Short DP X DC Prompts #107
John Constantine meets a black haired blue eyed kid in a dingy diner who gives him prophetic advice and then vanished into thin air⦠that canāt be good.
Edit: AO3 version
John Constantine was sitting at a table having a smoke in between drinks. He'd been hearing about paranormal sightings in Illinois, and thanks to this country's lack of good public transportation, he was currently resting at a college town 4 hours from his destination.
"You shouldn't be smoking. It will make your lung cancer worse."
John turned his head to see a black-haired blue-eyed twenty something staring at with a vacant expression. There was something off about him, but being half drunk he couldn't quite pinpoint what.
"And what's it to you?" he asked completely unamused.
"You need to be alive for at least the next 6 years."
Was this some kind of prank? "Piss off."
"They'll die if you aren't there to save them," he said and then vanished into thin air.
John dropped his cigarette and stared at the vacant space the guy was in, completely gobsmacked. That was definitely paranormal. Maybe he had arrived to his destination after all.
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10 minutes later, a duo of friends walked out of that diner laughing and joking, and were quickly joined by a third coming from an alleyway.
"Did you get a good look at his face?" asked the one that came from the alley.
"It was priceless. I wish I got a picture," said Sam, chuckling.
"You know, I'm glad I'm not the one with ghost powers because if it was me I would've started laughing and ruined the whole prank."
"Eh, it was really close. I was holding my breath to not laugh until i reached the alley."
"What do you think the chances are that you'll see him again?" asked Sam.
"Like before I leave? Probably not." Danny had classes in the afternoon, and his university was a 4 hour drive from Tucker and Sam's. (They couldn't find a college that had great ecology, computer science, aerospace, and astronomy programs that accepted all of them.)
"I was thinking more like ever."
Tucker laughing "Years from now he goes grocery shopping and bam! There's Danny in the produce section!"
Danny shrugged "What? The deliverers of vague omens have to eat too. Oh! And by the way, did you stop smoking?"
The trio laughed among themselves, confident they would never see the stranger from the diner ever again.
















