Seeing Double
Disclaimer: All rights reserved to Graeme Manson, John Fawcett and the BBC.
Summary: A small English family living in Ontario are pulled into a strange series of events after meeting a group of identical looking girls they don't know that the girls might just reveal more about their history
The Family
Rick's POV
I bolted upright in my bed as I heard the sound of my son screaming, I immediately ran out of my bedroom, up the stairs and into my son's bedroom.
"Tommy?" I shouted as I ran over to his small single bed. "Tommy, are you okay?"
He was sitting up on his bed, his shoulders slouched and his head in his hands. He looked up at me and I could tell by his eyes that he had had a nightmare.
"Daddy" he said rubbing his eyes. "I saw her again."
"Oh god Tommy, not again. How many times do I need to tell you that she's not real?" I said frustrated.
You could say that my son was a... imaginative boy. He always insisted that he could see things that others couldn't and was at that age where he was scared of everything. He was only five, but it was still annoying that he couldn't go into the shadows because the goblins would get him. Recently he had been having this recurring dream about a demon woman with glowing eyes and clawed hands who would try and chase him through a messed up maze. I still blamed my brother Chris for telling him about Greek Mythology, the Theseus and Medusa myths had really freaked him out.
"But she is real daddy!" he shouted at me while standing up in his bed. "She keeps saying she's gonna eat me!"
"Tommy it's a dream, it's not real." I told him while sitting on the corner of the bed.
"Are you sure?" he asked looking up at me innocently.
"I'm pretty sure. Do you want me to check?" I said with an amused smile. He nodded in reply and crawled under the covers, watching as I checked under his bed and in his closet for monsters.
"Nope. I can't see any monsters." I told him smiling. "You want to go to sleep now?"
"Okay." he said putting his head onto his pillow. "Night daddy."
"Night." I said kissing his forehead and leaving the room. I smiled as I realised that I wouldn't have to deal with any more screaming kids tonight.
Just as I got half way down the stairs I saw the front door, which was next to the stairs, open and saw my brother Chris run in.
Well looks like I spoke too soon.
"Hey, you're home late." I said looking at my watch and realising that it was 3:45 am. "You must've really liked that party." I said looking at him with an amused smile.
He pulled down his hood and I noticed that he looked like shit. His face was painted with fear, he had red rings around his hazel eyes eyes, his wet dark brown hair was plastered against his face and he was soaking wet.
"Oh my god Rick, you won't believe what just happened!" he shouted as he ran up to me and grabbed my shoulders.
"Holy shit, you look like you've just seen a ghost." I said starting to get concerned for him. "What the hell happened?"
If Chris was this shaken up then something really bad must have happened. Despite being identical twins, our personality's were nothing alike. I was the weird, rebel, punk kid who was ironically freaked out quite easily(even though I had gotten a lot less skittish since I'd become a dad.) While Chris was the surprisingly cool, laid back, nerd who was usually the one trying to calm me down from panic attacks.
"You're going to want to sit down for this." he told me sounding shaken.
I took him downstairs and sat him on the sofa in our relatively small living room. I went through to the kitchen, which was connected to the living room through a thin wall with a kind of arch in it, and made tea for us(Which I slipped vodka into. What? Alcohol was clearly the way to tackle this problem.)
He took a gulp and screwed up his face at the taste(I may have put in too much). He then went on to tell his full story of how he saw a man who looked exactly like us give him a pen drive, before dying in the alley behind the old glue factory and how he heard a woman scream/shout when he ran away.
I sat there stunned for a few minutes before looking him square in the eye and saying, "Are you sure that no-one spiked you're drink at that party?"
"What? No, of course not!" he said looking at me as if I'd just insulted him, which I guess I did. "I'm telling you this guy looked exactly like us!" he said waving his arms around wildly.
"So what, are you just suggesting that we were identical triplets and that we didn't know about it?" I asked believing this story less and less with each moment. "I mean come on, identical triplets? That only happens like once every five-hundred-thousand births. Plus we were adopted together. I seriously doubt they would have split us up." I said trying to bring my brother back to sanity.
"Well, I don't know!" he said looking desperate. "But I'm telling I didn't make this up or hallucinate this. It actually happened, do you think I would lie about this?"
I looked him up and down trying to find some sign that he was pulling a seriously messed up joke on me but I couldn't find any. Plus I would have been able to tell if he was lying, he was a really bad liar.
"Fine." I said holding my hands up in surrender "I'll give you the benefit of the doubt."
"Finally." he said looking relieved that I'd said that "We should get Katy to look at the pen drive tomorrow."
"Yeah, then I'll find out if this is some joke." I said. Katy was our adopted sister and was a major IT girl. She could hack almost anything and could bring down any firewall, I remember one time when we were like nineteen she managed to hack into a major government website, but our parents stopped her from going any further into it. Hence, she was the girl to go to with this stuff. Plus, I did not need some weird virus fucking up my laptop.
"Now I'm gonna go to bed, I've had enough crazy for tonight." I said heading into my bedroom, next to the living room which I awkwardly had to share with Chris. I lay down in my bed and Chris went into his on the other side of the room and I fell asleep hoping that Chris would wake up tomorrow and realise that something had been put into his drink.
Hey guys, so I decided to update this chapter because I wasn't happy with the original version and I wanted to introduce Tommy a little earlier. I also updated this because I was sure that a lot of people didn't like it, which was confirmed by my cousin (who is called Infinite Luminosity on this site) and I thought it would be better in Rick's POV. Anyway hope this was better and please review and tell me if you're liking the story so far.