Yesterday's Gone: Season Three (THE POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIAL THRILLER) Read online

  Contents

  Copyright

  ::EPISODE 13::

  Author’s Note

  Previously…

  CHAPTER 1 — Other Will Bishop

  CHAPTER 2 — Boricio Wolfe Part 1

  CHAPTER 3 — Charlie Wilkens Part 1

  CHAPTER 4 — Luca Harding Part 1

  CHAPTER 5 — Edward Keenan Part 1

  CHAPTER 6 — Boricio Wolfe Part 2

  CHAPTER 7 — Will Bishop

  CHAPTER 8 — Edward Keenan Part 2

  CHAPTER 9 — Luca Harding Part 2

  CHAPTER 10 — Charlie Wilkens — Part 2

  CHAPTER 11 — (Other) Luca

  ::EPISODE 14::

  Author’s Note:

  CHAPTER 1 — Boricio Bishop

  CHAPTER 2 — Charlie Wilkens Part 1

  CHAPTER 3 — Brent Foster Part 1

  CHAPTER 4 — (Other) Will Bishop

  CHAPTER 5 — Boricio Bishop Part 2

  CHAPTER 6 — Brent Foster Part 2

  CHAPTER 7 — Luca Bishop

  CHAPTER 8 — Charlie Wilkens Part 2

  CHAPTER 9 — Boricio Bishop Part 3

  CHAPTER 10 — Charlie Wilkens Part 3

  ::EPISODE 15::

  CHAPTER 1 — Teagan McLachlan

  CHAPTER 2 — Boricio Bishop

  CHAPTER 3 — Charlie Wilkens Part 1

  CHAPTER 4 — Mary Olson

  Chapter 5 — Teagan McLachlan

  CHAPTER 6 — Boricio Bishop Part 2

  CHAPTER 7 — Charlie Wilkens Part 2

  CHAPTER 8 — Mary Olson Part 2

  CHAPTER 9 — Other Ed Keenan

  Chapter 10 — Boricio Bishop

  ::EPISODE 16::

  CHAPTER 1 — Boricio Bishop

  CHAPTER 2 — Ed Keenan

  CHAPTER 3 — Luca Harding

  CHAPTER 4 — Other Ed Keenan

  CHAPTER 5 — Boricio Bishop

  CHAPTER 6 — Callie Thompson

  CHAPTER 7 — Mary Olson

  CHAPTER 8 — “The Prophet”

  CHAPTER 9 — Charlie Wilkens

  CHAPTER 10 — Boricio Bishop

  CHAPTER 11 — Boricio Bishop

  ::EPISODE 17::

  CHAPTER 1 — Luca Bishop

  CHAPTER 2 — Brent Foster

  CHAPTER 3 — The Prophet

  CHAPTER 4 — Ryan Olson Part 1

  CHAPTER 5 — Boricio Wolfe Part 1

  CHAPTER 6 — Boricio Bishop Part 1

  CHAPTER 7 — Ryan Olson Part 1

  CHAPTER 8 — Boricio Bishop Part 2

  CHAPTER 9 — Boricio Wolfe Part 2

  CHAPTER 10 — Ryan Olson Part 2

  ::EPISODE 18::

  CHAPTER 1 — Luca Harding

  CHAPTER 2 — Boricio Bishop Part 1

  CHAPTER 3 — “Charlie”

  CHAPTER 4 — Other Ed Keenan

  CHAPTER 5 — Ryan Olson Part 1

  CHAPTER 6 — Brent Foster Part 1

  CHAPTER 7 — Boricio Wolfe Part 1

  CHAPTER 8 — Boricio Bishop Part 2

  CHAPTER 9 — Ed Keenan Part 1

  Chapter 10 — Boricio Wolfe Part 2

  CHAPTER 11 — Ryan Olson Part 2

  CHAPTER 12 — Callie Thompson

  CHAPTER 13 — Boricio Wolfe Part 2

  CHAPTER 14 — Luca Bishop

  CHAPTER 15 — Ed Keenan Part 2

  CHAPTER 16 — Paola Olson

  CHAPTER 17 — Brent Foster Part 2

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  YESTERDAY’S GONE

  EPISODE 13

  “Paths Not Taken”

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  Author’s Note

  Welcome to Season Three of Yesterday’s Gone.

  We’d like to begin by thanking you, the reader, for making this series such a success!

  When we started this story last summer, it was an experiment in serialized fiction — an experiment we hoped would work — but an experiment, nonetheless. We mentioned our influences in prior author’s notes, and why we wanted to do serialized fiction, and how now seemed like the time for serials.

  But we weren’t certain how well serials would work.

  We’re thrilled to say that thanks to you, we’re now able to write fiction full time — which was merely a dream this time last year.

  You supported Yesterday’s Gone, plus our other serials, ForNevermore and WhiteSpace.

  Thank you!

  While we’re able to make a modest living from our writing, we’ve not signed any book or movie deals, or anything else that would eliminate the stress from our weekly production or turn our business model into a certainty. We’re working hard to create the kind of work that gets people talking, like 50 Shades of Grey. Once that happens, we’ll be able to write with the confidence that comes with knowing we can make a living from our stories for a while.

  We are so close, yet still so far.

  BREAK-OUT SEASON!

  Season Two of Yesterday’s Gone was the season that showed us we had something special, though.

  More readers were finding us. Daily emails started pouring in, asking when Season Three would start. And we started getting our first haters! You know you’re doing something right when the haters start hating.

  People were suddenly paying attention to our story. And we felt pressure not to drop the ball! This season combines our lessons learned from Seasons One and Two of Yesterday’s Gone, plus the first seasons of WhiteSpace and ForNevermore, so that we could bring you the perfect blend of character, scares, action, pacing, and, of course, our WTF cliffhangers!

  Like LOST, we’ve accumulated many questions over the previous twelve episodes. This season answers the question: What happened on October 15?

  We’ll also be answering many more questions and connecting the dots of many of the mysteries. The main storyline for Season Thre
e is our favorite so far.

  OUR GOAL

  While we haven’t yet “made it,” we’re on the right path. You’ve told us in sales, reviews, and emails.

  We’re still working writers and writing our asses off, sticking to the goal we set for ourselves in January — to release a new book every week in 2012 — either an episode of our serialized stories, or a short story.

  We want to make 2012 the year of the serial!

  And thanks to you — it might just happen.

  Thank you for taking a chance on a couple of indie authors and allowing us into your heads to tell you our weird little tales each week. Please enjoy, and remember, every review matters.

  Sean Platt &

  David Wright

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  Previously…

  Here’s a quick refresher of what happened in Season Two of Yesterday’s Gone. Not all the details — that would take forever — but enough to remind you of what you need to know going into Season Three. We’ll update you on other story lines as necessary during the season.

  On October 15, 2011, all but a handful of people vanished from the planet.

  Except, as mysterious government agent Ed Keenan and Brent Foster discovered at Black Island Research Facility on an island off New York — the rest of the world didn’t vanish — they, along with a bunch of other people did. And they were brought to an alternate Earth for reasons unknown. A world which lost most of its people at the exact same moment they were pulled over.

  Ed and Brent were tasked to go south to find a person believed to have something to do with what happened, a man named Boricio.

  Boricio Wolfe is a serial killer/rapist who, through circumstance, wound up partnering with a group of young people including Charlie, Adam, and Cassie (who Charlie has a crush on), along with a few other misfits, who have no idea how bad Boricio truly is.

  Shortly after a skirmish with a group of bandits, Charlie, Adam, and Cassidy wound up getting lost in a freak tornado that decimated a store they were hiding in. After the storm, the three were separated from one another, at which time Cassie was abducted by unseen men in a black van.

  Charlie and Adam went off in search of Cassie. Charlie nearly died during a snowstorm, but was dragged to safety by Adam. They found their way back to the compound to find Boricio gone, and a former member of their group turned monster, trying to kill them. They escaped and went off in search of Cassie. They found a van on the side of the road. As they investigated, they were shot with tranquilizer darts by someone.

  Boricio Wolfe, searching for Charlie, Adam, and Cassie, found himself led to the gates of a church and compound called The Sanctuary, a place he, Charlie, and Adam had been held prisoner months back by the cult.

  Upon his arrival, Boricio was surprised that nobody recognizes him. There has been something of a turnover issue at the church, apparently.

  The Sanctuary is run by an enigmatic old man calling himself The Prophet, on the account that he’d seen events of October 15 before they happened. The Prophet runs a strict old school Christian church where morality is imposed with violence. The Prophet also had something to do with events, as he was given a vial by someone. When he opened it, everyone vanished, in what he assumes was The Rapture.

  Unbeknownst to The Prophet, one of the men he took in, John, is actually part of the evil plaguing the world, hiding in the shell of a human, waiting and biding its time for the right moment.

  John, before his transformation, was part of a group of survivors from Warson Woods, which includes Desmond, Mary, her daughter Paola, Jimmy (who the possessed John secretly killed), who also wound up at The Sanctuary when John rolled in to save the day when the barn they were staying at was overrun by monsters. At first, The Sanctuary seems just that — a safe place where the monsters roaming the world cannot breach. So they accept an invitation by John to stay.

  The Warson Woods group also saw the addition of two members, the eight year old Luca, and a former Air Force researcher, Will, who also saw the events of October 15 in a dream. He also dreamed of meeting Luca, and knew that he had to protect him.

  Luca discovered that he has an ability to heal people, but he ages each time he does, becoming a child in a young man’s body. Soon, Brother Rei, began to crack down, first targeting a young girl, Rebecca, who he punished by putting her in a box for a week after convincing her suitor, Carl, to betray her, and say that she seduced him.

  Then, he targeted Luca, who had begun to bond with Rebecca as he astral projected himself into her head and began to fall for her. When Luca tried to save Rebecca, Brother Rei and his “Brothers” attacked Luca and Desmond — with some help from Boricio, who was just playing the cards he’s dealt. Brother Rei, who was planning a coup of The Sanctuary, believed that Desmond and Luca knew of spies within the ranks and began to torture them.

  Soon, all hell broke loose at The Sanctuary as Rei’s uprising began since The Prophet was bedridden thanks to his plot to poison the leader. Brother Rei shot John dead. Then his Brothers dragged Mary and Paola to The Hole, where he was holding Desmond, Luca, and Linc, another addition to the Warson Woods group. Rei shocked them all by shooting the child, Paola, and then killing her mother, Mary, along with Mary and Desmond’s unborn child.

  Brother Rei left the room to join in the uprising, leaving his goons, now including Boricio, to finish off Desmond and Luca.

  Luca tried to communicate with Will, who had left before events went bad, to come back to save them. He soon found himself using his growing powers to go into Boricio’s head, where he saw Boricio’s inner child being abused. Luca tried to get through to Boricio to help them by appealing to the child within him. Boricio turned on him, however, stalking Luca back to his own childhood home where Boricio attempted to injure him. Luca then found a way back to the younger Boricio and they soon found themselves watching another reality play out — one where Boricio hadn’t become a serial killer, but had been adopted by Will, of all people, and was living a happy life.

  Luca then fixed something within Boricio. When Boricio came to in the Hole, he helped Desmond and Luca break free.

  However, Luca’s attempts to heal Mary and Paola proved fruitless.

  Devastated, Desmond left the Hole to seek vengeance on Brother Rei. Unbeknownst to them, however, the darkness that was in John left John’s body and infiltrated The Prophet, who then left The Sanctuary and called his monsters from the woods surrounding to invade and kill everyone.

  Boricio, now operating somewhat under Luca’s influence, helped Luca, Linc, and Rebecca fight off the monsters as war broke out, buildings were set on fire, and several of the church’s members fled in vehicles. Desmond killed Rei, but was then murdered by one of the many monsters. Boricio, Linc, Rebecca, and Luca retreated to the barn, as the monsters swarmed in to attack.

  Will, who had tried years ago to save his boyfriend from becoming crippled in an accident, wound up getting him killed when he tried to “find a loophole” to change the future he’d seen. Now, he is a slave to fate and his visions, and abides by them, no matter what, for fear of what might happen if he goes against his visions. Fate, as Will learned, could be cruel when you tried to circumvent its plans. Before all hell broke loose, Will left the Sanctuary, because his visions had told him to.

  He returned to find that only Boricio and Luca had survived.

  However, this wasn’t what fate had told him should have happened.

  So Will corrected reality by shooting Luca.

  And now, Season Three…

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  CHAPTER 1 — Other Will Bishop

  Other Earth

  June 14, 2011

  Black Island Research Facility

  Black Island, New York

  FOUR MONTHS BEFORE THE OCTOBER 15 EVENT…

  One month had passed since the boy last opened his eyes.

  When W
ill got the call from Boricio, his heart nearly burst from his chest. “Your brother? He’s okay?”

  “Yes, Dad, he’s fine.”

  “I’ll be right there,” Will said, almost falling as he jumped from his seat and raced down the hall, to the elevator, and slipped inside just as the doors were closing.

  Will smiled at the researcher already standing in the elevator — a man whose name Will didn’t know, even though he’d seen him several times. The keycard/badge hanging from the man’s lanyard said, “Eric Rodgers: Aerospace Division.”

  Though Will had occasionally consulted for the aerospace division of Black Island, most of his work was now with the psychic warfare and genetic engineering branches. He rarely spoke with anyone outside of his division, except for the all too regular but unavoidable awkward moments in the elevators and dining hall.

  Will closed his eyes, trying not to pick up any of the man’s thoughts. Too late.

  Oh shit, it’s the freaky guy. Is he reading my mind now? Oh shit. Stop thinking. Think about anything other than last night . . . cocaine . . . Shit! Did he hear that? Oh God . . . Come on elevator, come the fuck on!

  Will kept his eyes closed to shield his vision from the man’s nervous face.

  The elevator stopped on the third floor and the man rushed off, saying, “Good day, sir,” only when he was three steps away.

  Will couldn’t think of anything to say before the elevator doors closed and he was on his way to Level Seven. Alone, his mind returned to his son who had somehow miraculously, recovered. The doctors said he might never surface from the coma. The operation to remove the tumor in his brain was enough of a risk to be considered a death sentence.

  And yet, four weeks later, he had opened his eyes.