4 Years Earlier- Still settling in.
It had been a year since they stumbled through the door in the doorway cave. somehow it had closed. It didn't make since but it had closed. It had just thrown them into Jake's where and when. Roland and Jake lived in a small house not far away from Eddie and Susannah's. They had just spent enough time to get the money from Susannah's account. Then they had seen the man in black. After a small battle it was clear Ronald Flagg did not plan to die. He flung open a door and sent them to Jakes time and closed the one to Calla Bryn Sturgis, locking Callahan in the time before Eddie and Jake.
Since then Jake had resumed going to school and had become closer to Roland (that would not last long though. something always happens. and he knew it). One day Jake was walking past his old house, (he had come back to find his parents dead. and somehow did not care) on his way to school with Roland and Eddie on either side. He was thirteen and still there was no girl in his life. Roland doubted there would be until the Tower was reached, and even as they were walking that day he was planning to find a way to use the black ball to go back to his world. They were walking now to the school Jake thought he would never see again. Indeed Eddie and Roland fell behind a tree to watch and make sure Jake got into the school okay. perhaps they had had a bit of the touch grab them, because Jake Chambers wouldn't. Jake was ascending the steps to his school when a mean voice spoke. "Hey, Chambers heard your parents died. did you do it? Well I would too my dad said they were junkies." Roland's face went from its usual emotionless way to a frown.
Jake blinked and replied with a cold voice equal to the one he was addressing. "What are you bumbling about?" The boy who was twice Jakes size looked down at him. "What you disappear for nearly a year and then you return your parents are dead, and what's more you wait another year to come back to school so what's the deal? I'll bet you killed them. people always said you looked like a backstabber." Roland made as if to step around and address the kid but Eddie held him back. "Leave it be Roland and listen ye ken?" Jake looked at him cold-heartedly. A rather evil looking smirk spread across his face. "Say that again. I dare ya. "
"What don't you understand? You-look-like-a-backstabber." Jakes smirk disappeared totally. "And you just sealed your fate!" He lunged at the bigger boy not having his weapons and hit him squarely in the stomach with one fist while the other found its way to the boy's head. Jake tumbled to the ground and, catching the boy off guard, knocked his legs out from under him and rolled out of the way as the giant of a kid fell. Roland had seen enough he rushed through the now massive group of kids and put a hand on Jakes shoulder. "Recite your lesson Jake Chambers. "I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. Bah Roland this has nothing to do with now!" At Roland's look he recited the rest. "I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father." He took a breath. "I kill with my heart." Roland nodded as the now calm Jake stepped back from his fallen enemy Eddie by then was behind Roland. A new form entered the mix this one tall menacing and stern. "What is going on here!? CHAMBERS TO MY OFFICE!" Roland stepped around Jake. "I am his guardian now you speak to me." "Yo Roland let me deal with this guy. You got a problem buddy?" Eddie smiled. He knew this fool, this fool who would see him as a teen about 4 or 5 years from then, he could deal with this fool. "And you are." "I am his guardian as well." "What are you two lovers or something?" Roland's eyes flashed and Eddie leaned in. "Listen Mac my friend here is protective of Jake and has a very short temper so I see no reason this shouldn't be forgotten." "Oh you don't?"
The principle asked. "How about that." He pointed to the oaf of a boy who lay with a considerably large wound on his head. Roland spoke up angrily. "He was acting to defend his honor." Jake remained silent throughout this but now he spoke up. "The guy needed to keep his mouth shut." Eddie looked over at him with a kind of 'be careful'look. The principle's tall form turned towards Jake. "You keep your mouth shut young man you're in deep trouble."
"Not with us he's not!" Eddie said. "And under law you can't do anything to him unless you have agreement with his legal guardians that's us!" Roland however by now had been getting tired of this. "Go on with school Jake, no more fights. No more trouble. Remember your lesson. " Three commanding sentences. Three simple sentences. Jake left the scene then and saw no more of it.
Three years later Jake was sixteen and was still cold and calculated. He had not forgotten the face of his old father or his new one. He had not forgotten Roland's face. He had forgotten something though. how to stay sober for more then twelve hours. No one else knew or rather, no one from the Ka-tet of nineteen. Roland by now had discovered how to use Black Thirteen's magic again and warned them that they would soon have to give up the life of luxury. Susannah who now had a child. a half demon, was the first to say that they wouldn't mind it. So before leaving they had gotten more guns so that Eddie had two Ruger's Susannah did too Jake had taken Roland's revolvers and Roland had one Ruger. They loaded their packs with wood and food. But one thing they didn't know was that Jake took something else with him. two something else's two bottles of wine. They returned to Roland's world in the middle of a barren wasteland. A land called Thunderclap.
It had been a year since they stumbled through the door in the doorway cave. somehow it had closed. It didn't make since but it had closed. It had just thrown them into Jake's where and when. Roland and Jake lived in a small house not far away from Eddie and Susannah's. They had just spent enough time to get the money from Susannah's account. Then they had seen the man in black. After a small battle it was clear Ronald Flagg did not plan to die. He flung open a door and sent them to Jakes time and closed the one to Calla Bryn Sturgis, locking Callahan in the time before Eddie and Jake.
Since then Jake had resumed going to school and had become closer to Roland (that would not last long though. something always happens. and he knew it). One day Jake was walking past his old house, (he had come back to find his parents dead. and somehow did not care) on his way to school with Roland and Eddie on either side. He was thirteen and still there was no girl in his life. Roland doubted there would be until the Tower was reached, and even as they were walking that day he was planning to find a way to use the black ball to go back to his world. They were walking now to the school Jake thought he would never see again. Indeed Eddie and Roland fell behind a tree to watch and make sure Jake got into the school okay. perhaps they had had a bit of the touch grab them, because Jake Chambers wouldn't. Jake was ascending the steps to his school when a mean voice spoke. "Hey, Chambers heard your parents died. did you do it? Well I would too my dad said they were junkies." Roland's face went from its usual emotionless way to a frown.
Jake blinked and replied with a cold voice equal to the one he was addressing. "What are you bumbling about?" The boy who was twice Jakes size looked down at him. "What you disappear for nearly a year and then you return your parents are dead, and what's more you wait another year to come back to school so what's the deal? I'll bet you killed them. people always said you looked like a backstabber." Roland made as if to step around and address the kid but Eddie held him back. "Leave it be Roland and listen ye ken?" Jake looked at him cold-heartedly. A rather evil looking smirk spread across his face. "Say that again. I dare ya. "
"What don't you understand? You-look-like-a-backstabber." Jakes smirk disappeared totally. "And you just sealed your fate!" He lunged at the bigger boy not having his weapons and hit him squarely in the stomach with one fist while the other found its way to the boy's head. Jake tumbled to the ground and, catching the boy off guard, knocked his legs out from under him and rolled out of the way as the giant of a kid fell. Roland had seen enough he rushed through the now massive group of kids and put a hand on Jakes shoulder. "Recite your lesson Jake Chambers. "I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. Bah Roland this has nothing to do with now!" At Roland's look he recited the rest. "I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father." He took a breath. "I kill with my heart." Roland nodded as the now calm Jake stepped back from his fallen enemy Eddie by then was behind Roland. A new form entered the mix this one tall menacing and stern. "What is going on here!? CHAMBERS TO MY OFFICE!" Roland stepped around Jake. "I am his guardian now you speak to me." "Yo Roland let me deal with this guy. You got a problem buddy?" Eddie smiled. He knew this fool, this fool who would see him as a teen about 4 or 5 years from then, he could deal with this fool. "And you are." "I am his guardian as well." "What are you two lovers or something?" Roland's eyes flashed and Eddie leaned in. "Listen Mac my friend here is protective of Jake and has a very short temper so I see no reason this shouldn't be forgotten." "Oh you don't?"
The principle asked. "How about that." He pointed to the oaf of a boy who lay with a considerably large wound on his head. Roland spoke up angrily. "He was acting to defend his honor." Jake remained silent throughout this but now he spoke up. "The guy needed to keep his mouth shut." Eddie looked over at him with a kind of 'be careful'look. The principle's tall form turned towards Jake. "You keep your mouth shut young man you're in deep trouble."
"Not with us he's not!" Eddie said. "And under law you can't do anything to him unless you have agreement with his legal guardians that's us!" Roland however by now had been getting tired of this. "Go on with school Jake, no more fights. No more trouble. Remember your lesson. " Three commanding sentences. Three simple sentences. Jake left the scene then and saw no more of it.
Three years later Jake was sixteen and was still cold and calculated. He had not forgotten the face of his old father or his new one. He had not forgotten Roland's face. He had forgotten something though. how to stay sober for more then twelve hours. No one else knew or rather, no one from the Ka-tet of nineteen. Roland by now had discovered how to use Black Thirteen's magic again and warned them that they would soon have to give up the life of luxury. Susannah who now had a child. a half demon, was the first to say that they wouldn't mind it. So before leaving they had gotten more guns so that Eddie had two Ruger's Susannah did too Jake had taken Roland's revolvers and Roland had one Ruger. They loaded their packs with wood and food. But one thing they didn't know was that Jake took something else with him. two something else's two bottles of wine. They returned to Roland's world in the middle of a barren wasteland. A land called Thunderclap.