Across the Times
By: Nightingale
Rating: PG13
Gin never knew how many days went passed after that night. The funerals were certainly a sight to see with newsboys and girls alike falling under each other. Manhattan was able to keep their territory and Harlem theirs. Brooklyn came in with Spot Colon ready for a murderous rampage.
Gin either didn't know or didn't care. She was heart broken and Timid wasn't much better. In fact so many were now left without their boyfriends/girlfriends and some even finally came through with some of their most secret of crushes and cried as if they had been dating for years.
Either way days went by one after the next without food and without leaving bed but at least she wasn't alone in her pain. Sage had shown up once or twice to help her but she refused as she did everyone else. However today he came for another reason. It was time to go home.
Gin said her goodbyes but only one stood out. Timid. The small boy with tears streaming down his face was acting as if he was losing his last bit of family. In part Jack and her had become the family that kid never had and now it was being stripped away one at a time. The others agreed to watch after the boy but it still didn't seem right.
"I wish I could go with you." He cried
"I wish you could too" Gin answered with tears in her eyes again
Sage put his hand on her shoulder and she stood up. They stood in the alley in Brooklyn where the whole thing began. They watched the arch appear before them in a purple swirl. This time something was different.something was wrong.
Present Time
Arthur hurried about trying to get the machine working before the wrecking ball did its job. He quickly ran out pleading with them to stop the machines and hoped that Gin and Sage would be coming through soon.
"Sir.please move away." Ordered a man with a hard hat on his head
"I can't.not yet" Arthur responded running back inside
He ran up to the arch and saw it begin to clear up on the streets of New York over 100 years ago.
"Come on" Arthur pleaded
Suddenly the two appeared before him. He quickly handed them their clothes saying they had no time to change cause the place was coming down. Gin being an actress changed no problem and Sage wasn't far behind then the three of them ran from the building as the ball ripped its way through the warehouse. Once they made it far enough away they turned to witness the facts that would they have been a few seconds later they wouldn't have made it and they would have still been in the past.
"It's gone" muttered Arthur
"No way back now." Stated Sage amazed at the thought that they were almost stuck in time
"Did you get all the information" Arthur asked Gin
"Now's not the time." Gin stated
"What do you mean"
"Leave me be."
"What happened"
"I don't want to talk about it" she yelled
Arthur put his hands up in surrender as Gin turned on her heals and walked away. Tears fell down her cheeks as she walked all the way back to her apartment. Gin made a quick stop at her neighbor's door to receive her cat. She really missed Toby. Toby...waiter at Irving Hall...that night...Jack.
"This is going to be a problem." Gin said to herself
Mrs. Harper opened the door with a smile, which faded at the sight of Gin's tear stained face.
"Don't ask" was all Gin said as she collected her cat and walked away but couldn't help but notice how the red/gray hair of her elderly, motherly, neighbor looked so familiar…did Jack ever tell her Medda's last name?
Gin shrugged as Mrs. Harper closed her door and Gin made her way up the stairs to her own apartment. Setting Toby on the floor she picked up her phone to call Rain. She had to tell somebody everything. That somebody could only be the somebody who knew her whole history.her whole past.
The phone began to ring and it was answered by Snitch. Gin asked for Rain right away and Snitch could tell in the tone of her voice that it was a serious matter and ran for Rain.