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JUST LIKE HEAVEN. AN ORIGINAL VERSE. TW FOR MENTIONS OF SUICIDE. Three decades ago, thirteen children are taken from their families and told they are meant for a higher purpose — that when they reach the age of 18, they will inherit divine powers, and use them to save the world. Before any of them actually reach that age, their self-appointed guardian, a man who styles himself as God upon Earth, tells them that he is now entrusting this sacred mission entirely to them, and kills himself in front of them. Shortly afterward, the compound in which they've been living is raided by the government. The agents who "save" them tell them that their supposed leader had known about the impending raid, hence his suicide. Subsequently, they are given new identities (as their prior names were publicly known, given the homicides of their families and the elevation of the incident to national news) and placed with new families, as well as assigned counselors for the sake of deprogramming. Three decades later, the thirteen, who have adjusted to "normal" life to varying degrees, have all begun suffering the same strange visions and dreams that seem to suggest that something supernatural is indeed afoot. As the visions become worse and odd incidents begin occurring around them, they're faced with a handful of difficult questions: First, have they in fact inherited some kind of divine power? Second, is there any way to explain any of this to those close to them (who may or may not know of their traumatic pasts) without sounding insane? Third, if there is indeed something strange happening, what does it mean that a supposedly divine being, one posing as God, committed suicide? Luke Abbott, born John Caruso, has managed to eke out a relatively normal life since, well, since everything. However, he has not been completely honest — his wife does not know the circumstances of his adoption (even his adoptive parents are only aware that he had come from a "troubled home"), and he never speaks of his teenage years as one of the older children in the cult, nor his sense of responsibility toward the younger members, whom he periodically attempts to track down (though never with any contact). This has become something of a burden as time has passed, especially as he has begun experiencing visions over the past few years and found himself largely unable to explain to those closest to him exactly what's going on. i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii