Chapter Four

"You arrogant fool," Richard raged at Jack. "Do you have any idea what you've done?"

"He wasn't supposed to kill her," Jack said shocked at how quickly things had spiralled out of control.

"Damn right he wasn't," Richard yelled. "You know this means you'll no longer relive days at all?"

"You weren't that bothered when it was your wife," Jack retorted his own anger rising.

"That was different," Richard shouted. "I had no other option, and I didn't know until afterwards that the rewinds would stop. This time there was a choice, a better one, and you destroyed it."

"Maybe we can fix it," Jack suggested. "Harrison…"

"There's no guarantee the day will even rewind again for him," Richard hissed. "This is all trial and error and you could've just made the biggest error of all."

"I told him not to kill her," Jack stated.

"You shouldn't have even been speaking to him," Richard shouted. "What the hell were you thinking?"

"I just thought…"

"You thought you'd stir things up a bit, make it a bit more interesting, a bit more exciting," Richard ranted as he paced the room.

"He wasn't meant to kill her," Jack repeated. "He was just going to scare her a bit and then I'd step in and see him off. Win back some of her trust."

"You fool," Richard said, this time in a quieter voice. "You were meant to do what I told you and nothing else."

"Do you think if I go the morgue she might ask me for help?" Jack suggested.

"I don't know," Richard admitted. "She might, or she might ask Harrison. Or she could just be dead. There's no way of knowing."

"There's only one way to find out if she will ask for help," Jack replied. He stood up and walked towards the door. "We can even use this to our advantage if she does." Richard didn't reply or try to stop him as he left. This time he was on his own.


Harrison arrived at the morgue at the same time as Jack did; he'd hurried across town the minute Davis had called him.

He knew the guilt at what had happened was reflected on his face, but was surprised to see a similar expression on Jack's face.

"Come to gloat have you?" Harrison spat as soon as he saw Jack turning the corner.

"No," Jack replied quietly. "I've come to see if she'll ask me for help."

"You?" Harrison stood still in astonishment. "What makes you imagine she'll ask you to save her when she knows you're more likely to kill her than save her?"

"It's worth a try," Jack said. "Or she might ask you of course."

"She's more likely to ask me than you," Harrison pointed out pushing his way through the doors and into the building. "Wait a minute," he said and stood still again just inside the corridor. "You know I've rewound and not Tru? What have you been doing all day?"

"Well I had a nice lunch down in that little café by the docks. Took in a movie this afternoon, had quite a relaxing day really." Jack grinned. "Since you weren't doing a great deal to save Matt I didn't have to do anything to stop you. You should rewind instead of Tru more often."

"You took the day off and still had time to find out that scumbag's first name?" Harrison asked, his suspicions rising with every minute.

"We're wasting time," Jack said as he pushed past Harrison and into the morgue. Harrison followed close behind him and was in time to hear Davis's cry of rage at the sight of Jack intruding in the morgue.

"Davis, stop," Harrison cried out as he watched Davis fly at Jack in a rage borne of grief. Although he was tempted to leave him to his fate, Harrison pulled Davis off of Jack and held his grip on his arms as he stopped pounding on Jack and shock set in once more.

"She's dead," Davis said quietly.

"She's going to ask me for help," Harrison said with determination. "She has to."

"I know you were asked once before but it was a fluke. We all agreed on that." Davis shook his head, unwilling to get his hopes up.

"It's happened again," Harrison replied. "Today is a rewind day already. She has to ask me."

"You mean this happened before and you didn't save her?" Davis asked accusingly.

"It was Matt who asked for my help yesterday," Harrison admitted. "I didn't tell Tru that though…It's all my fault."

"Why didn't you come to us?" Davis asked.

"Because I thought Tru might want to save Matt despite what he did yesterday," Harrison replied. "He beat up Cassie on her way home from work, then me, and he was going after Tru when he was stabbed. I've spent the day keeping Cassie safe and thought the warning would be enough to keep Tru safe too."

"You weren't going to save him?" Davis asked with a frown.

"No," Harrison admitted with a shake of his head. "So instead of him dying now it's Tru in here. That's why she has to ask me for help, so I can fix this whole mess."

"I'll wait in the office," Davis said nodding to where Tru lay silently waiting. Harrison waited for Davis to leave before walking towards Tru. Jack followed after him and stood at the opposite side of Tru's body.

Together they waited for Tru to turn to one of them.

"It probably won't work if you're here," Harrison pointed out after a minute. "She's hardly going to want to ask you for help."

"You're probably right, one of us should leave the other with Tru," Jack agreed deliberately misunderstanding Harrison's words. "You go wait with Davis."

"Me?" Harrison exclaimed. "You go wait. She's my sister!"

"I have more rewinds than you have," Jack pointed out.

"You act like they're frequent flyer miles," Harrison hissed. "I'm family. I get first try."
Harrison could tell that Jack was about to argue again but it seemed that Tru was impatient for anyone to help and the air stilled as she opened her eyes. Unlike most bodies she didn't turn her head and she was staring straight up when she spoke the words "save me" and the day rewound once more.


Jack sat up in bed with a gasp. Reaching for the phone he dialled Harrison's number.

"Harrison?" he asked as soon as the phone was picked up.

"Jack?" Harrison replied. "How did you get this number?"

"What's Jack calling you for?" he heard Cassie ask in the background.

"I'll explain later," Harrison said before turning his attention back to the phone.

"So now we're on day three," Jack said, foregoing the preliminaries and ignoring Harrison's question. "Today we're calling a truce to save Tru. Agreed?"

"What's in it for you?" Harrison asked, still suspicious.

"If Tru dies for good I never relive another day," Jack admitted. "Let's just say I know how to work the rewind days to my advantage and I don't want to lose them altogether."

"That figures," Harrison replied. "We already figured out neither of you can rewind without the other."

"So we have a truce then?"

"Yeah, we have a truce."

"I'll meet you at Cassie's diner at lunch and we can form a plan of action, okay?"

"Yeah, okay," Harrison agreed and put the phone down.

Jack quickly dialled the phone again and called Richard.

He quickly filled him in on everything that had happened, even including his own mistake in altering Matt's plans the previous day.

"So what are you going to do now?" Richard asked, knowing that the whole mess was completely out of his control.

"Well Harrison has no idea that I had a hand in Matt going after Tru," Jack said. "So he and I have a truce so that we can keep Tru alive today."

"But she's not actually in danger now," Richard said as the pieces started to fall into place. "At least no more than she was on the first day when you took out Matt before he got to her."

"But Harrison doesn't know that," Jack grinned.