Part 5:
Danny sat looking sheepishly at the floor, as his cousin still had not taken her arms off him.
"Oh Danny…" She was sobbing, and Danny gently tried to shrug his way out of her grasp. He was beginning to regret telling her about his death.
"That's why I need your help, Danielle. I can't do anything about it because I'm still too weak to last very long in our… uh, I mean, the human, world." Dani winced at his use of the impersonal. "If you could just let me know how they're doing, I could deal with it for now. But it really helps that you're "apprenticed" to Clockwork. See, if I could somehow get back in time, maybe I could prevent my death, and none of this will happen!" Danny was getting excited now, but he stopped at the look on Dani's face.
"Well, Danny, you know how Clockwork is about messing with time like this… What if it's still too much? You said yourself you're not entirely sure what killed you… besides, you just said you couldn't last long in the human world anymore…"
"Yeah, but YOU'RE still half-alive! Maybe… would you go in my place? Look for a trigger, anything that might have caused the accident… Just keep an eye out? I mean… if it's not too much… Maybe if no one ever discovered my secret... Then maybe none of this will happen…"
Danielle stared at the hopeful look on her cousin's face, and she felt a pang of sorrow for him. She knew what it was like to be without a family, and to have to be alone…
"All right. I'll try. For you."