"Concentrate!!"

"I'm doing it as much as I can" 

" Look, you are new here so I'm going easy this time. I'm your mentor. You do as I say if you want to live, or you leave this room and never come back. Your choice."

He nodded. Although he hated it, he knew she was right. It was do or die. 

"Good. Now concentrate!! Focus your mind on the task at hand. Think about nothing else. Let's try again."

He did as he was told. He forgot about everything but the task at hand. After a few minutes, it seemed to work. The birds stopped flying, the leaves stopped rustling. Though it was only for a few seconds, he'd finally done it. 

He'd stopped time.
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Mark was a normal kid. He thought he had the best life ever. He had everything. Loving grandparents who treated him as their own. Friends who were there for him wherever he needed. He never wished for anything more than what he had. He was happy.

All that changed when he met Claire. She was the kinda person who grows on you. She opened the path for him to a life he never knew was destined to have and he discovered that he was so much more than merely normal.

But now his secret is out and his life and the lives of those he loves are in danger. Now he has to choose between his family and his destiny and the fate of the world depends upon his choice.

Timeless Teenagers

Claire knew they were in danger and that it was a bad idea to stay as long as they had. She’d been too careless in trying to keep Mark comfortable and in that she might’ve condemned them both. She wasn’t one to make her decisions based on emotions but this situation had her reverting back to her childhood self and that was dangerous. 


Even when she got out, part of her knew Mark wouldn’t stay in the car. She wasn’t that surprised to see him come out but it annoyed her nonetheless. Couldn’t he just listen for once? 


Her leg was messed up but she would’ve figured something out if it weren’t for Mark trying to play the hero. Her gun was almost out of bullets and the Raptors had already woken up. Saul would be up soon too, they had to get out of there as soon as possible. 


Survival Instinct