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Drewvonawesome/Angel Vicky


-8 months before-
-Richards home-


The attic wasn't really the planned location for the entire day, but when you're someone like Reed Richards with the kind of things that were there.  It's hard not too get sucked into an attention grabbing moment that turns into an all day venture.  It wasn't like he had planned on it, a random thought led to a thought about his dad, Nathan Richards, and the memory his dad had designed a blueprint on such a thought.  Reed went up to the attic where all his dad's thing were put, and just started browsing everything.  His dad's collection of ideas, sketches, blueprints, and everything he had on his personal laptop was a treasure trove for a thinker.  He never was one to waste an idea by just keeping it in his mind.  


Susan Storm, Reed's friend of about a year or so since they met at Comic Con in New York, decided she would call round at his house today because he didn't call her this morning. They were so close that they were never off the phone or computer talking to one another. Or even texting a million times a day. Everyone around them says they're like a couple, but maybe Sue and Reed just couldn't see it yet. She rang the doorbell and Reed's mother answered. She informed the smiley bright blonde that he was in the attic, her expression was one of sadness. Sue knew what that meant...Reed's grief and his mom's never had gone away. She was glad she visited, Red was in need of some much needed comfort right now. She ascends the stairs and makes her way up to the attic. There she finds him trawling through memoirs of Nathan Richards. She approaches him meekly and tentatively, without saying a word, places a gentle hand on his shoulder to show she was there for him. As always like a true friend. "Hey, you okay?" She asks and kneels down beside him to see what he was looking at.  


Reed was too distracted and entranced by what he was looking through to even notice Susan was there and much less getting closer and closer until she was right next to him with a soft hand onto his shoulder.  Reed's head jumped up startled before turning over to Susan Realizing it was her and giving a warm smile.  "Hey Sue!  Oh no its nothing I'm just looking through all this."  Reed gestured at the multitude of paper and notebooks surrounding him.  He chuckled slightly hoping to ease the worry in her voice and face.  Though he knew why it was there, it wasn't exactly the most comfortable place for him right now mentally to be looking through all of his dad's things like this.  It always worried his mom the most, as she saw it as him refusing to let go of the past.  Reed didn't quite see it like that, but deep down he wasn't sure completely himself.  "No some of this stuff is just fascinating.  Why what time is it?"  Reed asked realizing he hasn't paid the slightest bit of attention to his watch or smart phone.


Sue looks at her white metallic watch with a large circular face surrounded by rhinestones that looked expensive. And it was, a gift from her father. Though she'd much rather spend time with him than spend his money. "It's nearly 3.30pm." She then looks up at him from the floor and rests her head against her knee. "I got worried when you didn't reply my texts."


Reed glanced at his smart phone realizing both the time and the texts he didn't even see.  "Oh man I thought it was eight in the morning still.  I'm sorry."  Reed meekly said as he put his smart phone back into his jeans pocket.  She patted her head, letting his fingers run through her rich blond hair.  "Hey least you came over, I do always really appreciate when you come over like this."  He went to put away the notebook he was reading at the moment when something slipped out of its pages.  A large folded up piece of paper, one side blue and the other white with numbers on it.  As it tumbled out and onto Susan's lap.


Sue smiles warmly as he runs his fingers through her locks, she felt a warm fuzzy feeling as he did so. But not like when Johnny did the same, it was a different kind of feeling. She catches the blueprint in her hands and upon inspecting it her eyes widen. "Reed. This looks like some sort of temporal rift device....is this what your dad was working on??" She asks him with shock.  


"What?  Let me see..."  Reed gently took the blueprint from her hands and after blowing away and wiping dust off of a nearby old large piece of luggage laid the blueprint out.  He looked at it stunned for a moment, what was this?  Did his dad not tell him about it?  "Oh my God it is!"  Reed glanced around at all the scribbles and notes on it point out various parts.  "The main module here looks like a main power source, runs off of a pretty hefty amount too."  Reed examined some of the smaller notes more carefully.  "Negative zone?  Whats a negative zone?"  Reed's mind started to get working as too the phrase, but most importantly where he heard it before.  Suddenly it clicked, and Reed frantically started looking through the old documents and notes he was looking at earlier.


Sue watches him with concern as she gets up from the floor. "Reed..." She didn't know what to do, she'd never seen him this frantic before. "Reed...Reed.......REED!" She finally puts her foot down and grabs both his hands. "Calm. Down." She looked right into his eyes, her nose almost touching his. "Breathe." 


Reed was in his own little world trying to find the right thing he was looking for.  Not as much frantic as much focused as he finally found the small notebook.  "Yeah no I'm..."  Suddenly though he felt himself close to Susan, almost unbearably close as Susan was telling him to calm down.  Every word she said left a little bit of heat just grazing his cheek.  Reed felt strongly some kind of feeling he couldn't quite put into words.  But he just quietly nodded to Susan before letting himself be out of her grips.  Almost needing a moment before he regained his thought pattern.  "Right uh..."  Reed just muttered before seeing the book.  "Oh, right!  No I recognized the phrase 'negative zone' but just didn't realize what it meant."  Picking the book back up he placed it onto the blueprint and flipped it open to a particular part. 


 "He talked about a negative zone but without the proper context I didn't get what he was talking about."  Reed started into, his mind scrambling together all the pieces of the puzzle.  It was something he liked to think he inherited from both of his parents, as he could just solve anything seemingly with just focus and time.  "The negative zone is a possible temporal dimension.  Almost a counter reality to ours, what this though talks about is the idea of creating something that uses this counter reality to seemingly teleport something or someone at a speed beyond light.  Essentially creating teleportation as its known conceptually."  Reed's voice and expression were turning to joy with each word as he turned to Susan.  "Sue!  We should take this to your father and work on it!  Could you imagine the possibilities if it worked?"


Susan wasn't so sure about it as Reed was though. "I don't know about this Reed. Imagine if it all went wrong..." She holds herself with her arms at her elbows and leans on one leg. "It sounds like something the government scientists would love to get hold of, and imagine if it got into the wrong hands!" She was the morality behind the science. "I'm all for scientific advancement but...I'm really scared, Reed." She tells him openly, she'd never lost confidence in science before, but that was when she KNEW what she was doing. She gazed glumly at the floor for a moment. 


Reed was still too deep into the project to even realize Susan's concerns until he looked over and saw her staring down at the floor in worry.  Reed paused for a moment before reaching over and gently placing a hand onto her shoulder.  "Hey hey if this does work I can put patents on it and not let anyone use the technology unless I say so.  Besides that can happen with any scientific advance."  Reed snuggled up closer to Susan and placed a hand of his onto one of her's.  "Being afraid is okay, but what if this does succeed?  Come on lets just get his advice and if any thing starts to go wrong with it we can call it off.  Lets just at least try okay?"  Reed asked giving her shoulder a soft rub.


Sue's eyes twinkled as she looks up at Reed. He somehow always knew how to convince her of anything. Or was that just because she had a soft spot for the brainiac. She relents and nods, smiling slightly, firmly holding onto his hand for reassurance. "Okay. Let's go see my Dad."