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For Your Love

Chapter three

I waited until after dinner to call Ellie. I didn't know what it was that we were going to have to do to bring Jesse to life but I knew I didn't want to be interrupted half way through it by Dopey saying that I had to come down. I was so excited about it all that it seemed like ages before I could finally go up to my room.

"Did you get it?" Ellie asked when I finally got a chance to call her.

I pulled the book out of my bag and held it out to her, "I think this is it."

She took the book and started flicking through it. I didn't get a proper look at it but from what I saw it was full of what I supposed were spells in foreign languages and a quite a few diagrams.

"I think so too," Ellie said with a grin. She found the page she was looking for and said, "It's supposed to be done in the same style as an exorcism."

I looked up from the book and narrowed my eyes. "An exorcism?" I said suspiciously. "No way. When you showed up here I knew there was something weird going on and this just proves it. How am I supposed to know that you aren't just trying to get me to help you exorcise Jesse?"

Ellie rolled her eyes and said, "Suze, just relax. You can trust me ok. I understand why you think I'm up to something but I have my reasons for helping you."

"And what are they exactly?" I asked. If she thought that a simple 'I have my reasons' was going to earn my trust then boy was she wrong.

"You'll see," she said, "But if you need proof then just look at the book does it say exorcisms anywhere? I don't think so."

I took the book from her and looked at the page she was pointing to. She was right, no exorcisms mentioned anywhere and the words that I needed to say for it to work were nothing like the ones involved in any of the exorcisms I'd preformed. I knew well that she could easily be still trying to fool me but I started to trust her again anyway. I don't know, I guess she seemed sincere. And, anyway, she was telling me what I wanted to hear wasn't she? So I went along with it.

"Alright then," I said handing the book back to her. "What were you saying?"

Ellie smiled, "Don't worry about it Suze if it all goes to plan then this time tomorrow you'll be with Jesse again and this time he'll be alive." I smiled too when she said that, it just sounded so wonderful. Even if I don't entirely trust Ellie it's got to be worth the risk. "We'll need some candles and instead of chicken blood we need some other stuff to make a sort of mixture that we can paint on the floor."

Ellie started reading through the page then frowned, "Oh."

"What?" I asked, starting to panic a little. What if this wasn't going to work after all? "What's wrong?"

"Don't worry," Ellie said reassuringly, "it's nothing you can't handle it'll just take longer than expected is all. It says here that to do it we'll need a bit of the person's blood."

I frowned and looked at the book in complete bewilderment, "What are you talking about Ellie? Jesse's dead, he doesn't have any blood. None that's real anyway."

"Obviously," Ellie said giving me an amused look. "But I don't mean from his ghost."

"Then what..." Suddenly it hit me. She meant what Paul had been telling me about before. She was talking about time travel. "You mean I have to go back to when he was alive?"

Ellie nodded, "And, er, get a bit of his blood."

The idea of going back in time and being able to see what Jesse was like before he died had seemed pretty cool at first but then Ellie just had to go and ruin it by pointing out how gross it was going to be. She must have noticed how disgusted I looked because then she went, "I know it's gross Suze but you'll just have to deal. It'll be worth it in the end after all."

I nodded. "I'll do it," I told her. "When can I go?"

"You'd better do it tonight," Ellie said. "The sooner the better. You know, in case Paul realises that his book has gone missing."

"You're right," I said. "So what do we do?"

Ellie flicked through the book and found the page on time travelling. She handed it to me and said, "Just say this incantation and think about where you need to go. Oh and you'll need to take a bottle or something as well."

I glanced around the room, still not quite over the initial grossness of it all, and saw an empty water bottle that I had been drinking from earlier.

"Will this do?" I asked, picking it up.

"Yeah, that's fine," Ellie replied. "You'll have to take the book with you to get back so I should probably write down the incantation in case I need to come after you."

"Right," I said and pulled some paper and a pen out of a drawer for her to use. "What about my clothes? Will I be wearing the same thing when I get there?"

Ellie looked down at my denim mini skirt, not exactly the height of eighteen-fifties fashion, "Er, you might want to change into a longer skirt. Just in case."

"Good point," I said, going over to my wardrobe and taking out a long black skirt. I held it up. "How about this?"

"That'll have to do," Ellie said and I went to change.

When I was done Ellie had finished writing down the incantation so I picked up the book an asked, "Is there anything else?"

"I don't think so," Ellie replied. Then she smiled at me and said, "Good luck."

"Thanks," I said then I took a deep breath and began to read the incantation out loud.

By the time I had completed the first line I was feeling a bit dizzy but I kept reading and concentrating on where (or when) I wanted to be. I just kept going, ignoring everything that was going on around me until for some completely unknown reason I stumbled and fell to the floor. The book fell shut next to me so I lost my page but that didn't matter because although I was still in my room I saw that it was very different. There was no pink, no canopy bed and no books and CDs lying around. It was just plain and old fashioned.

I grinned; it had worked.

I was in eighteen fifty.

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A/N: Sorry it's so short but I need to do my homework now. So give me loads of reviews and I'll make the next chapter longer and better. And you know in the summary when I said that Paul would be getting in the way of Suze's plans? Well i'm not entirely sure about how he's going to do it. I've got one idea but it wouldn't make much of a story so if you could tgive me any ideas for that then I would be very grateful. Anyway, thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter can you do it again please?