[ WP ] Sleep creates `` Save Points '' in case we die .

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 The alarm clock rang and I immediately jumped up and looked around the bed, `` Son of a,'' I looked around, my wife still slept next to me and our newborn baby boy was still sleeping soundly in the crib. I hit the alarm clock and looked around. *Oh God, * I said to myself, *oh god, oh god, oh god. * 
 
 I sprang out of bed in the quickest way I could and looked at the alarm clock, it was almost seven in the morning, which meant I only had a few hours left. I grabbed two suitcases from our closet and placed them onto our bed, opening both of my. 
 
 Bleary-eyed, my wife woke up from her sleep and leaned upwards, `` Dave?'' She whispered, `` What are you doing?'' 
 
 I looked at her, sweat dripping from my brow as I threw winter clothes into the suitcase in no discernible pattern. I was just trying to get ready for everything, `` We need to leave the city. *Now. *'' 
 
 She rolled her eyes and laid back down, `` Leave? It's Monday, you have work and I have to take care of Francis.'' 
 
 I stopped moving and climbed over the suitcases. I grabbed her arms, `` Babe, we have to leave.'' I was serious, as serious as any father or husband would have been in this situation. `` You just have to trust me.'' 
 
 `` What's wrong?'' 
 
 I shook my head, `` You wo n't believe me if I tell you, but you just have to do what I say.'' 
 
 `` This is n't some power trip, is it?'' 
 
 I threw more clothes into the suitcase and Jenny started to get up. She grabbed Francis out of the crib first and then turned to me. `` No, it's not. We just have to get out of here, you'll see why.'' 
 
 Jenny raised an eyebrow as she rocked Francis back and forth in her arms, `` That does n't convince me otherwise.'' 
 
 I stopped, the same thing happened last time and we were out of time before I was able to convince her to come with me. I was n't going to let it happen again, I looked up at her and just explained it, `` Honey, all my life, you know how I've been able to kind of see things coming? You call it my luck factor, it's how I got a date with you.'' 
 
 She smiled, `` Of course,'' she looked at Francis and rocked him gently, `` your son has it too.'' 
 
 I nodded, `` Yeah, well, that's because my life *auto-saves. *'' 
 
 She looked up at me and almost laughed, `` What?'' 
 
 I stepped around our bed and walked up to her, placing my hand on her and our baby, `` Every time I sleep, my life saves. I do n't know why, but it's happened ever since I remember. I relive days if I die during that day, some days I just commit suicide just to relive it.'' 
 
 She backed away from me, `` *What? *'' 
 
 `` Jenny, there's a nuke coming.'' I said it bluntly, we did n't have time, `` We need to go. Now.'' 
 
 I do n't know what it was that convinced her to follow me. Perhaps it was me just saying it, or perhaps part of her knew I was telling the truth, or maybe she just did it because she did n't know what could happen. But she did and she started to help pack right after that. We did n't talk much during it, I think she thought I was going insane more than anything, but she followed me and that was better than the last save I had. 
 
 We made it to our car around a quarter after seven and we were on the highway by seven-thirty. I had to make a few different turns and follow some back roads due to accidents that I *knew* were going to be there, but so far, we were ahead of every other save. So far, we still had a chance. 
 
 She did n't talk to me on the trip either, but she kept the radio station on the news the entire way up. I was heading to a place I knew could save us from the blast, or at least be out of range. We'd have to move after the fact, but it would at least give us a few more hours before things really went to shit. 
 
 About two hours into our trip is when the news hit, `` The United States of America is under attack.'' 
 
 Jenny stopped looking at the radio and instead stared at me through the entire later portion of the drive. *It was almost time*, I thought to myself, *we need to be shielded from the blast. * 
 
 I pulled the car into the gas station a few minutes later and I convinced the manager to allow us access to his basement. I had done it a few times before, but this time we were ahead of the blast and we were n't dying by the time we walked into the basement. 
 
 The shock wave hit a moment later and I could feel my wife staring at me as it did. Francis stayed quiet, as always, but I kept my hand on his head to make sure he was still with us. The shock wave turned into a quake and was followed up by the intense explosive sound of a nuclear warhead detonating a few hundred miles away. I nodded, I knew where we needed to go next. 
 
 I took Jenny and Francis to my car and the store clerk ran around his gas station to get in his car. He drove off towards the blast a moment later and I sped off in the opposite direction. 
 
 `` How do you know where to go?'' 
 
 `` I do n't anymore,'' I said, `` this is as far as we've gotten.'' 
 
 Jenny nodded and kept Francis close to her. 
 
 We kept driving for a few hours until we were out in upstate New York. I knew of a few cabins around mostly due to my parents living up here, and I was hoping that they were there. But before we got there we encountered traffic and a few dozen people were moving through the cars, systematically killing the drivers. They were n't American, I realized that from the shouting and I put my car in reverse. 
 
 *Oh god. * 
 
 I hit the gas and hoped that they would n't notice us, but they, like all things, did. They started shooting and I swung the car around to try and get out of the area. Francis started crying and our rear windshield started to be shot at. I felt a bullet hit me in the shoulder, and before the tires went, I looked at the road sign to make sure we would n't come this way again. 
 
 The tires of the car popped a moment later and I found myself losing control and heading straight for the trees, we started to flip. I looked over to Jenny and Francis. She was hunched over and a pool of blood was forming on her chest. Francis sat behind us in his car seat, relatively unscathed. 
 
 But neither of us would survive the crash. I knew that much and when the car did come to a stop I found that everything went to black, and like always, there was no white light at the end. 
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