Watching
Watching
Length: One-shot
Genre: Supernatural
Rating: G
Summary: There will always be someone watching you- just waiting to help you.
You could say that when it came to random happenings, to being at the wrong place at the wrong time, she was an expert.
Of course it wasn’t what she wanted, she just happened to have extremely bad luck- or good luck, the way she always came out of it unscathed. Her father called it a gift.
So when she decided to take the short-cut back home from school- through the greenery along the neighborhood stream- she wasn’t all that surprised as she tripped on the roots of a large tree and fell face first into the water. Not that she had a chance to be surprised when fear was the first thing that struck her.
She felt her body fall quite a ways down before she tried swimming back up. She struggled to get out of the water only to find she was caught in the current. She was aimlessly, trying to find up from down. Slowly, her desperation for air became too much and she felt her mouth open unconsciously.
She struggled even more as the water started to fill her lungs, the feeling a burn in her chest. She tried to cough, she tried to scream, she flailed and she struggled. She doesn’t know when her vision went black.
“You should wake up now.”
Her eyes snapped open and she realized that she was in her own room. She opens her mouth to ask what happened, but the words don’t come out.
“You’re lucky.” She hears, and seconds later a man comes into view, almost as if he’d appeared out of thin air in front of her. “If I didn’t watch you so closely, you would have been up there.” He points to her ceiling to emphasize, then gives her a small smile.
She has questions, who are you, how did I get here, you’ve been watching me? The man smiles at her and as if reading her thoughts, he answers, “I’m someone you’ve known since you were born- maybe before that- you just never realize. And like I said, you’re lucky.”
Then he places his hand over her eyes and she blanks out again.
When she wakes up, the man was no longer there. In fact, according o her father, there was no man. She didn’t fall into the water. She’d come home perfectly fine the day before. She ate dinner, did her homework and went to bed.
But she knows there was someone there. And she wonders who they were.
Length: One-shot
Genre: Supernatural
Rating: G
Summary: There will always be someone watching you- just waiting to help you.
You could say that when it came to random happenings, to being at the wrong place at the wrong time, she was an expert.
Of course it wasn’t what she wanted, she just happened to have extremely bad luck- or good luck, the way she always came out of it unscathed. Her father called it a gift.
So when she decided to take the short-cut back home from school- through the greenery along the neighborhood stream- she wasn’t all that surprised as she tripped on the roots of a large tree and fell face first into the water. Not that she had a chance to be surprised when fear was the first thing that struck her.
She felt her body fall quite a ways down before she tried swimming back up. She struggled to get out of the water only to find she was caught in the current. She was aimlessly, trying to find up from down. Slowly, her desperation for air became too much and she felt her mouth open unconsciously.
She struggled even more as the water started to fill her lungs, the feeling a burn in her chest. She tried to cough, she tried to scream, she flailed and she struggled. She doesn’t know when her vision went black.
“You should wake up now.”
Her eyes snapped open and she realized that she was in her own room. She opens her mouth to ask what happened, but the words don’t come out.
“You’re lucky.” She hears, and seconds later a man comes into view, almost as if he’d appeared out of thin air in front of her. “If I didn’t watch you so closely, you would have been up there.” He points to her ceiling to emphasize, then gives her a small smile.
She has questions, who are you, how did I get here, you’ve been watching me? The man smiles at her and as if reading her thoughts, he answers, “I’m someone you’ve known since you were born- maybe before that- you just never realize. And like I said, you’re lucky.”
Then he places his hand over her eyes and she blanks out again.
When she wakes up, the man was no longer there. In fact, according o her father, there was no man. She didn’t fall into the water. She’d come home perfectly fine the day before. She ate dinner, did her homework and went to bed.
But she knows there was someone there. And she wonders who they were.