A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, a66 – write a fic centred on one character's view on something or some place.
Passing Charlotte
Not many people knew the truth about Charlotte. And, for most people, it wouldn't matter.
We're too young to remember the meteor…and yet we're the ones who suffer the effects from it. Most people – people who were adults then and even most of the kids – saw the rock in the sky as a fleeting interest and then forgot. Or maybe they didn't even know. I'll bet most people were ignorant of the fact that the life-changing meteor called Charlotte had just passed overhead.
But many of us who weren't at the age that we'd understand things like meteors as being more than just rocks in space – if even that – found, years later, that the meteor had rewritten our futures for us.
And for some of us, it was a really big deal. Those of us who couldn't get away with ignorance, who couldn't slip through every net the world threw our way, who weren't fortunate enough to have these abilities of ours sleep through our adolescence until they vanished entirely – and that was most of us. And even most whose abilities were dormant were swept into the radar. Like Ayumi with her Collapse ability. Like Yuu with his Plundering – even if his case was a bit of a special one. Our dirty little secret, in a way. Yuu knew his powers. We knew his powers. But we kept it a secret because it was our hope, our chance of getting out of there.
It kind of worked out that way as well. It cost a lot but time rewound and I had a chance to stop things getting that far – an another…and then more, but it wasn't infinite. And there was no definite way to end the cycle except to lose, to give up on it all. I couldn't stop a meteor. I've never met anyone who could. All these powers we possess and not one person can blast that meteor out of the world's records and stop this all.
We never really even saw the meteor and it changed our fates, and most people – those who aren't aware of the change, who don't exploit it with us children as the lab rats – watched the twinkle in the sky a moment before moving on.