Chapter One

"Liz! Liz you have to look at me!" she couldn't! It was too bright in here and she didn't want to open her eyes to see Max lying on the floor dying. In the end her eyes betrayed her and she looked up to see a boy staring at her; no that wasn't right. It wasn't a boy! It was Max.

"Max?" Liz whispered thickly then she felt warmth spreading through her. He fell towards her and she could smell him; that was definitely Max but he looked wrong... where was his grey hair and cute wrinkles she used to tease him about? What had happened to her husband?

"You're alright. You're alright now!"

"Keys! Now!" Max sat up and pulled his keys out of his pocket and tossed them to Michael. She felt her throat close up! Michael was standing there! She watched him reach up and grab a ketchup bottle

"You broke the bottle when you fell and spilt ketchup all over you. Please don't say anything" he said as he got up and ran for the door.

"Liz?" Maria bounced over to my side as she watched that Jennifer tourist squirm as Max rushed past her. What had happened? Liz held her uniform closed and watched Michael speed off; she tried to make sense of it all, all she could think of was that it had worked. She was back on earth and she was no longer forty three, she was sixteen again. It had worked and now she had the chance to save everyone.

"Oh My God!" gasped Maria. She pulled out a cloth and held it to her to wipe away the ketchup. She was sat down and a few minutes later an ambulance pulled up.

Liz was going into shock, she was sure of it. She sat there holding the cloth to her stomach as she tried to make sense of it all. Her mind was reeling and she was suffering from a strange version of time traveller's jet lag.

"Oh My God! Lizzie?" Liz looked up to see her dad coming into the CrashDown. She dropped the clothe, rose to her feet and rushed to him

"Dad!" she breathed as she felt tears come to her eyes. She held him tightly, she hadn't seen my father in years, not since Kivar had him killed in front of her "I can't believe you're really here!"

"Are you okay?"

"Yes" she lied "I'm fine. See its ketchup" she glanced at the paramedics to back her up. They were already packing their stuff away.

"She's fine" he said "Real lucky escape"

Just then the Sheriff walked in and for the second time that day Liz was glad to see someone she cared about. Her eyes filled with tears; she had been there with Kyle as he cradled his dad's head while he died

"Jim" she breathed, she couldn't help herself as she hurried over and pulled him into a hug. His scary expression changed to one of shock and surprise

"Uh... nice to see you're okay Miss Parker"

"Miss..." she began then clamped her mouth shut. Of course, she was Miss Parker, she was still sixteen and she hadn't gotten married to Max yet. "So what happened here?"

"There were two men arguing. One pulled a gun, it went off, I fell over knocking a bottle of ketchup it spilt all over me. I'm fine"

"You sure?" he asked he glanced at a table to his right and saw the Tabasco bottles, Jennifer decided to march forward

"There were two kids sitting over here when it happened, two boys about her age. And then one of them went-"

"Yeah, they were kids from school. One of them came over to see if I was okay, he must have gotten spooked by the ketchup. It must have looked like blood; he looked like he was going to pass out"

"He have a name?" asked Jim

"Mick or Mack... Mark... something like that. I didn't really know him that well" she lied; she didn't want him to hunt Max down like he did in the past. Liz wanted to approach Jim in private if possible; she wanted to do my best to spare him from what happened to the Jim in her time line "I really had a big shock. Is it okay if I go now...? Ji... uhh Sheriff?"

"Sure" he said "But I'm going to need a statement, would you be able to come down to the station tomorrow? Will you be feeling better by then?"

"I should be. Thank you" she said, her dad got his jacket from the back, and he came and draped it over her shoulders. She couldn't help but smile at him; she spotted Maria standing there looking confused, worried and upset. She would have to deal with her later; Liz was just glad that she was alive as well. She gestured with my eyes for her to go to the break room. She quietly walked into the back "I'm going to go upstairs to my room now dad"

"Okay. Are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm fine" she told him trying to reassure him with a smile

"Good, I gotta go call your mother" he wandered off to the counter and she chose that time to leave. Maria was standing, waiting in the back room for her. She pulled out her order pad and handed it to her; just like she remembered it was covered in blood. Her blood.

"Keep hold of this for me. Don't show it to anyone and I promise I'll explain everything tomorrow at school" Liz promised her "But for now... I need to get upstairs" she opened her mouth to protest but she hurried up the stairs to her room and shut the door.

She dropped dad's jacket on her bed, pulled off her uniform and saw that silver hand print on her stomach. She couldn't help but run her fingers over it; she felt the strange hum as soon as she touched it. She laid her uniform on the bed and concentrated on the hole, it repaired itself miraculously and she shoved it in her book bag.

She quickly got changed pulling on a grey jumper and jeans then went down the fire escape with one destination in mind.