Summary: Lara is a girl living in New York in year 2006. She's getting home from school and never sees what hits her. She wakes up in the middle of the road, and discovers soon that everything has changed.
Disclamer: I own only Larissa and some randomly mentioned persons. I don't own BoB.
Yeah, a travel back in time story... I decided to give it a try, not sure if anything comes out of it though... I know there is some similarities with couple of stories, but I'm not trying to copy anyone! I promise! I will try to make as different as I can!
Chapter 1
Finally the school was over and summer vacation started. I have to admit that the last lessons in school were only havoc. Everyone expected to get out already and I wasn't an exception. I had so many plans for summer, but first I was going to spend two weeks at home with my parents. Then my parents and I would fly to Europe. My parents had been planning it for a long time, and now it finally happened. I had never been in Europe in my 17-year life and actually I was looking forward to it.
We would fly first to France. My father was a major in Airborne and he wanted to pay the respect to all American soldiers, who were burried there, or who had their names carved on memorial stone in cemetaries on Normandy and who had gotten killed during the Second World War. He had planned that we would visit the cemetaries near Utah and Omaha Beaches. Then we would spend few days in Paris, which I looked forward, I always had wanted to get there. Belgium was also in our travel plan, I was sure that I would have nice three weeks in Europe, and it didn't bother me that my parents were with me, actually I was happy that they were coming with me. The trip was their idea after all.
After a last lesson, I talked with my two best friends for a moment and we promised to keep in touch during the summer, probably we would see each others during the vacation too.
"You're so fortunate to get to Europe, Lara." Other of my friends, Sarah stated.
"I think so too. Though I'm not sure if I want to go through some military cemetery so that we can stare some stones, which carries the names of men, who got killed on WWII." I sighed.
"I think it's interesting. Think about it, Lara. You will see so much over there." Paula commented.
"Yeah, maybe you're right. I guess it will be interesting to see the places where happened so much on 1940's. But I'm more excited about getting to Paris." I grinned.
"Yeah, Paris…" Paula had a dreaming look on her eyes. "The capital of fashion."
"You have to buy a lot of clothes from there." Sarah said.
"I will, you can be sure of it." I grinned.
"Ah, our bus came. Are you coming, Lara?" Sarah said when she saw a yellow school bus pulling on the schoolyard.
"No. I think I'll walk. It's a nice weather and not so long walk anyway." I replied.
I usually take the school bus to home, but this time I decided to walk. I hugged my both good friends and we made the promise to see each others before I left my three week trip to Europe.
I walked towards home thinking about the coming summer vacation. I was fortunate to be born in rather wealthy family, but we were also a military family. My father served as a major in Airborne and the army was part of our life. I was born in military base, but right after my sister, Cathy had been born we moved on our own house outside of the base. I was seven years old then, and didn't remember so well what kind of life we had there. I liked living outside of the military base, at least I had the freedom to live my life, I had heard some not so nice stories about the life on the houses which were in base, and I thought that I could never live that kind of life.
I was deep in my thoughts and for my little surprise I discovered that I was pretty close home already. I had to get other side of the road, so I stood by the verge of the road, and looked to both directions, before I crossed the road. The sun was shining right to my eyes from left side, so I couldn't see well if there was coming a car, but when I was sure that there were no cars coming, I started to cross the road. I was on the middle of the road, when I heard a breaks screeching. Next thing I realized was that I fell down and hit my head on the ground.
I felt cold and wet when I woke up, then I heard breaks screeched again. I realized that I was lying on sandy road, and when I opened my eyes, I saw car lights just few feet from me, otherwise it was very dark and raining a little. What the hell? Where am I? What happened?
I just laid there my eyes trying to figure out what had happened. I recalled that I was going home when something, probably a car, hit me. But how I ended up there where I was? I should be in hospital, not here… Where am I exactly?
Then I heard steps coming towards me, and I saw a figure of a man bending down on me.
"Jesus Christ, Bill. You almost ran over her." I heard the man gasping.
"I didn't see her earlier. But fortunately I saw her before I ran over her. Why is she laying here in the middle of the road anyway?" Came the other male voice right beside me.
"How can I know?" The man who had bent down on me snorted. "But we have to get her out of here."
I was watching the dark haired man, who was bent down on his knees right next to me. It seemed like he was dressed in army uniform, which got me starlet. What the hell is going on? Who are these men? And why I am lying here?
"Are you all right, miss?" Right after the man had said that, he squinted. "Bloody hell, Lara?"
How he can know my name? Who is he?
I was so overwhelmed that I couldn't speak, but actually I didn't have to, because right after the man had said my name, he looked up to the other man, who he had called Bill.
"Jesus Guarnere, you almost ran over Lara!"
"Lara who?" The other man asked.
It was a good question, because I wanted to know how this man knew my name.
"Captain Hester's sister, Lara, of course! We were sent to look for her, remember?" The man yelled.
"Christ George, what is she doing on the middle of the road?" The man called Bill bent down also and I noticed that he was dressed in army uniform too.
His other question was good too, but I was wondering that who was this Lara, who was sister to some captain Hester. Wait a minute they can't mean me… Right?
"What are you doing here, Lara?" The man called George asked.
"I… I don't know." Finally I managed to speak. I guess he saw that I didn't really know the answer to his question, so he just touched gently my cheek.
"All right then. Don't worry, we'll get you to the base." George said gently.
Then for my big surprise he put his arms underneath me and lifted me up.
"Bill, open the jeep door. We have to get her to base. She's soaking wet and we don't know how long she has been lying there." George said to the other man.
My limbs were numb and I felt like I could hardly move my head. I just looked the man who carried me to the jeep my eyes wide. I still didn't know what had happened, but obviously these men knew me, though I didn't know them. There were thousands of thoughts buzzing on my head, when George put me down on the jeep bench and watched at me.
"Where am I?" I asked quietly.
"You're in Aldbourne, England. Have been for six weeks." George looked at me gently, thought I could sense that he was wondering my question, which probably sounded strange to him.
England? But how in the hell I got here? I shouldn't be here! Wait a minute... Six Weeks?
"I guess you got a quite hit to your head. But don't worry, you're safe now. Actually the captain has been worried over you when you didn't come back from village before the dark." George continued.
Who is this captain? They did mention that this Lara was a sister to guy called captain Hester, but… I don't have a brother.
I didn't say anything to him, so he just got to the jeep next to me and looked me gently. Bill got to the driver's seat, turned on the jeep and we started to drive along the road.
Suddenly George touched gently my forehead, which was actually aching a lot.
"Quite a knob you have there, Lara. What happened? Did you fell down on your way back to base?" He asked.
"I… I did." I felt that it was best to tell this man that it was what had happened. I couldn't tell him that I was probably run over by a car in New York. I had figured out that much that I wasn't in New York anymore. But I just didn't know where I was and why these military men – who they seemed to be – knew who I was. Or actually they thought that I was someone else… Am I dead or what?
It didn't take long when we arrived to the place that seemed like a military base indeed, but for my opinion it seemed some how strange. There were tents everywhere, and only few big buildings. I looked around amazed when the jeep pulled in front a wooden building. George helped me out of the jeep and turned to the woman, who was dressed like a nurse.
"Helen, it's Lara Hester. We wound her lying on the middle of the road. I think she tripped on something on her way back from the village. She has quite a knob on her head."
"All right, sergeant Luz. Take her inside."
I let George and Bill to lead me inside the building, which seemed like a hospital, but there was something strange on it too. It seemed like I was in 1940's or -50's which was strange. I can't have got back in time, have I?
The nurse called Helen led us to one of the rooms and when I sat on the bed, I saw a newspaper on the table next to the bed. First I only glanced on it, but then I took a better look on it when I saw the date on it. I can't believe this… 25th October 1943?
I was staring at the calendar on the wall, when the man in uniform appeared on my sigh again. I took a better look on the guy who had been called George. Actually he was quite cute, he had a dark brown eyes and dark hair, and he looked at me with concern.
"Lara? Are you all right?"
I realized that I had to play along with this. I couldn't tell them, that I had come from year 2006 and actually my name was Larissa Brownes, not Lara Hester, like they seemed to think. Or it seemed like I was in Lara Hester's body, the thought got me overwhelmed again and I had to lay down on the bed, I was feeling so sick.
"I… I don't feel so good." I muttered.
"Helen, I'll get Doc Roe." George stated and before I realized he was gone, as did the other guy, Bill.
The nurse bent down on me and put her hand on my forehead.
"You might have a little fever, Lara. But first we have to get dry clothes for you."
I just nodded and the nurse left somewhere, probably she went to get me dry clothes. I looked around in the room thinking what had just happened to me. It was clear in my mind already that somehow I had traveled back in time to some military base in England. Because it was a year 1943 I knew that the WWII was still raving in Europe. My thoughts were interrupted when the room door was opened and I saw George and a young man, who wore a red cross on his sleeve entering the room. They stood by my bed and looked down on me.
"Do you know who I am?" The man, who I suspected to be a doctor or a medic, asked.
No. Should I? Then I recalled that George had mentioned something about getting some man called Doc Roe, so I tried my luck.
"Doc Roe." I said quietly.
"Well, nothing's wrong with your memory, Lara." The man stated and I knew that I had hit right. I just hoped that I would be as lucky in the future too. The truth was that I didn't know any of these men, who thought that I did. And then there was this captain Hester, who was apparently my brother. How would I recognize him, when I saw him?
Before Doc Roe started to examine me, Helen got back with dry clothes. She ushered George and Doc Roe out of the room and helped me to change. When I had dry clothes on, she called the two men back to the room.
"Lara, Bill went to get your brother." George stated just when Doc Roe was listening my lungs, and I gasped a little. So, this is the moment of truth… I'll see the man who is apparently my brother. Holy shit!
I just nodded because I couldn't speak, this was just the craziest think what was ever happened to me, and I had experienced some crazy things during my life.
"Well, I think that you will be well in couple of days." Doc Roe stated when he was ready with his examination. "You have a slight fever, but I think it's just because you've caught cold. And your head will ache few days because of that knob I'll give you some pain killers, which help on that."
"Thank you." I said quietly.
"Just doing my job, Lara." The medic smiled and gave me the pills. Then he gave me a glass of water and I had just taken one of the pills, when the door was thrown open and a tall, blondish man in uniform barged in.
"Lara! I was worried about you! What the hell happened?" The man yelled and before anyone in the room got the change to react, he continued yelling. "What were you thinking by walking alone back from village? Christ, Lara!"
Captain Hester, I presume?
I let out an unintentional giggle, and the man glared at me.
"This isn't a matter of a laugh, Lara. I was worried about you. I thought something happened to you!"
"I'm sorry… I'm all right…" I muttered. Shit, what is his first name? I can't call him captain Hester, he thinks that I'm his sister. Goddamnit, what is his first name?
"Private Guarnere told me that he and sergeant Luz found you laying on the middle of the road. What were you doing there, Lara?" Although this was the first time I met this man, I saw that he was angry and maybe also worried about his sister – or actually me.
"I… I think I tripped over something." I said.
"You think? You think! Goddamnit, Lara! You have to be more careful! What if…"
"Clarence, take it easy. Can't you see that she has had got quite a scare?" A male voice from the door interrupted his outburst.
Only now I realized that there was also another officer in the room besides captain Hester. I had been so concentrated on the captain, that I hadn't seen him. I looked over to the door and saw a tall man standing there. When I looked to his uniform, I saw that he had captain's marks also. Thank you, sir. Now I know captain Hester's first name. Seemed like I hadn't run out of luck, not yet anyway.
"Sorry, Salve." Clarence said quietly. "But I was worried about her."
"Yeah, I noticed that. But give her a break. Can't you see she isn't feeling well?" The other captain, who seemed to be called Salve, commented.
Actually he was right, I wasn't feeling well. But it wasn't because I had a knob on my forehead, it was because I had just traveled back in time and found out that I was in someone else's body.
"You look a little pale, Lara. Are you all right?" Clarence looked at me closely and I got an uncomfortable feeling. Play along, Lara. Play along; your life might depend on it!
"I am." I said quietly.
"Is she all right, corporal Roe?" Clarence turned to the medic who had examined me.
"She has a little fever, but she will be fine in couple of days, sir." He replied.
"You should rest couple of days, Lara. Then you can get back to work." Clarence looked at me, and I just nodded agreeing. Work? I'm working here? What the hell I'm supposed to do in here?
"I mean it, Lara. I know you that well, that I suspect you to be back in work tomorrow morning already, but this is an order. You have to rest couple of days." Clarence had a serious look on his eyes when he said it.
So, this Lara who they know is a lot like me. She can't stay put for a long either. I was actually happy about this realization. Maybe it wasn't so hard to adopt her life until I got back to my own time, which I hoped to happen soon. But for now I just had to try play the part, and try to solve who everyone were, and above all what was my job and why exactly I was thrown in there, England and to year 1943.
Then I yawned, and Helen who was still in the room, like were Doc Roe and George, ushered the men out.
"She has to get some sleep now. She might be able to tell tomorrow what exactly happened today." The nurse stated. I was happy that she did that, but she was wrong, I could never tell these men what happened, I just had to tell them that I had tripped over on my way back from the village and hit my head, I had a knob on my forehead as a prove of it.
It had been an overwhelming couple of hours, and I thought that I couldn't get any sleep, but for my surprise I fell asleep almost immediately after Helen had left the room. Maybe it was because of the pills Doc Roe had given me, or then I was just so exhausted.
All right... I'm taking couple of 'not so well known' guys to this story, but mainly it is about Easy's guys of course.
Oh, and things written in italic are Lara's thoughts.
And again, I'm trying to do this different than couple of other stories, but if it won't work, I won't be updating this.
