Seventeen
Clark Endless
Ben had been quiet since we’d come through the Gate.
“You’re worried,” I said.
He sighed. “I know it’s selfish, because I want to save Emma too. If time travel is the easiest way to do that, I know that’s what we should do. But…. what if you and I don’t get together?”
“We’re always going to be together,” I said, “you remember that I saved you from Oberon, right?”
He smiled. “Vaguely. I did wind up with absinthe in my system. Did something happen when you saved me?”
“Um…you really don’t remember? Because it was kind of big, and you were the one that did it.”
Ben raised an eyebrow. “Well, I was kind of drunk on absinthe. I don’t remember much of that trip. I think I cal
