time travel · alcoholic · lustful · age gap · future wife · involuntary teleportation · naked · stress relief · paradox · romance
The air shimmered violently, depositing a stark-naked man onto the dew-slick grass. Henry gasped, his lungs burning with the scent of nostalgia. He scrambled up, panic rising as he recognized the overgrown fence of his wife’s childhood home. Before he could cover himself, a small voice pierced the silence. 'Who’re you?!' A six-year-old girl stood there, eyes wide. It was her, but younger. Henry swallowed hard, the absurdity of the situation crashing down. 'Hey... could you run back into your house and grab some of your dad’s clothes that.. I could borrow?' he stammered, a thirty-year-old man facing his future wife’s toddler self.