Who knows how long I had been sitting at the foot of my bed, unmoving for what seemed like hours. The tiny room had long grown dark as the day had slowly turned to night, enveloping myself and the room into its darkness, except for the dim light cast from the flickering television set perched upon my desk.

"We are now in day four of our inspection of the unidentified object," blared the reporter on the screen as the captions whizzed by so rapidity on the bottom of the screen that I had long since stopped trying to read them, "I am now standing outside Capital hill where the President will address this strangely provoking matter-"

The screen clicked softly, the image of the beautiful woman reporter standing outside the white house was soon replaced with a middle-aged man sitting behind a desk at a news station.

"This just in" the balding man announced, shuffling some paper on his desk, "We have reports from Germany and France, unconfirmed reports describing the most bizarre and unexplainable occurrences due to the-"

Again, the picture fuzzed out unexpectedly. I stirred slightly as the screen when blank for a moment, and then the signal snapped back to capital where the President was making his way to a white and blue stripped podium, shaking hands with his supporters behind him as he stepped up to address the nation for what seemed like the fifth time this week.

I sighed, feeling stiff from sitting so still for hours. I grabbed the remote nestled beside me and pressed the off button. The Presidents face faded from the screen, leaving the room in complete darkness.

I inhaled deeply, stretching my arms behind my head before throwing myself backwards onto my bed. I reached over and pried my pillow from the crease between my bed and wall and clutched it to my chest for comfort.

I didn't need the president to tell me what was happening, nor the newscasters.

The world is in chaos. Utter and absolute chaos. The news stations could hardly provide a coherent broadcast, nor could the President seem to hold the same story with each address.

I squeezed my eye lids shut, trying to make sense of this madness.

Why is this happening? Why here, why now?

I rubbed my knuckles into my eyes, sleepiness pulling me deeper and deeper into the soft folds of my bed. It was late after all.

In four short days, the entire world has been turned upside down it seems. Politicians on the radio screaming about conspiracy theories, scientist howling back about the political censorship placed on their scientific discovery.

I gave in to the seductive warmth of my bed, wrapping the covers around me as I positioned the pillow under my head. I tried to sleep but my eyes wouldn't seem to shut, as they stared into the darkness of the room.

I found strange comfort in knowing that like myself, I was with the rest of the world. Confused, skeptical, angry, but most of all, frightened. Just frightened.

The world was changing, right before my very eyes. Part of me didn't believe it, that part wanted to ignore it like so many others seemed to be doing.

I was just one, one out of the many people of earth, seeming to join together in the wake of a new age. As exhaustion began to pull to drag down my eyelids, there was so way for me to ever comprehend that very shortly, I would learned that I was not at all like the rest of the world.

Placebo Effect- This story can hardly be described in the few sentences proved by for summaries. Essentially, I want to directly link the modern day to the TT show, obviously set in the future. This story is a view on how modern world mentality and institutions would change into the futuristic setting depicted by the show (aliens and such). This story has all original characters, but directly leads up to the setting we see in the show. This story is more of a "grown up" version of the Titans, and involved more thought provoking political situations and essentially, how the world changes from what we know to something completely different. Paradigm shifts never seem to happen without fiction.

I don't know, I just thought it would be a fun NEW idea. I'm getting tired of seeing the same things over and over. Love drabbles, OC's fucking cannons, so on and so forth.

So here's to something different.