A Life

A Life
 
 
Jenifer was walking along the sidewalk. She heard the roar of car engines and sirens.
She looked up.
Oh God! Not like this!
A blue Fiesta came hurtling round a bend and flashed towards her.
 

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The old man sat in his wheel chair, staring off into space, his mouth open his eyes glazed. Just thinking about his life. 
I must be one of the luckiest men alive. 
“Victor you have a visitor.” Said a hospital orderly.
The visitor was wearing a dark coat; his face was aged by decades and wrinkled.
There’s something familiar about him but I just can’t place it.
The orderly wheeled Victor’s wheelchair into a private side room so the two men could speak.
“Who are you? Do I know you?”
“Well yes and no. Just think of me as a friend.”
“Hmm...Ok.”
“Would you say you have had a good life?” Asked the visitor.
“Yes the best, always had everything I wanted and never wanted for anything. But most importantly I had my soul mate-Jenifer.”
A smile spread across the man’s face.
“Good.”
For some unknown reason, Victor felt a deep feeling of gratitude towards the visitor.
 

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Today’s the day!
Emmanuel was strapped into the chair. The scientists exited the spherical shaped transportation chamber.
This is just another job, so why do I feel so apprehensive?
“We are ready to launch!” Said a loud voice over the speaker system.
Flashing lights and a loud screeching noise surrounded Emmanuel. He closed his eyes, but he couldn’t block out the noise.
My ears are bleeding!
Eventually the noise and the lights faded. He looked down at his electronic wristwatch.
August 19th 2019, 12:45 pm.
It worked! I’m always amazed by time jumping; it’s a small miracle and never ceases to amaze me.
He looked around.
I’m in the alley, that they said I would be in. I still feel apprehensive, I don’t know why; I must have made over several dozen jumps in my career.
He felt the cold metal of the Glock in his trouser pocket.
This mission is different to the rest. Normally they give me my instructions before the jump but this time it is after. Why?
He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper that he had been instructed to read only after he had jumped.
He looked at the name and the address of the ‘Mark’.
David Jones...? That name doesn’t sound familiar; normally we go after high ranking officials of our enemies? Doesn’t matter, I don’t have time to think about it now. Just get to the spot and complete the mission and get back.
He quickly looked around, noticing the 21st Century buildings around him.
How quaint.
 

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Central Time Jump Headquarters:

 
“Sir, Emmanuel, has just timed jumped.”
A smile spread across the Victor Brown’s face. Victor Brown was the head of ‘Time Jump Enterprises.’
Most people see me as the most powerful man alive; after all I have the ability to change history. With each time jump mission I get more and more powerful and yet I am one of the saddest people I know.
Jenifer...If only I could have prevented the accident.  
 

Ten years previously

Victor brown was drinking and lounging with two of his many female escorts in his luxurious swimming pool.  Just then a man wearing a black mask and a long coat walked in.
“Who are you? How did you get in here? What is the meaning of this?”
“I need to talk to you about something very very important.”
There’s something familiar about him, but I can’t put my finger on it.
“You can leave now.” Said Victor to the two women.
“Call us,” one of them said as they exited the pool.
Once the women had left, Victor asked,”what is this about?”
“Jenifer.”
That one word sent Victor’s mind spinning into a daze of shock.
“Jenifer? How do you know about Jenifer?”
The masked man sat down on a chair by the pool side and sighed deeply.
“Listen very carefully.”
“Why should I listen to you? Who the hell are you?”
The man repeated.
 “Jenifer.”
It was enough to stun Victor the millionaire entrepreneur to silence.
“Tomorrow morning, I want you to purchase the majority share holding in a small newly upcoming technology company called ‘Future Jump’.”
 

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Five Years Later

It was late and Victor was asleep. He was having the nightmare again. The nightmare in which his beloved fiancée Jenifer, had been killed. Suddenly bright white lights hurt his eyes.
“Ahh!” He screamed, the previous day had been busy and he wasn’t happy about been awoken in the middle of the night.
 “Who the hell is this?”
Then he noticed, the man he had seen nearly five years previously. The man in the dark coat and mask.
“It’s me. Your friend.”
One word came to Victors mind.
Jenifer.
“I have a choice for you to make, if you could be with Jenifer, and give up all your billions would you do it?”
“Yes.”
“Even if it meant you losing everything and potentially ending up in prison?”
“How did you know about ‘Time jump Enterprises? That company has made me one of the most powerful men on the planet. They say they are just weeks away from their first test jump.”
“Would you give it all up for Jenifer?”
“In a heartbeat.”
“I knew you would say that.”
 

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Emmanuel pulled out the piece of paper from his trouser pocket.  It had a name and an address. He headed towards it.
Within a few minutes he was outside the ‘marks’ house. There was a blue Fiesta outside. He knocked on the door. It was still early and dawn had just broken about two hours ago.
The door slowly opened.
“MR Jones?”
“Yes?”
Emmanuel pulled out his gun and opened fire. Five bullets. Two the head and three to the body.
 

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Victor looked up from the swimming pool.
“Would you give it all up for Jenifer?”
“In a heartbeat.”
“I knew you would say that.”
Just then there was a loud noise and flashing light.
A man wearing a blue uniform suddenly appeared.
“What the hell is going on?” Asked Victor.
“He’s a time jump cop from the future. Don’t worry one of our agents is wiping his grandfather from existence even as we speak.”
The man in the uniform looked around and got his bearings. Then he looked straight at Victor.
“Victor Brown, You are slated for termination for crimes of fixing the past.”
The man pulled out a gun.
 “What..? What the hell?”
 “It’s too late.” Said the masked man.
Before the uniformed man could open fire, he disappeared out of existence.
 

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“Would you say you have had a good life?”
“Yes the best, always had everything I wanted and needed. But most importantly I had my soul mate-Jenifer.”
“Good.”
For some unknown reason, Victor felt a deep feeling of gratitude towards the man.
The man got up.
“That’s all I wanted to know. I will leave you now.”
“Wait!”
The man turned back.
“Thank you friend.”
 

The End