Broken Glass

Part II: Chapter 1

Gadget examined her checklist. It was getting dark, and she needed to get the plan started. She ran her eye over the room, turning in a circle slowly. It had taken her all day, but she'd installed, modified, and confabulated everything necessary for what she had to do tonight... she hoped.

The chances of this all working like it was supposed to the first time seemed so freakishly unlikely it scared her half to death... but it had to be today. She knew it in her heart, knew it from what- what she had told her.

Father's Day. It had to happen on Father's Day, or the plan wouldn't work.

And there was no way Gadget was living another year doing nothing, knowing what she knew now, what she remembered.

Gadget made a check off her list, and tucked it away. Carefully, she pulled up the small comfortable chair she'd made for herself, and arranged herself in it.

She'd gotten the last preparations done just in time, she realized, her eyelids feeling incredibly heavy. She inhaled deeply, breathing the fumes from the chemical mixture she'd spread so liberally through her old home. Groggily, she fumbled in the pocket of her jumpsuit, and pulled out a small metal box. Set into the top was a single button, as large and as red as she could possibly make it.

Gadget put her finger firmly on the button, a hair's breadth of pressure from actually pressing it, and felt herself fall asleep.


Written by James Simonds, Jr.

-ronrab@hotmail.com

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