"Gone"
Chapter 2
"Alien"
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: See: Chapter 1
He was not, they had been disappointed to learn, related to Catherine Zeta Jones; he wasn't even English, despite his accent.
And now, it seemed, he had come to stay.
Nikki's parents didn't know what to do with their strange, quiet guest. He spent hours staring at the dancing flames in the fireplace, lost in thought.
His world had been destroyed, his family wiped out, she had explained. Everything he had known, everything safe and familiar was gone. "For God's sake, cut him some slack here!"
Her mother came in and silently draped a blanket around his shoulders.
"Thank you."
CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 3, "Other Survivors"
