Chapter 1: First Sight
Vision** An explosion! No! A fire? What's happening?! 3 people trapped in the building, 1 kid and 2 adults. 12th street, building 540, level 2, a bomb in an office room. No they can't die! No, I have to stop it! **end of vision
My head snapped up, my spiky black hair swirling crazily around my face as I shuddered from the memory of the horrifying vision. My hair was clinging slightly to the back of my neck from the sweat that ran down my face as I watched the seen unfold before me. Quickly I grabbed a pen and wrote down the address, my swirly handwriting slightly illegible because of my haste to find Erik. As I finished the address I threw the pen over my shoulder and raced out of the room, screaming for Erik.
"Erik! Erik where are you?" I screamed at the top of my lungs although I knew he was somewhere in the house.
"In my room, Alice. Why what's wrong?" Erik replied in a worried voice as I raced towards his room. I threw open the door, shut it, and locked it in the same motion.
"Another vision?" he asked calmly as he read the look on my face and the terror in my chocolate brown gaze.
"Yes! Worse this time!" I said, still panicked as I looked into his calm green eyes.
I was a 14 year old girl who had visions. Some were worse than others, but recently I've had the worst ever. My brother Erik is 26. Our parents died when I was 11 and when he was 23. When they died he took over the job of caring for me. Only my parents and my brother knew about my visions. Now only 1 person knows my secret. Erik helps me as best as he can with the visions, but he can't do much to help me stop seeing. I try to be brave, but sometimes I can't help it. My visions aren't always true because the future is always changing. We can sometimes change the outcome, but overall the visions are really creepy.
Erik was trying to calm me down as I edged closer to hyperventilation, but nothing he said or did worked. I was so scared. The kid I saw in my vision was Anna, my best friend, and her aunt and mom.
"Ok. Calm down, deep breaths. Good." Erik said as my breathing became more controlled.
"Ok, but I have *gasp* to tell you *gasp* about the *gasp* vision." I said, still breathing heavily.
"Don't worry you can tell me later. It's going to be ok." He said trying to soothe me.
"No! I have to tell you NOW! Before it's too late!" I screamed at him. As I began to calm down I instantly felt remorseful. I hung my head down as I was about to apologize.
"It's ok. I understand. Calm down and then you can tell me what you saw." Erik said calmly, despite the fact I had just screamed at him. He was always very understanding, he knew how stressed out I became after visions.
"Ok…I…I saw Rosalie with her mom and Aunt in a building." I started before shuddering at the memory as I looked down at my small trembling hands.
"What?" he asked shaking my shoulders lightly.
"The…the building exploded and it caught on fire. They…they didn't come out of the building." I explained as I began to sob.
"Relax. We're going to save them." Erik said in a determined voice.
"Oh! Where is it? Be as specific as you can." Erik asked me. I wordlessly handed him the pad of paper with all the details written down. As he read them I regained some of my composure and knew my goal was to save my friend and her family.
"How do we stop it?" I asked Erik warily, not sure if I waned the answer.
"Think. What time is this going to happen?" Erik asked me as he looked away thoughtfully.
"It's going to happen at 2:30 exactly. I remember seeing Rosalie's butterfly watch, the identical one's we got for Christmas." I said as I began to panic again.
"One more question. What day?" he asked quietly. I knew the answer and stinging tears flooded my eyes, blurring my vision.
"Today." I whispered as I began to cry again.
It was then that Erik lost his perfect composure. He always kept calm, but as he looked at me, green boring into brown, I could see all his anguish and uncertainty. Erik never voiced his pain although I knew he felt it as much as I did. As I stared into his eyes, I knew we were thinking the same thing. We needed a plan. We needed to go.
"Come o…" I began only to break off as my body went limp and I collapsed from the strain I was under.
"Whoa! You need rest. Let me handle this." Erik said as he gently supported me until I regained my balance.
"No!" I screamed, breaking out of my trance.
"Yes!" he said firmly. I didn't have time for this. It was 11:00 already. We needed to make a plan, drive to the exploding building, and save Anna's family before the bomb exploded. This really wasn't the time to fight with Erik. I sighed deeply at the thought of all the work ahead of me. My thoughts, however, were cut short when my head snapped up and I was once again engulfed in a vision. Some part of me knew that Erik was calling me before he realized I was having a vision. Once he knew that I was ok he guided me over to sit on the bed, as he took my hand and waited for me to come out of the vision.
** A man was running through dimly lit hallways with a dark trench coat and a briefcase. He was walking casually, but briskly as his eyes flickered all around him as he walked. As I saw what building he was in I knew what was going to happen. In the briefcase was the bomb. He placed it in an office room, setting it up and starting the countdown as the clock read 2:07. As he set up the bomb I saw that he had tied up Rosalie as well as her mom and Aunt. No! He ran from he building, leaving it to explode, and killing Rosalie and her family.
"Oh!" I gasped as I hysterically began to sob.
"Alice? What happened? What changed?" he asked in a panicked voice as he saw my expression.
"We have to go! We have to hurry! I saw the man tying Anna and her family to the bomb!" I said quickly as I tried to regain my composure again.
"Ok. Let's go! We have to stop this." He said in a determined voice.
"How?" I whispered.
"I don't know but we will." He answered me in a soothing voice.
"I…I'm scared." I said in a small voice.
"I know me too." He said in a quiet voice as we began to make plans and prepare for the mission.