Tuesday, October 13, 1987
7:30 a.m.
Hill Valley, California
MARTY stopped over at the Parker’s house to pick up Jennifer but got word that she got a ride from someone else. Upon arriving at the college campus, he spotted her talking to some friends. Upon approaching her he tried to say hello but she ignored him. Apparently, she was still mad about last night.
Then, one of her friends asked “Aren’t you going to say hello to Marty?”
Jennifer turned to see him. Turning back to the person asking she said “No.”
“Jennifer.” said another, “I doubt what Marty did last night wasn’t to upset you.”
“Who’s side are you on?” demanded Jennifer.
“Yours. But you’ve got to understand. Mrs. Jandick is older than Marty.”
“Yoko Ono was older than John Lennon but that didn’t stop them from falling in love.” retorted Jennifer.
“Jennifer, we’ve got to go to class. We’ll catch up with you at lunch.”
At that, the group dispersed leaving Jennifer alone with Marty.
“Jennifer.” said Marty, “About last night…”
“There’s nothing to talk about.” said Jennifer, “You had your eye on her ever since you changed her destiny.”
“That’s being paranoid, Jen.” said Marty, “I didn’t know that things would turn out fine for her after her then future husband crashed into those motorcycles.”
“You didn’t?” laughed Jennifer, “Of course not. You had a reputation to protect as well.”
“Now what does that mean?” asked Marty.
“Figure it out.”
At that, Jennifer left for class.
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It went on all day. Jennifer continued to treat Marty like he was a creep instead of a lover. In class, in the library, at lunch and in study groups. In the classes they took together, Jennifer sat apart from Marty. One of the classes was English Reading. Bob Curtis was the instructor. The subject was The Count of Monte Christo by Alexander Dumas. Marty looked across the class to find Jennifer but she had her face in her book.
At lunch, Jennifer had entered the cafeteria looking for a place to sit.
“Hey, Jen.”
She turned to see who it was. It was Marty. “I’ve got a place saved for
you.” he said. Jennifer turned and went to another table.
Then at study group it got worse. Marty and Jennifer were sitting at opposite ends of the table as they, Needles, Kevin Bosch and Christina were discussing The Count of Monte Cristo.
“Marty.” said Kevin, “Jennifer. I haven’t had any output from either of you two.”
“Sorry about that.” said Marty.
“You’re sure are.” said Jennifer, “You’ve got Jan on your mind.”
“Jennifer.” exclaimed Christina.
“Well you should’ve been there last night.” said Jennifer, “Marty was flirting with Mrs. Jandick.”
“That’s enough, Jen.” said Marty.
“‘Jen’?” exclaimed Jennifer, “It sounds like ‘Jan’ to me.” Turning to the other three, she asked “Doesn’t it sound like ‘Jan’ to you?”
“Sit down, Jennifer.” said Kevin.
Jennifer did.
And as she did, Needles turned to Marty asking “Is this true, M?”
“No it’s not.” said Marty, “It was just a chat.”
“No it wasn’t, Marty.” said Jennifer, “It was a flirtation.”
“You’ve got the hots for Mrs. Jandick, don’t you.” said Needles,
“Admit it.”
“No, I don’t.” said Marty, “She’s a married woman.”
“Admit it, McFly.” said Needles, “Or I’ll tell her that you’re a chicken.”
That hit Marty real hard. At once, he said “Nobody calls me…me…” He stopped in mid-sentence. Looking at Jennifer, he said to himself I have a feeling that what Needles said was connected to all this. He got up and left at once.
After Marty left, Kevin turned to Needles and said “You didn’t have to that, Needles.”
But Jennifer said “Thanks Needles. Get rid of him. I don’t want to look at that creep again.”
“Jennifer.” said Christina, “You don’t mean that.”
“Yes, I do.” she said as she was putting her books into her knapsack, “He’s a creep and I’m satisfied with that.”
After that, she left.
When quitting time came at where he was working, Marty got into his truck drove down to Burger King. Jennifer was working there that night. More than twenty four hours had passed since Jennifer’s jealousy began and Marty had hoped that by now, she would have cooled off.
It wasn’t to be. When Marty pulled up to the drive-up window, Jennifer was there.
“Can I take-Marty!” she exclaimed.
“Yeah.” said Marty, “I would like a hamburger, small fries and a vanilla shake.”
“Get outta here, Marty.” said Jennifer, “I don’t like you anymore.”
“Jennifer.” said Marty, “I’m here to order some food.”
Jennifer turned to Edda and said “Edda, can you take Marty’s order please.”
“Jennifer.” said Edda, “Tonight’s your turn to work the drive-up
window.”
“I know it is.” said Jennifer, “But it’s anyone but Marty.”
She was talking when Geren walked in. So she told Edda “Never mind.” and took down Marty’s order.
While he was waiting, Marty told Jennifer “Jen, you’ve gotta stop this paranoid behavior. I have no interest in Jan Jandick. I only have eyes for you.”
“If you did have eyes for me, why did you take Jan away from Jim when you know that you’re not suppose to tinker with the past?”
“And what, let her go through a lifetime of hell? I couldn’t let that happen.”
“I know you couldn’t.” said Jennifer, “You wanted her to look pretty. Here’s your order. Now leave me alone.”
Marty paused. Then, he said “I guess it’s over, isn’t it.”
“You’d better believe it.” said Jennifer, “Now leave.”
At that, he did.
He then drove over to Doc Brown’s place on Elmdale Dr. and went in to talk to him about Jennifer. Finding Doc in the lab he said “I think I lost her for good.”
“Don’t say that, Marty.” said Doc, “Eventually, she’ll get
over this mad.”
“I hope so, Doc.” said Marty
He began to notice that Doc had dismantled the time machine that the alternate reality Jennifer was using.
“Doc.” he said, “Isn’t this that time machine the other Jennifer used to get into our reality.”
“It is.” said Doc, “The time circuits and design are almost similar.”
“That other Jennifer was a genius.” said Marty.
“She was really good with the gun.” said Doc, “But that Jennifer had no time for love. Dissidents and revolutionaries normally don’t.”
“Our Jennifer isn’t no revolutionary.” said Marty, “Just a sweet girl who head needs to be straightened out.”
“I know, Marty.” said Doc, “Eventually, she’ll get over her jealousy and come back to you.”
“I don’t think so, Doc.” said Marty, “I’ve just figured it’s over between the two of us and now I’ll have to get on with my life without her.”
“Just give her time, Marty.” said Doc, “Just give her time and she’ll change back to what she was.”
Marty did. Days had gone by without either Jennifer and Marty talking to each other. There was no progress on if or when they’ll make up again. And then one day, Doc was working in his lab. Clara came in to do some dusting and came across something.
Saturday, October 17, 1987
10:00 a.m.
Hill Valley, California.
Clara came to do some dusting when she saw her husband working. So she said “I’ll come back.”
“Oh, I’m done.” said Doc, “Just come in.”
Taking her dust cloth, Clara first went to the file cabinet that had information on future events. But on top was some newspapers and photographs. Finding a chair, she took them off the cabinet and put them there. But as she did, a picture fell out. Picking it up she looked at it. There was something wrong about it.
“Emmett!”
“What, Clara.” asked Doc as he was about to leave.
She showed him the picture saying “You’d better look at it.”
Doc did. “Great Scott.” he exclaimed.
It was the picture of Marty and Jennifer’s future wedding at the Chapel of Love. But the couple and the wedding party were fading away. Immediately, Doc when into the file cabinet and extracted a newspaper that was dated May 5, 1994. Looking in the society section of it, he check the weddings that took place-or going to take place-on the day of May 3 of that year. It showed the news of McFly-Parker wedding also disappearing from that page.
“What is it, Emmett?” asked Clara.
“The news of Marty and Jennifer’s wedding is fading away.” said Doc.
“What does it mean, Emmett?”
“It means if those two don’t get back together soon,” said Doc, “any chances of them marrying each other and having kids will be erased from existence.” Putting the newspaper back in it’s proper perspective he went onto say “If that happens, there will be no Marty jr. for Griff to get into trouble meaning I don’t go back to 1985 to fetch Marty and wind up with Jennifer coming with us resulting in her become a distraction enough for Old Biff to steal the time machine to go back to 1955 to give the Almanac to his younger self to alter his destiny and cause me and Marty to go back there to stop him. And if me and Marty don’t go back to 1955 to stop Biff, I don’t get struck by lightening and sent back to 1885. And if that happens, you’ll fall in the ravine and die and Jules and Verne will never be born.”
Turning to Clara he said “Unless we get Marty and Jennifer to fall in love again, we’ll have a paradox.”
“How bad?” asked Clara.
“Bad enough to unravel the fabric of time and cause a chain reaction so great it’ll destroy the entire universe.” said Doc.
Clara began to feel a lump in her throat.
“We’ll have to find a way to get them to fall back in love.” Doc went onto say.
Then, the mail arrived. Jules and Verne brought them in. Doc immediately search them and came across something. It was a travel brochure that read:
Plan now and make your next trip to
ITALY
“Yes!” said Doc, “This is it?”
“What is, Emmett?” asked Clara.
“This.” said Doc showing his wife the brochure, “We’ll send them to Italy.”
“Emmett.” said Clara, “That brochure says ‘plan now’. It’s probably talking about a summer vacation.”
“No, Clara.” said Doc, “Not to the Italy of the present. 15th century Italy. We’ll have them go back to the Renaissance era.”
“That sounds romantic.” said Clara, “But how are we going to get them to go?”
“We don’t tell them that they’re taking a trip together.” said Doc, “Get each other involved in a separate project first and then knock them out.”
Calling the boys over, he began to discuss to the others about what plan they would use to get them over to their place.