Set in both the 2016/ And Old West.
April 22nd, 2016-Denver, Colorado
Zoe Wilmington was a genius, Brilliant, mischievous, innovative, creative, imaginative, more capable of thinking out of the box and on her feet than any two dozen people but she was not appreciated by her aunt and missed her Mother and father terribly. Zoe Wilmington was born to Buck and Clarissa Larabee on April 22nd, 2004, when the two of them died in a car crash she was sent to live with Clarissa's sister, Morgan. Morgan was not like her kind, compassionate, warm, sister. Forgotten once again on her 12th Birthday her Aunt had forgotten. Zoe made her own cake, and stuck a candle in it. She lit it, and made a wish.
"I wish for to have a loving attentive, happy family again." She blew out the candle. Now the thing about birthday wishes, people should know is there's a reason you wish them silently, if you make them out loud, someone might come along and grant them, in creative and interesting ways, and like old Chinese curse states; May you live in Interesting times. The Next Morning, there was a note on the Dry erase board outside her room where her aunt always left her notes. Going to DC tomorrow. Be packed. Going for five days. Pack as usual. Be ready by 6 am. M. She packed and at 5:30 she had breakfast, and gathered her leather duffel bag and her computer purse. She felt a tug, and a push, and a tingle, and she was standing on a dusty street in the old West, looking around, With Several Men staring at her, and one Blonde woman. One in a she would deem fancy clothes of the late 1800s, One in Black, One with a Mustache, One very large Silver-haired one, One Young naïve Looking one, One long haired one in buckskins, and one intelligent looking black one, and a Blonde haired lady.
Four Corners, Colorado Territory April 24th, 1876
"What is going on here?" She asked in almost shock. She recognized the men. As the Seven Protectors of Four Corners. Chris Larabee, Buck Wilmington, Josiah Sanchez, JD Dunne, Vin Tanner, and Nathan Jackson. And the Woman as the reporter of the Clarion News Mary Travis. Three of them her ancestors. She recognized them, especially Buck Wilmington as looked just like her dad except for the Mustache her Dad was always clean shaven, and her dad had a much better dress sense.
"That's what what'd like to know. You got a name?" Chris asked glared.
"Z-Zoe, it's Greek it means life…." She said.
"An Adult asks yer name, you tell, yer whole name, now yer whole name…." Chris said, not meaning for it to come out harshly. She flinched.
"Zoe Clarissa Wilmington."
"Wilmington?" Buck asked. "What's yer Pa's name?"
"Buck Wilmington….." Not trying to be evasive but she was nervous.
"How old are you!" Trying to think which one of his past lovers could be the girl's Ma. Although he had an idea, with her middle name being Clarissa, and her just showing up here now. Chris was going to kill him she looked like the right age, and he had bedded Chris's sister Clarissa, during the war.
"12 years, as of yesterday." She said automatically. He thought carefully, Aw Hell. Chris was gonna kill him. Clarissa was a Spitfire. She was working as a nurse at a Union Army Field Hospital. He was wounded. She tended his wounds and then comforted him.
"How'd you appear like that?" Vin Tanner asked suspiciously. He'd seen some not exactly natural things in his life. He knew there was more to life, than just what you could see.
"That I have no idea. It shouldn't be possible. Look, I'm obviously in past, I mean you're the seven protectors of Four corners the last of you died in 1923, that's 73 years ago…and Four Corners hasn't looked anything like this since the just before World War I, that's 100 years, and….and that Buck Wilmington there is My Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather, and so is Chris Larabee and Mary Travis….I mean great-great-great-great grandmother….I mean time travel is just not possible…..I can't just be in 2016 one minute, and then in whenever this is."
"1876." JD answered." She looked around saw the rainy grey say.
"April?"
"April 24th." Josiah said. She nodded.
"It's was Birthday yesterday." She sighed. "I made a wish that I'd have a loving happy family again. I didn't think I'd end up in the past, I didn't even think wishes came true, and this isn't even what I wished for!"