Yesterday's Gone: Season Six by Sean Platt & David Wright

Author:Sean Platt & David Wright [Platt, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: post-apocalyptic serial
Publisher: Collective Inkwell
Published: 2015-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 3 — Mary Olson

No, it can’t be.

Paola?

Mary listened as the footsteps behind her came closer. Then the girl stepped into view.

It was her!

“Paola?” Mary couldn’t stop the tears streaming down her face.

Paola stood in a long dark-blue dress. She looked slightly different, slightly older, nineteen or so, but there was no mistaking her daughter: long dark hair, large brown eyes, small lips, trembling as she wept. It was somehow, impossibly Paola!

Paola collapsed onto Mary, hugging her as best she could with her mother naked and strapped to the table, crying in her ear. “I missed you so much, Mom!”

Her daughter’s hair covering Mary’s face, she inhaled the girl’s scent, leaving no doubt that this was, in fact, her daughter, still somehow alive.

“I missed you, too. Oh, God, I missed you so much. How? How are you still alive?”

It hit her before either of them spoke. Paola was alive in the same way that Desmond was — animated by the aliens. Likely hijacked.

Mary let out a scream. Paola jumped back, startled.

“You’re not my daughter!”

Paola pushed her hair back from her tear-stained face, eyes wide, hurt. “What?”

“You’re not my daughter! You’re a corpse, pretending to be Paola.”

“No, Mom, it’s me!”

Mary stared at the girl, desperate to believe her, to know that somehow Paola was alive. But nobody could survive the gunshot wound she’d seen her daughter take to the head.

Mary closed her eyes. She couldn’t look at this mockery to Paola’s memory any longer.

“Please, Mommy, it’s me. It’s Paola.” She reached out to embrace Mary again.

Mary screamed, flinching from the thing’s touch, shaking her head, “Get away! Get away!”

“She is your daughter,” Desmond said.

Now she had Desmond, speaking in his normal voice, and Paola, begging her to see them as the humans she once knew and loved.

She squeezed her eyes tighter, screaming to drown their voices, “Gettttttt ouuuuuuttttttt!!”

Mary screamed until her throat was raw, sore, and cracking.

She finally stopped. The room was silent except for her sobbing.

Are they gone?

Mary opened her eyes to an empty room. The abominations pretending to be her daughter and lover were gone.

Mary never thought she’d experience anything worse than Paola’s death.

Now she knew how wrong she’d been.

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