ANSWER THE DOOR

by: choco.sushi.nut

Disclaimer: I don't own CSI: Miami… or Eric Delko… :cries: … just my OCs… :sigh: read, enjoy (hopefully), and review… oh and no eric/natalia bashers… XP lololol… XD

Ooo… thanks a bunch to floofymiko for giving me this idea about fate and for proofreading… XD … everyone must read her stories! … They're awesome! XD

Thanks to CTHSKI for proofreading and giving me good words… my poor limited vocabulary. XD

Prologue:

Have you ever looked up towards the vast blue sky and chanced upon a fluffy white cloud? Did you know that if you did, there are people living on that cloud? Not people really, more like entities. They don't live in time, per say, but around it, since Father Time just so happened to be one of the neighbors. On this cloud, amongst others, lived Destiny and her troublesome daughter, Fate; neighboring them was Father Time and his equally troublesome son, Cupid.

Contrary to common myth, they, Destiny and Fate that is, don't control people's lives. They give the necessary push for people who cannot make a decision if their life depended on it, but only a little push.

Fate and Cupid were the best of friends, but often got into much trouble together for the chaos they occasionally caused. It was never intentional, just innocent fun gone haywire. This time was no different than the others.

"Hey Coop!" The wild teenage girl called over to the youthful boy dangling his legs dangerously over the side of the cloud. But appearances can be deceiving, considering each "child" was clearly over centuries of ages old. "Whatcha thinking about?"

Fate found that Father Time and his son were incredibly remarkable because they could see and manipulate time, and the world's inhabitants, from ant to human to eagle, would never comprehend the change. It would be too complex an ability for any mere human to understand. Father Time and Cupid were well-known for their gift of seeing the past, present, and future as well as moving, with ease, between each time frame. Cupid or "Coop," unlike his father, was able to move through time following love. That is why these four worked so well in sync with one another. They each had there own abilities that played an essential role in aiding, not controlling, the lives of humans. Over the course of many years, among humans, their tale has been lost or exaggerated, but that was not important, otherwise they would have changed it long ago. Mistakes happen, though. Sometimes a push becomes a shove. That's what the Council was for.

The most significant beings were the Council of Elders. They were the oldest of all existing on the cloud; they had existed even before Time himself. They held the most extraordinary powers and overlooked the proceedings of everyone, especially those four aforementioned. And if the circumstances were called for, the Council, after a fair trial of sorts, had the power to take away the abilities that had been blessed upon the entity. The entity would then be sent into the human realm without a memory of their former self. This only happens in extreme cases when an entity does something that terribly devastates the world below.

For now, let us return to Fate and Coop.

"Nothing," said Cupid distractedly, "I'm just so bored!"

"Tell me about it," cried Fate, "I wanna do something crazy."

"Make two people fall in love," Cupid said thoughtfully, "from different time periods." He giggled childishly.

"That's already been done before!" whined Fate. "Let's do something extraordinary."

"I could make a crack in time and we could see who falls in," Cupid said excitedly, "and where they go."

"Really?" Fate was getting so excited that her stomach began to hurt. She mischievously grinned. "Let's do it!"

"How much trouble do you think we'll get in?"

"Does it really matter?" Fate was so used to receiving lectures on their impish behavior that she was getting used to them. "So, who are the guinea pigs?"

Cupid laughed at his friend's eagerness. "Well I made a crack in Time's fabric by the house over by Coconut Groves, Miami."

"Oooh, your dad's gonna kill you for ripping your quilt, again."

"What else is new?

"True, true." Fate was very curious about the outcome of this new 'experiment.' "So what's supposed to happen?"

"See those two siblings," Cupid pointed out, "watch them closely and we'll see where they go."

Fate sat down next to Cupid and watched the two siblings fight. Then she saw as the two obliviously ran through the crack. What the two entities had not calculated was the third person lurking in the shadows, awaiting such an opportunity as was being presented to him now. It was because of this extra man combined with their mischief that Fate and Cupid would cause enough chaos to nearly destroy the world.