Author: Hi every one! I'm back. Yes I have been gone for longer than I said… but I can explain. My computer died. Our hard drive decided it was too old and died. I LOST EVERYTHING! I had chapters for latter in the story but they're gone now. TEARCRYSOB! Any ways…

Misty: Hi! Thanx for RRing sooo much. I'm glad you liked A Time For Forever I wrote that in 1 hour. 1 HOUR! I'm probably going to rewrite it and fix all my grammar problems and typos. You're mentioned in this chapter. I kind of mixed your personality with my friend Regina's looks. I hope u don't mind : )

Taps Riffwalk: That's cool how u know Griffin. I was very upset when she didn't come back this yr. I know the last chapter was different from all of the others but this one will clear everything up 4 u.

P.S.: I saw BATMAN the other day! It was sooo good. Two words: shirtless Christian. I was sooo happy. Even if u don't like Batman u guys will love the movie. Even if its just because Christian is sooo hot. : D

Love Across Ti me

Chapter 16: Tombs Returns

I had to go with the boys today. The other Newsies were wondering what had happened to me… or that's what they told me. So I was forced to go. I would have stayed behind and done some research. I wanted to look over the spell for The Change and had thought about calling Regina to see what was going on back home.

Regina is my best girl friend aside from Phoebe. (Hey Misty guess what! This is U!) She has natural blond curly hair and blue eyes. She's tall but not like a stick. She one of those people who aren't fat or skinny. She's just built big. But that's why she's my best friend. She isn't vain about her looks she's just herself. And that's what makes her beautiful.

But because the Newsies forced me to go I missed a very important memo.

We met up with the other Newsies in the square with the Horace Greeley statue. They were glad to see that I was alive.

"BEAST!" Yelled Specs as he pulled me into a one armed hug.

"Yeah Specs I'm alive."

"God Beast, we though you might have left us." Said Dutchy. I noticed his hair had grown since I last saw him. Wow I had been gone a long time.

"I wasn't feeling well." I explained. I shot a look at my boys over Specs' arm. I hoped they would take the hint.

"You gonna buy papes or what?" Yelled Weasel. (I find that insulting) That cleared away most of the questions… most being the key word. Snipeshooter kept throwing questions at me.

"But Jack said that they stayed at Medda's and he was sick the other day."

"They did stay at Medda's but I let them stay at me place till Jack got better."

After I satisfied Snipeshooter's curiosity I caught up with the other boys. I could see immediately that they were uncomfortable lying to the other Newsies. I had to take damage control. I quickly decided that the best thing to do was to just get them out of there and soon.

We were debating about where we should sell when Jack spotted a new face. "Hey look fresh meat." Blink elbowed him in the stomach.

I didn't get a good look at the boy until Dutchy brought him over to meet us. When I saw who it was I was over come with a coughing fit.

It was Ben…

Ben had managed to find a blue shirt, tan hat, brown vest, and he had improvised with the shoes. This means he was wearing very dirty Keds. Unless you knew what they were you couldn't tell they were from the future. I was just glad he didn't wear Nikes. Those would never fit in here.

"Are you alright Beast?" asked Mush concerned.

"Not mentally." I muttered.

"What"

"I'm fine." I then listened to Dutchy explain that he was taking Ben with him today in silence. I didn't trust myself to speak. As soon as I got a chance I whispered into his ear. "Fish on that."

No one could figure out what was so funny…

We were doing well. We had a lot of papes between us so we had to work hard to sell the lot. But, as Jack pointed out, we were pros. So in truth it wasn't that hard. It was a good headline today. (Serial Killer Strikes Again)

All the boys were smiling as the sun started to set. We had somehow managed to sell almost all of our papes and it was almost 5.

"Where are we staying tonight?" asked Racetrack.

"Probable my place again." I answered.

"I am not sleeping on the floor again tonight." Argued Blink.

I raised my hands in surrender. "Hey, no fighting. We'll talk about sleeping arrangements when we get to the Loft. But first let's see if we can sell the last of these papes."

So with that settled we headed toward the Loft. The daylight was almost gone by the time we reached Denton's Diner.

I should have sensed the danger that surrounded us. But I was too busy keeping the boys in line to notice. I should have felt his magic… but I didn't.

We walked into the alley as blind as a bat to the danger that awaited us. It was a Venus Flytrap waiting for its fly.

We were almost through when I heard them. Or rather didn't hear them.

Their was a soft swoosh. I stopped. It was then that I noticed the alley was completely silent. I couldn't hear the humans in their apartments going about their usual agenda or the rats in the gutters. Then wind didn't even blow.

"Hello Jessie"

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