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All Chapters of The Boy who Circled Time: Chapter 241 - Chapter 250

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Chapter 242: Eyes Blue

The doctor’s hands were ice cold, each touch of his fingers feeling like the tip of an icicle was touching Jasper. He jolted and shivered when the doctor’s hands pressed down on the inside of his elbows, pressing at the joint and looking to see the dismal amount of flesh and fat where his forearm should be. He muttered to himself and went back to his notebook, flitting to a new page before scribbling down more details. Jasper vaguely caught the words,” symptoms of fat redistribution,” and, “not enough nutrients”, as well as Lila’s name at some point. It was enough to tell him that the doctor was well versed in medicine that was beyond this particular time, if not from the future himself. He felt a sickening knot develop in his stomach thinking about how there were other time travellers beside Emmet and himself, and how he had failed, if time travel was still possible. Admittedly, his only goal was simply to prevent the Empire from having access to tim
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Chapter 243: Bad Blood

Emmet flinched, his eyes wide in terror and immediately being drawn to the needle in Jasper’s arms. He moved forward and flung himself between Jasper and the doctor, his legs splayed out awkwardly across the floor. He twisted his body around, gathered his knees up to his chest, and forced his back straight against the sofa, and kept his eyes on the doctor who sat across from him, pulling various plastic boxes out of his bag. “Are you the doctor that was called?” Emmet asked through gritted teeth, balling one of his fists up. “Yes,” the other man replied calmly as if nothing had happened,” I will be removing your cast after dealing with my first patient. I would like you to wait calmly and maybe eat some soup while waiting. It’s up on the table.” “Why didn’t you wake me up when you came in” Emmet asked next, prickling slightly from the answer that he had just received. “Emmet,” Jasper rasped out,” You were asleep, and we didn’t want to
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Chapter 244: Zombie Boy

Emmet paused and thought for a moment. Jasper had nanobots in his blood. He had little machines flowing inside of him, altering his body according to things programmed into them by imperfect people, and the people that he hated and abused him. He had nanobots inside of him, put into him and without the control to alter, stop, or change what they did to him, nor remove them if he so wanted without a long tedious process of having the entirety of his blood removed from his body, filtered, and then put back inside of him. The microchip inside of him had failed massively, cooking his flesh to kill him. What if something similar happened again? What if the nanobots were programmed to kill him again? What if the nanobots malfunctioned because of the time machine and the general mechanisms of time travel? There were so many things that could go wrong. There were so many ways that the nanobots could have hurt him. Did Jasper even agree to this?
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Chapter 245: Like the Atlantic

“I’m sorry,” Emmet called out,” I’m sorry.” He twisted his body around and pulled himself into Jasper’s chest, nuzzling his head into his shirt, before deciding against it. Pulling his head out and feeling cold as a result, he gathered Jasper up in his arms and pressed him into Emmet’s own body, cradling him close to him. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. It’s not your fault,” Emmet repeated, chanting to Jasper and himself. “You went through all of this. You went through that, and then you were comforting me. You… you… I should be doing that to you. I should be comforting you. You were the one who had gone through this, and I should be comforting you, not the other way around. You were the one who… I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.” “It’s not your fault. It’s none of your fault.” “The only people to blame are the people who hurt you directly, and the people that let it happen and wanted it to happen. You aren’t to blame for anything that went bad, a
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Chapter 246: The non-Imminent Death

“Are you going to stop blubbering so I can do my job?” the doctor asked, cutting harshly through Emmet’s speech. “I have a schedule to follow and I have another appointment to get to in less than half an hour. Rest assured that therapy will be prescribed to both of you and you will both make full recoveries. We have technology that exceeds both of your futures. And besides, Jasper here is barely conscious any more. The next time he wakes up, feed him something and make sure to never exceed the quantities that I have given to Lila. All liquid foods for now as well, so you better eat those sandwiches,” he continued, flipping to a new page in his notepad and scribbling down some more notes. Emmet sniffled, before laying Jasper down to lie comfortably on the sofa again, smoothing his hair and clothes down. He picked up the discarded cotton piece from where it had fallen and put it to the side, rebuttoning up Jasper’s shirt after and fixing his collar. He reached
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Chapter 247: The Nanobots

Emmet watched the doctor attach a small, pen looking device onto the area where the gel had been spread out. The machine beeped, the light on the end, that Emmet hadn’t noticed until then, turned red as well. The doctor then picked up another tool, while still keeping the pen looking thing on the cast, and attached them together, the beeping light obscured by the new addition onto it. It was only then that Emmet’s cast was left alone. The newly formed, combination machine was flipped around, and the doctor moved the cast, and Emmet’s leg. It was arranged so the heel of Emmet’s socked foot touched the floor, the weight of his leg resting on it and all the muscles relaxing. Held still, the machine touched the top of it, pressing down slightly, until the pressure was released and the doctor moved down the whole cast in one straight line, moving the device off as soon as he was finished. The process was repeated twice more on his leg, on the two sides nex
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Chapter 248: The Garden of

By the time that the doctor had left the office, Lila had been too tired of standing up and had sunken down to the floor, head on the ground and listening in on the entire doctor’s appointment for the two men that she was housing. She already had looked up a chart on starvation victims and how to get their stomachs back to be able to eat regular solid foods, all verified and checked over by the doctor, but she had no idea of the injuries of the other men, other than the obvious physical ones. She clutched at her pendant, dangling over her neck, and curled her body up into a tiny ball, the cold wood under her causing the occasional shiver through her body. It was always summer when she found herself unable to get warm, frequently bending over radios and wearing thick jumpers, only really sweating when she would accidently fall asleep in the day under her thick blankets. The arc of light from the opening door barely missed the edges of her wavey hair, f
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Chapter 249: What a Box can do

It was easy enough to feed Jasper soup. Emmet took it one spoon at a time and Jasper opened his mouth up and closed it whenever it was needed. It felt like it was becoming a little insulting to Jasper, who was clearly capable of feeding himself, or it would be if he didn’t frequently close his eyes and leave the world every now and again, not responding to any verbal prompting or by touch. Emmet spent these moments taking a bite out of a sandwich and feeding himself some of Jasper’s soup, the warm liquid helping him to swallow down some of the toughened bread. Tomato and tuna weren’t good flavours to match with margarine and cucumber, but Emmet ate what he had made and what he had been given, swallowing everything down quickly to avoid the taste. It wasn’t too bad, but it left a lot to be desired. There were shadows moving along the wall, the shapes looking like two people elongating before shrinking once more height as they trailed ac
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Chapter 250: Kissy Kissy

Jasper was happy to let Emmet feed him soup. It was warm. It tasted nice. And he was too tired to do it himself. The air was approaching being almost hot, slightly suffocating almost like a heavy blanket had been laid over him. There were no need for any additional layers over him, and it was easy enough to make Emmet sleep with him. As soon as he closed his eyes, he imagined that Emmet would want to leave him alone, sleep somewhere else and make a place to sleep away from Jasper, but the only thing that he did was reshuffle where he was lying, before settling down with an arm over him. Emmet’s fingers were long, and they settled lightly over his hipbone, before becoming still. Jasper fully expected Emmet to move around in his sleep and curl up closer to Jasper, holding him tight just like the night of the storm. There was no more little scale on Emmet’s neck and he smelled like wild berries that Jasper couldn’t put his name on.
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Chapter 251: How do you Function?

Emmet woke up the next morning to a warm weight all along his front and a sunken spot in the sofa just behind his knees. He could hear a mumbled conversation happening over his head, and he instantly grew curious. Lying on the cusp of consciousness and a dream, it was difficult to hear, but, as he slightly shifted leg outwards to over the sofa, he hit something hard and confirmed that this was real. “Just try to get along with him, please, for my sake,” one of the voices pleaded, one that he instantly recognised as Jasper. It emanated from just above his head, and it was also then that he realised that a light touch was carding through his hair and stroking his face. “He told me that he doesn’t like me, and that he hated the person that I became in the future. I think it would be best for me to stay away,” another voice answered him, the voice being higher and giving the other person, and the weight by his leg, as Lila. “Was it his statement t
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