Prologue
I'm baaack! (picture when Joshua says that). I've had the idea for this since The Day That Shall Not Be Mentioned and I've decided to write it down. Chapter One is mostly done and will hopefully be uploaded by next week. This is completely unbeta'd because my beta has never seen Fringe before so all mistakes are mine. Hope you enjoy!
You're born, you live and then you die.
That's how life works; a linear progression starting from point a to point z.The rules of science and logic dictate that that is Nature works. However it's not always that simple, maybe at one point it was but there are things that can change the way Nature is. As strong as the powers of science and logic are and the firm grasp they have over Nature, there is something far greater; the power of love. That which drives men to the brink if insanity as they disrupt the water-like flow of time and twist it's currents; those who wish to go against Nature herself.
They who meddle with time meddle with reality and the way things are Meant to be. Much like water running through a stream, time leaves its prints. Groves and ditches where the water ran, footprints left where the water was deterred. Change the course of the water and you change the course of history. The smallest, most infinitesimal change will echo through time and ripple across the ages. That's why it is not for mortals to interfere with such things; the consequences are incalculable. There are lines we do not cross.
In the name of the love between a father and his son, a woman and her soul mate, parents and their child, mortals make themselves gods and cross those lines. They blur the distinction between right and wrong because love is pure and good. They justify their acts by asking how can evil ever bloom from something so beautiful. But no matter why those lines are crossed, they are crossed and consequences must be paid. Balance must be restored. Nature doesn't differentiate between right and wrong. She doesn't concern herself with the affairs of men, she only seeks balance.
However Nature only corrects the course of things, she erases the physical evidence but she can never rob people of their feelings. She takes our memories of things that never were but she cannot take the mark those memories left. Sometimes because of meetings and interactions and whole lives that never were, an indelible mark is left on our souls that not even Nature herself can take away.