EVIL
Started in response to the NOL Blackout Challenge to start from the blackout in Penthouse 4, Harbor View Towers on 8/20/2004 on 'General Hospital' and never posted here. Until Now.
Part One
Poking his head out, Sonny proffered a hand and called, "Max?"
"I'm checking, sir," the boy-faced guard said with his cell phone to his ear, "so far it seems to be caused by the storm. They are getting the generators on line and securing the area."
"Good," he waved away a level of worry. "Check on Sam and the baby."
"Yes, sir," he heard Max reply as he ducked back inside. He dashed for the stairs, thinking of his wife's naked flesh in candle light, rocking beneath him as the storm caught the world on fire and pounded around them. He huffed out a breath as he turned his body—and less successfully his mind—to check on his sons' sleeping forms. They were oblivious of the storm.
He then slunk down the hall planning the first few moves, slow, smooth, and thorough. After that the needs, the rushes, the drives that made them one fiercely writhing mass for the last five years would take over and he wouldn't have to think of his moves or hers. Somehow they always just moved, as one, into something greater than themselves. Something neither could control or want to.
It just was.
Every time he touched, thought about it, it started. He couldn't wait to put his hands on her and finish it.
He opened the door to their room and found it empty. The doors to the balcony were open and the wind was wreaking havoc within the walls as well as without.
"Carly," he called. They'd made love in the rain once, on the beach. But she wasn't on the balcony, the rain beading on her body like water pearls.
"iCarly/i," he screamed, suddenly frantic. He looked down around the sides of the fence, up the walls of the building. Nothing.
Dashing back inside, he searched for evidence of her, called Max, started the search. She was gone. God, again he had lost her.
***
She remembered reading the fading signature on her birth certificate. Remembered thinking why was the doctor's handwriting so illegible. Then it was there. That smell pressed into her face. The same as the one Ric used. She'd gagged, cried out, fought, but in the end the result was the same. She woke up trapped, knowing that she'd been taken from her family. God help her. After what had happened last time. She didn't think she could do it again.
In the days and nights that followed the world once again was destroyed.