"Community" - Flash Forward - PG-13 - Part 2
On October 6th, the planet blacked out for two minutes and seventeen seconds.
The whole world saw the future.
Previously on "Community Forward"...
Annie was glued to the TV whenever Lloyd Simcoe was on. A few weeks ago, when he had announced to the world that the CERN super collider was the cause of the black out, it was like a weight had been taken off her shoulders. But then Dr. Simcoe had gone on to explain about how we are just points of light on a map and the future was fixed and whatever we saw would happen, the weight came back and settled on her chest.
She had been getting ready for bed, that part was true. But the part about the wedding dress hanging on the back of her door and the engagement photo on her dresser, that she kept to herself. After all, who would believe her if she said in two year she would be getting married to...
No, it was better this way.
Jeff had just taken a sip of his coffee when his phone dinged and showed a new e-mail.
Subject: From Aurora
Three days ago Jeff had posted his flash forward to the Mosaic site in the hope that whoever had been in the room with him might know something about why he was blind.
The e-mail had only one line.
You weren't really blind.
Well, what the hell did that mean? The incoming address was the from the website, so there was no way for Jeff to reply.
It all came down to time. Time flies when you're having fun. Time waits for no man. Time is the justice that examines all offenders. Time discovers truth. Time will tell.
Well, it had told all right. It blabbed everything and now Annie was left to deal with it. She tried to keep grounded in the group, but at the same time she didn't want to face them. She wanted to tell them the whole of her flash forward, but felt as if they would only see it as a trick to get attention.
But then Britta had sent her a link to an article about Al Gough.
Al had seen his future. He had been talking on the phone to someone who told him that Celia had just been taken off of life support and died. He didn't know any Celia, so he started looking through the Mosaic site. Which is where he saw a transcript of an newspaper article detailing the car crash involving him and Celia Procopides, mother of two. The women he would kill.
Three months after seeing his future, Al Gough took an overdose of sleeping pills and died.
That night Annie went out to a dance club and when the guy she'd been flirting with invited her back to his place, she said yes. After all, the future wasn't set in stone.
“What are you doing?” Jeff looked up to see Annie trying to sit down in her spot - which he had taken over with the classified section of the newspaper.
“My landlord decided that a new year means new rent.” He said with a sigh, “So I'm trying to find a place I can afford that isn't a crack house.”
“You're looking for a new place to live?”
“Didn't I just say that?” Jeff snapped back. “Damn it, I'm sorry Annie. It's just, I've been doing this for hours and I'm getting nowhere.”
“It's fine.” Annie said softly and wasn't that just twisting the knife. Jeff hated it when she used that tone.
“No, it's not.”
Annie smiled at him and pushed the newspaper out of the way. “I'm going to put these up today. Here,” she opened her binder and pulled out a sign.
ROOMS FOR RENT
West Greendale
$350 a month
Full kitchen & laundry privileges
No Smokers
Call Annie
Jeff looked over at Annie, “Really?”
“I'm lucky that there's no mortgage on the house. But there's no way I can go to school and work enough to cover the bills on my own.”
Jeff smiled and crooked an eyebrow, “I don't smoke.”
Annie smiled back, “I know,”
The whole world saw the future.
Previously on "Community Forward"...
Annie was glued to the TV whenever Lloyd Simcoe was on. A few weeks ago, when he had announced to the world that the CERN super collider was the cause of the black out, it was like a weight had been taken off her shoulders. But then Dr. Simcoe had gone on to explain about how we are just points of light on a map and the future was fixed and whatever we saw would happen, the weight came back and settled on her chest.
She had been getting ready for bed, that part was true. But the part about the wedding dress hanging on the back of her door and the engagement photo on her dresser, that she kept to herself. After all, who would believe her if she said in two year she would be getting married to...
No, it was better this way.
Jeff had just taken a sip of his coffee when his phone dinged and showed a new e-mail.
Subject: From Aurora
Three days ago Jeff had posted his flash forward to the Mosaic site in the hope that whoever had been in the room with him might know something about why he was blind.
The e-mail had only one line.
You weren't really blind.
Well, what the hell did that mean? The incoming address was the from the website, so there was no way for Jeff to reply.
It all came down to time. Time flies when you're having fun. Time waits for no man. Time is the justice that examines all offenders. Time discovers truth. Time will tell.
Well, it had told all right. It blabbed everything and now Annie was left to deal with it. She tried to keep grounded in the group, but at the same time she didn't want to face them. She wanted to tell them the whole of her flash forward, but felt as if they would only see it as a trick to get attention.
But then Britta had sent her a link to an article about Al Gough.
Al had seen his future. He had been talking on the phone to someone who told him that Celia had just been taken off of life support and died. He didn't know any Celia, so he started looking through the Mosaic site. Which is where he saw a transcript of an newspaper article detailing the car crash involving him and Celia Procopides, mother of two. The women he would kill.
Three months after seeing his future, Al Gough took an overdose of sleeping pills and died.
That night Annie went out to a dance club and when the guy she'd been flirting with invited her back to his place, she said yes. After all, the future wasn't set in stone.
“What are you doing?” Jeff looked up to see Annie trying to sit down in her spot - which he had taken over with the classified section of the newspaper.
“My landlord decided that a new year means new rent.” He said with a sigh, “So I'm trying to find a place I can afford that isn't a crack house.”
“You're looking for a new place to live?”
“Didn't I just say that?” Jeff snapped back. “Damn it, I'm sorry Annie. It's just, I've been doing this for hours and I'm getting nowhere.”
“It's fine.” Annie said softly and wasn't that just twisting the knife. Jeff hated it when she used that tone.
“No, it's not.”
Annie smiled at him and pushed the newspaper out of the way. “I'm going to put these up today. Here,” she opened her binder and pulled out a sign.
ROOMS FOR RENT
West Greendale
$350 a month
Full kitchen & laundry privileges
No Smokers
Call Annie
Jeff looked over at Annie, “Really?”
“I'm lucky that there's no mortgage on the house. But there's no way I can go to school and work enough to cover the bills on my own.”
Jeff smiled and crooked an eyebrow, “I don't smoke.”
Annie smiled back, “I know,”