Love me not, love me

© 1999 Geoff Willmetts (UK)

Waiting! The main problem we have with time is waiting. We wait for events to take place. Suddenly they're here and gone.

Time can be so cruel. Any kindness it gives must be treated with respect, care and love. I'm doing exactly as was reported in the first report. Ignoring paradox problems. I'm doing what's right.

Not because it's ordained in time. Completing the circle. If I don't, the report won't go back. Without the report going back, how would I know what to set up now or even be here?

How could I throw it and lose my husband and family? It's ten years since the start of our Time Tube experiments. I've been waiting for this event ten years. The boffs only told me the full reasons recently. The last six months was spent getting me primed and psyched up to meet our time traveller Tom Purser.

Hardly a stranger to me now, but he was to me when he started. When I first met Tom, he was only an 18 year old kid. I was 5 years older with every unattached man in the project jaw-dropping whenever I walked past. I had plenty to choose from without worrying about the lovesick look of a young volunteer.

We all grow up. Tom more than most. Tom was selected because he was healthy, fit, patient, bright, never been ill and young. A perfect candidate not likely to pick up any fatal future illnesses and infect the past. That wasn't likely to happen either.

I've got a couple multi-shot inoculations to give him when he arrives to ensure that. We knew all about that from the reports he gave, especially the bit where he met me here. Today! Ten years his future! I checked the room once more.

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