Understanding.

Summary: uh...well you should go read

A/N: There is a slight 'fic' in here but I had an oterior motive...

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SEATTLE
2021

The dark skyline of Seattle was broken by the structure of the Needle; once an ominious pillar of tourism to a thriving city with an equally thriving population. Now nothing but a desolate shadow of what was once a great city.

Homeless lined the streets in masses that equaled those of Third World Countries when Americans still lived in the 'not in this lifetime will that happen to us' bubble.

Somewhere admist the glowing fires lit into trash cans to generate warmth, a child cried, longing for food, shelter, things that if she had parents, would never be able to provide.

At night often they would catch a glimpse of a beautiful young woman sitting on the iron Needle, an outsider, or though it would appear at first. But they would see her on rare occasions on the rain soaked ground, riding on a bike too good for the road it drove on; a quiet sadness in her eyes. And even the lowest of the hungry, abandoned poor would wish to be able to end what lie behind her eyes.

Beautiful, yes, but under the clean in-stlye clothes and roar of a Ninja 650's engine, the emotions of the nameless night rider came off her in waves. Such sad eyes for someone so young. She WAS like them after all.

They only wished they could do something about it.

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okay now for the "IMPORTANT" part. I wrote this fic in about twenty minutes to draw attention to myself...mainly to let people know that my "Return to Innocence" fic has had a new chapter (chapter 17) added yesterday, at about 6:00 eastern time. But for some f**kin' reason it NEVER appears with the updated stories...so everyone who follows this fic, I DO update it. I've written to fanficion.net to ask about the deal with this, but in the mean time if you don't see "Return to Innocence" on the updates, check the search engine to double check...hate to have anyone think I don't update in months, when I did in days.

Hope you enjoyed my twenty minute fic and the author notes....

R/R..for the fic..the notes..i don't care.....