"…yes I will!" Susie said with a big smile on her face!
Brian smiled at her before embracing her! Barnabas, Julia, and Will congratulated the two of them, and wishing them happiness! Brian then let go of Susie with a worried look on his face!
"What's the matter? You look frightened for some reason." Susie wondered.
"I don't have my inhaler! I don't know what I'm going to do without it now!" Brian said when he realized he didn't have the one thing that kept his vampiric side at bay!
"Oh no! I didn't think of that myself! What are you going to do now?!" Susie asked him.
"What does your inhaler have to do with you?" Will asked.
"It's what keeps my vampire half from attacking anyone for blood. Without it, that half could take over and attack someone to feed. I need something that will hold that half off until we can get back to our time band!" Brian said while giving a short explanation to everyone!
"Barnabas, Julia, I have a question for the two of you." Susie said to them.
"What's that Susie?" Julia asked.
"The Collins family here know who and what you're really are?" She asked them.
"No. They think that Julia and I go out all day to visit places like Bangor, Boston, and other places of interest. And we would like to keep it that way." Barnabas told her.
"Just like my father does in our time band. You don't have to worry about your secret because they don't know about my father's and Susie's as well. And we will keep it that way as well." Brian told them with a slight smile on his face.
"Say, what are the two of you going to do about clothes? After all, neither of you have anything else to wear." Will reminded Brian and Susie.
"That's where you come in Will. Hopefully I have enough money to buy us clothes. We're going to need a ride into town to do this. That's where you come in Will. Will you help us?" Brian asked.
"Sure I will. Nobody comes here during the day anyway. I'll just make sure that everything is secure first before we leave." Will said with a lopsided grin on his face.
"Please remember to do so Will. Remember the last time you left? Daniel nearly found our coffins if you hadn't come back in time." Barnabas reminded Will of that incident.
"Don't worry Barnabas, I won't forget this time." Will said in a reassuring voice.
Brian just shook his head for Will here reminded him of Willie back in their time band with things like this. He wondered what was going on back home now, and hopefully someone else didn't follow them here as well! He hated the thought of that happening! He only prayed that no one has now!
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Regular Time
Elizabeth still could not figure out what happened to both Brian and Susie! They could not have gone far without their jackets for they were still on the coat rack in the foyer! She started with their rooms with no sign of them there! She checked every room that she could think of, and they decided to check some of the unused Wings in the house!
She had asked Quentin for help as well since Roger was too busy with David right now. They checked the different rooms in the West Wing, and then headed over to the East Wing even though that was locked since she did that several years earlier. As they checked the different rooms, there was still no sign of them anyway! They finally came to one last room, and they saw a scarf on the couch! It belonged to Susie!
"If her scarf is here Quentin, then where are Susie and Brian at?" She asked her cousin.
"I don't have an idea Elizabeth. But wherever they are, I hope that Brian has his inhaler with him." Quentin said in a solemn voice.
"I hope so too Quentin. I hate to be around him if he doesn't, I feel sorry for the poor person that should become his victim." Elizabeth said with a concerned voice.
"Let's hope and pray that Brian can find a way to control his other half." Quentin said while looking one more time around the room.
For some reason, Quentin felt this was connection for Brian and Susie's disappearance. He didn't know why, but this room was the reason. Elizabeth and Quentin left the room, and not looking back, they would have seen it changed into the same, but different room from another time band, and it would have explained as to why Brian and Susie disappeared!
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Parallel Time
Will took Brian and Susie into town to the small department store that was there. Granted that it wasn't Macy's or Gimbels, but it would have to do for now. They looked around in the clothing sections to see what they could find for the time being. After an hour, both Brian and Susie found some clothes that they liked. Will was grateful that they were done, for he had to get back just in case someone came snooping around the Old House looking for him or Barnabas or Julia.
They got back into Will's car and headed back to the Old House. Brian and Susie went up to the rooms that Barnabas had said they could use while here. They each got cleaned up and put on some of the new clothes that they had got. Brian had picked out all black as usual, while Susie picked out some color fashions that made both Brian and Will cringe!
Susie had picked out a sweater with neon green and yellow in it while her pants had bright orange and red in them! Both Brian and Will got out their sunglasses to protest the brightness of her outfit! Susie just ignored them stating that they had no fashion sense! Will and Brian just looked at each other while shrugging their shoulders knowing that they could not change her mind about what she was wearing!
The three of them headed down to the kitchen to see about having something to eat, and to discuss what to do about meeting the rest of the family. Susie suggested about introducing Brian as a distant relative and that Susie was engaged to him. Will liked that idea for it reminded him of what both Barnabas and Julia had done as being distant cousins from England.
Brian would have to stick to his story about being from Long Island City, New York for he was sure that no one would check on his background. As for Susie, they would say that she's from Egypt, and that she has no family now since they died some time ago, and that Brian met her and feel in love with her. That idea seemed like it would work, and hopefully no one would check on either of their backgrounds now! They would wait until sunset to go over with Barnabas and Julia to meet everyone in this version of Collinwood.