Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Entry Three - The Future's Bright

There's been a lot of strange goings on recently.

It started with a chase. All good stories start with a chase. Jack, Owen and myself were chasing this teenager, Bernie Harris, he was called, through the city centre and into the train station. Tosh was detecting alien readings on the computer. I managed to catch up with him, but he got away from me. However, I did manage to get his coat, containing the alien device we were searching for. I took it out of his pocket, and it began flashing, so I pressed the button on it.

And I swear, I'm not going crazy, I saw a ghost. The ghost of Tom Erasmus Flanagan from years ago, during the Second World War. An energy ghost, Jack later explained he was. Doctor Dickhead didn't help, though. Suggesting it was hallucinations or dementia. I was quick to point out that I wasn't hallucinating, nor was I bloody senile.

We tracked down Tom Flanagan. Well, Owen did. Found him in the phone book. Owen and I paid him a visit, and I chatted with him about when he'd been lost. His story was heartbreaking, but he seems happy, and he's alive, but at least I knew I wasn't imagining it.

We then tried to track down this Bernie Harris. Travelled all the way to Splott to try and find him. But he was no where in sight. Seems the people of Splott was nothing to do with him. Under the bridge in Splott, the same thing happened to Owen. The device lit up and he pressed the button and he was taken back in time, where he saw.. well, what he saw wasn't good, I'll tell you that.

He watched a scene from history play out before him. A young girl being attacked by a boy she had attended a dance with. He investigated, discovered the girl had been raped and murdered, and visited Ed Morgan, the man who had killed her, to set the spooks up him, so to speak. Just after this, he found Bernie.

The team went to Bernie's home, where he surrendered up an old tin full of things he had gotten from the same place as the ghost detector. These things included alien money, alien rocks and.. the other half of the detector. This half shows the future, and Bernie told me he'd seen himself die because of it. I, stupidly, pressed the button and saw myself, holding a knife, my hands covered in blood. I said something about Owen.

Jack told me it was just one version of the future, that it could be changed. I thought Bernie would like to know too so off I went to let him know. When I arrived, he was on edge, waiting for someone. Jack called me and told me about Owen and Ed Morgan, and that Bernie had gotten there first, tried to get money from him. As Ed made his way towards Bernie's home, so did Jack and Owen. Ed arrived with a knife and the rest is a bit of a blur, up until the point where I removed the knife from Owen's hands. Ed came towards me, he was too close and the knife was still in my hands. He pushed himself against it, and I looked on in horror as he suffered from cardiac arrest.

I couldn't bear it. I'd killed him. The team tried to make me feel better, telling me that he wanted to die, that it could have been anyone, but it didn't make me feel better, not at all, in fact. Jack and I talked as the sun came up, him attempting to cheer me up. That didn't really happen but being in his arms helped.

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