A new normal

As you awoke you found yourself alone in Harmony’s room with a note on her desk.

Went to class will see you later today love Harmony

You stretched before making your way home to your own dorm settling into your own bed before sighing deeply allowing any semblance of sleep to come for you.

Hours later you awoke going to class ignoring the looks and insults thrown your way like normal. You made it to your last class with the twins. It seemed like you sat down and then before you knew it the class was over and you couldn’t remember a thing. You went home and closed your eyes opening them to find Dr. Haas standing angrily over you as you sat up having fallen asleep in his class. You blinked and then found yourself in the dining hall Harmony sitting right next to you smiling before you blinked again and found yourself in bed again, before you blinked once more finding yourself in you seat in Dr. Price’s class. Every time you blinked you found yourself somewhere else doing some mundane thing what the hell.

You closed your eyes you couldn’t keep doing this you had find answers and so you kept your eyes closed before feeling the familiar sensation and then opened your eyes to find yourself in a laboratory. Judging from the familiar feeling you could feel you were in the void but this wasn’t Dr. Cesar’s library this was a lab. You blinked once more before opening your eyes to find yourself still in the same place sighing it appeared whatever was happening didn’t work here.

Then it happened a grey haired man appeared in a black suit he smiled at you before he spoke. “Bonjour monsieur BlackThorn est un beau jour oui?” He said in French much to your confusion before he stopped seeing your confusion he spoke once more. “Hello Mr. BlackThorn its beautiful a day isn’t it?”he said with a French accent. You nodded before replying. “How do you know my name and who are you?” The man continued searching for beakers and lab equipment while speaking. “My name is Jean-Marc Lecerf one of your predecessors and for some reason the void has seen fit to send you to me.” He said as he set down a silver pocket watch and chain on with the initials NB engraved on it. “Tell me Mr. BlackThorn you do you have the time?” Jean-Marc asked.

“Sure just let me-” you froze as you realized your pocket watch was missing looking around you searched your vest frantically before Jean-Marc clicked his tongue. “I believe you are looking for this no?” He said he held up your silver pocket watch and chain. “How did you get that I swore I had it a minute ago.” You said as you connected the chain back to your vest. “No Mr. BlackThorn you gave it to me for safekeeping 5 millenniums ago in fact this is the 5,000th time we are meeting Mr. BlackThorn.” He said as he took out a pipe and some tobacco.

“But that can’t be right I don’t remember meeting you at all.” You said you examined your pocket watch finding it free of any damage in fact it looked to be in pristine condition the same as when you had first bought it. Mr. Lercerf smiled puffing his pipe before speaking. “Mr. BlackThorn have you ever heard of time dilation?” You nodded before he continued.

“Time in essence is like a river flowing it can change directions with a storm, it can be dammed up and redirected but regardless it will keep flowing no matter what.” He puffed his pipe some more before continuing. “I believe congratulations are in order Mr. BlackThorn as you have accomplished something wizards have strived to do since the concept of time was discovered you have achieved the creation time magic.” He said as continued puffing his pipe the smoke coming out in small rings.

You sat frozen as you contemplated what he had just told you. You looked at your pocket watch to see it ticking along with no need to be manually wound up like before. “Well I keep blinking and finding myself in a different place I can’t remember anything or stay in one place as every time I blink I find myself somewhere else except in here.”

Jean-Marc smiled before setting his pipe down having used up all the tobacco. “Remember this Mr. BlackThorn Time is like an ocean.” He said as he began to fill his pipe once more. “You looked at him curiously before you were hit with a barrage of memories and then you remember when you met him the first time and the 4999 other times as well.

Jean-Marc Lecerf smiled as a look of understanding washed over you. Before you opened your pocket watch and clicked the knob and in a turquoise flash of light you were gone. “Finally he's got it and it only took him 5,000 years to finally figure it out.” Jean-Marc Lecerf remarked as he began puffing on his pipe once more.

You opened your eyes to find yourself again in Harmony’s bed the note still on her desk. You reached into your vest finding your silver pocket watch and chain once more. You opened the watch once more to see the watch ticking away like normal the only difference was the French word “Temp” engraved on the bottom of the watch. You snapped the pocket watch shut before standing up and stretching. Something told you this would be a good day.