullet lodged itself just above her belly button, Boone hurrying to cushion her fall as she collapsed into his lap with shallow breaths.

Miguel rushed to pull out his pistol and lodged one of his own bullet's into Serena's head as he knelt beside his brother and mortally injured niece.

The teen's breathing was shallow as Boone pushed up her bloodied shirt, the wound over filled with blood and spilled down her side.