What if your super power was just being at the right place at the right time? Regardless of whether it was convenient for you or not.
At the end of the day, I'm an engineer. I fix things. I make them better.
But this isn't my story; it never has been.
As if I could forget the day we met. You came bursting through my door looking like you'd just seen a ghost!
You try being in the back of a panda car, having just had the shit kicked out of you, feeling as bad as you've ever felt then having the damned car ripped in half!
You never did say why you chose the salon to dive into of all places.
I was going for the pub next to it. Right up till the dragon tossed the engine block through the wall just in front of me. Didn't really have much time to think.
My lucky break huh?
Not everyone is the main character in the narrative flow around themselves.
What do you mean he's a cop? Bullshit!
For real. Some arsehole set fire to the bins out the back of work again. Caught the cladding on the back of the building this time and we all got sent home. Even then I'd not have caught him if someone hadn't thrown a brick through the window.
Wait, your work caught fire? Then someone threw a brick through your window?? And your boyfriend is what? An undercover cop? This sounds like an EastEnders plot.
Got his badge, and his book. You're gonna want to see that. Everyone's going to need to see that.
Sometimes, all you are is a footnote in someone else's tale.
I was in the shower!
I was washing my hair.Rose, where am I now?
Why the fuck am I in Maidstone?
... Fine. Hopefully it'll at least be a quick leap this time. Could at least have let me rinse my damned hair out.
That doesn't mean you can't be what pushes the story towards a better ending. Sometimes being a footnote is enough to let you fix things, to make it better.
Being someone else's narrative device is still a power right?