Family Ties-Part One

"Where am I? And why do I feel a strange sense of foreboding?" Phineas Flynn asks himself as he stands in front of a small house. This house feels strangely familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

This is the same yellow-bricked two story home that he grew up in during his childhood years. The same brown-roofed home that he spent everyday growing up and being raised in by his mother and step-father, alongside his step-brother, Ferb Fletcher, and biological sister, Candace Flynn. The same home where he learned how to walk, talk, and built his first ever invention in the fenced-in backyard. The same home where all of his cherished memories were made early in his life. Ones that he would live with for the rest of his adult life; even after he graduates college within the next two years.

But yet, stepping on those same stone steps that leads to the front door of his house, Phineas doesn't get the notion that he is about to step into the same household at all for whatever reason. For reasons that are completely understood. His sister is now living with her boyfriend, Jeremy Johnson, and is about to have her first child with him, Ferb is still away in Oxford for college, the farthest he has ever been away from Phineas ever since they were toddlers, and all that is left in the house is his mother, step-father, and pet platypus, Perry, who is starting to show his age.

However, something about stepping into this house just feels wrong. As he opens up the door, he walks into the dark family room, which is still furnished with a sofa, coffee table, an aerial rug, and the TV. But those were not the same furniture that he had remembered his parents having the last time he visited them. And he knows that they are unable to afford a whole new living room set on a whim. And as he walks deeper into the house, it starts to feel even stranger. Is he in the wrong house? Is this not his former home?

No, he is certain that he is in the right house. But, why is everything so dark and empty?

Phineas then hears laughter coming from the upstairs. It takes him a while to recognize the laughter as he starts to tiptoe closer to the stairs. The laughter belonged to...his grandparents. But they sound younger than usual. Which starts to confuse him. He can make out some mumbling from up the stairs. He puts a hand on the handrail to try and tiptoe closer up the stairs.

He passes three empty rooms as he crawls closer to the source of the laughter.

(Unfinished)