Never Letting You Go
Chapter 6: Coming Back in Time for Scones
I didn't fall off the face of Earth, I just had a lot of difficulty with this one. But fear not, for when I have crappy days I manage to write!
The highlight of November 17th was that Christopher Lloyd was on CTV news because of the fires in California. It made me happy to see him on the TV screen at random. Too bad the situation was kind of sucky.
Ok, in other news, this story will have 18 chapters. That's if I don't get any more brilliant ideas at 12 AM in the morning. In theory, the last chapter should be up in time before the New Year.
P.S., it made me abnormally happy to see that I was on the BTTF fanfiction directory. Thanks Anakin!
A few weeks ago, back in October, the weekend of the 24th, I found my ancient, four to three year old BTTF stories and read them. Here are some interesting notes I found. Doc and Clara got married on April 28th 1886. Now I put down February 11th 1886. The date for the proposal remained the same; November 5th 1885. Jules birthday was May 8th 1887, now it's December 29th 1887. Verne's birthday was October 29th 1889 and now it's July 5th 1889. Clara's birthday was August 7th 1855, now it's February 18th 1855. Doc's birthday was November 28th 1920 and I'm leaving it at that since I didn't come up with something better. I had also said that the Time Train was completed in 1894 and they returned to live in 1985. I changed that to the Time Train was completed in 1894, they move from the Old West in 1895 and move back to 1988.
I like finding old notes. Everything else you'll need to know, you'll find out in the next chapters.
I'll be moving to different character quite soon!
Time: 1894, 2015 and 1985
Disclaimer: I'm looking forward to the end of the semester!
Summary: Doc and company finally leave the past to check up on Marty.
P.S. 2, scones are never mentioned in the chapter, except for the title. I wanted to continue with the food mention in the chapter titles :)
P.S. 3, in the draft I wrote, there was a lot of dialogue that took place when they were in the future and more information, but when I typed this, I found that the main point of this chapter was coming back and that the part where they explore the future is quite irrelevant. So therefore, enjoy the narrative. It's now also November 18th 2008.
P.S. 4, the reason why there's no dialogue between Marty in Doc is quite simple. It would be the same dialogue from the last scene in the movie and well, I'm not rewriting the movie so that's why I'm just doing a perspective of how Doc felt and so on. I promise I'll shut up now. :)
Never Letting you Go
Chapter 6: Coming Back in Time for Scones
It was finished. After working on it for nine years, two weeks and three days, it was finally finished. In all honesty, it had been completed the night before, but he didn't think it would be wise to rouse his young kids and his wife at 3:49 AM. He did, however, record the date and time of the completion of the new time machine for the sake of science. He hadn't wanted to stay up so late into the night to work on the train, but he knew that there was little to be done and he had been anticipating this day for quite a while now. And so, Emmett Brown had waited until dawn, once everyone was awake to usher them in the barn that he used as a laboratory to show his family what he had been working on for the past years. Clara had known of his project and even Jules and Verne knew to some extend what their father had been up too, but now, they could finally see the real machine.
"So, who wants to see how this baby works?" He asked his family. He was extremely happy and excited to get the machine working in front of an audience of some sorts. He had tested out the machine last night, sending it one minute into the future and he had thanked his lucky star that no one had been awakened by the noise. In truth, he would have waited until everyone was awake to test it out, but he was an extremely curious person. It had also proven difficult for Doc not to share the good news with his family. Lucky for him though, Clara was an early riser and the boys were up by 7:30.
"It really works, pa?" Verne asked, his blue eyes looking over the train's every finer detail. The youth seemed in complete awe in front of such a large invention. He knew that his father was good with creating useful household gadgets, but he had never seen something so big and beautifully crafted.
"You bet it does, Vernie, now get closer so I can show you how it works." The Brown family got closer to the scientist and he started going over the different parts of the machine. After explaining the time circuits to his eldest in further details, he felt a pang of nostalgia hit him as he remembered doing this with Marty in the past, or future. It depended on how one wanted to look at the specifics.
"So where do you suggest we go first? 1985?" Clara asked him once her husband had finished explaining and showing everyone the interior of the machine. Emmett smiled at her, remembering a conversation that he had had with her a few months back. There had always been two options; return to 1985 to see what had happened to Marty and to the De Lorean and the other had been to get the time train hover converted.
"We'll be going to the future first, to 2015 to be more precise."
"But didn't you say Marty lives in 1985?" Jules asked his father, confusion written all over his face.
"Yes, but I want the train to be able to fly. That way we can avoid a lot of problems when we go to 1985. If, let's say, one of the trains runs late and we happen to be on the rails at that same time, we'll be in one catastrophic accident. Better be safe than sorry." Jules nodded in comprehension while his brother fully absorbed what their father had said.
"You mean the train will actually fly!? Does everything fly in 1985 too?" Verne asked him. The only thing he had seen that could fly that wasn't a bird or a kite had been a few drawings that his father had shown him of aeroplanes.
"The train will fly, but not everything can fly where Marty is, just aeroplanes. However, in 2015, pretty much everything will fly. How about we quit talking, get ready and see for ourselves?" The boys didn't waste a moment more before running out of the barn and going to get ready.
"Had I known that a trip through time would get them to get ready so quickly, I would have devised a similar tactic a few years ago." Clara told her husband with a chuckle as she watched her children go. Doc came down from the front cabinet of the Time Train and joined her side.
"As much as I'm frightened about the future, I'm also looking forward to see how things will have changed. By what you've told me, I don't believe I'll be able to recognize anything." Her husband chuckled when he thought of the one thing that would be around in both times that they would be visiting.
"There's always the Clock Tower. The face will be the same, except for the fact that it doesn't work and the infrastructure of the building will be the same."
"Oh very funny Emmett." The scientist smiled at her and the two of them headed to their home to get ready for their little excursion.
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The trip to the future had been uneventful. For once, Doc could actually say that he had time traveled without finding out about anything earth shattering and without causing any paradoxes. Their plan had been quite simple. Doc had told them that if anyone commented on their dress attire, they would tell them that they were going to a Halloween party. Not only had the scientist done a good deed by choosing the date of October 31st, but he had also done a good thing in advising his family about this little plan since many were the people who had eyed them suspiciously about their clothes.
Their first stop in the future had been the garage where they made the hover conversions. The engineer and the mechanic had been quite impressed with the train and they had given Doc an estimate in cost and time. Once that was taken care of, the Brown family had headed for the Antiques Shop to sell a few items to get the desired amount of money that they mechanic had asked for.
In all, the little trip in the future had taken five hours. Doc had wanted to look up his young friend while they had been waiting, but the inventor wasn't quite ready for the emotional impact. What is something had happened to Marty? Emmett only wanted to find out by going back to 1985. Once he would see the situation, then and only then would he take an executive decision on what he would do. Their errands done, Doc, Clara, Jules and Verne headed for 1985.
Their trip into 1985 consisted of two small trips. The first one was used to go and pick up Einstein, his dog. After the family had been introduced to their new pet, Doc manoeuvred the Time Train to arrive for 11:25 AM; twenty-five minutes after Marty had been sent back home.
The first thing the scientist saw was bits and pieces of the De Lorean. His heart skipped a few beats until Verne pointed out that there was a man wearing clothes like theirs who looked like Marty with a young girl. Doc turned his head to where his son was pointing and was greatly relieved. A thousand and one emotions went through him. Just knowing that he hadn't sent his young friend to an early grave was gratifying for his soul. The scientist drove the train as close to the wreckage and to Marty as possible, landing where there wasn't too much debris. Just seeing the youth brought a smile to the older man's face. For Marty it had been nothing but mere minutes whereas for Doc it had been a matter of years and too many.
Even though it had taken him nine years to build the train and even though he had worried for a bit longer about the faith of Marty, it had been all worth it to see his friend one more time before he moved back to the present with his family for good. He would have liked to give his friend more information, but Doc was worried that someone would notice the giant train flying around. His main goal into coming here was to check up on Marty. He didn't want to be plagued by nightmares anymore and he had also wanted to let Marty know that he was fine.
Despite the fact that he felt a tad chagrined when they had to leave, the inventor knew that he would see his friend quite soon and that this separation wasn't forever. Doc was glad that he had remembered to bring along the picture of them that had been taken on that night back in September of 1885. Doc had been able to see that the teen had been truly touched by the gesture. It was with a lighter heart that the scientist was able to leave; promising himself to be back in time for scones.
OWARI 6
NOVEMBER 18TH 2008 5:51PM.
In the end, I plugged in the scones. It was stronger than me. I just had to. The good news is that 7 and 8 are done. I just need to type them. Also, I decided to add the time and date when I started writing, typing and when I finished doing everything with it. I used to do that a lot.
Started writing: October 24th 2008
Finished writing: November 17th 2008
Started typing: November 17th 2008
Finished typing: November 18th 2008