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I made it just in time. Jack thought as he rushed down the stairs towards the lobby. Jack knew he was running out of time so he took the remainder of the steps two at a time and sprinted down the hallway and into the lobby of the library. As soon as he entered he saw his brother Will on his knees just outside the entrance of the library. And Paul pointing a gun at his head. Jack then watched as Paul put a had to his earpiece and called for Monarch to blow up the library. Jack began to rush toward his brother. I have to save him, it is the only way to fix this, all of this.
The first of the bombs began to go off as Jack sprinted towards his brother who was still just outside the front doors of the library, where Jack knew the overhang of the roof would fall and crush his brother underneath it. Jack continued sprinting towards his brother, dodging falling brick and stone as the bombs continued to detonate. He was almost there. Just as the roof was beginning to crumble above Wills head, Jack grabbed him under his arms and pulled him back into the library, just missing the falling roof that came down just after Will was out of the way. As they began to get up, Will had a very strange look on his face as he just saw the present Jack be carried away by Monarch officers.
"C'mon, we gotta move!" Jack yelled as he pulled his brother off the floor and the two started running trough the crumbling building, dodging the falling debris as they went. Jack would occasionally have to use his powers to stop a massive piece of concrete from crushing his brother but they continues running through the building towards the exit. Finally they reached an open window and jumped through it just as the last of the bombs went off, tearing apart the higher floors and sending them tumbling down.
The two brothers tumbled towards the hard asphalt and struggled to catch their breath as the wind was knocked from their lungs on the impact. Will was the first to catch his breath and sit up as he rubbed his elbow which he had smashed against the ground when he fell. "Jack?" Will asked his brother, "You saved me." Jack finally pulled himself up off the ground and told Will about the present he brought with him from the future as he pulled the countermeasure out from inside his jacket and handed it to Will. He quickly took it from Jacks hands and began to turn it over examining it. When he began to ask Jack how he had gotten it, Jack spotted a bunch of Monarch guards beginning to patrol the area. Jack knew that they had to get out of there so he scrambled to his feet and began to pull Will to his, but he was still examining the countermeasure. "Will, c'mon. C'mon Will, lets go!" Jack told his brother as he practically picked him up off the ground and set him on his feet. The two brothers take cover behind a concrete barrier and Jack briefly tells Will how he got the device "Monarch had it the whole time. Does it work?" Will then begins to realize that Jack came from the future and is very unsettled by the news that the time fracture was not fixed in the future. As Will begins to tell his brother that they must go back to his time machine and go into the future where Jack came from in order to fix the fracture. Jack is immediately against this plan as he believes that the fracture must be fixed from the time they are in and not go back to the future. They begin to argue about how they are going to fix time as Will tries to explain that if they try to fix it now, the fracture will not go away in the future, as Will reminds Jack about how he has set the chains in motion by already being in the future and knowing what it holds, they will be able to fix it by going back into the future. Jack continues to believe that there is now way to fix the fracture in the future by going back as he already knows about all the death and heartbreak that goes along with it as he already watched Beth die while trying to defeat Paul.
"Then you gotta let go, Jack." Will tells his brother. This seems to work as Will can see a change is his brothers attitude immediately as Will tells him that the past is already set but the future is not. Jack finally in agreement and they turn back to the guards who have moved out of sight behind the building next to them. They move out from behind the concrete barrier and take off down the ally where they see two guards coming out of the back of the library which wasn't destroyed. Ducking behind a large planters box, Jack pulls out his SMG and gets ready for a fight while Will holds the countermeasure closer to his chest.
Jack quickly took them out and they continue towards the chemistry building and through the doors when Jack hears Amy scream from the parking lot and turns to go back out and help. He feels Will pushes him inside, telling him that he cant change the fact that all of the students on the university grounds are being taken away by Monarch in order to cover up what they did. As Will leads them through the building, Jack tells him more about why Monarch had the countermeasure in the first place. As they run through the lecture hall towards the front of the building, Will brings up that he only build the countermeasure after Beth had asked him to. Jack remembers Beth telling him about the run-ins she had had with his brother. Jack begins to feel his chest get tight when he remembers his time with Beth. Before Paul shot her dead. When they finally reach the doors and rush outside, they find three Monarch vans parked outside and quickly dash behind the two pillars just outside the doorway on either side and watch as Paul drags present Jack to one of the vans.
Jack begins to formulate a plan on how they are going to make it across the courtyard without being spotted and tells Will to run behind one of the planter boxes that are just outside the chemistry building. Will runs three feet into the direction of the planter boxes when he stops mid stride. And everything else stops around Jack. He is stuck in another time fracture where everything in the world stops, except for himself. Jack begins to rush towards his brother to unfreeze him with a touch of his had so that they can get out of there before time begins again when something catches his eye.
Jack would recognize those blue eyes and brown ponytail anywhere. It was her. It was Beth Wilder. Standing by the Monarch van, arms crossed and a stone cold look on her face as she watched Paul drag present Jack to the back of the van. Jack looked back at his brother then took off across the courtyard towards her. When he got close enough he began to study her, she was wearing he Monarch security detail uniform and had her hair tied up in a high pony so it was off her shoulders and out of her eyes. And her eyes, were shining bright blue just like a ocean on a sunny day. She was just as he remembered her. God I miss her so much. Jack thought as he studied her face.
He missed their time together. How they worked together to kidnap Dr. Amaral from Monarch headquarters, when they worked on fixing Will's time machine, when they traveled through time and especially when he traveled back to 2010 to find her after Dr. Amaral tricked them and sent her to 1999. Jack though back to how close they had gotten when he went back to save her. And then how Paul took her away from him. Yet here she was. Standing in front of him. The old Beth, who had no idea what was in store for her. This got Jack thinking... maybe he could save her. He looked back at Will and remembered his words when they were entering the chemistry building, telling him that there is nothing he could do to help. The past was the past. But as he turned back to Beth his heart began to ache.
He couldn't bare the thought of losing her again. She was right in front of him, he could just reach out his had and touch her and she too would be unfrozen. It could work...right? Jack thought to himself. He could quickly unfreeze Beth then go back for Will and together the three of them could fix everything. The fracture would be fixed. Monarch would be no more. Jack would get both his brother and Beth back. He would not lose anyone whom he cared for and everything would be okay. Right? Jack put his gun back into his pocket and reached for her hand.