know it’s rough right now but none of it will matter because we’re going back, we’re going to change the outcome, okay? Just try to remember that, hold on to it.”
She nods but keeps her head downcast. I address the men giving her the time she needs to compose herself before she’s ready to join in and participate in what’s likely to be a very heated discussion. Not a foreign concept but one I need energy for and after working with Jack all day and my yo-yo emotions, I’m beat. Advance Industries has either got very adept at concealing their wrongdoings or they’re completely innocent in this time. I can’t believe that, though, evil breeds evil. After witnessing the display of authority from the AIG I know there is something to be found. We are what our surroundings make us, our upbringing shapes us so new President or not, if it’s Laudnam stock then it’s tainted as far as I’m concerned.
I have a vendetta against them, I know this but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong or deluded. They’ve learnt from past mistakes so I just need to dig a little deeper. In fact, now it’s of no consequence because this time will change back to its rightful time, with Grandparents who remember me, love me and will be delighted to see me, where May exists and AIG aren’t the law... I am!
The past few months have been filled with bad luck, loss and misfortune thrown at me whatever way I turned but I haven’t let it defeat me, define me or given up. I’m not a quitter. I’ve come close. I’ve been on the brink but looking at my team around me and my girl sat next to me I know that I can face it all, as long as I have these people, my support network, I can stand up, face another day and chip away at the blockade.
“So, I think it’s safe to say- we fucked up!” They all look at me, serious, sombre expressions on every face.
“You haven’t been back as long as us but from what you’ve witnessed do you agree that we changed something, knocked a certain moment off its path and changed our future to...this?”
“Are you sure that’s what happened? We could be in some alternate reality, existing on two different strands of time,” Arlen says.
“Whoa, Arl that was pretty profound for you. When did you start deep thinking?” Callan jokes.
“Fuck off!” Arlen replies with a grin and bumps shoulders with Callan. “I’m just saying we don’t know for sure, there could be another explanation. I don’t want us to go back only to find the event we change has no effect.”
“You’re freaking me out man, can you go back to dumbing it down?” Callan says.
“No Arlen’s right. It’s not conclusive, there could be another explanation. There’s a theory that there is more than one universe in existence – the multiverse or something like that. I’ve been trying to remember what the scientist told me before we travelled to Faith’s time.”
“What the hell is a multiverse?” Callan asks.
“I don’t really know I was too interested in moving on with the plan but he was insistent on educating me. If I remember correctly and I’m probably not, it means that every possible version of an event could take place. For example, Cal: if you went back in time to murder your Gran you could get away with it because, in the universe next door, the Granny lives to have the daughter who becomes the murderer's mother."
“What the fuck Kye? I have no idea what you just said!”
“Okay, just think a minute. In that story, I just told, if the multi-verse didn’t exist then you wouldn’t be able to go back and kill your Gran because then you’d have never been born in the first place. Following?”
“Yeah I guess, but that’s fucked up!”
“So that’s the multiverse theory. I still want to follow up on going back, it’s what I feel makes sense. What I need you to think about is pinpointing what change we should concentrate on going back to rectify.”
“Well thanks, that’s even harder than the last
She nods but keeps her head downcast. I address the men giving her the time she needs to compose herself before she’s ready to join in and participate in what’s likely to be a very heated discussion. Not a foreign concept but one I need energy for and after working with Jack all day and my yo-yo emotions, I’m beat. Advance Industries has either got very adept at concealing their wrongdoings or they’re completely innocent in this time. I can’t believe that, though, evil breeds evil. After witnessing the display of authority from the AIG I know there is something to be found. We are what our surroundings make us, our upbringing shapes us so new President or not, if it’s Laudnam stock then it’s tainted as far as I’m concerned.
I have a vendetta against them, I know this but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong or deluded. They’ve learnt from past mistakes so I just need to dig a little deeper. In fact, now it’s of no consequence because this time will change back to its rightful time, with Grandparents who remember me, love me and will be delighted to see me, where May exists and AIG aren’t the law... I am!
The past few months have been filled with bad luck, loss and misfortune thrown at me whatever way I turned but I haven’t let it defeat me, define me or given up. I’m not a quitter. I’ve come close. I’ve been on the brink but looking at my team around me and my girl sat next to me I know that I can face it all, as long as I have these people, my support network, I can stand up, face another day and chip away at the blockade.
“So, I think it’s safe to say- we fucked up!” They all look at me, serious, sombre expressions on every face.
“You haven’t been back as long as us but from what you’ve witnessed do you agree that we changed something, knocked a certain moment off its path and changed our future to...this?”
“Are you sure that’s what happened? We could be in some alternate reality, existing on two different strands of time,” Arlen says.
“Whoa, Arl that was pretty profound for you. When did you start deep thinking?” Callan jokes.
“Fuck off!” Arlen replies with a grin and bumps shoulders with Callan. “I’m just saying we don’t know for sure, there could be another explanation. I don’t want us to go back only to find the event we change has no effect.”
“You’re freaking me out man, can you go back to dumbing it down?” Callan says.
“No Arlen’s right. It’s not conclusive, there could be another explanation. There’s a theory that there is more than one universe in existence – the multiverse or something like that. I’ve been trying to remember what the scientist told me before we travelled to Faith’s time.”
“What the hell is a multiverse?” Callan asks.
“I don’t really know I was too interested in moving on with the plan but he was insistent on educating me. If I remember correctly and I’m probably not, it means that every possible version of an event could take place. For example, Cal: if you went back in time to murder your Gran you could get away with it because, in the universe next door, the Granny lives to have the daughter who becomes the murderer's mother."
“What the fuck Kye? I have no idea what you just said!”
“Okay, just think a minute. In that story, I just told, if the multi-verse didn’t exist then you wouldn’t be able to go back and kill your Gran because then you’d have never been born in the first place. Following?”
“Yeah I guess, but that’s fucked up!”
“So that’s the multiverse theory. I still want to follow up on going back, it’s what I feel makes sense. What I need you to think about is pinpointing what change we should concentrate on going back to rectify.”
“Well thanks, that’s even harder than the last
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