erica reyes (littleshewolf) wrote in wariscoming, @ 2012-07-24 18:14:00 |
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It was just a biblical apocalypse. Right. Just an apocalypse. Nothing to see here. Just the end of times. It's only Lucifer and superheroes and vampires who control people's minds. Erica had never wanted so badly for something to be a dream. A nightmare even. She'd take either. This was crazy. This was so out there that she had been left nearly speechless. What was she supposed to do here? Try to settle down and get used to being in another world? Try to make her way back to California, just to see if it was true, just to make sure that they really were gone? Gone. That was the worst word in the world. It meant that she was all alone. There was no alpha to help her. No pack members to hang around with. No mother, no father, no school. Even the month was all wrong. Last time she'd checked, it had been March. Now it was summer and she was trapped in the Twilight Zone. Finding the Complex was her current goal. She was staying focused, following the directions Lois Lane had given to her. Her eyes were glued to the area directly in front of her and her strides were determined, masking the fear that she felt, the confusion that had made a home in the pit of her stomach. A brand new feeling had started to overpower her, one that she had never experienced before, not even during the worst of her seizures, not even when she was thrashing around on the floor, smacking her head against linoleum. Her fear was an animal's fear. Her fear was fight or flight. If she had to choose one, she was going to go with fight. Because she wasn't a coward anymore. She was strong now. Derek had chosen her for a reason. She was brave. She would be okay. On the other side of the road, there was no sidewalk, no people walking and chatting to one another. It was empty over there, if you didn't count Erica, who didn't want to hear those people talking about normal things like where to eat, what movie to see. Slowing her steps, she stopped in her tracks and stood facing the other side, where the sidewalk was. Nothing here seemed out of the ordinary. This didn't seem like a place that was dealing with an apocalypse. But looks were always deceiving, weren't they? For all she knew, Lawrence was hideous underneath. |