The Time Traveler's Lover : Jack at 15 months (Ennis' POV)

[soulan]

Inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The characters belong to Annie Proulx.
Jack travels back and forth in time and sees Ennis and himself - visits that change everything and almost nothing.

For the purposes of this story, Jack and Ennis were both born in 1944 and the fight by the lake occurs in the spring of 1983.

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Comments

[bbmjack324]

The vision of almost still a baby laughing Jack gazing intently with those big blue eyes at Ennis, holding him and trying to keep him warm just makes me all kinds a happy mush. Very sweet. He bit him!!

When he looked down into the little face then, and saw the blue eyes gazing intently up at him, he went still. Those black, whiskey-soaked nights came back so vividly that he shuddered. Only one thing had saved him.

Ennis stroked the boy's dark hair and ran his thumb over his cheek as they stared at one another. When he traced his finger over his rosy curving lips, the child opened his mouth, bit Ennis' finger and laughed. Then he was gone, and Ennis was hugging his jacket to his chest.

[anony_mouse19]

i'm glad Jack's visits saved him.instead of tormenting him more by waiting for them.(then again if he figured that Jack can travel he must be wishing for the Jack that knows him to visit.but i guess he's too grateful for what he has to push it somehow by hoping that.like usual)
i liked the parallels with the then and now 4th July picnics.and the punks.
i'm a bit confused about the new order but i'll read them all sometime and hopefully be unconfused(?).
thank you
-Kay

[lawgoddess]

I'm reading these in order of jack's chronological age and am totally hooked. So good.

[lara_pinta]

Originally I caught onto your story very late in the piece, rushed reading it and didn't understand it properly. Reading this today it reads beautifully as a standalone story of extraordinary richness.

I am going re-read the whole series now.

Thank you so much
Lorna

[gwylliondream]

Just gorgeous writing. Your imagery is spectacular, as always.

XO
Donna