It's About Time

[clockwork_doc]

It's been months and months of hard work and reconfiguring according to any regular calendar. Even according to their messed-up flow of time (where days repeat endlessly and weeks crawl along), it's been a good long while. But then, what Doc's been planning is not something you want to mess up.

Especially not when you know what happened the last time.

Yup, Doc is attempting time travel again. This time, of course, he has a potent ally in the form of Dee. After all, she's a living time machine -- one that's able to help direct him both in getting her time travel-worthy and in figuring out a way to travel through time safely. (Apparently she's got a bit of an internal time sense -- she says their world feels a bit like molasses when she's in DeLorean form.) Of course, the stakes have also been raised this time around. Now he knows that trying to time travel in this dimension means a risk of being thrown into another world entirely. That's how they got Dee. And if this goes wrong, she could be stranded -- temporarily or permanently -- in another world.

Which is exactly why he's going with her.

He takes a deep breath and heads out onto the street. Time to make history -- or pray they end up in a world where their PINpoints work.

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[dee-lorean81.livejournal.com]

Dee grins at him. "Oh, it's nothing bad! We actually fixed things!"

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

"What?" Doc shares a puzzled look with his compatriots. "Dee, I think you'll have to explain things a bit better. We're all rather lost."

[dee-lorean81.livejournal.com]

"You remember how I said that time feels like molasses here to me? Well, now it doesn't! When we tried to go through time, we ran into the slowed-down timeflow -- that was the resistance! And when we broke through, we basically reset it! We broke it, and it promptly fixed itself -- and it reset to a normal flow of time!"

[museicalmarty.livejournal.com]

The humans of the group try to puzzle this out. "So," Marty says after a moment, "we've got -- normal time here now? No more of this weird repeating days stuff?"

[dee-lorean81.livejournal.com]

"Nope!" Dee confirms with a happy nod. "Now it's gonna act like time should! In fact, I bet it used the date on my PINpoint to reset itself! October 12th, right?"

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Doc can't help feeling a thrill of excitement. Sure, the strange passage of time was never really a problem to them. . .but it would be nice to have the weather and seasons work as they should. "Yes -- I know the Nexus doesn't really have a proper flow of time of its own, but my PINpoint there always seemed to give the time and date it should have been in here. . ." He strides purposefully toward the house. "There's one way to check for sure!"

Inside, he heads straight for the TV in the living room. It's off, as usual -- they don't watch it often because the repeating days thing meant that the programs all repeated. He switches it on and flips around, looking for a news station as the others crowd around him.

He finds one. And the date in the corner is indeed October 12th. Doc grins brightly. "Will you look at that!"

[museicalmarty.livejournal.com]

Marty claps his best friend on the back, smiling. "Okay, Doc -- not only have you time traveled, you've also managed to fix a whole timeline! That's freaking awesome!" He glances at the TV. "Man, it'll be nice being able to watch different stuff each day. And actually celebrate holidays when they're supposed to be celebrated."

[deadgirlsliekme.livejournal.com]

"I know!" Victor agrees, just as excited. "New cartoons every day, weather as it should be. . . This is wonderful!"

[save-us-alice.livejournal.com]

"It is," Alice nods, smiling at her friends. "Excellent work, Doc and Dee."

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," Doc says, scooping Dee up in a hug. "An auspicious occasion indeed! I say we go find something fancy. Like a really good chocolate cake. This deserves to be celebrated!" He'd suggest champagne, but Dee wouldn't be able to have any, and he wants her to be able to share in the fun. After all, without her there'd be nothing to celebrate!

He grins around at his group of friends, feeling prouder of himself and Dee than he ever has before. Successful time travel, and a successful reset of the flow of time! Which means they should be able to time-travel whenever they want now! How amazing is that?

He is so going to brag about this later.