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[notsocommon]

Helen had never been away from home without her father and now she was on some strange island with a husband and a baby, neither of which she remembered. She had always prided herself on never fainting but she had come very close when waking up without a stitch of clothing in bed next to a man.

Will had been kind enough to explain that there was a place to get tea and to relax and that was where Helen was now, trying to soothe her jangled nerves. It was terribly awkward, the whole situation, made even worse by this strange technology she did not understand and these people she did not know.

"How much time have I missed? How many years in the future is it now?"

[PB aside, she looks enough like Magnus to be recognizable - just blonde and 17.]

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[not_so_smooth]

"Right. I can't visit them either," Sam said, which was probably more than she wanted to know, although she brought it up first. "But my girlfriend does have a winged horse we could go see."

[notsocommon]

"A pegasus? I thought they were myths," Helen said, eyes alight with that prospect. Her father had told her about a great many Abnormals but winged horses hadn't been among them.

[not_so_smooth]

"Do you want to go?" Sam asked, unable to keep himself from grinning. It wasn't every day that you got to surprise Helen Magnus.

"The stables aren't that far."

[notsocommon]

"I would love to go," Helen said, beaming brightly. "You don't think my husband will mind it? I don't know the rules, exactly, about marriage on the island."

[not_so_smooth]

"You are so Victorian," Sam said with a lopsided grin. It was interesting to see how Helen used to be. Interesting and a little weird.

"But marriage on the island is how the marriage couple wants it to be. I promise your husband will be fine with it. I mean... I have a giant crush on you when we're our normal ages and he's fine with it."

[notsocommon]

"So long as you don't think it improper of me," Helen said, unable to contain her excitement about seeing a flying equine Abnormal. "This is a once in a lifetime chance."

[not_so_smooth]

"I think it's pretty safe to say I won't think that of you," Sam said with a smile. There probably wasn't anything Helen could do to not make Sam think the world of her.

"It's not too far from here. So have you thought about leaving a note to your future self or anything?"

[notsocommon]

"No," Helen admitted. "Do you think that I should? Oh, but what would I even write about?"

[not_so_smooth]

"Actually I have no idea," he said, heading toward the door out of the compound. Helen had seen the pegasus before as an adult but it would be pretty cool to get to show her off to Helen as a teenager.

"In a hundred plus years, what would you like yourself at your current age to tell you?"

[notsocommon]

"To enjoy myself," Helen said firmly. "I am far too serious a girl and I really ought to enjoy myself more."

[not_so_smooth]

"I think you enjoy yourself as you're older, but a reminder can't hurt, right?" Sam asked. That was probably good advice to a lot of older people from their younger selves.