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Everything to Save Her
sci-fi◐ Mature5 contributors · 5 paragraphs deep
Soldiers surround the car. Their commander steps forward and pulls off her helmet. It's Mara, older, scarred, in uniform. Two versions of the same woman stare at each other. 'You brought a copy of me into a war,' the soldier Mara says. 'Now you'll help us end it, or we lose both of you.'
Elias helps the soldiers raid the lab and shut the machine down for good. In the blast, the copied Mara dissolves, but the timeline snaps back clean. He wakes nine months ago, at her real funeral, grief intact but the world safe. On her headstone, in fresh ink that wasn't there before: 'Thank you for letting me go.'
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