Free is shopping one day
in one of her favorite department stores. She is picking
up her favorite fragrance Vic by Berggie Vic n
Tory. When she is done, she makes her way to the doors so she can go back
to work. For a brief moment she looks back because an
employee is saying hi to her. She says hi and
as she goes to turn
back around she instantly locks eyes with
Dom. Instantly an explosion goes off in the space between them. Not
like a bomb. More like an electromagnetic blast. She flew in the air
about 15 ft along with everything else and everyone
around her. For her everything was going in slow
motion. She could see the watches, make up, pieces of the
counter, bags, and people all in the air next to her. Then while in
the air she locked eyes with Dom again. He was blown just
as high as she was. In such a situation she still
couldn’t help but feel weak for him. He was beautiful even
being blown up.
Then they started falling back to the floor
along with everything else. When they hit the floor, the only people able
to get up was them. Dom started to get up same time as she did. They
both seemed relatively untouched. Dom looked at her with
one of the
meanest looks he ever gave her. He got up
with an attitude in his movements. She
couldn’t understand why he was this mad. She had
seen him mad but not this mad. He looked
around almost in shock that no one was moving. Free also was sad that
almost everyone looked as if they were hurt and
would need assistance. Dom dusted his jacket off as free reached
her hand out to him as if to plead
but he gave her a look that she knew
meant he wanted nothing to do
with her. So she stopped as he ran out the
door. Dust still in the air she realized she should be
going too. She dusted her clothes off and went
the opposite direction of Dom to avoid another
explosion. This is one day she didn’t expect to have.
Free and Dom met each other
when they were 13. But they don’t really remember that
meeting they just know it from the reports. Reports
say Hunter School for the Gifted and Talented was shut down due to an explosion
on the first day in the school yard that left over 100 students
injured. Neither Free nor Dom knew what had
happened. All they knew is
that they weren’t hurt. Their parents, who
were just care takers due to the fact that
their real parents weren’t alive, had a very hard time
explaining to the two teens that they were different and
why. Free took it the best
because she thought there were others
out there like her. So she just went
to school, got great grades, and hung with her friends who didn’t need
to know that she was immuno superior. Dom,
on the other hand, liked to test his limits. He ran away from his
care takers and lived on his own. Living on the
move, taking extreme odd jobs, and fighting the biggest
of foes to further test how
special he was. He would take a job as
a welder and wear no shirt on the job, or as a diver and dive with no equipment,
or as an Astro Packer which entailed him dragging space ship parts by himself
when it normally took over a ten man
team. Nothing really stopped him. Until he met
Free for the first time they could
remember.
When Dom was 19 he had already lived
in most of the northern states for that’s where his
migration took him from Washington across the top of the
country. Now he was making his way down the east
coast. He came to Pennsylvania. He was passing Penn
state when what was a relatively nice day started to turn
cloudy. Winds picked up and the air felt charged. The last
time he felt this was…..he doesn’t
like thinking about that day. As he got closer to the
campus the winds picked up, the sky got darker and little
strikes of lightning filled the air, but closer than normal. The winds
were fierce yet it seemed like he wasn’t feeling the
push. He could see what it was doing to the trees and the
cars but he felt almost nothing. And he couldn’t
find a wind direction. As if he was generating the wind. Then
as he was passing Hilton Hall he started
to feel the ground shake. Then instantly the door popped open to the hall
and all the students within the building started running out onto the
street. Cars were going off, branches detaching, garbage everywhere and
people yelling in amazement. Dom, being
that he didn’t watch the news, just thought it was a
storm. Then as he was about to pass the Hall, he saw her. Running out
of the building she turned to look in his direction as
if she knew he was there. Then they caught eyes. He never had
been in love before
so he didn’t really know what this feeling was
that he felt but he was instantly drawn
to this one brown-haired, beautiful, dark-skinned
girl. Apparently she felt the same thing because instead of
running for cover like others she paused… and then started slow
walking towards him. She felt entranced by this
man she had never seen before. Heart beating
fast, butterflies in her stomach, fire in her eyes...for him. He was more than surprised at the
look she was giving him while all hell was breaking
loose, he was scared, but he felt the fire
too. It was undeniable that they were connected somehow. She looked at him as
if she saw someone she thought she knew but
wasn’t sure. As she got closer the winds picked up. A
tree uprooted and fell on a car. The ground started to shake
more. All car alarms went off. Lightning struck but not from the
troposphere. It seemed like it spawned midair in front
of them. The lightning made her stop and woke him up. He
was staring the whole time. They looked
at each other longer admiring each other. He was
clean-cut with a beard. Chocolate…Beautiful. Tall with
an athletic body. He looked…special. She was average height. Brown
skin with nice hair. Brown eyes. Beautiful in a way you can’t
explain. He took a step towards her and the winds picked up even
more. The ground cracked with his next step, so he
stopped. They now looked at each other with a questioning
face. Both were calculating what was happening. They
had felt this before. Where?? Then almost
like they understood at the same time their faces changed from
aggravated questioning to a soft understanding. In that
moment they both understood this was who helped them to cause the
explosion when they were 13. They both
did very well at burying that day away from immediate
memory. Free was the next to take a step of which cracked the hall’s
building wall almost in half and she stopped. Dom looked around as if to
signal to free what they were doing. She was about to take another step
when he shouted to her “nooooooooooooo.” But
she took the step
before he could stop her and a car flew from behind
her head and past his head nearly hitting them
and landed in the dorm window on the second floor. He looked
at the damage and then to her as if to plead
with her. He could see in her eye that she was determined to
take another step. So he stepped back and said “Why are
you doing this? You see what it’s doing.” She paused,
because what she was about to say made no sense but it was
right on her tongue. She slowly and shyly said “because I Love
you.” He looked puzzled as he said back “you don’t know me.” She was
thinking the same thing. But her heart was telling her
different. She then said, “You
don’t feel this?” as she pointed to her heart.
He couldn’t deny that. There was
this feeling that even though chaos was going on around them, with
every step she took, HE felt immense connection. It was calming
but the feeling itself was like he needed to be next to
her. Something he never had… he had to have. It
was weird to him. But he wasn’t going to do that
at the expense of the campus. Because to him it seemed like a
few more steps and they could flatten the campus. She was so sure
about him that the destruction of others
wouldn’t stop her. It scared him. He said, “you’re crazy” as she
tried to take another step. He took one step
back then ran in the opposite direction as fast
as he could. Free, being so entranced by what was going and
exhausted by fighting the conditions dropped to the floor and cried. In a
few minutes the weather was back to normal.
Over time they came in contact a
couple of other times to the same result. It never
got better. One instance was at a music festival in
Miami when they were 22. Dom was enjoying a performance by Pell when he wanted
a drink. He started making his way toward the
bar when the sky started to change. He looked up
while walking to the bar. As fast as he looked down
winds picked up, lightning struck, and then an explosion that
sent him flying back towards the stage where he could see that
everyone even Pell had been injured in
the explosion. Then he saw her. His heart felt
like it set on
fire. She didn’t see him. She was one of the only ones
getting up but her back was turned to him. He paused to take in her
beauty as she got to her feet. Then in the next
moment he took off running in
the opposite direction. Just
as fast as he left the area is as fast as
the weather went back to normal. Free knew Dom had to have
been here. She felt sad and decided to leave the festival
also. Everyone else needed medical attention.
The next time was when they were
26. Free was on the train coming from New York going to
Connecticut. Her then boyfriend had family out
there. Coincidentally Dom was on the train coming from Connecticut
going to New York. After years of traveling he was on his way back to
Washington to have some much-needed rest and reconnection. Somewhere after
the Stamford stop for Dom
his train was passing Free’s train. Like an EMP bomb between the two trains, an explosion
went off and both trains derailed and scattered on the ground next to
the
track. Free felt what she always felt when
Dom was around and this time she wasn’t about to
miss at least seeing him. She got
up immediately, got out of
the train car she was in, crossed the track and started
walking next to the train cars that were going towards New
York. The winds started picking up, so she knew he was definitely here and
in that direction. Even though there was almost a mile of train she knew she was close. She could feel it. Dom
was stuck under some passengers but realized what was happening
when he saw the sky through the window he was looking
up at due to the train car being on its side. He hurried to get out
from under the passengers. When he did, he saw that winds had already
picked up severely and lightning was forming inside of the train car so she was
close. He broke the window above him because there was no
time. When he peaked up out the window, he could see her walking towards him
a couple of cars away. So he thought that he wouldn’t
be able to come
out he would see her. So he started to run
through the cars in the opposite direction stepping over and around
people who were very badly hurt and some
unconscious. One car, two cars, but the third car was so severely
messed up the door wouldn’t open. He was scared for the
people. He did know that he loved free but not like
she loved him, not enough to destroy
others. He knew that if she got close enough a
lot of people would get hurt. Maybe more
than he knew. That’s
when he felt the car moving. She was getting
closer, and it was causing the weather conditions to push the cars farther away
from the
tracks. So he thought maybe he can just stay
in the car. Being that the conditions
are pushing the cars away from her she won’t
be able to tell which car he is in.
It worked, but not before conditions got
worst.
Like 4 lightning strikes and a sink hole
worse. But she finally gave up and left. Over a matter of minutes,
the weather got better and help had arrived to clean up this disaster of a
scene. Dom just acted hurt and let the ambulance take care of him so he
didn’t seem suspicious. A female told the officials
that she saw him running through the cars but he denied and told them she must
have been seeing things due to the crash.
Their next encounter was in the department store
when free was buying her favorite fragrance. They were 30 years
old. By then Dom had his own business building cars from scratch and had
settled down into a relationship with a beautiful woman that he was
going to pick something up for. Free was also dating and had
a nice job in Chase bank administration. As free
was walking out Dom was walking in
and yeah y'all heard the rest of the story.
After their last encounter it seemed
like they got good at avoiding each
other. They were always in the back of each other’s
minds. Dom thinking what if he just took her up on her offer and
explored this connection they felt. He also hated that
the love he felt for Free he did not feel
for his significant other even though he was
sure he loved her. Free tried her best not to think of
Dom. But when she did, she got lost in it. She didn’t care what
happened to the world as long as she could feel him up
close. It would sometimes take a toll on her relationships which
is why at 36 she was still only dating, nothing serious.
One day Dom was feeling
like he needed some “me time” which was normal for
him. So he thought to go down to the neighborhood
Starbucks, get a hot chocolate, and read. So he got his
book, coat, and wallet and went out the door. He made it to
Starbucks, ordered his hot chocolate, and went to go sit
down. As he walked to go to the seat, he saw her but not in time. The
explosion between them went off almost instantly
after he saw her. The blast blew him to
the nearest wall and her up against
the wall almost directly across from him. Coffee was in the
air, mugs on the floor, tables and chairs out the windows which were now
all broken, people screaming on the floor, wind whipping through the
café. Dom just looked at Free with the annoyed face. She looked
at him back with an embarrassed face. He didn’t know that
that face would melt his heart. His mind was made
up. He couldn’t run anymore. But he wasn’t
going to just show that out right. The seconds seemed
to go slow. Free tried to reach up but her hand snapped back to the
wall. He knew she was trying to get to him. Both of their power were
so strong it was repelling them away from each other. He then realized
that after the initial explosion more explosions did
not occur after. Meaning it was possible get to
her. He saw her continue to try to raise her
hand. But she could not. Her embarrassment turned into
sadness. He realized he couldn’t see her sad ever
again. It hurt more than any pain he felt from all the
explosions he encountered. In that moment he gathered
all of his strength and lifted his
hand. Free saw him and looked up
at him. He was strong enough to get his arm up
but she could tell it was hard because his arm would twitch
back n forth. After one hand he raised the
other. Then he leaned forward to get off the
wall. As he leaned forward lightning struck in front
of them and illuminated the magnetic repulsion fields in
between them. He could see the barriers
between them clearly. There were at least 10
of them. Almost like individual force fields in
between them. Picture a force field. Then picture 10 of them
around one person. That’s how it looked. At that
moment it could have been 20 and it wouldn’t
have stopped him. Slowly he broke through the first
one. Then the second. Clothes ripping off his body and hers. The
weather turned into a category storm outside. Lightning struck inside
the café as if they were in the clouds where lightning is like air
during a storm. But he kept going. Each field harder than
the last. When she realized what he was doing, she started to
cry. Cry with joy. She could have felt him coming
if she closed her eyes. Field after field things
got worse around them. Walls broke and disappeared. Equipment, chairs
and tables dismantled and blown out of
what was left of the café. And people either were blown out the
way or ran out. By the time he got to the 8th field most of the café
had blown away except for the beams which Free and Dom luckily were planted up
against. If they weren’t, they probably would have blown away too. The last two barriers
he ripped down like the hulk
until they were face to face.
Outside was dark with water gushing in from
flooding and debris from the things breaking in the street. The café was
unnoticeable. Everything was gone. Even free
and Dom were stripped down to their underclothes which were also struggling to stay
on. When face to face Dom could barely talk
but mustered up enough energy to say “are you s...”and before he could say
“sure”, Free jumped on him and kissed him. For them
time could have stopped at that moment. For the world
it probably felt like the end of days. Which it
was. While kissing, the rest of everything else blew away until they were
standing outside, basically, in the spot where the café use to
be. The world looked bad. But they didn’t care. They felt
alive. Barely feeling the conditions around them. A
moment later they went up in flames. But they weren’t
burning. It was amazing. They both could
see they were engulfed in flames. Yet they were not burning. And just as fast
as they went up in flames, it rose to their heads and
then went down towards their feet and out towards the
world. Everywhere around them instantly went up in
flames. Everything. They could feel the rumble of the flames going
across cities, countries, continents. The world was ending. But Free
and Dom kept on kissing…they even connected in that
time. Face to face. Eventually, the earth’s crust started
to disintegrate, mantel and then the core exploded. Before
they knew it earth was gone. They were in
space. Naked. Alone.
But connected and together.
By: Berggie Vic
N Tory
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