The Final Destination: Heaven or Hell
For anyone who remembers my preview chapter for this story in Links of Blood, here's the inclusion of that section in the overarching storyline. I hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Destination or any of the characters featured (save for Grace Palin and Dominic Cunningham). They belong to New Line Cinema.
Dedicated to David R. Ellis, without his work in the series this fanfic wouldn't be possible; 1952-2013.
Chapter 7: Breaking the News
It was a rainy morning when Officer Burke had arrived at the Cunningham residence. He had recently endured the disaster that was the Route 23 pileup, and he looked none too pleased to discuss the matter at hand. Soon, Mrs. Cunningham opened the door for Officer Burke.
"Mrs. Jillian Cunningham?"
"Oh, hello, Officer Burke. I heard about the pileup, and I'm glad to see you're OK."
"Yeah. But I'm afraid I have some bad news. This would be very devastating to your daughter if she found out." Burke responded.
"What do you mean, sir? Is this about Dominic?"
Burke then proceeded to explain to her about with the events of the Flight 180 explosion. Jillian knew all too well about this, as her son Dominic was aboard the plane at the time, but got off thanks to a premonition that his classmate Alex Browning had seen. Unfortunately, she had also heard that Alex had gone insane soon afterward and apparently was killing the survivors in the order they were meant to die in the explosion. However, after the death of his hometown's mortician Bludworth, Alex appeared to had vanished under mysterious circumstances.
"As of now, there are only two survivors of the accident. Clear Rivers and Carter Horton."
"And-and what of my son?"
Pausing for a moment, he then laid his hand down on her palm and told her "We found him over by the outskirts of town. He's dead."
The news really hit her like a semitruck. Her son- dead? It couldn't be... At that same moment, her eleven year old daughter Janet came over to her mom and asked her what was going on. It was then that Officer Burke explained to her that Dominic's truck was found submerged in the nearby lake, and reports stated that he had drowned in the process.
"No... he can't be dead! He can't! It's not fair!" Janet cried, as she sobbed into her mother's shoulder. It was at this moment that Janet swore an everlasting anger towards the presence of Death, one that would haunt her when her number would inevitably arrive.
Clearly, the news couldn not have been any less worse for the lone two survivors, Clear Rivers and Carter Horton. For fear of what happened in the past, both of them had commited themselves to an insane asylum. While Clear could accept this situation, it was later apparent that Carter could not. Fearing that there were possible objects that would serve as death threats, Carter saved himself the trouble and took his own life soon after being admitted.
Clear was now truly alone. A loner among the former survivors, waiting for her former friend Alex Browning to come and claim her life once and for all.
There goes yet another chapter. I hope you like it, and remember to keep reviewing and offering your input on how to improve the story. See ya later!