"Lost from Time"
Kevin looked bewildered at the staggering amount of people in the large room. They were milling around and watching TV, and looking rather lost. He was sitting at a chair, with his legs hugged against him. He knew no one here. He had been lying at home asleep, then the next moment he suddenly found himself admist hundreds, no...thousands of people at a beach somewhere.
He had instinctively reached out for his fellow Tomorrow People in confusion, and found nothing. Perhaps not nothing, but it was similar to unknown minds. He had reached a group of similar minds to himself, but for some reason he didn't know them -- they seemed rather alien and closed, even to him. Panicking suddenly and feeling totally alone, he abruptly shut down all his mental barriers, even to those he could sense near him.
And now, he was here in the large plain room in an obvious government institution, but he didn't know which one, but it didn't bode well -- he didn't want anyone to find him. Only one thought at the back of his mind kept nagging him and wouldn't go away. These people felt ...different. Different than most minds he'd sense in normal people but he didn't know what to make of it. It felt slightly familiar, but still rather alien to his mental senses.
He sighed, and watched people murmur softly to themselves, and idly wondered if his parents would come and get him. His feeling was that they would refuse. Sadness swept through him at the small mindedness of his parents. All he wanted to do was be normal, and he got saddled with these powers, but he knew that they weren't of the devil, or bad. They were just there. Lost in his thoughts, he didn't notice a frail looking young girl with blonde hair walk up to him and stare at him.
A soft voice cut through the haze of his preoccupation. "Hello."
Kevin blinked and looked up, focusing on her. She looked like she was about ten, and rather delicate, but her eyes looked odd. Like they had seen wisdom and things beyond what she looked like she could possibly have seen. "Hullo. Who are you?"
She smiled shyly. "Maia. What's your name?"
Kevin let his legs clump to the floor. "Kevin."
Maia smiled happily. "Hi Kevin!"
Mere moments later, she turned serious and wise. Laying a hand on Kevin's arm, she spoke clearly. "Don't worry. You are not alone. They will remember you. You just have to go to them. Wait until you are alone." She then turned away and walked off.
Stunned, Kevin watched her trail off without thinking, then he felt a chill go down his spine. It was so similar to what his visions were like. That girl was a precognitive. Similar to him. Quickly, he cast a mental tendril over to her mind, seeing if she were a Tomorrow Person, and met that same alien quality that he had detected days before at the beach. She hadn't reacted to his mental probe. So that's what it was. All these people supposedly had a power like her, but why? Why was he even here?
At least he had some comfort that his friends would remember him once he found a way to leave. Kevin smiled, no longer quite so confused. These people were here for a purpose -- what it was he didn't know, but his friend Megabyte had thought that being a Tomorrow Person might have a purpose... eventually. All he had to do was wait and see. Perhaps there'd be an opening for him to teleport away. No one had talked to him quite yet other than getting his name.
Fin.