Apr. 2nd, 2011

clare_dragonfly: drawing of a man in a brown turtleneck, looking away, text: time for a hundred visions and revisions (Writing: visions and revisions)
Title: Origin Story (goddamn I am uncreative with titles)
Word count: 651
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: [community profile] origfic_bingo B3: apocalypse
Notes: Those who have read earlier pieces set in this world may notice that I've changed the world a little bit... I'm still working it out, really.


By the time they realized it hadn’t been China that had sent the first bombs, it was too late.

They’d been clever: the first nukes hit close enough to DC to send the capital into a full-scale panic, but left the politicians and the Pentagon alive and intact enough to plan retaliation.

Then there were the bombs up and down the California coast. It wasn’t clear whether they planned it or it was just serendipitous timing, but the earthquake that followed the bombs multiplied the destruction. And they left behind just enough evidence to point to China.

Refugees poured from the coasts by the millions. Then they bombed the refugees.

But even terrorists slip up eventually.Read more... )

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