A little scifi story I've had sitting in my computer for a while now. R and R.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, blah blah blah

Part 1

2095

Time. This story is all about it. People have always been interested in time; there have been loads of stories and movies based on the concept of time travel. However it was only in 2052 that research actually seriously began into the field. Governments have had secret projects, yeah, but they had always ended up being a massive waste of time and money. In 2060 the first time injector was invented by a researcher in the US called Gary Holland. The time injector allows people to enter gaps in time. See, time isn't just one great smooth line. It has dips and bumps in it. These are spots where time is weakened, which makes it easier to punch a hole from one time to another, however what people didn't realise in 2060 was that time stepping has consequences. Because these holes were about 1 month apart in time, they got worn down; there were hotspots, places where lots of people wanted go like historical events and certain years. Time is kind of like a ribbon with holes in it. Pull to hard on the holes and the piece of time snaps. And as you can probably guess, that is not good.

On the 12th of March 2063, we lost a slice off of Europe. Portugal, some of Spain, and a sliver of Ireland. It was total panic. No-one knew what had happened, and although we think we know why now, we're still not completely sure. Millions died, but that was just the first problem. It messed with the weather, communications went down in places, and the whole world was in either in shock, mourning, or demanding answers; sometimes all three. '63. The year of despair. After about a year and a half, scientists figured out what was going on, and banned all use of time injectors. There are still a few people a year who try to time step, but we catch them. The world is more united now than it used to be, the boundaries of countries are so vague, there barely even there. You know they say in disasters people pull together, well in this one, the whole earth pulled together. The only people who can use the time injectors are the World Time Agency, (WTA) which was set up to make sure nothing like '63 ever happened again, and fix time. No biggie!

In 2072 I was born. My names Tim, or at least, that's what everyone calls me. My full name is Tessa Imogen McGee, and people just put together my initials. I can't recall who exactly came up with the nickname; I've been called it ever since I can remember. Tim is a name that has been passed down through 4 generations of my family, and now, even though I'm a woman, I've inherited this name too. Great. I work for the WTA, I'm a bit of a computer geek, I'll admit it, and I mainly work on writing programs. A couple of years after I was born a new device was created, the time sealer, which got shorted over the years to be called a Seal. It comes in two pieces, a top and bottom. The bottom looks a bit like a set of speakers, except the place where music would come out lets off radiation. It's harmless to humans, but seals up rips in time. The top half is where I come in. The radiation has to be specifically modified for each time period and place, and so I write the code into the top half to modify the radiation that is emitted. You then attach the top (just looks like a small black box,), and voila, the radiation is modified before it comes out of the speakers to the right type for the time. People then have to use the time injectors and go back in time with a Seals and set it off within a period off 56 minutes. Not an hour. 56 minutes. After the event in '63 humans invented a way detect the hotspots and gaps in time would appear, lots of radiation is produced, and the WTA has to use the radiation to trace back to the source in time where the hole originated. It's complicated. But that's not my job. My job is to program the Seals, as each one has to be specifically modified for the time period. Just so you know, there are only a few hotspots a year. But we always have to be prepared so we don't get another disaster like in '63.

I've been back in time a few times before, to set of programs that are too difficult for field agents. But this mission the directors just asked me to go on is different. I have to go back to 2009 and set off a program. We found out about two years ago that a Seal always works more successfully if the person who sets it off has some connection to the time period and place. This Seal has to be set off in a warehouse and they told me there was a NCIS operation going on there at that time. Apparently it was by a team led by a Special Agent Gibbs, a team my great grandfather was a part of. And as this means I have a direct link to that time, I have to set the Seal off. I have to go back in time and meet my great grandfather, Timothy McGee.