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"Maddy Shannon, wake up."
The stern voice startled me at first, and I was fully awake in seconds. I expected to see a sixer, or Mira, but all I saw was darkness.
"Maddy Shannon, wake up."
"I'm up, I'm up!" I yelled as I lifted my head. "Why can't I see anything?"
"Oh yeah, Take her blindfold off." The blindfold came off, but I still saw mostly darkness. The room I was in wasn't lit up too well.
"I still don't see anything." I said annoyed.
"Oh, sorry. Turn around." I turned around to find a small beat up table, with a small shadowy figure behind it. The only light source in the room was a small light bulb, at the center above the table. It looked like this building was built in what, 2012?
"Who are you?" I questioned the man.
"I am fate, Maddy Shannon. I can tell the future. That is why I work here." The man's face lit up brightly, he must have liked his job a lot.
"Where is here? What am I doing here?"
"Well, Maddy, Here is Heaven. If you don't know it already, you're dead."
"I know I'm dead and all, but why am I here? Why not somewhere else?"
"Actually, you should be somewhere else." He added. This statement got me confused.
"What do you mean somewhere else?" I questioned him again.
"You should be back in Terra Nova. Or in your case, OTG in the little settlements your colonists made. You weren't supposed to die. Zoe was." He took a deep breath. Already I knew, whatever he told me next was going to be hard to take in. "Right now, you should be mourning with your family. Sitting next to Mark and Josh. Crying with your mother and father."
"But why Zoe?" I asked. "Why am I sitting in this chair talking to you because I'm dead?"
"I don't really know for sure." He said losing faith. "All I know is that this all happened because of destiny. You are here to do something great, that will change your world."
"How is this going to change anything? I'm just sitting on my butt talking to a random stranger in the middle of nowhere!" I practically yelled at him.
I saw his small face cringe at my words, but was somewhat patient with me. Something was going on in his mind that I was probably going to hear next.
"Maddy, I don't really know how to say this without making you more mad," he started " but you are the change between two separate futures."
"What the heck is that supposed to mean!" I shouted with anger. This guy really knows how to complicate things.
"It means that you are the center of action." He said calmly. "Whatever you do reflects on what will happen in the future." He stood up from his chair, revealing his dusty brown pants. He walked around my chair slowly, as if he were examining me.
"For example, if you don't do what I'm about to tell you next properly, then your family will die, others will suffer, and Terra Nova will parish."
At this point, I got sort of scared, his voice intimidating, circling me slowly and all.
"So, what are you going to tell me to do?" I said with a frightened tone.
"You are going to be a guardian angel. One who will embark on maybe one of the most hardest missions possible." He paused for a moment, adding loads of suspense to the moment. "You will be a guardian angel for Lucas Taylor."
I was going to argue, say that it's impossible. But his stern look, the way his body was postured, I couldn't get a word out of my mouth.
"First, you will go on some basic training. Then you will be sent out to change Lucas, make him believe in Terra Nova again. I believe you can do this task, and I hope it doesn't end up like the last time I sent someone out on a mission."
"Wait, what happened last time?" I asked worried.
"Oh, no time for that, time to start your training!" He said happily and in a matter of seconds, I was teleported out of the room into a place of darkness.
Terra Nova- 2 weeks after Maddy's death
Ever since the nuclear blast that killed Maddy, no one has been the same. Even though they recaptured Terra Nova and are winning the war, nobody is happy.
Mark has been mostly locked up in his room, mourning, looking at the last picture that he took with Maddy. If he is not doing that, he's banging his head against a wall. But he's not the worst out of everyone….
Josh can barely sleep. He doesn't come out of his room that much either, because of the guilt inside of him. Why didn't he go out to save Zoe? Why couldn't he die instead of Maddy? He believed that she deserved more, and that none of this should have happened if it weren't for him.
You can't imagine the pain of losing your own daughter. It's like an angel ripped out your heart and sold it to the devil. Elizabeth still goes to work, but can't help but not talking, not giving any other emotion than sad. Jim stays at home. He just sleeps and eats. None of the Shannons ever really talk anymore. That's how much pain they were in.
Zoe, as a matter of fact, might not ever be happy again. So much guilt, a 6 year old can't have so much. Knowing that she was the cause of her own sister's death, that she was going to die and then Maddy saved her. She will never heal.
As time goes on, as Terra Nova rebuilds, they are stuck in their home wondering if life will ever go on.