(15 years in the future)

His job scared the hell out of me but he was doing what he loved. So who was I to try and stop him. every time he walked out the door I wondered if this would be the night I would get that phone call saying he was hurt in an accident. Some of the fires were pretty bad I knew and he never told me about those. I knew it was because he didn't want me to worry but I always did anyway. I had to tell our kids daddy was going to be fine when they asked me. The thing was in the back of my mind I had the same fears they did.

I had seen movies like Backdraft and Ladder 49 and they were some of the reasons his job scared me. I had begging him once to get a safer job and he had laughed at me. He told me he wasn't cut out to be a high school English teacher like me. I loved my job and I loved the fact that I was teaching at Anchor Beach. I just had to accept the fact I hated his job and leave it at that. He loved his job as much as I liked mine.

After putting the kids to bed these were the things I thought of when he wasn't here with me. if I lost him I don't know what I would do. He was supposed to be home from his 24-hour shift at midnight and I always waited up for him. It always excited me to know I would have him all to myself for 2 days. For two days I didn't have to worry if he would come home or not. All I had to think about was the birthday party we had planned for our little girl.

I got out papers to grade and turned on some music before I sat down on the couch. I glanced at my phone and saw it was nine o'clock. I had three more hours till he walked through the door and into my waiting arms. I sighed as I began to read the papers I had to grade. The assignment had been to create a dystopian society of your own. We were reading The Hunger Games series. They were book I had loved as a teenager and the class seemed to really be getting into them. I gave the first paper an A and put it in the read pile to my left.

Just as I picked up the next paper when I heard Kourtney screaming. I got up and ran to her room. When I got to her room, Colleen was comforting her. She had come to live with us a few years ago when her family died in a house fire. She was only two and the only survivor. We already had Colleen and Sam when we adopted Kourtney came along. Then a few months ago Misty came along.

I sat down on the bed and Kourtney climbed up in my lap sobbing. She often had nightmares about the fire. The doctor had called them night terrors. Most nights she would wake up screaming like tonight. She hadn't had one in in four months. Since we officially adopted her to be exact. I knew from the way she was shaking this had been a bad one.

"Dad I couldn't breathe and I couldn't get out of the room. I was stuck under all these boards and it was crushing me. But daddy was there and he keep telling me it was going to be alright. Then I closed my eyes and he was gone," she sobbed.

We sat there in silence for a while. I told Colleen to go back to bed I had this now and I watched as she left the room. This was the first time one of us had been in her night terrors. I'd be lying if I said that didn't scare me. why was he there. I tried to comfort Kortney as much as I could. She finally settled down and I laid he back down. I stroked her hair till she fell back to sleep then I slowly left the room and closed the door leaving it open just a crack.

When I reached the bottom of the stairs I got this really bad cramp in my back and had to hold on the railing it hurt so bad. I had never had back problems before and the only health I had was the knee injury that had ended my football career in college. I tried to take a few deep breaths but I felt like I was suffocating. I sat down on the bottom of the steps and knew something was wrong. That's when my phone rang.

"Hello," I said as I hit the button and put the phone to my ear. I recognized the panic in my voice as I said it. I knew as soon as the phone rang something had happened to him. I knew him so well it was his pain I felt a few minutes ago.

I heard nothing but coughing on the other end of the phone. It sounded like the person was choking on something.

"Who is this?" I asked.

"It's me. I may not make it out of here and I just wanted to say I love you," he said hoarsely.

I didn't recognize the number he was calling from. It wasn't his phone number that had appeared on my screen.

"Don't do that! Do you say goodbye!" I sobbed. I wasn't ready to say goodbye to him yet. He couldn't leave me like this. It was my worst fear come true.

"I can see them…" he coughed again. "There all dead… no one is moving…" he trailed off.

"Baby I love you stay with me okay," screamed like I thought he couldn't hear me for some reason.

"Can't…so…hard…to…breathe...now…" he whispered and then there was nothing.

I screamed and the phone fell from my hand. I heard all the kids come running down the stair behind me but I couldn't move. My chest hurt so bad and I just stared at my phone on the floor. I could hear them talking to me but I couldn't answer. I couldn't find the words. My ability to speak had been taken from me.

"We have to do something," I heard Colleen say.

"But I don't know what the fuck is wrong with him," Sam said.

I knew he was trying to get me to say something by saying fuck but I couldn't even find the words to reprimand him. As my kids talked around me all I could think about was him. I thought about the life we had together. We had been through so much and we got through it. We would get through this too. He couldn't be dead right? I couldn't lose him because if I lost him I lost myself too. I lost my best friend and the man I loved more than anything else in the world. I had put him through so much and he always found a way to forgive me. I felt like I was being punished though. Why was this happening to me? what had I done to deserve this?

A/N: Who do you think it is? Are they dead? The next chapters will be flash backs of how we got to this point in the story. You won't find out who it is or if they are okay till the end of the story. So what and see and read all the Jonnor drama that happen to them in life.