Marvellous things

Chapter 1: History eraser

Her phone was beeping. Abbie lifted her head off the pillow and checked the alarm clock. Two a.m.! No, she was not getting that. She was going to ignore it. She was not on duty and she was not coming in for anything less than the apocalypse. What if it was the apocalypse, though? This was a possibility now. Ha, her life was funny.

Restlessly, she turned over. The phone stopped beeping and started up again almost immediately. She cursed and reached for the infernal device.

'Miss Mills, have I awoken you?'

She groaned in response. Crane apologised profusely.

'Yeah, yeah. What's up?' Abbie muttered, interrupting the unending flow of words.

'I have just read the most peculiar thing. Our sixteenth president was a vampire hunter. Did you know this?'