"The course of true love never did run smooth." ~ William Shakespeare
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Kailani Hummel, an innocent small-town genderfluid teenager, gets sucked into a world that seems like only they can navigate in an attempt to save everyone they love. Will Qu...
A/N: Surprise update because I'm too excited for the next few chapters!
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This title, I have just realized, is ironically a little unintentionally aggressive if you read this chapter and listen to Bullet Train by Choo Choo Soul. 😅
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"Am I blind?"
"You might as well be." Alisha bobbed her head and watched Kurt and Finn look around inside the room they had been using at Moonlight to map out everything they knew regarding their situation. "Looks like Kailani's been at this for longer than we thought. Little bitch can't lie through her perfect smile, but we all don't ask questions, and they keep everything from us."
"I knew she was smart, but..." Finn leaned closer to look at a few photocopies they had made of a few of his sibling's journals. "This is beyond what I understood or expected from her."
"Did your mom or Burt ever mention anything about time travel?" Quinn asked, hovering anxiously beside where the stopwatch she found was sitting on the table. "Your Mom gave Kailani a stopwatch, Kurt."
"It was something from an old friend of hers," Kurt muttered, looking over the picture of his mother on their large board. "I...I wouldn't have thought much of it. My Dad said it was just a friend she worked with when I asked him. My Mom has a lot of friends, though. Everyone loved her."
"I'm still confused," Mercedes admitted, turning to where Brittany was examining something on her laptop as Santana helped her wave a detector of some sort over the bracelet Kailani had on her desk. "How did the watch go from being the twin's mother's to Brittany's time travel device?"
"Brooke," Santana stated without hesitation, exchanging an amused look with Quinn. "Juniper must have been given the watch by Kailani. She gave it to Brooke to keep safe, and that's how Brittany found it."
"It already how components needed for time travel. I didn't have to do too much to get it working. Replicating it was the hard part, but it can be done." Brittany nodded to Paige as she picked up the watch and looked around its face. "That's gotta be the original, so, somehow, Kailani did get it back."
"Or they time traveled enough to know what would happen," Blaze muttered, rubbing his face. "Kailani had it in the office when we worked on the soul-surfing design. It was time travel in your sleep. I even told them it was broken, but they didn't care. Maybe it wasn't."
"It's stuck at ten?" Paige hummed curiously, trying to adjust the knobs, only for the hands to slowly rotate on their own back to the ten.
"That's been that way for years," Kurt explained, leaning slightly to look at the watch with a small smile. "My Mom used to play with us with it. Lani was always worried about being late. She'd run through the house yelling that there were only ten minutes left before bed...before leaving for swim. She stopped doing it after the accident. Lani wouldn't even step into the car after a while. My Dad had to put her inside."
