I screamed as I felt my body flush with sudden heat. I felt my fingers and toes tingle, and then my hand started to burn as I concentrated on the monster in front of me. "You will not hurt me anymore.' I yelled as I watched his clothes start to catch on fire.

"STOP," Carter yelled loudly. "How is this possible?" I looked down to my hand that I was still holding up in front of me and saw a stream, a light beaming from my palm, and it was pointed right at Carter as he yelled out in pain. "I'll kill you witch," he bellowed dropping to his knees and moaning out in pain again.

I felt my body suddenly surge with light as I lifted off the ground. I felt like a feather in the breeze as I floated there in mid-air towards him slowly.

"Sorceress from hell," he yelled out.

"Listen to me, you great big idiot," I said, landing on my two feet in front of him. "You have no idea who you are messing with. I've had a crap day, and you are just pissing me off right now. You will listen to what I have to say, or I will kill you and trust me when I say, I have no control over this light thing inside me, so that will not end well for you," I tried to say with confidence still confused at what was happening.

"I will not listen to a vile Sorceress like you," he yelled, lunging at me.

I held my hand up as the monster lunged toward me, and the light once again shot out of my hand right at him and I had no control over it. I watched as the light hit him in the chest hard and knocked him backward on the hard cold floor. He groaned in pain as he rubbed the back of his head and glared at me with his cold dead eyes.

"Carter, please just listen to me, ok. I'm cold, and I'm scared, and I just want to go home right now. I have no idea why Vinnie and Callan sent me here, and quite frankly when I see them next, they are going to be in a world of pain."

"How do you know my son's name?" The monster said cautiously.

I sighed. "You are not going to believe me, hell; I don't even believe me anymore. I wish I could just go home."

"Tell me," He said abruptly, standing up very slowly not taking his eyes off me. "Never has a creature defeated me so quickly. Tell me what you are." He was clearly fearful of me now.

I swallowed nervously, "Shit, where do I start here." I ran my hands, threw my hair, and closed my eyes. "I'm not from around here, wait, yes I am. I grew up here and I'm all grown up now. No, that sounds ridiculous." I paused for a second and collected my thoughts. "Ok, I'm just going to say it so you can threaten to kill me again," I held up my hand in front of me once more in preparation for his next move. "I am Ebony Summers, and you are Carter Morgan. I work for you in the future, along with Jake and Vinnie. I know your son Callan, your awful brother Leon and your hideous ex-wife whom I refuse to talk about because I told you she was bad news, but no, you had to support her because she was pregnant and I was engaged to you and blah blah blah."

"Ebony?" He said, cutting me off. "You are Ebony Summers?"

"Yes," I replied, biting my lip.

"That cannot be, Ebony is five years old."

"Yes, she is, but I am here as well. I was sent back through some sort of portal by your son and that stupid Vinnie for some reason." I kept my hand up in front of me waiting for his response but instead, he just watched me and said nothing. "Are you getting any of this?"

Carter clenched his fits and I felt his eyes looking right threw me. "This is bullshit. You are a liar," he yelled, suddenly making me jump. "You think I would fall for this? What are you after, witch?"

"For goodness sake, Carter. Look at me. Don't you feel anything?" I yelled. "It's me."

"You are trying to trick me, and I will not fall for your trickery."

"You told me all about your family and growing up in the vampire world. You told me about your father dying and your mother looking after you. I know about you killing my family and keeping me locked up in this cave. You told me about you being born with a heartbeat,"

"I would never," he said through gritted teeth.

"You told me about your beating heart, a heart you have today in the future even though you are undead. You even asked me to marry you."

"No, stop. Please." Carter shook his head. 

"You are about to fight a war against your brother Leon to protect this world and the vampire world. I am fighting at your side along with Jake, Callan and the vampire king."

"Stop it, stop these lies." he looked up at me with complete fear in his eyes as he fell to his knees. "Please, tell me how you know this." he moaned in pain as he touched his chest.

"I know this because I know you. I know you better than anyone and I love you, Carter Morgan. For some reason, even after all this torture you put me through, I still love you. I know you care about me. I know somewhere deep inside that black heart of yours you feel something for me. Please, just give me a chance."

"I would never love something like you," he scoffed. "You are disgusting, vile and hideous." He stopped talking as he clutched his chest again and groaned loudly. "What are you doing to me? What is this pain?"

"I'm not doing anything," I protested. "I haven't even touched you."

"You have cast some sort of spell on me, shit." He yelled, throwing his head back. "Stop!" I watched as his chest suddenly started to glow in the darkness of the cave. "I can't take it," he yelled as his chest began to shine a little more.

"Carter, what is happening?" I cried out as he yelled out in pain again. "Carter." I ran over to his side and knelt beside him. "I don't know what to do," I cried out as he clutched his chest tightly. "I'm not doing this to you. I promise."

"Make it stop. Ebony, please help me." He wailed as he fell to the floor.

"I don't know what to do. Wait, what is that sound?" I looked around the dark cave as a thumping sound filled the air.

"Ebony, please."

"Wait, can you hear that?" I listened to the sound of a faint thumping, a sound I recognized.

"What the hell is that?" Carter yelled, pointing to his chest. I watched as his chest moved up and down ever so slightly.

"Oh my goodness, no. It can't be happening again." I gasped, watching his glowing heart beat loudly in his chest.

"What? What is it? Is it alive?" He yelled, looking at me with fear.

"Carter, that's your heart. Your heart is beating."

He stared down at his chest. "How did you do this?" he said, watching his glowing heartbeat in his chest. "Why?"

"I didn't do this. You did. You felt something, and so did your heart. Carter, you know what this means?"

"Absolutely no clue, but I'll kill it anyway." He raised a fist in the air, about to hit himself in the chest.

"No, it means your heart remembers me. it remembers us, and that means that somewhere deep inside you, you feel something for me," I touched his chest, and it glowed even brighter.

"Then why do I remember nothing? Why do I have no clue who you are?"

"I don't know? You remember nothing?"

He shook his head.

"I don't understand this. It's like the movie Back to the future just all kinds of messed up. I don't understand."

"Back to the future?"

"Never mind, it's an awesome long story that you wouldn't understand. Are you ok?" I put my hand over his heart again and watched as it glowed.

"To be honest, I have never felt such calmness in my entire life. My rage is well, it's gone. What magic is this?" He sat up and looked down at his chest. "I can hear the thumping of this thing in my chest."

"I know and you will get used to it. I'm just glad you're not yelling at me anymore. You are really scary when you're mad," I smiled, pushing my hair behind my ear.

He looked up with his now calm aqua eyes and stared at me very intensely. His eyes trailed over my body as I knelt beside him.

"Carter, what is happening?" I said softly as his chest glowed even brighter.

"Ebony Summers," He said with his deep voice. "Ebony Summers," He repeated as his eyes met mine, I saw flecks of silver glitter in his eyes as he said my name over and over again. "Ebony Summers." He reached up and touched my face gently.

"Carter?"

"After all, I put you through you still want to be with me?" He said softly.

"I didn't know it was you until recently," I whispered.

"You do now. You remember every single detail of the things I did to you, and you still want to be with me?"

A tear ran down my cheek. "Yes,"

He smiled. "That's kind of fucked up, you know."

"Really? That's all you have to say? That's kind of fucked up?" I crossed my arms over my chest.

"Well, it is," he shrugged smiling slightly. "To me, you are a five-year-old girl, not, this." He pointed at my body with his finger. "Certainly not this."

"Excuse me? What does that even mean?"

"It means your beautiful Ebony and I get you in the future?" He raised his eyebrow at me.

"You do work pretty hard at it. You are my boss, after all."

"Yeah, I am," he smiled to himself. "So what do we do now? I have no desire to hurt you anymore."

"I don't know? I think their plan here was for you to kill me so you never started a war with your brother. If I don't exist then Leon would never have...Wait," I smiled as I thought of something. "That's it!" I yelled excitedly.

"What? I still kill you? I don't want to anymore, but if you insist," Carter said about to stand up.

"No, not kill me. The others are mad because you start a war with your brother to protect me, and both of our worlds will be destroyed if you both succeed, but what if I don't die. What if Leon is already dead? What if we kill Leon here in this time instead of in the future? That's it. No Leon, No war!"

"You want me to kill my brother because he starts a war in the future that threatens both our worlds?" Carter said slowly.

"Yes, I know it sounds weird to you right now, but I promise you he is evil in the future and he needs to be stopped."

"Kill Leon?" Carter repeated.

"Umm, yeah." I shrugged.

"My only brother, you want me to kill my only brother just because you say I should?" Carter was sounding annoyed with me again.

"Well, I get how strange this all is to you but I need you to trust me here. Please, it's the only way to save everything we know in the future."

"You know this sounds insane, right?" He raised his eyebrows at me. "I don't even know you, and you want me to kill my brother because you tell me I should. I mean, this sounds ridiculous."

I sighed loudly. "You're right. You are absolutely right. You have no idea what I'm talking about. Shit, how can I prove this to you? Who can I get to prove to you that I'm telling you the truth?" I sighed getting lost in my head. "Your mom! Your mom is in the vampire world and Henry, Oh god, Henry is there as well. He can help after I convince him I am from the future and Jake! My beautiful sadistic Jake, he must be somewhere. We need to find everyone and this might just work. This ridiculous plan might just work," I clapped my hands together and squealed with excitement.

"Are you possessed or something? I've been there and trust me when I say demons really hurt when leaving your body. I had this demon inside me this time and it took a week to get rid of that headache."

"I'm not possessed." I protested. "I need to ask you a strange question though," I grabbed his handsome face in my hands.

"I thought you had already started doing that?"

I shook my head "I need you to come with me and help me find your mom."

"My mom is dead, Ebony."

"No, no, she's not. She is hiding in the forest of your world, and I can get you there, but I need you to help me. I can't do this without you. Please, I need your help to save everything we know and to save us and our future together. I need you to trust me right now."

He stared into my eyes, and I watched as the silver flecks of glitter went across his bright aqua eyes. I smiled as I remembered my Carter back home and everything he has done for me. I miss him so much. I wish he were with me. I started to get lost in the magnificent eyes of this Carter as I thought about my Carter and before I could even have another thought, my lips were on his and I kissed him softly as I ran my hands through his soft black hair. I felt his hands around my waist, and I was suddenly being picked up and placed on his lap as he passionately kissed me back in the darkness of the cave.

"Ebony..." he mumbled as he kissed my neck.

"Yeah?"

"Let's kill my brother," he said in between kisses. "Fuck him."

I smiled and laughed as he mumbled something else into my skin.

"What?" I said, pulling his head up to mine.

"We got some time before we kill him, right?" He smiled wickedly up at me.

"Sure," I laughed as he pulled my lips to his again.