Final

Heat licked the top of my head and as I hit the button, cool air breezed through my hair… wait…hair? Touching my head, I laughed. It worked! It really worked! Not able to hold back my excitement, I moved my arms around, the buttery feel of my joints delighted me like no other. Taking a deep breath in, I welcomed fresh air, enjoying the feel of no pain… it certainly is amazing!

Without realizing I was still holding my breath, I let it out in a long and wonderful exaggerated sigh. As my eyes grazed over my surroundings, familiarity flooded my memory and I was pleased by what I saw. Briefly glancing down at my watch, my eyes widened in realization that I had put the exact date of when Zinnia died, instead of the day before. I face palmed… how could you be so stupid? I thought to myself. Shaking my head as I wondered how I managed to not only set it to the day she died, but managed to only give myself ten minutes before the incident happened.

“And that’s how I ended up coming to save you.” I said to Zinnia as I slid the body… well my other me’s body into the furnace. Turning towards her, I studied her expression closely, trying to decipher her feelings.

“I see…” She said, wearing a blank expression that was hard to read.

“I know it’s a lot to take in… I mean it sounds crazy…”

She nodded. “It does… but I’ve pretty much connected the dots from when I saw the body in the freezer and to the other you I saw and it just clicked… I knew something had to have been wrong with me, because I felt as if I were alive but wasn’t, like something was wrong and that I just didn’t belong.”

I gripped her shoulders and faced her towards me. “But you do! Our child does too.” My eyes watered, I didn’t want her to try and fix things, I wanted to be selfish and I wanted my family.

She smiled and touched my cheeks with her warm soft hands. Letting go of her shoulders, I melted into her warmth, the very thing I was denied of for so long. “I know and I appreciate it with all my heart… and for this child…” She touched her stomach and I found myself mimicking her movements as I placed my hand over hers. She looked up at me with meaningful eyes and I understood her gaze. No words needed to be said, we were both on the same page. No matter what happens this baby will live!

I slid her other hand from my cheek and grabbed onto them tightly. Before heading up the stairs, I grabbed the gun from the metal table. “It seems that the other dimensional me’s have the same idea… and if my theory is correct, they must have figured out that eating the other dimensional them can increase their life span by taking theirs. I had to test it out and didn’t feel the need to go too far a head in the future at first.”

“Is that what took you so long?”

I nodded my head, “In a way… yes. Since I’ve never used the dimension function, I didn’t know how it worked. Turns out if I were to jump there from here, I’d end up in the Same spot I was here in there… So I had to come back and go to the grave sight where you was suppose to be buried, I time skipped and then went to the dimension. Sadly enough tho, it over heats the watch and has a reboot time to where I’d have to wait for a cool down in order to use it. Fortunately for me, there was a return to beginning function for where I had originally left off at and I didn’t have to wait for the cool down. Unfortunately… I could only jump back three times, so I ended up in the time period of when you were in the hospital and it turns out that the cool down period extended because of that to about three weeks.”

She nodded, although I wasn’t sure of whether she truly understood it or not. “It seems you’ve created an unpredictable watch.”

I chuckled “Yeah… two people worked on it and each of us added in back up supports to keep the watch from malfunctioning and a way for it to learn to protect itself.”

“The future sounds crazy interesting.”

I nodded and our conversation ended as we stood by the window. “It seems that you’ve lead the other you’s to follow in your footsteps.”

“I had theories…”‘I began. “That I may have caught unwanted attention; from death; the gate keepers of time and space; and the threat of the alternate realities. There is one possibility that if the body that was taken from there and was sent here and then disappeared… it may destroy the timeline there and cause the you there to disappear.”

“How’d you figure that?”

“Because… that person I just killed was from the same dimensions. He could have simply rewinded and saved you like I did, but instead he came here…” I stared at the eyes in the woods “… And others may have come here too… to do the same thing.” She squeezed my hand tightly. “Don’t worry.” I said, readying my gun “I’ll do whatever it takes to keep you and the baby safe.”