Falling Through Lost Time

>>Chapter 6<<

"So what do you think Doctor?"Jen had a worried look on her face. For the past three years, June continued to have blackouts at random times. The family had visited many doctors already but none could find anything wrong with their daughter. From their perspectives, all they thought was June Bennet was a perfectly healthy girl. Jen wouldn't stop though. She knew there must be something, some reason her daughter continued to collapse all the time.

"I can't see anything wrong with her. There are no signs of anything wrong within your daughter Mrs. Bennet. I believe it is just something to do with her growth as a child. Please don't worry, just keep an eye on her whenever she does fall again. But I wouldn't worry too much." The Doctor said before grabbing his clipboard and making his way to the door.

"Now if you will excuse me, I'm very busy today so I'll have to be leaving you. Please feel free to call again if you are concerned or any symptoms arise in June." With that, he was out the door and on to the next patient.

"June, honey, let's go. We will figure out how to help you. Okay? Don't worry, mommy's going to help you." June looked at her mother's face and it made her sad. There were lines in her face that hadn't been there before. Jen looked like she had aged ten years in the past three. Worry over her daughter's safety and health made her sick and permanent lines of concern to appear on her face.

"Okay," June said and jumped off the examination table. She was having flashbacks or dreams, whatever they were, more frequently now. She was having one almost every week now and it was making her family worry. She knew what they were though. She just didn't tell them.

On the news, there had been a frontline story about a boy from Nigeria who could breathe underwater. It was amazing at first, everyone was shocked and wanted to see the boy, but then it came under the attention of the government. Scientists wanted to examine the boy to see how he could do what no one else could. They took him from his family and he disappeared. No one knew what happened to him, but two months later, his body was returned to his parents. He had died of heart failure or something. Heartbreaking. The news showed his family crying and for a while, they were invited on national television and talk shows where they were asked questions about the boy.

June knew better though. She didn't think he died on accident. She thought he was killed by the government because he was different. And different was bad. June knew if she told her family about her past life, she would be that boy. The government would take her and run experiments on her to find out why she was what she was. Then they would kill her. Just like they killed the boy after they found what they wanted.

People would think she was crazy, to say she was an angel or something in a past life, but she had no proof. She didn't know why she didn't have wings, but in her dreams she did. She didn't know where she was from, or how to get back, and that made her mad.

Through her flashes, she gathered small bits of information about herself.

Her name was Raven.

She had lived in a big shining city in the clouds, nothing like Arizona or California or any other place she had been with her family.

And she did something bad, so bad that she was punished. But she didn't know what she could have done that would be deserving of the punishment she received.

Somehow, she lost her wings, her memory, and the people she loved. Somehow she ended up on earth. And now, she was going to figure out what she did and how to fix it. She wanted to be with this Charlotte girl again. She wanted to know her in real life, not just as part of her memories.

"June, do you want some watermelon?" June looked up at her sister who was posed. One hand holding the watermelon, the other holding a knife. She was looking at June over their kitchen counter expectantly.