I adore the concept of time travel, and especially time-loops, and this AU popped into my head recently. I've written this as more of an abstract preview/prologue, and if people are interested in this, I may make this a full story? I have ideas that I can experiment with, but I don't know if this is too out-there for people?


He tries.

He tries, and tries, and tries... but everything stays the same.

She still dies.

Over and over, the overwhelming pain crushes him, and he has to force himself to try yet again.

Because maybe, just maybe, this time will be different.

It has to be, right? Why else would he be put in this position? A cruel trick? Punishment? Eternal damnation?

There has to be a reason, and he chooses to believe that it is the one that he hopes it is. The one that states that he can change things. Maybe he has finally lost his mind, but he can't rationalise it any other way. Why else would he be here? Why else would he be put through the same sequence of events over and over and over again? He wants a way out, but he wants to take her with him.

He wants to fix things. He wants to prove the universe wrong. Prove God wrong. Prove his own grief-stricken heart that things can change. That it doesn't have to be this way.

He doesn't know what he believes anymore, but he can't simply accept the way things currently are. There has to be more. She deserves to live her life the way she wishes - with him, with Leo, on her own... Whatever she decides, he would be happy just as long as she was happy and alive. That she would never have to spend her final moments on that basement floor, alone and terrified. He loves her with an all-consuming passion, but he loves her enough to know that he values her life more than his own happiness, and that is the way that he has to be, he will conform.

Exactly how he is to achieve these lofty ambitions of timeline-altering and life-saving is still a mystery to him, but as he walks through that downpour for yet another time, he knows one thing.

He has to try.