The Fortuneteller
Matt/Julie/Landry, Post-Season One, PG13, 586 words, Title from Avatar

Mid April. Austin. Some Chinese restaurant. That's when his entire life flashed before his eyes.

While demise may be in your future, your soul can only be relinquished in death.

He looked at the little slip of paper that came with his fortune cookie and quickly threw it in his pocket. It was a really bad idea to come here. Really bad. He knew going somewhere else would be better.

"You okay over there, son. Looks like you seen a damn ghost."

"Uh… I'm fine."

He didn't sleep well that night (even though the 2 hour ride home should have knocked him out). He knew not to take it too seriously, but it really freaked him out.

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"Matt! Matt!" Landry stood at the front door, but decided to let himself in when no one else was going to do it. He walked right to Matt's room and opened the door. Landry looked to find Matt still lying in bed.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"I'm not going to school today. That's what I'm doing."

"I can see that. Why not?"

"Because. I'm just not."

"Wow, that's a great excuse right there. Wanna clarify that a little more?"

Matt was getting aggravated. But he might as well just tell the truth.

"I have a bad feeling about today."

"Uh hun. Keep going."

"Like I might die."

Landry burst into laughter. Matt leaned up and stared at him.

"I'm being serious. I'm not going to school today."

"Will you listen to yourself? You sound like a crazy man. You know what, how about you get up, come to school, and if you still feel all weird, you can leave. I'll give you my car keys. Just, you gotta pick me up when school is over. You cool with that?"

Matt fell back and buried his face in his pillow.

"Fine. Get out so I can get dressed."

"Good man."

Landry and Matt left for school about fifteen minutes later, just making it before the bell for homeroom rung. Matt felt fine until 3 period in his History class. That when he began to feel freaked out, that at any moment something would happen and his life would be over. It wasn't the best start to anyone's day really.

Afterwards, Matt found Julie and Landry waiting for him at his locker.

"So you doing alright so far?" Landry asked.

"Alright? What are you talking about?"

"Tell her Matt. Tell her what you told me."

"Nothing. It's nothing. Don't worry about it. I'm fine. Really."

"Tell me what? Are you okay?"

Matt tried to brush her questions off. He didn't want her to get involved in his stupid little freak out session.

Then the three of them hear 3 loud bangs coming right for them. Everyone around them began to panic. They weren't sure what was going on, but Landry grabbed Julie and Matt and threw them all into an empty classroom and locked the door behind him.

"What the hell was that?" A panic stricken Julie screamed.

"I have no idea. We'll be fine in here. We're fine." He grabbed onto her hand, and moved away from the door, so no one could see them inside. They heard the lockdown code in the loudspeaker a few moments later. Landry looked at Matt with fear.

"You just had to say you were gonna die today didn't you?"

They heard another loud bang. And then another.

Matt looked back at Landry, tear rolling down his eye.

"I told you."

/tbc/