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A/N: This is my fanfic, so please review to help me write better. Be kind but truthful please! I'll try to update soon as I can. Also, this is slightly AU. Derek's wife dies sometime early than when Kyle gets sent back, so Derek meeting Jesse and all still happens. This story just takes place sometime in the future in the show.

He always that Conner sent him back to give him time with what little family he had left. Or maybe he sent Derek to help mold this teenage Conner into tough s.o.b General that he is (or is it "was"? Time travel sure fucked with the mind) in the future. But he never imagined that Conner was trying to give him a gift. Time with one he lost. The one whose loss, coupled with Kyle's, drove him to almost committing suicide. The one he never stopped loving even after all this time. His wife…