The light was very bright...blinding...transparent blue...the colour of the blood that I saw running through my veins after Roman healed me, the same colour his blood was, the same colour all Atrians' blood was. And now that colour burst out right through my throat and filled the car...and to me it felt like it filled the entire universe.

And then..it was too much light and I started choking on it. It's hard to imagine: as if you're choking on air but the pressure this vividly blue light was giving seemed too much to handle. I thought that was it, another moment and I'd be a goner. Funny, for the good part of my life I thought it'd be cancer and when I finally get rid of the decease this happens. And I have no idea what THIS is to boot it all. But suddenly I felt two strong hands ripping me from the car seat and dragging out to the ground. And though I was still blinded, the feeling of being suffocated became dull...and a second after that the light itself was gone.

I took a deep breath and dared to finally open my eyes only to be met with more than unexpected the owner of the hands that...saved? me. I didn't know. If that was the cure than I didn't need to be saved. But I was choking...and obviously confused.

"What the hell is going on here?" Drake demanded.

I blinked couple times as my brain registered that he was still holding me my back to his chest...muscled chest. And oh boy, to a person who spent a good portion of her life in a hospital with more than absence of a personal life and intimate touch, that was considered a situation that usually makes girls go "Ooohh".

"Hello to you too." I cocked my head to the side and all the way up because come on, the guy was a mountain.

"What did you do?" He asked, his voice rough and unwavering.

"What are you talking about?" It was stupid to play that card but I promised Roman not to tell anyone.

I turned around and...as expected that man had at least two heads on me and had the most amazing body I had ever seed. I actually had to restrain myself from staring at those broad shoulders with tattoos seen from underneath his shirt.

"Ok, people like you shouldn't be allowed to wear things like that." I was babbling again, what I usually do when I'm nervous.

He kept watching me like a hawk, though his expression gained a bit of an amused shade.

"Aaaand I didn't say that out loud..." Now I was plainly talking to myself.

"You did." He cut me off and my eyes turned really round for a second.

"Look," I took a breath to concentrate. "I choked on a snack, ok? I don't know what you think you saw but you actually probably saved me from choking."

It was a lie. Both of us knew it.

"I'll find out what this all is about, Julia."

He was gone.

And only after I was alone once again in the parking lot I realized that he knew my name. How? That was beyond me. But Drake knew my name. The thought cursed me produce a school-girl kind of giggle.

A moment later I realized one more thing: I knew his name too.

A\N -

Hay, guys! Thanks for tuning in:)

So, I realize that Julia\Drake isn't exactly cannon and that they actually plan on Drake\Taylor pairing but from ep1 I just thought that Julia and Drake could look sooo cute together plus I really don't think that they can make Taylor a deep character..

Anyway, this is a prologue (which takes place in ep3 at the 10 year anniversary as you may guessed. Tell me what you think!

RoadwayFox

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