Station Eleven Novels & Stories

Victor knows this, which is why he spent a fortune on blackout curtains and a whole-house generator that apparently decided tonight was the perfect night to take a vacation. My hands scrambled across the nightstand for my phone. Found it, thumbed the flashlight on. The thin beam shook in my grip as I slid out of bed, bare feet hitting cool marble. Silk camisole, tiny sleep shorts, hair everywhere. I looked like a lunatic and felt like one. I needed another human being. Any human being. Even if that human being happened to be the same infuriating stepson who’d had his thumb on my lip six hours ago.

They were sitting on the sofa, speaking in low voices. Seraphine laughed brightly, her smile blooming like a flower. Raelor noticed the wooden box in my hands and asked instinctively, "What are you carrying that box for?" "Just some discarded medical records," I replied casually. "I brought them back to burn." Raelor nodded. His gaze swept across the now-empty room, confusion flickering in his eyes. "I’ve only been gone a week. Why does it feel like so many things are missing?"

Instead, he buried his face in his hands, ignoring Colton's presence. Colt sighted Brian's phone on the floor on the other side of the room. He went there to pick it up. The phone looked okay except for the cracked screen. A curious colt was about to ask again what warranted Brian to almost destroy his phone when he mistakenly pressed a button and then the picture of Vanessa and Henry came into view. Colton froze. After a few seconds of staring at the picture in shock, he took a glance at his boss who was still seated with his face buried in his hands. Colt looked at the picture on the phone again and sighed.

"With all the tumult, injured Betas, and the interrogations, I forgot to ask about Alice." "She is fine, doing better than expected, I suppose. Though, there has been another complication. It may or may not be connected to this. Zaiden, my Beta's son. He is back, he was present during the attack and saved my mate." Daniel stopped walking and faced me with a horrified expression. "That's fucked up!" "Yeah, it's complicated! Anyway, forget about it. Where is Lenora? I will leave once I have met her." *************** Alice -

Justin remained staring out at the blackened sky from the window. He hadn't spoken to me for some time seemingly content to stand in silence. Emma left for her shift a while ago to prepare breakfast for the morning meal. She wouldn't be back for some time. The stars flickered through the curtains dotting the ceiling in starlight. The snow capped mountains beyond stood proud and ominously against the star flecked sky. “Goodnight Val.” Justin eventually murmured heading for the door.

Jeffrey finally realized that something was wrong with my mental condition, and his movements became much gentler, wrapping his arms around my waist and picking me up from the ground. The feeling of weightlessness caused me to subconsciously wrap my arms around Jeffrey's neck. His heart was softened. "Audrey, it's not that I dislike you. It's just that..." Before he could finish his sentence, the door to the hallway opened. Joanna poked her head out of my room. Inside the lights were lit. She acted a little surprised, "Mr. Chaney, Ms. Houston." Jeffrey was displeased, "You’ve got the room. What?"

When a piece of news caught my attention, I stopped on that channel and my heart nearly exploded. I don't know what happened, but it was the craziest feeling in the universe, my heart had never beaten so fast like that, it felt like I was going to have a sudden heart attack. My hands went cold and my mouth was as dry as the desert. On the news there was the photo of Julian. Not as he currently was, he was different, younger and thinner in the picture. But it was him.

"I'm starving." "You got shot down." Alex smiled. Sarah could see it was a forced smile. Angel stood up with Sarah and followed her to the buffet table. When they got back, Romero and Eric were arguing again about the Chargers and Alex was gone. Something told Sarah Valerie would be getting that call she'd been waiting for.

She sighed and groaned. Dr. Winter sat down, and pulled up her pants, to reveal an inury in her heels. As soon as Chance noticed that, he was shocked and asked, “Do you need something?” “I’ll be fine. It’s just a minor cut.” Dr. Winter sighed. “I have my tetanus shot upto date, don’t worry about me, just do what I asked you to.” she declared. Chance nodded and called the hospital as asked. Once he was done, he noticed that there were multiple calls left on his phone, and while few of them were from Kara, most of them were from none other than Terrence.

The Throne Room was no longer a room: it was the interior of a hyper-active cell. The walls were translucent, pulsing with a violet light so intense it made the air taste like copper and static. In the center of the hall, the map on the floor was turning black as city after city fell into the "Resonance Shock" that Isabella had triggered. Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco were gone, their millions of inhabitants now trapped in a state of biological suspension.