crack_van | Afraid of Americans by RivkaT (R)

Fandom: THE DEAD ZONE
Pairing: Johnny Smith/Rebecca Carlson (referenced--mainly gen)
Author on LJ:

rivkat
Author Website: http://www.rivkat.com/
Why this must be read:

In the present, the future comes to Johnny in short, puzzling fragments. In the future, the only thing Christopher Wey wants is another piece of the past. Afraid of Americans is told in sharp flashes, moving back and forth in time the same way both vision-bound men do. The future can change, but at what cost?

Johnny was fairly sure he should appreciate the present more than he did. If his visions came true, pleasant fall days full of red and yellow maples and crisp star-blazoned New England nights would be gone. Bruce would tell him to enjoy it while it lasted, since fretting was doing nothing to change the future anyway.

Don't let the best be the enemy of the good, he'd told his students who had trouble getting their work turned in because they couldn't do it perfectly. And to the students paralyzed with fear that anything less than an A would keep them out of college and doom them to gas stations and burger-flipping: Don't let the future be the enemy of the now.

That wasn't very helpful advice, when Johnny knew that the future *was* the enemy. Each tick of the clock brought the world closer to that last midnight.

He'd been traveling to Washington in that vision with Bruce. Maybe that was his mistake - staying away too long while Stillson consolidated his power. Maybe -

Afraid of Americans