Sterling's rude awakening

"What is going on" I just kept asking her, but she was in a rush and wouldn't tell me anything.

"You need to speed up time.."

"Right, and how am I going to do that? I can't even make a submarine with auto pilot."

"Uh, you have other powers."

Before I could ask her anything else she was out the door. Rain came up behind me. She stood silently and didn't say a word until I spoke, "what is going on here? and why are so so quiet all the time now?"

"I, uh, there's something I've been meaning to tell you. But this is hardly the time or place."

"Now is as good a time as any, especially if I die the minute I leave this building."

"You can't die, you need to take care of us." she stopped short, realizing what she'd just said.

I just stared at her in disbelief. She answered the question in my eyes with a crooked smile. "Right, then I guess I will have to go out there and fight for you." I said boldly, trying to sound macho. Maybe I over did it a little, because she giggled a little as I turned and marched towards the door. I had to think of something quick, something romantic and maybe a little cliche.

So I took a line from the popular earth film Gone with the Wind, "And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, [Rain]. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you."

With that I was out the door.

....to be continued