Bonus: Happy ending. :)Alfred coughed as the dust started to settle. That was his most epic explosion yet! It might have even taken out most of the science lab’s windows! Before the pride of at least accomplishing this, as it seemed his time machine had failed once again, he felt a forceful punch to his shoulder and a sharp slap to his head
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The Time In The World [2/12?]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:11:31 UTC
“Knowing you, you’re bound to do the ridiculously impossible and actually get it someday, but we’re running late this morning.”
“I guess you’re right,” he leaned in for a kiss of his own, this one lasting longer, and intertwined their fingers, “C’mon, I’ll make you breakfast.”
“You’ve been working so hard, I figured you could rest and I would make breakfast…”
Future-Alfred laughed, “Sweetheart, I think we’ve had enough explosions for today.”
Alfred and Arthur ducked behind the box as their future counterparts walked past them to the exit hand in hand. The younger versions gagged.
“I’m going to be sick,” Arthur moaned as he rubbed his temples, “I had goals, I had dreams. I was going to move back to England, become a famous writer, travel the world… instead I’m tied down to you of all people, probably living pay-check to pay-check in some run-down apartment, working as a sales clerk at Marshalls to make ends meet…”
“But, I and he and you and they,” Alfred frantically pointed at the doorway their future-versions had walked through
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The Time In The World [3/12?]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:15:23 UTC
“Your shirt was blue,” he crossed his arms as he watched Alfred dig through piles of multi-color shirts; “your pants were black. If you had any sense of organization whatsoever, you wouldn’t be having these problems now
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The Time In The World [4/12?]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:18:48 UTC
His eyes eventually landed on the picture on the nightstand. It was of him and Alfred, future him and Alfred, on a picnic in a park that Arthur was quite familiar with; it was where he first met Alfred years ago and, more recently, it was where they had their falling out. The Arthur and Alfred in the picture, however, had none of these bitter memories on their faces. Alfred was laughing, one hand wrapped around Arthur's waist, the other around his shoulders, all his focus on the man in his arms. Arthur was pushing him away, scowling at the camera, but he could see the secret smile on his lips, could tell he was actually leaning into Alfred’s touch. This Arthur was happy, glowing with excitement and adoration for his partner
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The Time In The World [6/12?]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:26:41 UTC
“Do you remember how we met?” Alfred asked when they had ordered their drinks and sat down at the table right by the window. After agonizing over it the whole way there, he decided to just be blunt and ask him outright
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The Time In The World [7/12?]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:29:04 UTC
“So my time machine did work?” Alfred placed his soda on the table and leaned forward, examining Arthur who instinctively leaned away, “Not in the way I expected. I mean, I was the one who was supposed to do the traveling, unless, oh! Was I working on it before, when you left?” Arthur gave him a weak nod, wondering where he went wrong, where he messed up so bad that Alfred had figured everything out. Alfred, however, continued to be oblivious to his inner turmoil and continued on, full of excitement, “Awesome, then we probably set up some kind of temporal time loop between our two machines. I came with you right? Then I could ask me what formula I used, and from there figure out how to do a straight time jump, unless we used the same formula and that’s what created the loop
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The Time In The World [8/12?]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:32:57 UTC
“That is my biggest regret. When I finally realized my mistake, I begged, pleaded with you to give me a chance I didn’t deserve. And, beyond all hope and my expectations, for whatever reason, you did,” Alfred looked right into his eyes, and Arthur was taken aback by the sheer intensity of the emotions in them, “Thank you for giving me that chance
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The Time In The World [9/12?]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:36:03 UTC
“Matthew, why are you pretending to be your brother? Did Gilbert put you up to this?” If Alfred thought his Arthur’s glare could bore holes into his head, then the ten or so years this Arthur had spent perfecting it could cause his head to explode
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The Time In The World [10/12?]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:38:54 UTC
“I see you’re a bit confused,” future-Alfred ripped out a piece of paper from the side of the notebook Alfred wasn’t scrawling in and waved his sweetheart over, “The time machine exists in two points on our timeline,” he drew a line with two points on opposite ends to demonstrate, “Since I used the same exact formula and calibration at both points, they were able to connect and create a time loop between the two points,” a circle was drawn to connect the two points, “They were dragged through the time loop to here, and they would have probably just been dragged back again, no harm done, but the machines were overwhelmed and exploded, ending the loop and stranding them here. That awesome or what
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The Time In The World [11/12]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:44:32 UTC
The two Alfreds smiled, expecting praise for their genius, no doubt. Future-Arthur eyed the diagram some more while Arthur focused his attention on future-Alfred and stated, “But our point exploded. I doubt we can even us it again…”
“This is time travel Art,” Alfred rolled his eyes, “It doesn’t matter that it exploded; it still existed at some point and was able to set up a point in the loop to get us here. We’ll go back to just before it exploded.”
Yes, because I really want to end up in a room with an exploding time machine
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The Time In The World [12/12]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:46:14 UTC
“Alright! Everyone in your time traveling or running and ducking positions,” future-Alfred announced. “Here we go!” was all the warning everyone got before he flipped the switch
( ... )
The Time In The World [Epilogue and notes]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 05:49:52 UTC
Arthur checked his phone again as he stared at the door to the roof. The text he had gotten from Alfred during lunch was still there, inviting him up to the roof. True, he hadn’t been as horrible to him as of late, but there was only so long he could keep up this charade of actually caring about Arthur. He was probably only calling him up to make fun of him or something along those lines. Still
( ... )
Re: The Time In The World [Epilogue and notes]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 12:46:54 UTC
This was super adorable! I loved every word of it. And the extra time travel theory stuff only added to it rather than take away in my opinion, do all's well. I loved how they still bickered and how it ended up as a 'dream' for both of them. Great fill!
Re: The Time In The World [Epilogue and notes]
anonymous
August 20 2011, 18:57:11 UTC
As above anon said, good job authoranon! This was a pretty elaborate story and although I don't understand much from the scientific parts, the plot was good and it was fluffy yet not sappy.
I especially liked that it was Arthur who asked the marriage question, a nice change.
Human Gakuen!AU! Alfred and Arthur are a constantly bickering duo, unable to realize their feelings for the other.
Meanwhile, in the future, Alfred and Arthur, while they still bicker, are very much in love. Somehow it ends up they 'meet' their counterparts/'significant other'. Based vaguely on these/this pic(s) [http://i54.tinypic.com/302vz2h.jpg] and [http://i56.tinypic.com/2lcy9sh.jpg]
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Happy ending. :)Alfred coughed as the dust started to settle. That was his most epic explosion yet! It might have even taken out most of the science lab’s windows! Before the pride of at least accomplishing this, as it seemed his time machine had failed once again, he felt a forceful punch to his shoulder and a sharp slap to his head ( ... )
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“I guess you’re right,” he leaned in for a kiss of his own, this one lasting longer, and intertwined their fingers, “C’mon, I’ll make you breakfast.”
“You’ve been working so hard, I figured you could rest and I would make breakfast…”
Future-Alfred laughed, “Sweetheart, I think we’ve had enough explosions for today.”
Alfred and Arthur ducked behind the box as their future counterparts walked past them to the exit hand in hand. The younger versions gagged.
“I’m going to be sick,” Arthur moaned as he rubbed his temples, “I had goals, I had dreams. I was going to move back to England, become a famous writer, travel the world… instead I’m tied down to you of all people, probably living pay-check to pay-check in some run-down apartment, working as a sales clerk at Marshalls to make ends meet…”
“But, I and he and you and they,” Alfred frantically pointed at the doorway their future-versions had walked through ( ... )
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“This is time travel Art,” Alfred rolled his eyes, “It doesn’t matter that it exploded; it still existed at some point and was able to set up a point in the loop to get us here. We’ll go back to just before it exploded.”
Yes, because I really want to end up in a room with an exploding time machine ( ... )
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I especially liked that it was Arthur who asked the marriage question, a nice change.
I enjoyed this a lot, thank you for writing!
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