A/N: This is my first story so please be patient with me while I try and figure out how exactly to do this. I'm more into writing poetry but I love Terra Nova and the Mark/Maddy pairing so I wanted to try and write stories. While I figure out what kind of story I want to write about them I thought I would write one about Mark/Maddy/Zoe because I would LOVE for them to have more scenes together!

Maddy stood in her room that she shared with her five year old baby sister, Zoe, trying to figure out what to wear. She had a date with her soldier boyfriend Mark Reynolds today and she was excited because this would be their 6 month anniversary date and she wanted it to be perfect.

"Maddy, can you come here please?" she heard her mother yell. She walked out of her room into the living room where she saw her mother sitting on the couch going over something on her plex.

"What is it?" Maddy said seating herself by her mother and turning to face her. Doctor Elisabeth Shannon looked up from what she was doing to see her daughter in a light purple dress with her hair curled around the face that looked so much like hers.

"I need you to watch Zoe for a little while. I need to go to the infirmary and check on a patient that came in earlier today." said. Maddy's smile faded as she went over what her mother just said to her in her head.

"Mom, I can't. You know I have my date with Mark tonight…it's our 6 month anniversary. It's all we have been talking about for weeks!" she half screamed, but calmed down when she realized how loud she had actually gotten.

"I know, and I'm sorry but Josh and your father are at work and she can't stay here by herself. I shouldn't be gone that long but it will be dark before I get back," she felt bad for asking her daughter to do this but there was no way around it she had to go to work, "and anyway I'm sure Mark won't mind, he loves Zoe."

Maddy smiled remembering how much her boyfriend talked about Zoe, and how much Zoe talked about the soldier that she had started looking at as a brother. Her father, Jim Shannon, hated how much his daughters and his wife liked the boy that was slowly taking his oldest daughter away from him. There was a knock on the door and Maddy got up to answer it knowing who it would be.

"Hey babe. You look beautiful. Happy anniversary!" Mark said leaning down to kiss his girlfriend on the cheek as she stepped aside for him to come in. He looked over Maddy's shoulder seeing the woman he had come to think of as his mom since his mother was dead, "Hello ."

"Hi and it's Elisabeth, Mark, I've told you a million times, to you I'm Elisabeth." She smiled and waved to the young man. As Mark looked back to Maddy he heard her say, "Thank you. You don't look too bad yourself soldier. And happy anniversary to you too. But I am afraid that our date will have to wait a little while, my mom has to go to the infirmary for bit and Josh and Dad are at work so I have to watch Zoe."

"That's fine. As a matter of fact she can go with us if she wants, and if …I mean..Elisabeth doesn't care." He said excitedly, looking to Elisabeth for confirmation. Elisabeth simply nodded and smirked when she saw her daughter turn to her knowing she was gloating silently in her head for being right about Mark not caring.

At that moment Zoe came out of the bedroom, to start running for Mark when she noticed him there. He bent down to his knees and held his arms open just in time for Zoe to barge into them, squeezing him into the tightest hug she could. He laughed and picked her up, kissing her on the head and said, "So, Zo do you wanna go with us on our date tonight? I'm sure you will love where we are going!" Getting a raised eyebrow from his girlfriend and the biggest grin he had ever seen on Zoe.

"Yes! Of course I do! Anything to spend time with my favorite soldier brother," the five year old said before looking at her sister, "but only if it's ok with Mad." This earned a grin from both Maddy and Mark knowing how much she cared about them having alone time because it was a special date.

"Well looks like Miss Zoe is going on her first date." Maddy said innocently as her sister reached out to hug her, but being sure to not release her hold on Mark. Seeing what she was doing, Mark grabbed Maddy and pulled his two favorite girls into a group hug. But their moment was over quick when Elisabeth walked past them and said, "Well you all should be going I'm leaving and should be back soon. But be careful and keep an eye on Zoe." She kissed both her daughters and her adoptive son on the cheek before walking out the door.

"Zo, go get your jacket it's time to go. " Mark said putting her down. Her feet barely hit the floor before she was running off into the room she shared with Maddy to grab her jacket. He put an arm around his girlfriend and she turned to face him. "I'm sorry about this. I know it was supposed to be just us tonight. Hopefully Zoe will be good so we can enjoy our night and not be too disturbed by her trying to.." She was cut off from her ramble when Mark started to talk. "Shh. You worry too much. I think having Zoe with us will make it even more memorable. And besides she is like the coolest kid in the entire world, I would do anything for that little girl."

Zoe came running back into the room a few minutes later with her jacket on and one of her handmade dinosaurs in hand. "I'm ready! Let's go." She said walking up to Mark and holding her arms up to be carried. Mark looked down and decided to say something, "Now Zo, you are 5 why would I carry you around like you were a baby? You are a big girl," he said to her joking, but when she pouted her lip and her eyes started to glass over, he quickly picked her up and held her tight, rocking her a little, "Hey, hey I was just joking. You know I can't say no to your adorable face." She looked up from his shoulder and smiled as he wiped away the one tear that escaped from her eye.

"Thanks Mark. I love you so much." Zoe replied. He felt his chest grab and he knew that that little girl could break even the toughest soldier. Especially him since she reminded him so much of Maddy. "Well then that's good," he simply stated, "because I love you too."

Maddy couldn't help but smile at what she had just witnessed. Silently thinking to herself how great a father he would be one day. "Let's get going and see this surprise place Mark has picked out for us then." Maddy said as she pushed Mark out the door to the awaiting rover.

There you go the first chapter! I hope you liked it. Reviews would be much appreciated, so I know what you like and what you don't like. Chapter 2 will be up with this chapter because I got so caught up in writing that this chapter winded up being way too long so I decided to just go ahead and make it have chapters instead of doing a one shot. Review. Review. Review.