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Move outta the way asshole!’ shouts someone from another car.

Slamming on the brakes as a car cuts in front of them, his mother can only sigh. Looking around traffic has nearly come to a halt with almost everyone trying to fight for a better position in line. ‘If only people would take their time and work together, things would probably go smoother,’ thinks Spencer.

For only eight, he has a lot of insight and ideas. Where he got it from his mother could only wonder. Of course what she didn’t know or anyone for that matter was he saw things that no one else did. Things not like the movies, ghosts or spirits with horrible injuries that only a few can see. No these were truly horrible. The movies were a walk in the park in comparison. Spencer couldn’t tell you how long he had what people would call a gift, but it was long enough to help push him toward a little growing up.

‘Mommy, we need to get off this bridge and away from here,’ he says looking at his mother with tears welling up in his eyes.

‘My God honey, what’s wrong? Why are crying?’

Thinking she would think his imagination was running wild again, he says, ‘I’m scared the bridge won’t be here much longer.’

With that natural compassion mothers seem to have she says, ‘Oh sweetie, nothing like that is going to happen, these things are like sold rocks.’

With that, all hell literally breaks loose. The ground, if a bridge could be called that, starts shaking, glass breaks, people scream. But the roars, the roars only Spencer could hear, the sight of them, only he could see. The fear wells up inside of him. The pain is extreme.

He wakes up in a cold sweet, heart racing, another nightmare. The same nightmare. The only nightmare Spencer ever has.

That was the day that changed his life forever. Out of the two hundred and thirty-four people on the bridge that day, he was the one and only survivor to be alive. Sure he had a few bumps and bruises but that was all. How he survived, God only knew.

Now being much older, he is no longer is bothered by what he saw that day. Hell, he sees it all more too often then he likes. What bothers him, is watching his mother die over and over every time he has the dream.

Swinging his legs over the side of the bed, he says, ‘Another glorious day,’ with all the sarcasm he can muster.

Special Agent Spencer Reeds, a recent promotion from Agent, works for an agency that combats terrorism. The agency is as secret as UFOs and aliens really being in existence. Everyone knows him as FBI Special Agent, but that’s only a scratch on the surface.

He looks at the clock, bright red glowing 3:47 A.M. ‘Well, at least I got to sleep late,’ he mutters.

He starts for the bathroom when the phone rings. In his line of work the phone ringing is as normal as someone getting sleep.

‘Reeds,’ he answers with slight irritation in his voice.

‘Spence, we need you at HQ,’ Sam says in a hurried voice.

‘Yeah, give me fifteen,’ he replies with a little more enthusiasm.

‘See you then.’

Maybe my day won’t be bad after all.

He enjoys his job, more then he let anyone know. He loves life as well. He could do without the dreams.

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