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Everything Is Possible Ch. 1

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Late February

"Why can't we just use magic to do this?" Zoc asked as he scraped old paint and wall paper off of a wall.

"Because that wouldn't be as much fun, maybe if the walls were in good enough condition to just paint over all of this then we could have done it with magic, but since we have to scrape it all off  its more fun to do it by hand." Ann replied from where she was working a couple of feet away.

"You really think this is fun?" Zoc asked.

"Of course, we're getting to see how everyone who lived in this house before us had the walls done. There's so much history and personality, see who ever chose this wall paper must have liked flowers and who ever chose the pale blue must have wanted something relaxing and the bright yellow must have been someone who wanted a bright cheery room and who ever chose the olive green just had horrible taste in paint." Ann said as she scraped through each layer.

"You are completely crazy," Zoc said as he set his paint scraper down and suddenly pulled Ann into his arms. "And I absolutely love that you can see so much more to this than most people would." He told her before kissing her.

When they finally stopped Ann said, "You love that I can see so much, but you still want to use magic to finish the job, don't you?"

"It would give us time to do some more fun things." Zoc replied.

"What do you think could be more fun than learning about the people who lived here before us?" Ann asked.

"We could go explore the woods, you've been saying you want to do that since the first time you saw the house." Zoc suggested.

"It's warm enough out today that most of the snow has melted; we would end up covered with mud." Ann pointed out.

"Then we'll clean the tub in our room before we leave, so we can get cleaned off when we get back." Zoc told her.

"Our huge, easily big enough for two, bathtub?" Ann asked with a mischievous grin.

"Exactly." Zoc replied gently kissing her neck.

"Okay, let's get this done with then." Ann said as she tightened her arms around Zoc and her ring started to glow and all the wall paper and paint started to fall away from the walls.

"I still can't believe you can do that." Zoc said as the last of the wallpaper fell to the floor.

"I know, it's so amazing though." Ann said.

"Yes, but you really should try using the crystal without holding on to me more often, I want you to be able to use it if I'm not around." Zoc told her.

"I can use it just fine to defend my self." Ann replied.

"You can use it just fine to cause small explosions, what if you needed to do something else?"

"Like what?" Ann asked then jumped and spun around as a piece of firewood fell from the pile next to the fire place.

"What if you needed to distract someone?" Zoc asked.

"Okay, fine, you have a point, but it can wait until after we get the bathroom cleaned and go exploring." Ann said as she kissed Zoc on the cheek and headed for the stairs.

After they finished cleaning the bathroom Ann and Zoc headed outside. "This still seems so strange to me, just being able to walk around outside and not having worrying about anyone seeing me." Zoc said as they stepped off the back porch and he slipped his arm around Ann's waist.

"I know, I'm so glad you managed to work everything out, I can't wait until we have the house fixed up enough to move in." Ann said as they headed towards the woods.

They had been walking along the edge of the forest for a while, looking for a way in that wasn't blocked by berry bushes when Ann stumbled over something large in the tall grass.

Zoc caught her just in time to keep her from hitting the ground and asked, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Ann replied kneeling down and beginning to pull the grass and weeds back to see what she had tripped on.

A moment later she gasped, "I didn't know this place came with a cemetery." she said as she finished clearing off an old tomb stone then grabbed Zoc's leg and began to carefully push more of the weeds back with magic until a small cemetery with about a dozen tombstones had been cleared at the edge of the woods.

Ann went around gently brushing dirt and bits of the remaining plants off of the tombstones then said, "These are all from the 1840's to the early 1900's, this is amazing, they must have been some of the earliest settlers to come to this area and it looks like they've been covered up long enough that the stones have remained protected, they're in excellent condition." she said grinning up at Zoc.

"I suppose this means I shouldn't make dinner for you tomorrow night?" Zoc asked.

"Why would you say that?" Ann asked.

"Because you'll be at the library seeing what all you can find out about these people until they have to throw you out so they can close." Zoc said.

"Probably." Ann replied grinning at him, "This could be an important historical find, if anyone had known this was here it would have been in one of my books and I've been out to photograph all of the local cemeteries that are from the 1870's or earlier." Ann told him then hugged him excitedly, "We've found people who have probably been missing for decades."

"So having a bunch of dead people in our backyard is a good thing?" Zoc asked.

"Its absolutely the best thing we could have found in our backyard, even better than buried treasure." Ann replied.

"I suppose you're right, we've already done buried treasure, it's definitely more interesting to have some verity."  Zoc said.

"Exactly!" Ann said as she wiped mud off of her hands from cleaning off the tombstones on the damp hem of her skirt before she pulled a pen and paper out of her camera bag that she had brought with her and began writing down the names and dates off of the tomb stones.

"Do you have another pen? Zoc asked.

"Yep'" Ann replied pulling out a second pen and hading it and some paper to Zoc so he could help write down the information.

"This is interesting." Ann said a moment later.

"What is it?" Zoc asked.

"William Kocher born 1790, died 1880 and Catherine Kocher born 1793, died 1890. The dates would just work for the parents of my great, great, great, great, grandmother Sarah Kocher Bordner, I've never been able to fine out who her parents are even though I know they lived in this area." Ann replied, "I just, it would be amazing if they are her parents." Ann chuckled, "Talk about literally finding your ancestors."


Several minutes later Ann said, "Oh the poor thing."

"What is it?" Zoc asked.

"This poor woman, she lost two children in less than a year and then it looks like she died giving birth to another." she said pointing to three tombstones with lambs on top of them and the woman's who's death date was the same as the date on one of the others. "That's the most depressing thing about cemeteries, especially the older ones, so many children died."

Zoc came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her, "I know we both would have liked to have been able to have children, but I'm honestly kind of glad we can't, it would have just been too risky." he said.

"People do have perfectly healthy pregnancies a lot more often than there are complications." Ann replied leaning against his chest.

"Not like us though, even if the potion were able to change your genetics, there still would have been a chance the change wouldn't have been complete and there could have been unexpected complications." Zoc said.

"True." Ann replied shivering slightly as the wind kicked up a bit, She then turned to face him and kissed him, "I'll beat you back to the tub and a nice hot bath." she said before slipping away from him, lifting her damp and muddied skirt and racing towards the house.

She managed to keep far enough ahead of him to get the bath water running just before he stepped into the bathroom, pulling her into a long passionate kiss. His hands slid slowly up to the top of Ann's back and slowly unzipped her dress, slipped it off of her then moved on to remove the rest of her clothing until they had to part long enough for her to slip her shoes and socks off.

They slipped into the warm water and relaxed into each others arms. "Too bad we didn't bring the potion with us." Ann said trailing her hand over Zoc's chest.

"We know we wouldn't have gotten anything done around here if we had, we probably could have had everything cleaned up and ready to be repainted if we hadn't brought the potion with us as often as we have." Zoc pointed out.

"We're  newly weds, we're allowed to get distracted with each other and forget about everything else." Ann replied kissing him while slipping one leg over his abdomen.


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As Zoc had predicted Ann didn't get home the next night until shortly after nine.

Ann set her bag on the end of the couch then dropped down next to it and pulled out a couple of papers and started reading over them.

"They finally kicked you out?" Zoc asked coming into the room.

"Hmm mm," was Ann's only reply as she flipped to another paper.

"You're too quite, you didn't find what you were looking for did you?" Zoc asked.

Ann let out a frustrated sigh, "No, well kind of, I found part of the family who's buried out there, the woman Rachel and her husband George Fisher, I found the land records, census records, tax records and George's family clear back to when they came to America. Rachel's family just doesn't exist though, her obituary says that her maiden name was Kocher so the older couple buried at the house were probably her parents, but her obituary just says that her parent's moved here in the 1830's from Pennsylvania and doesn't give their names and all her death certificate says is that her father was Mr. Kocher-" Ann stopped and jumped up then ran into the library.

"What is it?" Zoc asked following her and watching as she began flipping through her large file cabinet of genealogy papers.

"This is all sounding way too familiar." Ann replied as she pulled out a file and began flipping through the papers, pulling out two, "Sarah Ann Brordner, born August fifteenth eighteen nineteen, died April twenty fourth nineteen fifteen, father Mr. Kocher." she read off of a death certificate then switched to an obituary, "Sarah Ann Bordner was born on the fifteenth day of August in the year of our lord eighteen nineteen, in Pennsylvania. When she was eleven years old her parents moved to the area." Ann read, "Rachel was only born six years before Sarah was, they could have easily been sisters or maybe cousins. Ach, I need to find more information, but I've looked everywhere I can think of." Ann said beginning to pace back and forth.

"I'm sure you'll find it eventually, right now though you need to eat some dinner and get some sleep." Zoc told her.

"I'm not hungry, so I can just skip eating and do a little more research before bed." Ann told him then mentally cursed her stomach when it growled.

"Sure your not hungry." Zoc said leading her out of the library and into the kitchen.

Sighing in defeat Ann said, "Alright maybe I'm a little hungry."

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Ann woke up in the middle of the night and carefully sat up to get out of bed when Zoc asked, "Where do you think you're going?"

"I just need to check something down stairs." Ann replied.

"Does this thing you need to check involve a large stack of local history books and a pile of genealogical papers?" he asked.

"Well yes, but I need to check it while I'm thinking about it, I just know the family at the house is connected to grandma Sarah, I can just feel it and I need to prove it." Ann said as she started to stand up.

"You can check in the morning." Zoc said pulling her back down onto the bed and wrapping his arms around her.

"But Zoc-"

"What is it you need to check?" Zoc asked.

"I wanted to check my old land record book, the one the library doesn't have and see if there was any sign of William and Catherine in it." Ann replied.

"I'll remind you to check in the morning, every time you go on a midnight genealogy spree you don't come back, you check one thing and then think of a dozen more things to check and I find you the next morning asleep on the desk or the floor in the middle of a pile of books and papers and you end up sore from sleeping like that." Zoc told her gently kissing the back of her neck, his antennas gently brushing over her hair and cheeks, "I'm not letting go of you until morning."

Ann sighed and turned to lay her head on his chest, "Oh alright, I'll let you get away with stopping me tonight, but only because I have to work tomorrow." she replied.
After years of promising to write it, here is the beginning of the Sequel to Nothing Is Impossible.

Nothing Is Impossible Chapter 1 [link]


Chapter 2: [link]
Chapter 3: [link]
Chapter 4: [link]
Chapter 5: [link]
Chapter 6: [link]
Chapter 7: [link]
Chapter 8: [link]
Chapter 9: [link]
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