Akito and Estelle at the Plaza

chapter 10

In Paris...

"I can't keep doing this..." Darla sighed as she sat at the desk of her hotel room in France. "My little girl needs her mother, she's already living without her father, but what can I do?"

"Oh, but mon cherie, don't you love visiting me?" a French man asked the blonde woman with a smirk. "I love your fashionista efforts."

"Yes, I know, but..." Darla said before getting a phone call. "Oh, excuse moi."

The French man nodded and left her to her private phone call.

Darla then answered her phone. "Bonjour."

"Darla, it's Drell, we might have a slight issue." Drell said on the other line.

"Drell..." Darla whispered. "I haven't seen you since I signed my contract when Eloise was almost five."

"Yeah, well, there's a problem..." Drell replied.

"What is it?" Darla asked, hanging on the phone, fearing the worst. "I'll be back in New York in three more days."

"It's about the time zone." Drell said.

"Time zone?" Darla raised a brow. "What on Earth are you talking about?"

"I better just show you, meet me at Father Time's place by teleporting there." Drell said.

"Hold on a moment..." Darla said before lowering the phone. "Pierre!" she called out to her French friend, telling him in French that she wouldn't make it to dinner, something had suddenly come up.

Pierre replied back in French that it was okay and hoped it wasn't anything too serious.

Darla nodded, then came back on the phone. "I'm on my way."

"Sounds good." Drell replied.

Darla hung up the phone, then reached into one of her drawers and took out something she kept hidden away from anyone else: Her Equestrian medallion. She then took off her expensive beaded necklace and replaced it with the medallion, wore it around her neck, and allowed it to transport over to Father Time's place.

And where once she placed her medallion around her neck, it instantly teleported her to Father Time's place. There was a bald man with a very long silver beard and wore a white robe, standing next to the most powerful man in the universe, Drell himself.

Darla walked out, adjusting her coat a little and tugged on the hem of her gloves. "Drell, what seems to be the problem?" she asked the warlock.

Drell looked over to Father Time. "You wanna tell or should I?"

"Darla, my dear, take a look at the time zone clock." Father Time told her.

Darla nodded once to him, then took a look at the time zone clock. "So, what am I suppose to be looking for?" she then asked.

"Don't you see anything wrong, my child?" Father Time asked.

"I don't understand..." Darla sighed. "Listen, I have a photo shoot in the morning and I'm going to stop at the boutique after lunch to buy my daughter a new cute little accessory."

"Your nieces and nephews have gone back in time from another time zone!" Drell told her.

"Oh?" Darla's eyes widened.

"Yes, it seems so..." Father Time informed.

"But... Why would they time travel and where could they had--Wait..." Darla was about to ask until she remembered something.

Last Night...

Darla saw she had time before it would become 8:00 at night in New York City, so she called the Plaza Hotel and the call transferred up to the penthouse where her daughter and Nanny were. Eloise eventually answered the phone and told her mother about Akito, Estelle, Vincent, and Felicity making a surprise visit to the hotel along with what happened during her day outside of the dull tutoring she endured with Phillip.