INVISIBLE PART 10 "TIME TRAVEL"
Written by Marini Barika Facey
Maddie wakes up, grumbles, rolls over and hobbles to the bathroom holding her belly. She feels strange and starts to vomit. Peter rushes over to see if she is alright. Her stomach begins to glow and fade in and out. He doesn't know what to do! He goes into the next room to get Gwendolyn, but Charles insists he can help.
Charles and Peter step into the bathroom to see Madison doubled over on the floor. She turns to look at them, and her face begins to vanish and then reform. Peter jumps back and Charles says, "I've seen this before!" "What is happening to Maddie? This is crazy!" Peter attempts to grab Madison's hand and she disappears. "What is going on Charles?" Peter shakes and Charles is astounded! "I don't know Peter! I thought I knew, but I have never witnessed anything like this before."
Madison finds herself walking on a dusty road in her nightgown and her feet are bare. She sees a little shack and walks towards it even though she is petrified. Older Cyrus steps out on the front porch, delusional and confused. "Excuse me sir, could you please help me?" "I know you! You were taken captive as a child by those evil men. I remember you!" "I think you have made some mistake!" Madison tries to slowly step backwards, but Cyrus quickly stumbles down the steps to take a closer look at her.
Maddie trips and falls down onto the dusty path. "You are the same girl. Did they do this to you?" "Do what to me? Please get away from me!" Cyrus kneels down and the root he holds breaks into two pieces. One piece shoots into the air and creates a portal and the other piece is pulled towards her stomach like a magnet. Maddie floats into the air and is sucked into the portal. Cyrus screams because he knows he will be trapped in the past without the root! She disappears and Cyrus hopelessly drops his face in the dirt!
Madison is taken in and out of portals and is terrified! She ends up in front of an elaborate home and is fearful. She doesn't want to experience the same thing that just happened. Maddie begins to turn away and the door opens. "Excuse me. You there. Come inside at once. It is not safe out here for a young girl. Are you with child? You are not married! Come inside quickly!" Maddie is confused by his comments and strange questions, but then she notices the way he is dressed and realizes she is in a different time period.
"Who are you my dear? Where do you live? Are you mute?" Maddie stares at this man and feels as if she knows him. The more she looks at him, the more familiar he becomes. "My name is Madison." She glances around the room and looks at everything carefully so she can figure out where she is and why she is there. "Madison, I will call someone who I know can help you." "That won't be necessary, but thank you." He reaches for Maddie's hand and she pulls away. "Has someone harmed you or hurt you?"
"Why does everyone keep asking me that everywhere I go? I wish Peter was here, because he would know what to do. He always knows what to do..." "Peter? Peter?" "Yes, my boyfriend!" "My name is Peter!" "Awkward! That is weird! Oh! Oh no... Why am I here? I better leave." "No Madeline! Don't go. Please don't go!" "My name is Madison not Madeline and I shouldn't be here." "Please, I beg of you to stay and describe your Peter to me." "Look sir, I appreciate you trying to help me, but you are freaking me out and kind of creepy."
Maddie gets up to leave because she sees the old man is lost in thought. He softly says to himself, "I had a son named Peter once. I never met him. He was kidnapped. I should have spent more time with Gwendolyn, but I..." Madison exhales and turns back towards him and holds his hand. She begins to describe Peter to him and this old man feels a surge of peace come over him as she shares. She knows she can't share too much or she could destroy the future. Madison doesn't know how or why she is there, but she knows she doesn't want to say the wrong thing and accidentally trap herself in the wrong time period.
"Wait a moment. I have something." He gets up and goes to the next room and Madison hears him rustling through desks. She glances out the window and see the sun begin to rise and is confused and curious about why she has been sent to these two places. Peter I comes in the door and carries an envelope and a few trinkets. "I saved these for my son, but I want you to have them for your baby." "I couldn't take these things-" "Please! I have made a lot of mistakes in my life and I just want..."
The old man goes into a daze again and Madison slowly gets up, with the envelope and trinkets in hand, she walks out the front door without him noticing. She quietly walks down the steps, but doesn't see another portal is at her feet and Maddie falls into it! She is pulled through portals and then ends up in front of another door. The door swings open and Sophie greets her! "Where have you been? Where did you go? Was it exciting?" Sophie laughs, "Everyone is in the bathroom patting the walls and knocking on the floor to see if they can find a way to get to you because you disappeared!"
"Oh Sophie! I have been on some scary adventures. I have stories to tell all of you!" Sophie screams like a child who found a prize or someone on a treasure hunt who finds something before everyone else. "Madison is back! Madison is back!" Peter II darts in the front room and Gwendolyn and Charles scurry after him. Madison stares at Peter and he asks her if she is alright. He holds her tightly and Charles looks into her eyes to see if she is okay. Everyone's voices begin to become faint.
They give her some room to breathe. Maddie feels as if she is in a daze. They closely observe Madison because she looks like she is in a trance. Maddie feels as if she is sitting on the ceiling, watching everyone from the top of the room. She slowly looks down at her left hand and opens it; she didn't know she tightly gripped the piece of root that was stuck to her belly earlier, along with the trinkets and the envelope. Madison is alarmed because she now realizes she met both of Peter's fathers.
TO BE CONTINUED!