Title: untitled
Rating: T
Summary: She falters
Timeline: A few years after the series ends
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters. The characters belong to Kenneth Johnson and Warner Brothers.
The day that Mike dies in her arms Julie has a full nervous breakdown. She is the last of the original resistance and the reality of that breaks her. She has to be dragged away from his body before she too is murdered. Her days after are full of round the clock bodyguards and people watching her like she will end it. She's in a haze and has moments of lost time. She sits and stares at nothing. She lays and dreams of death and all the people she's had to say goodbye too. She wakes up screaming most times and the guards are used to it now.
On the 32nd day Julie takes a long shower. The water burns her skin, but she barely feels it. She closes her eyes beneath the scalding water and sees Mike's face smiling at her. A sob escapes her and she falls, tears mixing with the water. She stays there until she can no longer cry. As she dries herself she says her final goodbye to Mike, to Ben, Ruby, Robert, Elias, Robyn, Willie, Elizabeth, Kyle, Ham, and Chris. She gets dressed and walks out, put together and ready to lead again.
They stare at her, waiting to pick her up again, but she just looks at them and tells them what they've been waiting to hear. She tells them she's back. She tells them that there's a war out there and she's not giving up on humanity. She's lost everybody that she's loved, but she's willing to keep going for a free future that she's determined the next generation will see.
Juliet Parrish is 35 and she's going to lead until they get their lucky shot.