Disclaimer: Blah blah blah, Disney owns it all. Apart from the historical figures.
Again, thanks to those who reviewed.
And again, sorry for the late update – I've been busy with University work and the like.
Thanks to Amber who gave me the inspiration for this chapter.
I'm starting to feel as though I should can this story though. But if there is one person out there who still wants me to carry on I will. If not, I'll take it down and just write it for my own amusement.
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Chapter 6 – Back on the ranch
January 28th 2004 (Hillridge)
McGuire residence
"Where on Earth can she be?" Lizzie's mum was pacing the kitchen still in a frantic. Her daughter had been missing for a week now, and there had been no trace of them. They had scoured the hospitals, police station, and even the morgue, but to no avail. Though many other events had been happening throughout the week, only one issue dominated their minds – the location of their daughter.
"Wherever Gordo is, that's where she'll be," replied her husband. Sam was more serious than his wife as to the location of his daughter. He had phoned around the local hotels and bed-sits in the area, giving them a description of Lizzie for them to go on. He figured that one day Lizzie would wake up to her feelings and return the emotional depths that Gordo had been showing Lizzie one of these days. He just figured that that day was *the* day she woke up to her feelings.
"DAD!" Matt screamed, running in from the front door in a frenzy. He'd been rather more depressed than one would think about losing his sister. Although they bickered almost constantly, he really did care for Lizzie, and was missing her intensely. It just wasn't the same when he insulted Lanny.
"Look what I found at school today." Sam sighed, and sat down next to his youngest child. He thought he'd been ignoring Matt a little since Lizzie's disappearance, but not consciously. He took the text book that was handed to him, and looked at the picture. What he saw made him stand up and shout for Jo in shock.
'It can't be,' he thought. 'It's impossible.'
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Gordon residence, later the same day
"Howard! Open the door!" Sam was banging on the Gordon's door, shouting and screaming for the entire neighbourhood to hear. A face peered around the door, sporting a fantastic black eye on the left side of his face.
"If you've come to hit me some more Sam, you can forget about all our years as friends and I'll call the police this time," Howard said. He and Sam had got into a huge fight the day after Gordo and Lizzie had gone missing, ending up with Howard being on the receiving end of a fantastic right hook courtesy of Sam.
"I'm really sorry about that, I just got carried away in the heat of the moment. We shouldn't be fighting amongst each other, but working out how to get our children back." Sam replied. "Matt just came home, and showed me this picture in his history textbook."
Howard put his glasses on, and took a look at the photo that was being offered to him. He looked back up at Sam with a highly sceptical look on his face, along with a look of disbelief.
There, on the page of Matt's text book, under the heading Elizabeth I, was a portrait of Lizzie and Gordo, standing on either side of the Queen, with huge smiles on their faces. There was no mistaking it, they were definitely their children, just 400 years in the past.
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Sorry the chapters are so short, that's just how they come to me. If I was to make them longer, they'd seem different to my imagination, and the story wouldn't flow as well, in my opinion.
Yours,
Ellie.
