Millennium Crash by James Litherland

Author:James Litherland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: time travel, adventure, speculative, Christian, suspense, clean
Publisher: Outpost Stories
Published: 2013-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

No Way Out

November 30th, 1997 Midtown Manhattan

MATT still held the black leather bag in his arms and stood on the same sidewalk in front of the same stores, but the thugs were gone—and so was Page. He looked around wildly and had to force himself to breathe slow. In just a minute he had calmed down and could think straight and began to scan his surroundings in every direction.

He knew people got separated when they Traveled together. Not only had Page told him, but he’d experienced the phenomenon himself. If she’d been pulled out of his arms that time but lost her helpers completely when she had arrived in two thousand, then the difference in dislocation had to be either a function of the amount of time spanned or the relative physical distances involved.

Matt checked his watch. They’d Traveled exactly one year into the past. Since the separation when they’d gone back two and a half had been minimal, Page would be right here if it were the first, so it had to be the latter. Meaning she shouldn’t be far away, since she had been close enough to touch. Now the question was how to find her.

Before he could even try to answer that, his eye was caught by her brilliant red head bobbing up the street toward him. Of course. He should’ve known that Page could and would track him down. I’ve got the money.

He stood still and watched through the gaps in the crowds as she approached, wanting to see her face. When she appeared though, she was staring at her watch, and all Matt could see was the top of her head—then when she raised her eyes and saw him, she was glaring.

Matt grinned back. He wondered what her first words would be—he couldn’t begin to guess.

“Was that really necessary?” She frowned, then leaned forward to peer into the top of the bag.

“Completely. Start thinking of New York City as a jungle. If you don’t want to get in more trouble.”

“This jungle has some great shopping. I saw a store just down the street—and now we can go.”

Matt gaped. “You want to go shopping? Right now?” He looped his hand through the straps of the bag and folded the top closed in a fist. Page had said she’d be getting a new one anyway. He grabbed her elbow with his other hand and propelled her out of the flow of foot traffic.

She stared at him for a long moment. “My device shouldn’t have recharged sufficiently to Travel. Clearly it had, but it couldn’t have had a full charge. So we should wait the full twenty-four hours before we try to Travel again. I can spend that time shopping. I still need better clothes, don’t I?”

He looked her up and down and shook his head. “You said it feeds off my body’s own electrical field—well, light bulbs tend to blow if I get too close. So we may not have to wait quite that long before we can Travel.

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