The BLTS Archive - Time
by Exploded Pen (exploded_pen@hotmail.com)

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Disclaimer, I own nothing 

Ok, this is Tucker/Reed slash before I go any further, not in your
face but just there... Anyway, a very short brain fart I had while
listening to some superbly depressing music

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Lying here, listening to Malcolm breathe slowly and watching him
sleep, I find myself contemplating time.

I know about the Temporal Cold War, Jon told me...it kinda scares me.

For all I know, yesterday I could've been a different gender, on a
different ship, in a different place, surrounded by different people.
So much can change without us even realising. This war Daniels is
fighting is beyond our comprehension, we have no idea how many have
been lost, how many lives have been changed due to the actions of
Temporal Agents. We have no idea if the lives we live today are
different from the lives we were living yesterday.

And as I stare at the man sleeping beside me, I'm suddenly terrified
that when I wake tomorrow none of this will have happened, a Temporal
Agent will have changed the timeline and Malcolm will perhaps be
Madeleine or maybe I'll be Charlotte. Perhaps when I wake tomorrow
Malcolm won't be here, perhaps he will have died when the mine pinned
him to the ship, or perhaps he never will have existed at all.

I don't want to sleep in case he's gone when I wake, but I know time
will change whether I sleep or not.

Somewhere in the future, people are fighting over time and countless
billions are paying the price.

I kiss Malcolm like I've never kissed him before, he stirs and smiles
before pulling me close.

I close my eyes and wait for time to change.

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The End