Disclaimer: Don't own Early Edition or Tru Calling.... I wish I did.
Notes: Sorry for the long delay. Anyway, I will be making reference to Early Edition episodes, which shall be explained, so don't worry. This chapter will mostly be on Early Edition, so that I can explain, and make the final touches. So please bear with me. Oh, and, once again. Tru Calling is, like the best show ever!, Sorry, I'm still very excited to see what happens, and it's such a EXCELLENT show. My family knows, on a Thursday, from 5 to 6pm, no one is allowed to speak! or do anything near the tv room, (or they shall die a very slow, and painful death ;-)
I just want to thank everyone who reviewed:
B Oots- I'm glad you liked how I ended off the Gary part, you will see why he said that in this chapter. Hope you enjoy.
Solitary Wanderer- Thanks so much for the review, I'm happy to hear that I got the characters down. I was worried about that, I didn't know if I did them right or not. Thanks for the review. Oh... the end of the season sounds interesting. I just watched the episode where it has her repeating the day to save a medical student- and then right at the end off in a cliff-hanger. Where Davis says that he knows???? (I wanted to cry, it was just so mean of them. Now I have to wait a Week to find out what happens. And if you are saying that the end is excellent, I'm now dying to know what happens.).
Bluerose- Ah, I was wondering when someone would ask that very important question. It wasn't much of a challenge because I had an idea for a long time, it's a twist, which is revealed in this chapter. I hope that it is believable, Please tell me what you think about it. Anyway thanks to the review, I really appreciate it.
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Gary looked at his paper He just couldn't believe what he was seeing. As soon as he noticed the heading one words came to his mind.
"Clams!" Gary growled as he looked at the different newspaper in his hands.
Instead of his normal Sunday Times, it was the New York Daily Press.
He remembered when he first found out that there were others that also received the tomorrow's newspaper today. It was a relief to know that there were others, that had the responsibilities. The responsibilities to try and change the day. He had meet a man who received tomorrow's edition of the New York paper, but he decided to relinquish his duties by turning over the next day's news to his friend, Joey Clams.
Joey Clams, a man who irritated Gary beyond belief. A man, who liked to live the wealthy life, a man, who nearly cost him the paper. A man, who funny enough, reminded him of his best friend, Chuck. Both, somehow, manage to mess things up, both pretend to be innocent, and both made his life harder. Yet, he missed having them around.
He remembered the one day where he nearly lost his paper because of Clams. He didn't know why, but this mistake had Joey Clams all over it.
Gary's hand tightened as he began to mutter a few curses as he turned around.
He didn't waste anytime as he headed to the phone and dialled the Clam's number. He growled in frustration as he waited for Clams to answer.
"Hello?" a sleepy voice answered.
"CLAMS! I don't know what you did! I don't care how, but I want my paper!" Gary ordered.
"Gary? is that you?"
"No, it's the Easter Bunny! of course it's me," Gary answered sarcastically.
"Whoa! what's upset you this early?"
"Joey, have you read your newspaper yet?"
"I'm going, I'm going, Sheez, let a man wake up a bit first,"
While Joey went to fetch his newspaper, Gary opened the newspaper, quickly glancing through the articles to make sure that there wasn't anything life threatening.
"Gary! what the hell is happening? I've got the Sunday Times?"
But Gary wasn't listening, his attention was caught on the one article. His eyes quickly scanned the article.
"Three die in argument," Gary mumbled to himself.
"Gary? you there? hey....wait a minute. Gary, my name is in the newspaper?"
"So am I," Gary said in disbelief.
"You think the newspaper is trying to tell us something?"
Gary looked up from the newspaper to see the cat sitting on the table, staring at him through it's wise blue eyes, which seemed to tell him that he was right.
"I think so," Gary answered.
"While, I'll book a flight for me to go to you, and for you to come here,"
"What...oh, yeah, thanks, and um, Joey, Sorry for the outburst earlier," Gary apologised.
"Don't worry man, anyway, and Gary...,"
"Yeah?"
"Take care of my town,"
"Same goes with you,"
Gary heard Joey Clams laugh as he disconnected the call. Gary shook his head as he looked at his ginger cat.
"I don't know what you are planning, cat, but I want things to go back to normal," Gary said in a teasing tone.
With a sign, Gary went to his cupboard and quickly packed some clothes in.
"Now I just have to tell Marissa that a cat wants me to go to New York," Gary spoke out loud as he closed his bag.
Gary, Marissa and Chuck all worked at the same stock broking company. They decided to go into business together, by managing a bar, McGinty's. There were a few 'bumps' in the road, but they managed. After a while Chuck left to search for new opportunities. This left Marissa and Gary to manage, but he didn't mind. Marissa was very good at the business side, and she took care of everything, which made Gary a bit guilty.
The newspaper had taken over his life, he never had time to help around the bar, but they managed.
Gary walked down stairs and headed to the office area.
"Morning Gary," a young woman greeted.
Gary stopped where he was and turned around to Marissa.
Marissa was in her thirties, she had long dark hair which was neatly tied up. She wore a slimming dark blue top, with a long brown skirt. She had a light chocolate brown skin, which made her even more beautiful. in her hands, was her guide stick, which helped her not to bump into anything.
Gary remembered when he was in an accident where he nearly lost his vision. He was scared, he couldn't image being blind for the rest of his life. Yet, there was Marissa, who was blind her whole life. She had meningitis when she was just 16 months old, which made her go blind.
Marissa had helped Gary more times than he could count. She had always been there for him.
"Hey Marissa," Gary greeted.
Marissa made her way to the bar, where she sat down on the one bar stool.
"What's wrong?"
Gary couldn't help but smile. Marissa always knew when something was bothering him.
"I'm going to New York," Gary answered.
Marissa's mouth opened slightly as she half grinned.
"New York?" She asked with amusement.
"Yeah, I woke up to see that I got the New York Paper," Gary explained.
"I see, and does Joey have anything to do with this new change?" Marissa asked.
"For once, it wasn't him. Well, not that I know of. He's got the Sunday Times. But what worries me, is that I'm in the one article," Gary said unenthusiastically.
"Oh?" Marissa asked, suddenly very interested.
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Tru quickly got dressed, in her usual jeans with a white t-shirt, before she walked into her kitchen to make some much needed coffee. She still couldn't shake the weird feeling she had. It all had to do with the man's newspaper.
Sure it was a newspaper, but what spooked her, was the fact that it had an article on the deaths. How was that possible?
That bugged Tru more than anything. Sure it's crazy to 'relive' the day, but a newspaper that can tell you the future? what next? vampires? aliens? monsters?
Tru had to smile when the X-Files theme song suddenly started to play in her head.
"Yip, I'm going crazy," Tru said to herself as she took a sip of her hot coffee.
But she knew what she had to do. The killings happened at five, so she had till then to try and find Judy Archer or Gary Hobson, then save the day. If only it were that simple.
She looked at her watch and saw that it was still early. That's one thing she hated about reliving the day, waking up before her alarm.
At least this way she could go and try found out who and were these people lived.
"Off to the morgue I go," Tru said with a smile as she grabbed her bag and keys in one swift motion.
Tru normally went to the morgue just to make sure that she did get to relive the day, and because, she could look for information from the computers which saved a lot of time.
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"Two die as angry husband loses control," Gary said as he read out the heading.
"What happens?" Marissa asked anxiously.
"Well, a husband starts fighting with his wife, Judy Archer, when a young woman, Tru Davies comes to the rescue, only to be shot. I go, but get shot too," Gary's said nervously.
Marissa nodded her head. It wasn't the first time that Gary had his death mentioned. She remembered when a homeless man died while Gary tried to save him. A few days after that, his obituary was in the paper. Marissa had never been so scared in her life before. But everything worked out.
"Gary, the paper wants you to go. You must go. And, this does not mean that you are going to die, remember, you have been given tomorrow's newspaper so you can change what is going to happen. You are not going to die, you have to much work to do," Marissa said flatly.
Gary knew Marissa's 'just-try-and-argue-with-me' tone, and knew it would be hopeless to even try and argue. But this time he knew that just because it says that he dies, doesn't mean that he was going to die. It just means that he will have to try a different approach, maybe by finding Judy or Tru first.
He looked at the newspaper again.
"Well, I've got till five to find a way to stop this. There's nothing else in the newspaper, just that one article," Gary said.
"That's good, that means you have more time to figure out what you are going to do," Marissa said.
"Yeah, anyway I got to go to the airport. Take care of McGinty's for me," Gary said as he stood up.
"I will, and Gary, please be careful," Marissa begged.
Gary smiled.
"I will, I'll phone you as soon as it's done, ok," Gary said as he gave Marissa a hug.
"Ok," Marissa said as they broke off the hug.
Marissa heard Gary walk off, leaving her alone in the bar area.
"Please let them be ok," Marissa pleaded.
She knew that if Gary failed to save the two woman, that it would kill him. She also knew that he would give up his life to save them. That worried her more than anything.
"Help them," She prayed.
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To be continued...
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Notes: Early Edition Episodes that I made reference to are: "The Out-of-Towner" , "Performance Anxiety" ,
"After Midnight" , "Blind Faith" and 'Fate".
If anyone wants to know what happens on each episode, just let me know and I'll post them.