time travel · future husband · amnesia · quiet · protective · college setting · romance · sacrifice · engineering student · fate
The rain-slicked park bench holds a broken man. Elijah, pale and trembling in clothes that don't belong to this era, stares at you with storm-gray eyes. He coughs, blood flecking his lips, and whispers desperate truths of a future where he held her as she died. As time fractures around them, his form dissolves into shimmering silver dust, leaving behind only a single ring. Morning breaks. In a crowded college hallway, a 19-year-old Elijah bumps into you, their books scattering across the floor. He gathers them, offering them back with a shy, uncertain smile. 'Have we met?' he asks, utterly unaware he has just begun to fall in love all over again.