Queen of the elements (Book 4 of The Fire Within)

Part 115: Alternate Versions

Booth Five: You know, it says light sauerkraut on the menu. I keep telling him to change it but he never listens. 

Five: Sorry. 

Booth Five: It's not your fault

Five: Theoretically, it is. 

(Five goes to drink the coffee but Booth Five stops him.)

Booth Five: Oh, you're not gonna like that. 

(Five looks at the coffee and puts it back down.)

Booth Five: So, I take it you figured our the subway system by now. 

Five: Alternate versions of the same moment in time? 

Booth Five: That is correct. You'd be suprised how long it took some of the Fives to figure it out. We are all you from alternate timelines. Most of us here have given up trying to fix the problem. 

Five: What problem? 

Booth Five: The broken timeline, man. There's only supposed to be one. 

Five: I don't get it... I 

Booth Five: Look around, Five. Does this seem right to you? 

Five: No, but...

Booth Five: You think Einstein was thinking of this when he was figuring out relativity. Not a chance. This shit would have made his head explode. 

Five: Okay. So what shattered the original timeline? 

Booth Five: Not "what." "Who." And I will give you 3 guesses to figure it out. 

(A Five behind the counter rings a bell then shouts.)

Brisket Five: We did!

Booth Five: Why you always gotta wreck shit Brisket Five?

Y/n: By "we," he means our family, our siblings? 

Booth Five: The morons, yeah.

Five: I'm familiar with them. Yeah. 

Booth Five: One perfect timeline, and the moment we come into existence... boom! Shattered to an infinite number of alternate timelines in an infinite loop of time as we try and save the world-- How many times was it again? 

(Another Five that was reading the newspaper looked up and responded.)

Newspaper Five: 145,412. 

Y/n: Holy shit. 

Five: That's a lot.

Booth Five: He's like Rain Man, that one. He loves numbers. 

Y/n: The universe will always try to fix what is broken, just so happens, that we're the break.