"So Victor, what's so important that you had to drag us away from our Honeymoon for?" Josie asked.
"Yea Dad," Vaughn echoed. "Couldn't this have waited till we were back from New Zealand? We were having a good time down there."
"It was extremely important that I talk to you both, in person. And no, it couldn't have waited. You remember the Qi Gong ball?"
The older Josie snorted. "How could I have forgotten Victor? Don't you remember who you stole it from in the first place?" she asked derisively.
"Yes, yes, yes," Victor replied impatiently. "Well…"
Josie felt a tugging on her arm. She looked back at Vaughn, who was trying to pull her towards the open doorway. She shook her head, gesturing that she wanted to stay and watch, but Vaughn pulled her away.
As they got out into the hallway, she sighed impatiently. "What was so important that you had to pull me away from that?" she asked. "It was getting really interesting."
"Look… You obviously don't remember what happened earlier on today, or else you'd be a little more anxious about our situation," Vaughn replied.
"Are we back to this again?"
Vaughn clenched his hands and smiled tightly as he dragged her further away from the room they'd just been in. "This is important Josie."
"So is this," she replied. "We've got the chance to finally figure out some of what's been going on around school, and you want to ruin it by talking?"
Vaughn placed his hand against her mouth. "Be quiet. This is a whole lot more important. Today, what can you remember?"
"I already told you, I can't remember. Then you replied that you thought we weren't at Pearadyne Labs, which you've been proved wrong."
"We're not at Pearadyne Labs, at least not the labs we know."
"That's because this is the future, Vaughn. You heard what I… she… I told Victor. We're married, and we run Pearadyne now."
Impatiently Vaughn shook his head. "I know this Josie, but we're not really here. You collapsed today Josie, you were sick. Z and I got you to your room, and then I came down sick. So none of this can be real!"
"Are you saying we're having some kind of joint hallucination Vaughn?"
He moved away helplessly. "I don't know Josie. I just know that something really strange is going on here. Stranger than normal."
He suddenly grimaced in pain. Josie laid a hand on his arm.
"Are you alright?" she asked, concerned.
"It's happening again."
"What's happening again? I don't understand?"
"It's like earlier, when I felt sick, after you'd collapsed… I'm really not feeling too well."
He slumped against the wall, and slid to the ground, the walls spinning round and round. Josie knelt next to him, worried, trying to think of something to say when a hand grabbed her shoulder.
"Josie!" Vaughn cried out. "Look out!"
And all of a sudden, he disappeared, leaving Josie with the mysterious stranger.