Unhappenings

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Topher was about to stand up and go get Christine himself when his father shoved him back in the seat. ”I thought I said to sit down.” Topher slightly shoved upwards only to be forced back down again and decided to not push his luck especially with an injury. ”You’re on pain killers and I’m sure that’d be wonderful for you job if you got a ticket for driving while impaired.” ”I got this anyway, I knew there was a reason I drove the work vehicle over, will be able to use the lights and sirens.” Topher had to sit and watch as Frederick got his keys out and still got death glares from both his parents as he walked out to go pick up his sister.

At the moment he hadn’t thought about what his mom had said and glanced over at her and back to Toby. ”Did you say son?” Toby waved at him and smiled. ”Also you told me to shoot you so the only person you have to be mad at is yourself.” Topher looked at Jack and Jack shook his head. ”Yes it’s true, and no you can’t have another beer, at least tonight.” ”So then what the hell exactly are you doing here?” ”You told me to make sure you didn’t go after her and do something stupid.” ”I did not.” ”You will.”

p.s. Frederick managed to get to Christine in a short while and they both walked in about 20-30 minutes later...  

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Topher almost immediately got up to go over to Chris as the two got back to the house but their mom beat him to it and the stare he got from his father made him reconsider as well. He could already sense and partially feel her distress and could tell that this was going to be a bad recovery. He wanted to say something but Chris’ silence made him realize it would be better to wait. ”Let your mother deal with this first, she has the experience.” Topher glanced over as his father spoke to him in a low volume and then nodded. His gut was telling him to go to her but his head was telling him to wait.

Toby watched and wanted to half run up and hug her but the confusion of seeing him might not be so helpful right now. He had debated on waiting until the morning to zap back but figured it’d be better to return once things had settled down here tonight. He listened to his father and grandpa discuss things and nodded, knowing the story of his grandma helping Jenny to deal with it, though he knew of a few other things too but didn’t want to say anything to make anyone worry even more.

Jack had already known to let Jenny deal with this. As he was concerned about the fact that Chris’ had bluntly killed someone the fact that it had been Maxwell didn’t bug him at all. He still felt his brother’s presence a bit but kept his mouth shut. Jenny had already gotten used to the fact that no matter how many times they killed him another instance from some time would pop right back up. Though Jack knew that a future version of Maxwell always hung around and he could feel the guy every now and then but most of the times never really sensed him.  

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Jack nodded at Toby and agreed with Jenny in some aspects of things being under control. ”You can go now if you want to.” With that Toby nodded hugged them both then zapped back with an audible pop. Jack sighed and shook his head. ”Keep that in your thoughts for the future to go easy on him, but still he should’ve talked to one of us about using the time traveling, even if idiot here told him to do so.” He patted Topher on his good shoulder after standing up to go get some sleep.

Topher sighed and looked towards Chris as she walked away to go to her room. As the boy zapped out with the loud pop he slightly flinched and looked over where the boy was and shook his head. ”I thought you two were joking about the time travel s**t.” He looked to Jenny and knew she’d still want to talk to him about being a cop and such. ”I’ll come find you in the morning to talk.” He yawned a bit and then walked out towards his room. He walked past the door and to Chris’ though stopped in front of it without even knocking. He debated about just going in or knocking but finally decided to send her a mental message instead. ”I’m here if you want to talk, need to be with someone or whatever. I won’t push you to, even though I kind of want to but I know you need some time and space. Let me know when or if you need to talk.” He walked back to his room and passed out on the bed again without getting under the covers (normal for him).

What happened to Toby if you’re wondering:

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Toby zapped back into his bedroom and own time and yawned a bit. He turned to lay down in his bed only to find his grandmother sitting in it staring him down. He could tell she was upset but not royally pissed like the first time he had time traveled. ”I know… I’m grounded.” Of course his parents were usually one to deliver punishment but considering they all lived together still with his grandparents they allowed them (Jenny mostly) to deliver punishments for breaking certain rules. He walked over and hugged her then walked over to his dresser and changed into pajamas. He yawned yet again and sat down on his bed next to Jenny. ”Now I kind of get the rules, the time traveling can confuse people if they’re not used to it yet. Also changing things can be difficult. At least my dad knew that and gave me the tools to do it easily.” He handed her the tranq gun he had, knowing it probably came from their lab anyway.

 

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[[ Two days have past and Chris pretty much stayed to her room except to eat (when she wanted to make her own food) and to use the bathroom. Topher was worried, but kept his distance, he had threatened to knock down the door to which Jenny had threatened to kick his a** if he did. He had gone to training like normal and had to shadow a few officers (who he actually knew, not for bad reasons, they were some of his highschool friends (partially why he wanted the job too). ]]

Topher sighed and got up off his bed as his phone went off. He had been doing a kind of internship thing by shadowing two cops for the last few days. Luckily he knew both of them from school so he wasn’t put with some random stranger. He had only been off for a few hours when his phone started buzzing like crazy. He had first originally ignored it but as the caller or texter persisted he finally got up so he could deal with it. ”What?” His answer was short and somewhat angry and that didn’t go away as he listened to the caller. ”Your sister is here, and a group of guys have been making many failed passes at her and don’t take a hint to leave her be. Some seem a bit pissed and she’s quite drunk.” Topher cursed audibly and shook his head. He had expected this coming but not so soon. ”Don’t do anything I’ll be there in five.” ”You live half an hour aw…” ”FIVE!”

Topher hung up the phone and literally rushed out. He didn’t even bother to stop when his mother called after him but kept going, he’d explain later. He was almost to his car when he heard someone else open the passenger door and saw Nathaniel getting in also Matthias. ”N…” He was about to tell them know but the look both of them gave him pretty much summed up that he didn’t have a choice in the matter. He decided to not fight it, at least it would be one less thing for their mother to be pissed off about. He drove like a madman (literally) and got quite a few explicit words from Matthias who rode up front, Nathaniel had rode with him driving before a few times so he was more used to it. As he got to the bar he almost wanted them to come in but asked for them to stay outside for now. ”If I need help, you’ll know.” They didn’t wait in the car though but stayed on the sidewalk outside of the bar.

As he entered he saw a group of guys around a girl at the main bar. They were getting a bit pissed and loud, though he could hear Chris talking over them and not making things better. He found the face of Flynn, his friend that had texted and called him and glanced to the barkeep who he knew but not on a friend basis. The guy knew him and visibly sighed but frowned as Chris kept asking for another drink and threatening to sue the guy. He walked up to the group of guys around her and was only going to ask them to leave but one facing him made a motion and the closest guy threw out a punch. Topher had already read the body language and easily dodged it pushing the guy aside. He didn’t throw a punch, he wanted to try to disperse the group first and if that didn’t work then he’d defend himself.

All hell broke loose when he got to Chris and tried to grab her. He dodged a few punches and kicks though got hit with a glass bottle on his head to which he cursed loudly at. He only realized then that it was Chris that had done it and shot her an evil glare. He dodged the rest of the attacks and threw his own quickly dispersing the group after that. He managed to make his way up to the leader and dodge every punch and grabbed the guy by the neck. ”You’re lucky I’m not a full cop yet otherwise I would’ve arrested you. You’re lucky I’m trying to be a cop, otherwise I would’ve killed you. Now walk the f*ck away.” He shoved the guy back and towards the door only to have to dodge an attack from behind. Topher spun around and roundhouse kicked the guy in the chest. ”Get out.” ”F*ck you you f*cking psychic freak.”  

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Topher sighed and took the keys from the barkeep and nodded. Luckily the only thing that had gotten broken was most likely the egos of that group. ”You’re not buying a bar, at least not this one.” He knew from rumors the guy had had offers and never took them, something about the bar being owned throughout his family tree. ”Thanks, and what’s the damage?” He wasn’t sure if Chris had been lucid enough to pay for her drinks and was glad that the barkeep said it was already paid. He pulled his sister along and out the door.

He tossed the keys to Matthias figuring from the guy’s reaction that he wouldn’t want to ride with Topher driving again and was about to have Nathaniel get in his car when Chris started making a fuss and pushed Nathaniel to her car. ”I’m not sure being alone right now would be the best thing.” He got her into the car with no protests and drove off. On the way she had been drunk chatty but he kept his mouth shut as a precaution since right now all he wanted to do was yell at her. It was one thing to be cooped up but another thing to drink your memories away. ”Alcohol only makes you temporarily forget, so you’re not really helping yourself by drinking to the point of passing out.” That was about the only comment he made to her in the car.

As they pulled up to the house he noticed that both their mom and dad were sitting on the porch waiting for them. Dad had a more calm look (as usual) but mom, looked like she was about ready to send Chris off to boarding school or something like that. ”Did you have fun?” Jack asked with a frown. Topher shook his head and helped Chris up the steps to the door. ”At least idiot here was smart enough to leave her key’s where the barkeep could swipe them from her.” Some bars asked for keys up front, and some after a few drinks. While it would be drunk’s fault they didn’t want to be part of any lawsuit for allowing their cliental to get drunk and drive off.

Jack noticed the blood on Topher and frowned stopping him. ”Not mi…” ”IF its not yours then why is it on you?” ”There was six of them…” ”If this ever gets out publicly I’m sure the academy won’t like it one bit.” ”I gave them a fair warning and at first only pushed them away to get Chris but they’re the ones who made it physical.” Jack sighed and shook his head walked to the door. He stopped and looked at Jenny and Chris, waiting to see if Jenny wanted him to say anything (since she had to stop him from drinking himself stupid when his parents died). He motioned for Matthias and Nathaniel to go back on patrol around the house. Soon the Night guards would step in and they could get some sleep.  

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Topher was about to say something to his mother about kicking his a** but the stare he got from their dad made him reconsider. ”They were breathing last time I checked and I had a friend there that can verify I gave them fair warning.” He sighed and looked at Chris as she spoke with what he felt was a bit of venom and grabbed her and pulled her away for now. ”She’s wasted drunk and probably wont remember much of a discussion so I’d advise you to wait until morning, when she can listen.” He didn’t throw in “with annoyance because of having a hangover” since it was painfully obvious his sister would wake up with one. He grabbed a few aspirin from the kitchen and grabbed Chris again.

”That’s not the point, if they’re still breathing you have physical evidence against you.” Jack shook his head a bit, sounding like he almost preferred Topher to have killed them. ”What I mean is they PERSONALLY can ID you, and yours isn’t a face they won’t forget with what is all going on with your mother. Did you ever for ONCE stop to think that doing that was a very bad idea and would make her look bad?” Topher stopped and looked back. ”The idea was for them to not kill Chris, because that was the exact vibe I got when I walked in. Sure I made a bad situation but it could’ve been much worse.” He pulled his sister along again and grabbed her as she stumbled a bit.

He was going to toss her into her bed but as they both got to her room she slightly collapsed on him. He winced a bit as she had landed on his bad arm but managed to pull her to her bed with his good one. ”Take these.” He handed her the aspirin and the bottle of water he had also grabbed and waited for her to take them. If she was smart she would listen to him. She was the quiet one so didn’t drink as much as he did so he had experience with dealing with hang overs. He let her lay back in her bed not bothering to put her under the covers. ”Get some sleep, I’ll leave the water here, finish the bottle when you wake up, you’ll want to.” He left the bottle on her night stand and walked out of the room. He quickly passed out in his room on the bed shortly after, not even bothering to close the door like normal.  

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Jack sighed a bit and nodded letting the twins go off to bed. Topher was right, Chris was wasted and probably wouldn’t remember much of any discussion they would give her. He glanced to the driveway as Jenny’s attention turned that way and saw Frederick pulling into their driveway. He watched the video with Jenny shaking his head at it. Topher not only kicked their asses but also threatened the one guy, twice. He sighed and nodded at Jenny. ”Best get some control over this quick.”

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Topher woke up and cursed as his arm sent a spike of pain through him. He must have bumped it around a bit last night fighting those guys last night. He maneuvered himself off the bed and started to walk down the hall to go downstairs but stopped as he heard a familiar voice. ”God damn it.” Hearing THAT voice and the tone she had usually meant something bad had happened. He was about to go out through the back but found Nathaniel staring at him and shaking his head. ”Not today.” ”God f*ck…” He turned around and walked slowly down the stairs to the kitchen and found their parents having a discussion with Barbara, who if he remembered right, she helped with the PR side of everything.

Jack noticed Topher and tossed the phone at him and watched as their son went through a bit of emotions watching the fight happen. ”Care to explain?” Topher sighed and face palmed a bit then shook his head before speaking. ”If you watch it again you’ll see at first I was only blocking them, I didn’t become physical until I needed to.” ”Yes but if news outlets get this there’s nothing saying they have to show the WHOLE video.” ”So get on air and show the whole video live.” Jack looked over at Jenny, he had just mentioned something similar to her and was still waiting on what her response would be.