Recap of Chapter Eighteen
Will having heard this from her mother, hated herself even more for getting angry last night when she didn't know how happy Mr. Collins made her mother feel. Looking down at the floor, Will asked her mother if there was any chance of her ever getting back together with her father? Susan sighed, and sadly told Will that she didn't ever see that happening. Will sadly nodded to this, then turned away from Susan. Will hadn't gone to far, before Susan caught her daughter's arm and asked her where she was going? "I need some time to think this over, Mom, so I was going back to my room."
"Will, you really need to eat something." said Susan. "You skipped dinner last night, and slept through breakfast."
Will shock her head, and told her mother that it was okay. "I'm not all that hungry right now, Mom." With this said, Will gently pulled her arm free from Susan's grip and continued on her way headed towards the kitchen door. As Will reached the door, Susan called out to her and told her that if she did become hungry, to let her know. "Don't worry Mom, I'll let you know when I become hungry." Will left the kitchen after that.
With a sigh, Susan made her way back to the chair she had been sitting in, and sat back down. She then sighed to herself. 'Maybe dating Dean wasn't such a good idea after all, since it seems to have made Will very upset. Maybe it's for the best, that I haven't told Will that Dean has asked me to marry him.'
Chapter Nineteen
(1) Having returned to her room and closed the door, Will leaned back against it with a heavy sigh. She then slowly glanced around the room, making a complete circle of looking at every wall. 'I haven't paid that much attention before now, but not that I am thinking about it, I haven't seen any pictures of my Dad anywhere in the house. Does Mom really hate him that much, that she doesn't allow any pictures of him?' Will thought about going to her mother's room and see if there were any pictures there, but she pushed that idea aside since she didn't really feel like talking to her mother right now.
Pushing herself away from the door, Will headed towards her bed pausing for a moment to pick up one of her several stuffed frogs. Reaching her bed a few moments later, Will sat down upon it and looked down at the frog in her hands. ' I can't remember the exact moment, but it was dad that gave me this one.' She then suddenly looked up from the frog in her hands, and over towards the bookshelf that she had picked the frog up from. 'But then again, it was dad that gave me most of my collection.' She then laughed silently to herself as a certain memory entered her mind. 'He told me that he didn't see what it was I liked about frogs, but as long as they made me happy he wouldn't question it.'
With another sigh, she looked back down at the frog in her hands. 'Would be nice if you could talk, and tell me what would be the best way to go about this current problem mom has put me in.' The frog simply smiled at her it's own way. 'Yea I know, it's silly of me to even think of you becoming real. But still I do really need someone to talk to about this.' Returning to her feet, Will made her way towards the small desk that she had in her room. As she sat down in the chair there, she placed the frog up onto the desk. She then reached out her hand and picked up the pen in front of her. Placing the pen down onto the notepad in front of her, she began to write.
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A few hours later, Susan having decided that she had given Will enough time to herself, stood outside of her daughters room. Raising her arm, she knocked upon the door. "Will, is it alright if I come in?" Not receiving a answer, Susan knocked a little harder. "Will, I know you are upset with me but I just want to talk to you about what I have decided to do, concerning Dean and me." Once again Susan didn't get a reply, nor did Will come and open the door. With a slightly frustrated sigh since Will was ignoring her, Susan reached down to the door knob, and turning it opened the door. Stepping into the room, Susan turned towards the bed and was about to tell Will off for ignoring her, but paused when she found the bed empty. Feeling a breeze from behind her, Susan turned around to find where it had come from, and found the curtains over the only window in Will's room slowly moving and forwards. With a shout of Will's name, Susan hurried to the window and throwing the curtains aside, looked outside hoping to see her daughter.
Turning away from the window, Susan quickly made her way back to the door of her daughter's room and out of the room. If she had only took the time to look around the room a bit more, she would have found out where Will had gone due to the note she had written. However, being the worried parent, Susan hurried to the hallway phone and began to call all of Will's friends.
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Unaware that her mother was extremely worried about her, Will was currently being lead down a very long hallway. "I do apologize for dropping in like this, but I didn't know who else to talk too." said Will. The person walking in front of her, told her that it was alright and if he was able to do so he would help her. Will nodded to this, and told the person "Thank you."
A few moments later, Will and the person she had been following came to a stop outside of a door. As the person next to her pushed open the door, Will looked past him and let out an amazed Wow. "I can see that you are impressed young guardian."
"Very much sir." said Will. She then asked what the room was, and why they was there?
The person in front of her didn't say anything right away, but made his way into the room and motioned for Will to follow him. As Will entered the room, the person in front of her made his way into the center of the room. Coming to a stop, the person turned back to face Will. "Allow me to welcome you to the Room of Tranquility, young guardian."
"I do appreciate that you are showing me this room, sir, but I still don't understand why we are here." said Will.
"We are here, due to the fact that your thoughts are in turmoil due to the current problem that you are faced with." Will was slightly surprised by this response, and asked the person if he already knew why she was there? "Yes young guardian, I do know why you have come to see me."
"Then can you help me, by telling me what the best course of action is?" asked Will. The person before her, shook his head no. "But why?"
"I can not become involved in matters such as this, young guardian."
Will sadly looked down at the floor. "Then coming here was just a waste of time." She then raised her head, and bowed to the one in front of her. "I apologize for taking up your time, Oracle."
Will started to turn away from the Oracle, so she could leave. However feeling a hand touch her shoulder caused her to stop, and turn back to face him. "You misunderstand me, young guardian. I said that I couldn't get involved in such matters, not that I couldn't help you to decide what needs to be done."
"Then you are going to tell me, what I should do?" asked Will.
The Oracle shook his head no. "I can not do that, young guardian. However, due to the magic of this room you will be able to make the decision to your problem on your own." Will nodded to this, and asked him what she needed to do? "First you will need to return to your normal form, and give me The Heart of Kandrakar to hold onto." Will was very hesitant to give up the heart, and asked him why she needed to do that? "I can understand your concern, young guardian, but if you really want help with your problem you need to trust me."
Will was still hesitant, but she did really want someone to help her figure out what to do concerning her mom and Mr. Collins. With a sigh, she removed the heart from herself and returned to her normal form. She then held the heart out towards the Oracle, and when he held out his hand towards her, Will placed the heart down into the Oracle's hand. The Oracle sent her a smile, then told her to have a seat. Will nodded to him, and moved to sit down. Once Will was seated in front of him, The Oracle continued. "Now then young guardian, you need to listen to me very carefully since this next part is very important." Will nodded once more, and focused all of her attention upon the Oracle. "You will need to become perfectly relaxed, and clear you mind of every thought except for the problem that you wish to deal with. Do you understand, young guardian?"
"I understand, Oracle." said Will. The Oracle started to explain some more, but Will interrupted him. "Forgive me for interrupting you, Oracle, but what is going to happen exactly?"
The Oracle told her that he didn't mind the interruption. "The magic that resides in this room, will allow you to see what would happen to your problem, due to the decisions that you make concerning it."
"So, basically it is going to show me a possible future based on what I decided to do, correct?" asked Will. The Oracle told her that was correct. When Will nodded, The Oracle asked her if she had any further questions? "Would this room show me anything that I wished to see?"
The Oracle gave her a cautionary look. "The room would show you a future outcome based on whatever it is that you are thinking about at the current time, young guardian. However, I must warn you that sometimes it is best to not know to much concerning ones future, so I must advise you to only focus on what you came here for, and nothing more." When Will nodded to this, the Oracle told her that he was going to leave now.
"You're not going to stay here with me?" asked Will in concern. "What if something goes wrong?"
"I am sorry young guardian, but there can be no other forms of magic inside the room, hence the reason I asked you to give me the Heart of Kandrakar." said The Oracle. "As for something going wrong, there shouldn't be any risk to you as long as you do as I have told you and focus only on the reason why you are here. I will however be right outside." When Will didn't say anything more, The Oracle made his way past her and soon reached the door. A few moments later, Will heard the sound of the door being closed behind her.
Will figuring that the sooner she started, the sooner she would have the answer that she needed, began to relax and clear her mind of every other thought except for the one involving what her mother had told her, concerning Mr. Collins.
A few moments, two doors appeared in front of her. Will started to think to herself about why this had happened since the Oracle hadn't mentioned anything like this happening. However, she managed to remember his words about only focusing on her problem at hand, and she was able to keep that thought from entering her mind. Getting to her feet, but keeping her thoughts focused only on her problem, Will made her way towards the two doors. A few moments later, Will stood in front of the doors and looking them over found them to pretty much be just a basic white door.
Figuring that she had to open the door in order to find out what she needed to do, Will reached out her right arm towards the door to her right. Gripping the door's knob, she turned it and pushed the door open. As the door opened, there was a flash of light and Will had to close her eyes.
Right Side Door's Vision
A few moments later, the light died down and Will opened her eyes. Quickly looking around the room she found herself in, she realized that she was back in her own room. 'How did I end up back at home?' As Will pondered this, there was a sudden knocking sound then a shout. "Will, it's time for you to wake up!"
Will didn't recognize the voice, and started to headed towards the door so she could see who it was. However, a sudden movement from the bed in the room caused her to stop. A few moments later, the person who was laying down on the bed sat up and Will found herself looking at herself. There was some very noticeable difference though. One was that her hair was much longer, and she had grown a bit in other places due to what she was seeing. 'Is this a future version of me?' thought Will as the person on the bed made their way up onto their feet with a soft growl.
As the older Will before her headed towards the closet, Will looked around the room at the various changes that had apparently been made. One big difference that she noticed, was that all of the stuffed frogs that she had collected over the years were gone. 'What happened to all of my frogs?' With this thought running through her mind, Will turned to take a closer look at her apparent older self. The older Will was currently looking through her closet, which gave Will time to look her older self over a bit closer.
Looking over her older self's attire, Will had another thought due to the fact that her older self was dressed in a pair of black pajamas. 'What is going on here? I only ever wore my frog pjs.' A few moments later, the older Will stepped away from the closet with some kind of outfit held in her hand. Will tried to figure out what the outfit was, but wasn't able to do so. As her older self headed towards the door, Will figured that she needed to follow her in order to find out what was going on. Stepping out of the room after her older self, Will came to a very sudden stop as she found not her mother standing there to greet her, but her father Tony.
Tony had a very dark scowl upon his face, as he looked over his daughter. "Hope you are ready to work really hard for me today, since you are running late." The older Will didn't say anything, but she did nod her head. "Then I suggest you hurry up and get ready, for as the saying goes time is money, and you can't waste either."
As Tony headed off towards what looked like a very small kitchen, Will heard her older self sigh. "If I knew this would have happened, I would of never told mom to stop seeing Mr. Collins." As the older Will headed off towards the bathroom, the younger one wondered once again what was going on.
She started to follow her older self, but something told her to go see what her father was doing. Reaching the small kitchen a few moments later, Will looked inside the room and found her father sitting at the table. He appeared to be talking with someone on a cell phone. "I know she is late!"
Will couldn't hear the other side of the conversation, but she watched her father's facial expressions and managed to deduce that he was apparently talking about a job of some kind. "She will be there as soon as she gets dressed." said Tony. "Yes you can have her do whatever you want, just as long as I get paid for your use of her."
Will let out a silent gasp at this. 'Is dad really saying that he is making money off of me?' Will's thoughts were drawn back to the moment,when she heard her older self speak letting her father know that she was ready. As Tony got to his feet, while shouting "It's about time!" Will turned to look at her older self. Another gasp escaped her mouth, when she saw her older self wearing a very tight pair of shorts, and a very tight shirt that came down to just below her breasts. Tony making his way over to the older Will's side, placed his arm across her shoulders and turning her around began to lead her towards the front door. "Remind me later to thank your mother for sending you to live with me, Will." The older Will simply let out a sad sigh at this. "Why the sad sound Will? After all, you made the decision to live with me instead of staying with your mother and your history teacher."
As she watched her father walk off with her older self, the younger Will fell to her knees. "This can't be true!"
End of the Vision
Hearing a shout come from inside the room, The Oracle quickly opened the door and made his way inside the room where he found Will down on her knees. Hurrying to Will's side, The Oracle placed his hand upon Will's shoulder and softly told her that she was alright, and everything she had just seen wasn't real. Will hearing his voice, raised her head and looked into the Oracle's eyes. "Everything I saw seemed so real."
"That is because to you, Will, it was real." said The Oracle. "Remember, that what you saw was a vision of your future." Will told him that the version she saw was really terrible. "Do you want to continue, or do you have the answer to your problem that you need?" Will thought about for a few minutes, then asked The Oracle if the other vision of the future, would be as bad as the first one? "I can't answer that for you, young guardian. You will have to find out for yourself." Will nodded to this, and told the Oracle that she wanted to continue. "Very well, young guardian." Returning to his feet, the Oracle made his way back past Will heading back to the rooms door.
Hearing the door close behind her a few moments later, Will looked around the room and saw that the two doors that were there before, had disappeared. 'Guess when the Oracle entered the room, it canceled the room's magic.' Figuring that she needed to repeat what she had done before, Will sat down on the floor and once again tried to relax while thinking only on the issue between her mother and Mr. Collins. A short time later she raised her head, and once again saw the two doors before her. Getting to her feet, Will made her way towards them. Since she had used the right side door last time, she moved over to the one of the left side, and opened it. Just as it had happened with the right side door, there was another bright flash of light which caused Will to close her eyes.
Left Side Door's Vision
As the light faded, Will opened her eyes to a completely different scene from before. This time as she looked around the room, she found a lot of people that she didn't know sitting around seeming to wait for something to start. As her eyes landed on some familiar faces, Will broke into a smile and quickly made her way towards them. However, as she neared them she came to a sudden stop when she found another version of herself sitting there next to her friends. "So Will, are you happy that your mom is marrying Mr. Collins?" asked Cornelia.
Will turned to face her friend, with a small smile. "I won't deny that this is a really big change for me, Cornelia, but then again I think I will be able to accept it since it makes mom really happy."
Irma then leaned forward towards Will, and pointed towards the front of the room. "Mr. Collins sure is looking very nervous, isn't he?" Cornelia and Will turned to look towards the front of the room, and nodded. "I would love to be at your house, Will, just to see how Mr. Collins tries to adjust living with you and your mom."
This caused the three girls laugh at the sudden mental image they had concerning that. Once she had stopped laughing, Will looked towards her other two friends. "Why are the two of you so quiet? Aren't you happy for me?"
Taranee turned her attention towards her red haired friend. "Of course I am happy for you, Will. And as for why I was so quiet, I was thinking about what would happen tomorrow." Will asked her what that would be? Taranee motioned towards the cast around her ankle. "I will be able to finally get this thing removed."Will smiled at this, and told her that that was great news.
Will then looked towards Hay Lin. "Is everything alright with you, Hay Lin?"
Hay Lin turned to look at her friend with a smile. "Everything's okay, Will. And I am really happy for you and your mom." Will heard a small hint of sadness in her friends voice, and started to ask her about it. However before she could do so, music started from somewhere.
"Will, it's time for your mom to make her appearance." said Cornelia tapping her friend on the shoulder. When Will looked at her, Cornelia pointed towards the door at the back of the room. As the Will sitting down looked towards the back of the room, the Will who was standing looked towards Hay Lin trying to find out what might be wrong. As she looked around, she noticed that outside of her friends, Hay Lin was alone. 'Where is Yan Lin?'
Hearing the sound of opening doors, the Will who was standing turned her attention away from Hay Lin. When she saw her mother enter the room, she couldn't hold back the small gasp of surprise. 'Wow, Mom looks wonderful in that white dress. She also looks really happy.' As the music changed to a different tune, Will heard Cornelia say. "Your mom sure does look very happy, Will." Will heard her self tell Cornelia, that she did.
Some minutes later, the ceremony was over and Will was being embraced by her mother. "Will, I know your not all that happy about this, but I just wanted to tell you that you have made me very happy by letting me and Dean stay together."
"Mom you deserve to be happy, just as much as anyone else." said Will. "And while it is true that I am not overly thrilled about this, I have a feeling that I will come to accept it sometime soon." Susan letting Will go, leaned back and kissed her on the cheek. "Not that I don't appreciate Mom, but shouldn't you be giving those to your new husband?" This caused Susan to laugh, and tell Will that she was right. Moving away from her daughter, Susan made her way over to Dean. She then wrapped her arms around her new husband, and did what Will had suggested, by kissing her new husband on the lips. 'I know I told her to do that, but I really hope they don't do it very often.'
End of the Vision
The vision ended there, and Will found herself back in the Room of Tranquility. 'That vision was a lot better then the first one, but why did it show me a wedding? Mom didn't tell me anything about Mr. Collins wanting to marry her, just that she was dating him.' Will's thoughts were silent as she thought about what she had just seen. 'And I am also wondering what had Hay Lin so upset? Could there be something wrong with Yan Lin?'
End of Chapter Nineteen
Bold Number:
1. I probably should have put the start of this chapter at the end of the last one. However, I didn't come up with this part until after I had already posted the last chapter.
Chapter Review:
Lettylala: First off, I just want to say thank you for the review. Now as to what your review said. As you can see, I didn't have Susan tell Will here about Dean asking her to marry him, but Will did see a possible furture involving that. As for Susan telling her, I may try to write it in next chapter.