I Do over Again…
Disclaimer: I do not own Eureka or Inuyasha…although I wish I did!
A/N: Thank you for your reviews. Makes me all warm and tingly! So quick recap Stark isn't dead he is too hot to die! Sesshoumaru is the Secretary of Defense, Kagome is undersecretary, and Shippo is a member of Sesshy's staff/Advisor/Inutaichi's version of Fargo without the accidents. By the way I noticed it says flower in the end of chapter one when I was checking my story to continue….I actually meant floor…oops, it was late guys…lol!
Summary: Stark stops the time loop allowing everyone to survive and not be erased unfortunately in doing so he disappears and becomes a part of time only one person can help him….a fellow time traveler/miko. Pairing: Nathan Stark / Kagome.
-4 months earlier at G.D. (a.k.a. Day after the time loop ordeal) -
After the events that occurred in the time management lab Thorne ordered the immediate sealing of the time lab until a time where she could oversee it dismantled personally. However, at the moment she has many more changes to instill that are of a higher priority. Nathan Stark's funeral will take place tomorrow and she will have to attend the event to show support, even if it is a ceremony for an empty casket as the body wasn't recovered since it disintegrated if Carter and Fargo are to be believed.
Fortunately Allison would be indisposed for an indefinite time while she grieves. Allowing her to change everything she wished without opposition, not that Allison was much of a hindrance before hand. But more importantly she now had to take time out of her busy schedule to get a new black dress for the funeral.
'Oh well, this means a new pair of shoes is a must' thought Thorne.
As soon as these thoughts ran through her head Carter walked in to G.D.
'What good timing, just the lackey I needed,' thought Thorne.
"Jack Carter, just the person I needed" said Thorne, "I need you to prune a few more weeds."
"What? "asked Carter.
"Oh, just a bit of dead weight. Be a dear and see that it gets done." replied Thorne as she walked away quite pleased with herself. She had many things to do, not to mention the quarterly reports needed to be faxed to the Pentagon.
Carter was left standing in the entranceway with a list of names.
"Ah, just what I needed!"
-2 hours later At the D.O.D. -
Kagome was walking briskly through the halls heading to her office with the files Sesshomaru requested in those files was the incidence report on Project Eureka. According to the figures she had glanced at she could already predict he was not going to be pleased. It seemed the incidence rate had dramatically risen recently in Eureka, along with a few recent casualties of critical scientists involved in highly classified top priority projects. Now, they were going to have to review those projects, find out how far they progressed and if with the work currently done there were feasible in the foreseeable future.
As soon as she reached her office she would immediately set out on finding someone who was qualified to overtake these projects and finish them. Hopefully someone with the qualifications necessary for these projects would be available or as usual she along with Shippo would end up bearing the brunt of these setbacks. Any delay even one that could not be avoided such as death would be seen as ineptitude on part of the G.D., and any delay did not make for a happy Secretary of Defense. These thoughts alone caused Kagome to wince.
On top of the current projects she had in the works another three more projects added to her work load was not something she was looking forward to. It was these thoughts that led to a cloud of unease to permeate her aura which she unconsciously broadcasted to everyone in a close proximity. Naturally as if sensing that the harbinger of ill fated news was among them, everyone in the Pentagon parted to allow her to pass as well as immediately vacating the vicinity in which the Secretary of Defenses' office was located hoping to avoid the killer intent he was bound to emit. Everyone thanked their lucky stars that they were not the Undersecretary of Defense at that moment.
She reached the central office in record time and spotted Shippo at her desk apparently waiting for her. He was looking down at his PDA going over his appointments. As if sensing her presence he looked up and spotted her uneasy smile.
"Good morning, Kagome-chan"
"Good morning, Shippo-chan."
"Bad news?" asked Shippo eyeing the documents she carried.
"The worst" sighed Kagome.
"Worse like…Rin-chan dyed Sesshoumaru-sama's hair pink and he found out it was because of an offhanded comment we made or worse like…Naraku was resurrected and he is planning world domination again? " asked Shippo.
"More like the Kami has it out for us and we are not going to be able to sleep well for the next couple of months that we will be walking zombies bad and every store that sells pocky in the U.S. is completely sold out!"
"Noooo! Knock on wood! Don't even joke about that! I told you about that nightmare and how I couldn't sleep well for months for fear that it would actually happen."
"Well now you know how bad it truly is."
"Wow, I do not envy you at this moment."
"I know, well I better get in there before he sends a search party."
"Gird your loins" quoted Shippo.
"You would quote the Devil Wears Prada!" Kagome jokingly commented.
"What can I say I love Meryl Streep!" said Shippo.
She walked further into the office heading for the main office. Every step she took was another step closer to her doom. As she reached the door she sighed, took a deep breath and pushed the door open accepting her fate. "Good Morning Sesshomaru-sama!" She said with a smile. To which he only responded with a nod to show he acknowledged her presence. She placed the files in front of him so he could review them while she went to make his coffee. When she glanced back at him she couldn't help but notice that he went straight for the Incidence report.
She placed his coffee on his desk and walked back to her desk to continue her work. As the time slowly ticked by, the hair on the nape of her neck began to rise from the killer youki permeating the air, the only sign of displeasure from Sesshomaru.
"Just great…3…2…1"
The intercom beeped, "Kagome come into the office"
Kagome banged her head on the desk, "Why me?" she mumbled.
She pressed the intercom button, "Coming Sesshomaru-sama!" she said and quickly got up and went to his office. Allowing him to stew in his anger would only make the outcome worse for her.
-In the office-
Sesshomaru had just finished reading the figures in the incidence report and he was not pleased. The number of incidences has risen dramatically in the past six months, due to human error.
'Something is going terribly wrong in Eureka.' Thought Sesshomaru.
He pressed the intercom button, "Kagome come into the office"
He was going to get to the bottom of this and correct this discrepancy.
The intercom beeped just then, "Coming Sesshomaru-sama!" five seconds later the door opened and Kagome walked in and quickly sat in front of his desk and pulled out her PDA to take notes.
"Find out what has changed in the past six months to cause such an increased rate of human error related incidences. Find out all you can about the current actions Eva Thorne is taking to correct this oversight. And I want you to make a personal call to her to ensure she knows that these incidences will not be tolerated. I want you to monitor G.D. and if the incidence rate does not dramatically decrease, then actions to correct this shall be taken in hand."
"I will get right on that Sesshomaru-sama." Said Kagome as she tapped a few more times on her PDA. She excused herself and went to do just that.
A/N: What will happen next? Find out next chapter. Read and Review. The fate of stark will be discovered soon…until next time.