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It was just a few minutes after school, and Trey was hanging out in the parking lot, talking to a few friends. He had just finished the story of how he had hacked into his old enemy's wireless network the other day and given him what for, when all of a sudden there were screams of terror somewhere nearby. Naturally alarmed, Trey looked to his right only to notice a huge crowd gathering around. To get a better look at what was going on, he narrowed his eyes a bit and moved forward. After pushing his way through the crowd - with quite some difficulty, mind you - what he saw disturbed him. One of the student's feet and ankles were... invisible. Or gone?

It was a girl, a freshman he believed. She had short brunette hair that barely reached shoulder length and glasses slipping past her nose. She seemed full of terror, and kept muttering to herself, "No, not me too! No, not me too!" Trey raised an eyebrow at this spectacle, and unconsciously scanned the crowd for any sign of his younger brother, Darrell, or any of his friends... He saw Darrell immediately, having been familiar with him for the past fifteen years, and after some searching, noticed that Tabitha, Doctor, London, Carlos, and Rose were alright as well. With a small sigh of relief, he managed to turn his head back to the girl, where his jaw nearly dropped in shock. Her entire lower body was missing. What the heck was going on? Everyone around him seemed to be wondering the same question, and sneaking over to a group of girls who seemed to be gossiping about the subject at hand, he managed to find out a bit of the back story.

"Didn't you hear?" said one with dirty blonde hair and milky brown eyes.
"About her parents?" asked another, who was a redhead.
"Yeah, she told her friends that a few days ago, her parents disappeared just like that," said a third with dark brunette locks.
"I wonder what all this means..." said the dirty blonde.
The redhead responded, "I don't know, but it sure is strange... considering her whole family is now disappearing from the looks of it."
After seeing the brunette nod, Trey decided this information was good enough to understand. So it had happened to her parents first and then now to her. A turn of his head revealed that just the girl in question's shoulders and above were showing now. Trey had curiosity burning inside of him. A question reared on him just like it head the blonde girl. What did this all mean?

((can Doctor and Trey be best friends.... Or no?))

Doctor jogged out of the school to find a large crowd forming, with a shrug he trotted over, the sight that greeted him was... Interesting. It was like something from his fathers tv show. "Sweetness.." he muttered under his breath and made sure all his friends were all right, he was happy to discover that they were fine. He caught Treys eye for a moment and walked around the crowd.

"Hey, so, what's the sitch?" he asked his friend, curious. He glanced at the girl again, completely facinated. "looks like it has something to do with timetravel... But that's crazy... Time travel isn't real..." he said and shook his head. He glanced back at his friend. "we gunna do something about this?" he asked, excitement already building up inside of him.

Darrell jogged up to his older brother and put his hands in his pockets. "That was crazy, Trey," he said softly, still in shock. "Did you see that?" He closed his eyes and counted to five silently. He began thinking of dogs, cats, waterfalls, clouds, and other things in nature that calmed him down. After those five seconds, he felt good enough to return back to normal. "Poor girl."

Darrell shook his head and ran his fingers through his dark hair. Chaos was everywhere. No one was in any kind of orderly fashion. Now his nature was really starting to come back. He wanted to do something. He wanted to help her. "What can we do?" he asked. He knew it was unlikely any one could answer that question. That meant that he'd have to. He'd find a way to respond to this in a smart way. He'd get it done.

OOC: Of course, Flutterby.

Trey quickly registered the fact that Darrell and Doctor had approached him while the girl's eyes were quickly becoming the last thing in tact. To answer Doctor, he said, "It looks as if she's... vanishing. I heard others speaking of how her parents disappeared just like her only a few days ago. Whatever's going in is certainly strange..." He took a quick glance at her now vanishing pupils before having to turn away to look at Doctor again. "Time travel, eh? Somehow I find that, well... impossible." He gave a shrug, and now addressed his brother. "It's okay, Darrell," he said in an attempt to calm his younger brother. Though the 15 year old still wished to help the young girl. "Look, bud... there's nothing we can do." He paused. "I wish we could help too, but she's almost gone, and how can we stop something we don't know about?" he said truthfully. He remained close to Darrell, though, concerned he may want to help the girl anyways - as was his personality (to help others).

Doctor raised an eyebrow, he stared at the girl for a moment and nodded again. "I'll have look into this..." he said, he grinned. "hey, let's go over to my place and eat and research this." he suggested. He returned his gaze to the girl, unsure if they wanted to really do that. He honestly wanted to go talk to her, see what was going on, get to the bottom of it, but he knew she was under enough pressure as it was.

OOC::// I'm gonna have to drop out Sorry, I just have to many RPs now and I can't keep up with this one.

Ooc:// Sorry it took me so long to post! Busy weekend.

Bic:// Rose stood in the back of the crowd circled around a young girl who literally disappeared before all of their watching eyes. Rose didn't dare look away from the girl until she was completely gone, not even leaving her glasses behind her. At this thought, Rose reached into her pocket and gripped her own glasses protectively, making sure they hadn't started disappearing like everything else around here. Her ears heard all the whisperings going on around her, and Rose quickly realized that this girl's parents had disappeared less than a week ago. There had to be some sort of connection there, maybe something in the genes? But there was no other evidence other than the completely empty spot where the girl had once laid.

Familiar voices sounded in her ears, and Rose turned away from the diminishing crowd and towards her friends. With her arms crossed around her stomach, Rose sidled up beside Darrel, Doctor, and Trey. By their tone of voice alone, it was obvious what their subject of conversation was. "By figuring it out," Rose stated matter-of-factly to Trey's question, her voice completely straight and not even hinting that she was currently wracking her brain for just how to do that. "That sounds like as good a plan as any," she said with a shrug to Doctor's suggestion.

"Or that." Doctor said, grinning at Rose, he shook his head. Her name was like the girl who fell in love with the doctor in Doctor Who, the thought made him grin. His mother had played her, his father had played the doctor. It was funny how things worked, but for now there was nothing going on between them. He didn't mind all that much, he just found it amusing. He thought about what she had said...That certainly was one way. "well, first off, I'll have to research about this, see if any other families are disappearing, here." he said and took out his ipod, hacking onto the school teacher's internet, which was super fast. He looked up several seconds later. "listen to this, A small city in Pennsylvania has lost several families, these families have seemed to vanish and neighbors say they never left. The police are currently looking into it, but right now, it is assumed that the families are on the run for some unknown reason. he said, quoting an article online. He glanced at his friends, grinning again and shaking his head. "This sounds like something we do indeed need to get solved. What do you say?" he asked and looked at his ipod again. He shook his head, "wait, listen to this. The president remains quiet on the subject of the disappearing families. We are investigating, but aren't succeeding, but the source is certainly coming from Washington, DC. Top Secret files, delete after sent." he said, accidentally reading the whole 'top secret' part of it, he smiled sheepishly. "I probably shouldn't have hacked that..." he said. He looked at them all. "Well, what so you think?" he asked.

Darrell grinned at Doctor. "First off, I think you're my hero." He bowed jokingly then looked at his older brother before turning back to Doctor. "I think that we should do some more research. Whatever's going on has to be important. The government even knows it." He let a small grin to hide his nervousness spread across his face. "Dudes. This is a conspiracy theory come alive. How great is that?" Great actually wasn't the word he'd chose. The moment it was out of his mouth, he wanted to take it back. Now it sounded like he was making light of the situation. He wasn't; he just had trouble deciding what to say when he was nervous.

He sighed softly to himself. Luckily everyone here knew him well. However, that little problem was the reason he didn't do well when he first met new people. He always messed up what to say. Darrell sighed, "I didn't mean great. There's nothing "great" about this." now he was just saying the obvious. He sighed again, getting frustrated. Sometimes he had trouble making himself talk and others he had trouble making himself stop. He looked around apologetically. "Sorry, guys..."

Trey blinked momentarily at Rose's bluntness, though he should have been used to it by now. He nodded after several more seconds, saying, "Alright, good idea-" He was cut off by Doctor, who was currently quoting a few articles online. "Hm... seems to me that if those files are Top Secret, something's going on in Washington that no one wants the public to know about." He turned towards the spot where the girl had once been.

Looking at Darrell, who seemed positively overwhelmed with embarrassment, he said, "'Course it is. You mean great as in exciting, right? Cause this definitely exciting!" He patted Darrell's shoulder approvingly, attempting to make him feel better by lifting his spirits. Though what he said was definitely true. It was something exciting to behold that a mere group of Pennsylvania teenagers were looking into a top secret mission...

Doctor looked at Darrel, smiling at the younger boy's talking. The guy always amused him. "So, now the question is, how do we get to Washington DC?" he asked them, already knowing that they were going to go, neither one of them wanted to go or not. He glanced at the girl, then away. Wait, she wasn't there anymore! He shuttered, imagining what it would be like, one minute to be living, the next to be a vacant space. Nothing. He shuttered again. What to do, what to do. They would have to get to the bottom of this, before they disappeared. He vowed to make sure that nothing like that would happen to his friends.