hi everyone, sorry i havent updated lately but I've been more into reading fics than reading them and i just couldn't bring myself to write more because i hate writting when i dont feel like it. Anyways i'm home with Pnemonia (i don't know if thats how its spelled) and figured there was no better way to spend all this free time than to write some new chapters:)
So i hope you enjoy it - PEACE! (hehe)
Tori stood, staring at her sister with her mouth hanging open slightly, finally she found her voice "You're serious?"
"Yes I'm serious! Now let's go before I come to my senses" Abby said standing up too. Abby strode towards the back door "Are you coming?"
Tori didn't move "You're serious?" she repeated "Like, you're actually in all seriousness, seriously serious?"
Abby raised her eyebrows "Yes" she said "Let's go"
"O-ok" Tori stuttered as she followed her big sister out the door. Jay and Cat hurried after them. They walked in silence as they approached the clearing, Tori was twisting the hem of her shirt nervously in her hands. Please, she begged, please let them be there…
"You ok?" Cat murmured softly, Tori nodded without looking at her best friend, she just kept staring straight ahead praying that she would see a familiar ruby red mound somewhere in amongst the trees.
Soon Tori glanced over her shoulder, Abby looked as though she was having an inner battle as to whether she should turn around and leave or keep going while Jay looked rather shell-shocked by the entire situation. She looked over at Cat who tried to give her a reassuring smile but failed miserably.
"Friken hell! I can't take the tension!" Tori screamed, throwing her hands in the air and running ahead of the others ignoring the 'Tori wait!'s and 'Come back!'s.
Tori slowed as she entered the clearing, panting slightly and looking around. They weren't there, neither were Murtagh's robes or weapons, the clothes he had been wearing that morning however, lay in a crumpled pile in the centre of the clearing. Tori turned to see the other three approaching her.
"They were here" Tori told them "Murtagh's taken his things. What are we going to do? I have no idea where they could have gone! What if someone sees them? How are we goi-"
"Tor calm down" Cat said "we'll find them"
"How the hell do you know that? Where could they possibly have gone? They don't even know the country we're in, let alone the planet! They could be on their way to Africa right now and there is nothing we can do about it! You stupid bitch, how can you just pretend everything will turn out ok? This isn't one of your stupid books Cat, this is real life!" She snapped.
Cat just stood there and let Tori continue yell at her, she waited patiently letting Tori vent all her anger, frustration and fear. Cat didn't move until she saw Tori's eyebrows knot and her eyes well up with tears, Tori fell to her knees holding her head in her hands, crying. Cat sat down beside her and held her while she cried.
"I'm sorry Cat, I didn't mean it. I'm just-" Tori said in between sobs.
"Shh, it's ok, I know" Cat said softly "I know you're upset ok? And I know you're scared, but we are going to find them"
Tori shook her head "He took care of me, they both did. They risked their lives to save mine and now I'm supposed to be doing it for them. They should feel safe and like everything is going to work out because that's what they did for me but I don't know how. I- I can't"
Tori bit her bottom lip and squeezed her eyes shut fighting the tears. "If anything happens to them- Thorn's terrified and he can't communicate with anyone anymore so Murtagh might as well be on his own right now. I just don't know what to do, even if we do find them. What'll I do? How long until someone else finds out about them and has them taken away or worse? What am I supposed to do?" She finished softly staring down at the ground.
It was then that Jay kneeled down infront of Tori.
"Tor, listen-" he began.
"I know," Tori said softly with a sad smile "suck it up, right?"
Jay returned the small smile, then sighed looking at the ground "No" he said "do you remember when we were at the mall and we found that little kid who was lost? He was no older than five, he had no idea where his mum was and he was crying so hard he nearly flooded the place. And who was it that went up to him, calmed him down and helped him find his mum?"
Tori smiled and shook her head "Jay, she was only around the corner"
"Yeah, well you didn't know that before you started looking for her did you? And if she hadn't been you wouldn't have just left the kid there and shrugged it off would you? No! You would have kept looking until you found that little kids mum! Now suck it up and do it again!"
Slowly a grin spread across Tori's face but it soon faded "But I still have no idea where I'm supposed to look"
"Well, you've spent enough time with them by now to know what they're like, right? So what would Murtagh do? What would he look for? Is there a certain type of place where he'd want to hide?" Cat asked still kneeling next to Tori.
Tori furrowed her brows "Well… he's worried that Thorn isn't safe here. He didn't take the fact that he can't do magic here very well but it hit him harder that Thorn couldn't talk to him. He cares more about Thorn than anything else in the world so his safety is going to be his first priority. I don't know, he'd probably want to get Thorn home, even if they are in danger there at least they know the place and have their magic back"
"Right so we need to look for this Algelsia?" Jay asked.
"Alagaesia" Cat corrected him quickly "And no, not Alagaesia itself, but somewhere similar to it"
"What, middle earth then?" Jay asked skeptically "Great idea, and while we're there we can meet up with Frodo and Sam, kill that little Gollem bastard for them and save them the trouble, that way Frodo gets to keep his finger"
Tori gaped at him "Are you bipolar or something Jay? 20 seconds ago you were trying to convince me this was possible"
"Right. Sorry, not helping" Jay smiled a huge smile and said "Yeah Agelasia here we come!"
Tori couldn't help but smirk, she glanced over at Cat who looked like she was having an extremely difficult time not rolling her eyes "Alegaesia" she corrected him again.
"Do they know they're characters from a book?" Abby finally spoke.
Tori turned her head so fast she thought she'd broken her neck "Huh?"
"Do they know they're characters from a book?" Abby repeated impatiently.
"Uh yeah" Tori replied, not sure where her sister was going with this "I showed them a copy of Eragon when we were still in Alagaesia… why?"
"Because Luke is into the series" Abby began.
"Who's Luke?" Cat whispered.
"Her boyfriend" Tori answered quickly "Please, do not get her started on him"
Abby scowled but went on "Luke likes this Eragon series a lot and he was telling yesterday he was going to the mall because the bloke who wrote the books is doing a signing… he's going to be there today and there are advertisements up everywhere"
Tori snorted.
"What?" Asked Abby
"You said bloke" she said. This time Cat really did roll her eyes.
"Irrelevant!" Abby said throwing her hands in the air "The point is there is a connection nearby to this... 'Alternate Universe'" Abby made quotation signs with her fingers.
"and the chance of them seeing it are…" Jay said.
No one spoke for a full two minutes.
Finally Tori sighed "Well it is a long shot but we don't have any short shots at the moment, or medium shots or any other long shots for that matter, which I guess shortens the long short significantly seeing as it's the only shot we have short or long…" Tori furrowed her eyebrows trying work out what it was she had just said.
"Wow" Abby said "You really slaughtered that expression"
"Anyways what I'm trying to say is this the only sho-chance we've got" Tori finished determined not to use the word 'shot' again in her statement.
Cat nodded "Well let's hurry up then, there will be quite a few people there and if Thorn and Murtagh do turn up there the hospital is going to be flooded with shock induced heart attack patients which we should probably prevent from happening"
Tori stood up so fast the others were shocked she didn't suffer from whiplash "Come on! We'll all go in Abby's car!" Tori sprinted back to the house with the others close behind her.
dum dum DUUUUUUUM!!!!
well there you go, another chapter, hope you liked it!
