Chapter 1-
By Dannette Lawrence
Chapter 1-
[Voice over-Fi]:
Have you ever felt like you're not alone in this world? Maybe you're not… there have been some accounts of people meeting their twins or even their doppelgangers. Twins and Doppelgangers are very different… a twin is to say good but a doppelganger… well just hope you don't meet your doppelganger, they're bad, pure evil. But there have been one or two accounts of a person meeting their duplicate, dup for short. I mean we have heard of alternate universes and other worlds what if in a different world there is someone that looks exactly like you, their personalities and family and names could be different but in reality they're you… now what if somehow you and your dup got in contact? Now both of you can't exist… so you would be your dup… but what happened to the real you??
{End of teaser}
"Who's hotter Leo or Brad?"
Fi made a pondering face sitting up facing Annie.
"Neither. They are both so old now. David Boreanaz is the hottie
now"
Annie shrugged.
"I think James Van Deer Beek is hot; I mean how can you not like
a guy that pushes you towards his best friend even though his heart is
breaking just so you can be happy, I mean he's a hopeless romantic"
Fi shook her head.
"James is like a beginner to romance 101 compared to David Boreanaz.
I mean this guy fell in love with a slayer, vampire plus vampire slayer
is a no no and he knew it but he still reluctantly fell in love with her
and she did too showing that all vampires aren't bad. They were like the
Romeo and Juliet of Sunnydale; he loved her more then life itself but he
walked away from her breaking his own heart so she could have a normal
life. Then he goes to La to start over, he has this life and all and she
comes in like a hurricane and then he turns human, they sleep together,
he finds out that he doesn't have his powers so he can't fight the evil
of this world so he goes PTB and tells them to make everything go away
and they tell him that he will be the only one that remembers… come on
he gave up what he really wanted so he could save her"
Annie and Fi heaved a dreamy sigh.
"Come on girls they're just TV characters! I bet that James and David in real life are these snotty wild party animals who only care about themselves"
Fi and Annie looked up from each other and glared at Jack who stood
in the background with Clu and Carey; Annie and Fi picked up their pillows
and threw them at the now snickering boys in the background.
"What do you know Jack? I mean look at you three! You're just normal
but on the other hand James and David play these hunky romantic guys on
television. We don't love James and David we love Dawson and Angel, I mean
it's their endless romance that attracts us, I mean we love them so much
because they're perfect in every way---"
Fi nodded and finished the statement for Annie.
"Meaning they're one of a kind, that kind of guy only exists in
TV, movies and our dreams. So let me and Annie dream about something we
will never achieve"
Jack sighed and walked between the two girls and turned his head
to the window in their bedroom and watched the passing scenery.
"Fi and Annie, you girls may be beautiful and adventurous but you're
not smart. I mean come on guys look out the window, we're living the life
every kid wants to live, we're going to new places almost every single
day, we live in a bus and we eat take out every night. Normal kids wish
that they had our life"
Fi rolled her eyes at her older brother.
"Yeah I have been thinking about that, what if in another world---"
Jack sighed loudly interrupting his sister and rolled his eyes.
"You know, all of us here we were having this sweet mushy bonding
thing where we appreciate what we have… and you had to ruin it with your
paranormal nonsense"
Annie shook her head.
"You know what Jack? Paranormal isn't nonsense, it's real and it's
out there and just because you being the over logical person you are can't
open your eyes to see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist"
Fi nodded at Annie.
"You go girl, couldn't have said it better myself"
Jack laughed.
"Yeah it just makes you guys crazier then I thought"
Annie and Fi grabbed their pillows again and went to throw them
at Jack and the boys again.
"Duck and cover guys!"
Jack ran over to Clu and Carey and they all ran out Fi and Annie's
room laughing loudly, the pillows just missing them.
"So where are we heading next Irene?"
Molly looked down at her guitar and aimlessly played with one or
two of the guitar strings, her long brown hair with a hint of red dangling
in front of her face.
"Um, let me see"
Irene grabbed a clipboard and started flipping through pages quickly
and tapped her finger on one of the pages.
"Phoenix, Arizona—"
Irene stopped talking when she heard Jack, Carey and Clu laughing
loudly and then she watched them run up to her and Molly still laughing.
"What do you think the horrible threesome did this time?"
Molly looked up and stared at the boys seriously making them stop
laughing and quickly sitting down quietly.
"Jack Phillips! Cluet Bell! Carey Bell! There is no torturing Annie
and Fi on this bus, do you got me? Or Carey you can call your solo goodbye"
Jack, Clu and Carey stared at each other and lowered their heads
and all muttered `yes Molly'
Fi and Annie peeked their heads out of their door still listening
to Molly lecturing Jack, Clu and Carey and smiled to each other; Molly
was sure in a bad mood but whenever she was angry, she always seemed to
get on the boy's cases.
"You think it's safe to go out?"
Fi nodded and walked out of their room first and headed to the front
of the bus with Annie shortly behind her.
"Hi mom"
Molly looked away from Jack and smiled.
"Hi baby, Annie, what's up guys?"
Annie and Fi sat down next to Molly and stuck out their tongues
at the boys when Molly wasn't looking.
"Nothing much mom, are we almost to Phoenix?"
Molly looked over to Irene who was still looking at the clipboard.
"Um… Ned?"
Ned took a bite of his sandwich laughing inside his head at the way
Jack, Clu and Carey had gotten the Molly's bad side treatment.
"5 miles"
Ned smirked and continued to drive knowing slowing down even for
a second would cause him to laugh out loud and never stop; nothing was
ever boring on the road, especially with Fi and Annie. He smiled thinking
about how those two were great just by themselves but when you put them
together they were even greater; Fi and Annie had turned out to be the
best of friends and that was what kind of made them an easy target for
Jack, Clu and Carey.
:::Phoenix, Arizona:::
"We're here!!"
Ned suddenly stomped his foot on the break, causing the MP tour
bus to come to a fast and abrupt stop throwing everybody forward. Ned looked
over his shoulder and smiled sheepishly as everyone shot him glaring looks.
"Sorry guys"
Ned opened the bus doors and went to get up to stretch his muscles
but fell back in his seat as Jack, Clu and Carey ran off the tour bus almost
pummeling him down to the ground; he went to get up again but fell back
in his seat once more as Fi and Annie ran off the tour bus with their laptops
and bottles of water in tow almost throwing him to the ground as the boys
had almost done a few seconds ago.
"What are up with these kids? They act like they have never been
off a bus"
Molly and Irene laughed and pulled Ned up and they all walked off
the bus slowly not like the 5 teenagers that were just outside the entrance
of the hotel laughing loudly about something did.
"What do you think they're laughing about?"
Ned shook his head; he ran his fingers through his thick curly red
hair.
"You know what Molly? I wouldn't know where to begin to think about
that. I mean 10 minutes ago they're were yelling at each other and biting
each other heads off and now they are acting like it never happened"
"One word honey… teenagers. I would hope to say it's just a phase"
Ned put his arm around Irene.
"We can only hope"
:::Fi and Annie's hotel room:::
"Do they ever stop in there?"
Fi looked up from her laptop where she was busily chatting and saw
Annie pointing to their hotel room wall indicating the noise coming from
the room next to them.
"What are they doing now?"
Annie looked at Fi with wide eyes and looked back at the wall when
she heard another loud sound.
"The same thing they have been doing for the past 30 minutes! Jack
keeps playing that stupid guitar as loud as he can, and I know he knows
it is driving us insane. He's just trying to get us back for getting him,
Carey and Clu in trouble"
Fi rolled her eyes and picked her laptop up off of her lap and placed
it on the bed; she pulled her hair up into a pony-tail and motioned for
Annie to move out of her way.
"What are you going to do?"
Fi jumped on Annie's bed and started pounding on the wall.
"Keep it down will you? Some people actually like having conversations
that people with the brain capacity higher then 5 understand"
Fi heard the music stop and smiled and jumped off the bed and smirked
at Annie.
"Works everytim—"
Fi stopped talking when she heard a door open and footsteps coming
close to their room.
Jack raised his fist to knock on the door but shook his head and threw the door open and walked into the room with his guitar strapped on him; Carey and Clu stood behind him.
"God don't you knock anymore Jack?"
Jack shrugged and continued to glare at Annie and Fi.
"You guys are the one that invaded our privacy!"
Clu and Carey nodded meanwhile Fi and Annie rolled their eyes.
"And how is that oh holy one Jack Phillips?"
Annie smirked.
"We can play the guitar in our hotel room if we want to"
Fi tilted her head and glared at Jack.
"Not if that horrible ear-wrenching sounds you guys call music disturbs
our peace"
Annie nodded.
"She's right so you guys were in the wrong meanwhile us girls…"
Fi and Annie looked at each other.
"Were in the right"
Carey and Clu smirked at Annie and Fi talking at the exact same
time.
"That's not how I, Jack Phillips, see it"
Fi stuck her tongue out.
"Like I, Fi Phillips, care"
The four teens started yelling at each other not even noticing what
was happening in the background.
A big spell book slides out from underneath Fi's bed and floats on top of the bed and flips open and starts flipping through pages and stops a spell; a picture of Fi, Clu, Jack, Annie and Carey float in the air over the spell book; the picture starts to glow and then a light surrounds the room making everything white; when the rooms re-gains it's regular color the spell book is back under the bed and the picture is where it was before, all is left is five shocked teenagers.
"What in the world was that?"
Fi shook her head fast and gripped onto Annie's hand.
"It was probably a car going by, headlights"
Carey and Clu shook their heads and proceeded to walk over to Fi
and Annie.
"What did the dude have his extra bright lights on?"
Annie turned around to see a door that she hadn't seen before.
"Um Fi?"
Fi shook her head and looked at Annie.
"Yeah?"
"Where did that door come from?"
Fi followed Annie's pointing and saw a big white door that was definitely
not there before.
"That wasn't there when we came in here, it wasn't even here 10
minutes ago, was it Jack?"
Jack looked at the door and shook his head.
"I would try to be logical but I'm too shocked and no that door
definitely wasn't there"
"Let's check it out"
Fi looked back at Carey, Clu, Annie and Jack who stood still afraid
to move; Fi licked her lips and walked right up to the door and examined
it carefully.
"It looks like an ordinary door"
Annie, Clu, Carey and Jack stood behind her watching her.
"But looks can be deceiving, should I open it?"
Fi turned around to see Clu, Carey and Jack shaking their heads
no meanwhile Annie was nodding.
"I think you should Fi, I mean we should"
Molly looked up from her book when she suddenly felt a wave of weirdness
overcome her; she looked at the desk near her bed and saw a picture of
three people that looked like her daughter, her son, Carey, Clu and Annie
but they looked so different…. Hair dye and piercings but they were definitely
Fi, Jack, Clu, Carey and Annie.
"Irene?"
Irene looked up at Molly.
"Yeah Mol?"
Molly looked at the picture again.
"Do you ever think that the kids know something that we don't?"
Fi placed her hand on the doorknob and turned it slowly; she looked
back at Jack and gulped and opened the door to see a bright white light
mixed in with blue and purple; it looked like a…
"A vortex"
Annie looked at Fi.
"A what?"
"A vortex, like a time traveling thing, like on Sliders, it can
transport you to somewhere else in time or even somewhere else in the universe,
it depends"
Jack looked at the vortex with horror.
"Well fine! Will you please shut it before it does someth—"
Jack's sentence was cut short when suddenly they were all pulled
into the vortex and Jack and the gang felt everything go black.