I had been in many different situations while leaping through time. Some dangerous, some scary, and others just plain weird. However, there was something about this leap that felt completely different. And not in a good way.
I had leaped out of the body of Percy the elephant. Percy was a circus elephant and I had just helped save all the others animals and performers from a fire. When I opened my eyes I found myself in the arms of a young girl, she looked as though she couldn't be older than 18.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." She squealed as she held me.
I slowly pushed her back so I could see her face. She had dark brown hair that was pulled back and she had matching brown eyes.
Looking behind her, I could see my reflection in the shop window. I looked only a few years older than her. I had slicked back black hair and giant black glasses.
"Um, you're welcome," I said looking back down at the girl.
"I'm going to go get you a picture of him." She smiled as she ran off.
"Ok?"
"Sam!" I heard someone yell and I jumped. I looked to see Al standing next to me "You're home!" He exclaimed.
"What!" I yelled a little too loud.
"Well, you aren't', but this guy Charlie River is. Our lab is just a couple of miles to the north. And it's August 15 1995 we would actually be there right now, both of us?" He said as he clicked away on Ziggy.
"What am I doing here?" I asked not caring that I was back near the lab. All I wanted was to leap out of here so that I might have a chance of actually returning here as myself.
"Well, Charlie, you, watches your best friend being murdered. Tomorrow night, however Ziggy says there's only a ten percent chance that that's the reason you are here." He said.
"Wait, is that the girl that just hugged me?" I asked.
"I would assume so, her name is Katherine McKaren, that's funny, I dated someone with that same last name, that was a long time ago, but let me tell you, she was smokin' she would do this thing with her…" But I quickly cut him off.
"About Katherine, please." I said.
"Oh right, well she's seventeen and tomorrow night, she is stabbed to death in a mugging." He said and I could hear the disgust in his voice.
"Are you sure that Ziggy doesn't think that I'm here to save her…." I started when I saw Katherine coming towards me.
"You talking to yourself again Charlie." She laughed hitting my arm.
"Yeah," I smiled awkwardly.
"Thank you again, for helping me find my father." She said and the minute she said it I quickly looked at Al who shrugged and smacked the hand link.
"Here's a picture of him, just asked everyone you can if they recognize him" Katherine continued as she handed me the picture. I looked down at the picture and my jaw dropped.
"Oh boy," I said as I saw who the picture was of, it was Al.