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Episode 4: Time Part One, Legacy

Time is relative, Jonah thought. It must be.

Sitting alone in his room, he fiddled with the rim of his hat in his lap. The stitches in the side brought back the memory of his mother on the front porch, rocking back and forth with her sewing, while he and James ran around playing cowboy. He had memories of waiting for Pa to come home for dinner. Memories of learning to rope a wild mustang. James was always better at that. Sighing, he picked a piece of lint off of his shirt.

He stood up and walked to the window, putting his hat on the dresser. "Must be dinner time," he said to himself, closing the curtains and heading out.

What he didn't know was that the room wasn't empty.

"Perfect," the girl said, stepping out of the shadows. "Ow, watch it, Eury."

"Sorry," the blond boy mumbled, following her into the middle of the room. "Are you sure about this, Kennedy?"

"Yeah," she said, grabbing the hat off of the dresser and putting it on her head. "And look, it even fits me. I can't believe he just left it there like that."

"He doesn't know you're here," Eury said, looking around. "And I'd like to keep it that way. I'd lose my time license dragging you guys around."

"You have a license for what you do?" Kennedy laughed. "Alright, get us out of here."

He grabbed her arm and the two disappeared in a flash of brilliant golden light, Jonah's hat still sitting on Kennedy's head.

...

Johnny sat at the table and pushed his red glasses up his nose.

"Take those off," Eevee said, the only other person in the room so far. "You can't where sunglasses at the dinner table."

"They aren't sunglasses," he said. "They're a tribute."

"Tribute," little Nathan cried, running into the room and pulling himself into a chair. "Tribute, tribute tribute."

"That's right, a tribute," Johnny said.

"Where's your mum, silly," Eevee asked, picking Nathan up.

"I vas chased by Karl," he said. "Running all down the hallway, and I falled."

"I see that. Does that scrape hurt?"

"Nein," he said. "Not very much."

"What did you do today, Nathan?"

"Miss Kitty took me and Karl to the park," he said. "Ve met a boy there that looked funny, vearing all these jackets, he vas bigger than me, but smaller than Karl."

"Okay," she said, looking at the door as Jonah walked in. "Hey Jonah."

"Hey," he said, sitting down and putting a pill bottle on the table. "Did you see these yet? God, ah know ah am not crazy and STILL ah gotta take these."

"Oh, Jonah," Eevee sighed and sat down, putting Nathan back in his chair. "It'll sort itself out, don't worry about it."

"Sort itself out?" Jonah said. "Growin' up where ah did, ah learned NOTHIN' sorts itself out."

Jasmine walked in, followed closely by a nervous looking Lorelai. "Look who I found skulking in Nico's room," Jasmine smirked.

"Oh, come on." Lory sat down next to Eevee and grabbed a plate. "Stop pickin' on meh, we were just studyin'."

"Yeah, cause what ELSE could you guys do," snickered Johnny.

"Shut up, pea brain," Lory snapped.

"Woah," Jonah put a hand on her covered shoulder. "Calm down there, it was a joke."

"Ah know," she said, sighing. "Sorry Johnny."

"That's fine," Johnny said nervously, afraid to say anything else.

Jonah touched his head and stood up. "Uh-oh," he said, leaving.

"Where's he going?" Johnny asked, leaning over the table and stealing Jonah's red bandanna, which he had removed before sitting down.

"To get his stupid hat," Jasmine laughed.

They listened as Jonah climbed up the stairs and opened his door. For a few moments, they didn't hear anything else.

"Is he...?" Johnny said softly. Then they heard him running back down the stairs.

"Mah hat," he shouted, pushing the dining room door open. "Mah hat, where is it? Johnny?"

"Why would I know?" Johnny said. "I don't even know where I put my own hat."

"Where is it, you punk," Jonah growled, pointing at him.

"Hey," Eevee said, standing up. "He's been sitting here this whole time, calm down, Jonah."

"He could have taken it, he's fast enough." Jonah sounded more and more convinced of Johnny's guilt by the second.

"True," Johnny said, looking a little startled. "But I didn't."

"Ah left it right on mah dresser when ah left the room and now it ain't there," Jonah said angrily. "Now where is it?"

"It's just a hat Jonah," Jasmine said.

Jonah turned to face her, eyes burning. "It ain't JUST A HAT," he said, storming out.

"Uhm, woah," Lorelai said, breaking the few moments of silence that followed the slamming of the door.

...

Kennedy and Eury walked into the small abandoned warehouse that was their current hideout. It stood on the outskirts of Bayville, away from prying eyes. The rest of their group looked up, each one waving in turn.

The first stood, a tall girl with long silver hair and blue eyes. She was Anya, the lost daughter of Kish and Dominique, the first child that sadly died. "Kennedy, Eury," Anya said. "You're back already. Did you get your heirloom?"

"Yup, here it is," she said, pulling off the hat. "My dad's hat. Cool, right?"

Nathan Darkholme, an older, darker Nathan, dressed forever in his dark clothing and forever wearing a mask over his face, grunted as he continued to write. "Yeah, cool for the dark ages," the sixteen-year-old said.

"Nathan, be civil," Anya laughed.

"You're not my mother," he mumbled.

"No, I'm your sister," she said, closing his notebook and pulling him to his feet. "The others are back."

The third was a small boy of around six, standing up and running to hug Kennedy. This was a small Kish, still young, still innocent, still scar free. "Kish-oo," she laughed. "It's nice to see you too."

"Kish-oo, wash up," Anya said, pushing him out of the main room.

"I forgive your treachery," he squeaked, brushing himself off as he left.

"Now ve get my sword, right?" Nathan said. "My father's sword?"

"Yeah," Eury said. "Yeah, we do that."

"And vhile ve do that," Nathan added darkly, under his breath, too low for anyone else to hear. "I get my father, too."

NEXT: Part two, the Assassin