Post by StoryGirl83 on Mar 27, 2009 20:23:15 GMT -5
Chapter Fifty-Two – False Worlds
Chris reached the kitchen and looked around. There were a few pots and pans lying on the floor. He picked one up and looked around for some sort of cause. “Hey, Wyatt. Come take a look.”
As he waited for Wyatt to enter the room, Chris walked over and checked the room’s two windows. Both appeared to be secure. He frowned and looked for something else.
Wyatt entered the room and found himself amused when he saw Chris on the floor feeling along the paneling. “Looking for something?”
Chris stopped and stood up. He nodded as he picked up another of the fallen pans. “I’m trying to figure out what caused these pans to fall out of the cupboard.
Wyatt looked up at the closed cupboard. “Did you close it?”
“What?” Chris followed his eyes and frowned. “No. I didn’t.”
Wyatt picked up one of the pans and looked at it closely. “There’s food residue on this.” He pointed at the partially full dish drain. “I’m guessing they fell out of there, because I piled them too high last night. Case closed.”
Chris looked at the dish drain curious. “I don’t know. If you did this last night, why would it have chosen now to fall?” When Wyatt shrugged he added another question, “And why would there still be food residue if you cleaned the dishes?”
Wyatt grinned. “You know my theory on sterile environments.”
Chris groaned. “Unfortunately. I believe it is something along the lines of . . . ‘I work in a sterile environment. I volunteer in a sterile environment. Why would I want to live in a sterile environment?’”
“You got it,” Wyatt grinned back. “I’d rewash these, but I think we should get back to the demon we are trying to find.”
Chris nodded. “Yeah. Let’s go take another look at those files. There has to be something useful there.”
Wyatt walked back into the living room and picked up the phone. “Chris.” He told it and waited as the phone dialed his brother’s number. He absently wondered what he would do if that feature ever broke. He didn’t know anyone’s actual number . . . well, other than his parents, but that was some sort of requirement for ever child on the planet whose parents had a phone number.
The sound of a ringing appeared to be coming from the bookshelf. He frowned and remembered with dawning annoyance why he never called his brother. Chris never knew where his phone was. He might be one of the most organized people on the planet, but he somehow always managed to lose his phone.
He sighed and walked over to the book case and listened for ringing before he pulled the phone out from behind some books. “Do you hide this on purpose, Chris? How did that get there?” He placed it on top of the TV, so that he could be sure Chris would find it when next he entered the room. He started back for the couch to take another look at the info they had gathered at the library, but before he got far white orb lights circled around him and when they dissipated, he was gone.
On the surface events went as they had before. Only Chris wasn’t there. On the surface it changed nothing. Wyatt was saved and stayed the night, leaving the next day because he missed his little brother, the adult version and because he could hear a litany in his head about “not changing the future in ways we don’t want.” The words were spoken in his brother’s voice. He even received a notebook from his dad that after a glance proved to be a journal kept by his little brother while in the past. He looked forward to an interesting read. On the surface everything was the same. Under the surface though, everything had changed.
A/N - The first scene is in the alternate dimension that Chris is in, so the only thing real there is him. In the second scene it is the alternate dimension that Wyatt is in, the second zone created by Steve’s spell. The third and fourth zones will not be explored as they both take place while Wyatt is in the past, a way of distracting him from the fact that his brother is missing. Because these zones happen entirely in his mind they are not effected by what caused everything to freeze around him. I will not be exploring these two zones, as they are basically more of the same and get nowhere.
After this chapter, everything is real.