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“What’s going on, please tell me?” Ella pleaded and again, I owed her that much.
“Okay, so you have to trust me here. What you see will seem impossible.” She scoffed at this and told me wryly,
“Trust me, after today, that ship has fucking sailed.” I wanted to ask her more about what had happened, but seeing as I was unable to help, I knew there wouldn’t be much point.
“Fae, we have two minutes.” This time it was my aunty Sophia who warned me of this, as if she could sense something coming. Perhaps one of the men had woken up and she could feel their emotions rising. She was quite in tune like that with her brothers, and I knew it was because they were triplet souls. Gods, but I really hoped my dad hadn’t just woken up.
“Okay, so super quick version, that fountain is something we are going to step into, but in no time at all we will be stepping back through it. Where we go, I can’t tell you…” She heard the word portal and focused on that as she shouted,
“Wait, is it a portal, could it lead me to Jared?!” I released a weighted sigh, wishing it could but telling her the truth before she got any dangerous ideas.
“No, Ella, it’s… it’s a way for us to step back in time.” Not surprisingly, she gasped at this.
“That’s… but that’s impossible… isn’t it?”
“Yes and no… mainly yes. But only for those with the most worthy of causes and those brave enough to allow themselves to be judged by the God Janus. The timekeeper of all our realms,” I told her, hearing my mum whispering my name and I knew my time was up… literally.
“But I don’t understand…”
“I can’t explain more, I wish I could, as ironically, I am out of time but please trust me. If we aren’t back in less than five minutes, use the door, the one with…” She interrupted me, raising a hand and telling me,
“The one with the books, yeah I know.” She sounded so dejected and I hated it. Hated that I couldn’t do more. I wanted to tell her how sorry I was. How much I missed her. There were so many things but in the end, I only had time to tell her the important stuff,
“Good, and do me a favour, if we aren’t back, tell them we are sorry… that we failed… that we…” I had to stop before the tears fell, now grabbing her hand and holding it tight.
“Fae, if you still want to do this, it’s now or never,” my mum said, looking more nervous by the second as if any minute my dad was going to burst through the bookcase and run straight for us. I released another sigh and told her,
“…Tell them we love them.”Then I squeezed her hand and said,
“I loved you like a sister.” At hearing this I watched as a tear escaped before she nodded, telling me,
“Me too.” After this I let her go and ran back over to my time traveling gang.
“Love you, Ella, and for the past, I am sorry,” my mum said, saying her own sorry and her own version of goodbye, but Ella looked confused by this, as she was now frowning.
“I don’t understand,” we heard her say, just as we each held hands and started to step into the fountain. Then something strange came over me and I felt compelled to speak, like a message from the Fates themselves that she needed to hear,
“Time isn’t beyond us all, Ella… Remember that.”Then I took the last step, holding my breath, until I watched in horror as now Ella was running toward us.
“NO!” I screamed, but it was too late, as the last thing I saw before the time consumed us, was Ella…
Following us into the past.
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TIME URAVELED
“Ella!” I shouted my cousin's name in desperation, despite knowing the truth. Because as I looked around, I knew that it was pointless. Hopeless. Useless.
Ella was gone.
“What happened?!” I continued to look around, still searching despite my mother's voice asking me what was wrong. Because she obviously hadn’t seen what I had. I felt her grab my arm to get my attention.
“Amelia, what happened, what did you see?” I turned to her with wide eyes filled with tears of panic, then I told her the awful truth.
“Ella… she… I couldn’t stop her.I couldn’t stop her, Mum,”I said quietly this time as the tears rolled down my cheek, making my mother swiped them away with her thumbs before pulling me in to her embrace. Then I cried with my head to the crook of her neck, just like I always did when I was upset.
“It will be okay, Fae… it will be okay…it has to be,”she reassured me, but even I knew not to ignore the worry in her tone.
