Hiya! Starting at 12:53 A.M. July 22, 2016, Homework Status: Basically done. Sly 2 arrives tomorrow I'm so excited AHHHHHHh.
Ahem… Does anyone want me to put the POV's at the top? I feel it might be difficult to understand who's talking at times. Anyways, leave a review for that :D
~~Enjoy~~
I heard some crying come from the room below me. I looked around seeing Milo sitting with his knees hugged in and his back against the headboard of the bed. He was wearing his earphones and looking down at the covers of the bed. They were a beige color and Milo seemed to stand out in his navy colored jacket and black pants. The collar on the jacket was popped up covering his mouth. He kept his hood off though.
I laid down staring up at the ceiling holding my arms behind my head for support. I stared at the chipped ceiling before inevitably looking back at Milo who quickly looked away from me and at his glove. I wasn't about to force him to tell me anything. It was about one in the morning, but with both of us being nocturnal we were pretty awake.
He finally poked his head out of the collar and looked at me directly in the eyes. His eyes were very concerned and he seemed slightly afraid of me for some reason. I got up and sat on his bed next to him and leaned back against the headboard. He move to the far edge of the bed and sighed looking away. I just frowned at him and put my hand on his shoulder giving him a sincere look to say I cared. He just looked down and opened his mouth.
"I don't… know if I can… tell you…" He voice was broken and he seemed very timid about the whole situation.
"I know you're scared of people knowing something about you," he looked away and shut his eyes tightly, "But you can trust me."
I tried to assure him it was okay, but he wasn't convinced in the slightest. He sat and it felt as if he was releasing a cold aura around him. I just sat there as he shivered slightly. His whole body was trembling actually. I pulled him closer to me and gasped a bit at the touch, but still, he just looked away. However, the trembling had stopped.
"I just… don't know if… this is real…" He seemed to be scared of something, but I couldn't tell what.
"What do you mean, this is real, I am here," I tried to make him calmer, but the fear was there. I just sighed and continued, "What happened at the van that one night. Naiya told me that she saw you get crushed by the branches, but you were behind us."
His eyes widened and he looked at me and I grinned at him hoping it would ease the tension.
"Okay… you are the first person to know this okay… You can't tell the others yet," He was being serious and I knew this was something personal. I nodded my head at him and he began.
"I have more than just a grapple cord and a communicator in this glove." He held it up to me. I noticed it had been coursing with electricity and I could hear a slight hum come from it when it was really close. "I can… I can reverse things with it." He stumbled on his words not knowing how to word it.
I looked at him confused not completely understanding what he meant. He seemed to pick up on the confusion though and attempted to elaborate.
"I can control my time with it…" I just stared at him in disbelief. "Actually anyone in contact with me can also come back with me but it can take a lot of energy."
I couldn't tell if he was being truthful or not. His ears perked up and looked at me with a slight smirk and began.
"Look at the clock." It read 1:45 in a bold green led color. "Grab my arm real quick. I assure you everything will be fine." I cautiously grabbed his arm without the glove noticing how many scars were on it. He clicked a tiny button on his glove revealing an equally as small knob. He just sighed and twisted it back. The world around us turned to static blue color and I looked around as everything reversed.
The blinding blue light had faded and I looked around to see that the clock read 12:55. I heard a familiar cry come from down below.
~What just happened.
Milo just smiled at the confusion before laughing and twisting the knob forwards. Everything changed back to what had happened. The only thing I knew what that I was completely exhausted mentally and physically. When Milo said it took extra energy he wasn't lying. I fell asleep instantly.
Well, Sly had fallen asleep almost immediately after I brought everything back to what it was. Time travel exhausted people when they used it especially when it's their first time doing it. Unfortunately Sly had fallen asleep on me. I grunted at the initial impact of him. He wasn't the lightest person and he was out cold so he was basically dead weight on me. I tried to wriggle free to no avail. I just sighed and tried to fall asleep while I was being crushed under Sly…. What a way to go out. Crushed under a who raccoon was fell asleep after time traveling.
I woke up and noticed that Sly was no longer on me which was a good sign because I was able to breathe. I also noticed that he wasn't in his bed. I looked around noticing a piece of stationery in the form of the Cooper Gang's symbol. There was writing on it which read, "Nice to see you're awake. We really don't want to bother you and Naiya anymore so we arranged a way for you to be picked up and safely brought back to Paris. Sorry, this is sort of sudden and happened without any warning, but we didn't want to put you two in danger. ~Sly"
I just stared at the piece of paper in anger and disbelief. I told him the ultimate secret about me and now they just left us behind. I ran out of the room to see they were gone and the lot was empty apart from Naiya who was also angry.
"Those little no good thieves. I should've just turned them into the cops when I had the chance." She was ranting again, but it seemed to calm her down (somehow) so I didn't intrude.
Once she finished up her venting and calmed down I began to explain that there was a way to catch them. I also explained that she couldn't yell at them because they would have no idea what we were talking about if we got angry. She was puzzled by everything I had just said, but she nodded nonetheless. I hooked arm with mine and she started to look really confused before I twisted the knob back and the blue light sparked around us bringing us back about three hours.
The parking lot was cold, but I noticed Sly walk out and close the door along with Murray and Bentley. I also noticed that Naiya seemed fairly fatigued from her first time traveling back. I quickly hurried her into the van and she sat there before passing out. I confronted the raccoon after making sure she was okay. I walked up behind and whispered coldly,
"Hiya." He jumped and clutched his heart before looking at me. I felt hurt, but I'd deal. One way or another I was going to get some answers out of him. Although I had instantly started with.
"Why are you trying to leave us behind?" He looked at me with quite a bit of confusion.
"How did you know that? I haven't even written the notes yet"
"In one timeline you succeeded." Those were the only words I said to him for a while. He went to ask another question, but I was thoroughly annoyed that he tried to leave in the first place.
On the road again, Milo had finally cooled off. He seemed extremely upset and this was kind of unlike him from what I've seen.
"I told you almost everything… You said you cared… I should've known better than to trust a thief. I should've known better than to trust anyone anymore." I felt a pain in my heart from his words.
They were sad and full of remorse. I regret what we attempted since it seemed that this was the first time in a long time that Milo had trusted anyone and I took it for granted. I didn't want to hurt him or Naiya, but we didn't want to risk them on our journey. He was fully immersed in sadness and it hurt to look at him. He went back with Naiya just so they could be with us. But did she want to be here or did Milo just force her back with him?
His eyes were slightly red and he was coughing a lot. We were almost at Mesa City and it wouldn't be easy to get to Muggshot, but I knew that there was always a way to complete the job. Milo had another cough attack and was doubled over coughing up blood onto the floor of the van. Bentley looked back with great concern and asked me what the problem was. I remember Milo mention something about consequences on the ferry away from Wales. This must've been what he meant. I told Bentley that there was nothing we could do about it since it was a certain backlash from traveling too much. I just looked worried at the raccoon as he stayed huddled in the corner and the Lynx that had been passed out for hours. Finally giving a sigh and closed my eyes.
I felt a light touch on my shoulder that woke me up. I couldn't tell where I was and I didn't want to assume that the Cooper gang had managed to get me to the U.S. since I couldn't even remember what happened. My eyes began to materialize everything, but I wasn't completely sure where I was. It was humming with tech and there was someone talking from some direction that I couldn't even make out.
"Are you okay?" There was another faint voice from nearby. "You've been out for a few days now, we were all beginning to worry."
I just groaned at the voice and everything became clear. I was still in the van, Milo was asking me some questions, and I was somehow in the U.S. I got up slowly, not wanting to experience a head rush. I looked out the back of the van which was opened to see a canyon and quite a bit of rocks. I mean… It was a canyon, so I guess it was really just giant rocks everywhere. I looked back at Milo who seemed slightly concerned with me from under his hood, but I just waved him off slightly and nodded my head. He seemed content with that answer and walked towards the edge of the canyon and sat down with his legs hanging over it.
I turned to Bentley, who was talking to Sly, and asked him something.
"Hey, Bentley?"
"I see you're finally awake, what do you want?"
"Yeah… How long was I asleep?"
"About five days."
His answer was bland and I didn't have a real reaction to it, I just sat there and stared at the screen that showed Sly running through a casino. Hitting the bottles and hiding away from the guards. After about ten minutes or so, I returned to my last question.
"Why was I sleeping for so long?"
Bentley just looked at me with a confused look and I returned it to him. He just sighed and continued.
"I have no idea. Milo said you were like this the second you two hopped into the back of the van."
~Maybe he knows what happened, I don't know, maybe I was just really exhausted.
I stared straight out the door to see that Milo was no longer on the rock. There was something in my instincts that told me that he was already gone to help Sly since I was awake. Oh well. I will just ask him later I guess.
So as of right now I am in my school. I am just doing this because I am tired and waiting for my parent to pick me up and talking to a teacher about life. I am not even looking at my keyboard right now, I need to revise this anyways but I'll finish it up for you guys by the end of the day maybe, 7/25/16. Cya! (I TOTALLY FORGOT THE LINES ON THE ORIGINAL POST SORRRRRRRY!)
