TIME TRAVEL

This was another flash story prompt I had a few ago but this time, I cannot for the life of me, remember what the prompt was. But whatever the prompt was, I enjoyed writing this. I also enjoyed time travel stories and I hope to write one of my own someday, I already have a few in mind and who knows, I might expand on this story.

Top Secret; Time Traveller 014

Well it’s not the best job in the world, but at least I get around. Though it’s never of where but when, you see I’m a time traveller.

My job is basically to keep the peace, preventing other time travellers from messing around with the major events in time. For example, there have been many attempts on Hitler’s life before he was meant to die. I understand idea of preventing wars in the past would make the world today a better place, but the fact is that we don’t know that and for all we know, it could make the world worse.

Time travel seems fun and sometimes it is, you get to meet all sorts of people you would otherwise never be able to. Of course you would have to remain anonymous at all times but still, I got to meet my personal hero J. R. R. Tolkien and watch his first reading of ‘The Hobbit’.

But of course there are the radicals time travellers out there (like those wanting to kill Hitler) that disagree with our non-radical attitude, we don’t want to change the world, we just want to keep the world on the track it’s meant to be.

Needless to say that our own lives are in constant danger as time terrorist, as we call them, are always try to erase us from existence. Many have gone already though I don’t know who as they were never born thanks to time interference, but there seems to be a lot less of us these days. I lost my own husband to these terrorist and even though he was erased, through some fault in my own timeline, I still remember him even if his family doesn’t.

But the war continues on, though normal people are unaware of it, living their lives in blissful content. We leap through time, hunting down the terrorist and protecting their targets from the shadow as well as protecting our own timelines as the only way to protect our existences is to monitor it. Though at all times, we have to be careful not to cause a paradoxes which, thankfully hasn’t happened…yet.

Through my many years of time travelling I have seen many things, wonderful things, mind-blowing things and also terrible things. For the sake all that is good in these world and in my husband’s name I will keep on fighting for humanity’s future, even if my own is lost.

Yes it’s not the best job in the world, but it needs to be done, because there is no Dr Who, Steins Gate or any other fictional universes you may have heard of, it’s just a group of us individuals, determined to protect the world’s timeline from the shadows.

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