The keys were there in the ignition.

Once, when they were younger, they might have hesitated.

Now they simply climbed in, her in the driver's seat and him in the passenger.

They sat there for a long moment.

They could cause such devastation when they linked up.

"Lauren-" he started.

"Yeah-" she agreed.

They both felt it.

It didn't matter.

The world hated them.

The world was gone.

Some days she thought their parents must be gone with it.

Their parents, Grandma Ellen, Uncle Danny, their friends-

They all would have hated them anyway, if they'd known.

Hell, their own dad would have hated them, if he'd known.

They wondered what they'd think of what they'd become.