Unlocking Secrets

Ten years later

Twenty-one year old Teigra Procter-Molloy and twenty year old Viola Delvaux are backpacking through the Netherlands on a college graduation trip for Teigra. It's the summer so Viola is out of school. They are talking while hiking up a mountain where they stumble upon something. They weren't looking for it, but Viola almost tripped over it.

"Are you okay, V?" Teigra asked upon seeing her cousin trip, who was now on the ground holding her ankle, "Did you sprain your ankle?"

"I think it's fine." Viola replied, "The question is what did I trip on?"

Teigra shrugged, "It's probably just a rock. Let's rest here for a while."

"Does this look like a rock to you, T?" Viola questioned as she pointed out the protruding 'rock' from the ground. She knocked on it, "Does this sound like a rock to you?"

"Well I guess not." Teigra uttered, "Are you sure that your ankle is okay?"

Viola sighed, "T, I'm fine. Now help me dig up this thing."

"Okay." Teigra agreed

Viola and Teigra worked for hours to dig the 'rock' up. When they finally got it out of the earth, Teigra saw that it looked very similar to the Tellus Saeclum. She assumed that it was the other one, because she knew that there were at least two.

"What is it?" Viola wondered

"Probably just another Tellus Saeclum." Teigra shrugged, "Let's leave it and keep going."

Viola shook her head, "No. I don't think so, T. It's not the same. The presence of it feels different."

"Okay fine. Let me investigate it." Teigra said. The moment she touched the device, she and Viola were transported.

Teigra and Viola found themselves back inside the Air Force base. They looked around at their surroundings.

"So it's a transportation device." Viola concluded

Teigra pulled Viola into a room so that nobody saw them, "No, it's the Aevum Iter. I remember this day. We were transported back in time."

"What happens today?" Viola asked

"It's the day my mom finally gives up hope. The day she stops believing what my birth dad said about us finding the Aevum Iter one day." Teigra explained

Viola gave an amused smile, "Well now we know that he's right, but what do we do? Do we change the past?"

Teigra nods, "I know that we normally aren't supposed to, but in this instance I think that we are."

"Okay then. Now what?"

"Mom!" Teigra called out

Alexandra didn't turn around. She didn't give any indication that she even knew that Teigra was there.

"Didn't think that would work, but it was worth a shot."

Viola rolled her eyes as she shook her head, "Okay so they can't hear or see us. How do we get their attention?"

"I think I know." Teigra uttered as she walked off.

'Where is she going?' Viola thought as she followed her cousin.

Teigra walks into Dale's office, where she sees that her younger self and Dale had been working in translating the fifth and final tablet.

Teigra smiles to herself and thought, 'I remember this day.'

"What are you doing?" Teigra heard Viola's voice behind her.

"Keeping history the same."

Teigra picks up the paper that her younger self had been working on and writes on it. She remembers exactly what she had read on her paper that day, which was ten years ago for her, and now she was writing herself.

The younger Teigra had never thought about her future self who had written the message, but now Teigra was getting to make an important part of her own history. Well, history in general.

"Alright. That should be it." Teigra said

Viola looked around, "Why are we still here?"

Teigra paused for a moment, "Hmm...I have no idea."

"Oh great!" Viola exclaimed, "We're stuck here."

"Okay let me just try something." Teigra replied, "A past we don't belong in. Take us back from whence we came. Let us not alter our past."

Viola around at their surroundings and then at Teigra, "We're still here."

"Yeah I see that, V."

Viola put her hands up in surrender, "Sorry."

Teigra sighed as she ran a hand through her hair. She shook her head, "I don't know what to do, V."

"Well, we're on our own. So we need to work together to figure it out."

Teigra took a breath and nodded, "I know."

All of a sudden Teigra remembered something and a look of pure terror on her face.

"Oh my gosh." Teigra uttered

Viola looked puzzled, "What? What is it, T?"

"Today's the day my mom gets kidnapped. The day we almost lose my baby brother."

"Noam?"

Teigra shook her head, "No. Malik."

"Oh...what do you want to do?"

Teigra shrugged as she bit her lip, "I don't know."

"Maybe there isn't anything to do." Viola suggested, "We're not here to change the past, except to make it so that the Aveum Iter is found. Everything else is off limits."

Teigra nodded, "Yeah, yeah. Maybe you're right, but we still don't know how to get back home."

"We'll figure it out."

Meanwhile with the younger Teigra, she had been in the cafeteria with Dale on a lunch break and now they are getting back to work.

Teigra and Dale walk back into Dale's office.

When Teigra sits down at her work space, she finds the paper that the future version of her wrote on.

'Huh? What is this? I didn't write this.' Teigra thought as she read the words on the paper, which read: 'Mt. scenery. 1500ft.'

There was a set of coordinates after the '1500 ft'. Teigra knew what the note was about, she just didn't understand how it was in her handwriting when she didn't write it.

Dale looked up, "Tei, is everything alright? Did you find something?"

"I'll be right back, Uncle Dale. Just trust me." Teigra told him before shimmering away.

Dale signed, "Oh. Not again. Alex is going to kill me." Then he heard a scream and he ran out of his office to investigate.

By the time Teigra returned with the Aveum Iter, so excited to show it to her mom, she learned the tragic news. Alexandra had been kidnapped.

'Not again. I can't believe it happened again.' Teigra thought

Addison carrying Noam walked over to Teigra and pulled her in close, "Don't worry. We're going to find your mom."

"Do you think whoever took her wants the baby?" Teigra asked

"I don't know." Addison replied

Teigra looked down, "It's very likely. Why else would they kidnap her now? They want my unborn baby brother."

"It's a boy?" Addison questioned

Teigra gave a sheepish smile, "Surprise."