Collinwood – 2:45am – Brian's Room
Brian for some reason was having a bout of insomnia! The only time this would happen to him was when something was going to happen or stayed up too late and had trouble sleeping. He figured it was the latter for he was use to this now for the time since he started working for his 'employers' if you can call them that! He tried counting everything from sheep to vampire bats, but that didn't work!
As he paced the room making sure not to make any noise, even though Roger did deserve to be woken up because he was Roger, he made sure not to disturb everyone here in Collinwood. He thought about maybe a glass of warm milk when there was a knock at the door. He went and opened it to see Susie standing there with a smile on her face.
"Couldn't sleep either?" She asked knowing what his answer was going to be.
"Yeah, I had thought about some warm milk, but now that you're here…" He said with a devilish grin on his face.
"Not here silly. You said there were some rooms that we can go into." She reminded him.
'Yep. There in the East Wing, and Liz has them locked, but I have my ways of getting into locked places." He told her with a big grin on his face.
"Let's go then. I can't wait to get you alone now!" She said while pulling him out of his room!
As they made their way to the East Wing, they had made sure not to make as much noise as possible! They finally made it and Susie looked at Brian waiting for him to open the doors. He smiled at her as he pulled out his lock pick kit and went to work on the lock. In just a minute he had the door opened and bowed to Susie to allow her to enter first. She entered the East Wing, and was amazed by the stuff that was in there the foyer part! There was items that dated back to when the house was being built to about 20 years ago! It look like a museum to her! As they made their way to a room that Brian knew that they would not have to worry about the noise factor.
They looked in some of the rooms to see that they had not been touched since the last time they were used. Everything looked the same but needed a good cleaning with all the dust and webbing that were in each room. They found some books that they both knew were first editions that would be worth a lot of money to the Collins family if they knew that the books were here.
Brian found the room that he was looking for, and smiled at Susie. Granted it was an old, dark room, but it would serve their purpose for what they wanted to do! There was a couch in the room, and Brian led Susie to it. They slowly started kissing one another in a very passionate way. But before they could get any further, the room changed! They were both shocked by this because this had never happened to either of them from the traveling both had done!
They got off the couch, and looked at the brightly lit room and decided they had better leave! But the way that they came in was blocked by some sort of invisible wall! They could not get out of the room, and then they heard voices coming towards them! They found a closet that they went to hide in and hopefully no one was going to use! They listened to the voices, and it sounded like Liz and David! They listened to what they had to say.
"Now Daniel, if your parents knew that you were up this late, they would be mad at not only you but myself as well. I know you only had a bad dream, so you need to get some sleep now." Liz told Daniel in a firm but caring voice.
"I know cousin Elizabeth. I just wished that I didn't have that dream about my parents…" He started to tell her.
"And I'm sure that's all it was. Just a dream. Now why don't you go to your room and try to get to sleep. I'll check on you later to make sure that you're alright." She told him with a smile on her face.
"Alright cousin Elizabeth. And thanks for being here for me." He said with a smile as well before leaving.
After he left Liz remembered when Carolyn used to have nightmares as well about her parents not coming back from a trip. Elizabeth knew that Quentin and Maggie would be fine and would be returning home soon from their business trip overseas. She then turned off the lights and went to Daniel's room to make sure that he was asleep before going to her room to get some sleep herself. Once she was gone, Brian and Susie emerged from their hiding spot!
"That was close Brian. But what do we do now?" She asked him.
"Let's see if this room changes again before we leave. I think this might be a parallel time band that we stumble across somehow. If the room doesn't change soon, then we have to think of a plan of getting back to our time band somehow." He told Susie with a worried look on his face.
They waited for about an hour, and nothing happened! They looked at each other wondering what to do next!
"So what do we do next Brian?" She asked him.
"Let's see if the secret passages are the same here as in the Collinwood that we come from. I found a couple the times that I've been there, and David had shown me a couple as well." He informed her.
They slowly made their way out of the room, and headed towards the main hallway. Brian found what he was hoping for was the one entrance to one of the secret passages, and it was there! He led Susie through the passage that brought them outside of Collinwood. They were fortunate that they were wearing their street clothes right now, otherwise they would have a hard time explaining why they were in their sleepwear! Granted they didn't have their jackets with them for they had not foreseen that they would be going outside instead of the East Wing!
They were grateful that it wasn't snowing here like it did in their time band, for they would be freezing right now! They slowly made their way to the Old House hoping that it wasn't being used by anyone right now! They saw no lights on inside, but that didn't mean anything right now! As they approached the front door, Susie spotted a rolled up newspaper, and she unwrapped it. It was the same date as theirs, and just about everything else was the same as to where they came from. She then realized that she wondered if the currency was the same!
They were going to have to deal with that when the time comes though. As Brian was going to get out his little kit, the front door opened and they saw a familiar face standing there. Or at least a familiar face, for it was the face of…
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To be continued in the next story! Keep an eye out for that one!
