Borrowed Time ⏱ Enoch O'Connor

~ IV ~

Everyone was gathered outside waiting for Miss Peregrine to reset the loop. Shivering I looked around not sure what everyone was waiting for and then a distant hum of a plane rumbled the silence. Approaching from behind the house was a group of German planes. How could they all be so calm?  I turned to Miss Peregrine but she doesn't seem at all bothered either and although this put me slightly at ease, my stomach still flips and my breathing falters.

"Everyone please equip your gas masks." Miss Peregrine says, as everyone produces a gas mask from beside them which had gone unnoticed to me until now. 

"Here," Fiona says handing me a spare gas mask and equipping hers at the same time.

A bomb drops as the planes fly over the house. Its tip is about to reach the house when time slows and the rain seems to fly back up into the clouds, the bomb now safely back inside the plane, is gone and the rumbling of the German's planes gets gradually more distant. The planes fly backwards and the rain stops. Everyone takes off their gas masks and yawns travel around the children like wildfire, stopping at me as I too let out a small yawn.

"Everyone you may go to bed now." Miss Peregrine says, as she leads the younger ones to bed. Still in slight shock, I gaze around me and everything is still fully intact. I pinch myself. Yep, I too am very much alive, in shock but alive. Catching up to Miss Peregrine I help her out with the little ones lifting Claire onto my hip and holding Bronwyn's hand. Once inside I put both girls to bed, planting a soft kiss to each of their small foreheads. I gently close the door behind me and head to bed, exhausted from my journey and the thoughts that swarm my head. Waiting to wake up tomorrow and this all to be just a dream. A rather peculiar dream.