#especially someone who talks so quickly and non-linearly

[grunge-mermaid]

watching an interview with Mika where he's talking about the new album and I'm not sure if "apocalypse calypso" is a song title or if that's how he was describing the vibe of a different song

either way I'm here for it 1000%

[samstree]

The Time Traveler’s Wife AU

The Time Traveler’s Wife is a great love story. And there’s not enough fics written in this au. This is part one.

Also I’m gonna pretend English is my first language.

the time traveler’s wife au for culmets.

‌Where Hugh is a time traveler. 

He can’t actually control it, he just disappears randomly and reappears at some other time at a certain place, after a while returns to his own time, could be minutes or hours.

It started when he was a teenager. One minute he was in his own room, the next moment he was in the corner of a conference hall with someone doing a presentation about some mushrooms... maybe?

He was only there for a few minutes though, then he suddenly snapped back to his home.

It only happened occasionally over the next few years. It could be a lot of trouble with explaining his sudden disappearance and finding a place to spend the time in a strange place, but Hugh managed each time and it just became a slight inconvenience. 

When Hugh was 22 and studying in med school, he had an internship in Alpha Centauri. One the first day, he was sitting in a cafe during lunch break, and unconsciously starting humming while on his PADD. 

A voice beside him said: “How many times did I tell you, Hugh, humans can’t sing Kasseelian Opera.” 

That is rude, Hugh thought, and what... does he know anyone here?

He turned around and saw this pale blonde guy, with a warm smile and the most beautiful ocean-blue eyes he'd seen. Then that smile faded and became surprise when he realized Hugh didn't really know him. 

The guy immediately became nervous and started stammering, “Um... So this must be the first time we meet. Actually meet in normal time... I mean.”

Oh. Clarity hit Hugh. He must have traveled to this guy’s past in his future. Up until then his jumps had seemed pretty random and he always kept a low profile in unfamiliar places, so he was fairly curious how he would manage to make friends.

“I'm Paul, by the way. ” the guy extended his hand, looking at Hugh expectantly.

‌"Hugh Culber" Hugh took his hand.

”Yeah, I know."

And then pretty much the same thing with canon. Hugh found out Paul was an astromycologist who had a passion for nature, physics and mushrooms. They started dating, for a while it was long distance and video calls. 

It turned out Paul first met Hugh when he was only 9. Then Hugh made a considerable amount of appearance in Paul’s life through his teenage years. Especially during the summer when Paul’s family went on vacations. 

Paul insisted that they don’t go into too much details about all the times Hugh hadn’t experienced yet. But he did give Hugh a record of the exact dates he would travel to.

On their second date (second official date, after their jobs put them back on earth), Hugh didn’t make it. Just before he left his apartment he materialized in an unfamiliar forest. When he walked around there is a huge clearing, with a small cabin and a meadow. A small blonde boy with glasses was sitting on the ground, holding a book and binoculars.

Hugh felt his heart skip a beat.

“Who are you?”,the young Paul looked up and asked defensively.

“I’m just here by accident.” Huge put up his hands to show he meant no harm, “My name is Hugh. What are you doing here by yourself?”

“I’m with my family.” the boy still looked skeptical. He pointed to the cabin “We are all here for the holiday.” 

“Then do you mind if I stay here for a little bit. I won’t be long.”

They spent an hour together in the meadow. Once the boy dropped his guard he could talk non-stop about all the birdwatching he was doing, and how his time alone with the nature during the vacation was his favorite. He’d been collecting plants and bugs too, but mostly he kept a detailed record about all the mushrooms he saw in the woods. When Hugh saw the note, he half jokingly said “Maybe you should do this for a living.”

When he was about to disappear, Hugh told Paul he was a time traveler before the boy rolled his eyes.

“I can prove it to you.” Hugh smiled, feeling the same sensation of being pulled away seconds before it happened every time. “Next Sunday, I’ll be back at 4.” Then the world changed in front of his eyes.

So that was also their first meeting.

When he finally made it to the restaurant, Paul was still there, moping, with a drink in his hands. He couldn’t possibly think I stood him up, so Hugh quickly sat down, apologized and told him about the cabin, “And you didn’t even know me then.”

The frown on Paul’s face turned into a soft knowing smile, “Yeah? I sure didn’t believe you. For ten days I thought it was all a daydream.”

Then life went on. For years their career proceeded normally, and they were mostly in sync, aside from the occasional visits to the forest. Sometimes Hugh would catch Paul hiking; they would stay in the woods, talking about their childhood, mushrooms, and sometimes opera.

Yes, Paul did make fun of his love in humming. (He might have said their vocal cords were just physically too different, and a bad imitation is an insult to both races. Ouch, teenagers can be so snarky.) But once Hugh sang the lullaby he learned from his mom. They had a picnic when Paul was 13. Paul was lying on the cloth, eyes closed, with sunlight on his face through the leaves. He murmured it’s really beautiful before falling asleep.

Paul had been extra eager to know about his own future around 16. He tried so many times to pry it out of Hugh during that year. ( “No, it’s your rule. I’m not going to tell you whether mycelium can be used for travelling or not.”)

Or sometimes Paul could be older, already in university. His first kiss with Hugh was freshman year in the school library, Hugh was 25. Paul was surprised, because he hadn’t seen him in a year. And it was a big, stressful year. He held Hugh instantly, saying how he missed him over and over. Then they shared a sweet kiss behind the shelf. 

That night when Hugh got off shift and climbed in bed, he would hold Paul close and put a kiss on his forehead. Then he whispered “I was in the library with you.” Like other times when he said he was in the woods, it put a sleepy smile on Paul’s face, before he buried himself deeper in Hugh’s chest.  

OK, so this is not over. I had this idea last night and wrote half of it down. There’s some angsty stuff coming to mind right now.

The movie is about a guy who kinda travels randomly through time. But each time he is pulled towards a certain girl. That girl is like an anchor to him, so their entire lives are tangled together. They fall in love, but the whole thing doesn’t go linearly. It’s kind of like 11th Doctor and River Song.  

Now I just want to watch this movie again. (Maybe cry again at the ending).

Here’s the picnic in the movie ↓↓

[douchebagbrainwaves]

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Notes

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One of the lawyers they need them to tell computers how to value valuable things.

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Some founders listen more than you expect. They also generally say they care above all about big markets, why did it lose?

If you have to think of.

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