Another Time Another Place

[Robin Morbid]

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

PHILADELPHIA,PA
JUNE 2007
B*WITCHED REUNION TOUR

"I can't believe you talked me into this..." Grumbled a very tired girl.
"Come on,Annie,you know you you're happy to be here!" Her red haired friend laughed.
"Yeah but the tickets were murder to get a hold of,Adrienne..." Annie sighed,brushing her hair back.
Annie Finnegan and Adrienne Mitchell were hardcore B*Witched fans in their time.The Irish girl band caught their attention and served as heavy role models to them at a young age,and now at the ages of 19 and 20 they have more or less turned out fine.During the reign of B*Witched Adrienne dressed almost gothic and was very alert and sometimes tense while Annie,gothic like her friend,was described as "superhyperspastic".Five years did a lot to them because now Adrienne was a lot more mellow and Annie made a lot more sense.
After B*Witched split in 2002 it had been five years before the two girls had seen or spoken to eachother.It was on morning in December when Adrienne woke up Annie screaming "B*WITCHED IS GOING TO BE IN PHILLY!!!!!"
Adrienne ordered their tickets and offered Annie a ride there.
"Nah,I've got my way there..."
"Annie...let me give you a ride..." Adrienne protested.
"I'm fine." Annie replied assertively.
"You can't drive,you're an epileptic."
She remembered how Annie went silent for a moment before hanging up the phone.Annie did not being treated like a child or a sick old woman.She could handle herself behind the wheel of a car but legally she was not allowed to.She ended up accepting the ride from Adrienne but didn't like it.When they finally got to the show they ran into a few of Annie's friends,Caron,Kim,Bridget and Donna.
"Hey buddy," Caron said to Annie.
"Hey guys,this is my friend Adrienne." Annie introduced them.
"Dude...we should start a mosh pit tonight!" Kim laughed.
"Yeah we should,how many times does that happen at a freakin' b*witched concert?" Donna asked.
"I know,right..." Adrienne laughed.
"Let's do it then!" Bridget jumped.
"I'm in." Caron said looking to Annie.
"Sure,why not..."

PRE-SHOW JITTERS
PHILADELPHIA MARRIOTT

"I can't believe it...we're in Philadelphia already and I'm still not feeling myself..." Keavy sighed before the show that night.
"Don't talk like that." Lindsay laughed. "Just be happy that we can do this together again."
"She's right,you know." Sinead pointed out. "What's been bothering you,anyway?"
"Lindsay,Sinead,could I talk to you for a minute?" Edele asked from the other side of their hotel room.
Keavy shook her head and plopped down on her bed and stared up at the ceiling.Lindsay and Sinead followed Edele out into the hallway and closed the door.
"Look...she's been having a bad time with performing because of that last time she performed in panto..." Edele whispered.
"You mean when she blacked out on stage?" Sinead asked.
"Yeah..."
"I didn't even think about that..." Lindsay admitted. "Is she going to be all right?"
"I don't know,usually I can read her better than this but I just don't know."
"I can hear you..." Keavy called out to them.

Edele leaned against the wall and sighed while the other two looked down at the ground.Keavy stared at the ceiling and then closed her eyes remembering that night on panto...
"I had it all worked out...with one more baby I could manage but not with two...the welfare have already been onto me..." She recited.
She heard the other actress saying her lines but everything seemed like a blurr and then it all went black.When she opened her eyes she was staring at the lights above her and had no idea what was going on,the audience was still and all she could hear was the director screaming "someone call an ambulance!"
She remembered...
"d**n..." She sat up and met up with the others to get ready for the show that night.

ELECTRIC FACTORY
PHILADELPHIA,PA
7:30 PM

"All right,guys,the show starts in a half hour,someone get those cables taped down,we don't want anyone getting hurt here!" Said the technical director to his crew.
"Evan,what do we do with microphone cables? The girls aren't using the handhelds for a few of the numbers,right?"
"Right,we take in the handhelds during intermission to check them,switch the batteries and all that jazz,then they get them back later."

The crew went their own way to get the job done while the audience filled the place.A few guys walked around pulling a few beers from their rediculously large pockets.
"This is going to be awesome." one of them laughed.

Adrienne,Annie and the rest of their little group wandered towards the stage and waited for the concert to start.They were standing in a large group of people and couldn't wait to start moshing.As soon as the music started and the girls ran on stage the crowd went crazy,cheering,screaming and jumping around.
"We're having a problem with handheld #2..." Said the sound guy.
"Give one of the girls one of the other mics and we'll check out the handheld..." Said another as Keavy went by. "Here,take this one,be careful though,it's not a handheld like the other three." He said to her.
"All right..." She said.
"Hey,hey,Philadelphia!!!!" Lindsay said after picking up her mic.
"How is everyone tonight?" Edele laughed.
More screaming.
"It's great to be back,thanks for hanging in there for us and never losing faith in us!" Sinead said with a huge smile on her face.
"Thanks a million everyone..." Keavy nodded when she finally got on stage.
"All right,let's get this going then.Everyone looks so bored! Let's start off right with an old favorite of ours,and yours..." Edele said as the band behind them started playing "cest la vie"
The crowd screamed louder than ever and sang with the girls.
"Could you imagine headbaning to this?" Adrienne said looking to Annie,who was already way ahead of her on that one.
She and the other four jumped,head banged and pushed into eachother as if they were at the club moshing to kittie and otep.They pushed into other people who were standing around them and a fight broke out.Annie linked arms with Caron who grabbed a hold of Donna who grabbed Bridget.The guys with the beer moshed with them and knocked the four of them over...
The girls on stage linked hands as they danced and the cable on Keavy's microphone was hooked up to the side of the stage,they had to edge over to her side because otherwise she wouldn't have been able to dance.
The beer bottles hit the cables and Annie fell into them,smashing them apart.A few sparks flaired up and sent a huge shock into her,Caron and Donna.The electricity traveled up to Keavy's mic,sent a jolt through her hand and shocked the hell out of her,Sinead and Edele.The three of them collapsed on the stage and Lindsay flew back a bit.Annie,Caron and Donna passed out as well and the paramedics came out immediately for all six of them.
The three teens had to be taken to Taylor while the other three were dealt with elsewhere.
"I don't understand what happened..." Lindsay cried,all shaken up from it. "It was so random..."
"They started a mosh pit..." Adrienne explained to the doctors. "and then they fell into some cables and got shocked..."

A few days went by and the girls were still in the hospital...

JUNE 22
2007
TAYLOR HOSPITAL

The girls had been out for three days and Annie was the first of them to wake up...Her eyes opened a little and she saw a young woman sitting across from her.She had dark wavy hair,glasses,pale skin and blue eyes.
"Hey,honey,are you all right?" The young woman asked gently.
"What?"
"It's me...Nikki..."
"Who?"
"Annie...I'm your sister..."
"Annie?"
"That's you,honey." The woman laughed.
"Annie is my middle name..." She said before falling asleep again.

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
HOSPITAL

Lindsay paced back and forth and waited for any word of recovery for her friends.A doctor came out to speak with her to tell her that Keavy had woken up.She rushed in to see her.
"What the f**k is going on?" She said,seeing the doctor return with Lindsay behind her. "Oh nuts..." She grabbed her pillow from behind her head and hid.
"Keavy? What's wrong?" Lindsay panicked.
"I know you!"
"I...I know..." Lindsay nodded. "I know you know me..."
"No! I know you! Do you know you?"
"Keavy..."
"What?" She pulled the pillow away.
"Huh?"
"You called me Keavy...why?"
"That's your name..." Lindsay looked to the doctor. "Did she lose her memory?"
"My name is Annie and my memory is fine!" the so called Keavy protested.
Confusion


"What's going on?" Keavy asked herself as she woke up in a hospital bed.
Her head was spinning,all she could remember was that little shock from the cables on stage.Nothing more.She looked around for Edele,Sinead and Lindsay.They were no where in sight,she tried to call out to them but no one answered.No one but a nurse in purple scrubs.

TAYLOR HOSPITAL

"Goodmorning." She said. "Your sister called,she is going to be here soon to give you a ride home."
"Edele?" The young patient asked.
"I'm sorry?" The Nurse looked confused. "The young woman who was here the day before,Nikki,she's your sister,isn't she?"
"I'm sorry...I don't know who you think I am but..."
"Annie!!!!" Came another girls voice from the hall.
Three girls entered the room,the one who yelled was a thin,wirey girl with big brown eyes and a nice smile,the other two were a little taller,one with glasses and one in a hat.
"Uh..."
"Hit your head to hard,Annie? It's me! Caron!" The wirey one laughed.
The girl in the hat turned to the nurse.
"Hi,we're her friends,I'm Boyle and this is Donna..." She gestured to the other girl. "Ready to go,Finnegan? Nikki's outside waiting for you."
Donna picked up a bookbag beside the bed which had Annie's clothes in it.
"You don't understand! I'm not who you think I am!"
Why won't they listen to me?!?!?!?!
I'm not Annie!
My name is Keavy!
I am Keavy Lynch!!!!

"Hey honey..." Keavy's concentration was broken by another voice.
She looked up to see the same woman from before,the one she woke up to earlier.Annie's older sister,Nikki.
"Are you ready to go home?"
Without thinking it through Keavy nodded,picked up the bag and walked out with her and the three other girls who came in.Boyle,Caron and Donna caught a ride with someone else and Keavy went with Nikki.Nikki tried to make some conversation but from previous knowledge of her little sister,she wasn't much of a talker to begin with.There was something different about her that Nikki couldn't quite firgure out.
"You never let me call you honey,what's wrong?" Nikki asked when the stopped at a red light.
"I'm sorry?" Keavy was confused.
"Honey...you never usually let me call you that.Normally you would freak out and tell me not to call you that and that you hate it like a pregnant dog.Whats wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong...I'm fine."
"Liar..."
Does she know something? Keavy thought to herself.
There isn't much I can do about this now,maybe its just a sick dream...I don't know...I wish I could see Edele right now.Why is this happening??? And if I'm in this other girls body...where is she???
A NIGHTMARE...

Annie sat on the hospital bed, still drugged up, confused, in a daze and slightly paranoid as the thoughts ran throguh her mind....
"Why did they call me keavy? Why was that Lindsay chick here? What kind of sick dream is this? F*ck I'm hungry..."
She looks up seeing Lindsay come back into the room.
"hey you gave us a scare. how are you feeling now?" She said sitting in a chair next to the bed.
Annie stared at her for a moment and Lindsay patiently waited for her to say soemthing.
"Hello." Was all she could think to say.
"What's wrong?"
She gave Lindsay a strange,confused look and said "I know you."
Lindsay laughed "Of course you know me!"
Annie continued stammering nervously "you're that lady...from that group...that sings...that I like sometimes..."
She turned away and said to herself,realizing how stupid she sounded "What the f*ck?"
"um. you just rest here" Lindsay said getting out of her seat. "I'll go see how the other two are doing."
"Who?" Annie turned sharply sitting up more.
"The others...nevermind. Just rest."
Lindsay walked out into the hall with a confused look on her face. She spotted a nurse and then requested to see Keavy's doctor.The nurse came and went in a hurry and out came a young blond doctor,she may have looked young but she was very good at her job.
"Hello,I'm Doctor Schantz,how can I help you?"
"Are you keavy's doctor?" Lindsay asked.
"I am."
"whats wrong with her exactly?"
"Well,physically she's perfectly normal..."
"But she doesn't know who I am,or the rest of us."
"She might have a slight case of amnesia,it's common after an episode like that" Schantz explained.
"It is?"
"We performed an EEG on her earlier this
afternoon,her brainwaves are spiking at an alarming rate,that might have something to do with the shock."
"is she...gonna be ok?" Lindsay was fretfull.
"when the brainwaves spike like that it means that there is a lot of electric surges in her head...basically,she'll be
seizing and losing some memory every now and then, she will be fine, she has no prior history of this." Schantz continued to explain.
"but why...its over." Lindsay didn't understand."shouldnt she be returning to normal?"
" she is,but its a slow process, you need to be patient, it will go much faster if you help her remember things. Surround her with family, friends, work that she likes to do...familiar things."

Annie still laid in her hospital bed confused and in a daze,her head was pounding and every now and then she would twitch.This felt normal to her,it was her warning signs to having a seizure.She hadn't taken her medication that day and she was worried that the seizure comign would be a big one.Thinking that her own belongings were with her she got up to look for her bookbag to see if her medication was there as well.She looked around the room and then went into the tiny unbearable bathroom to look,a sink and mirror were just outside of the door.She came out and looked around there and brought herself up to look into the mirror to fix her hair.What she saw,not only messy hair...but a face that wasn't hers.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?!?!"
Hearing a scream from Keavy's room,Lindsay darted back leaving Dr.Schantz in her dust.She bursted into the room to find her bandmate backed against the wall screaming,wide eyed and babbling about god knows what.
"What is it?!"
"Oh my god! Oh my god!" Annie panicked.
"Keavy? Are you ok?" Lindsay moved to her friend and tried to help her up.
"NO!" Annie pushed her away. "That isn't my name!"
"Yes it is!"
Annie put her head in her hands and cried out in frustration.
"No! my name is Annie! ANNIE!"
"Keavy..." Lindsay sighed.
"NO!" She stood up and pounded her fist into the wall behind her.
Lindsay tried to make eye contact but that made her even more upset.
"Annie...my name is Annie..." With that she ran out of the room.

[Robin Morbid]

THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES...

"keavy wait!" Lindsay chased after her.
Annie kept moving faster and bumped into someone which made her stumble a little before stopping completely. She turned around looking at the floor nervously.
"Oh sh*t...I'm sorry..."
"Keavy? Where are you going?" Said this new person.
Annie looked up seeing the leader of the group standing before her. Edele looked on who she thought to be her sister.Annie's eyes got wider and then she turned around and walked away quickly.
"Hey! Wait!" Edele called after her.
Lindsay caught up to Edele and they looked at each other,completely thrown off by their friends behavior.
"What's going on with her?" Edele asked.
"I'll explain later...where's Sinead?"
"She's with the doctors getting herself released.I just did."
"How are you feeling,Edele?" Lindsay finally asked as they continued to chase after Keavy.
"Better,a little twitchy every now and then but it's no big deal..."
"Keavy got the worst of it,the doctor said they performed an EEG on her and her brainwaves were spiking off the charts."
"Whats that mean?"
"She's losing memory because of seizures,has she ever done that before?"
"No,I don't think so." Edele shrugged.
Sinead popped up out of no where and followed them.
"Hey,what'd I miss?" She asked.
"We're looking for Keavy." Lindsay replied, losing breath from walking so fast.
"I'll go ahead..." Edele suggested."You two go call someone and get us out of here."

Annie looked around for a phone.She wanted to be out of there more than anything.This had to be a dream,she thought,there was no way this could be real.
"I need to get out of here..."
Edele finally caught up to her,finding her wandering back and forth. "Keavy wait! lets just stop and talk about this!"

Annie leaned against the wall,ignoring Edele.
"I want to go home..."
Suddenly, Edele was right beside her and gently took her hand.
"Come on, i'll take you home..."
Annie looked up at her "Do you know where I live?"
"Of course I do."
"um...can I...get dressed first?" Annie realized she was still in one of those spiffy hospital gowns.
Edele looked at her and laughed a little.
"All right." She said."It doesn't matter to me..."
"I'm naked under this!" Annie said in her own defense.
"keavy we look alike...why should i care?"
"I care...and my name is Annie."
Edele became a little confused and irritated.
"Ok...you're Annie..."
"d**n right I am" Annie walked back to her room and said in a offended but sarcastic tone "You were gonna make me walk out of here naked!" She closed the door behind her.
Edele leaned against the door and pondered.
"So...why Annie?"
"Well...its somewhere in that long ass name of hers..."
"what?"
"she;s got a big name.Don't get me wrong,its a really nice name...but its so long...I can't even remember it all."
"Who are you talking about,Keavy?"
"dude...tell your old people next time they want to have kids...stick with one name,two tops...but not like...fifty names per kid...thats just insane...no offense or anything."
Edele became impatient while Annie took her time getting dressed.
"Are you coming out?"
Annie walked out oblivious to the questions blunt meaning and said,
"Oh no I did that when I was 15."
"Did you now?"
"Yeah,about four years ago I think...good times." Annie nodded and smiled.
"You mean you've been into women for years and you didn't tell me?" Edele sounded a little disappointed.
"well...just one woman really...She's a bit older than me,I don't even know if it would work out or not..."
"Who is she and why haven't I met her?"
"I just met you like...ten minutes ago..."
Edele backed away from her,hurt at the comment.She knew that the person she was looking at had to be the sister she grew up with and loved.
"this has to be some sick dream..." Annie sighed. "I mean..here I am in a hospital with my favorite band ever...and I look in the mirror and I'm one of them...no way in hell this is real..."
At this point the four of them have walked out of the hospital.A van pulls up and stops in front of them.Sinead pulled the door open and climbed in,then Lindsay followed after her.Edele waited for Keavy to go in next,which she didn't.
"Are we going back to the hotel?" Sinead asked.
"Hotel?" Annie stepped back.
"The hotel we've been staying at...you rmember..." Edele said as gently as she could.
"But I live just outside of Philly...I have to get home."
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"I'm taking you home,we're going to get in the car,drive to the hotel,pack our things and then we'll fly home in the morning,ok?" Edele said calmly.
"Fly?" Annie pulled back. "Woah,no,I don't fly."
"Keavy..."
"That isn't my name." Annie snapped back.

Edele looked at her shocked,she was trying to understand why Keavy "wasn't herself". Things felt distant,like Keavy was honestly somewhere else. Granted,she was,but no one in their right mind would believe it.

"My name is Annie. So back off." Annie pushed away and started walking.
"Keavy,you can't stay here,you need to come home and get better!" Sinead chimed in.
"That isn't my name,for the last f*cking time! And home is exactly where I'm headed." She waved them off "Later."

Completely out of patience Edele walked after her and pulled her back. Before Annie could get a word in she got hit ungodly hard on the side of her head and she blacked out.
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March 2007
3 months prior

Four friends are sitting in a smoke filled car,a joint is being passed around,from Will,to Johnny,to Krysten,and then passed back to Will from Annie who didn't smoke.

"Yo,this is going to be f*ckin' awesome,man...I haven't been to the club in months,how about you,Annie?" Krysten laughed passing the joint off to her.

Refusing it. "I'm cool." She passes it to Will who is driving. "Its been a while since I've been to the club...too busy with school and sh*t."
"How's that going? You gonna drop out soon or what?" Johnny laughed.
"Sh*t man I am so f**ked up..." Will giggled like a stupid school girl.
"Theatre major right?" Krysten kept with the conversation.
"Yeah. Something like that."
"Dude...you haven't been yourself as far as doing stage stuff...you think you can make it?"
"I dunno...worth a shot,right?"
"Come on,Finn'...take a hit." Johnny said to Annie handing her the joint.
"Whatever..." Annie took a hit or two and passed it back to Krysten. "Sh*t dude..."
Krysten and Johnny started laughing as they pulled into the parking lot.
"You f*ckin' lightweight..." Johnny shook his head and laughed.

Nocturne,fog,strobe lights,disco balls,techno and metal. The four got out of the car and Annie,although not a frequent smoker,a newly found hardcore alcoholic,took out a water bottle half full of vanilla vodka. Went down smooth and didn't leave much of a smell.But to be sure she bummed some gum off Will.
"We are so f*cked up,Finn." Will laughed as they entered the club undetected. (isn't club security amazing?)
The group met up with some other friends and dominated the dancefloor,spinning glowsticks and dancing circles around the pre-teen fake ID emo-punk poser goths. Midnight rolls around and the reason for Annie's being there to begin with started,The Mosh Pit.
First the boys had theirs then the girls were next,then,dependign on the crowd they mix the genders which was always brutal. Annie loved moshing,it was her weekly dose of chaos and violence that got out all of the excess frustration she carried.Still messed up from the pot and the vodka,Annie still got into the girls mosh pit. Not as chaotic as the boys,she got angy again and stepped out dead center and looked around and waited,it was only a split second before an even bigger girl slammed into her from the side. She bounced off the side of the pit into a crowd that threw her right back in. Crashing into others and swinging them back in took only minutes.
One blonde had it out for her it seemed,a little bigger than Annie and slightly more built,she took Annie's hand,hugged her then threw her right into the pit and then smashed into her again when she got up from the fall. They continued to mosh,almost fighting eachother as other girls smashed into them as well. The violence went on until the heavy music ended.

Some hours later Annie found herself in a large bed,face down and hungover.
"What the f*ck man..."
"Goodmorning,sunshine." Came a sweet voice.
"What the hell?" Annie rolled over onto her back to find herself next to Nikki.

To make things completely clear,Annie and Nikki are not sisters by blood,but use that to get out of certain situations. For a whiel people assumed that the two were sleeping together,in the same bed maybe but nothing more than sleep ever happened. They did have something going on,but even they could never tell if it was leaning towards a relationship or a fling,so they left it alone.

"Have fun last night?" Nikki smiled at her,almost looking disappointed.
"Why?" Annie groaned.
"You don't even know how you got here do you?"
"the f*ck if I know..."
"You walked in at,oh lets see,2 o'clock this morning. Passed out. I came home from work and my room mate tells me you were pretty messed up at the club last night."
"I wasn't that bad..."
"Ok Little Miss Mosh Pit." Nikki turned from her and watched the tv.
"I had a few hits and some vodka..." Annie tried to explain.
"You're a lightweight,Annie."
She couldn't argue with that.
"No more clubbing for a while..."
"Fine..." Annie rolled over,putting her back to Nikki.
Nikki sighed and put her arm around Annie's middle and got close to her ear.
"When you're done school,we'll go,ok?"
"All right."
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Present Day

"Come on,Annie,are you ready yet?" Nikki called up to her on a warm wednesday evening.
Keavy sat up in the room that she and Nikki had been sharing for the past few days. This wasn't a dream. This was reality,Keavy was trapped in someone elses body and she did not know what to do about it. She constantly stayed in the bedroom and tried calling her family and friends but there was never an answer or there would be no service in the house. Tonight,they were going to a night club to celebrate the end of a successful first year at college for the girl named Annie. Keavy tried to find out what she could about this girl but there was nothing solid. Apparently Nikki was not her sister at all and did not have anything of Annie's except for a bottle of depakote that she had to take for her epilepsy. That's all Keavy knew,she was in the body of a girl with epilepsy.
Nikki laid out some clothes for her to wear at the club and it was,not so much shocking as it was confusing. keavy caught on to all of them being into the goth subculture,but it wasn't really her scene.
"Annie?" Nikki's voice called out again.
"Can I stay here?" She asked timidly,she waned to get the hell out of there.
"No,silly,we're going for you!" Nikki laughed. "Do you need help?" She heard her come up the stairs.
what is she? my mother? Keavy thought to herself "No..." she surrendered for now. "I'm fine,thankyou."
She got changed and went downstairs. Nikki looked her over a bit and smiled.
"You're looking more like yourself." She said,but some how,since the accident,Annie hasn't been herself,as if she were further away from everyone than she ever was before.
Keavy nodded and they left. When the arrived at the club they immediately hit the dancefloor and danced for hours. The only time they stopped was to get water or to stand outside for a cigarette,Nikki did that,Keavy just stood outside with her. The buddy system's a beautiful thing,isn't it?
Midnight hit and Nikki ran back inside with Keavy close behind her.
"I know you've been dying for this for months!" Nikki was full of excitement as Kittie's Wolves started blairing through the speakers.
The lights came down everyone in the club except a few spots in a circle on the dancefloor and people gathered,grunting,roaring,acting like beasts.
"What are you talking about?"
"The mosh pit,you love the mosh pit." Nikki yelled over the music.
Keavy looked out and saw only girls slamming into eachother and flying all over the place. Her heart sunk into her stomach and before she knew it one of the security guards tossed her into the center...
"oh my god!" Keavy cried out and tried to dodge one of the morbidly obese girls heading right for her.
She pushed to the side but got thrown back in by cheering and screaming gothic tykes. She dropped her guard for only a second and got hammered into by someone much bigger than her,she flew across the floor and rolled into someones knee high boots which kicked her right back in.
The music was intoxicating,it was so loud and it pounded with her own heartbeat,fast and furious. Instead of running from it she started fighting,or "moshing",back,pushing her way to the outside of the circle. yet again she got tossed back into the center and she ripped through the others like they were nothing at all to her.
no one messes with me like this and gets away with it...
All of the excess stress and anger she had been building up unleashed into a feverish rage against strangers. She got the edge of the pit again and grabbed Nikki's arm and flung her in. Instead of leaving the pit herself she went right in and kept at it. Nikki looked up at her from one edge of the pit and screamed...
"ANNIE WATCH YOURSELF!!!!"
Keavy turned and was knocked out cold by another mosher....

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November 2006
"Blood Brothers" Closing Night

Keavy Lynch starring as Mrs. Johnstone in the musical "Blood Brothers". The story is about a single mother with 7 kids,with two more on the way she gives up one of her babies to a woman she works for.
It was a good run in the few weeks she had to rehearse with her fellow thespians and the show was amazing. Everyone worked well together but on closing night,all hell broke loose.
"Lynch,you all right?" Said the director.
"yeah,I'm fine,just a little headache."
"Better take something for it,I don't need anyone slipping up tonight,got it?"
"Got it." She lied,she had nothing to take for it. She had some water and ignored it.
The show went on as it should have,the crowd was amazing,the show was sold out to the point where people were actually sitting in the aisles. Not exactly professional but what a sight to see...

"I had it all worked out...with one more babie I could have managed but not with two...the welfar have already been on to me..." Keavy recited her lines with feeling and emphasis.
"Twins? You're expecting twins..." Said 'Mrs. Lyon'
The narrator stepped out,as Keavy's face grew blank and pale,and said "How quickly an idea planted can take roots and grow into a plan. The thoughts conveived in this very room grew,as surely as a seed in a mothers womb..."
"Give one to me...Please Mrs. Johnstone...Please..."
Keavy's face was growing even palor now,and her whole body began to shake,when the other actors noticed she wasn't saying anything,she dropped to the ground.
"Call an ambulance!!!!!! Lynch?? Lynch?!?!?!" The faded voice of the director sounded off in Keavy's memory.
oh god... She shook it off and ignored it as she woke up in a hospital not too far off from the tiny theatre she had collapsed in.
"They want to do a few more tests to see what this is." Gabriel,The Narrator from the show,said sitting by her side.
"No..." She put it simply.
"Keavy..." He protested.
"I want to check out now." Keavy sat up. "It was just a headache and some bad luck."
"Come on..."
"Gabe...I want to leave now. With or without you."
"Don't be like that..."
"Then lets check out and get out of here..."

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Present Day
After being knocked out Annie's memory was fried. She felt like the whole thing was just a dream as she thought in the beginning.
f*ck...
She sat up and checked out her surroundings,just some ordinary yet professional looking apartment.
How the hell did I get here?
"Hey,Keavy,you're finally awake,eh?" Lindsay came out of no where.
"What happened?"
"Edele knocked you on the back of the head...you were in and out of it for a few days...its good to see you looking normal again."
"Where am I?"
"In your flat,we're in London..."
"London?!?!?!" Annie sat up too fast and got a little light headed. "What the hell man?!"
"See...this is why we're back at home. You've been acting funny since the concert in Philadelphia. We only get about a week off until we go back on the road again,so you need to just...figure this out and relax,ok?"
"Relax? Are you f*cking kidding me? How the hell am I supposed to relax when I'm not where I need to be? I'm not Keavy!"
"Not this again..."
"yes this again!" Annie practically screamed.
"You're gonna wake up the neighbors!"
"Screw the neighbors!"
"Keavy..." Lindsay tried to reason with her best friend...

Annie gave her the most evil look and Lindsay sighed "ok...'Annie'..."
"Thankyou..." Annie stood and paced around the room.
"Gabriel called,looking for you." Lindsay tried to change the subject.
"Who?"
"Gabriel...your...your boyfriend?"
"Woah...no...I'm..." Annie thought for a moment Keavy...I'm Keavy to her... She re thought what she was going to say..."I'll call him back later..."
Lindsay stared at her funny,how could she forget someone so important? She shook off the confusion and changed the subject once again.
"Are you going to be ready to go back on stage in a week?" Lindsay's eyes followed her back and forth.
"Born ready."
"Do you remember the lyrics?"
"Of course I do...well...I might forget a few but I can wing it,I'm not that out of touch..." Annie shrugged.
"You have a solo...I'm sure you remember that much...you sing 'leaves' and the rest of us usually hang out back stage until you're done."
"Leaves?" Annie stopped in her tracks. She didn't know all of the words to that particular song,merely because it wasn't exactly her favorite. "I...I don't know that one too well..."
"You've got a week to rehearse it,you'll be fine..." Lindsay reassured her.
"Um...how big an audience?"
Lindsay did not understand the question at first. Keavy seemed to be a bit nervous ni her eyes,but over what she could not even imagine. They've performed in front of thousands of fans at a time before and Keavy never seemed the least bit struck by stage fright...until now of course.
"Couple thousand fans I'd imagine. Why?"
"I just..." Annie hated to admit it. "I get freaked out by so many people...I forget what I'm doing and panic..."
"oh..." Lindsay tried to understand. "Well,if that happens...just sing the first thing that comes to mind..."
"Can I do that?"
"If it helps."
"Sweet..." Annie sat down and pondered the thought of singing in front of a huge crowd. She'd done some plays and musicals but that was high school,no more than 600 people in the audience,and that was a rare occasion full house.
Maybe this won't be so bad...but I still have to find a way out of here...
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Back in Philly

"d**n,girl,you took one hell of a hit in the pit last night..." Nikki said as Keavy put ice on her bruised up leg and arm.
"It was fun..."
"Whats with you? Seriously..."
"Nothing." Keavy got up and limped outside,where she could get better service on a phone.
She tried calling the girls several times and almost gave up all hope when no one answered.
"I'll try Edele one last time..."
The phone rang three times and finally...an answer...
"Hello?" Came Edele's familliar voice.
"Edele?" Keavy was overjoyed.
"Who is this?"
"Its me! It's Keavy!"
"If this is a prank its not a very good one..."
"What? Edele...its me! I'm still in Philadelphia!"
"Whatever...don't call this number again."
*click*
Keavy stood there for a moment in shock before her knees became weak and she collapsed.
She didn't know who I was...my own sister...my twin...I'm going to be stuck here...

[Hayley]

do you write for a living or is it just a hobby?

[The Animal]

As far as I know, it's a hobby. That she's very good at.

[Hayley]

it is very good, i havent got all the way through the second story yet but the writing is great, although i do think you need a story that doesnt involve them going in to hospital even though it is all fictional.

[The Animal]

You should read some of the stuff I used to write. Actually, no you shouldn't. Forget I brought it up.

[Hayley]

already forgotten

[Robin Morbid]

its a hobby,wouldn't say I'm very good at it,but its somethign I enjoy doing....I don't do much with hospitals,unless I need to,I really hate the thought of anyone being hospitalized...
and you should read some of the animals stuff,blows anything I've written out of the water.

[The Animal]

I'm trying to get my stuff completely eliminated from the internet, though. If Krystal will take down my site, like I asked.

I'm ashamed of my stuff, to put it bluntly.

[Hayley]

i bet it is good though, annie sounds like she knows what shes talking about.

[Robin Morbid]

you know...you'd be the only person to honestly say that

[Robin Morbid]

how could she not believe me... Keavy starred out the window of Annie's room.


Rain. Typical way to set the downfalling mood Keavy was in. She was stuck in a Philadelphia suburb with a lot of people she found to be almost,if not completely,out of their minds. Nikki constantly babbled about dating Batman,being Catwoman and even referring to Keavy as "robin" or "nightwing".

If Annie isn't completely mad herself...I wonder how she puts up with it...

Ever since the phone call to Edele and its horrible outcome,Keavy wouldn't talk to anyone. All she wanted was to go home and be in a familliar place. There was not enough money in Annie's savings to even get her back home and even so,she did not want to touch it.

I can't take that money...I might be in her body but it's still her money....I'll have to think of something else...

[glow=red,2,300]RING[/glow]

"What the..." Keavy glanced over at the dresser across the room.

There were two phones,Nikki's and Annie's. As long as she had been there she had never heard Annie's phone make a sound...

"Annie..." Nikki groaned,half asleep next to her. "Your phone..."

"Oh! Yeah...ok..." Keavy got up and answered without seeing who it was first. "Hello?"

"Jesus...is that what my voice sounds like?" Came a very familliar voice,almost as if they were talking to themselves.

"...Who is this?" Keavy's voice shook.

"My name is Annie...and if you're who I think you are...then we've got a huge problem."

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Back in London and locked in a closet somewhere

"Keavy?" Edele's voice sounded through Keavy's apartment.
But the missing sister did not respond. Annie hid in a closet...

"How is any of this possible?" She asked timidly to her idol on the phone.
"I don't know...but it happened and we have to figure out how to fix it."
"I don't want to go on tour with them." Annie put it bluntly.
"Why not?" Keavy panicked. "Whats wrong with them?"
"Nothing...they're not my girls though."
"Whats that supposed to mean?"
"I don't know them well enough to be comfortable around them...its scary...."
"Well,until we can figure this out you're going to have to try!" Keavy stepped out of the bedroom and walked downstairs.
"Are you at Nikki's?" Annie asked randomly.
"Yes,is she your...?"
"No." Annie immediately responded. "We're just friends."
"Good to know."
"But look...if you're over there try to talk outside of the house...it gets bad service and cuts off at random. Its annoying as hell but...you know how it goes..." Annie explained.
"I'll keep that in mind." Keavy nodded and looked around the house. She didn't want to go out in the rain.
"So...What do we do,chief?"

"Keavy? Are you here?" Edele called out again.

Keavy could hear Edele over the phone and almost cried. Annie could tell how homesick she was and felt her pain as well. She did not even want to be in this situation and became desperate enough to do some crazy things to get out of it all. But she wasn't sure what she would do.

"We're going to fix this." Annie reassured her.
"You need to get them to come back here. I'm limited to what I can do from here,you've got more room to get around so to speak."
"How am I supposed to do that?"
"You're a smart girl,you'll think of something."
"I don't want to get anyone into trouble..."
"Well...there has to be a way to do this discreetly...I've got it! You have to...." The service died. Annie was now stranded with no idea what she was supposed to do.
"Annie?" Keavy looked at the phone and tried to call her back but it would not go through. "nuts..."

"F*CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Annie kicked the closet door open,which in turn almost knocked Edele over.
"Woah!" She caught herself before falling and looked in the closet. "Keavy? What are you doing in there?"

Annie caught a bad case of deer in the headlights out of no where.
"Uhh..." She couldn't think of anything to say but..."It's a tuesday..."
Edele gave her a strange look. "Anyway...we've got rehearsal tonight,are you ready?"
Annie looked around nervously and nodded,"Yeah. I'm good..let's go."
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"Come on...pick up the phone..." Keavy mumbled in the downpour trying to get a hold of Annie.
"Please wait while the subscriber you are trying reach is located...Please wait while the subscriber you are trying to reach is located...Please wait...." [glow=red,2,300]Click[/glow]

"I'll try again later...at least we talked,she seems sensible...she won't do anything too extreme...."

I hope...

[Hayley]

what they gonna do, what they gonna do, im hooked keep writing annie!

[Robin Morbid]

Edele got into her car and waited for a few minutes for her sister to follow after her. She looked at her watch,then at the door and shouted,
"Keavy! Come on! We're going to be late!"
Annie trailed out of the apartment building and got in the car. Edele drove off and they stayed silent for the better part of the ride. Off and on they would glance at eachother,Edele wanted to say something but nothing could come to mind.
"I'm nervous." Annie finally broke the silence.
"About what?" Edele glanced over at her.
"I dunno..."
"Have you been feeling any better since the accident?"
"Not really...what about you? I know you got shocked pretty bad yourself."
"I get a little twitchy sometimes,not too bad though." Edele nodded.
"My friends got hit too,I still don't know if they're ok or not." Annie stared out the window.
"You mean those girls in the audience?"
"They're my friends...Caron and Donna..."
"Not this again..." Edele growled.
"What?" Annie got offended.
"You didn't know those girls,Keavy,they were just some fans that were in the wrong place at the wrong time."
"Annie..." She hissed. "My name is Annie."
"Will you let it go already?! You're not Annie! There is no Annie!"
"Jesus Christ you are so f*cking stubborn and I can't stand it! Its incredible that anyone can put up with you! You don't even listen to what anyone has to say! You believe only what you see and hear well see and hear this..." Annie flipped her off double time. "F*CK YOU!"
Once the car stopped Annie stormed out and kept on walking away. Lindsay and Sinead stepped out to wait for them only to find one Lynch going in one direction and the other screaming after her.
"KEAVY!!!!"
"ANNIE!!!!!!!!"
"Aw crap..." Lindsay sighed.
"You take care of Edele,I'll follow Keavy and get her to come back." Sinead suggested.
"Right." Lindsay nodded.
************************************************
Back in Philly,in someones basement...
"hey Annie,come play melee." Caron said as Keavy sat on the couch quietly.
"Yeah,you get to fight me this time." Donna laughed then looked back at the tv. "I am so being Yoshi...."
Keavy still wasn't used to being called "Annie"...although she finally became aware that this really was not a dream like she originally believed. All she could think about was what could possibly be going on at home and how all of this was even possible. She kept replaying the concert in her head up until the moment the three of them got shocked.
There wasn't just three of us...Those girls... Keavy stared at Donna and Caron. They were with Annie...they got shocked too...but if they got shocked,and me Sinead and Edele got shocked...why has it only affected me and Annie...?
"How have you been feeling?" Keavy spoke up. "Since the concert..."
"A little twitchy..." Caron nodded.
"Not too bad though..." Donna shrugged. "Why? Are you ok?"
"No...its been strange...I just don't feel myself. I feel like someone else,you know? Someone completely different."
"Like?" Boyle stared at her funny.
"Like I'm Keavy Lynch and not who you think I am."

Everyone stared at her for a moment that seemed like an eternity. Keavy could feel her face turning red. Then out of nowhere,the silence was broken by a roaring laughter.

"Good one,Finnegan." Boyle laughed.
"Like some freaky friday sh*t?" Caron wiped a tear from her eye and kept laughing.
"Thats pretty crazy,dude." Donna took a deep breath and then returned her attention back to the video game on the tv. "So you want to be Link again,Annie?"
Keavy sat back and sighed,how could she expect anyone to believe something so crazy?
"Nah,someone else can play..."
Donna twitched a little,coughed,then twitched again. This happened a few more times until Caron spoke up.
"Donna?"
"Whats going on?" Boyle asked.
Keavy sat up and stared at this girl,twitching. Donna hit the ground and blacked out.
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"What happened?" Lindsay asked as Edele got out of the car.
"She snapped,she still thinks her name is Annie. Honestly,Linds,I don't know how much more I can take with this..."
"I know..." Lindsay looked down at the ground. "Maybe we should go with it...let her think her name is Annie until she comes to her senses on her own time."
"What?"
"We can't afford to lose anymore time. We need to head back to the states and finish the tour just like we planned." Lindsay tried reasoning.
"What about Keavy? I don't want her going through anything else that could get her upset or hurt." Edele admitted.
"I know. You've got her best intetrest in mind but don't you think finishing the tour could be good for her? If she's surrounded by the things that she loves most she's bound to come back down to earth sometime soon,right?"
"Yeah." Edele smiled. "I guess you're right.
"Of course I am!"
The two of them waited for Sinead to come back with Keavy. Annie had kept walking,trying to calm herself down but still pissed as all hell about what happened between her and Edele.
How many times do I have to say it? My f*cking name is...
"Keavy?" Sinead approached her from behind."Come on,we have to rehearse,Keavy."
"My name is Annie." She felt like a broken record.
Sinead rolled her eyes and said "Yeah and my name is..." She twitched,coughed,then twitched again. "....Donna..." and with that Sinead blacked out and Annie caught her.
"Oh sh*t!" She looked back at Lindsay and Edele. "HELP!!!!!!!!!"
*******************************************
Keavy quickly sprung off the couch and got down on the floor with Donna. She tried pulling the girl up into a sitting position and let her lean into her embrace.
"Come on...come out of this..." Keavy whicpered to her then looked up at the group. "Get her some water...NOW!"

[Hayley]

your writing keeps getting better and better annie. stop teasing me, i need to know what happens next!