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Helena drove slowly as snow fell from the sky. If she had left work only a few hours earlier she would have been home by now and been safely indoors before the snow had even began to fall. The roads were covered in thick sheets of ice and the snow was rapidly covering it and ice hidden under snow was every driver's worse nightmare.
Sighing Helena glanced in her rear-view mirror, she was the only driver on the road. It seemed every other driver had more sense than to drive. Maybe she should have waited out the storm at work… It wasn't like her husband was at home waiting for her. John Grimm was working the nightshift at the hospital he worked at.
After everything that had happened on Mars, John had refused to even have a gun in the house, let alone going back to work with one where he'd be killing to order. The RRTS had let him go and even given him a healthy sum of money in attempt to make up for what had happened… He was the only surviving member of his squad and his family.
And the UAC had been all to happy to pay them both off in attempt to keep them both quite, not that Helena was ever going to tell anyone. If people knew about it, what was to stop someone from getting ideas and trying to replicate C-24. Deep down most people craved that kind of power and she did not want to have to deal with anymore imps!
She'd personally destroyed all there research data to ensure the UAC couldn't get their hands on it, but she knew the UAC would get back to Mars one day and re-open the dig… But until that day came she'd quite happily live pretending it had never happened.
She and Reaper had lost a lot on Mars. Helena had lost her best friend and Reaper had lost his twin sister... They had never found Sam's body and the DNA they had gathered from the imps and Zombies didn't match the DNA on file. So many people were unaccounted for and they had no way of telling which imp was Sam.
Helena suddenly slammed her foot down on the brake as she saw something in the road in front of her and her car skidded to a halt.
It was a deer.
It looked up at the car before running off into the falling snow and darkness. Helena took a deep breath and gripped the steering wheel. The way the deer's eyes had flashed in the light reminded her of the disembodied head she'd seen hanging from the ceiling back on Mars after the one of the C-24 mutants had escaped.
Helena jumped as he phone suddenly began ringing. She hit the answer button her phone, where it sat on her dashboard allowing her to talk hands free and began driving again.
"Reaper," She greeted.
She heard John sigh.
"You're never going to call me 'John' are you?" He questioned.
"Nope," Helena laughed as she watched the road. "You were lucky I called you John when we were saying our wedding vows."
"Don't I know it," John muttered darkly.
Out of nowhere another set of headlight appeared and they were heading straight for her.
"What the-" Helena was cut off as the second car slammed straight into the side of her, sending her car straight off the road and down the verge and Helena hit her head on the side window and the world went black.
"Helena!" A voice of screaming as she opened her eyes. "Helena can you hear me! Helena, answer me, damn it! Help's on its way, just hold tight. Please, God let her be okay."
Helena blinked and looked round. Her car was on its roof and there was blood everywhere. Her blood. She could see her phone lying amongst the shattered pieces from her windscreen and she blinked at it sluggishly. 'Reaper' the caller ID read. Helena's eyes widened and she quickly began to move.
She got herself free of her seatbelt and pulled herself free of the car. No one could survive a crash like that and she didn't have a scratch on her. Her body had already healed itself. She looked round at the snow covered landscape, before looking back up the verge at the road she'd driving along. The car which had crashed into her was still up there.
She had no choice.
She hadn't wanted to do this so soon, but she had to disappear and she had to do it now. In the distance she could see the flashing lights of the approaching emergency services. She couldn't stay... If the UAC every found out she'd accidentally injected herself with C-24 and hadn't mutated, she'd become their next lab rat and that wasn't something she wanted.
"I'm sorry, Reaper," She whispered before disappearing into the dark winters night. "I'll always love you..."