Here's another installment - getting close to the end!
2007
Jack had retired to his cabin in Minnesota. He'd had enough of D.C. and the Aschen and so he retired and went to live in his favorite place. His favorite kind of people... and fishing... it was perfect. Well, almost perfect.
It was her first anniversary. Sam had been Mrs. Faxon for an entire year. Knowing this, Jack kept to himself that night. He turned on the tv and opened a beeer. He flipped through the channels until, finally, he found The Wizard of Oz. He knew it was bad when that movie couldn't cheer him up.
This anniversary also meant it had been a year since he'd kissed her. The kiss that wasn't influenced by aliens or diseases or time-loops. It was all him... all his emotions. He'd never thought he had bad timing until then. What was he thinking? Kissing her on her wedding day? She had already moved on.
Why couldn't he have kissed her before she'd decided to marry Joe? Now, after all the missed opportunities, she had moved on. He couldn't get a second chance. Sam loved Joe, although Jack didn't know why.
He remembered leaving it in the room. He wasn't okay with it, but he told her he was because he didn't want things to change. He liked the way things were. Until he kissed her in the time loop, that is. He got a glimpse of what could be and instantly regretted locking those feelings away. But had they thrown away the key? Maybe Sam had, but Jack hadn't.
And now, all alone on that anniversary, Jack wished he could change it. He wanted to go back to that room, to let their feelings out into the open, to see if she was willing to take a chance. It was too late. He knew it, but he didn't want to accept it. With all the things they had discovered, all the technology they now possessed, it seemed to him there should be a way to go back. A way to get the chance he never had. The chance to be happy.
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