Chapter Seven

I Just Don't Understand

Magenta and Riff Raff stared at the doctor for a moment; blank faces began to crease as they glanced at the photo, to each other, to the doctor. Taking a deep breath Riff Raff frowned and opened his mouth to speak but stopped, Magenta took her cue, "What do you mean, 'They're us'?"

"I mean what I said and I said what I mean. You are them they are you it may seem confusing now but just sit down and let me explain."

The siblings did so and Dr. Scott continued, "I assume you thought your similar appearance was hereditary hm?" When they nodded he sighed and continued, "Unfortunately no. You see," He paused, this was going to take a great deal of explanation, "Twelve years ago, in 1977 something happened on your home planet of Transsexual," Magenta frowned, "You," He indicated Riff Raff, "Went mad basically and killed your sister and yourself."

Riff Raff's eyes widened and he looked at his younger sister who was seemingly horrified at this news, "Why though is the question and I don't know the answer. All I know is a little of what happened before that. On a late November evening, two years before that in 1975 you helped throw a party. You were here on Earth then, through no choice of your own of course; you had to come. You worked for this man," Dr. Scott pulled a photo from one of the many files he had gotten out.

The man had black curly hair and heavy makeup; he was dressed in a sequined corset and fishnet stockings, "His name was Frank N' Furter. He was a mad scientist, also from Transsexual who came to Earth and forced you two to come with him. He wanted to build the perfect man. You Riff Raff were invaluable in this project as Frank wasn't really all that skilled in the area of science. You created his man, and at the unveiling party two complete strangers stumbled into the situation completely throwing off the original plan.

"Frank had his fun with the two guests," Here Dr. Scott pulled out yet another picture and handed it to Riff Raff, "Janet Weiss, whom you've already met, and her ex-fiancé Brad Majors. Brad was traumatized by the incident and ended up in a hospital on the outskirts of Manhattan. Anyway, at the end of the night, Frank had already managed to murder my nephew Eddie and things weren't looking well for the other guests. In the middle of the doctor's "floor show" the two of you intervened."

Magenta and Riff Raff frowned at the next photo they were handed, a picture of the pair of them in futuristic clothing; Riff Raff was wielding the pitchfork shaped object they had found in the box, "In what seemed a spark of rage you murdered Columbia," He threw down a photo of the woman with pink hair, "Rocky, the very man you had created, and Frank N' Furter. You let Janet, Brad and I go before beaming yourselves back to Transsexual. From the evidence I've gathered it seems you underwent a trial for the murder of the doctor, but you were proven not guilty through some great stroke of luck.

"The only thing I know beyond that is that there was a man involved, a "Delordy" probably part of the planets army forces. He interfered with the two of you somehow and that eventually led to your downfall. Now your job is to go back in time and stop whatever triggered your deaths."

Complete silence filled the room as the siblings tried to process what had just been said to them. They had to travel back in time to keep from being killed; Riff Raff swallowed, he was the one who would kill them both if things went wrong.

"What do we do?" Magenta asked quietly.

"You have to remember first, the more you recall the more you'll slip back into your original state until you no longer remember your lives here on Earth. As time slips backwards the two of you will age, while the rest of those involved will become younger. You see, everyone must be exactly how they were at the moment of the deaths in order for any of it to work."

Riff Raff frowned, "But if everything has to be the way it was how are we going to get to," He paused and sighed, "Transsexual," The word sounded foreign in his mouth yet strangely familiar. He remembered. He remembered pointing the laser towards Frank as he backed away, stunned that his 'help' could turn on him so suddenly. Someone screamed, and he pulled the trigger.

He snapped out of his daydream with a searing pain in his back, he was suddenly hunched over. Magenta stared at him for a minute then took his hand, "It's okay, you're all right."

"What are you talking about?"

His sister smiled sadly and pointed the closest photo of them together, "Your back is twisted," Riff Raff sighed and looked back to the red head,

"You're pale."

Dr. Scott shook his head a couple of times and blinked, "We'll have to wait for you to remember a bit more before being able to send you back. I believe now it is 1988, time is fading quickly."

"Where will we go?" Magenta asked; her accent contained no British accent whatsoever; it had switched back to its previous state. Her brothers' voice too had changed, it became a little higher, a little more forced, as they discussed what was to be done for the next few days.

They decided that the siblings would reside in a room in Dr. Scott's house, that way he could monitor them and determine when the correct time of departure would be. In this way he could also make sure they weren't found, not that it was likely their adopted parents even remembered them anymore.

Four days passed in which little by little the siblings began to remember their Transylvanian ways. They danced and sang frequently to the songs of their planet, though sometimes they would misplace a word or step. Dr. Scott could see them aging quickly and finally one night, when they had finally remembered all the words to the hailed song of their planet "The Time Warp" he decided that it was about time.

If only they could remember one last thing.

Everett was beginning to think they had felt nothing in the way of an attraction to each other, when really they had only kept it hidden from him so as not to have him throw them out. He studied the pair closely, caught the glances from brother to sister and vice-versa and sighed to himself.

He had to tell them.