Time warp part 6

 Time warp.  

Christian woke the next morning after a restless sleep, got ready to meet Desdemona for Breakfast. He showered, shaved, combed his hair, dressed quickly and was out the door.  

He arrived at Desdemona’s house knocked on her door. Waited. Looked at his watch. No answer. He knocked again waited. No one came to the door.  

He knocked harder.  

“Desdemona! C’mon I’m hungry.” 

No answer.  

He pulled out his phone. “Who ya gonna call. Ghost Busters”? 

He pressed Desdemona's number and listened to the digital ringing in his ear as he waited anxiously for her to answer.

“Ummm Hello?” A very cracked breathy female voice answered after the 5th ring.   

“Desdemona? Is this you?” Christian asked a bit confused.  

“ Umm yeah. Just a second.” The phone had woken Desdemona from a restless sleep, she was very disoriented suddenly. When had she slept? Where-oh right New England not home. She tried to compose herself get her bearings.  

“Christian? What do you want? I mean why are you calling-did you find-Oh. My. God. Breakfast. We were going to have breakfast, and-”

“Yes, open the door and we’ll be able to get to the restaurant I think before they stop serving breakfast.”. 

“ I-I- um- I can’t.” Desdemona wasn’t sure how to explain or what to say or even if she was allowed to say.  

“ What do you mean? You can’t? Is the door jammed or something? I can-” Christian was confused, why couldn’t she open the door? Was she with someone?  

“ Look it’s fine I can come back later if-”

“No no it’s not like that. I-I’m not at home.” Desdemona wasn’t sure how much she could tell him. She wanted desperately to scream into the phone for him to come save her.  

“ What do you mean you are not at home? I walked you home last night- where are you? I’ll come get you.” Christian was starting to think something was wrong.  

“ NO! No no that’s not necessary I’m fine. Really. Besides I’m too far away-look listen I have to postpone our breakfast date-Something has come up. I can’t explain. I’ll call you back. I gotta go. Bye.” 

Desdemona disconnected the call.  

Christian became agitated. What had happened? Where was Desdemona? What happened last night after he left her at home safe and sound.  

Never assume because you mak

e an “ass” out of “u” and “me”.

Time warp part deux

Lucien was becoming agitated after that encounter with Voltaire and Lilith.  Sebastian seeing his brother pace the flat they had recently purchased in the French Quarter was becoming annoyed.  

“What is SHE doing here?  How dare SHE interfere, that is OUR house!” Lucien rambled frustrated and angry.  Emphasising “she” he was more angry about Lilith interfering in something that had nothing to do with her.  Why had she come to New Orleans?  Ah but she had been pining and searching after Voltaire for decades after he left her.  

“Well, all this pacing you are doing is only wearing out this new Persian rug, calm down and let me think.  You are far too loud.” Sebastian was trying to formulate a plan, one in which ends with that bitch’s-what was her name? Desi something- He didn’t care she was going to die and they were going to reclaim their house and be the terror of the French Quarter once again.  Now to only get by Lilith and Voltaire.  Clearly Voltaire had been guarding this Desi woman for sometime.  Had he revealed himself to her?  Did she know about us? What we truly were?  Did Voltaire spill all our closely kept secrets?  That was against our laws.  HM perhaps a door had opened, if Voltaire broke our law then he must be destroyed and anyone he revealed himself too.  Yes…So tonight we go back.  

“Alright listen to me Lucian, here is the plan, we go back to that chick’s house, jump her in her bed and put an end to her existence.  When Voltaire finds her corpse he will be furious and hunt us but we will have already gone to Lilith and told her Voltaire’s grave sin.  She will have no choice then but to destroy him and reward us with leaving us here in our house in peace.”

“HM I don’t know brother, seems too simple a plan, Voltaire guards that woman until he can no longer, he leaves just before sunrise.  It’s too risky.  He would destroy us-” Lucian appreciated his brother’s plan but it left so much open to going wrong and ending in their demise.  

“We’ll go to our house tomorrow night then, erase that bitch’s memories and force her to leave our house”. Sebastian said

“ Alright, tomorrow night then we’ll go mind fuck that bitch and get our house back, then go sing a song to Lilith about her errant boy.”Lucian agreed.  

The plan was decided upon.  What could possibly go wrong?  Never forget Murphy’s law.

Once there was a dark dark house..

Lucian and Sebastian arrived at Desdemona's house at sundown. No lights were on in the house, Lucian kicked the door in with a loud crash it fell inward. A lamp that had been on a side table just to the side of the door fell with a loud crash. Sebastian chastised Lucian

“So much for the element of Surprise you fool”.  

“She’s not home obviously, question is where is she?”Lucien retorted.  

The brothers walked through the small shotgun house. It didn’t look like anyone had been here for a few days. Sebastian rummaged through Desdemona’s things in her bedroom dresser. Taking note that none of her things were gone. One surely would have packed some clothing if going away on a trip. Bed was made and looked as if it had not been slept in. Something felt “off”.  

“She either left in a hurry or someone took her.” Sebastian looked at Lucian who had been sitting on the bed.  

“Took her? Took her where? Who?”. Lucian wondered what had happened, who got to their victim before they could?  

“I don’t know, maybe that young man we saw walking her home a few nights ago? Maybe Voltaire-” Sebastian stopped mid thought. Maybe Voltaire took her to safety?  

“Well we had better find her and end her before she spills everything she knows about us.” Lucian was becoming agitated.  

The 2 boys left the house to do some searching.  

And in that dark dark house 

was a cupboard…..