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Home Is Where The Heart Is - A Fighting Chance

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Parts 25
Time 7h 2m

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"... So maybe I did do it!" he mumbled, looking aimlessly at the ground.

"Do what? Jumped us away in time?"

"Wha...? How did you know I was going to say that?"

"Well, first of all, last night you had this bright light around you, and then, the the next thing I knew, we wound up here. Then, while you were passed out, I looked a bit around. And by all indications, this is the exact same place we were at when we crashed. It just looks different: no asphalt roads, no city lights, no cell phone signal. And third, I just saw a ship at sea, which looked like the damn Mayflower! So I figured it can only mean one thing: we are in the past!"

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As they are about to experience a fatal car crash, LA surgeon Diego Perez and his wife Louise get sent back in time to the 19th century. It turns out that Diego has the ability to time-travel, and though he can not fully control it, this is not his first time doing it. The two get sent to the timeline of Diego's youth, three months after his mysterious disappearance when he was twenty years old. Now, at a much more mature age, but with a still youthful appearance, he is forced to take things up where he left them, with an upcoming wedding to his pregnant fiancée and much unresolved business as the town protector, Zorro. But he has his modern-day wife with him, who has her own connections to this place and time, and things get more complicated by the day. 

Will he be able to figure out how to get his wife back home? Will their love endure the test of the time travel? Will they manage to navigate the rough waters of their existence in the 19th century?

Word Count approx. 86000.
Warning: mature content and mature language

Disclaimer: Very loosely based on original characters in Zorro by Johnston McCulley, the one by Isabel Allende and Kaiketsu Zorro. I have no rights over original story or characters.All Rights Reserved

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