FANFIC BY Mary Jean Holmes ( 16 )
A Stitch in Time (-)  In late summer of 1885, Clara Clayton left an increasingly unhappy life in New Jersey and headed west to California, eager to start a new life as the schoolteacher in one of the many growing frontier towns. On the day of her arrival in Hill Valley, her life was saved by one Emmett Brown, an unusual man with unusual interests and even more unusual origins. They became close, fell in love, and that November were engaged to be married. Clara thought then that she had successfully put behind her old life, that nothing could ruin the happiness which now lay before her and her fianc from the future. But she had failed to take into account the interference of one Prescott R. Osgood, star reporter for the Hill Valley Telegraph, chairman of the schoolboard, intellectual and social snob, and all around insufferable egomaniac. Unknown to Clara, he had set his matrimonial sights on her, and was determined to make her change her mind in his favor, no matter what efforts it took -- even if those efforts threatened Clara's own life.... |
| At Very First Sight (-) On a slushy late winter's day in 1995, Clara, in the process of assembling genealogical material for a family history, finds herself confronted by a pitiful lack of information concerning the Brown lineage. After persuading Emmett to make a quick trip back to 1960 to retrieve his family bible before it could be incinerated in the fire that destroyed the Brown mansion, she returns home only to discover that they left something very important behind, something that will seriously disrupt her family's present, and that only she can dare make the trip to retrieve.... |
Back to Neverland (-)  When a number of circumstances ganged up on poor Doc in the summer of 1997 to remind him of his advancing age -- flunking an eye exam to renew his driver's license, being banned from going on a long-planned trip because of a new crop of allergies he'd developed, Jules finishing his first year in high school, little things like that -- he was not looking forward to being stuck home alone for three weeks while his family headed off for camp and Marty and Jennifer were gone on a special vacation in Hawaii. The news that he would get to spend the first weekend of his isolation in the company of his patent attorney did not come as any great thrill, since he figured the time would be spent hammering out some new contract in the steadily growing demand for his fusion reactor designs. He did not, however, have the slightest idea that Peter Banning's business with him would turn out to be something far more unusual -- and literally out of this world.... |
Circle of Fire (-)  In the middle of the worst blizzard in years, a half-frozen stranger comes knocking at Doc's door, seeking help for a dying myth.... |
| Double Time (-) In trying to help his daughter Marlene finish a school assignment, Marty enlists the aid of Doc Brown and his time machine, only to come back to a world where not all is as wonderful as it seems... |
| I'll Be Home for Christmas (-) In a last minute attempt to find the perfect Christmas present for her husband two days before Christmas in 1996, Clara makes an impulsive trip to the Brown estate in 1931, only to find that an unexpected fall has not only brought her into direct contact with people she should never have met, but is inexplicably erasing her children -- and soon herself -- from existence.... |
| Losing Time (-) When June of 2004 arrived and Emily Brown graduated from Elementary School and reached her fourteenth birthday in the same week, she decided that the special present she wanted more than anything else was a chance to go back in time and visit Hill Valley in the late 1800s, to see that part of her family's history come alive. When Doc answered with an unequivocal NO, she was annoyed, not only because that was the answer she always got when it came to time travel, but also because she was angry with him, and thought he had to be going crazy because he hadn't used the Machines to travel through time for more than a year-and-a-half. Determined to have her way, she laid plans with her brother Chris and their friend J.T. Beckett to get past Doc's security around the Time Machines and, when the opportunity came, to steal one, take a few trips, and be back before anyone was the wiser. In order to seize the chance when it arrived, they found it necessary to take along the young Marlene McFly -- but in the process, something went seriously wrong, and now, Doc, Marty, and both their families must find a way to save the wayward children before they die -- or worse.... |
| No Time Like the Present (-) After seven years of following Sam Beckett on a never-ending journey through time and space with no apparent hope of ever bringing him back home, Al Calavicci remembered that years ago, during a very strange Leap to the future, one person had said it was possible to repair what was wrong with the retrieval systems of Quantum Leap: Dr. Emmett L. Brown. But when Al headed off to California, determined to find Brown and ask for his help, he didn't know that the mysterious Power apparently in control of Quantum Leap had already beaten him to the punch, sending Sam back into the life of his inventor- colleague, and sending Doc back to Sam's life at the Project in New Mexico -- not at some point in the past or even the future, but at the very same moment in the present. And though it seems like a perfect solution, the situation is not without its problems, which carry the danger of permanently shutting down Quantum Leap before its creator can be retrieved, destroying the lives of both Sam and Doc, and perhaps ending those lives forever.... |
| Past Imperfect (-) It all started out as a fairly typical day in the life of the Brown family and friends. Doc was eager to try out his newest refinement of the flux capacitor, Clara was itching to find out what had really happened to one of her ancestors, the kids were restless, and Jennifer was trying to convince Marty that, after a week of lousy fall weather in Hill Valley, 1994, they really needed a little vacation -- to anywhere or anywhen. Under those circumstances, Doc didn't need any persuasion to agree to a little jaunt to Jamaica, 1741. What he and everyone else was expecting to find was a successful end to the new invention's maiden voyage, the answers to Clara's questions about Sir Edward Clayton, quaintly antiquated Kingston, warm sun, blue oceans, and maybe a sandy beach or two. What they hadn't anticipated was their electrifying arrival, nor the persistent attentions of a certain all-too-familiar looking would-be pirate who wanted fame, a ship, a fortune -- and Doc's head.... |
| Running out of Time (-) On the morning of Doc's birthday in July of 1999, he enlisted Marty's help in doing a final test on the newest systems in his latest automotive Time Machine. Because Marty was doing Doc the favor and not vice-versa, he let him select their destination and date: a deserted beach in Fiji of 1955, where Marty felt absolutely nothing could go wrong. But an unexpected accident spoiled their pleasant trip to the tropics, and stuck miles from the nearest hint of civilization, Marty was forced to return the Time Machine to the present to bring back help. Only when he arrived, he discovered it wasn't the present he'd left behind -- and that each time he took the Time Machine through the fourth dimension in search of aid, he found yet another world, not his own. After several attempts to return to the home he knew with no luck, Marty suddenly discovered the truth of what was happening, a truth that might very well leave him wandering through time, trying to get home forever.... |
| The Times They Are a-Changing (-) It had seemed like such a good idea, the perfect way to spend a long sabbatical, or so Ray Stantz, scientist and Ghostbuster, had thought. Take a month or two off, pull out his life's savings, and spend both doing something he'd dreamed of ever since he was a kid, something he'd been working on and planning and designing for years: building a time machine. And it had worked perfectly, too, sending his test hamsters into the past and future with nary a hitch. So when the time came to send people and Janine Melnitz, their secretary, let him talk her into participating, Ray wasn't worried that anything might go wrong. Sure, she was going back to witness a minor event in Egon's past, but she understood the dangers of interfering. She knew better than to do anything that might change history, and she didn't. Or so she thought. When they returned home to 1989, she and Ray quickly discovered that three seconds' worth of difference had been enough to cause a serious alteration of their present, one that was about to end not only their futures, but the whole world's -- permanently. When things continued to go disastrously wrong and with time working against them, Ray was sure he'd finally dragged the world to the end of its road. What he didn't know was that he wasn't the first person to have built a working time machine, that one had been successfully completed four years before by a friend and colleague of his out in California. And he certainly couldn't have known that, at the moment of Janine's fateful error and the explosion of Ray's time machine, that friend had been traveling in the future, had seen Armageddon coming, and had gone back to look for the cause. But what Emmett L. Brown eventually found on November 12, 1989 in New York City was an impending disaster not even he could have predicted.... |
| Til Death Do Us Part (-) Before his wedding to Jennifer Parker in August of 1991, Marty McFly dared to hope that his would be the first perfect wedding in history, the only one in which painfully careful planning avoided all the inevitable problems and last minute headaches. One week before the Big Day, everything was going flawlessly, as smooth as silk -- until Jennifer's Maid of Honor suddenly backed out, and Marty accidentally lost their wedding rings. Unwilling to burden an already upset Jennifer with the news and not knowing what else to do, Marty went to Doc and asked if they might use the Time Machine to go back a day so that he could retrieve the rings and put things back on track. Since it was a simple job and posed no threat to the integrity of the space-time continuum, Doc agreed, and off they went. But what neither of them had counted on was an even smaller accident shorting out a part of the time circuits and stranding them in 1977 -- a brief side trip in which single misspoken word would change the world as they knew it and threaten Doc's very existence.... |
| Twice in a Lifetime (-) By the morning of July 4, 1976, Doc Brown had pretty much gotten used to the noise of firecrackers, cherry bombs, and the crowds who had gathered along John F. Kennedy Drive to watch the big parade celebrating the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. But before the morning was out, he would find himself with a most unlikely companion in the form of eight-year-old Marty McFly, with whom he would share a devious plan to get even with Hill Valley's current teenaged bully, one Dirk Tannen.... |
| Until the End of Time (-) Although November 9, 2002 started off innocently enough -- Chris Brown's seventh birthday party, some digging through the attic, a walk out to the lab to tinker with old ideas and try to make them work -- things took a definite turn for the worse when monitors in the Time Machines suddenly signaled a multitude of changes to history -- while nobody was traveling through time. Not only did this present Doc and Marty with the puzzle of just how this was happening, but it brought with it a deadline: Within ten years, the entire space-time continuum would destroy itself, unless they could find out what was happening and how to correct it before a temporal ripple reached a certain point in Doc's future and made correction impossible, forever.... |
| Waiting (-) What you do to pass the time.... |
| West of the Moon, East of the Sun (-) Coming home from an anniversary dinner a hundred years in the past, an accident traps Doc and Clara in n-dimensional space; after repairing the damage, Doc is thrown off the time machine during transition and stranded in a strange world that is somehow very familiar.... |
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