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Chapter 32
Kill Phil
Year: 2007
Date: November 18th
Location: Rawtenstall, Lancashire, United Kingdom (England)
It was night time and everything was peacefully quiet.
Past!Phil was walking the streets to go home after going to Wokingham, Berkshire to go see his best friend Dan for a couple days. He wanted to go get home fast so he decided to take a shortcut down an alleyway. Brad walked a short distance behind him, shaking with nerves a little bit at the fact that what he was about to do was going to change the future very drastically – and he didn't want to mess it up.
He sped up a little when Phil turned to go down the alleyway and became a shorter distance away from him "Phil!" Brad called.
Past!Phil turned around and seen Brad, being confused "Do I know you..?" He asked.
"Not yet, no. But… You're never going to now."
"What?"
"Please, Phil… For the love of God do not run. Whatever you do. Please. I don't wanna do this, but I have to for the sake of this world."
Past!Phil began getting nervous as Brad walked towards him and became face to face with him. "You have a friend called Dan, don't you?" Brad said.
Past!Phil nodded "Yeah, I've just got back from seeing him."
"Cool. Where does he live? Is it Wokingham?"
"Yeah, Wokingham, Berkshire, why?"
"Just wondering, that's all. What's he like?" Brad asked.
"He's nice, very awkward sometimes. Why are you asking me about him?"
"I'm interested to know what he was like."
"Erm… Well, he's probably the number one procrastinator in the world. He's been having a miserable time lately, so I've been trying to lift up his spirits a bit but I'll only do that to bring them back down before I tell him I'm leaving to go work in America in some desert."
Brad had his hand on the handle of the gun, ready to shoot him – he wanted to do it whilst he wasn't expecting it 'cause that way there'll be no tears, no screaming and no running. "Oh, that'll upset him. Is he nice, Dan?" Brad asked.
Past!Phil nodded "Yeah, he's the nicest person I've ever met. He's so funny too, I don't know where I'd be without him to be honest. He may not think it most of the time but he has had huge impacts on people's lives and he doesn't even realise it."
"I can imagine."
"I'd hate to see this world without him, that's for sure." Past!Phil said, having a nice happy smile on his face.
"Hey, is that Dan behind you? I thought you said you'd come alone." Brad said.
Past!Phil became confused, still smiling though "Huh?" He said, turning round to look.
BANG!
BANG!
And just like that, Phil was dead and wasn't going to the base.
Dan wasn't going to the base where he would meet Joe.
Joe would now never meet Stacey and have their daughter Jenny. He wouldn't meet Caspar either.
Dan and Phil would now never come up with 'BRRAL'.
Will would now never have that idea to make his own in Phil's memory.
Ashton was never coming to the base, and he was never bringing Luke with him.
Rocky was also not coming to the base and never bringing Ross with him.
Luke and Ashton were now never going to be in a relationship that would make Brad exist.
Brad wasn't coming to the base either because now he doesn't exist.
Brad, Ross, Rocky, Luke and Ashton were now not going to Afghanistan where Ashton would be shot dead.
Brad, Ross, Rocky and Luke were now not returning to the base after it, attending his funeral, going on a break and coming back to the base to find a zombie apocalypse has broken out around the world.
Ross and Rocky were now never going to meet Rydel, Riker and Ellington.
They were never going to find Brad and Luke.
Ross was never going to save the world from the apocalypse.
Ross was never going to tell Ashton about the zombie apocalypse that only he could remember and nobody else.
Luke and Ashton were now never going to have a baby which would turn out to be Brad.
Brad was now no longer Luke and Ashton's baby because he no longer exists.
Samara was not going to kidnap their baby to avoid her death from happening.
Dan was now not going to help her escape from jail.
Rocky is now not going to get trapped in 1995 after putting Brad there with his adoptive parents.
Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey were now not going to get Brad, Ross, Luke and Ashton arrested for false reasons.
The five were now never going to be on the run with the help of Dan, Joe, Caspar, Bailey, Renzo, Ryan, Ashley and Landon.
They were never going to meet their future kids Rydel, Michael and Calum.
They're never going to come up with a plan to save the world.
They're never going to be put against each other by Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey and sent to the woods.
They're never going to go back to 1959 to get away from them and build the base, not knowing what it is they're building.
More importantly.
The world was now not going to end.
Brad checked Phil's pulse, ignoring the blood seeping from his head and checked that he was in fact dead.
Date: November 19th
Location: Dan's House, Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom (England)
Past!Dan came downstairs to someone knocking on his front door the next morning. He opened the door to see a brown haired boy stood there, Brad. "Can I help you?" Dan asked.
Holy shit he looks so young Brad thought to himself. Well, he will be only sixteen.
Holy hell. This was sixteen year old Dan, Brad was face-to-face with – and the last time Brad seen Dan he was twenty-four! Twenty four. Twenty. Four. 2. 4. Now, he's sixteen and this could very well be the last time Brad sees him.
"Hello..?" Past!Dan said, finding it weird how the guy was just staring at him.
"Sorry," Brad said, snapping out of his trance "y-you're friends with Phil Lester, right?" He asked, and Past!Dan nodded "um… I have some bad news. He's dead."
"W-what..?"
Brad nodded "Yeah… He died last night on his way home. He took a short cut through an alley and someone shot him until he was dead."
"Is this a joke?" Past!Dan asked, not wanting to believe it.
Brad shook his head "No, I'm sorry. I wish it was. I got sent here to come tell you 'cause I was there when it happened," He said, where Past!Dan fell silent, all of a sudden looking emotionless and numb "is there anything I can do for you?" He asked.
"I wish… If I'd have known that… yesterday was the last time I'd seen him… I'd have said a lot more than 'bye' and 'see you later'…" Past!Dan said, where tears suddenly started stinging at his eyes.
"Yeah… I know," Brad said, feeling sad for him "he wanted me to tell you something though," he added, which made Past!Dan look at him "he said that he wanted you to be happy and for you to do something good with your life and do whatever you want. Make him proud with whatever you do. Just make sure you're happy, that's all he cares about. It's all I care about."
Past!Dan nodded with tears streaming down his face "Thank you… I guess at least that's some sort of closure with him."
"Closure?"
"Yeah. Everyone needs closure with someone they're never going to see again, don't they? Some people don't get it – like me. But I got a form of closure."
"Yeah… That's true…" Brad said, where he started to think "I'm gonna go now, it was nice seeing you. Thanks for telling me that."
"Why? Where are you going?" Past!Dan asked, slightly confused.
"I'm going to go check up on a few people."
Next: A New Reality
The next chapter could very well be the last one as well as a really freaking long one.
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