Sam P.O.V.
I woke up in my bed with a yawn and tried to sit to up and stretch, but I felt something holding me down. I opened my eyes and smiled at what I saw: my adorable 3 year old daughter sleeping on my chest. It's been a week since Timeforge re-stabilised her, a fantastic one at that. Dani's been so happy since she woke up and saw her new self, playing like a little kid with Spooky and Raven, climbing all over the adults in the house, and jumping on the bed when she's told not to, it was simply adorable. I found myself giggling when I remembered Timeforge and I bringing her back to my home.
~~Flashback~~
"Is this really a good idea?" I asked Timeforge, who was in Dan form, as we approached my house in his car.
"Don't worry about it so much." He told me with a reassuring smile, making me blush. I both love and hate how he can make me feel like a love-struck schoolgirl, which I kinda was.
"Don't you think my parents will ask questions though?" I asked as I cradled our sleeping daughter in my arms.
"At first, maybe, but they'll forget it soon enough." He said, giving me a mysterious grin that sent shivers down my spine. I instinctively started rubbing my legs together.
"NO! Bad Sam!" I exclaimed in my head. Now is NOT time to be getting all hot and bothered to my dead, yet HOT, boyfriend.
"We're here." Dan announced. I took a deep breath and nodded as we got out of his car.
"Are you certain this is a good idea?" I asked him again. He gave a slight groan.
"Sam, trust me, OK?" He asked as he approached me and placed his hands on my shoulders.
"I have everything under control." He assured me. I nodded as calmed down and blushed when gave me a gentle peck on the lips. He smiled at me lovingly.
"You ready now?" he asked. I nodded simply. He smiled and wrapped his arm around me as we walked. I couldn't stop myself from releasing a happy sigh and leaning into his hold as we walked. I just felt so safe in his arms.
"Sammy. You're back." Granny said as we entered my house. Her eyes widened when she saw Danielle.
"Who is that?" She asked, her jaw dropping to the ground.
"It's Danielle." Dan explained. Granny's eyes widened further. He sighed and we went to the living room to explain.
"Well, I don't want to go into the details, but I'll tell you the basics." Dan told Granny, who nodded as we sat down on the couch and she rode her scooter close to us. Dan went on to explain how Dani was destabilising after summoning Spooky, who was perched on my shoulder in the form of a white parrot.
"This… this is a lot to take in." granny mumbled. Both Dan and I nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, we've barely been together 2 weeks and we already have a kid." Dan said with a slight chuckle. Ok, when he says it like that, the story does sound a bit amusing. We were about to continue talking, when we heard a gasp.
"Sammy! Where did that child come from?" my mother screamed. My father was giving my boyfriend a death glare, which was not doing much.
"Why you little-" My father stopped talking and froze in place, as did my mother. Both of them looked hypnotised. I turned my attention to Dan and was surprised to see his eyes glowing completely white.
"Mr and Mrs Manson." He called out. My parents stood at attention, their pupils covering their irises.
"This child is Danielle. You adopted her for Sam to raise because you thought it would be a good lesson in responsibility for her." Danny told them. My parents seemed completely dozed, like they were high as kites.
"We adopted her for Sammy to raise to teach her responsibility." My parents repeated. I saw Granny grinning at Dan.
"Now, go about your usual business." He instructed them. Without another word, my parents turned and left.
"I see you mastered telepathy." Granny said, an approving nod. Dan smiled a little sheepishly.
"It took a while, but yes." He responded. Oh, now I get it.
"You jedi mind tricked them?" I asked, laughing. Dan laughed as well and nodded.
"For lack of a better term." He answered. I couldn't help the giggle that escaped my lips. The rest of that day was spent with my daughter, and ended with a very heated make-out session with my boyfriend.
~~Flashback End~~
I giggled again as I remembered what he did to my parents. I found myself thinking up all sorts of pranks he could pull off with that power. Though, those plans will have to wait. Just last night, Dan got a message from Clockwork for a small task he had to do, so I don't know when he'll be back. Stupid Stopwatch didn't give any details.
"Danielle, wake up." I said as I shook my daughter awake. She gave one of her adorable yawns as she stretched and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes cutely. Sitting up on my chest, see saw where was and smiled at me.
"Morning Mommy." She said happily. I smiled back at her and couldn't help cooing and hugging her.
"Good morning Sweetie." I responded.
"Are you going t school today?" She asked as I sat up. I shook my head.
"it's Saturday. Schools are closed on Saturdays." I explained.
"Ooooh." She said in realisation. God, that was both adorable and hilarious.
"Can we see Papa today?" She asked excitedly. I smiled at her. She started calling Timeforge Papa when we explained that he was her father now. She still says Daddy whenever referring to Danny.
"Sure Sweetie." I told her with a smile. She squealed in excitement. She and Timeforge really did bond.
"If he comes back though. He's out of town right now, and I don't when he'll come back. He did promise to try to come back today." I quickly explained. She deflated a little, but understood. I smiled and hugged her. I can still feel the fear that ate at me when I thought I was going to lose her.
"Mommy loves you Sweetie." I told her. She hugged me back.
"I love you too Mommy." She replied.
Danny P.O.V.
I was in my true form, waiting just outside of the town called Arcadia Bay, which was now in ruins thanks to a certain girl who had somehow acquired a small piece of Clockwork's power. Even the Master of Time himself didn't know how that happened, which was very disturbing to me. He told me that she saved her friends life with her rewind powers, and that disrupted the flow of time, ultimately destroying the town. This girl and her friend ended up OK after all that though. Now, I would usually leave this alone, but Clockwork tells me that she plans on trying to save both the town and her friend, which simply wasn't possible. So, I had to confront her and make her accept that she cannot do as she pleases with this power. I was snapped out of my musings by a car approaching.
I turned and went into the road, right in the car's path, floating about a foot off of the ground. The car stopped, and 2 wide eyed girls came out of it. The younger one, about 18, wore a red T-shirt with a grey hoodie, along with blue jeans and black flats. She had brown hair and eyes. The older of the 2 had dark blue hair, wore a tight fitting white T-shirt, blue ripped jeans and black boots.
"Maxine Caulfield, we need to talk." I told her sternly, placing my hands in my pockets.
"How… how do you know me?" She asked shakily.
"What do you want with her?" The blue haired girl asked with a suspicious glare.
"Nothing that need concern you, Chloe Price." I said simply, earning wide eyes from the blue haired girl.
"Who… What are you?" Maxine asked in shock. I gave her a slightly amused smile under my hood.
"I am what you would call, a Ghost." I said simply. They both widened their eyes.
"I am dead, yes, but I am not of Arcadia Bay. I am not here to haunt you." I said after reading their thoughts.
"W-w-what do you want with me?" Maxine stuttered.
"Like I said, we need to talk." I repeated my earlier words.
"Who are you?" Chloe asked. I couldn't resist the next words that came from my mouth.
"Introductions? Fine. I am Timeforge, Master of Time. For me, time moves forwards, and backwards and… Ah why am I bothering? You're like, 18." I said with exasperated sigh. Though I was technically 18, I have spent quite a bit of time in other eras. This moment I am in right now is 4 years after Sam met 'Dan Eidolon.' I had travelled forward to get here, in case that was unclear.
"Wait, Master of time?" Chloe asked in shock. I nodded. Clockwork told me to introduce myself as the Master of Time. Said this was 'my first mission as official Time Master.' I wasn't sure if I liked the sound of that.
"That I am. I have complete control over time, and I can see everything that was, is, or will be." I lied. Don't know why I have to say this.
"So, you know how all of this happened?" Maxine asked timidly, gesturing to her town. I nodded again.
"This is great!" Chloe exclaimed.
"You can fix all of this! Make it that nobody dies!" She exclaimed happily. Maxine looked at me hopefully. I shook my head sadly.
"I cannot. Time has rules. You made your choice; you chose to save your friend over your town. Nothing can be done." I explained to Maxine. They both looked like their hearts had been snapped in 2.
"But I still need to talk to you, Maxine. Chloe, you can come to if you insist." I told them. They nodded. I extended my hand out and created a time portal.
"This is a portal. Please enter." I told them. Reluctantly, they entered the portal and I followed.
We found ourselves in an alleyway, in New York City. I summoned my morph rings and gestured for them to follow me.
"What did you just do?" Maxine asked in wonder. I smiled at her in amusement.
"I took a form that would be more acceptable in the public. I can't look fully human, but this is human enough that no one would be suspicious." I explained. They nodded in understanding.
"So, Timeforge…" Chloe started, but I cut her off.
"Dan." I told her. She looked at me with confusion.
"Daniel was my name in my human life. That's what you can call me." I explained as we reached our destination; Diner Dannny's. I liked this place, not only for the name, but their milkshakes are fuckin awesome.
"Where are we?" Max asked.
"New York City, Diner Danny's. 1998." I explained. They looked at me with wide eyes as we sat at a table.
"You brought us through time?" Chloe whispered in shock. I nodded.
"You 2 have a sweet tooth? The peanut butter shake here is the BEST I've ever had." I said with a grin.
"So, did you bring us here to wine and dine us, or to talk?" Chloe asked sarcastically.
"I brought you here because your friend was about to try to change time again after screwing it all up." I responded, narrowing my eyes at Max, who looked at me with wide eyes.
"How did you…?" She trailed off. I gave her a 'really?' look.
"Time Master." I said pointing at myself.
"Sees all, knows all, so on." I explained. She looked a bit embarrassed by forgetting that bit of info. I sighed.
"Listen to me Maxine," I started but got cut off.
"Max, please. Never Maxine." She muttered. I nodded.
"Listen Max, I understand wanting to erase a loss like that, OK? Who wouldn't want to save their entire town?" I asked her with sympathy. But then I got serious.
"But what you have to understand is, there are consequences to time travel." I told her seriously.
"I've heard that before." She deadpanned. I narrowed my eyes at her.
"Not from me." I told her.
"I'm not some scientist with a theory Max, I'm a time traveler, just like you, THE Time Master, who's travelled in time, and made the same mistakes you are making right now by planning another time jump." I explained. She seemed to be in complete denial of my words.
"Here, lemme show you something." I said, grabbing an empty coffee mug.
"Imagine this cup as the entire existence of time, from beginning to end." I told her. She nodded and she and Chloe watched closely.
"Now, whenever you go back in time and change something, it breaks." I explained. I channeled some of my ecto-energy into the cup, and a triangular piece, about 2 inches long, cracked off of it, which I caught.
"Now, you can reset the timeline, you can try to fix it, but no matter what you do…" I trailed off as I placed the broken off piece back in place on the mug, showing the cracks.
"It's never going to be exactly how it was." I finished.
"But, I've learnt so much!" She protested.
"I'm not gonna-" She continued, but I cut her off.
"Make the same mistakes again?" I asked. She nodded slowly.
"That right there Max, what you said, is the paradox of Time Travel, and also the paradox of life." I told her sternly.
"I mean, 'if I knew then what I know now' stuff like that." I said.
"But why do I have these powers if I can't go back and fix my mistakes?" She asked desperately.
"Your powers were an accident Max. Even I don't know how, but a part of my power has permanently become part of you." I explained. She looked at me with wide eyes.
"And you not a Goddess, Max. You're a little girl. Who for whatever reason has been given and extraordinary gift." I told her. She seemed a bit insulted by my 'little girl' comment, but didn't press it.
"The question you need to ask yourself is, what kind of person do you want to be? Are you going to take a do-over at every mistake? Or will you live with them? And move forward?" I asked. She seemed to take my words to heart, but needed to make SURE she didn't use these powers wrong.
"Our time together is ending, but I leave you with a warning Max." I said as I pulled out one of my medallions.
"I have done many things to maintain the timeline's stability. I cured H.G. Wells of TB in his childhood, I started the fire of Great Britain in 1666, I killed Adolf Hitler and staged it as a suicide, I created the iceberg that the titanic crashed into." I listed some of my time missions. She looked at me with wide eyes.
"My point is, I will do WHATEVER it takes to make sure as many people survive as possible. If you let your desire for a second chance at anything get too far, I will have take you out of the picture, as well as your lover." I told her sadly, yet sternly, as I gestured to Chloe. She looked at me with terrified eyes. Chloe did too, but she had a slight blush.
"I don't to, but I will if I have to." I told her quickly. She calmed down as I stood up and I placed the medallion in front of her.
"Focus on this like you do with photographs, and it'll take you back to the moment you left your era. If at any point in time you need me, or just need to talk, do the same and this medallion will take you to my home." I told her. She nodded and accepted the medallion gratefully.
"I want you 2 out of this era within half an hour. If you don't leave, I will know." I told them sternly. Max and Chloe nodded in understanding as I left them and went of the restaurant. I went back into an alleyway, opened a time portal, and went back to Amity in 2011.
"Now to deal with Frostbite." I said to myself with a sigh as I transformed and shot up invisibly towards my parent's house to use their Ghost Portal. Weirdly, time portals are easier to make than normal ghost portals. Maybe it's because time is a part of me.
A/N: Ok, so this was just a filler chapter. I'm trying to get my creativity flowing again.
Those of you who have played Life is Strange will see the crossover in this chapter. Those of you who watch The Flash will recognize the dialogue. I thought of this a while back and considered making it a one-shot story, separate from this one, but decided to put it in here instead.
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