The people of Falls End were angry. And loud. And tired of getting pushed around, they were damned if they weren't going to do something about it.

     Eden gave up on trying to calm them, she couldn't waste her time on such a fruitless effort, she needed to jump into action.

     She took Grace to the side and spoke quietly. "I'm doing something."

     "Tell me." Grace said but Eden shook her head.

     "I can't, but I need you to promise me that you'll be safe and that you'll keep them safe." She glanced back at the people of Falls End. Whitehorse, Pastor Jerome, and Mary May were all trying to calm down the crowd, and even though they were angry they were starting to listen.

     "What are you talking about? Just tell me what you're doing." Grace demanded and Eden looked back at her friend.

     "I'm sorry, but I can't. Please trust me Grace, the others will listen to you, at least I know that Sharky and Nick will, and the others will listen to them. I'm going to fix this, Grace, I promise you." Eden was almost pleading, Grace knew in her heart that there was no way she could keep her friend from doing whatever she had planned, all she could do was try to help.

     "What can I do?" Grace gave in and Eden had never felt more relieved.

     "I just need you to try and calm them down while I fix this. I don't want this to end with blood, I want for this to be over and when I'm done with it it will be." Eden spoke with a vindication that Grace hadn't seen in a long time, part of it made her worried but another part of it made her proud.

     "I'll do everything I can from here, but if there is any sign of trouble I'll find you." Grace stated and they both nodded.

     Neither of them needed to say it, they both knew what the plan was even if both of them hated it.

     "Thank you, for everything." Eden said and Grace swallowed, fighting back an emotion she couldn't quite place.

     "Thank you for much more." Grace responded and grabbed Eden's hand, giving it a quick shake before letting it go and walking over to the crowd.

     Eden glanced around at everyone in the room and walked out of the bar.

     She drove up to the front of the Veteran's Centre and parked her truck. She got out and walked right through the front gate, but it felt so wrong she almost turned around. Most of Jacob's men were probably out training because there were only a few people standing guard. They all glanced between each other, not knowing what to do with the Junior Deputy of Hope County storming up to them.

     Honestly Eden hardly paid them any mind, she just nodded their direction and walked right up to the front door and went inside. Seeing the inside of the Veteran's Centre felt so wrong it made her skin crawl. The glorified torture chamber was nearly deserted now since the Agreement's had shut down their 'training' program.

     Now there were just supplies and boxes of electronics sitting around with charts and lists stuck to them.

     Eden made her way up the stairs to Jacob's office, following the same route Pratt took her when they were sneaking out months ago. She found the door quickly, and knocked three times before opening it.

     Jacob must have been expecting her, Eden was certain that his guards radioed him when she walked into the building. He was sitting at his desk, obviously confused as to why Eden was standing in front of him.

     At first neither of them said anything, they just let the silence speak for them. Eden could hear her heart beating in her ears and she and Jacobs stared at each other. Ages ticked by as they waited, neither of them speaking first. 

     They could both feel it, something about this wasn't right, but honestly? What could they even say to each other?

     Eden took a step inside Jacob's office and closed the door behind her. "So is this the plan, Jacob?" She asked but her voice was so quiet that Jacob almost didn't hear her. 

     "What plan?" 

     "Don't lie to me." Eden looked up at Jacob, meeting his eyes again. "I knew you wouldn't be able to sit through all of those meetings without doing anything." She didn't sound angry, she sounded more...disappointed. 

     "I didn't plan this, Eden." Jacob told her, but even he knew that sounded like a total lie. If he was standing where Eden was, he'd have no problem believing that he did it. 

     "I said don't lie to me." Ok now she sounded a bit angry. "You were actually starting to make me trust you. How could I have been so stupid? Was all of this just part of Joseph's plan? Get you to earn my trust so you could try to make me switch sides and defend you?" 

     Jacob was taken aback, but he couldn't tell her no. 

     "Say something. Tell me I'm right, gloat, do something!" Eden started to raise her voice. 

     "I didn't set up those bombs." Jacob replied, faking his calmness and avoiding answering her question. 

     Eden locked her jaw and took a breath. "What about everything else, Jacob? What about making me think that you were going to change? That you would help resolve this problem and stop the fighting? What about that?" She demanded and Jacob just stared back at her with his usual cold, dark eyes. 

     He wasn't going to tell her anything, but she still got her answer. Eden couldn't fight back the feeling that she shouldn't be there and that she needed to leave. 

     Eden shook her head, either in anger or disappointment or both, and turned around to leave Jacob's office. 

     "Don't make a mistake you can't fix, Jacob. They're the worst you can make." Eden said and marched out of Jacob's office without even closing his door again. 

     She left the Veteran's Centre as fast as possible and drove back to the Spread Eagle. But as she drove up to Falls End there weren't any trucks parked on the road, or in the fields like there were that morning. Eden got out of her truck and walked into the bar to see Mary May moving boxes. 

     "What happened here? Where is everyone?" She asked and Mary May looked up from a box she had set on the steps. 

     "They've lost their damn minds, we tried to talk some sense into them but they're convinced the cult did this no matter what we said." Mary May said while shaking her head, looking to Eden to back her up. 

     But Eden couldn't, Mary May saw the defeated expression on her friend's face and instantly her shoulders shrank. "Do you really think they did it?" She asked Eden and Eden set her jaw, nodding so slightly if you blinked you would have missed it. 

     "I think so." Eden admitted and Mary May let out a few colorful curse words strung together. 

     "I knew those damn Peggies couldn't change." She swore and Eden nodded. 

     "Where did the others go?" She asked and Mary May looked up from her box of weapons. 

     "Everywhere." She replied and that made Eden take a deep breath. 

     This was exactly what she didn't want to happen, they were double crossed and now they were going right back to war. But something about this felt so much more...doomed than before. Something was weighing on Eden's shoulders and her gut that was telling her this was not going to end well, and that same feeling has never been wrong before. 

     "What can I do?" Mary May asked, picking up a shotgun and resting it on her shoulder. 

     Eden paused for a moment and looked around the Spread Eagle. "Get ready, get all the weapons and ammo and food that you can, make sure every family and person in this valley is protected or at least knows that something bad is coming." 

     Mary May nodded solemnly but got right to work. "You got it. What are you going to do?" She asked her friend. 

     "What I should have done a long time ago, I'm going to end this." Eden said and turned to leave the bar. She paused at the door and looked back at Mary May, giving her a nod before disappearing out the door.      

     This wasn't good. The Resistance had gotten their strength back and they were finally done with the Agreements and their rules. Preppers had stashes were being used up, ammo and guns had been retrieved from hiding places all around Hope County and fights were breaking out everywhere. 

     The Project was pissed that the Resistance blamed them for the attacks and started attacking back. In one day the entire county was thrust right back into the fight they had left behind months ago, only now the fights were so much more personal and fueled by repressed anger and hate. 

     It was so much worse than before. 

     The Whitetail mountains had the worst of it; the Hunters and the Whitetail Militia were both itching for an opportunity to fight, and now they could. Both sides were taking out their rage on the other, but the casualties weren't too heavy, not yet at least. 

    Eden made it back to her house and opened the weapons cache she designed under the floorboards of her bedroom. All of the guns she had used for months of fighting laid there, waiting to be used. Eden got out her guns and got them loaded and ready to go like she used to do everyday, then she heard her radio crackle. 

     "Junior Deputy, we need to talk. Meet me at my compound. Alone." It was Joseph. 

     Hearing his voice over her radio made Eden's heart pound, it was just like when she would hear his sibling's over her radio when she first came to the valley. 

     But this was her chance to talk things out, maybe they really didn't do it? 

     Then why wouldn't Jacob say that? 

     Even if they did start the attacks, Eden was not going to ignore this. She didn't even pause to ask herself if this would be a stupid idea, she just started driving.