As soon as Jane heard the sky screaming, she"d known. Everyone knew. It was coming. It was coming again. No chance of making it underground this time, or into a cupboard under the stairs. "Oh God," Jane whispered and she brought the palms of her hands together as she closed her eyes and prayed. Noticing her trembling, a hand slid down to find hers. In that tiniest splinter of a second Jane turned to look up at Will who looked down at her, his face lit from the shadows by the burning red of a city on fire; he held her gaze with an invisible cord to express a thousand things to her in that moment, just in case it was their last. His eyes said don"t worry, just keep looking at me. Just keep looking at me.
The shrieking stopped for a second as the world ceased turning. Then all was black and
