1.
"What is it?" Dan asked. "It looks like some kind of spacecraft. Am I on the right track? Is this the big top-secret project that's been keeping you away from home at night?"
"Well, not really," Gina said. "Though, I suppose in the most technical sense, you're not exactly wrong. This device allows you to travel not through space, but through time."
"A time machine? Yeah, right. We should have quit after the first bottle of wine. No, really, though, what is it?"
"I told you. It's a time machine. Here, let me show you how it works." Gina climbed inside the machine and sat in the vinyl chair at the center of the chamber. Even after 10 years of marriage, Dan couldn't help but check out her body as she buckled herself in. Especially since the seat belt was a harness that threaded between her legs, and she was wearing a short rayon skirt. "First you strap yourself in, it's not really a bumpy ride, but the numbers indicate that it could be, theoretically."
"You've traveled time before?" Dan asked, hardly believing that this was true. He knew his wife was brilliant, and he knew that she did some pretty amazing work. But a time machine?
"Of course. We started doing short hops a few months ago. Just a day or two ahead or behind. But two weeks ago, we started doing longer hops in the 5- to 50-year range. That's what we call them—hops."
"Wait, wait. What is this machine for? I mean, what do you do with it? Is it for the military?"
"Somewhat. But not officially. We have our own uses that could be construed as military in nature, but no government agency knows anything about this machine. Our uses are purely humanitarian, and we serve no interest other than the common good."
"This sounds really dangerous. Why did you bring me here? I mean, isn't this a colossal breach of security?"
"Yes. Yes it is. But … well … I have this, um, thing I want to do. And in order for me to feel good about it, you need to know about this machine."
"Thing?"
"Yes. Call it hubris if you want, but there's something I've always wanted to do, even when the machine was nothing but equations in a notebook. I shouldn't do this, but I just can't help it. I guess you could say that, although the machine has many important uses, what I am about to do was my real inspiration and reason for building it. But I needed you to know a little bit about the machine beforehand. Otherwise, there could have been … repercussions." With this, she began pushing buttons on a control panel in the ceiling. "I'm going to go away now, but you'll only miss me for about fifteen seconds. Don't worry, I've done dozens of hops."
Dan didn't know what to say. What could she possibly be doing? He racked his brain but he couldn't come up with anything she might be talking about. He squeezed his eyes shut to massage the lids, and when he opened them again, the machine was gone.
In an instant, it was back again. Gina climbed out looking much worse for the wear. Her hair was mussed and ratted, as though she had just awoken. She no longer wore lipstick. The beautiful, dark eye makeup she had worn just moments ago was now smeared and smudged. And (could it be?) the buttons of her blouse were done up wrong.
"So, what do you think?" she asked. "Was it worth it?"
Dan didn't know what she was talking about at first. But then, the memory began to form.
The memory was so real and vivid that it hit him like a fist. In a state bordering on terror he collapsed into a chair and gripped the arms as images, sounds and even smells arranged themselves in his brain. Like a reader lost in a book, he forgot completely about the room he was in and the real world around him. Instead, he submerged into the autumn of his 18th year.
2.
He was a freshman, in his third week of college. Unlike most of his classmates, he was a commuter student, a townie who lived in a small, private room above his parents' garage. On this particular night, he had just returned home after a night of heavy backseat necking with his new girlfriend Gina. Both of them were virgins, and Dan's cock was still erect, his balls aching in need of release.
"Hi," said a voice as he entered his room. He practically screamed. It was a woman, an older woman, stunningly beautiful and sexily clad in flimsy rayon. "Recognize me?" she said. "I'm Gina, your girlfriend. Actually, I'm Gina, your wife."
Dan stood speechless, crazily thinking that maybe he was hallucinating, maybe somebody had slipped him some kind of drug. It was Gina. She was 10 years older, and far, far sexier. But it was Gina nonetheless.
"I was silly at 18, Dan. There were so many things I wouldn't do, and I can't even imagine why not. Anyway, don't worry about how I got here, just realize that I've come to you tonight to make things right. Just realize that I'm yours, and you can do anything you want with me."
Dan heart nearly exploded as she removed her blouse and bra to reveal the full, round breasts that he had minutes ago been trying—and failing—to get at in the back of his father's Pontiac. Then she pulled down her skirt and panties with one smooth motion, giving Dan an unhindered view of the first real vagina he had ever seen. "Take off your clothes, Dan," she said. "Before we can really start to have fun, we have to fix the problem that that silly girl gave you."
Dan didn't need any more prompting. In seconds, he was out of his clothes and standing before her with his cock harder than it had ever been.