Chapter 268
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Eve and Julia adapted to having a new roommate. For her part Teri tried to pitch in, cleaning the apartment, doing laundry, making meals. What bothered Julia was Teri often talking about being saved by Jesus Christ. She felt that Teri was judging her. Teri said she was trying to help them, she was doing this because she cared about them. From her perspective, Eve had bought her time by helping her escape from the mercy clinic, during which she'd accepted Christ's gift of forgiveness. Teri felt she owed it to Eve and Julia to try and lead them to Christ, considering what they were doing for her. Religion had always provided Eve with a certain amount of both comfort and fear. One day, the three girls were watching an old episode of "Buffy." group of vampires were holding people hostage in a church. The head vampire started taunting God, said he'd kill a few of God's people and see if he showed up. Buffy, and the other slayer Faith, both seperately saw news footage of this. Both came to slay the vampires and save the civilians. This show wasn't exactly scripture, but it did seem to demonstrate some of Teri's points, at least to Eve.
Wednesday October 31st, 263 days until impact. It was also suppossed to be halloween. That didn't seem to matter, except it was possibly the last halloween. Eve couldn't imagine they'd be giving away large amounts of candy in the Arks. There was a rumor that a group of pagans in Greece was honoring this day with a human sacrifice at the Parthenon, an ancient temple to the goddess Athena. At least that was the rumor. Eve got a different horror in the Brooklyn sector. The paper work was official, her house was no longer her home. This could be useful, saving Teri and other refugees, possibly helping to provide her baby with a bright future, even giving Eve some comforts during whatever time she had left. But it really hit her, she could never go home again. Eve hadn't set foot in New Jersey in almost a year and a half. But in the back of her mind she had clung to the idea that she might somehow go back one day. Now, that door was closed, forever.