Chapter four

"Fortunately for us I still have the grand I was saving for buying a gun and any emergencies that came up so we can buy you some clothes Lucca. The big problem is that we'll need to take you with us when we go shopping so I guess you will just have to wear some of my old clothes. Give me a minute." James began searching through his closet. "Here," he hands her a pair of jeans, "I think these will fit well enough for a trip to Crossroads. You can put these on in the bathroom across the hall" Lucca nods and walks out.

Roger glances at him, "Why don't we just go to Wal-Mart or Quail Springs?" "Because I want as few people to know about this as possible and there are people who know us on sight at Wal-Mart and Quail Springs. Our lives are about to become complicated enough without lots of people asking questions or worse case scenario the government finding out about her." "Why don't we want the government to know about her?" "Because she's not in their records so they might try to deport her, or they might throw her in the loony bin if she tells them where and when she's from. And on the one in a trillion chance they believe her then I'm stuck moving so they can spend years running tests on my house while trying to figure out what happened and how and why it happened." "Worse yet they might decide to run tests on you," Scott added.

"Bingo. I'm surprised you aren't complaining about your curse of Crossroads". James answered. "I'm guessing you didn't pick Crossroads just to annoy me" "No we go there very rarely so people aren't likely to recognize us there.."

At this point Lucca knocks on the door. "We were just leaving", James told her, "We're going to go somewhere to get you some more clothes." "Shouldn't we arm ourselves in case we are attacked by monsters?', she asked "Most of the monsters in this time are of the Human variety and there aren't many of those around here. " James answers with a trace of bitterness. "Besides we'll be taking Scott's car but if you like I have a bow and some hunting arrows we can take with us, and you can carry a knife as long as you keep it hidden unless you need it". "Okay but what's a car?" "It's like a cross between a carriage and the jet bike you rode in 2300 A.D.", mentally slapping himself while praying she didn't realize his mistake. "I'll get the bow and arrows there should be some knives in the kitchen sink, okay? "Fine but I'd still feel more comfortable if I had my gun." she answered. "I was planning to buy a gun tomorrow so I'll just buy you one then.", he answered. He grabbed the bow and arrows, she got a knife and all four of them exited through the front door.

Author's notes

1 Quail Springs and Crossroads are malls near where I live. The curse refers to the fact that every time Scott tries to go to Crossroads something goes wrong.

2: I'm finally done with finals so I should be able to write faster and there will be at least one and possibly two new characters joining the group soon. The main original characters are based on my friends and I and while I was working on this Roger's real world counterpart's older brother started hanging out with us so I'm going to add a character based off of him.

3: I meant to post this in chapter three's notes but the shirt Lucca is wearing is the same one she's wearing in the opening animation to the Final Fantasy Chronicles version of Chrono Trigger when it shows her working at home during the night.

4: James is modeled after me and my outlooks on humanity and the future tend to be dark so that's why he feels bitter when explaining about how most monsters are human.