(A/N): Hey everybody! This is bexlynne, posting chapter one of SomedayonBroadway and I's newest story! This is yet another one of the strange crossover ideas we've come up with. It's going to be a lot of fun, and we hope you all enjoy it!
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"... so there I was staring down this man with nothing but an old newspaper and a pen in my hand, and he…"
She had been listening. She swore she had been at one point. But now, the man could see it clearly on her features that she had completely checked out of reality and fallen deeply into a world of her own. Though, he was glad at least her arm was lazily slung through his as he'd guided her away from many trees and bushes that she would've walked right into, had she been on her own.
"And then a mermaid came to the shore and dragged him under," he joked, wondering if that would get a rise out of her at all. "I haven't seen him since," he laughed, looking down at the girl with a bemused smile as her whole face was screwed up in confused for a minute before she seemed to be able to shake herself out of her own daze.
"I'm sorry," she said, blinking a few times to focus back in on the beautiful field she walked through. "What?"
All the man could do was chuckle at her as they came to a stop at their favorite tree. "Nothing, Katherine. Nothing at all," he promised lightly, still amused at how she could completely detach from the world, if only for a moment.
The young woman smiled sheepishly, clutching her own notebook under her arm. She'd done it again. She hadn't meant to, she never did. Sometimes, she found herself simply too bored or tired to stay focused and she needed some kind of outlet. It was still no excuse, so she watched the young man lay out a blanket as she sighed, "I'm sorry, Darcy… I didn't mean to-"
"Don't worry about it, Kathy," he chuckled. "Be glad you can escape our world. Not many people can do that as well as you." He sat down on the blanket, taking out a notepad and a pencil.
With a sigh, Katherine nodded. She then climbed up into the tree, not caring about dirtying her sky blue dress or her waves of hair as she did so. She reached the lowest branch and settled in, letting her legs swing as she sat contently above the ground.
"Do you ever think about what would happen if there were other lives out there?" she asked, curiously, looking up into the sky as she thought.
Darcy's eyebrows furrowed and let himself sit down with his back resting against the tree. "You mean like aliens?" he asked, beginning to write things down on his notepad without much care.
With a shrug, Katherine laid down on the branch, her head propped up by the trunk as she gazed out into the fields. "I mean like… other worlds," she decided. "What if there was a whole other place out there? One where all the things we know are different?" she pondered, looking off into the distance as if she could clearly see it all. "The law of physics would be something else and people weren't just human?"
Anyone with ears could call her crazy. She didn't care that she was considered mad by almost everyone who knew her. There had to be more somewhere.
The man she was with simply laughed at her, shaking his head as he crossed his legs in front of him. "That would be something, wouldn't it?"
Something, indeed it would be.
"Katherine, do you mind listening like you said you would before we came out here? I'd really like your opinion on this new article I've been working on?"
Oh yes, the girl thought to herself. She'd almost forgotten. Truly she might've just gone out to be out of the four walls she was getting sick of staring at. But she smiled and nodded anyways, as she was sure she would eventually be unable to listen to the whole thing.
And so it began, the dry tone of her friend beside her and her eyes drifting off into the far distance as she began creating her own world in her mind and describing as best she could on the papers she had. One with so many more wonders than that of the one she lay in.
That was when she heard it.
"... oh dear… oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…"
Sitting up, Katherine looked around for the voice that did not belong to the man beside her. Darcy hadn't even seemed to notice the mysterious mumbling that had caught her attention much to quickly. It took her a moment before she saw him.
A boy. A teenage boy, rushing across the fields in a rush to get… somewhere. Katherine wasn't sure where. The sight wouldn't have been so odd, after all they were in the fields just outside of town. Plenty of kids went there to play and go on walks or dates. No no, what was odd about this particular boy was the suit he was clad up in.
White. The thing was so purely white it could almost hurt the girls eyes to look at. It was a suit made for a rich man, she noted, as it had golden strands weaving their way around the fabric, creating a perfect hem for the boy. He wore white dress shoes, which she could see as he ran through the tall grass towards what looked like practically nothing; nothing but a bunch of trees. But what had her attention the most was the big, purely golden pocket watch that the boy clutched into his hands as his big brown eyes continued to glance down worriedly, apparently terrified at what time it was.
"I'm late!" he cried out to himself as he continued on. Immediately, Katherine slid down off of her branch as silently as she could, doing her best not to disturb Darcy, who continued reading on like nothing had changed. She didn't disrupt him, just curiously walked closer to the boy as he rushed away, still clutching her own notebook close to her chest. "I'm late, I'm late!" he cried, exasperated. He shoved his dark hair out of his face as he ran. It seemed he only got faster the closer she got to him, so she began to chase after him.
"Hey!" she called out as she rushed into the woods behind the teen, still holding onto her notebook while taking her skirt in her hands so she could run faster. "Wait!" she tried again when she got no reaction.
The boy was faster than anyone she'd ever met in her life. She rushed into the woods being able to clearly see the boy's white suit as he continued on his way in a frantic hurry. But as she ran and ran after him, she found herself in the middle of a whole bunch of trees, the boy nowhere in sight, and no clear paths on how to find her way out.
"Hello?" her voice was small and light as she looked around for a moment, trying to see any footprints or something that would lead her to the mysterious teenager who couldn't be any older than herself. "Anyone?" The girl received no reply. Not that she was afraid; quite the opposite in fact. She often found herself daydreaming of adventure and chaos, as everything in her life always went according to plan. Sometimes she actually had gone looking for trouble, only to find that it was nowhere to be found.
A sigh escaped the young writer's lips as she glanced around one last time. Whoever the boy was seemed frazzled. Perhaps she would've been able to help him. Oh well, she thought to herself as she turned around to begin her hike back.
That was when something happened; perhaps the most important thing ever to happen to her- a simple girl looking for adventure.
A quick gust of wind whirled all around her. It hadn't felt like much, being that she held her ground easily and it had barely ruffled her hair as it rushed by, making the leaves dance off of their branches when they had no more strength to hold on. She hadn't expected for that small wind to tear loose pages from her notebook and send them flying in a line, all rushing through more trees and beyond all the green that she could see.
With a gasp, the writer rushed after her stories, grabbing them all one by one as quickly as she could, but before she could collect them all, she watched in awe as some of them travelled through the base of a very large tree trunk. Without even thinking, she crouched down, holding her notebook tightly to her chest and crawling after her missing pages, into the old, beautiful tree.
It was then that she saw it. The hole; what looked to be a rabbit's hole buried beneath the giant trunk.
Katherine froze. Her big brown eyes widened in fascination as this was no ordinary rabbit's hole. She carefully bent down and looked through it.
It never ended. It looked like it just kept going and going and going as long as the darkness wouldn't run out. And by the looks of it, the darkness wouldn't run out…
Just as she might've crawled back, looking to get away from the never ending blackness below her, the last page she'd had grasped tightly in her hand miraculously managed to slip loose and fly over the pit that seemed a bit daunting to her. As she reached out to grab onto it without a second thought, she felt the ground beneath her slip.
All that was heard was a scream as the darkness swallowed her whole and sucked her down into the underground.
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