Yay! I updated within a month this time! Go me!
So now, the plot thickens. You get a little knowledge of my plans here. It's still really short though. -frowns-
I found the outline I wrote for this story. Yay for having a direction for the story to go again!
Enjoy, and review!
His head pounded. His eyes ached. All he wanted to do was stop reading. But he was so close. If he could just find that missing page…
"Rex?" Beth's tentative voice lulled him out of his thoughts. "Did you find anything yet?"
Rex sighed, though because of his tension, the air came out sounding like a growl. Beth flinched, wondering if she had accidentally provoked him again.
Rex realized how he must have sounded and moved to turn towards the girl. "I, ah," he accidentally knocked over a tower of paper filled boxes as he turned. They went crashing to the floor, littering the surface with hundreds of ancient writings. "Crap," he muttered. "Help me pick these up, will you?"
Beth moved towards the mess and began collecting papers. Rex knelt next to her, ignoring the ache in his head as he scanned over the pages he picked up.
"Do you want me to put these back in the-" Rex cut Beth off midsentence. He was holding a small leather covered book filled with yellowing pages.
"Wait," he murmured, reading carefully. Beth looked at him funny, but sat on the floor beside him and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
It was nearly an hour before he resurfaced. Beth had sat in an agitated silence the entire time. She had learned after spending so much time with Rex that rushing him was a bad idea. She was also used to how when he would start to read, he would sit stone still. This was why, when he finally stirred, it startled her and she nearly fell over.
"Beth," the excitement was barely concealed in his voice. "I think I've found something."
"Something, like, something interesting?" Beth asked nervously. "Or something…Jessica related."
Rex grinned. Beth had to keep herself from flinching. No matter how good at heart Rex may have been, he was still half monster and his smiles still had something threatening lurking behind them.
"Jessica related," his voice broke through Beth's thoughts.
"Really?" she asked, excitedly. Rex nodded, still grinning his eerie smile.
"Can we do it? Can we get Jess back?" hope bubbled up in her chest for the first time in almost a year.
A shadow passed through Rex's eyes. "Yes. But we're going to need someone's help. And I am positive that she won't want to help."
"Why not?" Beth cocked her head to the side in confusion.
"Because," Rex sighed. "The process is…complicated. We'll need two mindcasters-"
"But we have that," Beth interrupted. "If Melissa comes back, then we have two mindcasters."
"I know," Rex replied patiently. "But I don't think even Melissa will want to do this. She isn't the one we need anyway."
"Of course Melissa would want to help. She's Jess's friend too!" Beth protested.
"I really don't think that Jessica would want us to save her," Rex shook his head. "At least not this way. There's too much at stake."
"I don't understand," Beth grumbled. "Are we getting my sister back or not?"
"We're going to try," Rex said, getting frustrated. "But Beth, you have to understand. This is complicated."
"Complicated how?" Beth argued. "This is my big sister that we're talking about here!"
Rex threw up his hands in annoyance. "It's a switch, Beth!" he practically yelled. "A switch. We can't have one without losing another, ok? The only way to get Jessica back is to replace her in the blue time with someone else!" When he finished, he was breathing hard. He slumped into a chair and laid his head down in his arms.
Frightened and shocked, Beth had nothing to say in response.