Sal woke to the sound of keyboard keys being hit. The keys were being hit so hard and so fast that she almost felt sorry for them. It wasn't Liam. Liam never got up if he could help it. The best way to get him up was to steal his duvet, but that was Maddy's job.

She peeped over the side of the barrier on her bed, which was supposed to stop her from falling off the bed (Sal had a bruise to prove its worthlessness). Maddy was sat at Computer Bob looking at the screen intensely. Sal jumped off the bed, landing softly on her feet. She slung on the jeans she wore yesterday and a T-shirt.

"What are you doing?" Sal asked. Maddy jumped in her seat and turned around.

"Nothing. I'm just looking to see if can find the field base Diana was from. It's not easy, because our personal timeline only has details in the past, because that's what we need mostly. It does have some stuff on the future…" Maddy looked back to the screen. "Do you want a cup of tea?"

"You're just stressing yourself out. You don't need to worry about it; other groups can fix it if there's a problem. Why would you want to find another team anyway? And yes to the tea" Maddy got up to make the tea, and Sal looked at the computer screen. There were so many windows open! How could Maddy make any sense of this?

"Here's your tea" Maddy said, handing the cup to Sal, and putting her own cup onto the desk, pushing aside various other mugs and pizza boxes in the process. "I want to find them, because they have information! Aren't you ever curious about who started this? About what's going on? There are holes in the truth that Foster gave us." Maddy sighed and sat down at the computer again. "Look here" Maddy pointed to the screen. "Diana said that she was from the thirties, and she was stationed about 100 years in the future. That's here" Maddy zoomed in on a section of the Timeline. "Then Greg said that their mission was 33 years from now, so they must be stationed sometime after 2034" Maddy zoomed in even closer. Sal was just beginning to make sense of some of it. She could see little event marked here and there.

"Look Maddy, you don't need to worry about this. If Diana…failed" Sal gulped as she realised that if Diana had failed, she would've died. "If Diana failed" She began again "Then another group can fix it"

"What if there isn't another freaking group?"

"What if Diana succeeded?" Maddy and Sal glared at each other; then Maddy pulled away. She didn't like fighting with Sal, it made her feel bad. Sal was just a kid.

"I'm going for a walk" Maddy sighed. On her way out, she cranked the door down so hard that Liam woke up with a start and hit his head.

"Ow…what was that? It sounded like the roof was coming down!" Liam stood up and rubbed his head.

"It was Maddy. She's gone on another walk to talk to Foster. She's trying to find Diana's field base"

"Could she do it a bit more quietly next time?" Liam asked. Sal laughed. Sometimes the things Liam said sounded so funny.

"I think I'm going out to buy some more food. We're out of Rice Krispies and milk again; because someone keeps eating them! You're only supposed to eat them for breakfast!" Teased Sal.

"It doesn't say on the box you can't eat them for supper!" Sal laughed and left.

Maddy sat in the café sipping her latte. She'd left at 6 AM, and now it was eight. She still had to wait five hours until she could be sure of finding Foster. She needed to talk to him, she hadn't told him about Diana yet; Maddy thought that he's be interested, and maybe he might have a clue to where they were stationed. Time passed slowly. Maddy wandered out of the coffee shop and onto the busy streets of New York. Maybe she'd find a bench to sit on for a bit…

Maddy looked at her watch. It was almost twelve thirty; it'd have to do, she couldn't wait a second longer. Maddy instantly changed direction and headed towards Central Park at a quick pace.

There he was, as always. Although it seemed as if he hadn't bought his hot dog yet this time.

"Foster!" She called. The old man looked up and smiled as she approached. She sat down on the hard bench next to him. "I really need to talk to you…last Monday night, Sal woke up…and she found a girl. Sal found another TimeRider" Foster raised his eyebrows, but let Maddy continue. Maddy told him Diana's story and Foster was quiet for a while after.

"So you're sure that there are other field offices out there now?" Foster asked. Maddy shook her head

"Not exactly. Like I said, Diana was going into a pretty dangerous situation, whatever it was. She could be dead and that her base might be destroyed. There might be a reason that we were the ones that Tom found. And if they're all dead with no one else to fix time…I need to find their base, I'm close, I know it; but can't you help?"

"Maddy" Foster began as he held one of her hands. "Diana seems like a capable enough girl; and her team seems intelligent, can't you just assume she made it? Or that this Tom and Freya were resourceful enough to make it through?"

"No! This is the entire future of mankind! Don't you think it's wise to be careful?"

"I don't know Maddy. Do what you think is right, but listen to Sal and Liam. What have they been telling you?"

"Well, Liam was still asleep when I left. And I think Sal is a bit scared. Look, I just came here for some help! Do you have any idea where the other group is?" Maddy stood up. Foster smiled at the girl once more.

"I don't know Maddy. I know lots of things, but where they are? That's what I don't know"

"Well, do you know anything that's going on around 2030? There's basically nothing on the future in our personal records!" Foster frowned.

"You should ask for help" Foster told her.

"Who?"

"Sal, Liam, Bob"

"You forgot-oh yeah. We have two AI's now. Bob and Becks"

"A female AI?"

"Yeah, Sal put in the wrong one. But she's really good. And what will they know that I don't?"

"You don't know until you ask" Maddy sighed.

"I suppose I'll be making my way back now. Thanks Foster, I suppose"

"You're welcome Maddy" Maddy sighed and walked back towards the Williamsburg Bridge with her shoulders slumping. It wasn't as if she was completely clueless, she did have three possibilities!

Option number one was Washington DC, 2023, when President Schwarzenegger was (will be?) assassinated. The problem Maddy had was that it seemed too early.

Option number two was London 2039, when explosives were set up inside the Houses of Parliament and forty-two people lost their lives. Maddy thought this one was likely, but…

Then there was option number three. A massive earthquake hit the city of Adelaide, Australia 2040.

Sal looked up expectantly when Maddy came back. Liam had been playing and losing a game of chess with Bob for almost two hours now. She was thinking of getting them to come out for lunch again soon. Sal swore that if it wasn't for her, they'd all starve to death.

"Did you get anywhere?" Sal asked. Maddy sat down at the computer again and frowned at their screensaver.

"I already have three options. Washington 2023. London 2039. Or Adelaide 2040. No idea which."

"Why not take a guess? Washington 2023, that seems a bit early to me, surely she would've said 90 years then?"

"She might have been rounding up…" Maddy began typing as soon as the computer was woken up. Sal sighed.

"All these shad-yah numbers! I never liked math. Take an educated guess Maddy, I'll try and dissuade Liam from his chess. Bob keeps beating him"

Maddy sat by herself. Sal didn't think it was 2023. Neither did she really. So…London or Adelaide? An educated guess…