The nauseous feeling was back again as I swirl around in a loop hole of unknown. I could here things in my mind that I have never heard before. My mind was being bombarded with the same sensations that I have been feeling since the beginning of my travels. My voyage from decades to centuries has ruptured my physical health and I am loosing the willpower to carry on. Will I ever make it out? I randomly enter loopholes with no idea where I may exit into. Will I exit into a place which may cause my untimely death? I do not know these things for I have lost controls of my destinations. If only I had my watch back which mysteriously disappeared from me. My biggest regret was when I have lost it. Well, now that I had all the time to myself to think about certain things I realized that no, the loss of my watch was not the greatest regret. I regret loosing the people dearest to me. Ted, Victoria, Ringo, all these people sum up my entire being. If it wasn’t for them I would not be here. If it wasn’t for me, they would have been here on Earth. But am I still on Earth? Am I in the middle of the void of time and space? The depression caused by these people dying due to my foolishness is killing me. A huge gap is where my heart used to be. Eaten by my stupid ambitions, eaten by my stupid dreams, if only I could turn back time, ironically I can. I can fix all of this, if only I have never watched that film my professor in college showed us.
Okay, quick flashback.
My teacher, Mr. Cooligan was my science teacher. He showed us a videotape entitled “Into the Mystery”. It was a show where the host discussed about things that would make anyone disbelieve the shows credibility. For that I have learned that the show didn’t really become a hit so after a few episodes the show ended. To everyone it was all malarkey especially when the host invited a guest to come over and talk about time travel because the guest said that he had actually have time travelled. Everyone hated our professor for showing us that film, but to me that man was my hero. That man opened my eyes on what I want to do when I get a chance. A chance to time travel. Now I am living the dream. The dream which led to the deaths of the people closest and dearest to me, and its all my fault. I just hope that I can return to avoid myself from watching that videotape. So that this time travelling had to stop. I realized here in my vegetative state that man cannot comprehend the complications of time travel. We must not interfere with what is done and what shall become of these errors.
I see a light at the end of the tunnel.
From the shadows I hear a familiar voice. The place seems vaguely familiar to me. It is the backyard of the fake police station where Paul took me.
“Hello John, its been a while” and there I saw Paul appearing from the shadows with my watch hooked up to his cellphone.
“What the hell Paul?! What are you doing with my watch?” I asked pointing at the watch. I couldn’t do that much, his bodyguards were pointing guns at me.
“Don’t you remember me? I saw you during the Salem witch trials. I was the one who tried to get you hanged” Paul grinned.
“Oh my-”
“Yes, it was me. I only did that so I can come near you and grab your watch”
“What have you been doing you son of a b-?!”
“I have been controlling your every move from this phone. Wherever you come out in time, is all controlled by me. You see everything bad happening to your was caused by me” Paul laughed manically. He signaled to the guards to beat up John. As John was being adorned with punches and kicks. He spat out blood and looked at Paul and uttered.
“For the last time Paul, I did not kill your father”
“Oh, it was never about that” Paul signaled to the bodyguards to stop.
“What the?”
“My father has always loved you more than me because you were more of a son to him than I was to him. I just needed a reason to kill you. A reason to put a bullet through your face. The years I have suffered from him always saying that I should be more like you. Bah, the only time I had for myself was for slumber. You ruined my life just for existing. Not only that, if it wasn’t for you I would’ve had more time to spend with my father. He kept on wasting his time with an ingrate such as yourself. He would either be wasting away his life on his notebook, or with you. Not a single second with me”
“Look Paul, I never wanted everything to come to this. I never really did”
“Fuck you Mr. Perfect. Everything is your fault. You should fucking die right now”
John was frozen to the ground as Paul raises his gun and pointed it at John. He kept thinking.
Here it is John. This will hurt a bit, but it will all soon be over, but at least you can give Paul the peace he has long deserved, and you may finally get to meet your father in heaven. Also you will see Ted and Victoria again. This won’t be that bad. This will only take a few seconds.
“Paul…I am ready, do your worst”
I heard someone trampling grass, then a sudden leap. My eyes were closed over the whole ordeal. As I opened my eyes, I saw Ted being ravaged by the two bodyguards, but that wasn’t the only thing I saw. I saw blood trailing to my shoes. There, Paul lay dead with a slit throat. There in Ted’s hands was a knife embossed with Paul’s dripping blood.
“John! Oh how I have missed you my friend, if you can help me by the way”
Bang!
Bang!
There lay dead the two bodyguards of Paul with their fallen master. In my hand, the instrument that caused their demise. I approached Paul’s bleeding body and took my watch from his cold hands.
I hugged Ted, like a brother who saw his elder brother return from a long voyage.
“Where the hell have you been? I last time I saw you, you were killed by cannonball fire”
“Well, as I fell I entered a portal. It took me back here. But then I saw Paul looking for you as he entered a portal he opened by looking at your sketches. Without thinking I followed him on the trail. He realized I was following him so he sent me to where you were. I saw you when you were with Archduke Ferdinand”
“What? Why didn’t you talk to me or something?”
“I did. Didn’t you recognize me? It was me, Ante Velic. I saved your life but then after you have left a different portal opened and sucked me into a different time, to be specific current time. Oh and I want to show you something. Its about your family”
“What is it?”
“Take the watch and we will travel to Sept 11 2001”
“Why? What is there?”
“Follow me”
As we enter the opening portal, I gaze at the dead body of Paul. As I looked on I realized that its all over. But the look on Ted’s face seemed otherwise.
