In the Hands of Time, Chapter 1
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In the Hands of Time
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_*In the Hands of Time *_
_*by Quatro Gnome*__ _
_Chapter 1: Dear Jon_
He had brought them here because of the view. The fact that this
was where they came to watch the stars on their first date only made it
all the more special. It had been so familiar to them. They had came
out here every year after school let out for the summer. They would
sleep on the ground and just watch the sun set and the stars peek
through the dark blanket that would cover the sky. So it only seemed
natural that this be the place he took her to finish off their first
date. It felt even more right on their anniversary. They had been here
for the past hour just looking at the stars and holding each other, but
that was not all that they had planned for their first anniversary.
She readjusted herself, laying her head on his shoulder. Their
lips met with that warm electric feel you get when you know you are
kissing someone you will spend the rest of your life with. Their lips
peeled apart, their eyes opened slowly and they got lost in each other
again. That was the last moment he knew that he just _*liked *_her. He
knew in that instant that he loved her. He knew nothing after that
though. Nothing he had ever done with her had prepared him for what was
coming next.
“Jon, I love you.” He pulled her in close and kissed her with all
his being. She just melted in his arms. When they pulled apart again
she couldn’t look him in the eyes, like she had before. She spoke in a
far away voice and when she finally spoke what she said shattered his
world. “I don‘t know how to tell you this but.. I have to...I have to
... leave you." She lowered her eyes and fought the tears that were
welling up. She wiped them away on her sleeve and struggled with the
words. "I can‘t tell you why. I wish I could. I have to...I have to
leave. I never wanted to say this... but I have no choice. *I have to*
leave you. I have something I want to give you to remember me. If you
want it give me your hand.” he nods his head slowly holding back the
pain he feels. The words ripping his heart to shreds. The whole time he
is hoping that it is only a bad dream. “Kiss me okay?” He looked at her
first with overwhelming joy and then with defeat but did as she asked.
He felt the electricity flow through him as her lips met his and she
put his hand on her heart. Time seems to stop for that second where he
felt as one with her and his world turned black.
* * *
“Man. What did I drink last night? I feel like shit.” He rubbed
the sleep out of his eyes with the palm of his hand as he stood up
stretching. “Wait! What in the hell is this on my hand? Fuck!! Don’t
tell me Lynn and I got wasted and got a tattoo of a broken hourglass.
Why in the hell would I get a broken hourglass on my hand? Well, I
guess I was really drunk if I got a tattoo and don’t remember. You
can’t really expect me to be thinking hey let’s get a tattoo with
meaning.
Nah, but I wonder what Lynn got, maybe I can talk her into letting
me look for it tonight. I wonder what she got. I wonder where she got
hers..” He got up slowly the smirk still on his face as he jumped in
the shower.
“Honey you better hurry up you are going to be late for school. It
is already eight o’clock and you haven’t even eaten yet.”
“Shit no time to eat now, mom. I got to go.” with a peck on the
cheek from his mom he was out the door. Well on his way to being late
for class, again.
*Man if she gave me a brown paper bag I would swear I was on a
show on Nick at Nite. Oh well, it could be worse since dad has been
gone she doesn’t have anything else to do. So I guess being the
stereotypical 50’s mom is what she does to get her kicks but she sure
doesn’t act it at night. The censors would have had a seizure if Donna
Reed wore a tank top and blue jeans*.”
He usually talked to himself as he daydreamed on the way to
school. It was his daydreaming that caused him to be late more than
ninety percent of the time. He would get lost in the stories that
unfolded in front of him.
*Shit! I got ten minutes to be at the school.*" FUCK! If I’m late
again I am going to be kicked out of Psych class and that is the last
thing I need*.*” He would get strange looks from people who saw him
talk to air as if carrying on a conversation, but he never even noticed
when slipped from thinking something to saying it.
Coach Orse wasn’t the happiest person in the world, a former
football player and a man that had his foot broken because he was
playing Rugby while he was drunk. Of course he had the great idea to
tell the students this the first day. Despite this, all the football
players respected him and everyone else showed up on time. Except for
Jon, he showed up late just enough times to learn the rules and how
late to show up. It irritated the teacher/coach more than anything. The
fact that Jon was a damn good student who passed every test he got to
take only compounded the problem. The only thing that saves him was
technically an unexcused absence won’t get you kicked out but it also
means you fail the test that day. Even though there had been football
players who got away with such things, Jon wasn’t so lucky.
Today was like any other, Coach Orse was standing outside the door
waiting for the bell to ring. It didn’t help that he had already sent
Jon to the office for insubordination for pointing out errors on his
tests and then arguing that he was right. The coach wasn’t too happy
about being proven wrong. It was even worse since he had copied the
question from the book, then put the wrong answer on the key. So to get
out of major trouble Jon was forced to apologize for being right and
that was exactly what he did.
“I’m sorry I was right about you being wrong. From now on, when
you are wrong in class I will just make a note of it and when you check
our notebooks you can find them there."
They had tried to suspend him for three days. All they got out of
it though was a wounded ego. The principal overruled the VP’s decision
when he heard what was going on and smartly told them to grow up. If
they were going to make mistakes then they have to accept it. Lastly
they need to try not to make fools of themselves again.
Ever since then the coach would checked the bathrooms to see if
Jon was hiding inside. Jon wasn’t that stupid. He would if nothing else
slow down or just duck into the nurses office because he felt “ill”.
The nurse was gone today and he couldn’t slow done or he would be late
for second hour too and he didn’t need that either.
“Shit, I need just another few minutes and I can actually be on
time today. If the bell didn’t ring I could get in there and say the
bell never rang. It was in the rule book. Jon made sure he learned the
rule book, it had saved his ass more than once.
_2._ _Tardiness_ -not being in your seat when the final bell rings.
_
a. 1st through 3rd tardies to a class during a semester warning issued
by teacher
b. 4th tardy = a detention, 5 tardies -2 hours of detention, a 6th
tardy = 3 hours detention
c. 7th tardy = 1 day in the Alternative Classroom
d. 8th tardy = 1 day out-of-school suspension, 9th = 2 days OSS, l0th =
3 days OSS
e. 10 accumulated tardies in all classes -1 day suspension
f. 15 accumulated tardies in all classes -3 day suspension
_
If the bell doesn’t ring, then there’s no trouble. Somehow Jon
never really felt that safe with this argument. He knew why. It was a
technicality and they never liked students finding loopholes. It showed
that they could think freely and in their own words that wasn’t what
high school was for. It was for learning not free will. Free will
wouldn’t get them anywhere in the real world. They were preparing them
for the real world.
“I have two minutes I have no chance to make it today. Shit why
can’t I just get up on time for once and get to class with time to
spare. The sad thing was I know I have a test today I need to be there
on time. I need to be there on time. He slows his pace and finally gets
there lost in his stories again. This time he just gave up on the idea
of getting in class on time. so he was waiting for the punishment he
knew was coming when he slipped into his seat not even looking at the
clock or the teacher. “Why is it so silent? Shouldn’t he be teaching or
something?” he thought to himself as he heard the bell ring. *HELL
YEAH!! I must have forgot to set the clocks back or something. I made
it on time. Hell. Yeah*.
“Nice to see that you decided to be here on time Mr. Stundeglas.
I see you decided not to miss another test. What’s wrong don’t think
you can pass if you miss another one?” Jon just ignored him and as
usual was the first person done.
He was happy as could be, even if the teacher was an ass, until he
noticed Lynn wasn’t in the seat in front of him like she usually was.
She must have had a bad hangover last night “oh well I will stop by to
see her after school, I guess.” The rest of the day passed in a sort
of haze, he was worried about Lynn she never missed more than first
hour with a hangover she must have been really sick if she missed all
day. The final bell of the day rang and he rushed to her house not sure
if what to expect since she didn’t even answer the phone when he tried
calling at lunch.
That was what worried him the most, she had never been too sick to
answer the phone. She lived in the opposite direction from his house
but it didn’t matter he was worried and he would risk it. his mom would
understand she had always thought of Lynn as more of a daughter
anyways. They had been friends forever, so she was a fixture at the
house. It wasn’t unusual for her to stay at the house or him at hers
their parents just understood how close the friendship was. That and
they figured it kept them from worse influences.
Those were the very reason his imagination was running away from
him now. He cared about her and was trying to prepare himself for what
he might find when he finally got there. The one thing that could
usually calm him was only making it worse as his mind flashed over what
could be wrong with the girl he loved. He saw her parents telling him
she was in the hospital, she was dead she was just too embarrassed to
see him , that she was abducted by aliens, every possible thing that
his active imagination could think of became real to him for those few
seconds. Nothing he saw though had prepared him for he did find when he
got there. There was nothing, no one there.
It was as if no one had ever lived there. There were cars in the
garage but the walls were bare, devoid of tools that he knew Lynn’s dad
would never have taken down, or put away. It wasn’t any better inside
the house, all the furniture was there but there wasn’t the marks on
either side of the door where Lynn’s mom had marked their heights
growing up or the place in the corner of the living room where some of
the Christmas tree lights scorched the wall. Every trace of them had
vanished. He searched the entire house for a single trace of them but
he could find nothing. After a quick search he flopped down onto the
couch with his head in his hands thinking about the memories he had in
this house and the memories he had in the spot he now sat. The first
kiss he had ever given her was on this couch. He had came over to her
house because her boyfriend had just dumped her. He just held on to her
for the time that it took for her to work out the tears but this time
he looked her in the eyes and wouldn’t let her look away. He had been
waiting for this time so long he was afraid to screw it up.
“Lynn ...I told you that he was a jerk but I’m sorry I was right. I
hated knowing you were with that asshole. He treated my best friend
like shit. I don’t ever want to let anyone treat you like that again.”
He saw her smile, leaned in and before the night was over he had a
girlfriend, but what surprised him the most was when her mom leaned
over the couch and whispered in his ear “Took you long enough don’t you
think?”
He had had too many memories here to just let it go though as if
she never existed, he loved her too much for it to happen. It had taken
him to last night to realize it and he never even got to say it back.
He started to get up and leave when something moved out of the corner
of his eye. When he turned around there was nothing there but a simple
white envelope lying on the coffee table with the words Mi Amante
stamped across it. But when he bent to pick it up his left hand began
to itch and by time he actually got the letter to where he could open
it. The words had changed to My Love. He didn’t understand it but he
knew whose hand writing it was and that was all that mattered. He tore
the letter open and began to read it.
Dear Jon,
I am so sorry I had to do it that way but my parents told me that
I couldn’t tell you that we were leaving until after we were gone. That
is why you had the “hangover” this morning. I am the reason we had to
leave and the reason your mother and father are gone. The person you
know as your mother is a guardian spirit sent to look after you. The
spirit has all the semblances of life and a soul but she can’t bear
child or age, which is why she still looks like she did when we were
kids. I wasn’t supposed to tell you that, but now that you have powers
again you would have found out eventually. Your mom and dad are here
with us and they are safe. Remember when “mom” said your dad had gone
to fought a war and was never heard of again well this is where he
went. We are in the Sire’s Realm and are waiting for your arrival.
I need to tell you all the secrets now that I shared the big one.
You and I are the children of prophecy. There were two Angelic guards
that were cursed to love what they could not have, demonic mages.
Something that should have never come to pass had, they loved the
Angels back. It destroyed the belief that demons were unable to have a
soul of their own. To secure their love a pact was made between four
mages on earth and the four cursed to love. They would exchange vessels
and then be able to have one another, but during the process something
went wrong. The Angels retained their powers, just like the demons, but
they also had the powers of the mages bodies that they now possessed.
We were conceived soon after. My mom and dad was half of the pact,
yours was the other half. We are born of heaven, hell, and earth. When
both witchcraft and demonic powers surfaced in us, we were shunned and
cast out of the Community. What made it worse was our parents were
still the best soldiers that either side had ever known. They still
fought to protect their home and the home of the ones they loved. It
also meant that there were two demons protecting Heaven and Earth. To
protect you, your parents bound your magic abilities and transferred
your time stop ability to me since my demonic powers never surfaced. I
have given them back to you. But you need to know the prophecy that we
are supposed to fulfill.
_
Twee zullen geboren worden wiens liefde onmogelijk is. Hun liefde zal
de hemel verbranden, en de hell bevriezen. De poorten zullen worden
opengeworpen, en zij die bennengaan zullen voor eeuwig het leven
kennen. He kwaad zal verrijzen en vrede maken door het vernietigen van
hetgene dat hem gecreërd heeft. Hij zal bestaansrecht eisen voor
zichzelf en alles vernietigen. He zal zij zijn die leidt naar de
vernietiging van alles die hij liefheeft. Zij kan de sleutel voor
verloosing zijn, maar alleen als the Liefde echt is. She kan nog
steedss naar het einde leiden. Pas op voor wat ze zegt en wat je weet
dat de waarheid is.
_
Shit I’m sorry I forgot you haven’t learned of your magic yet. I have
been slipping back and forth between the different languages of all the
people so much it was almost natural to put it in it's original
language. I don’t want to risk rewriting the letter since there may be
a chance that someone would find out I told you about the prophecy. I
put the English translation below so it is easier for you to
understand, okay? Well not like you have a choice but at least if my
folks see this they won’t yell at me for being impolite ?. It reads
_
Two shall be born of those whose love is impossible. Their love shall
burn heaven and Freeze hell. The gates will be cast open and those who
escape shall live and those who enter shall know forever life. The evil
shall arise and make peace,
_
So far it sounds great, but read on
_
By destroying that which created him. He shall claim existence for
himself and destroy all. It shall be her that leads to the destruction
of all that which he loves. She may be the key to salvation, but only
if Love is true. She may yet lead to the end. Beware what she speaks
and what you know to be true.
_
My folks were afraid that this letter would be enough to start it, but
I doubt it and I convinced them of it too. The attacks have been non
stop at trying to get us though. The doorway can be accessed at exactly
midnight in one months time it will only be open for a tenth of a
second so you will have to learn quickly how to use your powers over
time if not it may be too late for you to join us as the planes will be
too far out of synch. Your other powers will unlock over this time too
but refrain form using them until we can teach you how to properly use
them. Please don’t use them it may get you into trouble. I can’t give
you up twice so you better behave.
All My Love,
Lynn
P.S. The night was lovely last night and I know you love me too, you
never had to say it. I always knew. If you really want to know what
“tattoo” I got you will just have to find out when you get here. See
you soon my love.
The first thought in his head was “She loves me. YES!!” the second was
a little more depressing “Shit I need to get my ass in gear if I am
going to learn to control this in time to get to her.” the third was “
Wonder where she got the tattoo?” talking to himself again he leaves.
He took off at a run to get home not wanting to get in anymore
trouble but then he thought about it and he slowed down. “Okay Lynn I
have the power over time right well let’s try it out then check my
watch. It is 4:30 now. I have a thirty minute walk ahead of me still
but I will be home by 4 45 if I can do this right. Wish me luck
darlin.” He closes his eyes and sees time slowing down and finally
standing still he looks at his watch and sees that it worked but is let
down as it starts up again after what seems to be a few seconds and
left him with a dull throbbing in his head. “Crap Okay note to self
take it slower than that. If you keep that up you’re likely to kill
yourself from the exertion. Well at least we know I can stop my own
watch if nothing else.”
In those eight seconds he managed to stop the flow of time for
the entire world and in those few seconds he created a pocket of time
that would soon meet up with him. He also drained his reserve of power
that he had and quickly got home and collapsed his will to stay up
overpowered by his need to rest and he fell to into a deep sleep.
* * *
“Jon are you there?” Lynn runs up to him and wraps her arms around
his neck pushing her lips to his and sinking into the kiss. Their
tongues dance over one another seeking the treasure of the other’s
touch. His hands trailed down to the small of her back and pulled her
close. She melts in his arm but pushes away as she begins to fade.
”Jon we can’t do this I can only be here with great concentration and
we both know that I can’t think when you kiss me like that.” A smile
spreads across his face but he lets her go.
“What is this place anyways? Where are we?”
“This is your dreamscape. I have came here to give you your first
lesson. My parents taught us how to do it when we were young, remember?
Well, your first lesson is to stop time in a small area. this should
seem easy after what you did this afternoon.”
“Wait! You think what I did this afternoon was easy?”
“No I don’t. You stopped all of time for eight seconds. It even
stopped here, time runs differently here. No one has ever had the power
to do that. NO ONE. No one has been allowed that kind of power in over
three thousand years. The one person who had been given something close
had to be destroyed by the elders before he could master his skills. He
had planned to destroy everything and use the ashes to recreate it in
his image. He was not a nice person. We have to make sure that you
never become like that. Understand?”
“I couldn’t become like that and you know it. Now are we going to
get to the lessons or do I have to try and make you disappear again?”
He walks up to her and starts to kiss her right on the corner of her
left eyebrow, the one spot that would make her shiver every time.
“Ok OK stop that! Save that for the reunion. We need to get down
to the lessons. How did you get time to stop like that anyways?”
“I just pictured time like a river and then pictured the river
turning to ice so it would stop. I didn’t think that I had any better
control than that. I never even knew that I could do that. I mean for
you this is old stuff you had the power forever. I don’t remember ever
having it and now you tell me I am supposed to know how to use it? I
love you but you need to help me out here.”
“You must be a natural then I could never even have attempted to
stop all of time of course I never thought to try but still. I could
never hold you for very long in a time freeze but it was the only for
us to climax simultaneously, at least that I could think of.”
“Wait a minute we have had sex? Shouldn’t I have been aware of
this? I mean honestly I would have known, right?”
“Well you always were asleep and it was in your dreams. But we
were both there.”
“So what you are telling me is that you can have sex with me right
here right now and all I would have to do is will you to stay here and
you would?”
“Well yeah but the point of me being here is for you...” He pulled
her close to him and kisses her hard and kisses the place where her
neck meets her shoulder.
“If we are going to have a lesson I think my first will be revenge
darlin’ and guess what you aren’t allowed to leave unless I say so.” he
concentrates on freezing her in time and only her. Removing her clothes
slowly he spends a few minutes looking at the bra that held in her
beautiful breasts. ”I always wondered if I could get one of these off
one handed.” He smiles as he takes it in his hand and places his thumb
on one side and two fingers on the other, one on each side of the
fabric and push them together. It will come apart quite easily he found
out. as he takes the nipples he so longed to see between his fingers
and squeezed them softly licking the tip of the other as he squeezes
playfully.
He works his way down her body kissing spots on her stomach
randomly but stops at her belly button and licks her belly button
something he knew would make her squirm but he wanted to know what all
this would do to her after he unfroze her. He kisses her lower slowly
finding her panties sopping wet. He quickly makes them disappear with a
thought. He see her shaved lips and smiles while pushing her legs
apart. Laying between them he slowly opens up the flower that is her
outer lips with his tongue. Slipping in further he find the sweet taste
of her juices frozen in time. Licking up her slit he soon find the
little nubbin of flesh that is her clit and licks it for what seems
forever lost in the divine taste of her flesh. Once he is done with his
exploration he looks at her eyes frozen and unfreezes her. Her body
convulses and she moans as her eyes roll back in her head. Jon just
smiles and laughs as he watches the juices flow from her exposed pussy.
“I take it you liked it? I had always wanted to do that to you. I
dreamed about it ever since I kissed you.”
“Oh my god What did you do? That was fantastic. Can we do it
again?”
“I don’t think so. I had to let go of you. Otherwise you might
have passed out from what we were doing.”
“Are you kidding you stopped time but you couldn’t hold just me
for a few seconds. Are you trying to tell me I’m fat?” She smiles at
him as she tries to get to her feet but stumbles in her own juices.
He walks over to her and helps her up holding her in his arms. “ I
held you like that for over half an hour. I had a lot of fun, but I
think I should let you leave now. Not that it hasn‘t been educational.”
HE smiles but notices she hasn’t left yet. ”Why are you still here
darlin’?”
“I can’t leave just yet I want to stay in your arms for a little
while longer. I never got to feel this while we were together just give
me this one time. I love being in your arms. Can’t we stay like this
please?”
“Okay but I need to wake up sometime. Besides if I don’t we won’t
ever get to do this in the real world.” At the mention of doing it in
the real world she spin around in his arms and kisses him.
“Wake your ass up and get over there to see me got it? Now go on
wake up.”
* * *
He bolts upright on the couch and looks around not quite sure
where he was. When he looks around he sees a note on the table quickly
scrawled on the notepad.
Be Back by ten o’clock Love Mom
*Yeah right! Well we will have to see what I can do to “mom”
tonight when she gets Home I never have liked being lied to.* He smiles
as he saw he still had a good hour before she would be home. And the
plots began to roll through his head. God, he loved having a wild
imagination.