Disclaimer:I don't own Vampire Diaries, The Originals, or Legacies.Inspired by different books, tv shows, and movies that I have seenthat I also don't own.
Warning: Not much violence in this chapter but therewill be some goingforward. As well assomemature themeswill bediscussed, but not anything worse than the show.
Enjoy!
Josie Forbes sat sipping coffee in the northeastern part of the Space Needle. Her legs lay crossed atop her table while she stared into the starry night.
Most people in this post-apocalyptic world were only out for themselves, but the Needle had become a rare community place, usually for teens or for vampires at the forever age of teens.
Her mom, Caroline, was not the biggest fan of Josie coming here – claimed it was asking for trouble – but sitting here drinking this coffee, Josie felt that she needed this.
The rotating floor of the Needle allowed her to view all of Seattle or at least was left of it.
Fifteen years ago, radiation soaked the planet. No one knows for sure the cause. Most people are too busy surviving to care about scientific discovery. They don't care why it happened, only that it did.
The most common theory out there is that nuclear power plants exploded, but no one knows how or why.
Josie and her sister Lizzie were one of the rare few who did not die from radiation poisoning. Most did.
There were three options: you got sick and died, you got sick and got better, or if you were like Josie, Lizzie, and Caroline, you never got sick in the first place.
Most people were the first, including her and her sister's bio parents.
The world is still suffering from that day. Governments destroyed in seconds. Buildings collapsed in minutes, taking countless lives with them. Islands sank. Lands rose. Earthquakes shook the Earth.
It was as if the radiation had set off a chain reaction that had every natural disaster coming to kill them all.
But Josie and Lizzie were lucky. They found Caroline. Caroline was helping at Aunt Elena's clinic, trying to help heal the sick when she saw the girls.
Since then, Caroline had raised them as her own. Which was not an easy task.
Their world was very much in a state of chaos. No empires reined. No borders existed. No central government.
Most places you would find would have a community that functioned as a country would, but it wasn't the same. Less order. Not many rules. No borders. Most communities did not have much land either. The communities were basically places where anarchy did not rein freely.
Josie and her family lived in a place that you would call a semi-community. There were no official rules, but there were the unspoken ones such as, I stay out of your business, and you stay out of mine.
One of the safer places in the world.
Josie and her family lived under the radar. They had to.
They moved around a lot. Never stayed in one place for too long. And Josie had come to the conclusion it sucked, but then again, there was a reason for it.
Josie was reminded of that exact reason when she heard, "Josie Forbes, stand up, hands behind your head. You're coming with us."
Josie and Lizzie had lived in fear for almost all of their life. Constantly moving. Constantly looking over their shoulder. Never safe. For one reason and one reason only: Kai Parker.
He was obsessed with Lizzie and Josie and had wanted them dead since they were firstborn. He had some kind of vendetta against their family and coven or whatever.
Josie slowly stood up, placing her hands behind her head, facing the man. They were holding guns and witch cuffs – handcuffs that stopped witches from using their power.
The man walked up to her and took her hands roughly from the back of her head and placing them forcefully into the cuffs before grabbing both her arms and shoving her forward towards the elevator.
The other people at the Needle just watched as Josie was dragged from her table, but she couldn't blame them. Their world . . . sucked. And the men did have guns.
Josie wanted to fight back, but she was bidding her time waiting for the right moment. She and her family had planned for exactly this. In fact, her mother had flat-out refused to let the girls go anywhere unless they had at least five different plans to deal with what was currently happening.
They reached the elevator, and the doors closed, and they started heading down. When they were about a fourth of the way down, Josie "tripped" by that, she meant she lunged forward, taking one of the men with her and purposefully hitting her head on the edge of the elevator.
There was a hidden button Caroline, and the girls had placed there in the dead of night, just in case.
It exploded smoke into the room, and two of the elevator buttons flew off the wall right into one of the man's eyes and head, knocking him out cold.
When Josie saw the man go down, she moved to the other one. Quickly sweeping her leg under the other man's making him lose his balance. She ripped a knife from his belt to cut herself free, making it possible to jab him in his face knocking him out.
The elevator door opened with a beep, and she made a break for it.
"Caroline!" Josie called when she got home, "Caroline!"
Caroline came vamp speeding in front of her, "What?"
"Kai, he sent his guys to come pick me up at the Needle. I managed to take them out, but we have to go now!"
"Grab your stuff. I'll get your sister."
The Forbes family was currently standing at what Josie guessed was an old theater. Josie's "room" was the stage while Caroline and Lizzie hung around the music centers and the back rooms.
When Josie reached her room, she grabbed her bag that she prepacked in case they needed to make a quick getaway.
Josie entered the main entrance after returning from her room, and Caroline asked, "How many guys were there?"
"Two came to grab me, but Kai would not just send two. I didn't see any of their cars. My guess is his people are canvassing the area, and when the other two, I just took out, don't check in, they will know we are here. We probably have about twenty minutes before they are here."
Lizzie came rushing into the room, giving Josie a tight hug, "Jo! Are you ok?" her sister asked.
"Fine, but we have to get out of her here now."
"Go," Caroline ordered, "You need to get the rover in the garage and drive it to the west side of the building. I'll drive it from there, but first, I need to grab something. Lizzie, I want you driving, and Josie, I want you doing the cloaking spell in the back. Got it?"
"Yes, Caroline."
"Good," Caroline said as the girls turned around and ran to the garage.
Lizzie hopped in the front side and started the Rover while Josie jumped in the back seat and started cloaking the three of them.
When both Lizzie and Josie finished their jobs, Caroline came running out of the building shaking a bottle of gasoline.
When all of the gasoline had been dumped out of the bottle, she took a lighter from her pocket, dropping it into the gas, and then vamp sped into the rover.
"No trail left behind. We don't look back," Caroline stated as she slammed the door behind her and punched and the gas.
Don't look back. Josie had heard those words a million times before. Caroline had said those exact words every time they left somewhere. Every time they ran.
And Josie tried. Tried so hard not to look back, but every time she did.