“Bring her back,” Cole whispers. “Please bring me my wife back.”
She concentrates and focuses on the aircraft they were on when they disappeared, picturing everybody on board, an exact set of everybody here but with all new roles.
“You did it,” CK says and she opens her eyes. Back where they should be. Who knew time travel was just as easy as Astralling?
Chapter 4
2113 – Aefre/Constantine; Liv/Constantine
“Holy crap!” Devon says as he sees them. “What the fuck is going on here?”
“We were pulled away. We are back now,” CK says.
“By whom?”
“It doesn’t matter. We are back where we belong, when we belong, and with whom we belong,” he says to her pointedly.
Raised voices in the back, bring everyone’s attention to the bedroom. “Who else is here?” she asks in confusion. She stalks over to the bedroom and opens the door with a gasp.
“No. Oh shit. CK?” she looks at him and he looks at her.
“Oh fuck,” he says, as he looks at them arguing heatedly about something. He pulls her inside and quickly closes the door, so the rest don’t see them. Us. Them.
We look back at the future us and then CK glares at me. “Oh, you have really fucked up now, Aefre,” he says.
She looks just as affronted by that remark as I am and I say, “I didn’t do this. She must have brought them back all on her own.”
“You need to leave. Right now!” Future CK bellows at us. “This isn’t your time.”
“No. I don’t think we will,” my CK says.
“Don’t be a fool,” I hiss at him. “We can’t stay here now they are back.”
“Told you,” Future CK murmurs to her and she smiles, taking his hand.
“You need to go back,” she says to us. “Your family needs you.”
“Why, what do you know?” I ask her through narrowed eyes.
“You know I can’t tell you that,” she says. “You have to return to your rightful place. Too much damage has already been done.”
“CK, come my love. We must go back. I have to try and get us back.”
CK sighs and turns to his Future self, “How long do I have to wait?”
“We can’t tell you that,” he says but then adds, pulling her closer to him, “It will be worth the wait, though I assure you.”
“I have no doubt about that,” my CK murmurs.
I place my hand on his chest. “Your rings,” she says to me. CK scowls at her and gives them back to me and I replace them.
Future me turns to her CK. “Baby. We should ask them to start it now,” she murmurs.
His face lights up. “An excellent idea, my love.”
“Start what?” my CK asks suspiciously.
“The Blood Magick ritual,” she says. “We know it is working. CK is gaining more power, more abilities like mine, but it is taking too long. If you two start it now, it will help us.” She places her hand on her CK’s shoulder and he grabs it.