History DarthWiki / GoneAgain

* CruelTwistEnding: We learn that [[spoiler: Cary's mom died of cancer, but that he's going to make an active effort to be strong and move on]] ''less than a hundred pages before'' [[spoiler: Rollins kills Cary.]]

* [[spoiler: DecoyAntagonist: The author originally planned to make him a major antagonist, but he couldn't figure out where to take that plot, so he just had Yasuna kill him.]]

The chapters are very, very short (typically between 100 and 800 words), meaning that the author can get a lot to happen very quickly. The fic is divided into several 'books', each spanning fifty chapters exactly. The first book has now been completed, called ''The Disappearance''. The second is in progress, and the working title is ''The Control''.

* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler: The fist half of ''The Control'' focuses heavily on Kristopher's character arc, only for him to die halfway through the book.]]

* CycleOfRevenge: Discussed in Kaelyn's narration in ''The Control'', through a borderline AuthorFilibuster:

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: ''The Disappearance'' has one. Nobody except David get what they want ''in the least''. Here's a sum of all the bad things that happened:]]

** David gets a few [[OutOfCharacterMoment Out of Character Moments]] towards the end of ''The Disappearance'', foreshadowing [[spoiler: his multiple personalities.]]

** [[spoiler: David also sends Rollins on such a mission, to kill Will, Cary, Gav, Sarah, Paige, and Kaelyn. Needless to say, it doesn't go very well.]]

* SwitchingPOV: In the eighty chapters so far, the complete list of narrators is as follows: Gav, Hazel, Grady, Maria, David, Kaelyn, Tobias, Alex, Nick, Sarah, Cary, Will, Kristopher, Cassie, Rollins, Paige, Yasuna, Eve, Fisher, Marco, Isabelle, Gerard, Charlie, and Bonnie.

* VillainousBSOD: ''All'' of David's supporters except Yasuna ([[spoiler: and yes, that does include David himself]]) in ''The Control''.

David calls a meeting in the gym for all the kids that show up. Gav, Maria, and Alex [[TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot make it back to town while the meeting is still in progress.]] David shoots Alex [[BoomHeadshot in the head]], [[WeHardlyKnewYe killing him]].\\

David shows up at Kristopher's house and tells him that he knew that he had given up Maddy and Sloane involuntarily the entire time. Kristopher tries to explain, but David [[BoomHeadshot shoots him in the head]], killing him.\\
Grady, restless before the attack on David with the protesters, goes to Hazel's house to hang out. She doesn't want to hang out, but she helps him after she accidentally closes a door on his fingers.\\

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: He's one of the ones that killed the kids that David captured.]]

Meanwhile, at school, there's chaos. David quickly goes home, brings a gun, and declares himself in charge until the adults return. Grady resists him, so [[DisappropriateRetribution David shoots him in the arm.]]\\

The book opens with Gav driving directly into a wall that suddenly appears in front of him. His mom was in the seat beside him; she's gone now, and he doesn't know what happened to her. He sees another car where the adults disappeared, with two little kids (Alex and Maria) inside it. He takes them with him to go back to town.//
Meanwhile, at school, there's chaos. David quickly goes home, brings a gun, and declares himself in charge until the adults return. Grady resists him, so [[DisappropriateRetribution David shoots him in the arm.]]//
Grady discovers that he can [[TouchOfDeath disintegrate anything he touches]]... but only with the arm that was shot by David's gun.//
David calls a meeting in the gym for all the kids that show up. Gav, Maria, and Alex [[TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot make it back to town while the meeting is still in progress.]] David shoots Alex [[BoomHeadshot in the head]], [[WeHardlyKnewYe killing him]].//
This naturally outrages the other kids, but David basically explains that since he has a gun, there's nothing they can do about it. He wants to kill all the kids under the age of six, because they can't work to make food.//
This inspires Kaelyn to take her brother, Aubrey, and anyone else she can find to make a daycare to protect the kids.//
Meanwhile, Maria makes plans to get revenge on David for killing Alex.//
That night, Tobias and Nick, two of David's friends, go back to the gym to dispose of Alex's body. But he [[NotQuiteDead turns out not to be entirely dead]]... and he can [[TouchOfDeath disintegrate your skin by touching it.]] Tobias and Nick flee in a panic.//
Meanwhile, Maria sneaks into David's room (in the Mayor's Hall) and tries to stab him with a butter knife. It doesn't work - he just wakes up.//
David starts to beat her up. He probably would've killed her, if Nick hadn't come into David's room to tell him about Alex.//
Meanwhile, Kaelyn has recruited plenty of others to get kids for the daycare, including Will, Cary, Jem, and Sarah. A baby that Sarah is holding starts [[PlayingWithFire shooting fireballs uncontrollably,]] almost killing them.//
Nick begins to take David to Alex.//
Will and a girl he recruited, Paige, are looking for kids when Nick, David, and Tobias come down the street, following Alex. Will and Paige hide as David discovers that shooting Alex results in nothing happening. Will and Paige decide to regroup with Kaelyn and the others.//
Gav notices that Maria is missing and he tracks her to the Mayor's Hall. He asks Cassie where she is, but instead of being helpful, Cassie decides to pull a knife on him, as per David's orders.//
Kaelyn, Jem, Sarah, and Cary decide that they have to kill the baby that was PlayingWithFire - Jem is the one to stab it. Will and Paige then come back. They all decide to go into separate groups - Sarah and Cary take the kids they already have to the lake, and the others go to find more kids.//
David realizes that every time he shoots Alex, his black glow gets stronger. So he and Nick put on gloves (to avoid the TouchOfDeath) and drag him back to town.//
Gav [[CurbStompBattle beats up Cassie]] to figure out where David sleeps.//
Cary gets all the kids into a car and starts to drive to the lake.//
David and Nick lock Alex in a room, but Alex breaks free with his TouchOfDeath.//

To be expanded.

Will and Paige recruit Kristopher's sisters, Maddy and Sloane. Kristopher works for David, so he makes them promise not to tell David what happened.//
Gav rescues Maria and takes her back to his house.//
Cary and Sarah discover that the lake is outside the barrier. A little kid named Connor touches the barrier and dies.//
David stabs Alex with a knife, and he actually does die this time. David tells Tobias and Nick to take Alex away.//
Kristopher tells David that Will and Paige forced him to give up Maddy and Sloane at gunpoint (which is a lie). David tells him that he already knew Will and Paige were taking kids, which makes Kristopher nervous about Maddy and Sloane's fate.//
David sees Cassie with a black eye, and asks what happens. After Cassie gives her explanation, David swears to go to Gav's house and kill both him and Maria.//
Grady sees Tobias and Nick dragging Alex across the street. When they explain why, Grady gets scared that David will kill him if he reveals his superpower.//
Sarah and Cary take the kids away from the barrier and wait for the others to show up. Cary angsts a bit about a nonspecific topic, and Sarah discovers that [[PowerHair her hair]] is a LivingBattery.//
Hazel is lying in her bed when her father comes in, despite her father having disappeared with the other adults, and he [[PervertDad molests her]].//
David goes to Gav's house, and shoots Maria in the stomach. Gav punches him in the face so hard that he retreats.//
Tobias and Nick successfully dispose of Alex's body against the barrier.//
Will, Paige, and a new recruit named Marco briefly regroup with Kaelyn and Jem. The former three decide to go back to the camp.//
David gives Rollins a list of people that he wants killed, including Will, Paige, Kaelyn, Gav, Cary, and Sarah.//
Gav fixes Maria up and puts her to bed.//
Jem and Kaelyn show up where Sarah and Cary are waiting with more kids; they all walk to a campsite together.//
David goes home and reveals two things to the reader: his father knew the border would appear before it happened, and David has multiple personalities: an evil one and a good one.//

[[folder: The Daycare Workers]]
!!!Kaelyn Crewe
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: She certainly sees the world like this, quick to label people as good or evil. The author plans to deconstruct the trope through her.
* SoapboxSadie: It's implied.
* TeamMom
* TokenMinority: She's half-black, half-white.
* WouldHurtAChild: She struggles with having to kill a kid that was PlayingWithFire uncontrollably.

!!!Jem
* [[spoiler: TheMole]]
* [[spoiler: NiceJobFixingItVillain: He ends up saving the lives of the very people that Rollins was trying to kill simply by telling them that David knew their names.]]
* [[spoiler: VillainousBSOD: After Kristopher dies.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: He struggles with having to kill a kid that was PlayingWithFire uncontrollably.
** Also, [[spoiler: he kills a couple daycare babies with David.]]

!!!Cary Chen
Another daycare worker, who seems to be very disconnected and dperessed, except when it comes to his little brother.
* BrokenBird
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: Rollins shoots him, at David's command.]]
* [[spoiler: PosthumousNarration: He narrates his own death.]]
* StoppedCaring

* WouldHurtAChild: He struggles with having to kill a kid that was PlayingWithFire uncontrollably.

!!!Sarah Vida
Sarah is one of the daycare workers, with no personality whatsoever. She's implied to have a sort of connection to Cary, but it hasn't been expanded upon yet.
* FlatCharacter: Only about a third of the characters are properly fleshed out, but the author didn't even try with her - she doesn't even have a superficial personality.
* LivingBattery[=/=]ShockAndAwe: Her superpower.
* PowerHair: Sarah's LivingBattery power only comes from her hair.
* WouldHurtAChild: She struggles with having to kill a kid that was PlayingWithFire uncontrollably.

!!Will Grayson
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Paige.
* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedAmnesia: Averted.]]
* [[spoiler: OnlySixFaces: After Rollins shoots him in the head, he can't identify faces anymore.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: David's Workers]]
!!!David
The current leader of Grantsville, he is a sociopath who enjoys killing.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: It turns out, he has two personalities, and only one of them is a sociopath.]]
* AxCrazy
* BigBad
* BloodKnight
* {{Jerkass}}: That doesn't even begin to describe it, but it's a pretty nice start.
** [[spoiler: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But only his sociopathic side is a jerk.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: 'Really fast' doesn't even begin to cover it.
* TokenMinority: He's Chinese.

* SwitchingPOV: In thirty-two chapters so far, the complete list of narrators is as follows: Gav, Hazel, Grady, Maria, David, Kaelyn, Tobias, Alex, Nick, Sarah, Cary, Will, Kristopher, Cassie, Rollins, and Paige.

* InstantDeathBullets: To some extent. In this universe, you can be shot without dying - just ask [[spoiler: Will]] - but a direct shot to the head with cause an instant death.

-->I’m not sure if I’m okay with that. I mean, everybody thinks that they’ll be able to sacrifice themselves for the people they love, but nobody ever has to actually do it. And now that I’m in that situation, I’m not sure if I can. I once heard a comedian say something like, “There’s no one worth dying for, because then you’re dead, and you can’t know if it was actually worth it or not. It’s like throwing a million dollars on the sidewalk and hoping someone that works for a charity will pick it up.” The guy might be right - if David kills me, that doesn’t necessarily mean Sloane and Maddy will make it out alive. Maybe if I knew for sure that they would, I’d be willing to go through with this. But without that certainty…

** [[spoiler: Charlie is on the loose, and he can cause explosions by clapping his hands. And he's only six, so he has no idea what he's doing.]]