Good and Evil

Rewinding Time Doesn't Fix Death

Since we don't exactly know what to do, we are just going to try to relax and just explore a little bit. We need to figure out how to get rid of Fall. Sure, I feel for her that her sister was killed, but she has taken it too far. It has past revenge ten times over. She needs to be stopped.
"Okay, so if Fall was such a sweet girl, what happened to all her friends and family when she turned bad" Jack asked rhetorically as he flopped back on the bed. We have been debating and trying to figure out our situation since we woke up. It's been four hours. I paced back and forth in front of Jack, just thinking.
"She may have killed them" Jack said, answering his own question.
"Oh, but that's sad" I said, "I sure hope she didn't. It would be terrible if seeing her sister die made her kill her friends and family"
"Yeah, but it could happen." Jack countered, "Have you ever read... Uh, I can't remember the title... Anyway, it has this part where these people fall in love during a war and eventually get married. On their wedding night, the husband gets called away to fight in a battle. During the middle of the battle, the wife, still in her wedding dress, goes to the battle ground and her new husband ends up being shot and dies in her arms. Since it is a book about magic and witches, she uses a spell to trade her soul for him gaining back his life. He wakes up from the dead, but since the wife sold her soul, she goes dark and strangles him herself. Then she goes around killing everyone and anyone, including her family and friends."
"Geez. It must've sucked to be her... Her new husband died in her arms, she brought him back to life, and then she killed him herself."
"Yeah. It just proves what someone can do I they go dark, which is kinda what happened with Fall, sadly." Jack admitted, rolling onto his stomach so he could bury his face in the pillows.
"I wanna just wake up from this bad dream already" Jack mumbled into the pillows. "I just want to go back to playing with Sammy in the treehouse before both our families died."
There was a sad silence for a moment before I spoke up. "So, you would go all the way back then just so you could be with your family?" I asked a little sadly.
"Well, yeah. That would mean you would have your family back too. Plus, I wouldn't just have my family... I would have mine, Sammy's family, Sam. That was the day I lost everything." Jack defended.
"Wait..." I said, hurt. "So you would give up meeting me, meeting Jes, just to save them? If you go back in time, that doesn't bring back Fall's sister, and that means that she would just go and kill them all again! It wouldn't fix anything! It would just either get you killed or make you go through the same agony without finding anything to help with it like me, my sister, or your sister! Dreaming about the past and about how you could have fixed it won't do anything but take you away from you have gained back from the tragedy!" by the end of my spiel, Jack had turned around and sat up so he was leaning on his elbows. His face showed such surprise that it looked like I just told him he was the one who killed his family.
"I need to take a walk" I said and left the room. The hallway was still incredibly quiet and a little spooky. I walked for a while just to blow off steam, and just to think. It actually helped a lot.

While walking around, I made it to the dead end of a hallway and just sighed. I know I shouldn't have gotten so mad, but it matters that he would rather have to possibly go through this again without me rather than just continuing with what he has now. It just hurt inside. While I think, I just lean against the wall and slowly slide down until I am sitting on the ground with my knees against my chest and my arm wrapped around them. I rest my forehead on my knees, just closing my eyes and thinking. Before I know it, I wake up from my unexpected nap. It is darker in the building now to the point that I can tell it is at least eight o'clock. I need to get back to Jack. I stand up from the wall and start walking back to the room, gliding my fingers across the smooth wall. It is weird; this part of the building seems to be deserted, but at the same time, this part of the building looks oddly clean and used. Yeah, it's still spooky because no one is here, but it looks like someone could've been up here within the last week.

I continue walking, retracing my steps back to the spare room I share with Jack. Out of the blue, there appears a door that was certainly not there before. It catches my attention, so I stop. I just look at it, tilting my head slightly. I step back a couple feet and the door disappears behind what looks like an invisible screen. To further test my theory, I step toward the door again, making it appear again. Of course, me being the childish man I am, I step back and fourth up to and away from the door, just to see it disappear and reappear once again.
"Mark! What in the world are you doing!?"
"Oh! Hey Jack, I didn't see you there."
"I've been looking for you for hours! Where have you been?" he inquires, laughing a little bit.
"Yeah, about that... I was just taking a stroll when I decided to sit and think for a moment... Well, I guess you could say I was pretty tired..."
"Oh, goodness Mark, what am I gonna do with you?" Jack says sarcastically
"I don't know" I replied with a smile.
"Well, why were you running in a line back and fourth like an idiot just a minute ago?" he asked, obviously trying not to laugh.
"Well, look." I walked back toward the door, lifting the invisible screen and reveling the door. Jack just stood there slightly shocked.
"If there is a terribly hidden door right in the middle of nowhere, what are you doing? Open it!" Jack said loudly and excitedly, hungry for new adventure... and probably some food because its been a while since we've eaten... but let's just go with the adventure thing.