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Chapter 2

Emmett Brown woke with a start. He felt groggy as he shook off sleep. Recognising the room around him, he sat up quickly. Everything from last night came back to him. Looking out the window he realised it was still dark.

"Must still be early," he thought

Opening the door, he went back into sitting room. Seeing Clara asleep in her chair at the desk, he felt a pang of sadness. He went up to her and gently lifted her from the chair. She stirred slightly in his arms before he set her down on the sofa. He placed a light kiss on her forehead, then pulled up a chair and sat next to her as she slept.

Clara woke with a smile on her face, which promptly disappeared when she saw the man who was sitting above her.

"Morning," he said quietly "nice sleep?"

"Yes." She sat up quickly, and moved around the house

"Clara.." he started

"You should go." She cut him off "Mr Eastwood will be wondering where you are?" she distracted him. Sadly her efforts were for nothing.

"I'm not going to leave because you tell me too." He insisted

"Really? You were all for leaving last night." Her anger was starting to come out

"That's because I was going to let you go, without a fight." He told her "Now, I don't think that I can."

"Why?"

"You are owed an explanation. I involved you in this so you get an explanation and then you will know the whole truth."

"Alright then, explain!"

"I can't just try and explain." He tried to tell her "I have to show you."

"How?"

"I'll take you to the time machine." He said simply

"And if I don't understand?" she asked

"I'll help you understand."

She smiled at this.

"Right then. Let me get dressed."

Watching her walk towards her bedroom, he thought how he would actually explain. It would initially be difficult for her to understand, he knew that but hopefully her knowledge of science would prevail. He was also hopeful that he wouldn't lose her when he told her the truth.

"So, this is it."

Emmett had brought her to the sight, where he and Marty had placed the Delorean on the tracks last night. There was silence for a moment. He looked across to Clara, who stood there staring.

"Clara?" he looked at her with a smile "What do you think?"

"I'm not sure what to say." She squeaked

"Well, it is a little bit confusing at first but as I explain, hopefully you'll understand."

"One question that I have…." She trailed off

"Yes?" he asked

"Why is it on the railway tracks?"

"Ahh, that isn't normal. We had to fix it onto the railway tracks. You see the only way that it can travel in time is if it gets up to 88 miles per hour and the problem is we are out of gas." He explained

"Gas?" she looked confused

"Like coal but it powers automobiles."

She looked at him pointedly.

"Automobiles are like carriages without horses that are powered by an engine which burns fuel. Does that make sense in anyway?" he asked

"A little." She told him

Suddenly the sound of hoofs distracted the pair and they turned to see Marty riding towards them. He quickly dismounted from the horse.

"Doc, where you been?" he then noticed Clara "What's she doing here?"

"There are too many things to explain, right now Marty."

"Isn't this Mr Eastwood?" Clara put in

"Well, my real name is Marty McFly." Marty told her, then turned to Doc "You have told her haven't you?"

"He's told me that you're time travellers." She tells him "Is there anything else I need to know? The one thing I want to know is why anybody lied about your names."

"Only Marty lied about his name and for good reason." Doc reassured her, when she gave him a scathing look "Do you remember Seamus and Maggie McFly?"

There was a moment of silence as Clara made the connection.

"They're all related?" she gasped

Marty simply nodded.

"Right, it's starting to make sense now."

"Really? Oh Clara, I'm so glad!" Doc smiled with relief

"If it helps ma'am, I didn't understand it at first, when I first started time travelling. Trust me, it gets confusing." Marty assured her

"So the automobile, takes you forward and back in time and you've come from 1985, yes." She summarised

"Somehow you understand this. You really are amazing." Doc said with admiration

"I am a science teacher Emmett. I do have a small understanding of physics." Clara huffed in anger "Give me a little bit of credit."

"Clara I didn't mean it like that. I just know that Marty took time to understand so I wanted to know if you really did."

There was a small silence, before Clara spoke again.

"What's the future like?"

Both Doc and Marty looked at each other.

"It's certainly different from 1885." Marty started "For one we have automobiles."

"And time machines? Do you have time machines?" she asked

"Time machines definitely don't exist, well they shouldn't anyway." He paused for a moment "Uhh, Ma'am why don't you have look, while I have a little talk with Doc."

Clara was happy to look at the time machine while Marty dragged Doc off to a safe distance for them to talk.

"What' happening Doc? You said we shouldn't take her to the future with us but now she knows, so what are we meant to do?" Marty hissed

"I don't know, what to do. It all came out, when I wanted to tell her and then I ended up falling asleep and, ohh it's a long story." Doc dismissed it

"You didn't think about this?"

"Marty! You know how it is when you're in love. If you had to explain this to Jennifer, how would you tell her?" he tried to make him see

"God, this is heavy."

"I know, I know but I don't know how to get us out of this mess."

"Well would there be any harm in taking her back to the future?" Marty asked

"It depends. If she has a significant future-"

"Well we've already changed the future, by saving her from falling into Clay- Shonash ravine." He pointed out "How can it do any more harm."

"By taking, Clara to the future with us we may be creating another alternative timeline, to the one that we've already created. Then again, you could be right. It might not make the timeline any worse."

"Come on Doc, she can surely come with us. Remember what I told you when I was first in 1955 and I told you about Jennifer. How I had to get back to her. Well now this is the same but for you. Can you deny that you're in love with her?" he questioned "You said just last night that you were in love with her and that you were going to stay."

"Alright then," Doc said with a smile "I'll tell her that she can come with us."

He went over to her, gently touching her arm to catch her attention.

"Clara, you know that you asked about the future?"

"Yes, why?" she looked slightly confused at the question

"Well Marty and I have had a little talk and we thought that perhaps, only if you want to of course, you don't have to accept-"he started to waffle

"Emmett," she interrupted him "just say what you want to say."

"We'd like you to come with us, to the future."

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