Future vs Past

25

I beamed inside a closet, looking around as the trace of my pink glow disappeared around me.

"Right place, right place" I murmured, opening the door, looking around "Not some random dude's work office, please" I heard Paige's voice talking with a woman, sighing in relief, touching my necklace, smiling slightly. "Well, I still have it"

"I'm just grateful that he wasn't alone when it happened" The woman told her. I walked closer, leaning against the wall, briefly hiding around the corner of the hallway, watching Paige and a woman talking "I know he didn't know you very long but I'm glad you were with him"

"I just wish I had have gotten there sooner" Paige told her.

The woman smiled a small, sad smile, "There's nothing you could have done. He had a heart attack, it was his time I guess"

"Yeah, I'm not so sure about that" Paige told her softly, shaking her head. The woman looked confused "I just, I mean, that he was so young. And from everything that people have said, he was just this great guy, you know, it just doesn't seem fair"

"No, it doesn't, does it?" The woman asked quietly.

Paige sighed hesitantly "So, Mrs. Henderson, I feel weird asking you this, but was he acting any differently before..."

A woman walked closer, looking at Mrs. Henderson "I'm sorry, I have to go now but if there's anything you need just call me"

Mrs. Henderson nodded, "Yeah, okay, thank you"

They hugged briefly.

The woman walked away.

"I don't mean to be taking up all your time" Paige told her.

Paige turned around, starting to walk away.

I hid further behind the wall, pressing my back toward the wall, ready to beam away if needed.

"No, wait, please" Mrs. Henderson called out. "What made you ask that?"

I peeked around the wall, seeing Paige turn to her "It's just some of the things that he asked me to do for him before... It's just almost as if he knew that something was going to happen"

Mrs. Henderson hesitated "Actually, he knew about a lot of things before they would happen. In fact, some times I almost thought he was clairvoyant"

I raised my eyebrows, racking my head through different reasons as to why Larry could be killed.

"Really?" Paige asked.

Mrs. Henderson shrugged "I mean, at least in business, anyway. Up until a couple of years ago we had nothing. Flat broke, going nowhere. And then just all of a sudden...."

"All of a sudden..." Paige trailed off.

Mrs. Henderson sighed "I don't know, it was like he won the lottery or something. Suddenly he couldn't lose. Every deal he made was golden. And at first he was happy of course, but then he wasn't. And whenever I would ask him how he did it or how he knew, he would just say that he could sense what was about to happen. What could that possibly mean?"