Flashback was still too far gone to realize what was going on. Even though he was Steel Heart's son he just couldn't fight it any more. "Please momma.... dad help me" He called out still not conscious.
Quicksilver came in to give Steel Heart some emotional support. She never lost a patient and wasn't gonna start now.
"Jonny some strange woman left this I'm analyzing it now. She said it will help him."
"I hope that Andrew turns out to be like Flashback when he gets older."
"I was thinking the same thing. Can you call your brother and check on Andrew please. I had a strange feeling like he was dying. Maybe I'm just worried about nothing" Steel Heart said.
"I had the same feeling Emily."
As they talked Flashback could hear The Woman in his mind. Then a figure standing 5'5" in a long black cloak that shadowed the person's face appeared.
"Andrew you have to hold on, please. Your parents they are worried. They can sense that their son is dying. Even though they are right it's the wrong you they are checking on. Please hold on there are so many things I need to teach you. To show you. To make you understand" She said. She was no longer taunting him like she had before. "Time is a delicate thing much more fragile then people realize."
"You are here." Flashback smiled feeling very happy and relieved to see her.
"You have been a great interest to me even before you were born Andrew."
"You are that first Earthling to be allowed successfully to time travel since of the ancient people."
"Who are you? You know my name but I do not know yours."
Meanwhile Steel Heart could not analyze what was in the vial.
"Maybe you should give it to him anyways. He'll either live or die." Quicksilver said
"I just wish I knew what it was I was giving him."
"You said this female said it would help him. Maybe it's his girlfriend"
"We'll just have to ask him once he gains consciousness,Jonny"
She said injecting the nanoprobes into his arm."
"That feeling is gone"
"Yes it is. He was probably playing with his cousins and got scared. Anyways I wonder had happened to Andrew to worry us so"" "Me too"
It took little time for the physical wounds and sickness to pass"
"Steel Heart Quicksilver. Thank you. I thought my parents might have to bury me this time."
"It wasn't either of us. There was a lady who came in with a vial of something I think it was nano probes" Steel Heart said
"Did she have a long black cloak couldn't see her face and wasn't sure it was a woman til she spoke"
"Yes is she a friend of yours, Flashback"
Flashback wasn't sure how to answer the question so he said nothing. This was the same woman who had been screwing with his mind for the past few months. Just a voice. Sometimes taunting or cold and while other times sweet and gentle. He was wondering what she was talking about to him. 'I wonder if she's cute' Flashback thought to himself as he got up.
'I'll have to thank her personally the next time we meet.'
Meanwhile the last known survivor of The Lokarian race sat alone in the desecrated ruins that were once the chamber of The Temporal Council of Lokaria. She knew of other races such as herself The Chronas. Temprins and a few others. She looked like a buxom human woman of 20. Her pale skin gave her a goth or geisha look to her. Her deep violet eyes had seen her entire race and so many others wiped out. Her eyes slightly slanted and so alone and sad. She remembered The Law that her race and the other Temporal Races agreed in unison on. No interfering in the past unless it was deemed necessary. She thought of Flashback and wondered if was time to formally introduce herself to him. She disappeared and appeared before the Great Temporal Council that existed outside of time and space itself. There sat a circle of those who observed and policed time and space.
"Is it time yet?" She asked.

Edited by: Tehk Khatt at: 9/9/02 6:18:21 pm