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Changing the Future
"What happened?" Andrew exclaimed. "I was working and then I heard six gun shots." He gave me an exasperated look. "Who'd you kill this time, more guards? I can't keep getting rid of the bod—."
"Andrew, Andrew," I interrupted. "Look around. Do these look like dead bodies to you?"
He surveyed the floor and frowned. "It-it's glass," his frown deepened. "Mirror shards?" He looked up at me confused. "What happened?" he repeated.
"The Reflectors," I simply said. "We all made a plan and got rid of them."
"Killed them," Rae put in helpfully.
"Yes, killed them then," I sighed.
"You killed them without telling me? Got the others involved in your plan? Shot the Reflectors in front of them? And," his voice louder now with every word, "made a mess!"
Andrew was slightly red now and breathing more heavily. We all just stood there looking at him slightly stunned with his outburst. I didn't really know what to say but thankfully Rae did.
"We'll clear it up if it makes you feel better," or maybe not so thankfully.
Andrew glared in her direction. "Yes," he hissed. "Clear it up." He turned around and walked out the door.
I let out a tired breath and went to sit on the sofa when Andrew called out, "Now!" behind his shoulder. I grimaced at the door and sagged more into the sofa.
"Ooh," Tori teased. "Chloe not doing what she's told? That's new."
I peeked at her through my closed eyelids. "You're all taking this well. Considering Rae and I just shot your look a likes."
From across the room Simon groaned and picked up a big shard of glass. "I don't like this." He turned it around and you could see the barely there image of a startled Simons face. He grimaced at it and dropped it on the carpet where a bright patch of sunlight was. It broke into tiny pieces and made a sound that pierced your ears.
"Did you have to do that?" Derek winced.
"Well you would too if it had your face on it," Simon defended. He looked quite disturbed by the whole thing.
Before Derek could retort, Andrews's scream of, "I said clean it up!" echoed through the large house.
I sighed and the younger Me said, "I'll get the brooms," and rushed out the room. I closed my eyes again and leaned my head on the sofa's arm.
"You okay?" Simon asked.
I opened my eyes a crack. "Yeah I'm fine, I'm just... relived that they're gone and the danger's over."
"Do you think what Fake-Derek said was true?" he asked.
Derek scowled. "Do we have to talk about that?"
"Or was he just trying to stay alive?" Simon carried on like Derek hadn't spoken. "I couldn't tell if he was lying or not. They're good actors so he could have easily been lying to you."
I thought for a moment, going over what he said. "Chloe don't do this, I love you". The same line he spoke going round and round in my head and the look on his face when he realised I was going to pull the trigger. A look of fear and heartbreak that I've never seen on Derek's face swam in my mind. Except it wasn't Derek's face. By the time I pulled the trigger his eyes changed from green to silver. He wasn't Derek.
"He meant it," this was met by frowns and looks of confusion. "I heard that sometimes the persons emotions they reflect can... overwhelm them," I smiled weakly and sat up. "I'm happy to know that's just how much Derek loves me."
Tori cooed teasingly, Derek blushed (again!) and Simon and Rae rolled their eyes but smiled. Chloe walked in then, struggling with the awkward way she was holding six brooms. "Err," she stumbled, "a little help."
Derek chuckled affectionately and took the load from her. He smiled at her and I—she—smiled back. A small blush crept up her cheeks that I am thankful only me and Derek noticed. While watching this small exchange I couldn't help but feel jealous of myself. Yes, that sounds absolutely crazy but I do. She has her Derek but I don't have mine. The world is unfair.
I was snapped out of my envious thoughts when Rae shoved a broom in my face and gave me a fleeting look of sympathy, like she knew what I was thinking.
We swept up the shards of glass into a pile in the middle of the carpet, sometimes coming across faded body parts like hands and ears.
"Hey Tori, I think this is your big mouth," Simon teased.
"Hey Simon," Tori replied sweetly. "I think this is your—."
Tori was cut off by Rae's laugh. "You're already bickering like brother and sister," she smiled and then carried on with her sweeping. I stopped what I was doing and sent her warning look and younger Me stiffened.
Unfortunately this did not go unnoticed.
"What?" They both said, looking between me and young Me.
"What does she mean by 'already' acting like brother and sister?"
"Nothing, nothing," I said quickly. "Hey after this, do you actually want to get something for lunch? I'm starved."
"Yeah that sounds great!" Chloe agreed, realising I was trying to change the subject. "Maybe we can convince Andrew too let us go—"
"I know what they're doing!" Tori declared. "They're changing the subject."
I realised that only me and Chloe were sweeping so I stopped and look at them steadily. "What subject?" I asked innocently.
"The brother and sister subject," Tori persisted.
I fake laughed and hoped in was convincing but judging from Rae smirk it wasn't. "You don't actually think you're brother and sister, do you?"
There was silence and then an outburst of, "Now I do!"
Then the chaos started. Tori and Simon started arguing, Rae was laughing uncontrollably, me and Chloe were trying to be heard over the noise of hysterical laughter and arguing and Derek just stood there with a calculating look on his face.
After about five minutes of this an ear splitting whistle sounded throughout the room. All sound stopped and all eyes turned to Derek.
"Will you shut up?" He glared.
"No!" Tori protested. "I want to know the truth! Are we brother and sister or not?"
"No!" I insisted but young me just ducked her head and started to sweep the floor pathetically.
"Chloe," Derek said in a tone that I knew she just couldn't resist.
She looked up from the floor and looked at Derek cautiously. "Hmm?"
"Do you know something?" As soon as the words came out of his mouth I knew the secret was out. She looked at me helplessly and I tried to shake my head sneakily.
"O-o-of c-course n-not," she stuttered, blushed and looked down again.
I cursed under my breath and then cursed again when I realised that Derek heard me.
"What? What do you know?" Derek demanded. He stooped down a little so he could see Chloe's' face better. "Chloe, just tell us."
She sighed and looked at me helplessly again. "You tell them?" She asked. "Please?"
I sighed, unconsciously mimicking my younger self's position, looking defeated. "Fine, but you cannot freak out. Okay?"
Tori, Simon and Derek nodded, impatient for me to just answer the question. "Tori and Simon are brother and sister," I glared at them when they all sucked in breaths to shout their protest, "and, no, there is no mistake. Now, there you have it, let's clear this mess up now."
Chloe and I eagerly picked up our brooms again and pointedly avoided everyone's gazed, although from the corner of my eye I could see Rae trying to hold in suppressed laughter and the sight of Derek, Simon and Tori's expression.
"No mistake?" Tori asked with a disbelieving look on her face. "No mistake?" She repeated, a look of anger now painting her face. "No, I refuse to believe it. You must be lying."
Chloe and I both stopped our sweeping. "I'm not a liar." Chloe said glaring at Tori.
"I know you're not," Tori said, "but I'm not so sure about the future you."
Chloe and I both furrowed our brows simultaneously. "That makes no sense," I said confused. "We're the same person."
"No, I'm not sure you are. You obviously changed; we've seen how you changed. You're not opposed to picking up a gun, something this Chloe wouldn't dream of doing, so who's to say that your view on lying hasn't changed."
Chloe, Rae and I both looked at her with disbelieve in our eyes. I would never admit it but what Tori said hurt, a girl that I see as a sister, looking at me with something close to hate. I didn't understand it. I was about to open my mouth to defend myself but Simon beat me to it.
"Tori, that's crazy, Chloe would never lie to us."
She turned her icy gaze to him. "Are you saying you believe her," she pointed at me. When she referred to me as 'her' and pointed at me accusingly I dropped my broom and shook my head bemused. Why was Tori acting like this. "You are not my brother."
"I never said I was," Simon defended himself now. "I'm just saying that Chloe wouldn't lie to us."
"What would she have to gain by lying?" Derek put in. "Both Chloe's?"
"He is not my brother!" Tori shouted.
"I can assure you, he is." Rae said, a slight smug look on her face, enjoying Tori's discomfort. "You have the same Dad."
Tori threw down her broom, let out a frustrated, angry scream and stormed out the room. We all stared after her with stricken looks on our faces.
"I-I didn't know she'd react like that," Chloe said, pink cheeked and eyes wide.
"I know. What's her problem anyway?" Simon asked me.
I shook my head just as bemused as everyone else.
"I know," Rae said in a sing song voice.
We all looked over to her, waiting for her to clarify but she just looked down and swept the floor, the slight smug smile still on her face. "Well?" Derek asked, impatiently.
She looked up and surveyed our faces to make sure she had our full attention. She was loving this.
"Remember," she looked at me, "Tori had the same reaction but accused Kit of being the liar. So it's nothing personal." I mentally sagged in relief.
"Okay," Simon said. "But that doesn't explain why she acted like that."
Rae now looked over to Simon. "Remember in Lyle house she had a crush on you? Would never leave you alone? Tried to impress you all the time?" She cocked an eyebrow and we all waited for Simon to respond.
"Oh," was all he said and then a look of dawning broke across his face. "Oh!"
"She'll deny it if you ask her," Rae said, trying to looked nonchalant about the conversation, "but we all know it's true."
"She... doesn't, like...like me now does she?"
"Nope," Rae said. "That ship sailed when everything started to go topsy turvey with our lives."
"So...," Derek began, not really knowing what to say. "She is Simon's sister?"
Rae, Chloe and I all nodded. "And it must be hard for her to find out that the person she thought was her Dad isn't really her Dad." Chloe said sympathetic.
We all nodded and it turned into awkward silence. Thankfully Derek broke it. "Well I'll say one thing bro, I do not envy you."
Simon sarcastically laughed. "Well guess what bro, if Tori's my sister that makes Tori your adopted sister."
The amusement immediately wiped from Derek's face and I saw him mouth form a silent oath. I turned my head away to hide my smile.
"Wait," Derek suddenly said. "Chloe, how did you know?"
All eyes swivelled to her face and her cheeks coloured a little bit. "When Rae, Tori and I were taken by the Edison Group I, err, sort of summoned a demi-demon and she told me something about. I didn't know it was actually true so I didn't say anything."
"How did a demi-demon know?" Simon asked.
We both shrugged. "I think it was office knowledge," I said.
"Office knowledge? What does that even mean?"
"Some people sort of already knew about it."
"Who are some?" He asked.
"Simon, let it go for now, we'll talk about it later."
He looked like he was about to protest but then changed his mind and carried on sweeping.
When all the sharp fragments of the Reflectors were bagged and binned Andrew came in with a disapproving look on his face and a scowling Tori in tow. He took one look at me and his frown deepened.
"I've had a distraught Tori—."
"I wasn't distraught," Tori sniffed.
"–saying that you've been lying about her and Simon being siblings."
"You tattled on me?" I asked, eyebrow raised in disbelieve and humour at the same time.
Tori opened her mouth for a quick retort but Rae cut in. "It's true! And you know it's true Andrew, don't even try to lie about it."
Andrews's eyes narrowed and his face went slightly red. "Sit down," he told us, "we need to talk."
We all sat down on the chairs and sofa with Andrew standing by the door. He sighed and looked over to Tori, who was sitting furthest away from Simon. "It's true," Andrew said. "You are brother and sister."
Tori's eyes widened and Simon sat up straight and looked at Andrew with betrayal in his eyes. "You knew and you didn't tell us?" Realisation crossed across his face. "I get it now, 'Office knowledge'!"
Andrew frowned but carried. "It wasn't my secret to tell," he glared pointedly at me, "nor yours."
I threw my arms up in defeat. "I didn't! It was Rae. She had to go and stir things up."
"My point is," Andrew said. "You shouldn't have said anything in the first place. You being here is dangerous enough with you telling us about the future."
"If I had it my way we wouldn't be here in the first place."
"Which brings me to my second point," Andrew began. "Your ankle has long since healed, you have clothes, you have a car and you have money. Staying here isn't finishing your... mission."
"What are you saying?" Rae asks, leaning forward on her perch on the arm of my chair.
"I'm saying you should go. As soon as possible."
I let out an unbelieving breath and my eyebrows disappeared up to my hairline. "You're kicking us out?" I asked Andrew. Derek, Simon and Chloe looked just as shocked but Tori just sat there, looking slightly relieved.
"That's exactly what I'm doing."
And that's chapter 16! I hope you enjoyed, not the best chapter but I couldn't think of anything else to write... The reviews last week were great and made me smile, so if you would be so kind as to make me smile once again then I would be very grateful! xx
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