Title: Mistake

Author: vashsunglasses

Fandom: Now and Again

Rating: K+

Summary: Dark Fic. One-Shot. The Government makes a fatal mistake.

Disclaimer: I don't own "Now and Again". If I did, it wouldn't have been canceled.


They wanted to make the ultimate weapon.

A biological killing machine capable of taking down any foe.

And eventually they succeeded in their mission…

But not in the way they had planned.

I killed the Doc first.

I twisted his head so far around on his neck that it nearly came off.

And then I laughed.

It was actually kinda funny the way he looked so surprised at my attack.

I mean, isn't that what he wanted all along?

Didn't he do all that work to make me into a killing machine?

I wanted more time to play with his remains but one of the guards shot me.

So I killed the guards too.

It took me a few weeks to find all of the Directors.

They tried to fight me, tried to hide…

Ha! They never had a chance against me.

One by one I came for them.

And one by one they died at my hands.

Eventually only one was left.

He tried to reason with me.

Tried to make me stop.

But I didn't stop.

I couldn't stop.

Not after what happened.

Not after what they did.

And in the end, in death, he looked just as surprised as all the rest.

I don't understand it.

It doesn't make any sense.

After all, this was their own fault:

They never should have killed my wife and daughter.