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Different Destinies Ch 5

For a long time Wes thought that his wound would never heal and that he would never again feel anything for anyone. His once love had been Jen and she had been such a huge deal to him. He really thought she was the one, she was his perfect everything as he had once thought, but it seemed weird to him that all he had ever thought Jen was had now been erased and he was happily sitting across the same familiar brunette, yet she wasn't Jen, she was Cathy, his girl.

It had been a year since he had met her and, somehow, all the chaos that he had gone to meet her and then to get to know her and forget about his past had been hard but was already in the back of his mind he barely had time to think about it.

She smiled at him that million dollar smile that he had been looking at for so long that every time she did it, he would smile back and feel all tingly inside. He looked around and he noticed that it had been so long since that last attack, he found it odd that the attacks had ceased a little after he began dating Cathy.

"Wes, is something wrong?"

"Oh, no nothing, I'm just remembering how we met." He took her hands between his and looked down at them.

"It was interesting, wasn't it?"

"Yeah, I guess it would have to be."

"I hope by now, even if it doesn't sound completely right coming from me, you've accepted the fact that Jen will never be coming back."

"Yeah, I actually have." He said, he already wanted to tell her, he didn't want to care and that was his problem he cared to much. He wanted to tell her the truth about how he really felt about her. At the beginning, the only thing that had driven them to be together was that they were both alone. She had wanted her husband's warmth and he had wanted Jen, but with time Cathy began to feel secure and loving towards Wes. He on the other hand had taken quite longer. Even after he had gotten out of the care of SPD he had wanted to get away. But Cathy had somehow grown to like Wes and so she had been the one who had looked for him.

Then a few months ago Wes decided to let it all go and then his life with Cathy began to take another turn, but for the better. The first few months had been all about how he just wanted to make her feel safe, there was an attraction, but his wasn't as deep as hers. Then slowly her laugh, her smile, her touch and every time they were apart he began to think about her. Before when he had thought about her, he always seemed to be thinking that his destiny was making him do what it wanted him to do. Now, he just seemed to think about her as a whole and why every fiber of his being needed to be close to her.

"Wes, you're doing it again, you're minds all going everywhere."

"Oh, yeah, well thinking about it just makes me feel all tingly."

"Thinking about how we met. Why?"

"Because, uhmm, well you know back then I didn't want to acknowledge that you were going to be a big part of my life, but now I know I want you here."

"Really?" She asked him as her smile grew and she kissed him gently.

"What was that for."

"For making my day."

"I've seriously been thinking about it."

"You can't be serious, you barely eve know her." Eric said to his friend as they walked towards the clock tower later on that same day.

"I think, well I've known for some time that I love her and I want to be with her, so why not just get it over and done with and do what I'm supposed to do."

"Supposed to, look her being 'you future' doesn't exactly mean you have to do this."

"Well for me it does."

"Man, I hope you know what you're getting yourself into."

"I know what I want Eric and this is definitely it."

A few days had passed since he had last seen her, and since they weren't exactly neighbors they would see each other every other day. She was still living in Newtech city and he had moved back to Silver Hills after his dad had taken some months off to recuperate from a surgery he had had.

He paced around the whole living room. He felt it in his pocket. His destiny was about to come true.

Ok, Wes, here we go.

He drove about 45 min. He pulled up to her driveway and got out. Knocking gently he took one last time to feel it and it was there just like it had all those other times.

She opened the door and looked so amazing. She was taken aback when he embraced her and kissed her. She gently pulled away from him and looked down.

"Sky is still here, the babysitter hasn't shown up yet."

"Oh, hey there buddy," he said as he took Sky in his arms and gave him a little playful spin.

She laughed and then took Sky in her own hands and did a little twist here and there while Wes did an awful imitation of a monster. Racing through the air Sky laughed while secure in his mom arms and Wes grabbed at him.

Someone cleared their throat and sure enough, there was the babysitter standing in the doorway and looking in at the scene.

"Uhmm, " Wes looked at her and then back at Cathy, "hey, you know what here," he said as he handed her a twenty, "why don't you take the night off and have fun, tonight I want to be with my….. Family."

The girl left and Wes shut the door, he couldn't resist any longer, he was the happiest he had been and he didn't want to ruin the moment.

He turned to look at both Sky and Cathy who stood there holding hands, smiling and holding hands.

He walked towards them, took a knee, "Some friends have told me that this is crazy and that its to soon for both of us, but if everything they've told me about you and me is right, then this is should be right," he took her hand, slipped the small box out of his pocket and began to open it, "Cathy, I love you, will you do me the honor and be my wife?"

Her smile grew and he smiled back, somehow all of a sudden things rushed at him and he knew that she was the one for him and like Eric had said some things in life were detours and Jen unfortunately had been one of those.

"YES!" She said, he got up and they embraced each other, he slipped the ring on her finger and they looked down at Sky.

They ran around the living room for hours and for what seemed a long time they were all happy and seemed like the very happy family they all deserved to be.

"TIMELINE ENDING, PLEASE PROCEED TO THE NEXT TRACKER TO SEE THE FOLLOWING EVENTS."

She pressed a few buttons and finally, her torture would be over. She selected the next big event in his life, which in this case would be their wedding.

The computer took a while, it flickered here and there and then it began "TIMELINE RECORDS FOR WESLEY COLLINS, DATE: APRIL 15, 2007, EVENT: COLLINS, TATE WEDDING"

The computer played back to her all the moments of the wedding, somehow to her it seemed like she was there. The girl in the dress wasn't her, but she looked beautiful, the whole time she could see Wes's eyes were glued to her. He really was in love with her. I wish that was me, instead of you. She thought.

"Do you Wesley Collins take Catherine Elizabeth Tate to be your lawful bride, to have and……………….

"Jen?"

She quickly tapped the console and brushed her tears away.

"Yes Tripp?"

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing, I was just reviewing some old files."

"I really don't think its good that you keep hurting yourself like this. Going over Wes's timeline isn't doing you any good. Please don't do it anymore, or I'll really have to tell the Captain, and he'll most likely take your security access to the Timeline Database."

"Yeah I know, I'm sorry, I guess for me this is a way of coping with this."

"I'm sorry Jen," Tripp said as he went over to her and hugged her.

"Can I trust you're not going to do this anymore?"

"You can, Tripp." He heard a very familiar voice call to him from the doorway. "Anyways Jen shouldn't be here at all."

"Hi Alex, and well bye." Tripp said as he left both Jen and Alex there.

"I think its time you went home."

"Yeah I know, I'll just file this away." Her hands seemed to freeze at the moment she was about to press the close button on her screen. Alex quickly noticed her behavior and was there a second later. He grabbed her in his arms and she began sobbing. Her life was beginning unlike Wes, he had already lived his whole life and died, but for Jen, time wasn't exactly the same.

Her time here after having come back that second time had been not that long ago. She had arrived at Time Force a week ago and when she had informed her superiors that she was gonna go back, they told her not to. Of course like any time agency they had a very good explanation.

"You and Wes aren't exactly too unfamiliar with each other.' They had begun. "When you went back and met him, his Timeline said that he would meet you. You both would fall in love with each other and would try to be together. This can't be though, maybe under other circumstances we would allow it, but you see Jen without Wes, you can never exist." Right then she had began to think about what the possible explanations would be, but she couldn't find one. Instead she listened on as she stood there with her friends, Lucas, Katie, and Tripp, they had all come to help her go back, but had been stopped by some Time Force officers.

"What do you mean?" She asked them

"Wesley Collins has a lot to do with you being here today. He was one of your step-ancestors, he in some ways has a lot with you being here, we will have you investigate this matter, so you won't think we're lying to you.

The minute she got back to her office, she along with her friends began to look over Wes timeline and Jen's genealogy tree. It had taken them about four days to go over Wes whole life and then they had discovered that Jen wasn't anywhere on there, even though for a second she had believed she was. Lucas discovered it in her genealogy tree that her ancestor Cathy Tate had gotten married to Wes and had some kids, Alex had come from that line of their union. But then they came across Schuyler's timeline, Cathy's kid. If it hadn't been for Wes he would have died and he would have had no offspring. And as fate would have it, Sky was Jen's ancestor and without him her whole genealogy would change and she would not exist today.

She realized at that moment that if she went back her existence would be erased forever. If Wes and Cathy never met, Wes would never save her kid and Jen wouldn't be here, Alex would never be and Ransik would escape, win and everything that they had fought for and would be lost.

That same day was the day, Tripp had not been in his office helping her out, that day they had changed the connection screen, that day he had contacted her and she had lied to him. She wasn't married, but he had to believe otherwise. Her name, in a few hours had been changed to make Wes think she had indeed gotten married, but two weeks later it was changed back to Scotts. Alex hadn't mind when she had asked him for the favor and so she had it done and sure enough Wes had clicked on the name and she had held her composure and had played the part she was to play in his life. After that she would never speak to him again. At least not face to face. After that the only was she could speak to him was through the intercom and even then he was unconscious and he probably thought he was dreaming or speaking to a ghost.

The next couple of days she followed the timeline and cried as she noticed how his life how turned out to be. He would always be happy and he would never know that his happiness had cost her, her own. Alex embraced her for a long time. She knew he wasn't Wes, but at least now she didn't love him. He was a friend comforting her, maybe not now, but later on she would forget about Wes and move on and maybe Alex would be with her or maybe not. The truth was that all she knew was it was a circle that repeated on and on, she was glad she had met Wes. She was glad to know that the reason she lived was because Wes had one day walked in the right direction and had saved a kid.

"END OF TIMELINE"