JENNIFER got out of the car and staggered onto the street. There, she saw a huge crowd surrounding her mother. Then she saw her father there comforting her. Her mother looked frightened over what happened. She started to cry and threw her arms onto her fiance. Then, they started to kiss feverently. Seeing this, Jennifer extracted the picture of her and Marty from her purse and saw her own self re-emerge and solidify. Then, she took out the picture of Doc and his family and saw Clara, Jules and Verne reappear. The CUSCO fax that she brought from the future months back was also in her purse. She looked at that too. Once again, the two words "YOU'RE FIRED" had been erased from existance. With that, Jennifer was able to stand up. She did! She had restored her own existence. But then, a voice was heard. "There she is." said someone and Jennifer saw a crowd of people come towards to her. Jennifer turn to flee back to the alley. The crowd followed her. Remembering that the first DeLorean was in the alleyway now, Jennifer ducked down and hid from the first pair of Jules and Verne so they could not see her face. Feeling her way back to the second DeLorean, she felt for the first. Then, she felt the second and got in.
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The crowd followed Prudence's assailant into the alleyway. Then, what they saw was beyond belief. It was like she was feeling something but there was nothing but air. Then, they saw her feeling the air again. They charged her but some felt a bump. What the hell? they asked themselves. Then, they saw the girl disappear into thin air. "Do you see what I see?" asked one of the crowd. Another said "I need a drink." Everyone else felt that way.
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In the car, Jennifer saw Jules and Verne fully restored. "We did it." said Jennifer. She looked up and saw the crowd flee the alley. Then, moments later, she saw her other self with the album she bought for Marty. Witnessing her other self, she saw her disappear into the invisble car. Then, a breeze was felt outside and a flash of light appeared. Then two lines of fire were seen like fire trails. After that, Jennifer set the time circuits for February 21, 1986 4:15 p.m. and kept the destination location at Hill Valley. Using the map, she pointed it for Doc's house. "Time to go." she said as she turned the ignition on and activated the time circuits and the hover device. Then, lifting off the ground, she accelerated the car up to 88 miles per hour and back to 1986.
Friday, February 21, 1986
4:15 p.m.
Hill Valley, California
Looking down, Jennifer saw the house below and pushed the button to open the roof to the lab. It worked. Lowering the DeLorean into the lab, she took the album and got out with the boys. Leaving the lab and going from room to room, they looked around. Everything was back to the way it was before they first went back in time. Jennifer was assured of her existence when she went into the bathroom and saw her own Burger King uniform. Closing the door she got out of her mother's outfit and into her uniform. Outside, a noise was heard. A voice asked "Where's Jennifer?" She recognized the voice. It was Doc's. Then, Clara's voice was heard. They were both home. Putting the outfit back into the box and opened the door. There was Doc and Clara both talking to they boys. "Dr. Brown." said Jennifer, "Clara. Thank God you're back as well." Clara said nothing. Doc went over and grabbed the box out of Jennifer's arms and opened it. Examining it, he asked "Jennifer, what is the meaning of this?" Jennifer was too afraid to answer. So Doc went out the lab. "Jennifer." asked Clara, "What did you mean 'back as well'?" "Clara." said Jennifer, "It's a long story." Then, Doc came back. He had a VCR tape in his hands. "I knew it." he said, "'June 20, 1966.' Today is the day you went back in time to that date." Jennifer was startled. "Dr. Brown." she asked, "You mean you knew what I was doing all along?" "Yes." said Doc, "I went back there and recorded both of you there." He put the tape into the VCR and turned on the television. There it was, the first "Jennifer" going into the store. Then, her parents getting appearing and her father leaving his fiance outside while he went inside. Then, the other "Jennifer" coming out of the alleyway and attacking her mother with the sleep inducer that Doc brought back from the future. Jennifer turned to Doc who said "After hearing that incident with Pearl Harbor and the awful thing I was forced to do, I had hoped that you wouldn't even think of going back in time for any reason." "Dr. Brown." said Jennifer, "If you knew I was going to do such a thing, why didn't you stop me." "Because I didn't know the date you left." he said, "I didn't even want to know the date. It would make things worse. To stop you from what you were doing based on what I found out would have caused a major paradox. It was too risky." "I understand." said Jennifer. "Why did you do it?" asked Doc. "Because, I wanted to buy Marty a get well gift." said Jennifer as she showed him the album. "Marty." said Doc, "Of course. His tonsils. They were removed." "I was wrote a note for you and enclosed it with money as to leave it with you." explained Jennifer, "But, you weren't here. So I first thought of leaving it with your boys but they got greedy. Then, I noticed my mother's 'mod' outfit being left in my dad's car and decided to go back in time myself." Clara turned to Jules and Verne and said "Why didn't you two stop her?" "We tried." said Jules, "But she bribed us." "That's not all." said Jennifer, "They also decided to go back in..." She stopped there for a minute. A sudden slip of the tongue had made her realized that she had gotten the boys in trouble. Both parents were shocked. "You mean", said Doc, "they went back in time with you?" Clara turned to the boys and said "You two are both in trouble. Go to your rooms. No supper for either of you." The two boys left. Doc turned to Jennifer and asked "Why did you go back there to that date twice?" "Because", said Jennifer, "the first time I did, I accidentally broke up their engagement. And when me and the boys returned here, everything changed. I discovered that I was never born and that nobody knew who I was." She turned to Clara saying "I also learned that if it wasn't for me, Dr. Brown and Marty would've gone straight home from 2015 before Old Biff got a hold of the time machine and go back in time with the Almanac. And that Dr. Brown and Marty wouldn't have to chase him down and retrieve the Almanac and that Dr. Brown wouldn't been struck by lightning and get sent back to 1885. And that he wouldn't been able to save you from falling into the ravine." "Oh dear." said Clara. "I hope you learned a valuable lessen, Jennifer." said Doc, "This is why I refused to allow you to go back in time to 1966 San Francisco and meet your parents at their honeymoon and that when you did, me and Marty had to go back there and stop you." "Yes I do." said Jennifer. Doc put his hand on Jennifer saying "At least you went back there to straighten things out if that's what the second 'you' was doing." "I was, Dr. Brown." said Jennifer. She closed the box that her mother's outfit and picked it up. Then, she wanted to pick up the album she bought for Marty but Doc said "That's alright, Jennifer. I'm going over to the hospital tonight and give it to Marty. You just go on to work." "Thank you, Dr. Brown." said Jennifer. "You're welcome." said Doc. Before she left. Jennifer said "Dr. Brown." "Yes, Jennifer." said Doc. "When I was in that reality," said Jennifer, "The Peabody Mall was named Lone Pine Mall." Doc paused for a minute. Then, he said "Oh that." Doc began to smile as he asked "Remember when Marty told you about our trip to 1964 to retrieve a jar of poison from Biff before he used it on Marty's father?" "Yes I do." said Jennifer. "After we got that poison," said Doc, "we went to 1955 to have it destroyed by the same bolt of lightening that sent Marty back to the future. When we arrived, we ran over the only remaining pine tree Old Man Peabody had left." Jennifer mused. "In the reality me and the boys were in," she said, "You didn't allow Marty to go time traveling with him anymore because he bought the Almanac." There was a chuckle among the three. Then, Jennifer left.
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Arriving at Burger King, Jennifer noticed that Doc's old pad was now gone. When she said her hello's, everyone recognized her. Even Geren and Edda. However, the realization of what she did began to set in. Edda began to notice. "Jennifer." she said, "Something wrong." "No." said Jennifer. But, deep down inside, she felt like she did something wrong.
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Later that night, Jennifer arrived home. As she entered, there were her parents back together again. Her father was on the celphone. "Jennifer." said her mother, "I left my old 'mod' outfit in the car." "Mom." said Jennifer, "Dad. You're back together. Everything's back to the way it was." "Jennifer." exclaimed her mother, "You're acting like you haven't been home in over a day." "Believe me." said Jennifer, "I haven't." "Jennifer." said her father, "Phone call." He gave the reciever to Jennifer. Meanwhile, her parents were giving each other a peculiar stare. What did she mean we're back together and everything back to the way it was? they asked themselves. Meanwhile, Jennifer was on the phone saying "Yes?" "Jennifer." said the voice on the phone. It was raspy, but Jennifer recognized it immediatly. "Marty!" she said. "Jen." said Marty, "I forgot to tell you and Doc that I'm home." "You are?" asked Jennifer. "Yeah." said Marty, "I got a phone call from Doc from the hospital when he learned that I was released. Then, he came over here. He had that Beatle's 'Butcher Album' that I always wanted. He said that you went back in time to buy it for me. Thank you." "You're welcome." said Jennifer. "Jennifer." said Marty, "I heard that you and his boys got in trouble with Doc after you fouled up history and had to go back to fix it." "Yeah." said Jennifer as she took the phone into her room. "Hey Jen." said Marty, "The doctor said that I should be well enough to go back to school by Wednesday." "That's great." said Jennifer, "Can I visit you tomorrow?" "Sure." said Marty. "Good." said Jennifer. Then, she remembered something. "Marty." she said, "You know about the Peabody Mall. Don't you?" "Yeah, Jennifer." said Marty, "What about it?" "After I changed history," said Jennifer, "I came back and discovered that the Peabody Mall was called Lone Pine Mall." "Oh that." said Marty, "That was because after getting that jar of poison from Biff, we went back to 1955 and ran over Old Man Peabody's lone remaining tree." "I know." said Jennifer, "Dr. Brown told me the story." "That's not all." said Marty, "Before I first went back into time, it was called the Twin Pines Mall. It was called Lone Pine because when I first went back to 1955, I accidentally ran over one of Mr. Peabody's tree with the DeLorean." They both laughed. "Marty." said Jennifer, "Wanna know something else?" "Yeah, sure." said Marty. "In that other reality," said Jennifer, "the Eastwood Ravine was called Clayton Ravine after Doc's wife Clara. And that everyone knew that story because everyone had teachers they want to go into the ravine." "Jennifer." said Marty, "You mean you don't remember your freshman year when you wanted the ravine named after your homeroom teacher because she drove you bats?" "No." said Jennifer. There was silence on the other end. Then, Marty said "Oh yeah. I forgot. Me and Doc..." "...went back to 1885 and Doc saved Clara falling into the ravine and the ravine wasn't named after here." said Jennifer. She still remembered hearing Marty's story of how he and Doc went back to the Old West and that Marty took the name Clint Eastwood after the movie actor. "Jennifer." said Marty, "I've gotta go." "Okay Marty." said Jennifer. "Goodnight, Jen." said Marty, "Love you." "I love you too." said Jennifer, "See you tomorrow." After that, she hung up. After going out to put the celphone back into it's proper place, Jennifer went back to her room and laid down on the top of her bed.
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