200 Words: "Timelapse" Part 10

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She seemed interested, it could be possible, but that possibility posed a bit of a moral dilemma.

Dating hadn't worked out for Jim and Jenna, but they had managed to remain friends over the years. Just a few weeks before his trip through time he had received an e-mail from her which included pictures of her newborn son. Jim realized that anything he did to alter the trajectory of her life could cause that child to not be born. That was a frightening prospect.

Still, if this was his new present, didn't he have a right to live whatever life he chose? Did he have to be locked in to the same path he'd already taken? Or was the future he knew now just one of many possibilities, no more or less valid than any other? Jim couldn't begin to imagine how to answer those questions.

Fortunately, he didn't have to, at least not at that moment. Carla had arrived, and spotting Jim had made her way over to him.

"You came after all," Carla said. "C'mon, Thing Two's getting us a table."

"One sec," Jim replied, then turning toward Jenna said, "Well, it's been nice chatting with you."

"Yep," she said. "See you around."