Time Tunnel MI5 Style….don't own the show or even the first part of this title, belongs to show from the 60s. (I think)

Ruth woke up that morning feeling different. Is it possible to feel younger? As she swung her legs out over the edge of her bed she noticed the room around her wasn't her apartment, but that of her house, the house she lived in when she first started working for MI5.

She looked in the mirror. She looked almost a decade younger. She then glanced at her calendar. It was the date that caused her to inhale deeply. It was THE DATE. It was exactly the date she started work for MI5, the day she arrived late and dropped files everywhere around Tom Quinn. Glancing at the clock, she sees she has plenty of time to be at work, but wonders, what is going on. She thinks, I must be dreaming. Then she trips over her shoes and catches herself by the edge of the bed and recalls that was exactly what happened that morning that is etched in her mind.

For a moment she thinks about calling Harry, and then decids he'd think she's lost her mind, not that he might not already think that. Her brain starts thinking about quantum physics and wonders if perhaps she has gone back in time. Back to a time where everything is simple. That makes this a wonderful dream she thinks to herself. She is back to a time she smiled and thought all the world's problems can be solved through research. Is she really go back? Ruth decided she would enjoy the dream. Everything seems real, the color, the texture, and her appearance. She reaches out and sees Fidget. The cat looks years younger too. To Ruth it has to be a dream, then her analytical brain tells her it is too real to be a dream. At first she thinks about staying in the house and reminiscing. Then she recalls it is "The day." Her first day at MI5 if this is more than a dream. So she showers, (the water feels real) dresses in that awful outfit hanging in the closet, and she could see why some thought her bonkers that day. Ruth remembers at that time it really was a part she was playing to the team as she is to be a junior member, and needed to be noticed for her brain not her looks. She recalls she purposely played hippy-frumpy. It would become the role of a lifetime for her. Ruth moves on.

Shortly she is on the bus and headed toward Themes House.

She glances at her watch and sees she is going to be late, just as that day she made her way in and Harry made that awful joke. It seems history is going to repeat itself this time. Can I change history, can I have more time with Harry. At what point did Harry fall in love with me? At what point did I fall for Harry. Ruth wasn't sure she had those answers. She was minutes away from Themes House where she'd begin to find answers, and determine if this was a dream, coma, or real.

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