Family Reunion: Reunite
Tom's
family was a weird mix of humans and protectors, with a statistically
improbable amount of them being protectors despite only around seventy of them
being in the past. Using his entire family being in one location, including the
other protectors, Tom arranged for Naomi and Emma to be introduced to them in
the hopes of drawing Jackie out.
He
just hoped that she would show or the work that they’d put to generating the
necessary protection for the human family members would be flushed down the
drain.
After the rest of the family got
into position for the group photo, Tom took his chance and announced, ‘Guys,
before we start I need to tell you something.’
‘Okay,’ Janet agreed.
‘A number of you already know this,
but most of you don’t…and before I finish explaining I just want to say sorry
to Nan for what is about to happen,’ Tom sighed. ‘Okay, everyone this will seem
really weird ‘cause I’m only eighteen, but I have a girlfriend and a daughter.
Naomi, Emma! Come in.’
‘You have a girlfriend,’ Ollie
called out with a laugh.
His dad on the other hand, looked at
his quizzically and asked, ‘You have a daughter?’
‘Yeah, time travel and age
manipulation are responsible for the slight differences in age, for example, I’m
actually something like six hundred and twenty two at this point, Naomi is one
hundred and forty nine and the really confusing one, Emma is three hundred and
seventy eight,’ Tom explained as Emma and Naomi walked around the corner.
‘Mostly because I enjoy history so
just live through various time periods when I’m bored,’ Emma joked as Janet’s
eyes locked onto Naomi.
‘How?’ Janet stated, her eyes unmoving.
‘Quite simply actually, we have a
time…oh. You were talking to mum,’ Emma started before noticing the woman’s
gaze.
‘You’re hair…there are only two
places you could have gotten that from,’ she pointed. ‘Emily or Will?’
‘Dad,’ Naomi admitted sadly. ‘He
killed Will during the civil war that erupted when Tom came back. Mum, Jackie’s
a psycho, she gave herself the ability to control minds, she turned him against
us…He killed Paige, he tried to kill me, all because of her…’
Tom
turned to see a couple glasses of water begin boiling while the fish tank at
the back of the room began to shake uncontrollably.
‘Naomi. I’m so sorry, no child
should have to go through that,’ Janet cried. ‘I should have made Geoff send
you all back as well.’
‘And then I wouldn’t be born,’ Emma
snapped. ‘Nor would my sisters. You can’t just undo everything, that isn’t how
time works. The events that led here today were all set in stone. Geoff trying
to kill dad. Jackie burning Paris. Kelvin killing Paige. Geoff sending you back
in time. The way everything unwound itself in the past, everything was leading
to this point.’
As
Janet looked at the small girl in shock, Tom suddenly disappeared into a blur
before an almighty crash sounded from behind Naomi as Tom threw Jackie down
onto it, snapping it instantly. ‘Fight or sit Janet?’ Tom asked while he had a
short respite.
‘Fight,’ she agreed, Tom nodded in
understanding and clicked his fingers, causing Janet to become enveloped in a
red smoke.
When
the smoke dissipated a few seconds later, Janet appeared as a young beautiful
woman who Naomi instantly recognised as the mother who had disappeared. The human
members of the family sat and stared at the newly regenerated great-grandmother
of the family, none of them truly believing it to be the same person.
While
Tom held her down, Jackie caused the water from the fish tank to shatter the
glass tank and escape in a power jet, which split into five which subsequently
collidied with Tom, Emma, Connor, Erin and Naomi, sending them flying out the
conservatory and into the outer-smoking area. She then turned to Janet and
said, ‘Hello old friend. Ready to die like you should have done all those years
ago?’
‘I won’t be the one to die today,’ Janet snarled back.
‘I won’t be the one to die today,’ Janet snarled back.
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