Trapped in the Consequence of Time

Biscuits and meet ups - Alexis' POV

When I walked into the kitchen there was a small scuffle and Coral, Lilly and Hugo all turned to look at me, and then their eyes flickered to Aquila and then Orion who grinned.

"I really need to hide my biscuit jar better."

"Yeah you do. You hide it even worse than Dad." Coral told him. "And I think he wants me to find it."

"That is totally unfair." I moaned. "You're letting them eat the biscuits and not me."

"Finders keeper's loser's weepers." Hugo said very sensibly.

"Right." I grunted. "Now give me a cookie." Lilly pulled out the jar from behind her back and examined it.

"What type? Do you want double chocolate chip or just chocolate chip and if so do you want dark, milk or white chocolate?" We all stared at her. Hugo looked around before nudging her with his elbow. She looked at him and he nodded to us.

"What?" Lilly asked staring at our blank faces.

"How many types of chocolate are there?" Amber asked.

"A lot." Hugo replied. "I mean you have your cheap stuff as well as the expensive ones and the quality of coco to other ingredients such as milk and then there's stuff like Belgium chocolate so it's all different but I think they only fall into a few categories."

"What's Belgium?" Coral said looking as lost as I felt.

"It's uh never mind." Lilly said pulling out a biscuits and throwing it to me. I caught it in my mouth and opened it again to get another one. "Not happening. Anyway where's everybody else?"

"Willow and James are getting close in the other room and Rose, Al and Scor are plotting stuff while sat around the dining table. Should we be worried?" a voice said from behind me, I grabbed my sword out and swung it around stopping only a millimetre from Rye's throat. He raised his eyebrow a me, defiantly not impressed, before pushing my sword away and stepping around me to look at Coral. "Are those biscuits?"

"No, Yes." Lilly said.

"No they are defiantly biscuits." Hugo said looking at Lilly like she was mad.

"The no was for the first question as in 'no we shouldn't be worried James should be'."

"What should I be worried about?" James came jumping in and stopped dead in a dramatic pose where he spread his arms out and put one foot in front of the other. "If it's Rose then we've already made peace. Now dinner, I'm hungry so give me the cookie jar." Lilly laughed.

"In your dreams James. In your dreams."

"Oh~kay everybody get out, I can't cook with everybody in here. Shoo." Aquila waved her hands at us and Coral, Lilly and Hugo left without complete, James tried to grab a cookie as Lilly, who still had full possession of the most valuable thing in the house, walked past and ended up being dragged out with them. I glanced at Orion and Aquila and then Amber.

"After dinner I'll take some of them to the register office. I gotta pick up my new wicked sword." I announced and Amber rolled her eyes.

"You'll want to talk strategy and other boring stuff won't you? So I'll just go with Alexis." She turned and grinned at me as she walked out brushing her arm against mine. For some reason she gave me an eclectic shock that sent tingles all up my arm. Was she wearing some electric shock perfume or something? She always managed to do that, and I'd be very surprised if it was something else. Girls are just weird.

I walked out after her and while she walked into the dining room where I could hear everybody else I walked down the corridor a bit more past the stairs and into the biggest room in Orion's house - His training room. I pulled out my sword and spent the twenty minutes until Orion showed telling me that there was no food left and I'd missed it attacking dummies. The fabric kind. I ignored him and went in the dining room to see that everybody was happily eating pasta, what a surprise. I grabbed my own bowl and watched everybody talk about random crap.

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Lilly, Coral and Hugo decided to come with us and register because they also didn't want to deal with strategy. It took less than five minutes the register meaning that we could be back at Orion's in ten minutes and in time for my favourite TV show, which - despite a civil war going on - was still running strong. I was following Amber blindly while examining my shiny new gun when she stopped and I walked into her.

"What are you doing here?" Amber snapped and I looked up to see Fairchild leaning casually against a fence.

"I just wanted to give you a warning." She said.

"Why how nice of you. We really appreciate warnings but we're in a hurry so can you just toddle off." I said waving my hands the way I do to shoo away a dog.

"Don't try to change time back." She snapped glaring at us.

"Not gonna happen crazy lady." Hugo replied. "Mum'll kill me if I don't get my owls."

"Owls?" Coral asked confused.

"Ordinary Wizarding Levels. O.W.L's or just Owls." Lilly explained.

"You're messing with powers that go over your heads. You'll cause an eternal war with only one winner. One predecided winner." Fairchild continued as if she had never been interrupted.

"Chaos." Lilly and Hugo said.

"And you will know eternal pain." Fairchild finished.

"We're not Voldemort we aren't trying to live forever so eternal is used in the wrong concept." Lilly said.

"This is your last nice warning, the next time we won't be so forgiving."

"Okay. Well thanks but you can go now and we'll put this meeting on the list of stuff the discuss. You know after how to get our friends here home; how to not get killed by the Gods for interfering; how to end this war; how to..."

"Shut up." Fairchild snapped cutting of my monologue. "Do anything and I personally will make sure you regret it." Then she stormed off.

"We need to tell the others." Amber said immediately after she left.

"Yeah they need to know that it's not just Fairchild who we have to worry about." I said and we started homeward again.