Sam Gatson, a Wife and Mother.

My name is Samantha Gatson, but most people call me Sam. I was a happily married woman to a loving husband with a successful business who was also named Sam, and three wonderful kids. Life was good before the aliens came and stole us.

I remember the feeling of realizing that I was a passenger in my own body. A powerless spectator who could see, hear, and feel everything going on, but in that moment, for the first time, I felt the pure helplessness of being someone's puppet.

I held my husband's hand as we walked down the streets. My son Duncan gripped the other one as we walked into the light of the enormous space ship along with thousands of other people. I felt my mens' fingers slip from my hands as the women were made to walk down a separate hallway. I tried to reach out, tried to hold onto my family, but the aliens made my body walk down the hallway towards the decontamination chamber and transport pods.