A Show of Reality
Copyright© 2007 by Bysshe
Epilogue
Science Fiction Sex Story: Epilogue - A lawyer finds more than he bargained for when he tries to help a young girl that seemingly has no past. Against his own will, he's drawn into her story, discovering that she's either absolutely crazy -- or the victim of someone that can seemingly bend and twist reality itself. Together they must find and stop this dark figure before he destroys them.
Caution: This Science Fiction Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Ma/ft Consensual Romantic NonConsensual Coercion Mind Control Slavery Science Fiction Group Sex Orgy Oral Sex Anal Sex Body Modification
And that's what happened five years ago, when a hot August day and a power failure in the northeastern United States changed a few lives, and I changed them again, for better or for worse.
For better or for worse.
I thought a lot about what I should do when I had the power, for those few brief ( minutes / days / years / lifetimes ) when I saw everything and understood how everything fit together. And I remember the fear that came with that knowing, the terror that what I was doing wasn't right, wasn't fair. And the farther I had tried to look into the future to see what would happen, the fuzzier the little silvery pieces had gotten. So I just tried my best.
I could not fix Lauren's life, or Courtney's life, or Lisa's life. I tried to do something. Courtney Collins was a host on a gab-fest called "The View," now. I couldn't restore her family and friends, and I didn't think I had the right to take away her memories of what had happened to her. I thought, then, if I had seen things unfold correctly, that this would be a stepping stone for her that would have her end up pretty close to where she started.
Lisa Antoine was in Hollywood again. She moved there with her boyfriend, a brilliant computer programmer and designer. With no criminal record. I wrestled with letting Brock remember what happened and decided that I couldn't risk it. But he did deserve some reward for everything he'd done, and everything he'd been willing to do. I didn't write Lisa and Brock together; that's how they turned out. I did write some things into the world that gave Lisa an edge with casting directors everywhere, and I hoped this would be enough for her to feel like she hadn't lost everything. Her memories, like Courtney's, I left in place. I didn't feel I had the right to erase her journey. Both Lisa and Courtney I tried to slip back in the stream of the world as smoothly as I could. Only their memories were left as a testament to what was.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Lauren had a similar edge, if she wanted to take it. She could audition again and make it though American Idol. I didn't want her to be with me because she felt she had no choices. I explained everything I had done, and I let her know I'd support her in whatever she wanted to do. And I asked her to wait a week or two before she decided anything at all; I told her I thought that the worst time to be making life-altering decisions was just after having been though life-altering events.
