2010-02-08: FB: Late Lamented

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Date Set: August 9th, 2009

Summary:

Kitty is too late.


Six Months Ago…

"Late Lamented"

Las Vegas, Nevada

The sun is high in the sky as the young businesswoman known as Kitty Hanner steps down from the private plane that she used to fly over the Vegas. Dressed in a dark blue skirt along with a cute red blouse and some very nice looking heels. Kitty looks as she always does now, professional and put together. The bag she is carry vibrates and she looks down at her smart phone to see that she has received a voicemail from someone.. oh Niki!

The young woman smiles as she touches the screen to bring the voicemail up and presses the phone to her ear, one hand on her hip.

"Hi Kitty, call me back when you land, it's Niki. We're headed to the Museum of …" There's a pause and a rustle, a different, male voice answering — undoubtedly //one of the many boys of her family — before her voice pops up, good-natured and bright. "…Science and Technology for awhile, I thought after maybe we could meet up for dinner. We're almost there, I'll see you later!"//

Kit nods her head as if she is talking to Niki and she smiles as she ends the voicemail and begins to place the phone back into her purse. Her hair, which is in something of a bun, ruffles when the wind blows through it and she looks up towards the sky, just as her eyes turn a milk white and a vision can be felt heading her direction, it slams into Kitty, with the force of someone charging her. Back stiffens and mouth drops open at what she sees.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY — a sign inside crashes to the ground and breaks.

The building keeps collapsing. More keeps piling on, rubble raining down from the ceiling — and maybe the floor, the walls above, the second level. If she let go now— who knows what could happen. It could collapse on Micah and Cam. The more debris rains down, the harder it is for Niki to hold it up. Beneath the hems of her jeans, her boots slide against the dirty tile floor. She chokes, fighting against the pressure and trying not to cry.

She watches until she sees that D.L. is there, and that he has Micah and Cam and they're going to be okay: she watches as he swings them, phased, into the safety of the vault, and lets go.

And then she lets go because she can't hold on any longer.

They're through the wall and in the VAULT they'd seen prior. Ironically nothing is falling in here; nothing crashes through. The VAULT maintains its integrity under the weight of the building. As Micah opens his eyes he breathes a little easier, but only for a moment. Tears stream down his eyes as the reality strikes. The dust has collected along his clothing, is matted in curls, and streams down his face in muddied tears. He calls as loudly as he can through the wall, pressing his hands against it semi-frantically, "Mom! Dad!"

**CRASH "MOM!!! DAD!!!"

When the vision ends, Kitty stumbles back a few feet and is breathing hard, she can taste the smoke in the air and she coughs. A few men rush forward to help her, but Kitty waves them off and then she's shoving her phone in her bag and running towards a car waiting for her. She slides into the driver seat and before anyone can say anything, the young seer is zooming out of the parking lot and onto the street, not obeying any traffic laws as she makes her way to the museum.

She tries to call Niki a few times but doesn't get an answer, her eyes brim with tears as she thinks back to when she had the vision of her parent's murder and how she couldn't save them either. "Please.. please." She says to herself, as she nears the museum.

By the time Kitty arrives, the dust has settled. The museum is in ruins. Glass is scattered all over the area. The car windows in the parking lot are blown out. Police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and news vans encircle what was once a small museum at the edge of the desert.

They're calling it an earthquake, if the woman, a reporter, speaking into a camera for the local news in front of the tape sectioning off the disaster zone, has her story correct. "…Reporting up to four people dead in the apparent tremor or earthquake that rocked the Nevada Museum of Science and Technology today…"

Behind the reporter, men and women — professionals dirtied by digging through the rubble — load a shape covered in a body bag into the ambulance on a stretcher.

No sign of Niki. No sign of D.L. No sign of Micah and Cam either, for that matter.

"Niki!! Micah!! Cam!! D.L.!!" Kitty yells all at once, and she jumps out of the car and rushes through the crowd, trying to get to the rubble. The police barrier, she hops over it and dodges a few of the official personnel on site. She tries to dive through the glass and rubble, doing anything to help her friends.

Two of the police officers grab her by the arms and try to pull her away, but she stomps on their feet and scrambles forward, tears falling from her face she nears the rubble and then lays her hand on a piece of the building, trying to see if she can a way inside. The crowd would hear her gasp and drops to her knees, hand glued to the rubble as her head drops to her chest, though what the people can't see is that Kitty's eyes, wet from her tears haved changed to their white coloring and she is indeed having a vision.

Kitty will be able to see it all: that the glass windows shattered before the building started to come down, that Cam and Micah were almost trapped, that D.L. got a woman trapped and alone to safety as Niki saved the kids from being crushed — and how D.L. was able to phase them into the vault but was unable to stop everything from falling down on him in that key moment while Niki couldn't hold the ceiling up any longer.

She can see the men in black gear, lurking around the collapsed building before the dust settles, and the firefighters and paramedics finding Cam and Micah safe in the vault. But she's too late.

As the vision ends, the young CEO looks up towards the sky and then to the rubble and then back towards the crowd. Her scream is one of pain and sorrow.. a scream that shocks the crowd as police officers try to help her and then she sags in their arms. Head lolls to the side as she has passed out, taken to a hospital to see if there are any injuries she has sustained, she will awaken to a room alone.. without her friends.. gone forever.

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