Don't Mess With Time

Chapter Three

Although Nathan was clearly a Never at heart, he was able to be just the right amount of weirdly endearing to have an Ever best friend that's as quite like Agatha.

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The dark form smirked.

Just one more...

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Serenity froze for a moment as she watched the group of friends.

Her eyes were drawn to a particular kid and she felt her face heat up.

She shook her head and didn't allow herself to think about her reaction.

She took a deep breath and walked into the clearing.

She was always happy to see her friends.

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Milly glanced at Hilda and raised an eyebrow, watching her tattoo.

She wasn't sure if it had moved or not.

Many of them had started to speculate on her Special Talent.

It was probably just like Hester's... but she felt like there had to be something different, right?

Like Amber's wasn't exactly like Anadil's. Hers were mice, not rats (even if that difference seemed minimal at best).

Milly shouldn't be thinking so much about that, however.

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The dark shadow whirled his cloak and strode into the clearing in a dramatic fashion.

Serenity has just walked up to greet her friends and they were all finally in the right place for his plan.

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Theresa suddenly saw a form out of the corner of her eyes.

She whirled, hand on her sword hilt, and found a very familiar form.

(Amber was certainly not impressed by how quickly she had recognized a possible threat. Nope. Definitely not at all).

The form smiled broadly.

"Your father was never able to do that," he commented with more than a bit of pride.

Theresa's face suddenly split into a wide, beaming grin and she ran forward.

"Merlin!" she cried.

Axel's eyes widened in recognition and he too ran forward to grab the old wizard in a bone-crushing hug.

There was a long moment of greeting before Milly suddenly asked what everyone was thinking.

"Why are you suddenly visiting?"

Amber raised an eyebrow.

That sounded like something Hilda would say.

She glanced at her twin and, sure enough, she was staring at Milly with slightly widened eyes.

Clearly the words had just been stolen from the tip of her tongue.

Milly had gotten her bluntness from Beatrix.

Merlin laughed good naturedly at the question.

"Why I'm here to fix the past," he said.

His tone was casual.

He could have just as easily been discussing the weather or their lunch plans for next week.

"What?" Hilda and Amber asked at the same time.