Las Vegas, Friday Night

[izzyalienqueen]

As soon as Wyatt orbed them back from Roswell, Isabel tossed her bag on the couch, pulled out her phone and tried to call her mother to apologize for missing dinner.

Except no one answered the phone.

Which was...odd.

"I guess you want to know what was going on," she said to Wyatt.

[Mostly for one, but calls are welcome.]

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[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

When in a crisis of her own, Savannah was usually very calm and detail oriented. However, when said crisis could possibly involve someone she loved, she was deadly but not so detail oriented.

Yet, she still had enough of her wits to call for a second opinion because she knew what would happen if she got into serious trouble and hadn't warned anyone that it was happening.

So that would be why Isabel's phone was now ringing.

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Panic and nerves had Isabel snapping her phone open immediately. "Hello?"

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"You sound like I feel," Savannah commented.

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If Savannah felt like Isabel did, and based on her conversation with Parker "Who's missing?" seemed like a logical question to ask.

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"Johnny Storm," Savannah said carefully.

Look, a building of employees were claiming they had never heard of him.

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Well crap. "My sister-in-law. One of Parker's geniuses. Savannah, this isn't good."

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"If you had said Johnny Who I might have cried, Isabel." She took a steadying breath. "No one at Baxter seems to know anything about Johnny ... or Sue, or Ben or Reed. No one here knows anything about the Fantastic Four. As far as they know, I own the building."

She swallowed. "So all three of us are missing people that have some kind of importance in our lives. What the hell?"

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"That's how it was with Max and Michael. They had no idea who Liz and Maria were," Isabel replied. "None of the alien weirdness had ever happened. As far as they knew, I was off in New York trying to break into the fashion industry. I don't get it. Neither does Parker."

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"If you and Parker have no idea what's happening ... Isabel, everyone was just fine when I went to Portland to help Adam with a case for Paige and Lucas. Everyone was here and knew everybody else and Sue and Johnny even got into a fight about Johnny trying to stop me from helping Paige and Adam out." She shook her head. "Two days later and no one has any idea who they are. I thought at first Johnny was playing an expensive joke on me ... but these people weren't lying."

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"It's the same with me. We were home last weekend," she said a small smile crossing her lips at the memory of being weetiny again. "Wyatt and I both wound up being six again. It was fun. And everything was fine when I talked to my mom on Wednesday. Whatever happened between then and now, I don't know."

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"I was out with Bryce's friends last weekend while Johnny was taking down something they didn't need to see. And everything was fine when I called Paige to talk to her from Portalocity's stupid layover."

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"So we're getting a time frame. Which still doesn't help us much. Parker and I were saying if we were still on the island it'd be time to hit the library. But since we're not I'm going to call and have someone check to make sure the stupid angel statues are out in the preserve." It was the best idea she'd had at this point.

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"Would the angels cause people to be forgotten?" She was trying to remember how things had worked when she got kidnapped but the damn things.

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"Not that I know of, but it's as good a starting place as any." It had been more then three years since Isabel had dealt with the serious side of Fandom weirdness. It was going to take her time to get her groove back.

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"A starting place is good," Savannah agreed. "What the hell could make people disappear from existence and memory? It doesn't make any sense."

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"When did anything Fandom related make sense?" Isabel observed.

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"You have a very good point." Savannah sighed. "I wouldn't admit this to anyone else but you or Wyatt ... but I'm scared, Isabel."

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"You're not the only one. Wyatt and I hope it'll wear off in a few days, but I don't know," she admitted. "I've got a bad feeling." Things had been too good for too long.

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"Bad feelings from any of us are never good." Savannah said softly.

"Oh gods," Savannah suddenly stuttered. "Mom! I have to call Mom and make sure ..."

That she still existed. If she didn't then Isabel was going to have a hysterical and magically out of control pseudo-sister on her hands.

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Isabel certainly understood that feeling and wished there was a way she could call her own mother. Except judging by Max and Michael's example, there was no way she could and laugh with Diane Evans about Fandom weirdness. "Go. Call her. You'll feel better once you talk to her."

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"I'll call you back when I know if she ..." She swallowed. "We'll fix this, right?"

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"We always do." She was not going to think about the inevitable time that would come when they couldn't. "Keep in touch, okay?"

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"You, too, Isabel," Savannah replied. "I'm not losing someone else."

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"Yeah, did Max and Michael get hit over the head or something?" Wyatt said with a confused look. Fandom weirdness tended to hit them, not the people around them.

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"Or something," Isabel said, tossing her phone aside and reaching for Wyatt.

"Which Elder can I thank that gave you the ability to know when I was in trouble?"

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Wyatt shook his head, wrapping his arms around her. "I didn't know," he said. "I just orbed to your family's house like I said I would."

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Isabel went very still. "You mean that wasn't some weird ass alternative universe? That was my parents' house?"

[blessed_twice]

"Yeah, as far as I could tell," Wyatt said quietly. "I mean, I could've been orb-jacked or something and sent to the wrong place, but I thought I was going to the right dimension."

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"If you'd been traveling by Portalocity I'd say that was a possibility. But you've never had this happen before, so I can see it happening now. Unless you were distracted or something maybe?" Yes, Isabel was grasping at straws.

[blessed_twice]

"Like I said, it's possible," Wyatt said, though his tone was skeptical. "But why -- and how -- would someone send your portal to the wrong place and then somehow send me there, too?"

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"You're right. That doesn't make sense." Despite how much she wanted it to. It was a lot easier then accepting her own brothers barely knew her.

"Which means if that was home, then something is really wrong. It's not just that they didn't know you. They didn't know me. Not really."

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"What do you mean?" Wyatt asked, growing more concerned about this himself. "They didn't recognize you?"

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"Oh no, they recognized me. But they were surprised I was home from New York," Isabel explained. "Apparently once we graduated from high school, I, or at least the Isabel they knew left town. She doesn't come back all that often and they don't really talk."

"They never met Liz and Maria. Never had to deal with the alien weirdness. Everything is different and I don't know how or why it happened."

"Or how to fix it back," she added in a small voice.

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt squeezed her tighter. "It'll wear off in a few days, won't it?" he said. If it was just Fandom weirdness, somehow affecting everyone around them instead of them themselves for a change.

"We could go back and try to figure out how things changed, if you want."

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"I think I know what's changed." She didn't know how or why it happened but it seemed the most logical starting point. "They never heard of Liz or Maria. Had never heard of the Crashdown." Little did Isabel know that currently the Crashdown was nothing but a black spot of nothing on Roswell's main street.

"If Liz was never shot, if Max never healed her, then all the alien weirdness never happened. We graduated and I left. I never came to Fandom."

[blessed_twice]

"If it's not Fandom weirdness, then why would someone want to do that, and why wouldn't it affect you?" Wyatt wondered aloud. "Either somebody went back in time, or it's a spell. And if it's a spell it can be broken."

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"Or it could be alien weirdness. We never did find out what happened to Kivar." Which was a thought that brought back a lot of very bad memories for Isabel. "But it doesn't make sense. Why now? Why Liz and Maria and not me?"

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"I don't know," Wyatt admitted.

Something else occurred to him, though he was a little reluctant to voice it. "Could be someone trying to screw with you to get to me," he said. "Maybe you were supposed to forget all about Fandom, too, but it didn't quite work out right."

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"We know that's a possibility," she nodded, thinking of what she remembered from the reunion weekend. "So we add it to the list. Fandom weirdness, alien weirdness, and magical weirdness. Great, where do we begin?"

Isabel was quiet for a moment as she thought things over, and to appreciate the fact that Wyatt was there keep her from panicking too badly. "I'm going to call Parker. She made a comment on Twitter earlier about losing track of things. Maybe it's happening to her as well."

[blessed_twice]

"That would mean it was definitely Fandom then," Wyatt said, more than a little relieved. Even if it meant more than Isabel's home was affected, it would mean more people helping to figure out what was going on.

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The call didn't take long and the answer was weirdly reassuring.

"So it looks like it's some sort of Fandom thing," Isabel said, joining Wyatt on the couch. "Ben, one of the guys we sprang from the Centre last year is missing. As in no one else remembers him at all."

[blessed_twice]

"So Fandom's randomly erasing people from our lives but not our memories of them," Wyatt said with a scowl. "Not funny. But that means it'll probably be over in a couple days like Fandom weirdness usually is."

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"Not just erasing people, changing our lives. It's like that whole butterfly flapping in Japan causes a hurricane in Florida theory. Ripples, spreading out and changing everything," she shuddered, not liking where that train of thought was taking her. "I hope your right. That it's only a few days."

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"Maybe we better check out what's going on on the island just to be sure," Wyatt said. "They could already be working on it."

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"I'll call Ronan and maybe Anakin. If something's up, I'm sure one of them will know." Not that she made any effort to move just yet. The day's stress was starting to catch up to her.

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "Yeah, they'll know," he agreed. "They're probably all over fixing it. But I'll check the Book of Shadows for anything, too."

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"Memory demons or spells?" It made sense, but it didn't mean Isabel had to like the idea of Wyatt heading back to San Francisco. "You realize I'm going to text you constantly."

[blessed_twice]

"And time travel," Wyatt said. "Since whatever's doing this is hitting different points in time. Time travel's really tricky, though."

And it often made you wear a bad wig. Just ask Cole.

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Just as long as there was no evil facial hair.

"So whatever this is is traveling though time and dimensions making people disappear like they've never been born and rewriting history without anyone but us realizing it." Saying it all like that made her shudder once more. "I'm getting a really bad feeling about this."