Sunday watching golf and pecking away.

slowing down a bit on the time line laying some ground work for later for Kat and Aro.

as always all props go to S.M. hope she likes my little idea.

R&R always looking for thoughts.

Chapter 26

We were here almost a year, Aro stomped around like a five year old. Crying about not having his arm, the shitty taste of deer, why can't he have better tasting food brought in. I just let it go but not Kat. After the last of many rants she pinned him with her gaze.

"If it's too hard I can rip you apart and store your head in a box for 7 years then you won't have to taste the nasty deer blood you hate so much!" Kat's eyes never left his as she said that.

Peter laughs somewhere off to the side, cheeky fuck. I shake my head you would think Aro would have learned not to piss Kat off. I was the only person besides Lil that she would back down for. I rub my eyes an old habit from when I was a human, and my younger sister was being a pest. "Kat I'm sure Aro didn't mean to imply that Carman's punishment was any worse than what she went through. Aro had the good sense to stop while he was ahead, no pun intended.

I look at the other two masters in the throw room making eye contact with Markus and nodding toward the door.

He stands, "if Aro is complaining that must mean we are done for the day. I'm off for my library, Mac care to come?

I look to Kat, "try not to rip him apart." I smile at Markus "I would love to come if anything, it will be more peaceful than here." We walked the halls, Markus was well liked his mate was a quite girl spending most of her time in their books. They only seemed to need each other. As we entered his library his mate scampered out after seeing me with him. "I wish she wouldn't do that, am I so scary?"

Markus taps my shoulder, "She is like that with everyone, even me for the first 200 years. I did some stupid shit to get her to talk to me."

"Oh really" I hear a sweet laugh from the privet quarters.

Markus's eyes turned black, "I'd rather not discuss it Mac." Becoming very embarrassed, she giggles for a full minuet before stopping.

Taking the hint I change the subject. "I have a favor to ask my friend." He nods letting me know to ask. "I would like you to use your gift and look for my ties to my parents."

He gives me a strange look. "Mac I have known you for over 500 years, unless they are immortals they must be dead."

I sie "my story is a strange one I'm sure I can count on you not to repeat it to anyone?" He nods his head not giving me his word, something I do not fail to notice. Something tells me he has a pretty good idea how my power works. "I was born in the year 1983. The immortal that bit me had a gift somehow moving me back in time. Only his headless body made the trip with me and at the end crumbled to dust. It is the only immortal I have ever seen destroyed like that. I'm not sure why it happened if he was trying to get away and started the process before Alice ripped his head off."

"She must have been quite the fighter to stop him while he fed off you." Markus is on the edge of his seat looking for any bread crumb I will drop.

I was friends with a large coven of very gifted golden eyed immortals. Alice seemed young only 100 or so I guess. I never knew what they were, the rules you know." I laugh "they spend their time going to school over and over with young humans in their teens."

"What is school?"

I smile he will love this. "A place of learning for humans every child in my home went till there 18 birthdays, we started at age 5. Anyways as my parents have not died per say I wish to see if you can see the ties?"

I feel his gift as he stares at me 5-10-30 minutes pass, never have I seen him take this long. I have his gift; I have even used it, the one drawback is you can't see yourself, I know I tried.

He looks disturbed trying to put into words what he saw. "Mac I only saw your paternal side none of your mother's line was there."

"But" I was at a loss for words. Did going back erase my human life how was I still here? "Markus how is this possible?"

Markus looked thoughtful getting up and reaching for a book. "I read about an immortal that claimed to be able to move through realities. He was killed about 2500 years ago the witness said he just crumbled."

"Just like the body that brought me here and the time lines up, could they have been connected?" I looked at Markus as he read from the book.

"Hun, he believed that he traveled through realities, every choice splits into another world, go right instead of left for every choice splitting us apart. His power was fine as long as he didn't die in a world where his doppelganger was still alive. One dies both die. It says he looked for worlds that he was not changed in his first days he lived in fear of his human self-dying and taking him with him."

"SHIT" I sit there everything I thought I knew was wrong. "How far do you think I slipped?"

He shrugs his shoulders "If I had to guess, a lot you have to take into account the time difference. That and you would never have existed in this world."

I look off into nothing, and then I take him by surprise with a deep belly laugh. After I regain my sanity I look at a startled Markus. "Well that solves a few of my worries. I was sure something would happen to erase myself from the time line." I laugh "I though Alice was saying time when I heard Ti** but it was Tier-dimensions. Different worlds. Well so be it. Please keep this to yourself, most are terrified of me now, no need to add fuel to the fire."

He is so startled by what we discussed he nod and says "alright Mac."

My gift snagged him and locked this conversation away he had a startled look on his face. "Sorry my friend I don't use it much but I need you to keep this privet and now you will. I know your wife will keep it to herself no need to bind her to silence."

"I never would Mac" he looks hurt.

"I know but now Aro can never read it from your mind and let's face it, he is on his last chance. For this violation, I will give you an open favor, anything, anytime, as long as it doesn't hurt any of mine."

I left him slightly pissed. If I was going to be honest with myself I was pissed when it happened to me, I could relate. If my head could explode it would. Shit, I would tell my family but not with all the ears here. I was so sure I would screw something up, step on a butterfly and just disappear. I have lived 2500 years and figured that the closer I got to my time the greater the chances of obliteration. It was something I thought about in my first 200 years I could have retreated into a hole somewhere never had any contact with anyone for 4000 years till after I left. Fuck that was my decision live every day like it was my last, as a human you have no guaranties. I entered our rooms and Kat and Peter were going at it. Some things will never change.

It was almost 4 months before I had the whole family out on an extended hunt outside of Aro's territory. "Hey guys can you gather around?" peter was always the last to get over here. Kat was always the last before but since Peter's addition to the family he made it his duty to be the family clown. Pulling shit I would take the others to task for I just let slid, because I knew when I needed him he would be there front and center. Looking at them Lil on my right looking attentive waiting for anything I have to say. Kat hoping we are going to fight someone. Carman and EL holding each other willing to do anything the coven would need done if I told them. Finally my clown relieving the tension, Peter showing us how to make us laugh at the darker things we have had to do. I went over everything I had learned from Markus my thoughts and his and waited for their feedback. Only Lil and Kat had all of my history and grasped the enormity of the situation.

Kat looked at me, "Shit Dad, I mean, shit." She had lost her cocky confident air.

Lil pats her arm and looks to me. "I think what Kat was trying to say, were sorry, but happy about the butterflies."

Peter looks at the three of us and then looks at Carman and EL. They look as lost as he is, then he turns to me. "What the fuck do Butterflies have to do with this?" Carman and EL just nod waiting for an explanation.

"as I understand it, everything is connected. I move a bolder and 700 years later a man trips over it and hits his head and die's unknown to me he is my ultimate grandfather. Should I just wink out of existence? How can I go back and kill myself then? Would he then be alive again? Most people in my time think that to alter the time line could remove the person then mold time and space as if you were never there. There was a story called (Loopers) where someone could go back in your time line and remove an arm or leg. Because they are in the present and the person was from your time line the change would happen with your knowledge. You would know, remember, how you lost it while remembering that you had an arm only moments before."

Peter looks lost, "That's some messed up shit." He picked up a lot of sayings from Kat much to the disappointment of Lil.

Carman smiles, not often offering her view, "so, good, and bad right Mac?"

"Ya, I will never see my mother or sister again, maybe my father and I will run into each other in 1400 years or so. Knowing that what I do will not affect my existence is liberating."

Kat moves and gives me a hug, "You think too much dad we will do what we do best, handle it as it comes. Like I told you over a 1000 years ago, fuck the butterflies."

I hugged her back, "thanks Kat." The rest gathered around and we ended in a group hug.

It was Peter that broke the mood, "if anyone saw us they would think we were a bunch of pussies with this group hug." Even though he said it he was not the first to brake away.

Kat's hand found the back of his head "ass-hole" she tells him with a smile. "Let's see if we can find a few bears Petty before we go back to shit-heads castle."

I shake my head at Kat's nick-name for Aro.

"Kat please he is our host." Lil tries to remain a good guest but secretly she agrees with Kat. Her protests not to vigorous just going through the forms she looks to me for backup but I just shrug.

"Don't look at me I kinda agree with Kat, he'd of been dead if he didn't travel with me all those years ago." I smile "at least Markus is a good egg. I owe him a favor I left it open ended. He will put it in his back pocket, who knows he may even us it to save dumb and dumber sometime in the future."

Kat looks back at me, she and Peter was almost gone. She comes to a complete stop "shit dad if Markus uses it to save Shit-head I may lose it. If it happens maybe you should leave me home I don't think I could stop myself again."

Peter nods his head he would be lighting the fire as Kat throws the pieces on the sparks he was trying to get to burn. All the while yelling at him to fucking get it to lit. With him yelling back to fuck off. I snap back after that though goes through my head. The little fucker smiling at me as if he saw that in my head. I swear he has a talent, but every time I check nothing, just a ghost, a flick of a gift. "Just go eat your bears you two." I look at the rest of my family, "Let's finish up here and head back." We spread out each seeking out something tasty before we regrouped to run back.

so not time travel but world travel.

now that Mac is free what will he do.