Amnesty XXX: 292:Unexpected/297: Telephone - Original - Too Soon, Too Known, Too True

[apachefirecat]

Title: Too Soon, Too Known, Too True
Original (or) Fandom: Original
Rating: G/K
Notes: It's too soon, but she knows it's nonetheless true.






She cries out, aged eyes flinging open from a nap that both had not been wanted and yet had not lasted long enough, just as so many things in her long, tragic life had not lasted long enough. "DON'T!" she cries even as a hand touches the ringing telephone. They don't listen. They never do, just as no one ever listens when she warns them of her prophecies.

They're more than visions. They're the truth. Nothing is unexpected when you have the eyesight she does, but no one ever listens.

Tears fall down a wrinkled face. Her daughter is dead.



The End

Comments

[mxcatmoon]

How awful for her! A start look at the dark parts of being psychic. Especially when you can't help anyone because they won't listen. 😢

[apachefirecat]

It's actually based a little off of my own RL events. I've never really been all that psychic, but I DID have one moment when I almost fell out in the shower one night while my Dad was gone on yet ANOTHER beer run. When I got out of the shower, I heard the phone ringing, and I just KNEW he'd been in a wreck. Sure enough, he'd flipped the car three times, totaled it, and took out three mailboxes when doing so was still considered a felony. I miss him, I love him, but he was definitely a drunk. And no, he didn't die then. That was back in 2000, and he managed to live through it ONLY because his body was so limber. He passed 15 years later, because he still couldn't leave the bottle alone.

[mxcatmoon]

Sorry to hear about your dad. Addictions are rough on everyone.

Same here re: being psychic. I've had a few times of 'knowing' things, and my mom & I had a bond where we often knew things about the other, but nothing major. Nowadays I suffer from severe anxiety, so all that psychic stuff goes out the window because I'm always having a feeling something bad is about to happen.