Thank you for the follows, faves, and reviews. And thanks to brenducha for pointing out I misspelled Sweeney's name in the previous chapters. I haven't gone back and fixed them, but I will make sure to spell it correctly from here on out.
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After Beck stopped Sweeney and Alice from going any farther, and Sweeney scared Beck away by grabbing a pair of his razors and chasing Beck out, the two adults redress and head down to meet the others, seeing Beck sitting on a chair with a hand over his eye and the others glaring at him.
"She can do whatever the hell she wants with whoever the hell she wants." Jade says, glaring at her ex. "Do I think they're moving too fast? Yes. Am I going to stop her? Fuck no. She can think for herself, and you have to say in who she does." She tells him, her hand in a fist.
"What's going on here?" Alice asks, walking over to her friends and sister, Sweeney close behind.
"Beck was telling us that Sweeney was trying to force you into sex, Sweeney tried to kill him when he tried to stop him, and Jade hit him in the eye for lying and making it sound like you were a damsel in distress." Andre fills in, not looking at Beck.
"Fucking hell, Beck." Alice says, rubbing her head. "Okay, Beck, go walk around the business square with Andre. Clear your head and stop trying to think for the women you know." She orders, a glare equal to her sister's aimed at him. "Jade, you, Tori, and Cat go walk around the pier. Tori, you and Cat are to keep Jade from killing anybody. If possible." She tells them, sighing as she sits down once Beck gets up and is dragged away by Andre.
"What about me?" Robbie asks, looking at Alice.
"Go with the guys. Try to keep Beck distracted if you can, okay?" Alice tells him, leaning against the chair.
"Got it." Robbie says, standing up and following after Andre and Beck.
"Well, that could've gone worse." Alice says as Sweeney sits beside her, his attention on where Andre, Beck, and Robbie just left.
"I can think of a few ways to assure he does not interrupt again." Sweeney comments, his mindset going back to what he used to do before Alice and the others arrived.
"Trust me, so can Jade. I fear if we didn't arrive, she'd have about ten pairs of scissors in his chest." Alice says, laughing softly.
"Scissors, eh?" Sweeney asks, turning his attention to where he saw Tori and Cat leading Jade a moment ago. "I prefer my razors. More personal, to me." He says, unaware that Alice is staring at him.
"How'd you get into being a barber, if I may ask?" Alice asks, straightening up a bit.
As Sweeney tells Alice his story, Tori and Cat guide Jade to the pier, where a few ships and boats are coming in with sailors, supplies, or people wishing to visit London for whatever reason. "You're lucky Beck didn't swing back, Jade." Tori tells the Goth, the three of them stopping in front of a large ship with a group of sailors leaving the ship.
"I can handle him." Jade scoffs, pulling her hand free from Tori and Cat. "He's just lucky Sweeney didn't get to him. And that he seemed calm when he and Alice walked in after. If not, I assure you, Beck would be on the menu tomorrow." She tells them, walking a few feet away, putting distance between them and the ship.
"I still don't believe Sweeney is your favorite serial killer." Tori says, walking over to Jade, Cat following to get away from the looks from the sailors at her and the others.
"Trust me, he is. The proof is there, why won't you look at it? You're the daughter of a cop, for crying out loud. I thought you'd be able to read the evidence that is so clearly in front of you." Jade comments, facing Tori and Cat. "STOP STARING AT MY FRIENDS' ASSES! WALK AWAY OR YOUR BODY WINDS UP IN THE SHIPS ENGINE!" She yells at a young sailor whose attention has been on Tori's and Cat's butts since he stepped foot on land.
"Leave it to you to make a sailor pee himself." Tori chuckles as the aforementioned sailor leaves, a noticeable trail leading down the inside of his leg.
"So, what are we going to do about Sweeney and Alice?" Jade asks, looking at the other two for answers.
"What do you mean?" Tori asks, sharing a confused look with Cat.
"They seem like such a cute couple." Cat chimes in, finally speaking. "I don't see what the problem is." She notes, a bit more serious than she usually is.
"Okay, let me ask it a different way." Jade says, putting her hair into a makeshift ponytail, using a rubber band from Cat to keep it together. "What do you think is going to happen if Alice witnesses him killing someone, with how often she's with him? Or when we somehow manage to get back to our own time, and he manages to come with us?" She asks, looking at them.
"No idea." Tori says, seeing what Jade's hinting at.
"I have no idea what's going on." Cat asks, her usual ditzy self kicking in as she stares at her friends.
"Never mind." Jade says, rolling her eyes. "Let's head back." She tells them, heading back to Mrs. Lovett's shop. 'We should really change the name now that the guys ate her.' She thinks, laughing to herself about the double entendre. 'Too bad Andre didn't know it.' She adds, smirking to herself.
A half an hour later, the six teens are standing in the shop, the seven of them (Sweeney's getting his razor's sharpened, which only Jade thought was a bad sign) cleaning the shop and getting it ready for the next day. "Hey, I saw something strange by that clothing repair shop we passed before we found ourselves in this timeline." Robbie says as he puts some clean plates away for the next day.
"What's up?" Cat asks, looking at him.
"I could've sworn I saw modern clothes in there. And I mean, our kind of modern, not the stuff we had to start wearing to blend in." Robbie notes, facing the others.
"How? I didn't see anything." Andre asks, looking at the bespectacled teen.
"I mean, I saw jeans and t-shirts. It was brief, but I know I saw them." Robbie says, a smile growing on his face.
"Wait, are you saying there's a 'time portal' by a clothes shop?" Tori asks, looking at him with obvious disbelief. "Trina would love that." She mumbles, shaking her head.
"It's possible." Jade says, looking at Robbie. "Where exactly were you when you saw the jeans?" She asks him, oblivious to the stares from the others.
"Uh, on the right side of the building. That's the right side if you're facing the front of the store, not if you're inside the store looking outside. Under the second window, under a lantern." Robbie tells her, looking at her. "Why?" He asks, having an idea on why she's asking.
"I think you just found our way home." Jade tells him, a half smile on her face. "And come this time tomorrow, we'll be home." She tells everyone, confident.
"Good. I haven't had candy in months." Cat says, staring at Jade.
Not a whole lot in this one, but we have an idea on where and how they seemed to travel back in time.
To explain a bit, they managed to pass through a time rip, and Robbie found it and is hoping it leads to the same time they left. I don't know how time rifts work (not saying they actually exist, or anything), so I'm kinda making it up.
We'll hear a better explanation on it next chapter, as well as finding out if it does indeed take them home, or to another timeline.
Thank you for reading, hope you like it and review. And sorry for the kinda poor explanation on how they traveled to Sweeney's time.
Blessed Be.