DreamingAutumn

“Today is the day that you all get your assignments.” The teacher speaking was none other than Kevin, the hardest teacher to please and the toughest trainer. “You all went to a specialized school to become the best at what you were already decent at. Some of you are Scavengers, going to the surface to try to find things of use. Others are Enforcers, the muscle trained in hand-to-hand combat to help keep the shops safe. A few are Engineers, taking what the Scavengers bring down to try getting it to work again. Then there are the Snipers, the small group that will be our first line of defense against anyone or any thing that t

I stroked her hair, brushing the few strands off of her face and stared at her. She looked like she was sleeping, peaceful, with a small smile on her face. It wasn't until to look at her chest that you realized she wasn't breathing, that there was no life in her anymore. The smile had been the last thing she'd given me. A  loud cry pulled me away from her face and I turned to see Kevin holding a small, wiggling bundle in his arms. A tiny, pink arm pushed its way out of the bundle. "It's a girl," Kevin commented. I took one last look at Aurora before I stepped away and walked over to her daughter, our daughter. My heart was heavy with the lo

"Hey, Aura, it's Christmas," Jonas commented as he shook Aurora awake. Aurora swatted his hand away from her shoulder and curled up into a tighter ball on the couch. He rolled his eyes and shook her more. "It's Christmas! Wake up!" Jonas pulled her off of the couch and into his lap where she opened her eyes and glared at him through the sleepy haze she was in. "There  better be a damn good reason you woke me up. I was having a nice dream where I was beating the shit out of Nero and he was begging for mercy," Aurora stated. Jonas laughed and Aurora blinked the sleep away. Ten seconds later she realized that she was sitting in Jonas' lap. A bl

"Holy fuck it's cold! Can we please go back? I think being held captive and tortured is almost better than this bitter cold." "What kind of way to think is that, Aurora? We are free to inflict suffering on ourselves now, so much better than being held and tortured." "Jonas, shut up. At least it was warm there." Jonas grinned. "You two bicker like a married couple, right Kevin?" "I can bust your balls about anything I want," Kevin started, "but you busting theirs is an entirely different matter. You are on your own, Otto." Otto frowned and glanced back to where Aurora was struggling along. They had just broken her out of a raider outpost w

Aurora sat on the ground with her feet flat on the floor, her arms resting on top of her knees and the top of her head leaning against the wall as she stared at the ceiling. She was surrounded on three sides by blank white walls and on the fourth wall there was a single door with a small hole in it so they could shove food through it. She hadn't seen another soul in for what felt like days. Her captors didn't like to put anyone with her, it was part of their plan to get her to break. "You jackasses do realize that I'm a trained sniper, right? I can spend days entertaining myself and not moving!" Aurora called. She could, but mostly she didn'