Day 23 Required and Bonus

Character Inventory
1. Micah “Chance” Vaughn – Before the soul/consciousness is transferred, he’s a private investigator, twice married, twice divorced, one child.

As the 17-year-old self, this natural athlete has a second chance with his first love: Returned to morning of her prom.
During the summer of 1982, he struggles with the consciousness of the older self, but with each event that changes the future, the other Micah becomes less of an intrusion.

2. Antoinette De Fiore – A 17-year-old high school student that has her life changed when she and Chance attend her prom and assisted with her stalker/harasser. She wishes that he could attend college with her, but realizes he needs to take writing courses, ones not available at her school.

3. Kiliaen Van Rossum – A member of a wealthy area family, this failed businessman followed Chance, hoping to find the location of a painting.

Back in 1982, he learns that people are investigating him. For what reasons, he’s unsure. When he learns of the reason, he sets in motion events to find the legendary painting himself.

4. Cole Eades – A hired gun

5. Eric Judge – A hired gun

6. Thomas Middleton, Antoinette’s former boyfriend. He realizes that he can no longer be with Antoinette after seeing her with Chance. After an attempt to woo her back, he realized that she is better off without him.

7. Jonah Foss, Middleton’s friend. He, too, realizes that she is better off with Chance.

8. Clayton Osborne, Antoinette’s boss. This supermarket supervisor is much older, but still is obsessed with the younger Antoinette. He doesn’t understand how she could be with Chance. He made an attempt at kidnapping her.

9. Sean Gray, Osborne’s cousin. He assists his cousin in the kidnapping.

10. Stephanie Vaughn, Micah’s younger sister. She sees that there’s something different in her brother, but can’t put her finger on it. When he confesses that he feels there’s someone/something else in him/his mind, she sees it and helps him use it. She senses that her brother has to be with Antoinette.

11. Ewa Vaughn, Micah’s oldest sister. As the oldest of four siblings, she takes her responsibility of teaching and listening to the younger three. She’s a nurse by education, but works at a department store: The local hospitals are in a hiring freeze.

During a lunch the two have, Ewa tells her younger brother to do whatever it takes to be with Antoinette, since she believes they were meant to be together.

12. Stuart DeMuth, professor at Union College. After a Monday morning discussion, he has the younger man come in and talk, explains the “Rules to Time Travel,” more importantly, watch himself.

When he’s visited by Van Rossum’s men, he does not tell them he knows of Micah’s travel back.

13. Emily Cleary, Micah’s journalism teacher, teaches creative writing as well. She sees a difference in her student and in his writing. She reads the short story he wrote about the dream and wants him to expand it more. She researches the names in his short story and accidently helps sets things in motion.

14. Alexander Black, Micah’s cousin. He and Chance are like brothers, played together as kids, played CYO, bowling, Little League, etc., together, until high school, when he joined the wrestling team. He senses a different Chance, but keeps it to himself until he’s asked to help.

Bonus:

Alexander Black

Born near the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation – his parents were visiting relatives – Alexander was raised to honor his Mohawk ancestors. The second son born to Lawrence and Maria Black, Alexander was Micah’s best friend, almost a brother.
Alexander was a good student in public school, never the best one in his classes, but always receiving good grades. He excelled in sports, the youngest member of the Schenectady Little League all-star team in 1974. His bowling prowess over-shadowed his baseball accomplishments: He bowled his first 300 at 11.

Shy, not as shy as his cousin, he didn’t come out of his shell, so to speak, until his sophomore year, when he came to the realization that he had nothing to fear. In high school, he and Micah were inseparable, spending lunches together, plotting what they would do later in the day.

He was asked to join the soccer team his junior year, but declined, stating he’d like to concentrate on wrestling.

He, liked Micah, grew up with guns around: both their fathers hunted every deer season.