THIS STORY IS MARY SUE! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T READ IT!
Disclaimer: The characters of "Early Edition" belong to…well, someone who's not me. ; Everything else not pertaining to a real place is mine. There are a few in-jokes and kudos to you if you can figure them out. So far, this story is thirteen chapters, but I'm only posting the first three because I'd like a beta reader to go over it for me. If you'd like the job, please e-mail me at gigs83killkillkillthespam with the words "Beta reader" or something similar in the subject heading (just take out the kill the spam line).
Chapter One: Trouble's A-Brewin'
She was there, just as the reports had predicted. He squinted, trying to see something amiss with the girl, but she looked normal. She had waist-length brown hair, glasses, was of average build and height. Yes, perfectly normal.
However, she wasn't.
Dr. Walter Von Braun, a German scientist, had been following the "career" of this girl for an ongoing forty years now. Why she could seem to be in several places at one time. Why she's there one minute and gone the next. Why animals never seemed to fear her. Why she seemed to know things. Why she never seemed to age at all.
He was firmly convinced that this person was not human, and, as head of the Chicago Institute for Extraterrestrial Life on Earth, it was his duty to investigate. Even at sixty, he enjoyed getting out and doing a little what he liked to call "field work". The fresh air did him some good, he thought.
Von Braun began writing in a notepad he always kept with him. He used to dictate his notes into a recorder, however, it was then that he found out she had extra sensitive hearing. She'd heard him speaking and fled the scene. That was almost forty years ago.
His fascination began in the early sixties when he was at school in England. He'd noticed her skulking around a junkyard on Totters Lane, and also hanging around the Coal Hill School. Almost ten years later, he spotted her working with a military operation. While vacationing in Amsterdam in the eighties, he found her there as well. Back in England in the nineties, she was there.
At first, he thought she just liked to visit Europe a lot, or else lived there and liked to visit other places. Then, it got odd. After founding the Institute and branching it out into many different states, his colleagues and fellow scientists that worked at the different offices reported that, while Von Braun himself knew for a fact she was there in London, she was spotted elsewhere; in fact, it was several elsewheres. There was evidence of her being seen in both Malibu and Los Angeles. Now, she was in Chicago.
He was utterly obsessed with this girl, and he was determined to study her more closely. He was going to capture her. In his jacket pocket, he had a powerful tranquilizer dart and he fully intended to use it tonight.
Von Braun finished his notes and continued to watch her over the top of his book. Around the place, he had undercover scientists also keeping tabs. If she suspected anything, she'd not made any indication.
They were on West Illinois Street in front of a bar called McGinty's. The sun was starting to set and they'd been at this since they first got word she was in the city. His coworkers were getting tired, but his obsession stifled any need for sleep Von Braun had.
The girl looked at the McGinty's sign, then went inside. Von Braun followed, determined not to let her out of his sight.
End chapter one.