A/N: Time to wind down… and write stressful fanfiction!
Naw, I'm just kidding, this is the best part of my dismal life.
Short chapter cut me some slack; I'm still avoiding A killer's love.
ENJOY.
Sally sits at the kitchen table intently staring at the door. You would think that after Clockwork left everyone else would have fallen silent but that was not the case. In fact, the conversation is as lively as ever.
Just because a character leaves does not mean that everyone else is suddenly stuck in time. No, life moves on even without the protagonist.
A door slamming startled everyone from their conversations for a moment but seconds later they all went back to talking
Laughing Jack elbows Sally playfully and winks. "Hey sweets, what do you wanna bet that's our dear Ticci back from talking to Clocky?"
Sally smiles. "Yeah, they should both come in here and finish breakfast!"
Laughing Jack cackles and says, "Sorry gumdrop, I'm pretty sure it's just Toby."
Sally furrows her brow and mutters something about a script. Suddenly she jumps to her feet and hurries away from the table calling, "I'm going upstairs, bye!"
As she bursts into the hallway Sally runs right into Toby. With a childlike glare she asks, "What were you doing?"
Toby scratches the back of his head and mumbles, "Just talking to Clockwork." He turns back to the open door and says. "She just left."
"No, you were supposed to stop her!" Sally exclaims in a panic.
Toby grabs her arm in shock and looks at Sally in confusion. "What did Masky and Hoodie-"
Anticipating his question, Sally gives an exasperated sigh and pulls her arm from Toby's grip. "Nothing! I just know that you are acting like a typical boy lead by not doing something completely obvious!"
With that she storms off. After Ticci Toby is out of earshot she starts growling at us (me). "What were you thinking Tor? The plot chart was totally different!"
Sally, Sally, calm down. It's honestly not my fault!
Sally snorts in disbelief. "Oh yeah, like I'm going to believe that, you write the story!"
In theory…
"What's that supposed to mean?" The little girl explodes. "The plot said that Clockwork and Toby would both come inside and plot to kill Eric together."
It's true, that's what the plot chart said. I would know, I wrote it.
While flouncing up the creaky staircase Sally continues to fume. "Then why did Clockwork leave? It wasn't supposed to happen like that!" She takes a sharp turn onto her landing and storms away without looking at us. Somehow her annoyance still managed to be absolutely adorable.
"I can hear you." Growls Sally as she opens her door and stalks inside.
Look Sally, I'm really sorry but Toby didn't do what he was supposed to do. He was supposed to force Clockwork around to his way of thinking but…
"He didn't." At long last Sally admits defeat and collapses onto her bed. Her distress is evident in the way she closes her big green eyes, scrunches her brow and knuckles her forehead repeatedly. Finally she cracks an eyelid open and moans, "What are we going to do?"
You're not going to do anything Sally, I'm going to try to sort this out somehow.
She sighs and, with a voice one uses to talk to idiots, says, "Tor, I am not some useless child. I might be able to help or something."
Well if you stick to the script then everything should be just-
Sally shoots out of bed and shakes her finger at the nothing that is me, the narrator. "Don't you dare Tor, look where following the script got you this time?" Looking over to you she shoots you a pleading look. "Come on, I just wanna help!"
The door behind her rattles as someone bangs on it. "Sally, is someone else in there?" EJ's voice sound worried. With a guilty look at you, Sally turns to the door.
"Nope, just me." EJ opens the door and 'looks' around. Sally crosses her arms defensively and looks at us with a nervous expression. "Who're you looking for EJ?"
"The person you were yelling at." He mutters suspiciously. "Why have you been talking to nothing Sally? Are you okay?"
Sally shook her head as she says, "Yeah, I'm fine EJ. You can leave now, no one's gonna eat me or anything."
With a finally shake of his head, EJ left.
Breathing out a sigh of relief, Sally looks at you and says, "That was too close."
Well gee Sally, I thought you would never see that what you're doing is a bad idea.
Sally huffs loudly and shakes her head. "Shut up Tor."
With that she climbs back into her bed and closes her eyes in a mid-morning nap.
A/N: Wow… so this chapter has been here for over a month at this point. I'm not really sure if anyone still cares about this story but here it is anyway. I haven't forgotten you guys I just have been busy with some other stories.
Love ya!
