Post by StoryGirl83 on Mar 18, 2009 23:05:57 GMT -5
Chapter Fifty-One – Rewound
Chris walked into the living room, carrying his laptop and saw Wyatt sitting on the couch sorting through the papers. “Find anything useful.”
Wyatt looked up and shook his head. “Nothing I didn’t see the first six times I read it. I don’t get it, if this girl had lived out her normal life, she would have been nearly seventy by now, but I can’t help but think of her as a little girl.”
“Probably because, she still is a little girl. Karma, Sunny, and all the others are no older than whenever they were taken. Now, that’s fine for the people taken three months ago, but some of them are going to be awfully hard to explain once we find them.” Chris set his laptop down on the table and sat down on the floor next to it. He turned it on and looked at his brother. “Ready to find this demon and take him down?
Wyatt grinned at Chris. “Yeah. I want these people out of his clutches.”
“Me, too,” Chris agreed.
A crash from the direction of the kitchen sent both boys scrambling from their seats. “What on earth?!” Wyatt exclaimed as he sent papers flying in his attempt to get off the couch. He scowled. “You check that out. I’ve got to fix this.”
Chris nodded and headed for the kitchen.
Things were not as they seemed. Wyatt sat on the couch looking through the papers they had copied down. At first he didn’t notice that it was taking his brother a long time to return, so engrossed was he in putting everything in order and looking for clues, but as the minutes passed he began to realize it had been a bit too long.
“Chris,” he called out. When he didn’t receive and answer, he sighed and put down the papers in his hands. He pushed himself up off the couch and headed over to Chris’ open door. He glanced in and not seeing Chris pushed the door open the rest of the way. “Come on, Chris, this isn’t funny. Quit playing games.” He walked into the room and looked over at Chris desk. The laptop was slightly skewed, as if someone had picked it up and then put it back down. It was closed and appeared to offer no clues to what was going on. He walked over to his brother’s bed and frowned as he looked down at a small sheet of white paper on the bed.
He picked it up and read the words aloud. “Dear Wyatt. I think I found something, but I want to check it before I tell you. Hope you don’t mind, but I’m going off on my own. I’ll see you later. Chris.”
Wyatt frowned. Chris usually let him know these things and if he had time to write a note, he had time to shout down the hall and say he was going somewhere. In fact that would have been faster. Chris could be impatient at times, but when he was he’d do the faster thing. That meant that Chris must not have expected him to find the note so soon, or at least he didn’t want to be there when Wyatt did.
Not sure what else to do, Wyatt walked back into the hall after the phone. As he stepped out the door, he didn’t notice the crystals on either side glow or Steve under the bed mouth, “Two.”
A/N - If the first scene seems familiar, that's because it is. It comes from a much earlier chapter. It doesn't end the same though. It is based off what really happened in that earlier chapter, but it's not real. The second half of the chapter takes place in reality, Wyatt wondering what's taking his brother so long. Once Chris left his room he was in an alternate demention, more closely resembling a Star Trek's holodecks than anything else. Likewise once Wyatt did likewise, he also stepped into a similar alternate demention. As the spell says, this works four times. And then they step back into reality. In the zone they are in, they are the only thing that is real. Anything else is just programed to react to them.