I got this idea when I was reading The Watcher By James Howe. I have no idea how this story is going to end up, so I'm taking a wing at it (no pun intended).

Disclaimer: I do not own Gazzy, Fang, or anybody else from MR

It all seemed like a dream.

This girl, this girl who had followed us to the end, was finally paying the price.

I had told her it was too dangerous. I told her coming with us would just bring her harm, but she didn't listen. Now we all were stuck in the middle of a field without an escape waiting for death to hit us full in the face.

Everything seemed like it was in slow motion. I remember when we got the few chances to listen to the radio while we were on the run, you would hear stories about near death experiences where somebody fell off a balcony or nearly got hit by a truck. They all said that time seemed to slow down. There was even one man who said that when he fell, he had enough time to think if this was how Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, felt when she fell down the rabbit hole.((AN: I actually did hear this on the radio.)) Of course, I thought this whole time slowing down was complete rubbish. I had had dozens of near death experiences, and time didn't slow down then. Why would it slow down now?

But it did. I'm not sure why it did now. Maybe it was because deep, deep down I knew this was the end. There was no escape this time. Luck wasn't on our side this time.

I even saw everything in HD. The Erasers' fur bristling, and the sun hitting it at an angle that gave the Erasers the look of avenging angels, even if they were very wolfish and not very beautiful angels. The look of pure horror on Angel's face. I knew she didn't mean for her plan to end up this way. We were supposed to find Jeb, get the truth out of him, and be on our merry way. Dying was not on the agenda.

I still don't get it. How the whitecoats could stand doing this to innocent children. Did they enjoy the looks of pain and sadness on our faces? Did they enjoy chasing us like prey and trapping us? I guess I'll never get it.

I could feel Nia's gaze on me. I looked at her and immediately wished I hadn't. There was so much trust in it that I almost wanted to burst into tears. But I didn't. I looked at her and shook my head slightly. We were stuck. "I'm sorry," I whispered to her. Her face showed shock, anger, sadness, but most hope was gone. Then, suddenly, an emotionless mask slid over her face like a wave. At one point one, one half of her face was impassive, while the other half was filled with grief, but soon enough her whole face was blank.

I felt a tug on my arm, and when I turned I saw Gazzy's face. "What's happening?" he whimpered to me. I looked up at Fang for some help. What was I supposed to tell Gazzy? That the impending doom that we had eluded for so long had finally caught up with us? That our 'retirement' was coming? But Fang's look told me all.

"Gazzy, just stay behind me. Don't go anywhere else." I looked at everyone and said a little louder, "everyone just stay behind me."

Don't ask me how I had enough time to say all this. It just seemed to work out.

I turned toward the beasts.

Opened my arms to shield everyone behind me.

And closed my eyes.

All right, I just want to make it clear that this is not just some dark, depressing story. There is more in the story than just this. I just wanted some hard core drama in the prologue. Please review!