Disclaimer: I do not own WOWP.
Warning: The story's central romance is between a brother and a sister. I don't condone incest and I don't believe that you are supporting incest by reading this story.
The story is the sequel to Only Time Dream. As much as I highly recommend that you read that one first, you still should be able to read this story without feeling completely out the loop. I added enough context to help you understand what's going on.
Alex stood still as Justin moved closer to her. She could feel her heart beating against her chest as he moved his face closer to hers. Her face turned bright red the second she felt Justin's hot breath against her cheek. She watched this scene so many times but it still made her nervous to hear what Justin was about to say. She had this same dream every single night since the first day of eighth grade. The dream was called the Only Time Dream. It was a prophecy dream that all wizards had when they were thirteen years old. For Alex, her dream predicted that she would fall in love with Justin when she was seventeen.
Somehow, Alex was aware that she was dreaming. She had the ability to alter the dream if she wanted. She wasn't sure if normal people could consciously alter their dreams. Maybe it was just a wizard thing. The only thing Alex knew was that she didn't want to change the dream.
She decided to ask the same question she did every night.
"What did you want to tell him?" she asked.
She was referring to the conversation Justin had with Professor Crumbs during the Wizards of the Year ceremony. The elder had confronted the boy about his attraction to his sister. Of course, Justin denied his crush on his sister but Alex knew Professor Crumbs didn't believe him. Although this was a dream, Alex knew in her heart that Professor Crumbs already sensed an attraction among the two siblings.
"That I love you more than a sister," Justin said. "And every time I see you, I can hear the clock ticking down until it's time for us to be together."
"You're not supposed to say that," Alex said. "You're supposed to say that you want to push me against my bedroom door and kiss me."
"We're beyond that now," Justin said. "You know that."
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"We both know it's going to happen," he said. "We just don't know when."
Justin cupped her face for a second before pushing her head hard against the wall.
Alex's eyes popped open when her head hit against her bed's headboard. Her head throbbed as her eyes adjusted to the dimly lit room. The glare of the alarm clock had created a shadow on her nightstand. Alex glanced at the clock on her bedside table, shaking her head when she realized that it was only midnight. She groaned at the thought of trying to get any more sleep. She would be too busy thinking about the changes in her dream to fall back to sleep. Tomorrow was the first day back to school after winter break. Alex was going to need plenty of energy to outsmart another one of Gigi's schemes.
As she closed her eyes again, she heard the sound of her mother's voice calling her name.
"Get down here now!" she heard Theresa yelled. It sounded like her mother was standing downstairs.
Alex got out of bed as she tried to think of all the schemes she pulled in the last two weeks. Unless the throttle to her head messed up her memory, she didn't do anything wrong since she arrived home from the airport. She did convince Max to drop a fork down Grandma Magdelena's garbage disposal but Max took the blame for that. Besides that, Alex had been good during the family's visit to grandma's house. Alex had promised Theresa that she was going to behave herself for the entire week that they stayed with Theresa's mother. Jerry made Alex swore that she wouldn't use magic while she was visiting Grandma Magdelena. Alex broke her promise to her father several times but Jerry wouldn't have known that since he decided not to go to Grandma Magdelena's house at the last minute. Alex was confident that her mother did not see her use magic at all. Alex knew that her mother didn't have a reason to be angry at her.
Alex wasn't sure why her mother was telling her to come downstairs at midnight. Theresa didn't know that Alex had just woke up. Why would her mother call her when she knew Alex was asleep? The only explanation for this was that something had happened. What would happen at midnight that Theresa needed to address? Alex sniffed the air as she walked towards her door. She didn't smell smoke or gas. There couldn't have been a fire or a gas leak. If there was, Theresa would have dragged Alex out of bed. She wasn't the type of mother that thought about getting to safety first and later consider rescuing her children. It couldn't have been an emergency.
Alex opened her bedroom door and heard the sound of familiar voices from downstairs. The hallway was dimly lit from the lamp in the living room. Her bare feet padded into the hallway, bumping into a half -sleep Max. He stumbled backward, hitting his back against Justin's bedroom door. He slid against the wooden surface, his back resting comfortably against the door. He fell hard onto the cold planks on the floor when Justin's bedroom door swung open. Justin stepped over Max and walked into the hallway.
"What did you do?" Justin asked as if Alex regularly pulled schemes at midnight.
Alex wasn't sure why he was accusing her. He sounded so angry that Alex wondered if she had done something wrong. For the last couple of months, she had been his perfect little sister. When she pulled pranks on him, she made sure the pranks were light and friendly. For example, when she added a few pinches of black pepper into his nasal spray, she decided not to put salt into his eye drops. He shouldn't have a reason to be upset with her.
"Me?" she questioned. "Maybe it was you."
She knew that wasn't a good comeback but her brain was still trying to wake up. She was supposed to be sleep, not wandering around the house. When she noticed that Justin's eyes grew dark, she regretted saying her comment. She hated when Justin was angry at her. She wanted him to be her loving older brother. She wanted to fantasize the corniest, romantic movie moments about him like Justin riding towards her on a black stallion or him leaving a dozen red roses outside her bedroom door. Maybe Justin woke up before his manners did.
"Yes," he responded. "... because I'm the one who always uses magic to get back at people."
Alex rarely used magic to get revenge and Justin knew that. She could tell he was referring to something that she did before winter break. Alex didn't have a reason to use magic to get back at someone. If she did, the only person that annoyed her enough was the slut burger, Kari Landsdorf. Alex forced her sleep deprived brain to remember the last thing she did to the ditsy blond. She smiled when she remembered.
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed," she said as she raised an eyebrow.
Justin understood exactly what she was referring to. Before the Russo family had jetted off to Grandma Magdelena's house, Kari came over for one last study session. Theresa told Justin to take Kari up to his room so Mrs. Russo could focus on cleaning the entire house before it was time to leave to Grandma's. When Alex found out that Justin had a girl in his room, her heart stopped beating and she promptly went to visit the two high schoolers. Alex remembered gasping when she found the two asleep in Justin's bed. Justin woke up immediately and was shocked that he had fallen asleep while studying. Kari woke up next and shot Alex a wicked smile before excusing herself out the room.
"That didn't give you a reason to conjure up a poisonous dessert," Justin pointed out. "She texted me last night. She was stuck in the bathroom during the entire Hollingsworth's vacation to Hawaii."
Alex didn't use magic to get revenge on the slut burger. She got back at Kari by giving the lactose intolerant blond bread pudding as a Christmas gift. When Alex had watched all the milk that Theresa had put in Jerry's bread pudding, she couldn't resist giving the blond a slice. Justin must have thought that Alex had used magic to make Kari sick. It wasn't Alex fault that Kari didn't know that pudding contained milk.
"How was I suppose to know she was lactose intolerant," Alex asked as she folded her arms.
Justin's eyes widened as a grin appeared on his face. "I never told you that she was! Ah ha! So you're admitting you poison her with milk."
Alex felt like slapping herself for revealing that much information. It was obvious that it was too early or too late for her to be up. Her brain wasn't working the way it should. She wasn't even sure why the three siblings were in the hallway. There was something she was supposed to be doing and now she forgot.
"Justin, Alex, Max!" Theresa yelled. "Get down here now!"
Alex kicked Max's left leg to wake him up. Justin glared at Alex as he helped Max stand up. The three Russo kids walked downstairs and found their parents chatting with Professor Crumbs.
"You're here now," said the cheery old man.
He looked like a burst of fresh energy compared to the sleepy and slightly annoyed middle-aged couple he stood next to.
"Professor Crumbs, "Justin said. "What are you doing -"
"In the middle of the night," Theresa interrupted. She tightened her grip on her long floral pink robe as she blew a strand of her disheveled hair out of her face.
Theresa was standing next to an old, blue wooden clock that was nailed on the wall closest to the sliding glass door. The clock looked like a bird house with a long, triangular roof on the top and a wide rectangular doorway under the clock's face. The stiff black hands of the clock were pointed towards the center of the roof. On the side of the clock, pictures of leaves and birds were etched into the wood. On the bottom, there was a brown wooden stick that was supposed to look like a branch or a bird's perch. There were bold dark blue roman numerals written on the dingy white face of the clock.
Professor Crumbs must have noticed that Alex was staring at the foreign object. He smiled and pointed towards the clock.
"Oooh," Max cooed. "A cuckoo clock. I always wanted one."
"Since when?" Theresa asked.
She wasn't trying to hide her annoyance for Professor Crumbs. Theresa's attitude told Alex that he had shown up and woke her up while she was sleep. It wasn't a surprise that the mortal didn't appreciate a late night lesson from the aging wizard. Alex couldn't think of a time when her mother seemed this angry about magic. Alex knew that Theresa was upset that Professor Crumbs placed a tacky object in her nicely decorated living room.
"This clock has been passed down in my family for generations," Jerry said.
He looked tired but he seemed happy that he was going to share a prize possession with his family. Alex wondered if he knew that Professor Crumbs was coming and forget to mention it to the rest of the family. Jerry was at home by himself for a week. He could have received a message about a late night visit and just didn't mention it when the rest of his family arrived home.
"Every ten years, one of my family members receives the clock," Jerry said. "Last time, my brother got the clock and I had it the time before that."
"What does it do?" Justin asked.
"The clock gives out hints that help us fulfill either the prophecy of Only Time Dream or leads us to do something good for the world," Jerry answered. "Kelbo received a metal at the Wizards of the Year after his prophecy told him to persuade Howard Stein to start his own radio show."
"I haven't had an Only Time Dream," Max whined.
"Well, Justin has-" Jerry started to say until he was interrupted by his daughter.
"And I have, too," Alex proudly announced.
Jerry seemed surprised by Alex's statement but continued talking. "Every time the clock strikes a new hour, Justin and Alex will get a card that tells them to do something. The card looks blank to everyone except the person who the card is for."
"Who's going to give them these messages?" Theresa asked.
"There future selves," Professor Crumbs jumped in. "Do you have any questions?"
"I do," Theresa said. "Why did we have to do this in the middle of the night? And why did you put it in my living room!"
Professor Crumbs gave Theresa a sympathetic look. Alex was sure that he was thinking that it was unfortunate that Theresa was limited by her mortal mind. Alex began to wonder if Theresa couldn't comprehend certain things because she was a mortal.
"It has to be in the living room," he answered.
"And not in the lair?" she questioned.
"Yes," Professor Crumbs said. "And the first card comes at midnight."
Professor Crumbs reached into the doorway of the clock and pulled out a card. Alex could see a glimpse of the thick black letters written on the card.
"It's blank," Justin said.
"No, it's not," Alex responded.
"Then, it's for her," Professor Crumbs said as he handed it to Alex.
Justin glared at Alex as she stuck her tongue out at him. She held up the card and recognized a neater version of her own handwriting. Her signature was at the bottom and along with a few familiar doodles. Alex tried to imagine herself writing this. She knew it was going to be about Justin. She tried to imagine her older self, snuggling up against a hairy faced Justin, writing tips to help the thirteen-year-old Alex convince the fifteen-year-old Justin to accept his feelings for his sister.
Dear Alex, she read the card inside her head. First of all, this is so freakin' weird. You think sleeping with your own brother would be weirder. Okay, enough of that. So I'm supposed to tell you something positive that would make things better for me now. Screw that. There some serious messed up shit going on. The first thing you need to do is stop that whore - whatever her slut face name is - from getting with Justin. I think her name is Katy or something like that. She's not who she says she is. Find out what's she hiding by getting into her locker. I can't remember every single damn detail but I know I broke into her locker and found some creepy shit. You'll figure out what to do next. From, Alex at age twenty - three.
The card disappeared in Alex's hand when she finished reading it. She didn't realize that she had a huge smile on her face until her mother pointed it out. Theresa said something to Alex but she was too busy thinking about what she just read. Her twenty-three-year-old self told her to break into Kari's locker to find out what the blond was hiding. That wasn't the thing that made Alex smile. It made Alex happy to think that she and Justin would be together ten years from now. She hoped that it wasn't going to take that long to get with Justin.
Alex didn't have the patience to wait five or ten years to be with Justin. She had waited for four months now and that was enough. After she got her Only Time Dream, it took Alex six weeks to accept the fact that she was attracted to her older brother. During that time, she wasn't comfortable with the idea of dating him or kissing him. Now time has passed and Alex really to feel his arms around her. The only thing she wasn't sure about was dating. She had no idea how that would work out but she was ready to try.
The only thing that was stopping Alex from kissing Justin was Justin. Before Halloween, Alex broke into Justin's computer and discovered that he was seeking help to get over his incestuous desire on a Wizard forum. Alex confronted Justin over it and he admitted that he was attracted to her. He felt guilty and tried to avoid Alex whenever he felt like they were getting too close. Alex always knew when Justin was getting ready to avoid her. She wished that he would just accept his feelings for her. It would make life a lot easier.
"I guess you have a lot to think about," Professor Crumbs said.
Alex stopped thinking about the card in enough time to see the elderly man teleport out of the living room.
"What did it say?" Theresa asked.
"She's not supposed to tell," Jerry said.
Alex wouldn't want to tell her mother what the card said. The only person she wanted to tell was Justin. Alex knew that he wouldn't want her to say anything. He didn't even want her to tell him about her Only Time Dream. When she did tell him that it predicted that they were going to be together,Justin wasn't happy to hear that.
Alex went back to her room and started thinking about all the ways she could break into Kari's locker. As she laid in her bed, she drifted to sleep knowing that tomorrow was going to be a long day.
A/N: Thank you so much for reading the second installment of the Only Time Series. Feel free to leave me a review to tell me what you think.
Q&A Time
Q. What didn't you upload this story sooner?
A. This series was originally uploaded as a 30 chapter story. In 2013, I took the story down because it had too many flaws. Plus, the incestuous romance didn't sit well with me. When I revamped and republished the story this year, I originally wanted to divide it into two parts. OTD took place in Early Sept 2006 - Late Oct 2006. The next part would have taken place a year later. There were a few chapters that took place in Jan 2007. I decided to expand on those chapters and make it the OTD's sequel.
Long story short. I had a lot to rewrite. A lot of chapters require a lot of editing.
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Q. When does this story take place?
A. This story is set between January 2, 2007 to Mid- February 2007. There will be pop culture references and mentions of events from that time. If you don't understand one of my references, let me know. I'll try to leave footnotes in this section if I think anything is too obscure for you to understand.
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Q. What happened in between Only Time Dream and Only Time Will Tell?
A. There wasn't too much progress between Alex and Justin's relationship after the last chapter of Only Time Dream. Although Justin's hostility towards Alex is a sign of small progression. Justin is just trying new techniques to ward of his feelings.
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Q. Will Justin and Alex get together in the story?
A. I was surprised that no one was upset that I ended OTD the way I did. Only time will tell if Justin and Alex get together. Pun intended. ;)
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