Chapter Ten: Lizzie Lewis

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We walked towards the others. We looked at them, waiting for explanation.

"We did try, guys." Toshiko told us. We headed off, walking through a tunnel.

"What's he gonna tell us? Bought it off an alien down at market?" Owen asked.

"Where are we going?"

"Back to the railway station." We said in unison.

"Controlled experiment." I explained.

"We replicate the events as far as possible. Observe and analyze the results."

"What, I have to do that again?"Gwen asked. I shook my head.

"Somebody does. Any volunteers."

"Jack, we don't know what this is, what it does."

"Nope."

"It could be dangerous."

"Sorry,I can see some flaws in this.'

"I'm sorry, aren't you the guys that gave up looking for a nineteen year old kid this morning? I thought you wanted something a little more exciting." He tossed it to me."Bit of a challenge!" He spat. I stopped and the others walked on. The machine was blinking.

"Guys?" They kept going, and I accidentally hit the button. I was in the tunnel still, but it was night time. Rain poured down, pattering on the ground. A woman stumbled into the tunnel. Her clothes were definitely not from this time period. She was crying."Are you alright?" I asked her. She didn't hear me.

"He's a rotten git." She sobbed, leaning against the wall. "My mam was right. His eyes are too close together. I said just a dance, but he wasn't having a bar of it. Oh, I shouldn't have gone outside with him, I should've known better."

"What's your name?"

"Lizzie!" A man said in a sing-song voice."Lizzie Lewis?" She looked at him, fear filling her eyes as he approached. I tried to move but I couldn't.

"You're a bad one, Ed Morgan. THe girls told me not to go with you, and they were right."

"Am I bad?" He asked."Am I a bad boy? You're a big girl now, Lizzie. YOu can make your own decisions.  That's why I like you. You're not like the others. Don't follow the herd. You're smart. Don't you like it that someone can see how smart you are? Hmm? I can see you Lizzie. The way you really are."He put his hands on her face and kissed her. She kissed back, but eventually pushed him away. He slapped her, grabbing her hair and pulling out a knife.

"Leave her alone!" I screamed.

"I don't want to hurt you. I don't."

"I told my Mam I'd be home by nine!" They walked away, and she cried. "PLease! Oh someone help me! Help me! Help me!" Suddenly it was daytime again and I froze, breathing raggedly. Gwen ran up to me.

"Diane? Are you alright?"

"She was so scared! And there was no one that could help her! I couldn't do anything!"  Gwen took the machine from my hands. "She needed help and I couldn't do anything!" Jack came over to me, wrapping his arms around me. I buried my head in his chest and tried not to cry.

~~~

I sat on the table, Jack stood beside me, keeping his hand on my knee. He ran his thumb back and forth.

"First it happens to Gwen, a boy at the railway station."

"Who is now in his seventies, alive and well, and living in Bluetown.And then it happens to Diane, who like me, you didn't just see it. YOu felt emotions that weren't yours."

"She was terrified."

"The victim's name was Lizzie, it was maybe forty, forty-five years ago. Toshiko, do we know anything about her yet?"

"Elizabeth Lewis, Lizzie. Only child of Mabel Ann Lewis of hafford street, died March twenty-ninth nineteen sixty three. Raped and murdered on Penfro street, under the bridge. Seventeen years old." I put a hand over my mouth, and Jack pulled me into his side.

"He killed her."

"No one was brought to trial."

"She promised her mother she'd be home by nine. What about Ed Morgan. Look him up."

"It's kind of a common name."

"What's the connection? Where did they come from? It's like being haunted."

"Quantum Transducer! Look!" Jack exclaimed. 

"I'd kill to get one of those! Transducers transform energy from one form into another. They're in headphones..."I walked to my bedroom and sat on my bed, my back against the wall, and held my knees against my chest. The door tapped open and Jack came in, leaning on the door until it closed.

"I knew how scared she was.I could feel it...and I'd felt it before." I looked up at him. "It was my fear about you. She was scared she was going to die and..." He sat down beside me.

"I'm not going to die." I was shaking.

"I didn't want to cry in front of them." I said, the tears I'd been holding back streaming down my face. 

"I'm sure they'd understand." I shook my head.

"I'm the one that's supposed to be calm and collected.  I'm supposed to be strong."

"You don't have to be." He said, pressing his lips against the side of my head.

"I want to be. I don't want to be scared anymore."

~~~

"Nice!" Jack said. We were continuing my gun training. I was doing fine so far. I put the gun down on the table. "You're doing great." I nodded. "Hey..." I looked up at him and he tucked a strand of hair behind my ear. "It's ok."  I stood on my toes, pressing my lips gently to his.

"I don't get it. You're the source of one of my biggest fears, yet...I feel safe when I'm with you. It doesn't make any sense." He shrugged.

"The human mind is a strange thing." 


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