Chapter 2
Katie POV: I wake up and yawn, opening my eyes to a soft sunrise entering through the windows. I stretch and get out of bed, looking around the cabin for everyone else, and then I remember that I was in London, in the 1800s. I check a mirror to make sure I'm presentable and as I reach for the door is opens, revealing a young woman. "Oh pardon me." She says quietly. "I'm Sophie. I was sent to check on you, to make sure you were alright" She says, a bit shy to be in my presence it looks like. I smile kindly. "Hello, I'm Katie, incase you somehow missed that" I introduce myself and laugh a bit, trying to lighten her mood. She smiled a bit, that's a start. As I looked at her more I realized that she had a big scar across her face, I wonder how that happened. "Charlotte wants to talk to you now," oh right I have to explain my situation to her "Oh right thanks I say," and I start to leave when Sophie stops me by saying," You can't go out in that! You're practically naked!" "I'm just-" I stopped myself realizing that jeans and a tshirt were not the style in this time. "Here let me help you," Sophie says and she helped me get dressed into 1870s clothes... I like jeans better. When I'm all dressed and practically turned into a doll, Sophie smiles a bit out of satisfaction. "There, now you can go talk with Charlotte" I take one final look at myself and internally groan, I HATE wearing dresses! They are impossible to garden in, much less fight in. But nevertheless, I smile. "Thank you Sophie" She ducks her head and curties a tiny bit before stopping herself. "I'll get out of your way now" She says, and leaves the room rather quickly. That's strange, I think, but I leave my room with great struggle and attempt to walk to where I was last night to talk to Charlotte. This place is huge, and so is my dress, so after what feels like hours I make it to my meeting, I guess, with Charlotte. As I enter the room, I notice I'm fiddling with a bracelet and I look at it and I remember the quest with Drew, Connor, Gimli, and Legolas and who am I forgetting? I know someone else was there, Will?Charlotte noticed my trust and asked, "What's troubling you m'dear?" "Oh nothing," She could tell it was a lie but I think she decided to let it be. "So, Katie, tell me your story, beginning to end," and I begin to explain but there was someone missing that I just can't remember. As I tell the story, my head starts to hurt. When I reach the part where the group is fighting the dragon, my head is spinning, and I stop, trying to clearly my head. "Katie, are you alright?" I hear a voice call, but it seems, far off. I slip off the chair and collapse, a face appearing in the darkness, but I can't quite tell who it is... He's yelling something, I can't tell what but he's definitely yelling something. And he's crying. Why is he crying? I then woke up with a very good looking man in front of me, not my type but good looking. Tessa was with him and she asked me, "Why are you crying? Are you hurt again?" "I'm crying?" I ask as I suddenly feel hot tears slip down my face. And then a wave of sadness rushed on me and I started to sob. Tessa's face instantly turns to pity, but at this point I don't care, I just feel like crying forever. I can't remember who the boy is and it's so frustrating. I let Tessa hug me and I cry for a good 5 minutes before I remember the man in the room watching us. I try and slow my crying enough to whisper in Tessa's ear "Who's that man and why is he watching us?" She laughs quietly and whisper back. "That's Will" when she says that, the man, Will, perks up like a dog and walk over and sits next to Tessa. "William Herondale, at your service" he introduces. "Um, hi" I sit back and wipe my face, trying to clear my face off. "I'm Katie" I say, a bit intimidated by Will. "I know, your name has been spread all over the Institute. Rather impressive, as I am the one who normally accomplishes that" he says, almost arrogantly. At that, Tessa slaps his arm. "Be polite" She insists. Will rolls his eyes but listens to her. "So, Katie, you're the new mystery around here. So where did you come from?" "New York" "Tess! Did you hear that? She's from New York too!" "Yes will I did hear," then she directed her attention to me and asked, "What area?"
I replied with Manhattan and they nodded. Charlotte then cleared her throat and said, "Katie I'm sorry to be up in your face but it's vital I know what happened to you with the dragon," I nodded continued the story, but when I got to the part of me in the bubble, I couldn't remember how I survived. "I don't know" I say, a bit frustrated "something must of happened, I must of passed out. But the next thing I remember is that I was on Olympus, with the group, and that boy" I shake my head. "I don't remember who he is. Is there a way you can do something to fix that?" Charlotte nods slowly. "There is, m'dear. I have talked to the Silent Brothers, and because of your predicament, they will be here in a couple of days" She smiles a bit. "Then we'll be able to know everything. But until then, just keep trying" She says and I sigh, knowing that whatever is going to happen is going to be hard.
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A Tale of Two Times
FanfictionEver since Katie Gardner has gone missing, Travis Stoll has done everything to get her back, and is ready to, with one problem, he doesn't know where she is. Meanwhile, Katie has her own struggles, and runs into some unplanned help.