Subject:  Star Shadows:The Search For Carolyn 5
From: Aesgaard
Date:  Wed Jul 3, 2002  1:23 pm

In 1972, Collinwood was the home of the Collins family. A wealthy powerful family nearly if not as affluent as the Massachusetts Kennedys or the New York Rockefellers, they owned nearly everything in Collinsport, Maine.

Their massive grandiose house, locally reputed as one of the most haunted houses in New England, sat on a huge estate on the top of the hill overlooking town. The house's front foyeur was decorated with the portraits of Barnabus Collins, Isaac Collins, Joshua Collins and Jeremiah Collins. Their faces frozen in time stared down to the burst of light which preceded Lt. Carolyn Collins Stoddard. Clad in a Starfleet uniform from the 24th Century,her eyes shone and she felt like a little girl in this large, dark, wonderful and moody old Gothic house. Hearing someone coming, she transmuted her clothing into something 20th Century.

"Carolyn !" Liz Stoddard headed for the drawing room. " I thought you were out with Maggie !"

"I came back early." the playful little minx lied to this incarnation of her mother.

"Good," Liz sat at the desk and signed the monthly checks. "With Barnabus and Angelique on their honeymoon, I need someone to run down to Willie at the Old House for me and spare me a trip....."

Liz continued talking as Carolyn heard voices in the foyeur. Looking out, she saw her counterpart and Maggie Evans enter with numerous store parcels. Waiting for Liz to turn her back, the playful blonde time-traveler glanced at her counterpart, stepped out of sight and teleported herself out of the room.

"Mother, " The Carolyn native to this time period smiled as she entered. "Who are you talking to ?"

"Well, you, of course," Liz noticed a difference. "How'd you change your clothes ?!"

Carolyn forced a grin as her and Maggie exchanged looks. Liz looked at the both of them as she insisted she wasn't losing it.

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