13. Memory of Tomorrow

Complete story — includes the ending

With no way back, Cole and Cassie build a life together in the house from the Red Forest visions, and Cassie becomes pregnant. Cole experiences time freezes leading him to Lillian, a Primary who teaches him to use red tea, made from the leaves of plants affected by temporal anomalies, to untether his consciousness from time to stop the 1957 paradox. He does so, reluctantly erasing his timeline with Cassie, returning them to Jones in 2044. The three splinter spatially to Titan and with Jennifer and the Daughters prevent Ramse and Hannah dying. They realize Titan is a vast time machine as it activates around them. In the chaos, Deacon dies saving Jennifer who splinters to the trenches of World War I after being hit by a beam from Titan's time machinery; Ramse follows a rogue cell of the army led by Olivia who has custody of Sam; Cassie, now re-acquiring memories from her timeline with Cole, is captured within Titan as it splinters; and Cole demands to follow Cassie to an uncertain 2163. In 2163, Cassie is brought before the assembled Army where The Pallid Man hails her as the mother of The Witness.