Terminal One

Family Time

Same Night....

Fatima screams, ducking from the glass shattering.

"Zac..." she screams. "It's cool Mamas." He let out a breath going under his seat.

Noticing that the car has stopped moving, he checks to be sure Fatima is alright, as the driver's side door opens. "Fatima, call the police..." he told her.

"Give me everything or else..." the man said, putting a gun to Zac's head but didn't anticipate and underestimated who he was dealing with.

In one quick move, Zac took his gun away from him, BAM!!! "Ahhhhh fuck!" "Or else what nigga?" Zac mumbled with venom, hearing Fatima on the phone with the operator.

He gets out, "Talk yo shit now you pussy muthafucka." Zac shouted at the guy who's on the ground, groaning in pain.

He proceeds to take the man by the collar, pounding his face in.

"Look man I'm sorry..." the guy begs, with a bloody mouth,

"Sorry my ass.." Zac grunts until he hears,

"Drop him muthafucka or else I'll drop..." BAM!!! "Not on my watch you're not." Fatima mumbled with an equal amount of venom pulling the trigger, as they heard sirens.

The next day...

"You good Mamas?" Zac asked, coming into the kitchen.

"Yeah..." Fatima draws out. "Talk to me." "Did that really happen to us last night?" "It did." He utters, "And I can tell you're still shooken up." Taking her hands into his.

When the police arrived on the scene, they did as normal analyzing what they saw instead of what actually happened.

They arrested Fatima because she still had the gun in her hand, while also arresting Zac because the man on the ground complained about "getting beat up". However once the captain came on to the scene, he also accessed the situation and became enraged at the incompetence of the officers.

Come to find out the captain was Zac's unit commander when he had his monthly duties as a reserved Airman, so he and Fatima were able to go without a hair out of place.

For the two men involved in the attempted robbery, while one was already dead, the other was sent straight to jail because he was already wanted for a robbery at the local bank.

"I am." Fatima admitted in a whisper. "I mean, I've shot a nigga before of course but taking a whole life." She murmurs.

Zac brings her in for a hug. "You did what you had to do to protect this family...Our family..."

"I know.." she mumbles, coming from their embrace. She turns back around facing the stove, as Zac wrapped himself around her.

He kissed the nip of her neck, then resting his chin on her shoulder. "Thank you for saving my life." "And thank you for saving mine." she whispered back.

A week later....
7 days until Zac leaves
Houston, Texas

"Angel..." "Sawry Mommy." Angel says, giving Fatima sad eyes, "Don't give ya Momma that look boy." Zac mumbles to his copy. "Keep being busy if you want to. You know what'cha doing?"

"That boy is all you, Peanut." "Ain't he though." Big Ma retorted from Amanda's comment.

"Big Ma." Fatima utters, picking up Iyonna because she won't stop crying from Angel's wrath.

"Why'd you suggest naming him Angel?" she whined, because after a while she started to regret naming him "Angel" when the good Lord knew, he was anything but that.