BEADS (Episode 2)

When you call someone you really want to reach and the person doesn't pick up, you don't leave a message for such a person. You just keep calling, and calling and calling, without keeping count of how many times you've called. You just keep calling, not out of anger, but, due to fear and curiosity. Angella has called her husband for several times, and the only thing she heard was a voice urging her to drop a message after the tone. Immediately the voice urges her to drop a message, she ends the call, only to redial the number as if that would change things. She repeated the process for several times without counting, only to ask herself why she was making an issue out of nothing. "…afterall, he already told me he would be going for a mission." She told herself. "But, is there a difference between this particular mission and his previous missions?" She asked herself, only to find no answer to her question. She tried to cast her mind off the whole thing and focus on what she had to do for the day. Her plan for the day was very simple and precise. "to do house chores and then rest" She reminded herself again of her plan for the day. But, before she could conclude on which house chores to do first, the thought of her husband crossed her mind again. She picked her phone to call him again. Just as before, the voice told her what to do after the tone. At that point, she became really worried. "has something bad happened to him?" She asked herself. Nobody would blame her for nursing such a negative thought. Atleast, not anybody married to a time-traveller who knows the dangers in time-travelling. A time-traveller can get lost in time, or even get stranded in the past. It would have been better if time-travellers could travel to the future. "We are the only agency close to getting how to travel to the future" She remembered her husband's words some time ago. "It would have been better if people get stranded in the future" She thought. "Atleast, one is certain to meet them later in life. But, for someone stranded in the past…" Angella thought real deep. She picked her phone to call her husband again. Her heart could not bear the uncertainty anymore. "Please, leave a message after the tone" The voice said again without paying any attention to her feelings. Before she could end the call, she felt like vomiting, and she rushed to the toilet, only to vomit almost nothing. As she washed her mouth and face after vomiting, she wondered what could be wrong with her, and she couldn't get an answer to her question. But, little did she know that she was pregnant.

Dr. Mag checked her time, only to discover that it was 2 hours to the close of work for the day. She thought of those things she was to do after work. "I'll be going on a date with Frank." She reminded herself as she smiled. In her late 30s, Dr. Mag was still single. For a good part of her life, she didn't see the need for marriage, and she wasn't ready for it either, except for Frank who for a while has been disturbing her with the whole marriage talk. She would have given him a piece of her mind about marriage just the way she gave every guy that came around her with a proposal, but for Frank, he was a very different person, and Mag could not go hard on him. While she was basking in the euphoria of the coming date, it crossed her mind that nothing has been heard of Agent 2. He was supposed to be back because the mission was a 50 minutes mission. His return time was 2:18pm, and like other agents, his return location was a house close to Brown Hills park. As it works, once the return time clocks, they would automatically vanish from the past, and land in house close to the park. So, most of the time, agents are given more time for their mission incase of eventualities. She moved her chair to the table and she picked the phone to call Commander James via Intercom. "We haven't heard from him" Commander James said. "But, he was sighted at Brown Hills Park some hours ago, and I've sent men to get him." He added. "I think the men are back. Meet me in the conference room now" Commander James added sharply. In the conference room, Agent 2 looked pale and lost. He stared at the air like a lost fellow. "Agent 2, what happened?" Commander James asked. No response came from Agent 2. He only continued to stare at the air. "Commander, we have a situation" Francis, the computer analysist said. "His finger print does not match that of Agent 2". He whispered to the Commander.

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What is wrong with Agent 2? What happened to him that makes him look stunned? And, talking about finger print, why does his finger print not match? Definitely, something is wrong somewhere. I'll come your way again with the next episode. The story remains BEADS. 

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