Drabble: As Time Goes By

Suddenly Nick stepped forward and kissed her. "Don't Go."

Jenny sighed. "Inside of us, we both know you belong with Claudia. If you stop me putting things right, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."

"The physicists might be wrong. You don't have to do this."

"We both have a job to do. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of."

Nick's fingers brushed across her lips. "Here's looking at you kid."

Then Jenny turned and walked into the anomaly.