After Time [Twilight Fan Fiction]

25. Change

25. Change

Robyn

Opening my eyes, I looked around to see beautiful flowers before me. A smile ghosted over my lips as I walked toward them. My fingers twirled through the air above the flowers trying to pick one. Unfortunately, my hand never met the soft petals as the sky darkened. It was once a beautiful blue but turned stark gray before my eyes. Rain fell from the heavens drenching me almost instantly. Though instead of thunder, I heard the shrill of gun fire.

Turning swiftly around, I saw a group of confederate soldiers. They were in full uniform walking toward their enemy from the north. Reaching down, I realized my clothes had changed, altered into a thick dress that I could not run in. I pulled up the skirt of the dress and ran through the rain toward the battle just before me.

"Excuse me, miss!" someone called, grabbing my arm.

Turning my head, I was surprised by the faceless man standing before me. It was just a huge blur where his face should have been.

"Why is the battle happening?! It's too close to the town!" I screamed with no recollection of this information.

The man sighed, removing his hat, and kicking at the ground. "It was chosen for us. This battle rages with us now, but it will be over later rather than sooner we hope. Unless we give up early and it's sooner rather than later."

I shook my head not understanding his words. "This makes no sense! They will kill innocent people doing this!"

He looked up and for a moment, I felt I knew him at some point. None of this made any sense at all.

"Sometimes people make that choice to be with the ones they love," he said before returning his hat to his head.

A horse appeared next to him which he climbed on. "Take care, miss. Try not to be at the battle. Don't want you catchin' the fire."

Before I knew it, he was jogging away on the horse.

If it were possible, the rain began to fall harder. I felt cold to the bone suddenly. It felt like mere minutes the solider had gone, but I was beginning to realize that time had no meaning wherever I was. I couldn't remember a thing before this strange place, but something told me it had been a good place.

The question remained, why was I suddenly here? Transported through time to the civil war era. I walked through the rain with no destination in mind. I was so cold I could barely stand, but I refused to give in. As I continued to walk, thoughts began to filter into my head. I remembered that I had people waiting on me after this. They deserved someone that would fight for them, they had never been fought for. In that moment, I realized I loved them both, but couldn't remember them. I felt that amazing feeling when I thought about the mystery people, but could not formulate their faces.

Suddenly I heard screams. My head snapped up. There was a huge compound on fire, huge flames swallowing up the structure. My eyes were immediately glassy from the pain of the screams and the smoke that filtered in the air. I walked closer toward the screams which had suddenly turned into loud roars. For a split second, I thought it were animals, lions, or tigers, caught in the flames until I heard the high pitch scream of a woman and then silence.

Suddenly something snapped behind me. Turning around, I was mystified to find a man walking past the fire looking around worriedly. His face too was blurred out, I couldn't figure out who he was. He appeared distraught staring at the building and then suddenly screaming loudly. He moved too fast for me to see him, but I could tell it was not good news he would find.