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The future Jimmy and the future Cindy were sitting behind a pile of rubble. "How long has it been?" Cindy asked.

Jimmy just shook his head. "What does it matter? Six, maybe seven years?"

They both sat in silence. "Do you still believe that your plan will work? Can our younger selves really change the future?" she skeptically questioned.

"Don't say it like that. We did it plenty of times when we were kids. He's had years to train. And he has you. It'll work. It just has to," Jimmy told her.

Jimmy scooched closer to Cindy and grabbed her hand. She squeezed it. They looked at each other and smiled. "Remember when you beat me up because I kissed you in Carl's dream?" Jimmy asked, laughing a little at the memory.

Cindy smiled as she thought back to that day. "Yeah, we were so stupid then. All that time we wasted arguing."

"Just think, Cindy. Imagine if we, they, do change the past. Imagine the life we could have. We could have children, Cindy. We could be married. We could grow old together and not have to worry about the ruler tracking us down and killing us," Jimmy said excitedly.

"Or we could not be in love at all," Cindy sadly told him.

"Stop being so pessimistic. Nothing could keep me from loving you," he told her.

They lay there together for a few more minutes. "Jimmy, why is it that we don't remember the day that changed the world? Why don't we remember what started it all?" Cindy asked him.

Jimmy leaned back and thought about it for a moment. "Well, it could be any number of things. But I'd have to guess that the event was so horrible that our minds blocked it out. It's probably a repressed memory."

"Still, I wish we could remember what happened that day. We don't even know the name of the guy who's trying to kill us. The guy that destroyed the world."

"Well, it doesn't matter. With any luck this entire world will be gone soon. I just know that they'll pull through." Jimmy paused for a moment as he thought of something. "Our past selves, they must be about eighteen now, right?"

Cindy took a moment to think. "Yeah, I guess. Why?"

"Well, that was about the time the change happened. I'm going to go check on our past selves," he said as he walked over to his makeshift lab.

"Are you sure that's a good idea? We don't have much power," Cindy reminded him as he turned on some monitors.

"I'll only check for a minute," he told her as he focused in on their younger selves. After a few seconds Jimmy went to turn the monitors off, but Cindy grabbed his hand.

"Wait. Just a few minutes more," she told him as she watched her younger self sitting on her bed and brushing her hair. "God, look how pretty I was." She glanced down at her scraped, dirt-covered body.

"Hey, you're the prettiest girl I know," Jimmy said as he kissed her.

"You haven't seen any other people in twenty years," Cindy reminded him.

Jimmy didn't say anything for a few seconds. "Still," he quietly told her. They both shut up as they got lost in the images of their past.