Unnatural (IC)

Ash was none to happy to be at a big high school party. As far as he was concerned is was just more preppy bull shit. But his best mates, Jackson Red, better known as Jacks, and Viola Branche, better known as Vi, had dragged him along. Apparently there was a rumor going around that some hotshot underground DJ was gonna be spinning at the party, and there were sure to be plenty of drugs drifting around a party this size. Still, this really wasn't Ash's scene, so after snagging a bottle of Jack Daniels from the kitchen, he clambered up the side of the house to the roof.

He liked it up here. He could feel the music rumbling beneath him, not bad, but he sure didn't get the hype if this was the DJ Vi had been so pumped to see. Below was a see of wavering lights, glowsticks spinning around, and above, a sea of black with stars floating across it. Smiling, Ash popped a handfull of pills into his mouth, and chased them down his throat with a big swig from the bottle of Jack. Then he lit up a cigarette, and lay down against the roof, enjoying the view, and the warm buzzing filling his veins.

Ash was halfway through the bottle, three joints, and four more cigarettes deep, when Vi scrabbled up beside him.

"Jesus Ash!" She exclaimed, "Have you been hiding out here by yourself all night?"

Ash shrugged in response, taking another swig from the bottle, before passing it to her. He was definitely intoxicated, but his tolerance was high enough that his head was still clear enough to think, a problem he was seeking to remedy.

"You know I hate those preppy fucks." Ash said, lighting up another smoke.

"Yeah, but it's not just those preppy fucks down there Ash," Vi complained, "It's me and Jacks, and Danny's get a boatload of pill's, and Jace has some seriously quality opiates. Well, he only has a couple pills, he lost at least half somehow."

Ash ducked his head to hide his grin, but not quickly enough. Vi spotted the smile, and her mouth popped open with a surprised laugh.

"You dick!" She squealed, punching him in the arm. "Where you gonna share?"

Ash smiled again and passed her a pill, as he popped another himself. Jacks rolled over the lip of the roof ledge just as they took their pills, and just let himself continue rolling until he came to a stop against Ash and Vi, then lifted his head, demanding with a drunken smile, "Let'sko, pill me mate!"

For a while the three enjoyed the night sky, the music and revelry around them as they got high off stolen goods, and smoked cigarettes stolen from drugstores. Ash was beginning to think this wasn't such a bad party after all, as long as it was just this private little gathering of theirs. It was like they were laughing at the rest of the school, playing out their stupid pre-ordained, normal lives below them, while Ash and Vi and Jacks got drunk on their booze and high on their drugs. It was like they were shoplifting the preppies party, and taking it for themselves. And Ash loved to take from those he didn't find deserving.

Just then, as the three of them puffed cigarettes, and watched the stars, a meteor lit up the sky. Through the buzz of drugs Ash registered shock. This was a low flying meteor, it should've already burned up in the atmosphere, but it was falling, fast, and close.

"SHIT!" Vi swore, sitting up right behind Ash, who has already on his feet, head upturned, watching as plummeted, near enough that it looked like it might take out the entire part with a bulls eye landing. He heard a couple scared yelps from below, but then the meteor was passed, and from his high vantage point, Ash could see it hit the ground, cratering the earth.

But he was already running, jumping off the roof, smirking at the startled yelps of the kids he soared over before hitting the ground, rolling to prevent damage, and continuing in a sprint as he rolled back to his feet. From behind him he could hear Vi and Jacks swearing at him to wait the fuck up and not be an idiot, but he was already outpacing their voices.

The adrenaline buzzing through his body cleared his mind, sobering him up, speeding him onwards, faster and faster, until-

"Shiiiiiit!" Ash swore as he skidded to a halt as he came upon the crater. But his momentum carried him faster, over the edge of the crater, tumbling down, coming to a stop mere inches away from the strange rock. It was hot, but for some reason that his drug and adrenaline addled brain couldn't figure out, it didn't bother him at all. And despite the sprint and fall, he felt fine.

It was probably shock, Ash thought to himself, it's not every day you see a fucking meteor. Standing up and wiping his hands clean on his jeans, he leaned against a boulder sticking out of the side of the crater, and lighting up another smoke.

"Holy fucking meteors Batman." He said, in an awed tone. "I wonder what the hell this thing is?" He voiced his query aloud to the open air. He knew he couldn't have been the only one to see it, hell Jacks and Vi were already on their way after him. He wondered if he should cordon off the area or something, but decided it wasn't his problem, and sank down into his seat again, smoking silently and looking at the massive space junk in awed silence.

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