Kyle woke the next morning having only slept in spits and spurts through the night. He hadn't even gotten home until nearly five am. They'd spent the entire night digging through the dusty school Library trying to find every piece of information they could on time travel.

The teachers had helped them come up with an air tight plan but the only missing ingredient was a method to travel back to medieval times, and he didn't mean the dinner theater.

After Steinman explained that the Mystic Library didn't actual just pop up anywhere it only appeared on the cross points on the ley lines. Knight recalled an ancient tale that spoke of the creation of Stonehenge, and Merlin's manipulation of it in the time of Uther Pendragon his Liege's Lord's predecessor. It was whispered that Merlin had the giants erect stones on the sight as a means of calling the library to him.

Apparently Merlin valued knowledge above even magic.

Stonehenge in Whiltshire England near the town of Salibury was built in the bronze age by the giants of that era to mark the ley lines that originated there. When Merlin learned of this he had the blue stones of Ireland moved there.

These special stones formed from molten rock took on a specific harmonic resonance. When placed inside the lintels of the structure and struck. They vibrated along the ley lines like the vibrations of a fly in a web drawing the library to that spot on the plains on top of the mound.

The current henge because of erosion and degradation of the outer stones no longer works to call the library, but if they could go back to 500 AD in the time of Merlin they could call the library at will. The only problem is that time spells are very tricky they would have to perform it on sight.

Plus they hadn't found one yet that did not require a tenth level wizard. Clio and most of the teachers had searched with them and although they read about many magical time travel devices they didn't have enough time to track their current locations down.

They called it quits when the sun was coming up and at least half of the researchers had fallen asleep in the stacks. Lauren was good enough to teleport him home and she promised to look out for Travis at her place. That way if something came up she could port him at a moments notice. When he finally got back to his house Lucky was whining at their closed bedroom door. He had to wonder if he sensed the first human that had ever been kind to him was in trouble.

Before his head could hit the pillow however he heard his parent's alarm clock. He had lucked out and arrived just before they got up.

He greeted them in the kitchen with a freshly brewed pot of coffee. Where he informed them that Travis had decided to stay at a friend's for the night. They were surprised to learn that Travis was staying at a friend's without having called them first but they bought Kyle's story that he'd asked him after he was sure they were asleep and he didn't want to wake them. Bruno had given him a questioning look at that statement, but Kyle stuck to the story.

When Kyle mentioned that he had to head out for extra practice with the kids at the club. His parents took him at his word and set out to their community project of the week.

And Kyle crashed hard but couldn't stay asleep to save his life, he kept startling himself awake thinking that he was missing something and he was, his brother. When he did he'd look over mournfully to his brother's empty bed and punch his pillow in frustration to roll over and try again, but finally it was nearly noon and Lauren said she'd come and pick him up then. So he dragged his sorry ass out of bed to grab a quick shower. His stomach rumbled madly, but just the thought of food made him want to hurl.

How could he eat at a time like this, how could he sleep, the clock was ticking and time was running out? When he thought what his brother might look like today he nearly cried. Last night as they'd worked the stone had crept up his arm almost to his shoulders.

A scary thought made him gag out loud, what if when he saw him today the stone had continued up his arms and neck to his head. What if his brother was already gone.

That was it; there was nothing holding it back then. He threw himself out of the shower and at the toilet, to retch his guts up. It took a good while to settle his stomach down before he was able to leave the bathroom and get dressed.

He grabbed a change of clothes for Trav with a long sleeve shirt at his request. No doubt he was trying to find any way he could to hide his affliction.

Lauren texted just as he was finished brushing his teeth.

Hey is now a good time to come and pick you up? L

He texted back without delay, he was scared of what he'd find but he also couldn't wait.

Yup come pick me up.

A port door opened up in his room right away and Lauren stepped out to ask, "Hey are you decent?"

Kyle snorted and replied, "Almost never, but don't let that stop you."

Lauren let her usual trill of a laugh precede her in to the room. He just loved the way it sounded. When she laughed, she actually sounded like a fairy, but please don't ever tell her that. She had explained to him several times before usually in annoyance that not all Fae are fairies, which was something he still didn't quite understand.

As she entered the room she noted Travis' made bed and Kyle's extremely unmade one. His blankets were in such a tangle on his bed it looked like they'd lost the battle. He'd tossed and turned so much in the short hours he had tried to sleep that at one pointed his head was at the foot of the bed. If his blanket could speak they'd be saying: geez that was a rough one, better luck next time dude.

Lauren turned from the scene and rapped her tiny arms around him to lay her head on his chest, and when she spoke she tried but fail miserably to affect a light tone, "Kyle, we've been through some rough moments we'll get through this too."

He wrapped his arms around her for comfort and asked "How is he?" he couldn't wait to find out. Maybe it would be best to hear from her; than to see the difference. and freak out in front of Trav.

"He's doing okay so far. It's spread but we're dealing with it."

"Is it bad. "

"Not too much. The important thing is we have the beginnings of a plan. We need to shake a leg though if we ever hope to find a time travel spell. Clio's opening the library today for us to do some more digging, but don't worry I'm sure we'll find it."

Lauren did he best to hide her doubtful look, but he already seen it written all over Clio's face this morning. If the librarian of the school library couldn't immediately put her hands on it, chances are it didn't exist.

Seeing his concern she gave him an encouraging smile and said, "Let's go I know someone who is dying to see you." Then she took his hand and led him through the portal.

The feeling was more than a little alarming. It was like being totally disassociated from your body. Like when you're really drunk and you're so numb you can't feel the bed you're laying on but you can for damn sure feel the bed spins. Let's put it this way you're glad when it's over.

He had to wonder what it would feel like to port to a far off distant place, would it feel pretty much the same or ten times worse.

Oh God his mind was wandering these days. It was making every attempt to do anything not to think about what was happening. His gut was so twisted right now, he needed to try and think of anything else, but if he didn't start to focus he wasn't going to be any help in finding the time spell.

He was no stranger to this god awful feeling in his stomach, he had the same feeling when he realized his mother cut bait, and every single time he was moved in to a new foster home to find out guess what no surprise it was even worse than the last.

When they reached the open port door on the other side he heaved a huge sigh of relief. Travis was sitting looking pretty much the same and Travis wanted to whoop with joy at the discovery of it.

But he flopped down beside him instead and said with a smirk, "You're a sight for sore eyes. How you feeling?"

"I don't feel anything. It weird there's no discomfort or anything."

"I'm not buying what you're selling Bro." Kyle fixed him with a hard stare, "You're not helping if you're not telling us everything."

"Fine," Travis stretched the neck of his tee out to show him that his affliction had reached his shoulders and was spreading down across his chest."

When Kyle showed his shock he quickly said, "dude it could have been so much worse it could be heading North instead of South."

Kyle forced a smile, "True you're not using anything down there anyway." Kyle pointed at his crotch and snickered.

When Travis got up stiffly from the couch and went upstairs to change. Kyle followed behind him with his hand out near his back just in case he fell. He was walking like an old man and he just had no idea what to expect next.

Travis turned before he entered the room and announced, "Dude I hope you don't think you're following me in and dressing me or something because that's so not going to happen.

Kyle snorted at the idea, "Nah I'm just going to wait out here just in case you forgot how to do it, dingus."

Travis snickered but before he closed the door he let a departing, "Dork," leave his lips.

Kyle paces the floor on the landing next to Lauren's mother's room. He'd only ever come up to this level to use the washroom, and he normally scurried by her mother's door. It creeped him out to think she might be sitting on the other side just listen and waiting.

He couldn't help but picture a horror movie crazed lunatic hunched at the door waiting for her chance for the unsuspecting victim to turn his or her back. So when he heard the soft knock from inside the room he nearly jumped out of his skin and let out a very undignified howl of terror, followed promptly by a wide eyed, "LAAUUURRREENN!"

Lauren came running up the stairs from the kitchen at the sound of Kyle's alarm to find him with his back plastered against her bedroom door. He was sputtering like an idiot in monosyllabic, incongruent words. It was no wonder she wasn't getting it.

She just kept looking from his madly gesturing finger to her mother's bedroom door. With a look that said YEAH promptly followed by AND.

When the knock happened again Kyle actually turned the knob on Lauren's bedroom door from behind him and promptly fell in backwards.

"HEY!" Travis protested as he hurriedly pulled up his pants, but Kyle couldn't hear him over his rapidly beating heart.

Lauren dove for the door like it was a lifeline and plastered her ear against it, in doing so she looked remarkably like a safecracker. The silence that followed was deafening. Somehow Travis had clued in to what was happening, and he was quietly gathering his clothes and stuffing them back in the convenience bag, but the crinkle of the plastic was exaggerated in the hush of the strange moment. So he stopped moving entirely as both he and Kyle took on an awkward statue like stance.

He didn't even dare to breathe. He was terrified she was going to come rushing out and he would be trapped upstairs with no way out. Lauren explained ages ago that her mother suffered from Iron sickness and that it was slowly robbing her of her sanity, among other things. This was the first time she ever even let her presence be known.

When Lauren's soft sobs reached his ears he felt like a complete heel. He wanted to rush to comfort her, yet strangely his legs wouldn't obey. To say he was quaking in his boots wouldn't be farfetched.

Lauren spoke quietly to her mother too quietly for him to hear and if she responded she did so in kind so he didn't hear her either.

When an old crumpled yellow piece of paper appeared in the crack between the floor and the old carpet Lauren looked down in surprise.

From where he stood he could see Lauren reading it in confusion. Her brow was creased and her lips moved silently with each word like she was taking them in to her soul rather than just reading them.

When she turned a tear streaked face on him and Travis and gave them the most radiant smile he'd ever seen he didn't know what to think, but when she started thanking her mother over and over again and kissing the door his curiosity won out and he joined her at the foot of her mother's door.

When she handed him the piece of paper and he read it he wanted to kiss the door too.

The yellowed paper contained an old time travel spell suitable for a fae and on it was written in the delicate scrawl of an ancient being, if somewhat shaky and uncertain hand.

Lauren read the note out loud.

When she was done. She turned the letter over quickly going over the in proclaimed in an excited voice, "This is totally due able."

Kyle and Travis were so happy they enveloped her in a group hug that nearly crush the poor girl. 

Thanks to Lauren's mom they had the final and most crucial part of their plan. All they needed to do now was get their hands on the ingredients on this list and call the guys to tell them to pack.

All of a sudden the lyrics to the Clash's song London's Calling started playing through his head, and as ran over to grab his brother and give him a shake, he crowed in an exaggerated British accent, "look out England here we come"

Finally some good news.

Now all they have to do is travel to England and perform a complicated spell.

Will they be successful in breaking into the mystical library?

Tune in tomorrow to find out.

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