Chapter 5
Then he read that the map pointed out that the cabin wasn’t there far from the college, and it was meant to be discovered by someone someday. But, it never mentioned how the book got lost as if the boat just sailed away.
Then as he put the document in his pocket, he saw a dock outside, the cabin, and he also noticed that there was a small boat, and wanted to get in to follow the path that was on the map.
That day he sailed across the ocean looking for the place that was pointed out on the map, but when he finally the map, but when he finally came near it he realized it was private property and soon started sailing back. Whatever the clue was that the map was trying to get across; he was thinking that it would lead to only nothing.
Meanwhile Matthews was finally on trial that day, and just like he said, he had to testify everything that he knew about the book including friends and family. After the court proceedings were over for a break, Matthews attempted to use the payphone to call Jake.
He wasn’t there, so he stayed in the cabin for the night, and he realized that the machine may have really had a purpose, and even thought it just seemed like a simulation he attempted to try it out one more time by visiting the museum one more time.
As he drove back there, he noticed a crowd of people already waiting there for their turn to try it and the glass was taken off so people could try out the simulation.
At first, no one noticed his face because he had a hat over his head, but then a small child pointed him out, and he turned his head.
This time he had to be slightly more careful though because of the fact that he was not a suspect. The security guards didn’t take notice of him yet, but he kept his identity hidden by keeping the hat over his head.
Some people did take noticed of him as he walked passed a nearby counter to get a drink. Then after he got a beverage out of the vending machine, he walked around out to the back of the museum, and stealthy turned in a small corner where no one would see him. He read in the note that the real purpose of the letter was to bring the book back to its rightful owner, and once the book was restored then Da Vinci’s masterpiece would be preserved forever.
The time machine was still there, but it would only be there for a limited time, and in order to protect what his descendent struggled to preserve, he would have to find a way into the machine without getting caught.
He realized that the book was only half of the puzzle, and the truth was waiting on the other side for him. It was written that it was meant to be, and yet he could just admit everything at that moment, but then Da Vinci’s work would be lost forever, and the town’s historical site would then he given up to greedy corporate developers.
He made his choice, and was slowly but stealthy moving behind corners and people attempting to get to the back of the machine. It would only be a matter of time before the corporate executives and greedy developers were going to tear down the rest of Hollow Point near the new auditorium.
Then at that moment the guards get a tip to be on the lookout for a suspicious man accused of giving the untitled book to professor Matthews. He walks back over to the back corner still hiding away from the security guards.
Meanwhile, the bulldozers were moving through the woods attempting to knock down the last few trees before reaching the trail that lead to the cabin. Jake quickly starts to move over to a secret control room while they walk out for a break.
Jake goes inside and attempts to find the button that will turn off the cameras, and deactivate the security system. Meanwhile, the corporate executives watch as more of the forest if being cut down. Jake is in the control room looking at buttons and some switches, and the one that read security was the obvious choice to him.
Jake pushed the button and suddenly the cameras in the room and the nearby surveillance equipment including the alarm all went off. He thought he could still buy more time by turning off some of the remaining cameras that were in another room, but the guards were suddenly beginning to come back to the room.
He quickly caught a glimpse of them through the window and attempted to run out into a nearby hallway that connected with the exit. As he moved out as fast as possible the guards took noticed for a second, but he ran so fast they discarded it for a moment and walked off.
Then the rooms around the museum and the nearby cafe were without security and he knew he had a chance to make a clean break for the machine. He took a few steps out to another nearby corner near the machine.
Jake was very close to the time machine and the guards were not able to keep track of him since he had most of the cameras turned off. Meanwhile, Kyle is getting slightly concerned about him, and he turns off his computer and television in the workplace to call him.
Jake slowly walked over to the machine and got inside. While the guards were not looking he turned on the thrusters and the power on once again, and it soon came on. While inside many people were gathering to watch the exhibit show and Jake was already ready to go.
In the mean time the show was starting again and the guards were confused over the fact that the lights were off in the control room, and the cameras were apparently deactivated since they were not showing any movement. While he inside he waited for the on board computer to appear and then he would be ready for takeoff.
The machine’s on board suddenly came on, and the red lights were flashing brightly as an indication that it was working. The on board computer came with a voice recognition system and a keypad to type in an exact date.
Jake typed in 1954, the date that Dana Da Vinci died, and suddenly the doors closed and the belts that fastened him up for safety automatically come over his shoulders and locked him in the cockpit.
The signals turned green indicating the system was working, and the date was in the computer system when he typed it in. The machine suddenly moved out from the shadowy curtains that surrounded it, and it was slowly increasing further into hyperspace. He saw the meter near the interface, and he was wondering how fast the time machine could really go.
The machine was rapidly moving into hyperspace, and he could really feel the movement, and wasn’t like the crazy twists and turns like the movies. He was inside the cockpit, and there was actually no other room inside except for a storage bin.
The computer could recognize any voice commands that he said out loud. If he said food for example, it could even explain the basic facts and definitions since it was programmed with an encyclopedia inside.
But, mainly he could type in a date and it would take him to that location. He was rapidly on his way to nineteen fifty four, and he suddenly appeared at a strange continuum where the movement of the machine slowed down and although not coming to a screeching halt, it actually slowly curved a little and slowly started to drop down.
The machine started to feel like it was dropping very rapidly, and he could feel the intense pressure almost like a ride at the fair. Then he started to stop, but the drop continued after a moment, tilting and curving even after it slowed a little.
Then the machine really started to fall even more, and the intense pressure made Jake hold on to the seat with a tight grip. The machine fell so far down, that Jake felt a strong burst of intensity in his head.
He didn’t see terra ferma yet when he looked down making him wonder if it was actually going to nineteen fifty four. Then he closed his eyes and the machine dropped with so much intense pressure he almost fell unconscious, and after a few minutes of falling he opened his eyes and pitch black darkness turned to light.
He opened his eyes and saw much of the pitch black darkness slowly transform into a tranquil but powerful ray of light all around him, and wanted to know if he really was experiencing another dimension, and he was beginning to realize he was.
Then the light became so bright that he suddenly became almost blinded by the beauty of the light. They did not fade into bitter darkness, but it was as if it was moving him into something beyond his comprehension.
The ship was full of powerful tranquil colors everything from blue to bright red lights all culminating around a very powerful ray of right that almost blinded him. The machine movement seemed like it was stopping, but he waited for a sign hoping he could see the world again although he was deeply exhausted by the light he was almost feeling unconscious.
He held onto the seat even tighter as the machine accelerating into hyperspace again, and was not slowing down at all. The machine went so fast that he saw rapid strobe lights around as if they were in a rapid continuous sequence. Then he thought everything was going fine, and he heard a loud noise like an explosion, and it suddenly felt like a huge crash when he opened his eyes.
Jake was no longer in hyperspace but on Earth, and he awoke to nearby wooded path that was apparently the museum years ago in the fifties. He was able to get the safety suspension off, and he opened the doors to get out and smell the fresh air, and check around for anyone that could give him directions and help him around. At first the whole wooded lot seemed like a maze, and he could see the sun’s rays hit the trees and nearby bushes, and he was looking around.
The woods was quite cumbersome and intensely hot as Jake slowly walked through the forest admiring everything from the radiance that the sun was shining on trees to the cool breeze that began to come on as he approached a nearby crossroads in the woods.
The crossroads was a little jagged and crooked with one side leading out to what he thought was the town, and the other to possibly more woods. He wanted to the take the left which he thought would eventually lead him out to town. As he crossed over a very small bridge that was over a stream of water, as he approached the other side and he almost felt like he was starving since he as inside that capsule for so long. He walked down what looked like an even longer path, and thought he had hit gold after he saw what looked like a nearby paved road. The road looked paved at a distance, so he walked over to it.
The road really was paves as he pushed the bushes out of the way to hitch a ride. He didn’t see any stop signs or buildings even though the part of town he was in looked familiar.
He was on a nearby sidewalk shoulder waiting for a ride, and there was only a few vehicles passing by because it was the fifties.
The time he spent waiting seemed like forever as time passed by. Then almost in the blink of an eye a truck finally came, and he got in.
The truck driver asked him what his name was and where he wanted to go. At first, Jake told him his name, and then decided that he needed to go to the local college. The driver drove him out to the school, and dropped him off there.
The college looked about the same, and was approaching the nearby cabin where supposedly the inheritor of the book was. He ran across the woods and came near a large nearby spring that was complimented with some oak trees, and where the lake was.
He slowly walked over to the cabin, and there was no one inside as he waited for someone to approach it. Suddenly, he sees a woman through the window and she’s just about to leave with the book in her hand.
He doesn’t want to approach her yet, but yet he can’t hesitate to at least ask her a question. The girl finally walks out the door and Jake comes up around the other way trying to come near her. She waited and paused for a moment thinking someone was there, but then she turned as she was seeing nothing. Later, Jake comes out of the bush, and attempts to greet her with a smile.
The girl watched as he came near her, and he stared in her eyes as if she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She still paused for a moment thinking he was a stranger, but she couldn’t help but notice his smile and charm as he came forward to greet her and say hello.
The girl was a little shy and didn’t say anything at first, but still decided to at least give him a chance to say something before he walked away so she stayed. The girl wasn’t that aware of any foreigners since she had always liked people only form her town, and was not fond of strangers and people she didn’t know.
Hi, Jake said as he attempted to have a conversation with the girl. The girl was still there, but she slowly tried to walk away like she didn’t know him. Then at the moment he asked her a question one he was hoping she would answer.
At first the girl didn’t want to answer, but Jake quickly attempted to ask her again about the book. She turned around, and when she saw his face once more, she told him that she had many books, but then she walked off as if she didn’t know him.
Jake wanted to keep trying to get his question answered, but she was already gone and she walked off far into the distance in the woods where he couldn’t keep up with her.
The time was about eight thirty a.m., which is what was set on the interface by Jake, and it was written that she threw the book into a boat at that very morning. He quickly attempted to follow, but she was too far away to be seen. He crossed his arms from the slight feeling that was brought on by the wind as he came near the rugged path she crossed in the distance.
The woods overshadowed his view as his concentration of where she went, but he figures that she might be walking off somewhere to discard the untitled book. The only way he could ever cross her path again was probably make some other passage around the woods which he attempted and then he only came across more cumbersome wooded paths that lead to nowhere.
Then he finally came across to the lake, and she was standing there far away at the end of the lake, and it looked so dramatic the way she stood there and waited on the soft sand about to throw away a book that was written centuries ago, and was apparently her inheritance.
He wanted to cross over to the harbor of the lake where she was to stop her, but she was on the boat, and was attempting to set sail with the book.
The book was in her hands as she set sail across the ocean, and although Jake walked as fast as he could, and he waved his hands to show that he was there, and she had already set sail and was far out into the lake.
The girl had already sailed halfway down the lake, and there was no way he could catch up even if he swam across it to get her. Then he decided then he should just walk across to the other end, and wait for her to arrive.
Even though that seemed like a good plan, he still needed to make sure that he could get her to hand over the book which he thought might be a challenge. The moment that he crossed over to the alternate path to make his way around to see her, he periodically looked around to see if her boat was still there so he knew he was on the right track.
Jake came across a somewhat rugged set of bushes to hide behind, while the girl had set up her books to read in the grass laid out near a stone bench. He approached a bench, but she had already let the boat set sail leaving the chapter more open to describing the sequence of events in which he understands her point of view.
Why are you so afraid of me? , he asked while approaching the woman. She actually came near him and explained that the book was dangerous, but also was not meant to be uncovered by the church.
The book was actually more than just a technological requiem of design for a time machine, but rather his goal of showing the world that science could accomplish things even in the eyes of god. They talked for a while, and even began to build a passionate relationship for the moment.
They held hands walking through the sand together near the lake, and even though they only knew each other for a few minutes it seemed like forever, and that’s where the story ends for now. But that secret continued in the fact that because both Jake and Dana became lovers, the book was sealed from becoming known in the modern era when Jake discovered it.
The story continues with both Jake and Dana becoming more passionate for each other. They clearly don’t truly know how they could learn to live together since they were two worlds apart, but Jake felt that they had a chance if they really worked out their differences.
The two didn’t realized that they may have altered the future because they were too passionately in love, and Jake attempted to hold her hands while the sunlight was shining over the long stretched like that crossed over where he visited as a kid.
It was quiet serene moment for the two of them, but he time they would have together would short since Jake would be back in the time machine, and he would be back in the present day. He couldn’t help but admire her beautiful and very loving passionate smile as they took a long walk down the lake. Dana paused for a moment to ask Jake a question about his world.
They were both walking down the path near the lake, and Jake answered Dana’s question about the present day. “Well, it’s very much like how you are living in many ways, but technology had advanced so rapidly that you may not ever understand what a computer is or a DVD player”, said Jake.
Even Dana had never heard of a DVD player, and she had only heard the word computer once or twice in her life. You have heard of a computer? , said Jake. Yes, but I only know that their big bulky machines that processes information by storage and it takes at least two hours to get anything done.
“Computers have changed a lot since then”, said Jake. How so? , said Dana. They are not anywhere near as bulky, and they can be held on your lap, and they are designed to do almost anything that your heart desires, practically any business that needs to be done, said Jake.
That’s amazing, I don’t even know how to use one or how you can access one, said Dana. They both went on discussing computers and Jake actually told her that someday almost anything would be possible.
After they talked and even kissed a little, Jake wanted to tell her that they would only have a short time of romance, but he didn’t want to break her heart either.
She responded quite gently, but also assertively that she understood that he had to go back, but she didn’t know about the time machine yet, and the relationship they were slowly building was seemingly only getting stronger.
“I must leave”, Jake told her while walking down the long winded path that crossed by the lake. “I understand, but you don’t have to go, stay and we can at least spend the night”, said Dana.
They gave each other one last passionate kiss before Jake had to say goodbye, and decided to give her something special before leaving. It was a special pendant cross that he kept over his neck, and he pulled it out of his pocket as a gift of appreciation and also a sign he would come back for her someday.
They both looked at each other and smiled as Jake walked away down the long wooded path and back to the time capsule. Dana slowly waved goodbye, and almost began to shed a tear or two as he was leaving the scene to go back to the present time.
She wanted him to stay, but Jake made a promise that he would come back eventually, and someday they would meet again. The two were then separated and Jake was off to the time capsule once again.
The time capsule was right back where Jake started and he thought about staying with Dana, and the consequences that it would have before he got inside. He was inside the time capsule, and doors automatically shut, and the on board interface suddenly came on while the computer even had a CD player built in for him to