Drabble #18
Prompt: Blink of an Eye
I liked this one, because I'm obsessed with Aelita's history and past and I love it.


In the blink of an eye, it all changes.

She opens her eyes, and she's on Earth.

He stumbles across an old computer and turns it on.

He wakes her one morning, tells her they have to run.

The school takes him as a teacher while he works in secret.

She looks up at him and tells him she's pregnant.

They offer him a secret military job and he accepts.

Aelita's life feels like it teeters on moments, so tiny, that could have been so different.

She turns, sees her friends standing there.

She wouldn't change these moments for anything.