AUTOGENOUS

The Morning Of The Job

Three loud bangs on the back entrance to the crew's setup echo through the abandoned building, jolting Dennis awake, "Who the hell is that?" he asks concerningly.

"Could be Bluwinski but I'm not sure why he'd show..." Jacob replies as he stretches after a long night's rest. They approach the door, hesitantly and afraid they've been found out. The door swings open to see a stressed Dr. Bluwinski standing outside.

"Doc... what's goin on, you finally decide to help us?" Jacob asks.

"No... certainly not," replies the doctor holding a newspaper in a plastic bag." They walk inside and he sets the bag on one of their scattered tables, and takes out the newspaper.

"I came here... to warn you..." Bluwinski says.

"To warn us? War- warn us about... what the CIA?"

"No... you guys don't get it... here on this article is the transcript of an interview from nineteen forty two of a Titanic survivor... first class."

The two men look at each other in confusion as Maleah walks inside the building holding a cup of coffee, "What's the hold up?" she asks.

"Maleah? Nice to meet you I'm Doctor Rubix Bluwinski, anyway..." the doctor stresses as he begins illustrating his point, "Here under her words it says quote, I remember there were two men on board who ran past me in the grand staircase around a minute after I felt the shudder in the engines, they were stressed, but not because the ship was in distraught, but for some other reason... I will never know, end quote."

"So what a lady saw us on the ship? I don't think that in turn messes with the fabric of reality too much does it?" Dennis jokingly asks.

"That's just it... It didn't, absolutely nothing in our reality has changed since you returned from that year, this interview was the same ten days ago" the doctor continues stressing as the crew struggles to follow, "meaning that you cannot actually change the past! That's why you couldn't stop the ship from crashing is because you actually helped cause it!"

"We easily could have saved everyone on board, we can still do it if we really felt like it. We just had an accident."

"He," Jacob points at Dennis, "He had the accident."

"What I'm saying," Bluwinski ads, "Is that I don't think it's possible to pull off whatever it is you're planning, if it involves using the time machine... so if that is the case, then maybe the best thing to do..." the doctor looks around the room throwing his hands up, "is nothing at all..."

"Doc we haven't gotten a real chance to test the machine, so we don't have any reason to doubt that we can't change the past."

"I strongly advise that you do not use it again anyway... If you are correct, then the fabric of reality might distort, and that brings up the Lloyd proposition, messing with the Planck scale..."

"Look doc either you've come here to help us or you can turn around right now and wait for us to finish this..." Dennis explains, "because we are ready to move and we aren't going to sit here and listen-"

"Just... please be careful... don't mess this up," Doctor Bluwinsksi stressfully adds as he points to the air around him, referring to their world. He turns around and heads home. The two watch the doctor exit the building.

"Right... let's get on with it then," Dennis says as he shuts the door and returns to the planning room with his crew.