Rebecca was peeled to the screen, watching Jane try and coax the PI out of his office. "I never talk to Mr. S like that..." she said.
Jon sighed. Clearly, she wasn't paying attention to him.
Jon turned his attention back to the TV where he saw his mother still trying to coax Stone out of his office.
“Come on Mr. S you can’t hide in here all day you have a case to solve.” His mother said to the man who she thought was her boss.
Jon noticed something had changed about her but he couldn’t figure out what. Rebeca still had her eyes glued to the screen watching her boss talking to some strange woman as if nothing had happened. She had worked for him for years how could he not notice that the woman in front of him was not her?
“I will take you back to my apartment Mr. S you can hide out there while you figure out who the killer is,” Jane told her boss.
“What would I do without you, Jane?” Stone said smiling at her, as the screen once again faded to black.
The ACN channel Ident appeared on the screen and Jon figured out that it was another advert break. He sat there trying to work out why his mother didn’t notice anything was wrong. Rebecca sure did.
“Hey kid what did you say your name was again?” She asked him as he looked up at her.
“It's Jon, why?.” He answered
“I just like to know who I am spending my time with that’s all,” Rebecca told him as she got comfortable on the couch.
Jon noticed that there was something different about her as well. Then it hit him. Her accent had changed. It was more like his own New Hampshire accent but that was not something for him to worry about at the moment he needed to work out how to get his mother out of the program and back to him.
The show returned from the adverts to the interior of what he thought must be Rebecca’s apartment.
“Here we are Mr. S my place. It ain’t much but it’s home.” Jon heard a voice say from off-screen.
“I will get us a drink,” the voice said again. This time Jon could see who it was. It was his mother now speaking in a heavy New York accent that he had never heard her speak before.
Jon sat there open-mouthed as he realized that somehow Rebecca's’ and his mother's accents had swapped. What was going on and more importantly how could he fix it?
