Transformers: The Eye of Icarus
Prologue: Nine Months After the Incident
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I myself had never thought of destiny before, or even fate for that matter.
Hawaii was a beautiful place, and even better to enjoy after being kept inside a hospital for so long.
Gloria stood at the foot of the ocean, her feet just close enough to the sand to allow the strongest waves to splash onto her feet. The blue, warm waters glittered with the bright sun overhead. But only half of her would enjoy the wonder and beauty. Still with a patch over her right eye, she was expecting to head to her first ocularist within the week they headed back to D.C. She looked down at her toes and walked until the water was up to her knees, noting the scars from surgery to set her tibia and fibula back in place. She then turned to face the beach. She saw her mom lying down on her chair with her crutches right beside her. Her father showed the cuts and scraps that were still healing.
They all had burns though, and that is what tied them together.
She turned to her left and began walking in the waves. She couldn't walk straight with the waves pulling and pushing her along. She was going diagonal at times, but she kept her pace. The physical therapist that it might get the strength back into her left leg with the pulling and pushing of the waves.
But, her eye was no longer staring ahead.
She watched the clear shore bottom for shells. She liked shells. It reminded her of something that she could keep and look at the beauty of the ocean. Self-conscious of the sun on her cheek, she adjusted her new wraparound sunglasses, worried about her only good eye and the doctor's warning to keep the other safe. The other was long gone, removed when they operated to remove the sidebar of the car that had toppled on top of her and her mother. Fortunate it didn't pierce through her skull.
She stopped and looked a bit farther out.
Something under the waves caught her attention. Worried it would wash out; she sloshed noisily to the area and plunged her hands in, eye wincing as the water splashed up at her face. She snatched it up, feeling the cool metal against her fingers. Standing up, hand clutched, she looked down and opened her hand.
Though not perfectly round, like and oval, it was unblemished. Brilliantly white. Being wet, the nearly perfect sphere reflected the sun on its slick exterior. It was smooth to her hands and fingers as she rolled it around curiously. On the other side, she found a perfect black circle, like a button, decorated the outside. Strangest of all, it was incredibly cool in her hands despite the warm waters. She closed her hand around it, and turned to the left to head back to her parents. She flipped her messy ponytail of red hair to go over her shoulder, giving her left eye a reprieve from the sun. Hand held tight against her chest, she sloshed though the water to where her parents were in the sand. She came out of the water and ran across the hot sand. She dropped it onto the towel as she sat down, showing it to her parents as they ate lunch. She was proud of her find and would keep it for her collection at home in D.C.
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You know that awkward moment when you submit a chapter and don't check it, only to find major punctuation and things missing via comments you receive? Whoops. I guess was angry at me for not posting things for a long time. It took out a TON of quotation marks from the previous prologue/chapter thing. I really should have double-checked everything before submitting. Thanks Anon for bringing that to light! You are my HERO :D This update is for you and FOREVAAAAARR!
And this is the end of the prologue section. The first "real" chapter of the fanfic will be coming next. I want to post it now, but I need to be patient.