When Fate Plots and Portals Glitches

Convenient Thought's

Alice looked at Fate as she stepped into the room. "So, mind telling me why you plucked a boy from one dimension into ours? I would love to know." She didn't sound hash or judgmental, just curious. An example of one of the many reasons why Fate loved Alice, she understood that her job wasn't just sunshine and daisy's. Perhaps it had to do with Alice being the spirit of convenience, and inconvenience.

Fate glanced at Alice, a spirit whom looked like a flapper from the 1920's. Sleek black hair in a bob with a dress as red as her cherry colored lipstick. And as always, she had a cigarette dancing between her fingers. "Alice, you know how it works. I just do what I know that needs to get done and I know how to do it the most effectively. But I never know why."

Alice gave her a charismatic smile, showing her pearly teeth "Well I mean, sometimes you do have an idea of what's going on."

Fate snorted "Only when history repeats itself."

Alice shrugged " You can't blame me for asking. And you must admit, this is a rather... particular case."

Fate hummed in agreement. Sending a mortal, a boy no less into a different dimension was certainly something. Striping the young teen of his memories and putting a blockage on ability's she's sure Danny could not possibly possess? Unusual. But a face to face introduction? That was never necessary. It was never even considered.

Fate sat down by the orange colored counter, soon to be joined by Alice "I must admit Alice, this assignment as me just as puzzled as you. If not more."

Alice gleamed like the Chester cat "I must say though, this mystery is rather amusing, isn't it? Much more befuddling than the norm."

Fate smiled "only you would find this fun. In any fashion."

Alice shrugged "and you don't? In all the decades you and I had worked together, nothing like this has ever happened."

"Yes, but why" Fate said as she played with a loose strand of dark hair that escaped from her hijab "Most of the time, things snowball from minor "conveniences" then into something much bigger that what you or I could have imagined. For a series of events to start of like this-"

Alice cut her off "It could mean nothing."

At Fate's bewildered looks Alice elaborated "I mean consider this, how many times did we have to do these huge and borderline ridiculous things just to get something minor started? That only caused a personal change." she gave a one-armed shrug "not that its less important. But what if?"

Fate looked doubtful.

"Hey, I'm allowed to be optimistic Fate."

"There's a thin line between optimistic and delusional, Alice."

Alice looked as she was about to say something but reconsidered and blinked in realization. "What was up with you burying the kid anyway? How was that supposed to help?

"Oh, that?" Fate grinned "That was for fun." Plus, Fate knew that Danny would survive, she just wanted to see it in action.

Alice smiled. Fate always did have a love for dramatics.