6:50 PM PST
Parker Universe
The visiting Marty felt very nervous, as he grabbed a seat in the lab. He was a little curious by how Clara Parker ended up headed back to 1985 with Jennifer.
"I have a feeling we should just cancel our double date tonight," Jennifer suggested.
"Yeah, I agree," Zach said, nodding. "We can all go out some other time. I am very curious about why we have another Marty and another Doc here."
"All right, everyone," the visiting Doc said, sighing. "Where should we start? I guess we should start out with the evening that I unveiled the time machine to Marty."
"For me," the local Doc replied, "that would be the early morning of October 26 last year. I had asked Marty to meet me at Lone Pine Mall. I didn't even think to ask him to bring Jennifer along, even though I remember Marty and Jennifer from that week back in 1955. It's like my memory might have gotten a little hazy."
"It might be because of what happened in the original timeline," suggested the local Marty. "You only did ask me to show up at the mall. However, Jennifer really wanted to come along, too - so I really saw no reason for her not to come."
"Wait a minute!" exclaimed the visiting Marty. "Are you actually telling me that you and Jennifer went back to the year 1955 together?"
"Yeah, that is what happened," Jennifer replied, quietly. "We accidentally disrupted the meeting between Marty's parents, so we had to spend the entire week trying to convince George McFly to ask Lorraine Baines out to the dance."
"That was what happened with me, too," the visiting Marty replied. "I suppose there was the advantage, though, of my mother not falling in love with me - since it was obvious that I was already taken. Is that about right?"
"Whoa!" the local Marty breathed. "Are you telling me that your mother actually had the hots for you? I can imagine that that must have really freaked you out."
"It did," the visiting Marty said, grimacing. "It also made it much harder for me to get my father to ask my mother to the dance. So I actually had to come up with this plan for my father to rescue my mother from me. The plan ended up backfiring a little, as Biff decided to get revenge on me for causing him to crash into a manure truck."
"Whoa, this is heavy!" breathed the local Marty. "I thought it was hard enough trying to get my mother to fall for my father. Jennifer had to get close to my mother, while I had to stick to my father. We did also have to deal with Biff."
"Biff tried to hit on me a few times," Jennifer said, grimacing. "I was so amazed by how well Lorraine and I were able to get along, as I knew that she didn't like me in the original timeline - simply because she it scandelous that I would call up a boy."
"Oh, yes, I remember all about that," the visiting Marty commented. "It looks like our lives were pretty identical, until the night that Doc showed us the time machine."
"It's so nice that Lorraine likes me in the new timeline," Jennifer said, smiling. "She is a much happer person, and she is very devoted to her husband and kids. I was quite hurt that, in the old timeline, she didn't like me. I just didn't understand why."
"I do remember how she was sometimes verbally abusive," the visiting Marty pointed out. "A couple of weeks before that fateful night, I had such a bad day. It started out with my mother yelling at me about what a disappointment I was, and even yelling at me about how she could love someone like me. Then everyone else was on my case, too. When I stopped by Doc's place, it was when I finally allowed myself to cry."
"Yeah, I still remember that day, too," the local Marty said, sighing. "It just felt like my life was really falling apart. It really does hurt to have your own mother speak real harshly to you. I still remember what I had to put up with."
"Yeah, I remember that day, too," Jennifer said, blushing. "I actually contributed to your already bad day. You know, I feel so bad about it, now."
"I can hardly believe this!" the visiting Doc explained. "This sounds so much like a reunion of sorts, from the way you guys are reminiscing over past events."
"Yeah, it is," the visiting Marty said, quietly. "It's like a reunion with Jennifer from the old timeline, back when it was called Twin Pines Mall. It's not like I could really talk to my Jennifer about the old timeline, and expect her to actually remember."
"Hey, everyone," the local Doc said, as he spoke up. "While you reminisce about the events from the old timeline, why don't I go out and pick up some burgers and fries for everyone? I don't know about you, but I'm getting really hungry."
"I'm really hungry, too," Clara agreed. "I guess hamburgers sound fine with me."
The visiting Marty looked up, as the local Doc headed out to Burger King. He could go for a burger or two right, now. It was also nice to see this version of Jennifer.
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"So what happened, after you returned from 1955?" the local Doc asked, as he came back with a few bags of hamburgers. "Did you guys then go to 2015?"
"Yeah, Jennifer and I both went to 2015," the visiting Marty explained. "Doc ended up knocking Jennifer out, though, when he thought she was asking too many questions."
"What!" gasped Jennifer. She turned to the visiting Doc and asked, "Why would you do a thing like that? I feel a little hurt that you would do that to me."
"It was a rather dumb thing to do," the visiting Doc said, blushing. "I wanted to bring Marty to 2015, so that he could step in for his son - so that his son wouldn't be going to jail. I figured it might teach him a lesson about not losing his judgement whenever people called him a name. I never expected to stay in 2015 for long."
"I regret to say that I lost my temper with Jennifer," the local Doc explained, "when she decided to take off, and she was asking Marty Jr all sorts of questions about the future. I said some things to her that I shouldn't have said, and Marty got all upset."
"Well, I said some things I shouldn't have said, as well," Jennifer said, blushing. "It was horrible how badly the two of us had fought, and poor Marty was so upset."
"At any rate," the local Marty said, sighing, "Jennifer was the one to point out that the top of Biff's cane and the bag that the almanac was in was found in the car. We were able to head back to 1955 to take the almanac away from Biff. I would really hate to have seen what 1985 looked like, with Biff being powerful and corrupt."
"Well, we did get to see that world," the visiting Marty said, grimacing. "It was not very pretty, to say the least. In fact I still have nightmares about that world."
"So what exactly did that world end up being like?" Jennifer asked, with curiosity.
The visiting Marty took a deep sigh, as he briefly explained about how Biff's influence had changed major world events - as well the lives of his family, and that of Doc's.
"Whoa, this is heavy!" the local Marty breathed, after his visiting counterpart finished explaining about the Biffhorrific timeline. "In this case, I am so grateful that we were able to by-pass that horrible experience. That would be a living nightmare!"
"It was hard trying to avoid our other selves back in 1955," Jennifer explained. "Biff had actually managed to take advantage of me. In a nutshell, both Marty and I were knocked out - but George managed to come to our rescue."
"After we managed to burn the almanac," the local Marty added, "our time machine got struck by lightning, so Doc and I headed back to 1885 - while Jennifer was stuck in 1955. I became really sick, so Jennifer needed to bring some aspirin back to 1885 with her. It was so scary to be stuck back in the Old West."
"Wait a minute!" the visiting Marty gasped, stunned. "You went back to the Old West with Doc? I wonder how this must have felt for poor Jennifer."
"Why don't you hold that thought for awhile?" the local Doc said, as he stood up. "I'll go serve up some ice cream for everyone. Then we could explain what happened in the Old West. This is where Clara finally comes in, just so you know."
The visiting Marty sighed to himself. If Clara Parker ended up going back to 1985, he wondered what happened to Clara Clayton? Did she fall into the ravine, after all?