At what cost?

                                          By: Autumn Warren 

⚠️Trigger warning; Mentions of suicide.⚠️

If. . . what a word. 

If I could only do both or be in two places at once. If only I did this. Do you think I could have stopped that? If I changed do you think he would love me? If, If, If. . . always if.  It’s never can I.  Can I go back?

Lots of people have always wondered what would happen if. . . Well what if I told you, you can. You can go back! You can change that thing!  You can save her, you can love him, you can do both!  Would you take the chance? Would you do it for the ones you love? Yourself, Or just for them? In a world where that is more than normal, would you even think about the consequences? Think about the cost; or just dive right into the unknown? If I weren’t the way I am I would just dive in like many of you. But sadly I’m me and no one else. Where are my manners! Let me introduce myself.

  I’m Mister Woodbead. The Woodbead from Woodbead Time and Space travels. 

I’m the one that made the famous “Time Machine”  back in 2367. Not really a “Time machine” You “Skipped” around from timeline to timeline into the moment you wished. 

Not too shabby were my  thoughts to myself when I realized I was sitting on top of that gold for years just had to look at it in a way one has ever. Little did I know how much hurt I would-. . . Let's not get ahead of ourselves now. I made the Machine when I was trying to find a way to save my dead girlfriend, to go back and do something different so she wouldn't get shot. Well I did! I saved her and she broke up with me. Then weeks later she got hit by a bus. Every time I saved her, she died some other way. Leaving me stuck in a loop of getting heart broken and saving her once more. I gave up 5 years later.She doesn't even love me. Why was I to save her? So I stopped. 5 YEARS  of saving someone that didn't love me. So I tried to go back to the first timeline I called timeline #1.05, but I found out for every time I “Skipped” timelines I had to “Skip” back. That took forever.

I finally got back and sold my work. I was happy! Or thought I was. Buying all these really expensive things, new cars that flew and the new eye phone fifteen hundred. Clothing,  shoes,  fame! I had it all!   Or so I thought. . . I was lonely. Oh so lonely. Ever heard the really old phrase “Money can buy a lot but not happiness.” or was it “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy me a bout?” I don’t know they were weird back then.

Once I got older I dug deeper.  

Deeper into this thing I created. What I found out was shocking. I ended up in a hospital for weeks at a time. Going in and out. I learned that every time you “Skipped” timelines you killed off the “you” in that line. I did that. I killed  hundreds of me’s  for years. And now with it being so public.

 I was KILLING thousands, maybe even millions everyday. It was too much for me to bear so I tried to get rid of my machine but my manager said not to, “It would be bad for business.” So I leaked it to the media hoping they would cancel me. That’s what they were doing to everyone else, so why not me. The “Rumor" was shut down by the “Big boss” herself. There was still some buzzing here and there but other than that it was forgotten.  I even tried to “Skip”  back before I made the machine knowing I was killing another me. But it was for the greater good. That didn’t work. Then I realized it. This is my punishment. 

My punishment was to live with the fact that I was killing everyone over and over.

I was the villain of my own story. . . The universe itself  was trying to tell me early on when I was trying to save Her that no matter how much I tried it would put it all back in order. But now it was simply too much. And It was not all going back to how it was supposed to be. It was all my fault.

 I single handedly destroyed the universe. 

      I destroyed the universe.

Me, I did! How am I gonna live with that? I can’t. That’s the answer! I can't. I can  do a lot but not that. That is why I’m writing this and sending it out to this world so you can stop me before I start. Timeline #1 the original timeline where my girlfriend was shot and I never made the “Time Machine”  Stop me before it’s too late!

   Sincerely, The  woodbead,

                                                                   Mattraton Woodbead

P.s I will be dead by the time this reaches timeline #1

                                                                                                           Sent from: Timeline # 1.05

Hello to those of Timeline #1 This is just a project to see if messages can make it across timelines. None of this is true but the part where Mattraton made the Time machine. He lived a long and happy life and did not get killed by the government. We would delete this whole thing but could not find out how. Just go along with your day as normal. This is all normal! Nothing to be suspicious  about! Thank you, 

                                                                                                                     The government.

P.S.  He is still alive if you would like to address him type here, 

W..Government-Email-For-The-People_We’ve_Killed.com      

  And all is normal. He is dead, continue with your day. Thank you so much for your time and remember noth strange happened here. It was all a joke pulled by some random person we don’t know. 

 The Government, 

Not the president, The Government!