James
is standing there just looking at Rosaline on the floor. She hasn’t woken up
yet. She hit her head on the table when Rev threw her through. She isn’t dead,
but she is out. She starts to move around and slowly opens her eyes. “DAD?” she
says as James stands over her. “Rosa
what happened? What did they do to you? Are you okay??” James runs his hands
through her straight blonde hair. “James why don’t you give her a second to
breathe? We need to have a chat.” Rev tells James and he nods yes. “Ava can you
watch after her?” James asks me. “Okay.” I tell him. But I don’t think she is
going to be happy with me watching over her. Kora sits next to me on the floor.
“This is why we do not throw people through time.” She tilts her head over towards
Rosaline. Rosaline wakes up completely and is shocked to see Kora. She sits up
and starts to fix herself. “Kora, it is an honor to meet you.” She bows her
head. This was something I was taught to do. We were never told to bow our
heads to anyone. Something has changed already, I can tell just by her actions.
“My child of Timetopia, tell me why you have turned on your own father.” How did
kora know she turned on James? Rev walks back in the room. “He knew you were a
traitorous piece of crap and he still had us save you.” I jump up to grab her.
She seems like she is ready to hit Rosaline. I know it isn’t right, but at the
same time I can understand her anger. “Kora I did what Lily asked of me… I am
loyal to The Five.” Rosaline says and Kora’s face changes. “Loyal to The
Five??? Why would you say it that way?” Kora asks her. “Because I am. Loyal to
The Five and all that The Five stands for. Always knowing what is right for
us.” Rosaline sounds like she has
memorized this. I wonder if that’s what I used to sound like.
Kora
looks at me and starts to stand up. “Ava, why don’t you show her to a room so
she can get some rest. Come back out here once you’re done.” Kora walks away and Rosaline gets up to follow
me to her room. I show her inside her room and head back to the living room
where James has calmed Rev down. I am not sure how he can do that but he sure
has a way with her. “I need to talk to my daughter. There are things that need
to be said just between us.” James says
as he kisses Rev on the forehead and heads to the room. Rev looks me. “He knew
the whole time. He knew she was working with them. He said she’s his daughter
and that’s all that mattered to him. She sold him out, and he was in
hiding. He left Rosaline’s mother a long
time ago. She didn’t take it well and she turned on him, so he had to go into
hiding because of the laws. There’s no such thing as divorce here?” Rev asks me. “I’m not sure what divorce is,
so I’m not sure how to answer that. But he would still have to hide if he left
her, because once you get married you sign a legal contract that says you must
spend the rest of your life with that person. Or you get erased. His wife must
not have turned him in.” I have never in
my life heard of any one leaving their life. Once you find someone or they match
you, that’s it. You must be happy, why wouldn’t you be? You have the one person
that you’re meant to be with. This makes no sense to me. “James knew about
divorce due to the books West let him read. The one he had made here from his
memories. Well we all helped, they were our favorite books from our timeline. I
was always a little shocked west trusted James with access to them.” Kora walks
in and just stands there. “So, James learned a lot about your guys’ lives
then?” I ask Kora. She starts to laugh at me. “No, most of the books we brought
back were fictional. I don’t think any of us want documentaries here.” Kora
says as if I know what a documentary
is. “What? Some documentaries are so educational. They show us things that most
don’t get to see behind the scenes.” Rev
shrugs. “Okay, do they have any about A.I.?” I ask Kora. “Yeah, let’s talk about the A.I. Why the hell
didn’t you tell us that those orbs are not time machines but instead some kind
of robot?” I look at Rev. “Robot?” What is that? I look down on at the orb and
it starts to light up. “NO NO NO!!! You get that thing to stop!” Rev screams at
me. “What is an A.I? Why are you so mad at it?” I ask her. “Because if you have
ever watched any movie about it ever, you would understand. Let me tell you how
the movie goes. Ready?! Let’s start at the beginning. Let’s set the scene…
scientist, “Oh I found a new way to be lazy. Let’s let this computer think for
me. Oh it will make the world a better place.”
And then BAM! Computer decides that humans are too flawed and tries to
kill us, and oh everyone in the movie is always all shocked like oh no who saw
this coming? Next thing you know, it’s
war between us and the computers every time. So if that thing is A.I. I want
nothing to do with it.” Rev says not break eye contact with kora. “Fine I’ll tell you everything, but after what
happened to what you know as china…
Don’t think we weren’t careful.” Kora seems to give into Rev’s demands. So I sit
down on the floor ready to listen. “What happened to China? Aww man I wanted to
visit there some day.” Rev says in a sad voice.
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