A/N: So, readers, long time no see?

Not as long as the last time, though, thankfully.

On with the story. My hopes for this chapter are that it's both a little longer, and that it'll unravel the plot a bit. ^^

I felt myself flinch slightly, before I opened my eyes to see a man before me, which looked nothing like my corpulent gym teacher. I must've given him an odd stare unintentionally, because he looked slightly bewildered. He was hesitant at first to speak, so I did so instead. "Who are you?" I asked him, inquisitiveness and slight trepidation coating my tone. It took a moment for him to respond, as I watched him conscientiously.

Irresolutely he spoke. "I'm here testing a program that my wife and I invented… And it worked." He seemed astonished by something that I was completely ignorant to. I furrowed my brows and waited on him to explain himself, to say something that actually made sense.

"The program was time travel, and I'm from the future." He said, diffidently. I sprang up in my bed, a bit too quickly, a cloud of red dots showering my vision. "Impossible!" I said, a bit too loudly. "Who are you?" I demanded. He took a deep breath, appeared as if he were having a mental argument with himself inside his head, then finally decided, so I thought, to speak, and, perhaps, actually tell me the truth.

"Jeremie," he spoke my name, confirming that, in fact, he had to know me somehow, which freaked me out, "I really do come from the future… I do wish you would believe… your older self." He looked down, then directly into my eyes. An eerie silence passed over as I tried to process the information given me, deciding whether or not to believe the man who really did look like an older version of myself, come to think of it.

I don't know what kept my composure intact, but something kept me calm. Calm enough, that is, to think things through. To the man's advantage, he did resemble myself, but he was taller, his hair was a bit longer, his shoulders were wider, and he looked much stronger than I. He also looked as if he could outrun me… Which was kind of bad if I was planning on trying to flee, as instinct had first told me to.

I just looked at him from where I sat, puzzled. I had so many questions that needed to be answered, but I wasn't about to reveal my secrets, especially not so early in the game to someone who, for all I know, could be a polymorph who hasn't yet tried to kill me. It was hard to tell who people were walking into your dorms, these days. I decided to ask him a question that was current, as opposed to asking something about the future, which could easily be lied about.

"If you truly are myself from the future," I began, inquisitively, "Tell me something about myself that I've never told anyone else." I was curious as to what he'd say.

"Well," he began, "I know you have a huge crush on Aelita." He smirked. I felt heat rise to my cheeks instantaneously. "Sorry," he apologized, "first thing that popped into my head." I frowned at him slightly, my cheeks still burning fervently. "As much as I'd like to reprimand you for that, I cannot. I can, on the other hand deny it, which I plan to do at this very moment. Something else." I scowled.

He seemed to be amused by my embarrassment, which kind of ticked me off. He thought for a moment. "Have you finished decoding Franz Hopper's diaries yet?" He asked. I started at him blankly, not about to answer. "You at least know that he's Aelita's father, correct?"

"Something about me." I emphasized, avoiding questions that XANA could very well know the answer to. He let out a hefty sigh. "Well, I know that you ignorantly work yourself nonstop, night and day, and I know that your friends worry terribly that you're working yourself to death. And I know that Aelita isn't going to be so happy with you, either. Not after whatever it was you just said to her right before I came in." I was frustrating him, which actually was beginning to amuse me. "I still don't know what she saw in me back then, I did nothing but work." I heard him murmur angrily and almost remorsefully to himself. "Wait, wait, wait~ what?" I asked. His attention snapped back to me, instead of grumbling to himself about what was supposedly his past. "You're a stubborn fool. Since you obviously don't believe me nothing I saw now can possibly hurt the future, can it?" he thought out loud, "Fine. I have no idea what Aelita ever saw in me back when I was, well, you. I always threw myself into my work, and, even though it was all for her I don't possibly see why I couldn't just stop and take five minutes to tell her how I felt. I was always too shy to say anything at all to her, and the moment I actually worked up some minimal amount of nerve, I was interrupted and then lost all faith in myself once more." He was seemingly ranting angrily to himself, and he was beginning to freak me out. Even more so, I was actually starting to believe him.

"So… Aelita's your wife?" I asked, blushing and cursing myself for it. I wasn't quite believing him 100% or anything, but I figured I might as well ask him things. He rolled his eyes. "That's really all you care about? And, yes, she is." He answered. "No, no~ you didn't let me finish." I backpedaled. "This program you developed… tell me how it works."I interrogated. "It's an advancement on the return to the past; after XANA was defeated we had a lot of time on our hands, so with it we decided we might as well conquer time travel or something." He shrugged. "We figured if energy equals matter times the speed of light squared, if we somehow managed to get the speed of what now to you is simply 'virtualization' to move past the speed of light, then perhaps we could reverse it and travel backwards into time."

The scary thing was, it made sense to me. I nodded. "Then why are you here?" I asked. "I'm here to see if what I tell you affects the future. It's very serious business, mind you, so that's why I have this." He said, as he pulled a disc out of his back pocket. "Everything you need to recreate our time travel program is on this. Don't let it fall into the wrong hands." He warned. "If I mess things up, it's up to you to fix them, if you can." I gave him a quizzical look. He shook his head. "Out of all honesty, I'm not sure quite yet, myself." I was beginning to feel concerned. What if something I decided to do in the future wrecked the future with no way to fix it?

"So, what would you like to know about the future?" he asked solemnly.

A/N: That time travel explanation made me feel smart xD

Sooo what does younger Jer wanna kno about the future? Lol

Find out next time, kiddies3

~Aechigo