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Out Of Sight
by Lyta
Disclaimer:
Earth: Final Conflict and its characters are
copyrighted by Tribune Entertainment Company. All rights reserved.
Note from Author: This is a what might have been
based on FOIK, which I just can't get out of my head right now. Namely what
might have happened if Liam grew up at normal speed after Beckett's record
setting pregnancy.
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Siobhan Beckett laid her son down in his crib and moved to the window. She
inched back the curtain and let out the breathe she was not aware she had
been holding at the three teenagers playing a noisy game of baseball. Shortly
after Liam's birth eight weeks ago in the Resistance HQ, she and her son
had been given a false identities and a great deal of money in exchange for
her skrill, information regarding current Taelon activities, and things she
was shown by Ha'gel.
Now she was Sara Katherine Corrigan, age 32, a newly hired security consultant for Mavis Industries and the mother of Liam Ronald Corrigan. On paper she appeared inconspicuous, and with the enhancements of her recently replaced CVI, and some help from a dialect coach, she was able to all but erase her accent. She had even dyed her distinctive red hair an ordinary shade of brown and wore contact lenses that gave her eyes the appearance of being hazel. She wore her make-up differently and altered her style of dress. Now Siobhan barely recognised herself in the mirror. She looked down at Liam and her expression softened, he was worth it.
It did bother her that her family had been told officially of her "death". Her funeral had made ABC news. As she replayed the clips of her mother crying silently beside her empty coffin, Siobhan promised herself she would find a way to tell her family the truth about her continued survival, about Liam. It would not be for some time, she had to stay out of sight for now, but the day would come.
