As a condition of his bail he had to report to the police station each day. So instead of going to school he stayed home with his mum and she drove him into the police station. When he got there the desk Sergeant said, “Inspector Flinders wants to talk to you.”
A couple of minutes later he and is mum were sitting in Inspector Flinders’ office. “I have checked up on Connolly,” he said. “He got out on parole last month.”
“I know,” said Tom, “but he can’t be the one that killed Cathy because before I sent you to arrest him he was dead.”
“I don’t understand.”
“He abducted me in May 1968 and locked me in one of those sheds. I awoke in May 1959 and helped rescue two girls. One was that Wendy Smith girl that you rescued. She was covered in cigarette burns. She got a gun and killed him. But because I sent you to arrest him in April, a month before all this took place, well it was just impossible for that to have happened. In other words I changed history. It is not the first time and I am guessing it won’t be the last. But I had already been arrested when I met you that first time. So at the time of the murder he was dead. That is until we changed history.”
“How on earth do you live with this? And how do you keep sane with an ever changing history?”
“It is not easy but it does have some benefits.”
“Like what?”
“I can go forwards in time. In fact last night I went to 2015. They have a marvellous invention called the Internet. It has information about everything. That is how I know Connolly got out of jail sometime this year.”
“What else did you learn?”
“I learnt about DNA.”
“What’s that?”
“Well, you know that my blood group matches the semen?”
“Yes.”
“Well, so does everybody else with my blood group. That could be millions of people. But DNA can match it to a single person. Apparently everybody has DNA and it is different in everybody.”
“You mean, like fingerprints?”
“Maybe. I don’t really understand it but everybody is different.”
“Be handy to have that now wouldn’t it?”
“Yeah.” Tommy said dejectedly. Then a thought struck him. “What do you do with the sample of the semen? How long is it kept?”
“I think they keep it forever. I am not real sure, why?”
“Maybe if it could be accessed in 2015 I could get it tested and then we would know who it belonged too.”

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2015 Revisited
General FictionThis is the third book in the series "A Timeless Adventure". Tom is desperately trying to fit into two worlds. He is sick of being a book worm so he becomes a surf lifesaver. He even grows his hair long. So ante establishment. Then he has trouble w...