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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- When The Sky Falls -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Derek knew this was bad as everyone seemingly ran passed him. He was glad he hadn't driven, he would've gotten nowhere. By foot he was able to navigate his way through the rush and stampede of terrified citizens. Several times he got pulled back and each time he fought his way back.

Penelope needed him.

Looking to the sky he saw clouds evaporate as hell seemed to rain down sporadically. He surveyed the holes shining through into the clashed coloured sky above. The clouds above themselves had turned stormy looking. The sun itself still remained shining the brightest it ever had just beyond their thin layer. Derek knew it was only a matter of time before the heat rose to become even more unbearable and he knew full well that the clock was ticking.

This was rapidly becoming judgement day. The strong survived, the weak perished. He just prayed that whatever divine being that helped manifest this doom upon them had kept Penelope as one of the strong ones. That she had survived this much, that she was waiting for him to save her.

He looked at the destruction around him. Buildings had fallen, cars smashed, fires dotting the streets, buildings half missing, bodies of those who had lost their lives this early on in survival. The defamation of the universe spilling out everywhere onto the concrete around him. The cries for help sounding out louder and louder the closer he got into town.

Derek stopped still for a moment. He needed a game plan, a faster way to get to town. Running wasn't going to do that and he knew from the mess of the streets around the outskirts of town that getting a car and driving was not an option any more. Devastation was too littered upon the streets of Virginia to allow fast access.

Shakily he grabbed his phone and pushed Penelope's numbers in and rose the phone to his ear. One ring. Two ring. Three Ring. Four ri-

"Derek!" Penelope's scared voice almost screamed down the line, "Derek, I shouldn't have gone out. I'm sorry, I should've stayed home."

Derek couldn't help but release a breath of relief; he allowed his angst to shift a little, the worry leaving his body for a moment. "Baby, I need you to listen to me. Don't you dare blame yourself. You weren't to know this would happen so I need you to stay where you are and let me come to you."

"I just want to go home," Penelope sounded on the verge of tears, "I don't want to stay here. It's not safe here, Handsome."

"Pene-"He began but he heard a whooshing noise and he looked up towards town just in time to see one of the fiery meteor fly towards the ground. It was as contact was made in the distance that he heard multiple screams down the line but Penelope's was the most heard. "Penelope!" He shouted down the phone, yearning for her attention, "Baby! I'm coming for you. I won't leave you on own there!"

"What is happening, Derek? There's nowhere for us to go." Penelope fretted, she was running frantic, trying to find the route that would take her towards hers and Derek's home.

"I need you to calm down, Baby. I'm going to get to you as soon as I can, but I need you to just calm down and tell me where you are. Can you do that for me?" He asked and heard commotion behind him. He turned in time to see the road behind him disappearing, falling into a black oblivion. "Fuck!" He swore and began to run towards town.

"Derek, what's happening? Please tell me you're okay!"

"I'm fine, Baby. I'll be better once I've got you, but I'm perfectly fi-" He didn't get to finish as a meteor crashed into a house to his left and he ducked to escape the destruction and raining shards of whoever's house had become the latest victim to this horror.

"Derek!" Penelope's voice rang out slick with panic. "Talk to me, Handsome, please talk to me!"

"I'm here," He said as he stood and just stared in shock for a moment. "Baby, I'm here." He told her and he had to shake himself free of the distress bubbling up within him. He had to wonder if his and Penelope's perfect home was now in ruins like this. That it was now part of the demise of the world. That it was more rumble than it was a home. He felt sickened to wonder if Clooney was okay, but he had to weigh it up. His wife or their pet. It didn't take much calling before his feet took to running towards the town. "Where are you, Penelope?"

"By the bank," She said meekly and he could tell she was crying with fright, with fear. "I really need you."

"I'll be there before you know it. I will find you, Baby. I promise you I will. I love you," he told her and waited for her response before closing his phone and taking on a fall on sprint.

He had no other plan in mind, no idea what would happen. His only plan was to track down Penelope and keep her with him. If this was the end for everyone then he wanted her by his side. He didn't want her to be alone. Derek had one more chance to do what he wanted before all control was taken from him.

Running passed a house he saw a motorbike, and he ran towards it. He hoped that this would give him the opportunity to get to Penelope faster. With shaking hands he tried to hotwire it, to spark some life in it, but when no desirable effects were had he threw the bike down and charged towards town. He couldn't waste time trying to get something to work that wasn't responding. At this point, with dooms day raining down around everyone, he had no time to spend trying to find alternative ways to get to town.

Again he found people trying to stop him, strangers trying to divert his course, but none of them knew of his mission. No one knew what he was running to. No one that he passed knew why he would rather run towards the seeming mass of danger than away from it. However, none of them knew that they were just equally running towards their death as much as he was.

The end of the world wasn't isolated to the centre of Virginia, it was everywhere and he didn't need to bet that the rest of the state, country, even world was targets as well.

No one was safe, but everyone seemed to be selfish. People ran alone, he saw random men carrying children, a few men helping their partners and wives, old couples trying their hardest to move, but on the most it was people who were in it for themselves.

It was as he rounded a corner, leapt over yet more rumble and then saw the bank just as it became the next site for obliteration.

Derek felt all blood drain from his face, all air disappeared from his lungs as the bank crumbled and even more terror ran free.

He was so close to getting to her and now seeing even more victims, and even more dead bodies he felt grief capture him. In the ratio of this moment, there was more possibility that Penelope was hurt or worse than not.

It was as if by that mere thought that Derek felt his world end completely even though the world around him was far from being tortured.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- When The Sky Falls -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-