Chapter 125
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In light of Samuel's followers detonating a suitcase nuke, president Mason announcing they'd found a way to stop ELE, Eve knew her relationship with Amy seemed small in comparison. But it matterred to them. Eve had lost much, her mother, Cujo, Adam, in some ways her father. But she'd gained Amy and Nadia. Despite their differneces, and Nadia not seeming to approve of Eve's relationship with Amy, Eve still needed both of them. Both had helped her through the darkest point in human history. Eve and Nadia went to the movies one Saturday night, it involved teenage girls robbing a bank for some reason. Eve wanted to take Amy to a Phillies game when the season started. They sometimes went hunting on weekends. It might have seemed cliche, two lesbians with guns, but Amy thought of it as wanting to share a fun experience with the girl she loved. Amy noticed Eve coming to Chris Smith's place less. She thought Eve's interest in politics was waning. She didn't realize that Eve didn't want to know everything. Some of the people who bought doomsday DVDs from Eve asked her opinion. Eve had seen some specials shortly after 2/4, but wasn't too familiar with them,so she started watching these things. They seemed to differ from each other about exactly when the world would end. One from the 1990's said that Suddam Hussein was the antichrist who would commit a major attack against America. That didn't happen, but it was a little eerie how they brought up the posibility of an attack against New York city, even mentioning the world trade center, years before 9/11. A lot of these "documentaries" mentioned Nostradamas. This Nostradamas guy was believed to have predicted every major event since the 15th century. The problem was his predictions, in his quatrains, were so vague it seemed people just interpreted them as they saw fit. During world war II nazi propoganda minister Goebbels tried to demoralize French resistance fighters with leaflets saying that Nostradamas predicted German victory. Churchill hired his own people to say that Nostradmas predicted the allies would win. In some predictions he apparently predicted a great religious revival that would hurt the Roman catholic church. In others he said that more people woud convert to catholicism before the end. Some of Nostradamas' followers said he intentionally predicted false things that would lead to Hitler's defeat. And that he told church leaders that they would win over everyone so that the Inquizition would look the other way on some things. In the 1990's many of his supporters believed Suddam was the antichrist, by 2004 they said he had predicted the disastorous Iraq war. Nostradamas apparently predicted Septemer 11th 2001, but got the dates wrong and predicted it for July 1999. People had feared he predicted George W. Bush would be assasinated, which never happenned. Nostradamas allegedly predicted Barack Obama would be a great peacemaker, but people only figured that out after the Jerusalem accords finally ended the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One thing was certain, Nostradamas had been a renowned healer during the bubonic plague, methods like frequent bathing were centuries ahead of their time. It seemed a shame to Eve that this doctor had become known for occult nonsense, when he helped save many lives. These specials and books evolved over time to adapt to new threats. The Y2K threat, the planets alligning on May 5th 2000, one idiot preacher predicting the rapture twice in 2011, and the Mayan prediction sying the world would end on December 21st 2012. But the current doomsayers had something the others never did, ELE.