Post by StoryGirl83 on Sept 30, 2008 23:12:27 GMT -5
Chapter Twelve - Vanishing Act
Future – Saturday, May 29, 2027
In the future Wyatt still sat on the couch. He had sorted the papers into two piles. The look on his face was one of disappointment. Chris sat next to him with his laptop. He had half a dozen files that he was looking at.
“Well, I think we can conclude that this demon only attacks at dawn and dusk. According to this, they are secondary ‘tween places.”
Wyatt looked at Chris with a confused frown. “’Tween places?”
Chris nodded. “Yeah, remember just after we got our magic back we went to the manor and listened to those messages on the answering machine. One of them was about ‘tween places. I asked Mom later and she said that a couple of years before you were born Mom, Aunt Phoebe, and Aunt Prue helped this little girl who was trying to protect a fairy from trolls in the ‘tween places. That was who the woman in the message was. Mom said that ‘tween places are places in between, doorways, windowsills, stuff like that. The biggest ‘tween is midnight, which is because it is everywhere. Dawn and dusk are similar. They lay between day and night. However, due to the fact that the distinction is so questionable, while it can be used as a portal, it weakens the power of the one using it.”
“What kind of demon chooses a time when its powers are weak?” Wyatt wanted to know looking at the page on the computer.
Chris shrugged. “Well, maybe it’s because fewer people are out at midnight then are out during these two. Also, since magical creatures are the only ones that use ‘tweens and only children can see them. . .”
“Now, hold it right there,” Wyatt interrupted. “I seem to remember being told that when I was little I had an elf nanny.”
Chris nodded, a funny look coming to his face.
“Isn’t that a magical creature?”
Chris nodded once again.
“Then, why could everyone see her?”
“There was a period of time when the world was unbalanced. It started about the time Mom found out she was pregnant with you. I’m not really sure when it ended, but it was still in full blast when I was there.”
Wyatt stood and walked over to the book case. He turned to look at Chris. “You know, I was thinking and do you remember the little girl, Shelby, that lived next door?”
Chris nodded. “Yeah. There was a big media circus when she disappeared because her parents were in the middle of a divorce and they were accusing each other. Why?”
Wyatt looked at Chris, completely serious. “Shelby disappeared somewhere on the evening of February second. She was last seen . . .” Before Wyatt could finish blue and white orbs surrounded him and he looks at Chris with a surprised look on his face.
Chris watched stunned as his brother orbed away, seemingly against his will.