The Reading
Written by Roger Lamb II
Rated G
Summary: The band heads back to New York because Molly
bought tickets to Crossing Over with John Edward. They're in
for a big surprise.
Authors Note: Ticket information on the official Scifi.com website for the show Crossing Over with John Edward states that no one under 18 is allowed in the Gallery, but since this fan fic has both Fi and Annie in it, at the reading, that rule isn't in effect in this story.
Molly was anxious to
go back to New York to see Rachel again. She hadn't seen her
for about 6 months, after all. She was just about to yell up to
Ned how much longer when he yelled
Ned: We're entering New York City limits in
about five minutes.
Molly: Good, I hope Rachel got the tickets.
Fi: What tickets, mom?
Molly: Oh well, this was going to be a surprise,
but I gave your Aunt Rachel some money to get us all tickets to
go see a taping of that show on the Scifi Channel you watch all
the time, Crossing Over with John Edward.
Fi: Really? That is SO cool! What time is it at?
Molly: Well, it's tomorrow at about 2:00.
We'll do a little visiting and shopping before that, then
after the taping it's off to Miami.
Ned: Okay, everyone, we're officially in
the Big Apple.
(At Rachel's Apartment)
Rachel: Fi! Oh, I've missed you so much.
How was Seattle?
Fi: It was the best. I got to see all of these
really neat plays that Aunt Melinda was in.
Rachel: Well, I'm sorry I wasn't
interesting enough to stay with. **she joked
Fi: Well, I didn't wanna be falling off any
buildings **she joked back
Molly: So? Did you get the tickets?
Rachel: Yes, they're over there on the
table.
(The next day, noon, they're shopping)
Annie: What time is it, Molly?
Molly: It's a little after noon. Annie,
relax, we've got a good hour before we have to get going.
Annie: You're right.
Fi: Hey, Annie, why are you so anxious to get to
the taping?
Annie: Well, because I'm hoping that
I'll find something out about my life, this panther
following me everywhere, Peru, my everything.
Fi: Well, it's like John says, "Please
don't put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience."
But, for some reason, I'm sure that you, no wait, all of us,
will hear something.
(finally at Crossing Over just before they're about
to begin recording.
Jack: Mom, why are we all here? This is just
another quack trying to get some money.
Molly: Jack! This means a lot to me, your
sister, and Annie. Try not to ruin this experience for us.
Crewmember: Okay everyone, we're going to
begin recording now, start clapping.
**Audience begins clapping, John walks out
John: Thank you and welcome to Crossing Over.
I'm John Edward and unless there are any questions, I'm
ready to begin. I'm being pulled over here **walks to the
part of the Gallery where Molly, Annie, Jack and Fi are sitting,
he starts humming Never Give Up
Annie: **after listening to the music for a bit,
she realizes that it's her song which never left the bus**
Excuse me, where did you hear that song?
John: It's playing in my head, I never
heard it anywhere before.
**Fi looks over at Annie**
Annie: That's my song, I wrote it about
three months ago.
John: Really? Wow, it's a nice song.
Annie: Thanks
John: I'm seeing a bus, not like a school
bus, it's like a customized blue RV type deal.
Molly: Yeah, that's our bus.
John: You come her with her?
Molly: Yeah, I brought her and my two kids.
John: Okay, I have someone coming through to
your side so that could be husband, brother, cousin, or friend
and their name starts with an Do you understand
this?
Molly: Yes, that'd be my husband, Rick.
John: Passed?
Molly: Yeah.
John: Then I'm definitely with you.
I've got all this information coming through to me from him,
but the thing sticking out most is Go to the bus. So
I don't know if this is something he always said to you or
not but he wants you to go to the bus. It could be that you might
be better prepared for the information coming through if
you're in a familiar surrounding.
Molly: Would it be because his sister, and our
closest friends are there waiting for us right now?
John: You left them on the bus?
Molly: Well, we could only get four tickets.
John: And you told them to wait there for 6
hours?
Jack: It was a good parking spot.
(audience laughs)
John: (to the producers) Can we get a cameraman
to follow us out to the bus?
Producers (over mic): We could but they wouldn't
be able to send live feed back here so you're going to have
to do the reading in here.
John: I don't know if her husband's
going to let me do it easily.
**Producers talk amongst each other for a minute and say
Producers: We're going to send a cameraman
out with a tape, and we'll have play back everything in here
later. Be quick.
John: Okay, if you'll please follow me.
(Walking out to the bus, cameraman records everything since
leaving the Gallery)
John: **to Molly** So you actually live on a
bus?
Molly: Well, we're a traveling band, we go
home once in a while.
John: Sounds fun.
**They're at the door and are walking out**
John: Umwhat's her name?
*asking Fi, pointing at Annie
Fi: Annie
Annie: What?
John: Don't move, there's a panther
walking up right by you.
**Everyone looks puzzled by this, except Annie.
Annie: You mean you can see the panther too? I
thought I was the only one, and whenever I did see it, it always
seemed like a dream.
**John's puzzled by this but shrugs it off
Molly: Okay, here's the bus.
**John looked it over before going up the steps and into the cab
Molly: Here, have a seat. Clu, could you move
over a bit please?
Clu: Sure, Mrs. P.
Irene: What's going on, Mol?
Molly: Everyone, John Edward. John, this is
Irene, Ned, Carey, Rachel, and Clu. **Molly said pointing to
everyone as she said their names.
John: Okay, I am a medium and came to these four
back in the Gallery with messages from her husband, Rick, who
said to come out here. He must have some messages for all of you.
Annie, you traveled around the world, right?
Annie: Yeah, with my parents.
John: All right, I'm seeing South America,
mainly the Amazonian Region, so I don't know if you've
been there, are going there, or that's where your parents
are now but that's what I'm seeing. Do you understand
this?
Annie: Yeah, we lived there when I was three
years old.
John: I'm getting the feeling that this
panther that we're seeing has something to do with that
place. I feel like the spirits know, but they aren't telling
me what exactly. They're saying that you'll find out
soon enough, okay?
Annie: Yes, thank you.
John: Now I'm coming over to you four.
(turning to the Bells) You aren't related to them, correct?
Ned: Yeah, that's right.
John: But I'm getting the feeling that you
are family, so this could either be a sign of how close you are,
or that your daughter and your son are involved but I'm
getting a sense of togetherness.
Irene: Well, we are stuck together almost 24/7.
Molly: Gee, thanks, Irene.
**They all laughed, amid this laughter, Fi's laptop, which
was sitting on the table, opened itself up and started booting
up.
John: Um, Ned, right? Were you involved in
someone death when you were younger?
Ned: Well, when I was about twelve, me and a
couple of other kids were jumping into a river when one of my
best friends fell to his death.
John: okay, then this is for you. Who had the
name? Like,
Ned: My friend Sam, he was there too.
John: Okay, this person is saying that he
forgives you and Sam and that he misses spending his life with
you two but he's also showing me a white rose which means
that he's congratulating you for something, it seems like
it's for how your life turned out.
Ned: Thanks. It feels like a really great weight
has just been lifted.
**By this time the computer was already fully booted up and was
into a word processing program. Rachel was the only one who
noticed that the thing was opened up when it wasn't before
Rachel: Fi, Did you leave your laptop open?
Fi: No, why?
**Rachel points to the computer which is now typing a message on
it's own: I WENT FIRST RICKY
Rachel: Oh my
John: What's going on?
Fi: Well, when Rachel and my daddy, Rick, were
kids, they made up a code to send each other secret
messagesthey called it their Twin Code because they were
twins. Anyways, the last time I was in New York, he used this
code, and this message to contact us and tell us where we could
meet him
Rachel: Yeah, this exact message was how he used
to tease me. We were twins so when we came out of my mother, he
went first and he always teased me about that.
John: Wow, this is definitely one of my weirder
readings. He's coming through, Fiona, that's your name
right?
Fi: Yeah
John: He's telling me that those e-mails
you've been getting, and the help with the troll, a troll?,
and that song you played with the other Medium back home, did
come from him and he is still there for you, protecting you.
Fi: I knew it! Thank you.
John: Sure, but now I'm seeing a parallel
between you two, it's a big one.
Fi: Yes, we were alike a lot, I have a list, if
you want to look over it.
John: That could prove useful.
**Fi walks over to her laptop and opened up the document where
she listed her similarities with her father and brought it back
to give to John who begins to look over the list
Fi: There, that's everything that I know
right now.
John: This is a good-sized list. *Just after
John finished saying this, he began typing on the computer.
Fi: What are you doing?
John: I don't know, I think your
father's typing more things on your list for you, through
me. No wait, he's opening up your Internet browser.
Fi: he's sending you to a web page? Why
would he do—
**Fi got cut off after hearing the sound of her father's
voice coming through the laptop.
Rick: Hi everyone, can't talk long
**static** thanks, John **more static**
all **more static** save
address **static** update
often Fiona
The message frizzled out. Tears were streaming down Fiona's
face.
(Back in the Gallery)
John: After their reading, Fiona was very eager
to talk to the producers about her reading from me and apparently
latest message from her father. Here's what she had to say.
(Projected on screen)
Fi: My dad died when I was three and for the
past two years, it seems as though he's contacted me more
than once. Finally, a few months ago, like I told John, I was
supposed to meet him, but it turned out to be a trap for me to be
killed for the same reason he was. I was hanging off a building
right here in New York and just as I was about to fall, he
grabbed my wrist and pulled me to safety. I never had any
memories of him because he died when I was so young but he told
me that everything that I've seen on tour gives me memories
of him so I was happy to hear that. Oh, I guess I forgot to tell
you what I have seen. Since we've been on tour, especially
this past year, I've seen a lot of things that you
wouldn't believe. To name a few, I've met up with
Bigfoot, e-mail messages from my dad telling me the future,
aliens, angels, a whole town of mind readers, vampires, a troll,
it's all listed on my website.
John: Molly, Annie, and Jack also wanted to talk
to our producers after their reading.
(Projected on screen)
Molly: Rick was my husband, soul mate, actually
and he died about 12 years ago and up until a few months ago, I
lived in the same house that we lived in when he was still alive,
but the past couple of years have made me start to hate that
house because I saw him, everywhere. It wouldn't let me get
on with my life.
*Flash*
Jack: I used to not believe in any of this
psychic mumbo-jumbo but I definitely think that today has made me
see things a little more like Fiona would. Don't tell her
that though. **chuckles
*Flash*
Annie: When I was three, me and my parents lived
in Peru. It's the only place out of everywhere that
we've been that actually feels like home to me, but my
parents don't like to talk about it. Ever since then, weird
things, like Fi's been seeing, have sort of found me. I used
to think that the panther was just a dream but knowing that John
saw the same thing lets me know for a fact that it's real.
But the whole Peru secret that's been kept from me, I'm
glad to know that I'm going to find out what that is soon.
John: I want to thank the Phillips, the Bells,
and Annie for verifying all of the information that came through,
even though most of it didn't even come through me. More in
the Gallery next.
THE END
