Tomorrow
Disclaimer: I own very little of this. Anything you recognize as part of POTF, I don't own. Anything original you recognize from Tonight, I do.
A/N: Sequel to Tonight is now up! Woo-hoo! Full of new schemes, new obstacles, and new characters. It's gonna be a wild ride.
"He's escaped," the room was dark, save for one light overhead. It didn't offer much comfort. The man speaking drummed his fingers on his desk and contemplated his colleague standing in front of him. "How on earth could you let him escape?!"
"I didn't mean to. It was an accident. Besides, I got him good in the side," he held up his knife as a demonstration, showing the gleam of dark red blood in the light. A drop of it landed on the floor.
"No, Matthews. This," a glass of water went flying off the desk, reverberating the sound of glass breaking through the room. "is an accident. What you did should get you killed."
"How was I supposed to know he'd put a cloaking device on the time-machine?!"
"Foresight, Matthews, foresight! You knew he would try to escape. You knew he had experience with time-machines. His father spent half his life in them! You knew he'd probably have a time-machine waiting. But did you check the premises, Matthews?"
"No,"
"No," the first man repeated. "And did you post guards outside the room to catch him if he escaped?"
"No,"
"I thought not," the first man leaned back in his chair, putting his fingers together in a v-shape and letting loose a deep sigh. "Well, despite your idiocy, I can still see how this will work."
"How?"
"Well, the little brat has ruined our attempts in this future, hasn't he? All we have to do is go back and change the future,"
"We're going to go back and kill him?"
"No," Matthews could almost hear the man sneer behind his hands. "Better. We're going to take him and raise him ourselves...that way we'll ensure he's on our side."
"I see," Matthews said, a smile of his own growing on his face. With the boy out of the way, their attempts would finally come to fruition. Just as if the timeline shift had never happened. "When do we leave?"
"Tomorrow,"
"Excellent,"