It Hurts

[NIKITA, FLASHBACK, Six Months Ago]

The television seems to be making a lot of noise, but I decide not to focus on that. There are other things that need my attention right now. Instead, my focus is on the images on the television.

The images of a familiar private jet.

It looks like the one I waved goodbye at, not three hours ago. I am unable to hear things clearly but I see shards of the plane everywhere.

Surely this cannot be my family right? But then my worst fears are coming true and I am helpless against them. Everyone around me seems to fade as my eyes zero in on the headlines.

"Pavlenko airplane crashes in the mountains hours after take-off" one headline reads, but I need better information. Something that might calm my wrecked nerves down. So I go through all the news channels on the television, but everything remains the same.