Disclaimer 2: Mary, Braden, and any other characters not owned by the Patriot but in the story Behind the Ice, belong to SteeleRanger. Do not use without permission. Also, the characters of Jae and Jula are co-owned by SteeleRanger and Obsessed-1; again, do not use without permission.
"There, I'll be back for you later. And don't even think about trying anything!" Col. Tavington hissed, shoving Jae hard into one of the rooms in the large estate of Middleton place and slamming the door; there was a soft click; he had locked it.
"Great, just great.." Jae said angrily to herself, hitting the door with her fist. "What am I going to do now?"
"Sit there and not disturb the peace." replied a sharp, English-accented voice from beyond the other side of the door.
"Shut up, jerk!" Jae shouted irately at Col. Tavington, who laughed a short, low, wicked laugh.
"Ass!"
Jae began to back away from the door, expecting the colonel to come bursting through the door, but all she heard was the thud of booted footsteps retreating down the hall and the slight ring of spurs.
Great! I get knocked back over two hundred years, and then as if that's not enough, I get locked in a room by the Butcher!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Jae? Jae, are you still here?"
Jula rushed about the House Museum, looking for her sister, nearly knocking over an elderly woman in the process who gave her a dirty look.
"Sorry, I'm looking for my sister." Jula said quickly before frantically heading off to another one of the rooms that she hadn't checked.
Entering the room, Jula paused momentarily to glance at an oil painting of Henry Middleton.
"Nice painting." she muttered to herself. "Never mind, I can't be thinking about that right now, I have to find my sister."
Jula was just about to leave the room, when she spotted a black spiral notebook lying on the ground.
That's Jae's.. She's got to be here.
"Jae? Jae, are you here?"
Silence.
"Jae, this isn't funny anymore! It's been an hour already!" Jula shouted, her voice wavering with panic.
Picking up her sister's notebook, Jula started out of the room, not noticing that with each step she took, the room and the House were changing around her.
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Jae stared up at a clock in the room she had been locked in; it read eleven.
Great, and how long do these things last? The least he could have done was give me some food if he knew he was going to be gone that long. And damn it, I gotta go to the bathroom...
"William, why are you being so hard on her? She was just looking for her sister."
Jae perked up at the sound of a female voice coming from the other side of the door and down the hall.
"She was being disruptive. And look at her clothing! Scandalous!"
Col. Tavington...
"Let go of me, you punk!"
Jula! She got here! But, how?
"William, stop treating her like an animal; after all, if she's not lying, it isn't as if she has anywhere else to run off to."
The female voice again.
"That's true, Mary, but how do we know she isn't lying?"
Mary... I think that was his wife's name...Cool!
"If you want my opinion, and I know you value it, I do not believe she is lying. You do have her sister in one of these rooms, do you not?"
"You have my sister! You have Jae!" Jula practically shouted with excitement.
"Yes, Mary, I have her sister."
"Then let her see her."
Quickly, the sound of several footsteps approached Jae's door. There was a click and the colonel flung the door open, shoving Jula inside and closed the door, locking it yet again.
"Jae!"
Jula ran over to her sister and wrapped her in a bear hug.
"Thank god you're alright!"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Jae replied, relieved to see her sister.
Suddenly, Jula broke away from the hug and punched her sister on the arm.
"Hey, what was that for!" Jae demanded.
"Don't you ever go wandering off like that again! I was looking for you for an hour!"
"Sorry. But I only went into one room."
"Yeah, and ended up over two hundred years back."
Jae laughed mirthlessly.
"Well at least we're stuck here together."
"You're telling me!" Jula replied with a laugh. "Not to mention, you'll have one heck of a report if we ever get back!"
"Yeah.." Jae replied
..If we ever get back...