As usual, the next day we headed back to the lab after taking Nina to school, to find that they had aquired a live zombie from the Wicked Occupance game world while we were gone, Of course it was chained to the wall and rendered harmless, though it did not change the fact that it was extremely creepy. Thankfully we had left Charley with my parents, otherwise he would be so scared he'd never stop screaming. The area around the zombie smelled heavily of air freshener, and there were a few cans of it scattered around on the desk, for obvious reasons.

-unamused- Me: "Why is that thing in here? Kill it before it infects someone."

Dr. Black: "Don't worry it's harmless."

Dr. Black: "Well…mostly harmless, it can still bite really hard, but it can't turn other things into zombies."

Me: "How do you know that?"

I was concerned that they let it bite something on purpose. You know every zombie movie ever made plays out, we already went through one apocalypse, another was just...no...it was fun, and we would always remember our adventure across the world together, but we had moved on to better things.

Dr. Black : "We had it's blood tested, it's just generic type-o human blood with no live cells."

Dr. Black: "The only thing remarkable about it is it lacks a dna sequence."

Dr. Black :"Meaning it really is just generic blood."

Me: "Oooook."

-disgusted- Phoebe: "Ugh…..I hate these things."

Dr. Black :"What is it thinking?"

Phoebe: "It wants to bite us."

Me: "Go figure."

Dr. Black: "We'll have it out of here by the end of the day, a few more scientist have some tests they want to run first after you two go home."

Dr. Black: "Now, on to the portal."

Dr. Black: "It's another new one."

Bob: "Sending in the probe."

The probe made lots of gear noise as it rolled into the portal, dragging it's cord along behind it.

As usually, Bob's computer screen showed camera footage from the probe as well as meteorlogical information, such as temperature and oxygen content, enough to ensure that going through the portal wasn't suicide.

Bob: "Um, might want to scratch this one off the list."

Dr. Black: "Looks fine to me."

Bob: "According to these readings, air quality is terrible, there are high amounts of carbon monoxide, the air is only 5 percent oxygen, and the Temperature is 105 degrees."

Me: "Oh hell no."

Phoebe:"5 percent?"

Bob: "That's one-fourth the usual amount, you won't be able to breathe in there."

Me: "You'll take like two steps and then you'll get tired."

Dr. Black : "Right, and that's without all the carbon monoxide."

Dr. Black: "We'll have to study it further some other time, you'll need more equipment to go in there, oxygen tanks atleast."

Dr. Black: "Ok then, we'll have to set up another portal."

Dr. Black: "Atleast we didn't lose the drone this time."

Dr. Black: "Well, we'll have to set up another portal then, sorry for the wait you two."

Phoebe: "Ohhhhh it's ok."

We headed to the lounge, and hung out for a few minutes until they had the next portal set up.

Me: "So where do you think we'll go today? "
Phoebe: "I don't know, hopefully somewhere nice."

Phoebe: "Maybe a nice big beach we can have all to ourselves?"

Me: We don't have any beach clothes with us though."

Phoebe: "True."

Phoebe: "We can run around naked."

Me: "You crazy girl..."

Phoebe: "Or maybe a beautiful palace."

Me: "Like your parent's?"

Phoebe:" No, like one of those fancy indian ones on tv."

Me: "Ohhhh...one of those."

Phoebe: "With their beautiful domes and stuff."

Me: " Yeah, those are nice."

Me: "I don't know what the chances we'll come across one are though."

Phoebe: "Pretty slim."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Also, I think I should tell you."

Phoebe: "When I was driving home with Nina yesterday she said some boy asked her to prom."

Phoebe: "She didn't want you to know so she told me when you weren't around."

Me: "Who?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me: "She can't go to prom she's just a freshman."

Phoebe:" She can if she's invited by someone else."

Me: "You think we should let her go?"

Phoebe:" I don't know."

Phoebe: "It's kind of hard to tell when we know nothing about this guy."

Me: "True.."

Me:" Does she want to go?"

Phoebe:" Of course, You know she loves dancing."

Me: "We'll have to see."

Me: "Isn't it weird to have prom halfway through the year?"

Phoebe: "Well it's not coming up yet it's still several months away."

Me:"Oh...ok."

Me: "And she was asked now?"

Phoebe: "Well, we need to decide if she can go soon so she has time to get a dress and everything.""

Me:"Well I don't wanna say yes until I know who asked her out."

Phoebe: "Me too."

Me: "Which means you need to find out more."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "As far as I'm concerned you never told me anything."

Phoebe: "Right."

Phoebe: "Which means."

She touched me on the head, and did something with her powers...I got a slight headache and forgot what we were talking about.

Me: "Ow...what?"

Phoebe: "I moved it to your subconcious so she can't see it."

Me: "Moved what?"

Phoebe: "Never mind."

Phoebe: "Nina told me something that she didn't want you to know, but I told you anyway so I had to move it out of your current memory so she won't know I told you."

Me: "Um...ok."

-confused- Me: "Why are we here?"

Phoebe: "Because we couldn't go into the portal they had set up, and now we have to wait for them to set up another."

Me:" Ohhhh ok."

-in pain- Me: "Ahhh! The more I try to remember, the more it hurts.."

Phoebe: "Yeah, that's a side effect, don't try to remember, think about something else."

-annoyed- Me: "Baby girl..."

Phoebe: "Mhm...?"

-seriously- Me: "Warn me next time before you do that."

-cutely, innocently- Phoebe:" Okaaay..."

-innocently- Phoebe: "Sorry baby."

Me: "Why didn't you just wipe my memory?"

Phoebe: "Because this way I can make you remember later without having to re-explain the whole thing."

Me: "Ow..."

-sympathetically- Phoebe: "Ohhhh, I told you not to try to remember the thing silly."

She snuggled up to me trying to play innocent, while I tried to get over my headache.

Thankfully it was gone by the time we were called back to the lab.

Dr. Black: "Ok, this portal seems to lead to a cave, we don't know if there's any life in the cave but the air is breathable and it's a cool 65 degrees, we have flashlights ready for you as well as radios."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Dr. Black:" And about 2500ft of safety line so you won't get lost."

Dr. Black: "If you don't find an exit before you run out of safety line, come back."

Me: "Ok."

I took a flashlight while Phoebe insisted on using her powers to light the way instead.

Dr. Black: "Stay in contact, and be careful."

We headed into the portal, and found ourselves in the cave we saw on the screen, no big surprise there. I never said this before, but It's important to note that the portal machine rarely appeared on the other side. Usually just a small vortex appeared that would be our way back.

Anyway, we procceeded through the cave, there wasn't much to see, just rocky walls. stalactites, stalagmites, and occasionally some small pools of water.

After wandering through the dark corridors for quite sometime we saw a light ahead, that appeared to be from another flashlight.

-urgently- Phoebe: "Cj, I hear another human."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Or an entity with human intelligence."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "Hostile?"

Phoebe: "No."

Me: "And your powers work?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

unknown man ?:"Hello?"

It had a voice of a man but we couldn't even tell if it was human at this point, it was too dark.

Phoebe :"Hello."

unknown man: "Who are you?"

The light began to come closer.

Phoebe:"Who are you?"

unknown man: "I am Jacob Loftmoore."

He finally got close enough so we could see that he was a normal human.

Jacob: "Oh my god what are you?"

Phoebe's red eyes and pale skin must have looked quite terrifying to him in the dim light.

He threw his flashlight at her and ran away.

Phoebe: "Owe..."

-annoyed- Phoebe: "So rude..."

The flashlight hit her on the head and fell to the ground, still on.

Phoebe: "I guess he's never seen a pokemon before."

Me:" I guess not."

Me: "You ok?"

Phoebe: "I'll be fine, it's just a flashlight, it didn't hurt that bad."

Me: "Ok."

-jokingly-Phoebe: "You don't have to kill him."

Me: "I wasn't going to."

Of course, without his flashlight he was running in total darkness, it wasn't long before he crashed into a wall. We heard a dull thud as he smacked his head and collapsed to the ground.

Jacob: "Owwww."

Phoebe:"Well now he's hurt bad, we better help him."

-playfully- Me: "Come on then, let's go collect the dumbass."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Ohh, don't be so mean."

We found him a few feet away, still conscious, holding his head, which was bleeding just slightly.

Me:" You ok?"

-scared- Jacob: "Stay away."

Phoebe: "Oh relax, we aren't going to hurt you."

Me: "You're doing a pretty good job of that yourself."

I had to help him up since he was still wary of Phoebe.

-confused- Jacob: "She's not human."

Me:"I know."

Phoebe: "I'm a gardevoir, my name is Phoebe."

Phoebe: "This is Cj, my husband."

-surprised- Jacob: "She's your wife?"

-awkwardly- Me: "Yep."

Me: "Do you know the way out of this cave?"

Jacob: "I wish, I've been wandering around for hours."

Jacob: "What's a gardevoir?"

Me: "It's what she is."

-cutely, affirmatively- Phoebe: "Mhm."

Jacob: "Which is?"

-obviously lying- Phoebe: "I was cursed by a witch many years ago, so now I look like this and have weird powers that nobody understands."

I didn't even bother to question it.

Jacob: "Ohhh...poor thing."

Jacob: "Is that why you live in this cave with your husband?"

Phoebe: "We don't live in this cave, we're lost too."

Jacob: "Oh...well damn."

Phoebe: "Well, here's your flashlight back."

-awkwardly- Jacob: "Umm..thanks."

-awkwardly- Jacob: "Sorry about that."

Phoebe: "It's ok."

Me :"Why don't we head back this way and see if we can find the exit."

Jacob: "I just came from there."

Me: "I know, but we just came from there, and we know the exit isn't back that way."

Jacob: "Ok."

Jacob: "What's this? "

Me: "That's our safety line, we're using it to"

She elbowed me.

-interupting-Phoebe: "keep ourselves from walking around in circles."

Jacob: "Ookay."

We continued to explore the cave, with Jacob trailing behind us, about 10 minutes later we came across a point where the path split into two, so we went left. A few minutes after that the path split into 3, so we went down the middle, the path continued to split, sometimes we came across a dead end and had to go back and try another route, 45 more minutes of this and we were running out of safety line and there was still no sign of the exit.

Phoebe: "We're out of safety line, we can't go any further."

Jacob: "Ok.."

Jacob: "I want to keep going."

Phoebe: "Ok, you go do that, but we can't leave our safety line."

Jacob: "Why? What does it lead too that's so important?"

Phoebe: "It leads to our camp."

Jacob: "Can you take me there? I'm starving."

Phoebe: "No, the others would kill you."

Jacob: "The others? "

Phoebe: "Mhm, Tom and Jerry."

Phoebe :"We have just enough supplys for the four of us we can't share any"

She just kept digging deeper and deeper.

Jacob: "Well, allright then I guess this is goodbye."

Phoebe: "Bye."

Jacob: "It's a shame you can't take me back to your camp."

Jacob: "I really need some food."

Phoebe :"Don't worry you've only been here for awhile."

Phoebe: "You'll find a way out, I'm sure of it."

Phoebe: "Bye."

Me: "Bye, goodluck."

I waited till he was out of sight to contact Dr. Black on the radio.

-into radio- Me: "We're out of safety line and we still haven't found the exit."

-on radio- Dr. Black:" Then come back, we'll have to send some drones in to map this cave out."

Dr. Black :"But we have to wait for them to be delivered from another lab."

Dr. Black: "Hopefully the next portal won't hide its secrets so well."

We started to follow the safety line back to the portal.

Phoebe: "I hope he finds the exit, I don't want him to die in here."

Me:"Yeah I hope so too...

Me:"Hell, he almost caught us."

Phoebe: "I know."

Me: "Who the hell is Tom and Jerry? "

Phoebe: "I made them up."

Me:"Oh, ok."

Eventually we made our way back through the portal to the lab.

Dr. Black: "Ok move this one off to the side with the other one for drone exploration."

Me: "Why use drones and not magnemites?"

Dr. Black: "Because magnemites don't have gps or infrared communication, plus the drones aren't sentient, so it's no big deal if they get lost, even though they are a bit expensive."

Dr. Black: "Aside from that, magnemite production stopped several years ago, we'd have to go out and catch a bunch of them, which could take awhile."

Me: "Really?"

Dr. Black: "Yeah, when artificial pokemon are created they make just a handful of them, excluding porygon which are exclusively made to order. Voltorbs and magnemites are expected to be able to sustain themselves in the wild, both species can reproduce by scavenging discarded electronic components."

Me: "They can build more of themselves?"

Dr. Black: "Precisely, though it can take awhile for them to find all the parts neccesary."

Phoebe: "But they fry everything they come in contact with."

Dr. Black: "Unless it's protected.."

Dr. Black: "Most electronics made now-a-days have built in EMP protection in the event a magnemite or other electric pokemon gets too close."

Dr Black: "Something most electronics on your world lack, I believe."

-unsure- Me: "Yeahhhhhh."

Dr Black: "Anyway, Bob is getting the next portal ready."

Bob was currently pushing the next portal through the door, making a very distinctive clattering noise when the wheels on the cart hit the floor seams between the room and the hallway. Another machine was making a whiring noise as it retracted the safety line back through the cave portal, wrapping it around itself.

Dr. Black helped him remove the portal machine from the cart and then it was set up as usual.

Phoebe and I headed to the lounge for awhile as they set it up, we had a conversation with a scientist from another lab who was there getting coffee. We later found out it was Dr. Melzinga. Anyway, before long they had the portal ready, and we were ready to go.

Dr. Black: "Ok, this looks like the first normal place of the day."

Me: "Where does it go?"

Dr. Black: "An amusement park."

Me: "Really?"

Dr. Black: "Yep."

Bob:" A busy one too."

Me: "Ok."

Bob: "We're going to have to close the portal once you enter to avoid any of the inhabitants from accidently stumbling upon it."

Dr. Black: "It appears to be late in the afternoon over there, so we'll open the portal again once the park has closed and nobody else is around."

: "You can leave your flashlights here, but keep your radio with you."

Me: "Ok."

We entered the portal, and found ourselves in a busy amusement park, with many, many rollercoasters and some smaller rides.

Phoebe: "You want to go on the rollercoaster?"

Me: "No, not really."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Try to talk to one of the inhabitants."

-into radio- Me: "Roger that."

Me: "Excuse me sir?"

Unknown man: "Yes what can I help you with?"

Me: "Where are we?"

He gave us a strange look.

Unknown man:" You should know, you work here miss."

Phoebe: "You mean me?"

Phoebe: "I don't work here."

Unknown man: "Then what's with the costume?'

Phoebe: "What costume I always..."

I silently mouthed the words "roll with it"

Phoebe: "Yes I work here."

Phoebe: "But he doesn't so he needs to know."

Unknown man: "How did he get here if he doesn't know where he is?"

Phoebe: "He's my husband, he just drinks alot and then he stumbles in here sometimes to see me, but then he gets lost.

Phoebe: "Come on Cj."

-confused- Me: "Whaaa?"

Me: "-sighs-, I guess we'll have to ask someone else, that guy just wants to be an ass."

Phoebe: "Yep."

-annoyed- Me: "And I do not drink."

Phoebe: "I know...but I had to get us out of there so we wouldn't look suspicious."

Phoebe: "Anyway, why don't you just ask for a map next time?"

Me: "Did you read his mind?"

Phoebe: "Sorry, but I missed it, there's too many people around."

Me: "-sighs-, Ok."

Me: "Excuse me sir do you have a map of this place that I can look at?"

Unknown man: "They're available at the front desk buddy, why don't you go get one?"

Me: "Where is the front desk?"

Unknown man: "Somewhere off in that direction."

Me: "Could you be more specific?"

He had already walked away.

Phoebe: "I got it this time don't worry."

Phoebe: "It's over here."

Me: "Is everyone here rude?"

Phoebe: "Well, we are 2-0 so far."

Phoebe: "I don't know, maybe it's just bad luck."

Me:"Maybe."

Unknown park worker: "Hey you!"

Someone that appeared to be dressed as a janitor started yelling at her.

Phoebe: "What?"

Unknown park worker: "Go down to the entrance, we need to draw more people over there because the park is about to close."

Phoebe: "Um...ok."

Me:"They really think you work here."

Phoebe: "It seems that way."

Me: "Those dumbassess."

Phoebe: "Ohh, don't be so mean, atleast they aren't freaking out."

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "And this will give us a cover that will allow us to stay after the park is closed."

Phoebe: "Mhmmm."

Phoebe: "Atleast for me, you still look normal."

Me: "But I'm your supposedly drunkenly husband, I should be able to stay too."

Phoebe: "Hopefully."

Me: "So what should we do till then? "

Phoebe:"I don't know."

unknown woman:" Hey can I take a picture of you with my kids?"

Phoebe: "Um...ok..."

Me: "Sure..."

Unknown woman: "No not you, her..."

Me: "Oh..sorry."

I don't know why everyone assumed she was in costume, nor did I any other costumed entertainers around, but people were treating her as such, they treated me like I was just an ordinary person though.

Unknown woman:" So who are you supposed to be, I heard they were comming out with some new characters?"

Phoebe: "I'm a gardevoir..."

Unknown woman: "What's that?"

Phoebe: "It's a..."

-interupting- Me: "She's Phoebe the psychic fairy princess."

Unknown woman: "Ohhhh, ok."

Unknown woman :"And who are you?"

Me: "Um..."

Phoebe: "He's my costume designer."

Wwwwwwwwwhaaaaaaaaat?

Unknown woman: "Ok..."

Me: "Does that mean I can be in the picture now?"

Unknown woman: "No..."

She took a picture of her with her two very young kids, one was a 5 year old boy, and the other a 2 year old girl who had just started walking. After that they went on their way and we were free once more.

Me: "So I'm your costume designer now?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "You realize I know nothing about that..."

Phoebe: "It doesn't matter, they bought it."

Me: "So now I have to play your drunken husband and your costume designer?"

Phoebe: "No, you just have to pretend to be my drunken costume designer, you're already my husband...that part was true."

Me :"We need to find somewhere to lay low."

Me: "We can't just keep lying to people."

Phoebe: "I know, I know."

Phoebe:"Hmmm."

She took my hand, and teleported us to the roof of a large, shed-like structure that had several small shops and gamestands inside.

Me: "Why? "

Phoebe: "We can look around up here."

Me: "What if somebody sees us?"

Phoebe: "We won't stay up here long, don't worry."

Phoebe: "Aha..."

She took my hand again and teleported us just outside a fence that surrounded the park.

Phoebe: "Now we're out."

Me: "Ok, I see."

Phoebe: "And we can teleport back in when the park is closed."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "Now what?"

Phoebe: "We wait for the park to close?"

Phoebe: "Why don't we get a drink? I'm thirsty."

Me: "Ok, sure, if we can find somewhere to get one."

Phoebe: "I'm going to try to stay out of site ok?"

Me: "Ok, but what do you want to drink?"

Phoebe: "Soda will be fine."

Me:"Ok."

She teleported away. Trying to stay out of sight from all the people, but I knew she would be somewhere close if I needed her.

That said I proceeded to explore on my own, with her following me.

Unlike GTA land, this world felt much more real. It was a somewhat hot summer day, and I was thankful that I left my coat back in the lab, there were a few birds around, making the world even more convincing.

Outside the amusement park there was a fairly large city, with regular vehicle and pedestrian traffic. All the cars resembled 1980s american models, for a few minutes I brushed this off, then I began to find it odd that there weren't any more modern looking cars, but tt wasn't till I came across a small electronics store, which had many 1980s style tvs in its window display, advertised as new models, that I realized that the world itself was set in the 80s. It was like we had traveled back in time. Upon closer inspection the cars were actually the same as the ones in our world, with fords and chevys being the norm. It was strange how cars are usually a good indicator of time period, people don't really change much over the years, but cars sure do. There was one difference that I noticed though, between this world and own , and that was that a single car manufacturer known as Hudson seemed to continue to exist. In our world, hudson had gone defunct in the 50's, but here it was still making new cars. With the 1980s hornet that never existed in our world resembling a rebadged Mitsubishi Starion in this world. I also saw a camaro that looked almost exactly like Phoebe's, albeit in better condition. I couldn't find a grocery store or any other place where I could just buy a drink, but I did find a BBQ restaurant, so I headed inside and came to the realization that I didn't have any money, for this world anyway. This world used similiar currency to ours, but, well...have you ever seen a dollar from the 1980s?

So I left the restaurant, and headed into an alleyway so Phoebe could come close without being seen.

Me: "Pheebles, you can come out, nobody is around."

She teleported next to me.

Phoebe: "What's wrong?"

Me: "We don't have any money."

Phoebe:" Oh...right, I forgot about that."

Me: "So we can't get any drinks."

Phoebe: "Ohhh well."

Phoebe: "Let's go find something else to do then."

She took my hand and teleported us away to the roof of one of the buildings nearby.

Me: "Was that really neccesary?"

Phoebe: "No, but I like it up here."

Me: "So what do you want to do?"

Me: "You just want to explore this place some more?"

Phoebe: "That sounds allright."

Me: "Cool."

We traversed the rooftops until we found the tallest building in the area. Then she teleported us to the roof so we could get a good look around. From there, we could see the amusement park, and its many rollercoasters, and a huge portion of the city, the rest was obscured by some skyscrapers in the distance that were much taller than the apartment building we had found. There was also a highway system and a railway line. There seemed to be hills on the horizon, far outside the city limits. That said, there didn't seem to be anything to give us even the slightest indication of what this city was called.

Me: "I think we hit the jackpot here Pheebles."

Me: "They'll be exploring this world for awhile."

Phoebe: "Maybe it's your world."

Me: "No, its a bit different, it's also just a bit behind the times."

Me: "It's the 1980s here."

Phoebe: "Really? "

Me: "Mhm, judging from the cars and the stores."

Phoebe: "Ok"

Phoebe: "If you say so."

Me: "If you're still thirsty I think there's water fountains back at the park."

Phoebe: "Noooo, it's ok."

Phoebe: "We can just stay up here and watch the city."

Me: "Allright if you want.

We spent the next few minutes observing the traffic of cars and people below. It was really hot up here, however, so it wasn't long before I wanted to move on.

Me: "How about we go find some shade?"

Phoebe: "Ohhh, ok."

Me: "I'm afraid if I stay out too long I'll get sunburned."

Phoebe:" I understand, come on then."

She offered me her hand, which I took, then she teleported us back to the alleyway.

Phoebe: "Where do you wanna go now?"

Me:" I don't know, lets just find somewhere with some air conditioning."

Me: "I really wish we had some money we could use."

-jokingly- Phoebe: Doesn't everyone?"

Me: "True."

I pulled her close and gave her a kiss.

-lovingly- Me:" Stay close."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "You know I will."

She teleported away.

I left the alley and proceeded down the sidewalk, I went into a hardware store so I could browse around and enjoy the air conditioning. However, as it was getting late in the afternoon here, I was only in the store for about twenty minutes before they announced that they were closing for the day. So I went back outside, and began to head back towards the amusement park, and then something happened I wasn't expecting.

-distressed- Phoebe: "Cj."

Me: "What's wrong?"

Phoebe: "We're being hunted."

Me: "By who?"

Phoebe: "Look for a man in a black suit."

Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a man wearing a dark suit and sunglasses.

It didn't take long for me to notice he was following me.

Unknown Man: "Running is useless."

Me: "Who the hell are you?"

I spotted another man in a dark suit comming towards me, they had me surrounded.

Unknown Man: "Space police, you're under arrest for violating the laws of space time."

Me: "For what now?"

Unknown Man: "Where's the girl?"

Me: "I don't know, somewhere, probably thinking about shooting you any second."

The man in front of me was hit with shadowball, the one behind me turned to look where the projectile had come from, but it was too late and by that point Phoebe had already teleported behind him and quickly knocked him unconcious.

Me: "Where the hell did these guys come from."

Phoebe:"They're the space police, they're a secret part of this version of america's government."

Phoebe: "They investigate space-time anomalies, like the portal we used to get here."

Phoebe: "They must have a way to track them."

Me: "So they're the men in black basically."

Phoebe: "Of this world."

Phoebe: "Come on, they aren't the only agents here."

Me: "First Myrenthall, now space police..."

Me: "-sighs-."

Phoebe: "The times we live in."

Me: "Hehehe, how true."

Space policeman: "Stop! Under the authority of the Republic of North America."

-confused- Me: "No states?"

Phoebe: "Not in this world, it's just one big country here."

Me: "Weird."

She took my hand and teleported us away.

Phoebe: "These guys have cameras everywhere, we can't lose them."

Phoebe: "But we can't let them catch us because we don't know what they'll do."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "What do you wanna do then?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me:"We could try to get the regular police involved."

Phoebe: "They won't help."

Me: "Well if this part of the government is secret, they won't know they're fighting eachother."

Me: "And if these agents start attacking the police you know there'll be hell to pay."

Phoebe: "True."

Me: "Now we just need to find a police station."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Or we could just call them in."

Phoebe: "Isn't that a phone booth?"

There was, in fact, an operational phone booth across the street.

Me:"Yes, but once again, we have no money."

Phoebe: "Ask somebody, it can't cost that much."

Me: "I don't know, we've had terrible luck with that so far."

Phoebe:"I don't think everyone in this world is a jerk Cj."

Phoebe: "A world like that couldn't have any cities at all."

Me: "True."

Me: "But what am I supposed to tell them? That I think someone is following me?"

Me: "I think it would be better if we just hung around the station."

Phoebe:" But we don't know where that is."

Me:"Well we could...call a taxi."

Me: "You could teleport us out so we don't have to pay the fair."

Phoebe: "But that's...stealing."

Me: "Well we either get caught by those guys or steal a cab ride for what? 20-30 bucks, it's not that much..."

Phoebe: "Ok, if you say so."

She kissed me on the cheek before teleporting away again.

Me: "Excuse me sir, I need make a phone call, but I forgot my wallet at home, can I have a dollar?"

Unknown man: "Here's a quarter, that should be enough for a quick call."

Me: "Oh, ok, thanks."

I entered the phone booth and slid the quarter into the machine, then I dialed a number for a cab company that was convieniently posted on the phone itself. The number proved valid and I was able to successfuly request a cab. Phoebe joined me a bit later, wearing a big fluffy coat and sunglasses that hid most of her face.

Me: "Aren't you hot in there?"

Phoebe:" Well, I have to come with you somehow."

Me: "And where did you get this stuff?"

Phoebe: "I borrowed it."

-in disbelief- Me: "Eheh..."

Phoebe:" I'll return it, I promise."

Phoebe: "Besides you want to steal a cab ride to a police station.."

Me: "True."

Phoebe:" And yes, it is hot in here..."

Me:"Maybe you should've gone with something a bit lighter."

Phoebe:"Maybe."

Me:"Hey there's our cab."

An ordinary looking Ford LTD taxi pulled over alongside us and we got in the back.

We told the driver we needed to go to the police station.

Driver: "Did you call a cab?"

Me: "Yeah that was us."

Driver: "What's with the get up?

Phoebe: "Hmm?"

Driver: "Why you wearing a coat like that in the middle of summer?"

Me: "She has a rare skin condition, she sunburns easilly."

It was the first thing that came to my head.

Driver: "Oh...ok."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "The doctor said if my skin was any lighter it'd be translucent."

Driver: "That can't be good."

Phoebe: "You get used to it, after awhile."

Me: "So where's the police station?"

Driver: "It's just downtown, about twenty blocks away."

Me: "Ok."

It was a quiet ride from then on as we headed deeper into the city, taking in the sights as the taxi cruised down the street. It appeared that we had ditched the "space police" for now, for a few minutes atleast, just a block or so away, we noticed we were being followed, by what appeared to be a four door Delorean none the less. The delorean had it's usual stainless steel bodywork (they were never painted) , but with black decals, bullbars adorning the front, and low profile emergency lights specifying it as a police vehicle.

The taxi pulled over, and the delorean police car pulled up behind us.

Driver: "What did you do?"

Phoebe: "Nothing."

Me: "Trust us, just drive."

Driver: "What?"

Phoebe: "Sorry."

Phoebe used her powers to hit the throttle.

Driver: "What the? What's going on?"

Phoebe: "Drive!"

Driver: "Ok ok."

Driver: "Are we still going to the police station? "

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Driver: "Why are we running from the police then?"

Phoebe: "Because those aren't the normal police."

Surprisingly the delorean sedan was able to keep up with us, it kept ramming us from behind, but the traffic was too heavy for it to perform an effective pit manuever.

Driver: "They're damaging my taxi!"

Phoebe:" Don't stop, please."

-reassuringly- Me: "We'll pay for it."

Phoebe: "How?"

Me: "I have no idea."

We never made it to the police station, at the next intersection a blue and white dodge monaco police car spotted us and joined the chase as well.

Driver:" Now there's more after us."

Me: "Just wait, that delorean is not a real cop."

Me: "Wait until another police car joins then pull over."

Driver: "What?"

Me: "Pheebles, get ready."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Driver: "Wait..."

Driver:"Was that you earlier, that drove away from the officer?"

Phoebe: "Um..."

Me:" No...these ltd's man, have you seen the latest motor trend? They do that all the time, hell there's a lawsuit going on over it."

Driver: "Really?"

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "But it's just like with the pinto, ford decided it was cheeper to let people die than actually fix the damned problem."

Driver: "What's MotorTrend?"

Me: "It's a car magazine.."

Driver: "Oh...ok..."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "Never thought your knowledge of cars would come in handy."

-unamused- Me: "Hey..."

-cutely- Phoebe: "hehe..."

Me: "Well most of that was bullshit so..."

Phoebe: "I know."

-yelling- Police Officer: "Out of the car!"

Police Officer: What is going on here?"

Police Officer: "Is this some kind of street race?"

Me: "No."

Driver: "I don't know officer, they told me to run."

Police Officer: "You didn't have to listen."

Me: "That Delorean was chasing us."

Police Officer: " Don't worry, we're after them too."

Police Officer: "But now I have to take all of you in for questioning."

-quietly- Me: "Pheebles?"

Phoebe: "Right."

She took my hand and we teleported away to the nearest rooftop, leaving the officer completely befuddled.

Phoebe: "Now wait here, I have to save the driver."

Me:" Um..."

She teleported away before I could say anything, she tapped the officed on the head and closed her eyes for a moment, before teleporting back to me.

Phoebe: "Ok, I had to modify the officers memorys so the driver won't get convicted."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "It's the least we could do."

Me: "Yeah, you're right."

Me: "Allright."

Me: "Ok, let's get back to the amusement park, that should get those space freaks off our back for awhile."

Phoebe: "How do we get back, we're pretty far away from it now?"

Me:" I don't know."

We could still see the rollercoasters in the distance.

Me: "Just start heading back that way towards the roller coasters.."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "We'll make it eventually."

Phoebe: "Can you carry my coat?"

Me: "Yeah, I guess."

She took her coat off, allowing her to cool off a bit.

-relieved- Phoebe: "I feel so much better now without that thing."

Phoebe: "Ok let's go."

Me: "Right."

Me: "You're going to return this right?"

Phoebe: "Once we get back to wear the store is."

Me: "Ok."

As we stumbled over the rooftops, occasionally she had to teleport us over large gaps between buildings where alleyways ran below. At one point, we ran out of buildings that were close together so we had to travel down the sidewalk for a few blocks before once again taking to the rooftops.

By the time we got back, and after Phoebe took a brief detour to return the coat and sunglasses she borrowed, the park was begining to close for the day and there was just a little bit of sunlight left.

The streets were full of people who were leaving the park.

We teleported back inside the fence, and then we tried to remain undetected as we made our way back to where the portal was.

Space Policeman: "Aha, We thought you'd come back here."

Phoebe: "We're just going back to where we came from, what's wrong with that?"

Space Policeman: "Unauthorized portal creation, that's what's wrong."

Phoebe:" Can't you just let it pass for once so we can get out of here."

Phoebe: "We promise we won't come back."

Space Policeman: "No, you've already broken the law, and you have to pay."

Phoebe:"But the law isn't fair."

Space Policeman: "That's for the judge to decide."

-annoyed- Phoebe: "rrrrrr."

She teleported behind him, only for him to unexpectedly teleport as well.

-surprised- Phoebe: "What? He can teleport too?"

Space Policeman: "Resistance is futile."

Space Policeman: "Surrender now and maybe you'll get a reduced sentence."

Phoebe: "No, not to your corrupt laws."

Meanwhile, the portal was starting to appear.

Me: "Oh crap, Pheebles, it's opening."

Phoebe: "I see."

She was still fighting with officer. With said officer firing some sort of ray gun and her retaliating with shadowballs, which proved somewhat ineffective against humans, but could stun him long enough for her to prepare a more effective attack. How he was able to teleport wasn't clear, until I began to watch more closely, I noticed he kept pressing a button on his watch every time he teleported.

Me: "Take out his watch, that's what lets him teleport."

Space Policeman: "Quiet you!"

He fired at me, but I was able to dodge, the ray gun's projectiles were much slower than bullets, but what would happen if they hit somebody was beyond me, could've been anything as minor as an electric shock to lethally melting someone's face off. Of course, we didn't really care to find out and assumed that they were lethal.

A few moments later a shadowball hit his arm, it didn't hurt him much, but it was enough to break the watch.

Space Policeman: "Piece of crap, it's broken...no!"

He punched the broken watch in anger as Phoebe teleported behind him and promptly knocked him out.

Phoebe: "Ok, he's down."

Phoebe: "We need to get out of here, if we come across more than one of those guys I won't be able to take them."

Me: "I know."

Phoebe: "And you're helpless."

Me: "I'm not that helpless."

Me: "I called out the watch bit."

Phoebe: "Yeah, you're right."

She kissed me.

-cutely- Phoebe: "Thanks."

The portal began to form behind us, and just as more space police arrived in their weird delorean sedans we escaped back through the portal.

Me: "Shut it down now."

Dr. Black: What? Why?"

Phoebe: Space police, they don't like us."

Me: "Shut it down before they come through."

Dr. Black: "Ok, ok, Bob kill the portal."

Bob: "Right."

Dr. Black: "Now what did you do to invoke these space police?"

Me: "Nothing."

Me: "They just got mad at us for using a portal."

Dr. Black: "Ok."

Dr. Black: "So what else did you learn about this world?"

Me: "It's set in the 80s."

Phoebe: "Actually it's more like the 60's."

Me: "No it's the 80's."

Phoebe :"80's back home is basically the 60's here."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Dr. Black: "So it was like the 60's then, with those old bulky tvs and what not?"

Phoebe :"Mhm."

Me: "And the cars."

Phoebe: "Cj knows more about that then I do."

Dr. Black: "Any souvenirs?"

Phoebe: "No, we didn't have any money to buy anything."

Me: "The currency is the same as our world, but anything made before whatever year that world is set in probably won't work."

Phoebe: "And we stole a taxi ride."

-annoyed- Me: "Pheebles..."

Phoebe: "We had to though, to escape the space police."

Dr. Black: "What are the space police like?"

Me:" They're like a secret government police force, I guess, and they have cameras set up everywhere to monitor everything."

Phoebe: "They knew we didn't belong there."

Me: "They seem to have access to technology that we haven't even seen."

Dr. Black: "Like what?"

Phoebe: "They have watches that can enable humans to teleport."

Dr. Black:"Really?"

-meanwhile-

-into radio- Space Police Woman: "Sir they escaped, requesting permission to trace back the portal."

-on radio- Space Police Chief: " Permission denied, you know the protocol, there's no telling what that portal will lead to, and besides, it could be out of our jurisdiction."

-on radio-Space Police Chief: "As always, stay here and wait and see if they come back."

-into radio Space Police Woman: "Yes sir."

-back at the portal lab-

Dr Black: "Ok, so this portal is only to be further tested by fully equipped teams with atleast 4 fully evolved pokemon, any interactions with these so called 'space police' are to be kept to a minimum, as we do not know what their intentions are at this time."

He wrote some notes down on his clipboard, while Bob procceeded to shut the portal down and prepared to move it to another room.

Dr. Black: "That said, move it out."

Bob: "Already on it."

Dr. Black: "You two can go home now."

Me: "I thought you said you were going to move that zombie out of here?"

Dr. Black: "We are, after we get this portal out of here we're going to send him back to where he belongs."

Me: "Ok."

We left the lab, and headed home.

Me: "You want to go get Charley now or you want to wait a little bit?"

Phoebe: "Ehhh, I don't know."

Phoebe: "I guess we can go get him when we go get Nina."

Me: "I guess so."

Me: "So what do you wanna do until then baby girl?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "Why don't we just snuggle and watch tv for a bit."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "We've been walking around all day."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Can you go get our blanket from upstairs."

Me: "Ok."

-playfully- Me: "Just don't take over the couch."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Hehe, I'll try not too."

Inevitably I returned to find her laying down across the couch, but she moved when I got close.

-playfully- Phoebe: "Sorry, I tried.."

-playfully- Me: "Mhmmm, I'm sure you did."

We snuggled up on the couch, together under the blanket, while an history channel documentary about the first world war played on the tv.

Me: "This is nice."

-relaxed- Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me:"So, um..you wanna fool around?"

Phoebe: "Oh no Cj, we did that yesterday."

Me:"Oh...okaay."

Phoebe: "I just want to rest for a bit."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe:" And learn about world war 1.."

Phoebe: "And how tanks were invented."

-relaxed- Phoebe: "-sighs- I'm tired."

Me: "Yeah, that space policeman put up a good fight."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

-relaxed- Me:"-sighs-."

Me: "Love you Pheebles."

-cutely relaxed- Phoebe: "Love you too."

We layed there for a little bit.

Me: "Maybe we should get Charley."

Phoebe: "Oh...it's almost his nap time though."

Phoebe: "He'll probably be asleep once we get there, and then we'll have to wake him up so we can bring him back home."

Phoebe: "It would be best just to wait until after we get Nina from school."

Me: "OK, if you say so."

-a few minutes later-

When I woke up this morning I never anticipated I'd have to be her history teacher.

Phoebe: "What did we have to do with this war? It's clear on the other side of the world."

Me: "Well, in the beginning, we didn't have much of a part to play in it, it was mostly between the european countries, all we did in the beginning was ship supplies to our allies, like Great Britain for instance"

Me: "Later on though, we fought in it because Germany kept sinking our ships."

Phoebe:"ohh...ok."

Phoebe: "Wasn't Britain our enemy, why are they our allies now?"

Me:" We were only enemies in the revolutionary war, that was more than a century before this."

Phoebe: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe: "What happened to make them our allies?"

Me: "I don't know, but we really didn't have a reason to stay enemies either, after we became a country."

Me: "You know, times change, old enemies are forgotten."

- a few minutes later-

Me:"You want to see if a movie is on?"

Phoebe: "No, this is fine."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "You bored?"

Me: "A little bit."

Me:"You want to go exploring the timber?"

Me: "The creek might be frozen over."

Phoebe: "Ummmm, maybe in a few minutes."

Me: "Ok."

We watched tv for a few more minutes and the documentary went on about the trenches, and the invention of tanks, and what not. Then, out of nowhere, she got up and decided she wanted to go.

Phoebe: "You comming?"

Me: "We're leaving now? "

Phoebe: "Mhm."

We threw on our coats and headed outside, taking Magnum and Cloudela with us, as they didn't mind the cold.

We trudged through the snow, into timber, well, I trudged, she hovered most of the way, only walking when we reached the base of the hill.

Me: "You going to hover on the ice too?"

Me: "Because that's kind of cheating."

-cutely- Phoebe: "No I won't, I promise."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Hey."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "There's a rabbit nearby."

-curious- Me: "What do rabbits think?"

Phoebe: "It's thinking about running away."

Me:" But we don't mean it any harm."

Phoebe: "It doesn't understand that."

Phoebe:"It's terrified of us."

Phoebe: "Come on, follow me, let's try not to bother him."

Me:"Ok."

I took one step, and the rabbit bolted off into the trees, throwing snow up as it went.

Me: "Well that didn't work."

Phoebe:"I guess not."

Phoebe:"Oh well."

She let Cloudela out, it felt right at home in this weather.

-happilly- Cloudela:"Clou cloudela, clou."

Phoebe: "It's a nice day out huh?"

Phoebe: "Maybe for you, it's a bit cold for us."

Cloudela: "Clou."

Phoebe:"I miss not being able to let the pokemon out this time of year."

Me: "Yeah well, it just gets too dangerous for them to be out in the cold for long, you know?"

Phoebe:"You brought Magnum didn't you? "

Me:" Mhm."

Phoebe: "Good."

I sent Magnum out, and then we all proceeded to trek up the hill together, once we made it to the top, we headed down the other side, to a cliff that overlooked the banks of the creek that weaved around the hill.

From the cliff she teleported us to the banks of the creak, while Magnum and Cloudela simply followed us. There were spots where we could climb down, but she insisted that teleporting was safer. As I expected, the creak was covered by a sheet of ice, Phoebe walked out onto it, using her powers just a little bit to keep her balance. Clumsily trudging along in her little green snow boots and puffy white coat. I didn't do much better, to be honest.

I took it slow at first, making sure the ice could support my weight before stepping out onto it, slowly making my way over to her.

Me: "Well it seems pretty strong."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

We wandered around on the ice for a little bit, holding hands, trying not to slide everywhere.

Me: "Any animals anywhere?"

Phoebe: "No...just some carp below the ice."

Me: "Ok."

Eventually we got bored and began to head back home.

We saw some turkeys up on top of the hill, but they fled soon after we spotted them.

Phoebe: "Why are animals so cowardly?"

Me:" I don't know."

Phoebe: "They always run away."

Me: "Not always, some will attack."

Me: "Speaking of which, you want turkey for dinner?"

Me: "Magnum can probably go get one for us."

Phoebe: "No...not really."

Me: "Ok."

By the time we got back home we had to leave to pick up Nina from school, then we picked up Charley from my parents, and headed home for the day. Nina spent some time in her room, working on her homework, while Phoebe and I once again tried to get Charley to walk. By this time, he already had his nap for the day, so he was quite energetic and playful. More than willing to attempt to walk across the room a few times, to the arms of his mother.

As I let go of his hands he stumbled forward, he took about 6 steps before he began to lose his balance. He managed to regain it, and keep himself from falling but only for three more steps, afterwhich he fell to his knees, after making it about halfway across the livingroom.

-dissapointed- Charley: "Cawey fah dow."

Phoebe: "I know."

Phoebe: "Come on sweetie."

Me: "That was his best yet."

Phoebe: "Can you stand back up or do you need daddy to help you?"

He tried to get back up, but his legs were just a bit too weak, so I helped him back up.

Me: "There you go little guy."

Phoebe: "Ok come to mommy."

He took a few more steps before falling.

-unamused- Charley: "Cawey fah dow ageh.."

-stubbornly- Charley:" Cawey no wa stah no mo."

Me: "Oh come on.."

I tried to pick him back up but he didn't even try to stand.

-stubbornly- Charley: "No Dawhy."

Me: "Charley, come on."

Charley: "Cawey wa wa teephee now."

Phoebe: "No tv."

Charley: "Buh Cawey wa teephee."

Charley: "Mawa noooo."

Phoebe: "No more tv until you learn how to walk."

-upset- Charley: "NOOOOOO!"

-sternly- Phoebe: " Charley."

-upset yelling- Charley: "CAWEY WA TEEPHEE!"

She picked him up and held him, fortunately it didn't take much to calm him down.

Phoebe :"Why do you need to watch tv anyway? You have lots of toys to play with?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Phoebe: "Well come on then, let's go see."

She brought him upstairs to his room, where most of his toys were, the rest were scattered around in front of the tv. I followed.

She sat down on the floor and set him down next to some of his pokemon plushes. His lotad, the golden wartortle that was a villian from Torch the Growlithe, but nobody could remember his name, and Nina's Morty the Murkrow plush.

Phoebe: "See, here are your toys."

Charley :"Mawko.."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

He seized his murkrow plush.

Charley: "Whe Cawey bwah?"

Phoebe: "Oh...they're back downstairs"

Phoebe: "I'll go get them, you stay here with daddy."

She gave him a kiss before getting up.

Phoebe: "Play nice."

She kissed me on the cheek.

Me: "We will."

She left the room as I sat down on the floor across from him.

-unsure- Charley: "Dawhy."

-playfully- Me: "Hey little guy."

Me: "Are you going to build a castle again?"

Charley:" Cawey dunno."

Me: "Oh..."

Phoebe came back up about a minute later, using her powers to carry all of Charley's blocks. Charley immediately noticed this and was amazed.

-amused- Charley: "Cawey bwah fwy-en."

Charley: "Bwah geh dow..."

Charley: "Seewee bwah."

-playfully- Me: "Hehehe, silly blocks..."

Me: "They aren't flying on their own little guy."

Phoebe set all the blocks down on the floor around him, then she sat down beside me.

Charley:" Bwah fah dow..."

Phoebe: "Charley."

Phoebe:" Watch."

She used her powers again to lift a single block in front of him.

Charley looked at the block, then at her, and as she moved the block around in front of him, he eventually put two and two together.

-amused- Charley: "Mawa ma bwah fwy!"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Charley :"Cawey may bwah fwy?"

Phoebe :"Maybe when you're older."

Phoebe: "You have to master teleporting first sweetie."

Charley: "Cawey telpo..."

Phoebe: "Mhm, but not very well yet."

Phoebe:" You're getting there though, just give it time."

Charley :"Mawa may Cawey fwy?"

Phoebe: "No..I'm sorry sweetie, I can't."

-surprised- Me: "You can't?"

Phoebe: "Cj it's dangerous, if I lose focus for even a moment, like if Nina happened to barge in or something, I could drop him."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Charley picked up a block, and threw towards the wall.

-cutely- Charley: "Mawa...Cawey may bwa fwy..."

-jokingly- Me: "Because you threw it, you goofball."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "You used your hands, that's cheating."

Charley:" Cawey dunno."

Charley: "Wa Mawa, Dawhy, Cawey ma bwah fwy ageh!"

Me: "No, no more throwing blocks."

Me: "Do you want to break them?"

Charley: "Buh Cawey ma bwah fwy."

He gave me a dissapointed look.

Me: "How about we make a castle?"

I began to build a castle with the blocks available.

Charley:"No dahwy, Cawey ma Cah-ol."

He knocked my castle over.

Me: "Ok ok."

Phoebe :"Hehe you got dethroned."

Me: "I guess so."

-playfully- Charley: "Cawey es kee."

Me: "You're the king huh?"

Me: "Ok."

Charley: "Whe Newa?"

Phoebe: "She's downstairs."

Charley: "Newah dunno Cawey es kee."

-unsure- Charley: "Mawa go may Newa ses Cawey es kee?"

He tried to say more than he knew how to say.

-confused- Me :"Huh?"

Phoebe: "I think he means he wants me to tell Nina that he's king."

-playfully- Phoebe: "She already knows sweety."

She lied, not wanting to leave the room again, of course Charley didn't suspect a thing and quickly forgot his request as he began to build his castle.

Nina finished her homework and joined us a few minutes later.

Nina: "Mom, I got my homework done."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Nina: "What's Charley doing now?"

Phoebe: "Ohhh, he's building his castles again."

Me: "Ok."

Charley: "Newa!"

-cheerfully- Charley: "Cawey es kee."

Nina: "hmm?"

Phoebe: "He's saying he is king."

Nina: "King of what?"

Me: "His castle of blocks."

Nina: "Oh...ok."

Nina: "Mom can I talk to you for a minute?"

Phoebe: "Um, about what?"

Phoebe: "Oh wait, nevermind I know."

Phoebe:"Sure."

Phoebe: "Charley play nice with your father."

Me: "Where you going?"

Phoebe: "She doesn't want you to hear this, I'll be back in a little bit just keep Charley occupied."

-nervously- Nina: "Mom, don't tell him."

Phoebe: "I'm not, don't worry, and stop reading your father's mind."

They both left the room.

Charley: "Newa whegowee?"

Charley:" Cawey wa pway."

Me: "She'll be back in a little bit, I don't know what they're talking about."

Me:"Do you?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "I thought so."

-sadly- Charley: "Cawey wa pway Newa."

Me :"You can play with her when she gets back, don't worry."

Charley: "Cawey miss."

Me: "You don't see her alot during the week do you?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "Hehe."

I proceeded to help him construct his castle, we were almost finished when the girls returned.

Me: "So what did you talk about."

Nina: "She can't tell you."

Me: "Why not?"

-curious- Me: "Why am I not allowed to know?"

Phoebe: "Nina, he'll have to know eventually."

She spoke like she was planning to tell me later anyway.

-grumpy- Nina:"But not now."

Phoebe rolled her eyes.

Phoebe :"Anyway..."

Charley looked up from his castle and interupted.

Charley: "Cawey see Newa!"

Charley: "Newa Pway?"

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey es kee."

Newa: "Oh ok, we'll play."

He threw the Murkrow doll towards her.

-cutely- Charley: "Newa es Mawko."

Nina: "oookayy."

Phoebe tugged my arm.

-whispering- Phoebe: "Come on let's go."

-unsure- Me: "Where?"

Nina: "Where are you going?"

Phoebe: "We have some stuff to do for work, we won't be long, just keep Charley occupied while we're gone."

Nina: "Oook."

-suspicious- Nina: "Why doesn't dad know?"

Phoebe: "Because I just got the message from the lab and haven't been able to show him yet."

Nina :"Ok..."

Phoebe led me out of the room.

Me: "What was that all about?"

Phoebe: "Shhh, can't talk now."

She led me down into the basement.

Phoebe: "Ok, she shouldn't be able to hear you down here."

Me :"Ok?"

Phoebe: "Now hold still."

She touched my head, and I felt a slight stinging sensation as memories of a conversation we had earlier flooded back to me.

Me :"Oh...that's what this is about."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Anything new?"

Phoebe: "Apparently this guys parents invited us to dinner tomorrow."

Me: "Ooookay..."

Me: "Um..."

Phoebe: "I know its awkward."

Me: "At their house?"

Phoebe: "No at this restaurant in the city."

Me: "Ok that's a bit less strange."

Phoebe: "Do you think we should go?"

Me: "It would give us a chance to meet this guy."

Me: "But we could be walking into a trap."

Phoebe: "We can bring our pokemon just in case."

Me: "True."

Me:"Ok, we'll go."

Phoebe:"Ok then, I'll tell her to go ahead with it."

Me:" Ok."

Phoebe: "And now I have to erase your mind again so hold still."

Me: "Wait what?"

Phoebe: "Nina can't find out I told you yet."

-nervous- Me: "Um...oo-ooo-kay."

She touched me again and gave me another headache.

Me: "Owww...I told you to worn me..next time."

Phoebe: "I did...but you forgot about it."

Phoebe: "I'm sorry."

We then heard Nina comming down the stairs.

Phoebe: "Um make out with me."

Me: "What?"

She pulled me into a kiss, as Nina came down the stairs, she stopped as soon as she saw us.

-disgusted- Nina: "Ewww...what are you?"

-sternly- Phoebe: "Nina go back to watching Charley, you can't just leave him up there on his own."

Nina: "You're not working, you just left me with him so you could screw around."

-busted- Phoebe: "Ehehe..."

Me: "We were working, we just got...carried away."

-nervously- Phoebe: "mhmmmm."

Phoebe:"Get back to Charley before he makes his way to the stairs."

-dissapointed- Nina: "Fine, whatever."

She trudged up stairs, out of the basement.

Phoebe: "-sighs-, that was close."

Me: "You know you're going to get caught one of these days?"

-solemnly- Phoebe: "IIIII know."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "But that's why I have you..."

-unsure- Me:" Eheh..."

-unsure- Me: "Why did we come down here again?"

Phoebe: "Ummm."

-overwhelmed- Phoebe: "Why don't we just go back upstairs, ok?"

Me: "Ok."

We headed upstairs, and then up more stairs to get back to Charley's room, where we found Charley still playing castle on the floor with Nina.

We spent the next hour in Charley's room until Phoebe headed downstairs to start making dinner, taking Nina along for help. So I brought Charley downstairs and tried to help him walk a few times before calling it quits for the day and turning on the tv.

The events that occured over the remainder of the evening weren't really worth mentioning.