Closing Scene

Chapel, Great Hall of X Marks the Scot

The Chaplain walked up and sat down beside me.

“I noticed you weren’t at the memorial service,” he said. Earlier that day he had held the funeral service for the future Ryan and my future self.

I sat in silence for a moment before I spoke. “I just couldn’t do it. It was just too disturbing going to my own service.”

“But it wasn’t you; you are still alive.”

“But it was the man I will become, or would have become if what we did was successful. Do you think we changed the future?”

“Obviously, since the Vice President is still alive. Only time will tell if that was enough to change the rest.”

“Did we do the right thing? What if our actions only result in some other evil coming to pass?”

“You know as well as I do that there is no shortage of evils in this world. You were given a great gift by receiving the knowledge to stop one of them.”

“But we changed the time stream. How can we possibly know how that will effect things?”

“We can’t know. We are only human. Such knowledge rests only with the one who created us all.”