[✔️] Across The Years | Seulrene

Ch. 24 - Running down the clock

[A/n: Sorry for the late update as all of you know that I was hell busy these past few days. And losing my enthusiast to update for a reason that I'm still nursing my pained heart. As a Kpop stan and Shawol myself, I guess it is safe for me to tell you know already what happened.

Jonghyun-ah, you did well. Please take a rest now, we love you~]

Seulgi's POV

I had to got off of work at 9 PM and promptly set out towards London. Riding hard and fast I arrived in London just after 10:30 PM. It took me a bit more to reach the factory where the worm hole was. I can only access the worm hole when the factory is closed. During the day, the room appears in crowded with people working. Having a wormhole show up then, would cause all kinds of problems.

I arrived at the factory about 11:00 PM and using my key, let myself in through the back door. Once inside, I hit the recall button on the watch.

A few moments later, a whirling circle of lights appeared on the ceiling. The basket was lowered shortly after.

I hopped in and rode back up. As I reached the top, I said promptly to Zacharov. "Don't shut down the wormhole, I need to go back."

He nodded and again reduced the wormhole to microscopic size.

"Ahh... so how was 1869? Did you succeed?" He said after looking me over to see how I looked...

"No, I didn't succeed. I pretty much screwed things up. I need to destroy this Mark person once and for all." I then filled him in on what had happened to this point.

Zacharov nodded, "Okay, so what's your plan?"

"That lady who did research for me, said that Mark was accused of embezzlement from his family's firm. How he used the money to support his gambling and womanizing. But all this didn't come out into until several years after Irene died. I need to destroy him utterly and I'm going to move up the clock a bit. I'm going to the library and research the newspapers from the 1870's and 1880's so I can find out all the details. How it was discovered, who accused him if anyone, and what happened. I also want to get some details of his 2nd wife which was his mistress when he was married to Irene. I know he later divorces her. I need to dig up every bit of dirt I can on him. Only the internet and the computers at the library can give me that information."

After thinking for a moment, he said:

"Sounds like a plan. But you need to remember that I have the wormhole still open, so the time is ticking way in both times. Just to keep you up to date. You left on June 3rd, 2018. It is now 9:38 AM of August 14th, 2018. You've spent 10 weeks and 2 days in 1869 so 10 weeks and 2 days have passed here.

Now when you came back here; it was 11:09 PM of July 9th, 1869 there. Which means you have exactly 12 hours and 51 minutes before the wedding as the clock keeps ticking. More importantly you need to finish your business here in less than 8 hours.

Remember the factory in 1869 will open at 7 AM, and unless you want to cause a major panic by having the wormhole open up in a busy factory, you need to be back there in time. So you also need to be back here no later than about 5:30 in the afternoon. I know it's confusing but do you understand?"

It was a bit hard to get my head around, but I got it. "Yeah, I understand. The clock is ticking. Every second I spend here gives me one less second there. I have 8 hours to finish my business here or I won't be able to make it back before the factory opens. I need to go."