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Title: The Perpetual Do-Over
Challenge #69: Amnesty: Do-Over
Fandom: Seven Days
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Summary: Frank sees the world as it is and as it was before he changed it. All in all, it can be a bit hard to take.

It's old hat now. The unspeakable occurs. Maybe hundreds, thousands, if not millions of people die or maybe just one person, one who's 'important' enough . A hop in the sphere and it's seven days before and, if he's fast enough, lucky enough, it never happens. And what was a crater is still a school or the nation that should be mourning is instead simply going about its business like any other day. At any given moment there are two worlds: what should be, the one he saw and lived in, and the one he creates each time he backsteps.

He's seen his friends and co-workers die, many more than once. They die, he backsteps, and they're alive again. He never has to mourn, there simply isn't the time. Seven days. That's the window. That's all the time he has to reset the world, to remake it into something better. Before he could even hope to process any of the things he sees, no matter how terrible or traumatic, he's undone it so it never happens in the first place and there everyone is, standing in front of him, alive.

Except, he'll never stop wondering....

What happens when he fails?

Comments

[identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com wrote:
Jan. 1st, 2014 02:55 am (UTC)
Oh, well done. Both the pressed, stressed feel and the end. Thank you.
[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com wrote:
Jan. 1st, 2014 02:59 am (UTC)
So glad you liked it! :)

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