I Know You Say, I Love You

Is this another universe bleeding through? Is whatever happened on the other earth happening here? You ask both rachels, knowing that one can't answer and one won't. When you ask rachel if this is like what happened to her world right before everything spiralled out of control, she brushes you off. She spends almost every waking hour in the lab these days,. possessed with a franticness that reads less as the thrill of approaching a breakthrough than the panic of attempting to stave off a catastrophe. This world is ending. Rachel will probably not be with you when it does. Let the government and rachel and everyone else deny as much as they want, any one with eyes can