were seeing something for the first time. ‘You don’t belong here.’
‘No kidding,’ she murmured.
‘No, I mean you’re not dead. You’re not a spirit,’ his brow furrowed in confusion, ‘you still have a mortal body. How did you get here?’
‘Hades,’ she answered honestly. Even if he didn’t exactly remember who she was, he was still the closest thing she had to a friend on the other side, and if she was going to find Theo and get the hell outta Dodge she was going to need all the help she could get.
‘Hades?’ his eyes widened, ‘THE Hades?’
‘Yeah, that’s the one.’
‘How do you know who I am? What do you want with me?’ he asked suspiciously.
‘Look, I know this is going to sound strange. I don’t know why you don’t remember me or why you look about fifteen years younger than the last time we met, unless of course you have a hell of a plastic surgeon, but we have met. We’re friends, sort of.’
‘Friends?’ he replied skeptically, ‘but you’re human.’
‘Yeah and you’re not, I get that.’
‘You know what I am?’ his eyes widened in surprise.
‘Well no, not exactly. I know you aren’t human and I know you can kind of,’ she did a strange little flapping gesture with her hand, ‘you know, appear and disappear and travel from one place to another instantaneously.’
‘Translocate,’ he replied curiously.
‘Oh, okay then, translocate yourself from one place to another, and that you can…’ she stopped and frowned. ‘What do you call it when you jump through time.’
‘Through time? Are you mad? No one can translocate through time. Distance yes, over different dimensions yes, but not through time.’
‘You can,’ she shrugged. ‘I’ve seen you do it.’
‘Impossible,’ Sam scoffed.
Sam lifted the glass back to his lips, his eyes narrowing as he scrutinized her thoroughly, perhaps trying to figure out why she would make up such an outrageous lie.
Olivia watched him observing her and a sudden thought occurred to her. Every time she had met up with Sam, or rather the older version of Sam, he had been adamant he knew her, that they had met before but she knew she had never met him. What if the tables had finally turned, if the Sam she had known had travelled back to her time. What if she had finally caught up with an earlier version of him and from his point of view they were just meeting for the first time.
‘God,’ she breathed with the sudden realization, ‘time travel is enough to give you a brain hemorrhage.’
She took the glass from his hand and downed the contents in one go.
‘Hey that’s mine.’
‘Oh please’ she sighed, ‘are you even old enough to drink?’
‘That’s a human rule’ he frowned.
‘Okay here’s the thing,’ she took a deep breath, ‘you can believe me or not but it’s the truth. At some point in your future presumably you are going to discover you are capable of skipping back and forth through time. That’s how we meet, well how I met you. You apparently are just meeting me for the first time now.’
‘Huh?’
‘Try and keep up Sam, we don’t have all day. The older version of you’ she continued, ‘the one I know, travelled back to the year 1695 to a town called Salem in Massachusetts. You save a man named Theodore Beckett, from burning to death in a barn. You pulled him out minutes before the barn collapses in. The people in his time assume he has died in the fire but you pull him forwards over three hundred years into his future and drop him in my lap or rather in front of my car, in my hometown of Mercy.’
‘Let’s just say you’re right and that you are telling the truth about the whole travelling through time, and I’m not saying I believe you but, why would I do that?’
‘I have no idea,’ she shook her head and slid tiredly onto the barstool next to him, pulling out another glass and refilling it.
‘He’s important to you isn’t he? This Theodore?’
‘Yes he is,’ she
‘No kidding,’ she murmured.
‘No, I mean you’re not dead. You’re not a spirit,’ his brow furrowed in confusion, ‘you still have a mortal body. How did you get here?’
‘Hades,’ she answered honestly. Even if he didn’t exactly remember who she was, he was still the closest thing she had to a friend on the other side, and if she was going to find Theo and get the hell outta Dodge she was going to need all the help she could get.
‘Hades?’ his eyes widened, ‘THE Hades?’
‘Yeah, that’s the one.’
‘How do you know who I am? What do you want with me?’ he asked suspiciously.
‘Look, I know this is going to sound strange. I don’t know why you don’t remember me or why you look about fifteen years younger than the last time we met, unless of course you have a hell of a plastic surgeon, but we have met. We’re friends, sort of.’
‘Friends?’ he replied skeptically, ‘but you’re human.’
‘Yeah and you’re not, I get that.’
‘You know what I am?’ his eyes widened in surprise.
‘Well no, not exactly. I know you aren’t human and I know you can kind of,’ she did a strange little flapping gesture with her hand, ‘you know, appear and disappear and travel from one place to another instantaneously.’
‘Translocate,’ he replied curiously.
‘Oh, okay then, translocate yourself from one place to another, and that you can…’ she stopped and frowned. ‘What do you call it when you jump through time.’
‘Through time? Are you mad? No one can translocate through time. Distance yes, over different dimensions yes, but not through time.’
‘You can,’ she shrugged. ‘I’ve seen you do it.’
‘Impossible,’ Sam scoffed.
Sam lifted the glass back to his lips, his eyes narrowing as he scrutinized her thoroughly, perhaps trying to figure out why she would make up such an outrageous lie.
Olivia watched him observing her and a sudden thought occurred to her. Every time she had met up with Sam, or rather the older version of Sam, he had been adamant he knew her, that they had met before but she knew she had never met him. What if the tables had finally turned, if the Sam she had known had travelled back to her time. What if she had finally caught up with an earlier version of him and from his point of view they were just meeting for the first time.
‘God,’ she breathed with the sudden realization, ‘time travel is enough to give you a brain hemorrhage.’
She took the glass from his hand and downed the contents in one go.
‘Hey that’s mine.’
‘Oh please’ she sighed, ‘are you even old enough to drink?’
‘That’s a human rule’ he frowned.
‘Okay here’s the thing,’ she took a deep breath, ‘you can believe me or not but it’s the truth. At some point in your future presumably you are going to discover you are capable of skipping back and forth through time. That’s how we meet, well how I met you. You apparently are just meeting me for the first time now.’
‘Huh?’
‘Try and keep up Sam, we don’t have all day. The older version of you’ she continued, ‘the one I know, travelled back to the year 1695 to a town called Salem in Massachusetts. You save a man named Theodore Beckett, from burning to death in a barn. You pulled him out minutes before the barn collapses in. The people in his time assume he has died in the fire but you pull him forwards over three hundred years into his future and drop him in my lap or rather in front of my car, in my hometown of Mercy.’
‘Let’s just say you’re right and that you are telling the truth about the whole travelling through time, and I’m not saying I believe you but, why would I do that?’
‘I have no idea,’ she shook her head and slid tiredly onto the barstool next to him, pulling out another glass and refilling it.
‘He’s important to you isn’t he? This Theodore?’
‘Yes he is,’ she
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