Free TIME AND TIME AGAIN The sequel to 3037 by Peggy Holloway

pitched a fit for the cave thing to bring her back, and she went to the French quarter, looking for both of you.  She went inside each club and finally saw a picture of you, Ashley, on the wall of one of the clubs.  You had had your p icture made with Billy Holiday.   You were in the twenties and she didn’t know where Joe was.
    “I’m not going to go into any details, Ashley, but Josie died of a heroin overdose in a back alley in New Orleans.  She was a prostitute.  She died at the age of 15.”
    “No! No,” I screamed.  “Joe, you’ve got to fix this.  She was supposed to have children and grandchildren.  I saw them…I saw them.”  I turned to Irene, “Can’t we do anything about this?”
    She put her head in her hands and then looked up at me, “From w h at I understand , when a person commits suicide, they don’t have a choice of moving into another time or place.  If I had on ly known then, what I know now m aybe I could have helped her.
    “After the cave thing let Josie off, it to ok off with the rest of us and t hat’s when I learned all I now know.”
    Joe and I looked at each other.  I could tell his brain was working overtime like mine was.   Then Joe said softly, “Irene, can you undo what you’ve done?  I will go back to being an old man if it will help Josie .”
    “It’s not that simple,” She said.   “How can I explain this?  Everything has to be aligned just right and at the right time and space in order to accomplish anything.  You’re talking about going back and changing an event that you already know the outcome of.”
    “But isn’t that what you did with both me and Joe?”
    “No, it is not.  I didn’t know the outcome at all and still don’t .  I don’t know in this time and place, what will happen to you and Joe , the decisions you’re going to make, anything.”
    “Irene, there has to be a way.  Couldn’t the cave thing help us?  We knew the outcome of Charles Manson but were able to go back and help him.”
    “You have a good point, Ashley.  But the cave thing is not here in this time and place.”
    I looked at Joe and he shrugged, “I’ll do whatever it takes to save our daughter, Ashley, you know that.”  He then turned to Irene, “Will you teach us how to project our image into Josie ’s past, like you did with Ashley?
    “And by the way, how did you get to this time and place yourself?  Could we all go back to the time and place before Josie overdosed and help her?  What is it you’re not telling us, Irene?”
    “The whole process is very painful, Joe.  It takes a lot of study and calculations .  Not only do you have to find a slit in the fabric of both time and space, but you have to align them up perfectly.
    “We’re lucky in that we already know where a slit in time is, because Ashley has already been through there.  That’s the easy part.  But, if you go through that slit and it isn’t aligned with the space slit, then you are going to be caught between realities and that’s the painful part.  I’ve been there and it can be very confusing.  Nothing will be as it seems.  That’s why I ended up putting Ashley into another body and she had to suffer being hung.”
    We were all silent for awhile, lost in our own thoughts.  Joe took my hand and squeezed it, “I’m willing to try, Ashley, are you?”
    I nodded and Irene said, “Then I’ll go with you.”
     
     
     
    CHAPTER 19
    We had to get to the exact time and place where I had gone through.  Irene said we knew the place, outside the club, but we needed to make sure it was aligned with the correct time and space.
    It was really late by the time Irene had finished explaining everything t o us and Joe and I went to bed.  The lovemaking was wonderful.  I had missed Joe so much and didn’t know if I would ever see him again.  After we had exhausted ourselves making love, I fell into a deep sleep.
     
     
    Now we were outside the club.  It was 2:00 p .m., about