Glimpses...
I gasp as my tears blur my vision. "No, one of those monsters bit her," I whisper.
Roman puts an arm around my shoulder, squeezing it gently in an attempt to comfort.
"Oh Amira.. I-I am so sorry," I say, holding her hand gently.
"It's all my fault...if only I had kept a better eye on you, maybe-" Amira sniffles, shaking her head looking down at her.
"Mira, it's absolutely not your f-fault, this is my own do-doing," Evalynn whispers, holding Amira's hand tightly. "No, please..."
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...from the past...
"Run!" he shouts, pushing me and Roman around a corner and into an alleyway. "I'll hold them off, you kids get outta here... now!" he says, wiping the blood off his lip.
"But Uncle Ray-" I start, looking at him.
"No, Bella, I'm not risking your life. That man is no doctor, he is a psychopath!"
Roman grabs my arm, "Come on Izabella, we gotta go 'fore it's too late!" he shouts, pulling me away from the only family I have left.
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...melt...
"Izabella, don't listen to him, boys are stupid!" she whispers to me, quite loudly.
"Hey! I heard that you little sh-poopyhead!" he says glaring down at her. I chuckle softly at their strange dynamic.
"I'm not a little kid, Matthew, you can say shithead around me," she says with her hands on her hips.
"Daisy! I can say that, you cannot!" Matthew says to the smirking ten year old.
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...into the...
"Amira! I thought you were dead!" I shout, as I throw my arms around her.
"Geez, get off of me, you stink!" She laughs and tries to push me off as I pull away.
"Hahaha, you know you missed us," Roman says with a smirk.
"What in the hell happened to you guys?" she says, looking us up and down. "Wait, where's Ethan?" she asks, scanning around the room. I glance at Roman, not wanting to be the one delivering the bad news.
"Well-" I look at him, pleading for him to say it.
"Ethan got hurt and we had to leave him...he's gone," he says, not able to look her in the eye. His voice grew quieter by the end.
"No! How could you leave him?"
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...Present...
"Why hello Izabella, I'm Dr. Radcliff. It's a pleasure, an absolute pleasure, to meet a marvelous lady such as yourself," he says, his eyes glassy and cold.
My throat closed up and all I could do was nod my head silently. This man terrified me.
"What a wonderful girl indeed. You do know why you're here, don't you?"
I swallow hard, nodding my head once again.
"Yes, such a smart girl indeed, you made the right choice to come here willingly," he says, stroking my hair slowly.
"I didn't have a choice-" I try to speak but he immediately cuts me off.
"You're right! Of course you didn't. You've made the heroine's choice, to die to save the world, and sweetheart, you might do just that by the time I'm done here."
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Science-Fiction................ When man-eating monsters begin to spread and multiply, most would call it a virus, disease, or even an abomination.... They would all be wrong though, because its none of those things.... In truth, only a handful of people knew what...
