Afterlife || irwin

[ 12 ] 2014

[ 12 ] 2014

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"My name is Robert Vega, but my friends call me Bobby."

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Calum knew Harley Quinn well. And because he knew her so well, he decided to climb up the vines that led up her balcony, almost as soon as he had dropped her off. 

He watched her from the balcony. He watched everything as she put her hands on the mirror and closed her eyes, willing herself to go back into time. He jumped out from the balcony doors, trying to stop her as she disappeared from his sight. As he made his way further into the room he realized that she was gone. With a sigh, he walked up to the mirror too and placed his hands on the cool surface. He could still see the finger prints she had left behind and made a mental note to scold her for doing something so crazy.

He understood that she wanted to help Ashton, and Calum wasn't opposed to the idea. Before, he wanted to get rid of Ashton because he posed a threat to him being with Harley. But now he thought that Ashton had been a good guy through his very short life. The least he deserved was for them to help him live out the rest of his life in his own time period. What Calum was annoyed and concerned about was that she had decided to do it all on her own, without telling him or asking for his help. That was the way Harley behaved sometimes. She preferred doing things on her own, rather than asking anyone to help her. 

Thinking back again to that moment when he talked about it with his grandfather, he remembered that he had to be quick if he wanted to catch her at the same moment. Every minute that passed was another day that she was in the past. If he wanted to find her and help her, he would need to be faster than he was currently. Without another moment to lose, he closed his eyes tight and thought about the time when it was said Ashton died. It was March 15th, 1963. But he thought Harley would not materialize herself so close to the deadline. She would have probably tried to go a couple of days before his passing. One to two days most likely. So he thought that he would try to get himself to go to March 12th. 

"I hope this works." He said to himself, and he thought about March 12th. Ashton would have probably been living out his life normally with his family, just days before his life was cut short.

As Calum thought about it, he began to feel lighter in his body. All except for that familiar pressure he felt on his lungs and his chest whenever he was shifting through dimensions to get to the dark realm where souls were made to decide their fate. Only this instance was different. He wasn't going to the dark hallway and there was no one there to decide their fate. He was travelling back in time, to a moment when Ashton was alive and breathing. To a time where they might have the chance to prevent his passing.

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Harley got back on her feet and, dusting herself off and standing in the middle of the room. Her heart sank in her chest when she heard footsteps coming from down the hallway. Harley gave it a quick thought and raced for the closet. Sliding the door open, she hurried inside and closed the door behind herself, leaving just a crack open to look out into the room. 

Moments later, the door opened and in came Ashton. Harley felt her breath catch in her throat at the sight of him. It was Ashton, but this was Ashton in the flesh. He was human. The way she knew him in the present time, he was a soul, see through with a greenish tint. He also had no body heat and let out a cold feeling whenever she touched him. He was dressed in similar clothes to the ones she remembered him wearing in the present, with the leather jacket and the patch with the symbol of the hunters. 

He walked into the room and sat on the bed. Right behind him walked in a woman who Harley figured was his mother. Harley felt an ache in her heart at the thought that this was one of the last times he would ever see his mother. And this was one of their last days alive. His mother stood in the middle of the room where Harley had been moments earlier and she offered her eldest son a smile. "I know you just got back from spending time with Claire and your friends. But dinner will be ready in a few minutes if you want to join us."