We're back! Thank you so much, loyal readers, for annoying me to write part 2 of the WYGCM series! I hope you enjoy this one as much as the first one! *Sydney is Sadie's new name. She is not a new character, I only changed her name from Sadie to Sydney. Please see my profile for further clarification.*- elwynclark

And by the way, I only own the girls, nobody else.

July 22, 2010

1:53 PM

The lights in Times Square blinded me as we all stood there perfectly still. We had to be ready for anything. I glanced between Sydney, Jo, and Delilah, my three best friends, and then back at the blinding light. The light surged back and forth then all hell broke loose.

"Ellen." Sydney said quietly. I shook my head. "Ellen?" I shook my head again then my legs gave out and I closed my eyes as I fell to the ground. Something clattered in the background once I hit the ground. "ELLEN!" Sydney yelled and I opened my eyes.

She was leaning over me with her glasses almost off of her nose. I sat up and noticed that we were in the workroom at headquarters. I sighed and watched Sydney move a stool back into position. That must have been the clattering noise I heard I thought to myself.

"Sorry." I mumbled as I sat down on the stool again. She shrugged and walked back around the table.

"I was going to offer you one of the Twinkies, then I noticed you were asleep. Then you're on the floor." Sydney responded.

"Well thanks for looking out for me." I said sarcastically.

"Any time." Sydney replied, not hearing my sarcasm. This was the third time in the past two weeks that I've fallen asleep down here. Sydney told me that she's slept down here at least once a week for the past 6 years. It just gets kind of boring when I watch Sydney run from one side of the room to the other modifying some contraption thing that she says is necessary to get everyone back here.

Two weeks ago, to the day, we caused a cross rip in the middle of Times Square and lost 7 people to another dimension; including our friends Jo, Manny, and Oscar, and our fathers Ray, Peter, Egon, and Winston.

I've been living here at the firehouse with Sydney to keep her company and such. Mostly to keep her on a schedule of sleep and meals, if I wasn't here she would most likely be running on 12 minutes of sleep and 2 Twinkies every day.

I stood up and leaned away from the table. Sydney glanced up at me then back down at her mechanics. She is one bizarre person that I will never understand completely. There was a stack of papers on the desk in the corner labeled, 'Dr. Egon Spengler.' I sat down in the chair behind it then glanced at Sydney again. She was looking down so I silently started looking through the papers. An envelope caught my eye.

It was a crisp white color. Addressed to Ghostbusters Inc, 14 North Moore Street, New York, NY. But what really caught me was in the return address was the presidential seal.

"Syd, what's this?" I asked Sydney and looked at me. Then at the envelope then back at me.

"I don't know." Sydney said with a shrug then she looked back down. I started to open it."Is it for you Ellen?"

"Well, I guess so." I said in a smart tone. "I consider myself part of Ghostbusters Inc , so I can open our mail." Sydney immediately stood up and walked over to the desk.

"When was that postmarked?" She asked as her eyes pierced through her glasses then through the envelope. I looked at the corner of the envelope.

"May 27, in Washington DC." I said and handed it to her. She looked at me then took it. Her hands ripped open the envelope then pulled out a single piece of paper from inside. She scanned it silently then stayed silent. "Well?" Sydney glanced at me then summarized the letter.

"It's from the President. He said how he knows what the Ghostbusters need to operate because he was the mayor and all." Sydney said and I nodded. New York's Mayor Lenny became President Lenny last year. I nodded my head and she continued. "The government is paying for all damages the Ghostbusters make and only the customer has to pay for entrapment and storage."

"Wait, when did this happen?" I asked letting it sink in.

"I'm guessing in May, and before that too." She replied with a shrug. "We have to show this to Sam." She started up the stairs. Sam was our secretary, who for the past two weeks has just been sitting around the office area watching the computer shut itself down. That computer always found a new way to shut itself off.

"Sam." I said as we walked up to her desk. She looked up at Sydney and me from her magazine.

"Yeah?" Sam asked us. Sydney handed her the letter. Sam read it then looked at us. "What do I do with it?" I looked at Sydney who wasn't fazed by this.

"Call the Mayor's office then fax it to them." Sydney said. "They should know what to do. Then file this copy in a safe place." She gestured to the filing cabinets behind Sam's desk. Sydney walked away and back down the stairs. I waited for Sam to pick up the phone before I followed Sydney down.

"So if we ever actually get a call it's all good?" I asked Sydney and she nodded.

"You know what I just realized?" Sydney asked changing the subject and I shrugged. "That letter was mailed before we met."

"You remember the day we met?" I asked her in disbelief.

"Ellen, I remember everything." She said with a nod. "We met in the first week of June." We both stood between the containment unit and one of the tables.

"What do you mean by this?" I asked then thought about it for a second. "Wait, that means that Egon knew something about the business starting again. Right?"

"He never told me anything Ellen." Sydney responded. "There was data that pointed to something big on the horizon, which was the cross rip at Stuy and the portal in Times Square. But us meeting I guess was purely fate, and my own clumsiness." I smiled and gave Sydney a hug.

"That's how a friend comes to be." I said quietly and let go. I could see her smiling slightly then she pushed up her glasses more. She put her right hand onto the table then a loud buzzing noise sounded.

"What was that?" Sydney asked. It buzzed again.

"You mean you don't know what it is, or was, dare I ask?" I asked her and she shrugged. We both looked across the tables and the buzz sounded again. Something near the edge of the table caught my eye. "Sydney, did that bag just move?"

"Which one?" She asked and I pointed to a bag across the table. The buzz sounded again and the clear plastic bag moved a couple inches closer to the edge. "Oh, that's Jo's cell phone." I reached across the table for the bag and opened it.

"I'm not going to ask why it was in there." I said under my breath and the phone buzzed in my hand. The screen was dark but it still made the buzz noise. I pressed send and put the phone to my ear. "Hello?" I was answered by a ton of static.

"Holy Shit guys! It worked!" A girl's voice yelled from the other side over the static. I pulled the phone away from my ear.

"Who is it?" Sydney asked. I shrugged and put the phone onto speaker then placed it on the table. The screen remained dark as the static continued.

"Who is this?" I asked and the other side ignored my question. They seemed to be having their own conversation.

"I told you it would work. I saw it last week." A guy's voice said. Sydney and I looked at each other.

"Do you think?" I asked her and Sydney shrugged.

"Come on, seriously now. Who is this?" Sydney asked.

"You know damn well who it is, you're using my phone. Which I will kill both of you for." The girl's voice responded loudly. The phone made more static again as Sydney and I looked at each other.

"Sydney, it's them." I said as calmly as possible.

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