October 30th, 1985

3:55 pm

Marty stepped closer to Rin and gently put his hand on her shoulder. "I think Doc is coming…Well, I promised you he would."

Rin just stared at the door in some kind of almost cosmic anticipation, as if it was almost some kind of strange expectation for something significant to happen-Destiny if you will.

Rin bit her lip as the door opened.

"Marty, I saw your truck parked out front-" Doc saw the much shorter raven haired girl standing next to Marty. He kinda felt some sort of recognition towards her, but he couldn't place it. He racked his brain trying to figure out where he'd seen her before.

Of course, the girl walked up to him and started talking a mile a minute, hurling physics questions at him at an impressive speed, he couldn't even answer that quickly.

Of course Doc then immediately noticed the girl was covered in bruises. She didn't seem to particularly care he was seeing the bruises, and just continued asking questions, but Doc felt angry almost. Like a protective angry. The kind of protective that a parent would feel if they found out someone was harming their child. He shushed her, then looked at her seriously, and took her arm and pointed at the bruises on her arm.

"Who the hell did this to you?"

"What? Dr. Brown what about my questions?" Rin tilted her head.

"I'll answer them later…what's important now is I need to know who did this to you!"

Rin had a bashful, almost pained and scared look. "M-my parents…"

Doc looked furious. "Okay, who the hell are your parents? Why do they think they can just…hit you!"

"Do yo-you mean their names?"

"Yes. Who are they? I need to know."

"O-oh okay…My mother is Umiko Ishikawa-Dr. Brown? Are you okay?" Before Rin could even finish her sentence, she had noticed Doc had a ten yard stare at the mention of her mother's name.

The leitmotif that plays when something important is said played.

"Doc?" Marty cut in.

"Hm? Oh, oh…Yes. What is your name, Miss?"

"Rin."

"Well, Rin, I need you to go home, put as much of your personal belongings as you can fit into your school backpack, and a suitcase if you can get your hands on one-"

"I can loan her one" Marty said

"Okay, Marty" Doc said turning to him. He turned back to Rin. "Anyways, I need you to pack ALL of your personal belongings that you can carry. Go to school like you normally would tomorrow, and then after school I want you to come straight here." He said seriously. "Come straight back here, okay? Promise me."

"O-okay Dr. Brown…"

"I'll explain why tomorrow, Kim-Rin." He said. He couldn't believe he'd just made that slip of the tongue.

She nodded.

Doc then hugged her.

Rin tensed up. But Doc patted her back, and she relaxed.

Something seemed awfully familiar and warm about hugging him. She couldn't place why. Hell, he even smelled familiar. Not to mention, this garage setting also seemed very familiar. She just didn't notice until right now, when she hugged Doc.

Doc pulled back from the hug. "Remember. Tomorrow after school."

"A-alright."

~u~

Rin entered her home, and went straight upstairs to her room, with her book bag. She went to her window and opened it, and helped Marty get into her room with the suitcases.

"I wonder why Dr. Brown wants me to pack my stuff." She said, taking clothes out of her drawer, and folding them, and setting them inside the suitcase.

"Well, I mean, after finding out you're being abused, he doesn't want you to be back here? He beat me to it, I was gonna offer to let you stay with me" he said, as her helped her put her text books and notebooks into another suitcase.

"Make sure you do it alphabetically, Marty" she said turning to him, and smirking.

"Oh, of course." He said back, he smirked back, as he rearranged the books. He picked another one up and it was From Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. "Oh hey, Doc loves this book. He loves all those Jules Verne books."

"Ah." She said as she folded more of her clothes. "It is a good read." She looked at him and smiled.

"Doc would certainly agree." Marty put the last book in the suitcase and closed it. "I'll go take this to my truck." Marty forgot Rin wasn't Jennifer and kissed her on the cheek, before jumping out the window with the suitcase to go to his truck.

Rin's eyes were wide. She walked over to the window and stuck her head out. "Marty, oh my god!"

Marty had set the suitcase in his truck and scaled the gutter to reach the window. "What?"

"You kissed me on the cheek!"

"Huh?" Marty realized he did. "Oh…sorry. I-i…I forgot you weren't Jennifer for a moment…" he rubbed the back of his head.

Rin rolled her eyes a bit. "Okay, Martin."

"Marty" he corrected.

"Oh, I know." She looked at him, as she closed the other suitcase and tossed it at him.

Marty, who'd just been staring at her, fell back a bit, when she'd thrown the suitcase towards his gut.

"Wow you have a good throw considering the size and weight of this thing." He said hoarsely.

"Whoa, are you okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I'll take this down for you." He went out the window again.

Rin finished packing. She picked up her stuffed toy of a sheep dog, with a charm that said "ELB" on it. Rin's parents had told her that "ELB" was just the brand. She hugged the stuff toy. It was more important to her than she could ever put in words. She put it in her backpack.

She sighed and sat down on her bed.

Marty came back into her room from the window, and sat next to her on the bed, gently wrapping an arm around her.

"I guess your life changes tomorrow." He said

"I guess so." She said. She turned to him. "You know Marty, you're the closest thing I've ever had to a friend, my whole life."

"Well…I consider you my friend." He said, shrugging a little.

"R-really?" she blushed a little bit.

"Well…yeah…I'm sorry I kinda…kept bugging you."

"I-I guess it's fine…" she said, looking down.

"So um. I'm gonna go now. I'll drive you to school tomorrow, okay?"

"Okay, you'll have to pick me up at the corner, my parents would never let me ride with a boy-heck they wouldn't let me ride with a girl either."

"Well…see you tomorrow." He hugged her and then left.

Rin laid back on her bed, and felt anxious, almost.

~u~

The next day Rin woke up and put on a costume, since it was Halloween. Her parents didn't really let her celebrate Halloween, but she low-key celebrated by attempting to wear costumes. Her make-shift costume was just something late 1800s inspired. She tied up her hair. She put her book bag on and grabbed her binder and walked downstairs.

"What in the HELL are you wearing?" Her mother said, sipping her tea, with a bitter and judgmental expression.

"Uh…clothes…" Rin answered.

"Don't you sass me you…you worthless ungrateful child!"

Rin gulped. "O-okay…I-I won't do it again…" she said. She really wouldn't do it again after today. "A-anyways I'm going n-now…" she left.

She walked to the corner, and Marty was waiting in his truck, with his girlfriend Jennifer. She got in with them. Marty was wearing a really period accurate cowboy costume.

"W-wow Marty, your costume…it's like straight out of the history book!"

He shrugged. "I…got it from a friend." He said vaguely.

Jennifer was just wearing normal clothes. Jennifer looked at Rin. "I like your outfit."

Rin blushed. "Thanks."

Marty drove to school.

~u~

After a long and suspenseful, and boring day, Marty drove Rin over to Doc's lab.

Marty grabbed Rin's suitcases. "I'll bring these in for you, okay? You go in."

Rin went in, as Marty said.

Doc was fiddling with a television, hooking up what looked like a really old tape player.

"Do you like it? I invented it" he said, referring to the tape player.

"It's nice."

He picked up a tape and put it in. He went over to his desk and grabbed a piece of paper and a book, and walked over.

"A-anyways." He said nervously. "Rin, I-I've been waiting years for this day." He said, his voice cracking a little bit.

"Uh…Dr. Brown are you okay?"

"Y-you see…" he didn't know how to say it. "Rin…have you ever wondered if you were adopted?"

"Uh…well I look a lot like my mom…"

Doc took a deep breath. "Okay…here it goes…You're my daughter." He said, showing her the paper. It was a birth certificate that read:

Birth Registration Certificate

Office Registrar of Vital Statistics

Hill Valley, Hill County

Kimiko Lovelace Brown

Sex: Female

Place of Birth: Hill Valley Hospital

Date of Birth: October 9th, 1970

Born to:

Father: Emmett Lathrop Brown Mother: Misako Ishikawa

Rin looked confused. "Uh…the birthdate is right…but…My name is not Kimiko, and my last name isn't brown…wait…Ishikawa?" Rin recognized this to be her mother's last name.

"Rin, you're my daughter." He pressed play on the video player, and it was her first birthday party.

In the video, Doc had just presented the small baby girl in the video with a plush toy of a sheep dog, similar to the puppy that was sitting next to the girl.

Then, in the real world, a sheepdog walked up to Rin, and barked quietly, before rolling over on his back, expecting belly rubs.

Rin, however was just staring at the screen, with the same ten yard stare that Doc had the previous day. She shook her head.

"I-I…"

"Rin?"

She took off her backpack and unzipped it, pulling out the stuff toy.

Marty happened to walk in with Rin's suitcases.

"Hey Doc, where do I put these?" he asked.

But Doc was distracted by Rin, holding the stuff toy.

"You…you really are my father?"

"Yes. And I've been waiting years…I was hoping one day you'd find out the truth and come find me." He said, as he hugged her.

She cried, and hugged him tight.

"Whoa Doc…this is heavy" said Marty. "I never knew you had a daughter…" Marty seemed pretty shocked actually. He'd known Doc for quite a long time, and didn't remember him mentioning a daughter-but then he also remembered that Rin was the result of his messing with the timeline, and then just shrugged it off.

"Anyways…if you're okay with it Rin, I want you to live here, okay? I don't want you going back to them, ever."

"But I still have a question…If who I thought was my mother, isn't my mother…then who is she? Why does she have the same last name as my mother?"

"She's your mother's sister."

"O-oh…"

"Anyways, since you'll be staying here, there's actually some people I'd like you to meet…I'll bring them over tomorrow. For now, I would like to catch up with you."

"And you can finally answer my science questions?"

"Sure. But you have to answer some questions about yourself, first, Rinnie." He stroked his daughter's hair.

Marty crossed his arms, and nodded his head happily. He actually felt better about Rin's existence now. She'd grown on him.

He felt that there was a bright future ahead.

To Be Concluded...