Before the end of the world
"Hey guys!'' Jamie exclaimed with a grin, bounding into the room. "Boy, the caves are really soaked … Do you think it'll flood?'' He asked curiously. It seemed like a possibility. The rain had been so heavy, and with all these holes in the roof, there wasn't much we could do to keep the water accumulation down.
"Now, now, settle down, all of ya," Jeb said over the noise. We were all congregated in the recreation room, thanks to the rain. Usually we just had to sleep here when the rain came, but lately it had gotten so bad we were forced to stay here, not wanting to be soaked by the downpour pouring in through the vents.
We all eventually settled into a loose circle on the floor. There wasn't much to do, since we couldn't work in the waterlogged fields, and everyone was too exhausted with the sudden move to this room to think about playing soccer.
"So, now what?" Jamie asked impatiently. "All of us are together, this doesn't happen too often. What can we all do?" Some half-hearted suggestions were thrown around. Games, discussions, sleep, nothing we could agree on though.
"Wanda, how about you tell us a bit more about your past lives? There still must be a lot we don't know still," Doc asked me. Does his curiosity never end?
"Trust me, I could spend weeks telling you about the things I've experienced in my past lives, and I still wouldn't be done. Plus, haven't you all have gotten sick of hearing my voice yet?" I asked only half joking. The only things I could really contribute to my cave family was my stories and helping out on raids, and I always tried to help out as much as I can, but I was tired of listening to my past stories over and over again. This, earth was my home now. I felt no need to think back to other past planets, planets that never appealed to me as much as this one, that never made me truly want to stay. Ian, picking up on my feeling, spoke up with a suggestion of his own.
"You know, not many of us really know about what some of our lives were like before all this. We've all heard of Wanda's and Melanie's and Jared and Jamie's, but that's about it… Why don't we take turns, share our stories from before?''
This spiked my curiosity. I've wondered about others' lives before all this, but always felt too rude to ask. The crowd responded with a similar reaction. Many were curious about their living mate's lives from before all this, but also seemed nervous about sharing their own stories.
"Well why not?'' Trudy asked. "We can find out what we were all like, from before the end of the world.''
~Authors note~
Okay so I hope this is alright. I'm a bit rusty with all this; I haven't been on fanfiction in over a year. Please comment and tell me what you think, and any idea's you may have, and who's backstory you would like to hear first. Bye xx