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Wincing as her shoulders bunched together, she still refused to look at him and wondered if it was too late to smile, make a fanfare and cry ‘Just kidding!’She swore to herself she wouldn’t approach them and yet someone had pushed him on her and she wanted to kick the walls and scream.
What if this messes something up in the future? Fuck… She looked down at her hands and hoped she wasn’t going to disappear.
“Yeah..I dunno if you believe me..I know it’s a shock, all right?! But I guess you knowing isn’t going to stop me from being born unless you break things off with mom..”
She hoped to high hell that wasn’t the case but her father always seemed so in love with their mother that she highly doubted it. They were always making googly eyes at each other and it made her sick. Now she counted on those looks to continue if she wanted to keep existing.
“I …” Jack still had no idea how to respond to this news. He watched Gail closely, trying to spot any clue that this might be an act, but seeing none. And, really, why would someone pull this kind of act on him? He was no one special. There would be nothing to gain from it.
He took a deep breath before speaking again. “… I do believe you. I-it sounds crazy, but … I believe it.” Perhaps because, on some level, he wanted to know that he and Katelynn would have children someday. Despite Gail’s fears, he had no intention of breaking things off with his fiancee. He loved her, without question – it would take something much, much worse than anything that had happened so far to change that.
“B-but what are you doing here? Why did you come back?”
Thoughts of her idiotic brother immediately sprung in her mind as she crossed her arms over her ample chest, lips pursed in annoyance and wondering how much she was allowed to reveal. She didn’t want to spoil the surprises of his life and events to come but now even Ulric wouldn’t be able to escape him.
“I only came because my stupid brother, your second child, decided to come here and escape something,” she admitted, hoping Ulric wouldn’t kill her for sharing such intimate details.
Reaching back into her back pocket for her wallet, ever the non feminine one, she flipped it open to show him a picture of the four of them in a family photo, the only time she had been roped into wearing a dress as she despised them. In the photo was Ulric standing back to back with Jack and Gail sitting with Katelynn, all of them smiling for the camera man. She pointed at Ulric. “This is him. I live with him in his apartment until I can get my own place.”
Jack’s eyes widened as she mentioned a brother. We have two children? One of each? In his heart, that was exactly the family he’d dreamed of having. This was probably the most bizarre way to find out what his future might hold, but even so, he couldn’t help being happy.
He studied the photo. He recognized himself and Katelynn (an older version of Katelynn, but still just as beautiful), and Gail as well. The boy standing next to her was bald and blue, but from the look of it, he had Katelynn’s soft brown eyes.
Jack bit his lip. Now that he knew it was possible, he wanted this future so badly. Please don’t let them coming here have changed anything.
“How long are you planning on staying? I-it’s not that I’m not happy to meet you,” he added quickly, “but don’t you have lives back in your time? You said your brother’s escaping from something. C-can I ask what, or will that change things?” God, he wished he knew as much about science as his dimensional counterparts, so he could figure out the mechanics of time travel.
Jack Maple 