TITLE: chaos theory
FANDOM: quantum leap
TIME PERIOD: the original series
FACECLAIMS: kirsten dunst / scott bakula
CHARACTERS: tillie / sam beckett

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TILLIE WAS THE GIRL LOST TO TIME. She could hardly remember how long she'd been looking in the mirror to see a face she didn't recognize. And half of that problem was because her memory was filled with holes. She compared it to swiss cheese, she could remember all the important things like how to breathe and tie her shoes, but little details like her own name and where she was from escaped her.

It wasn't until her guardian angel appeared that some of those holes began to make sense. Her name was Tillie. She was born in New Mexico. She was from the year 2009, and due to a freak accident she'd been sent back in time to correct the mistakes of the past.

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STARRING:

Kirsten Dunst | Tillie
— the girl lost to time —

Scott Bakula | Sam Beckett
— the absent-minded professor —

Dean Stockwell | Al Calavicci
— the holographic veteran —

Connor Trinneer | Angiolo
— the guardian angel —

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Mimi Kuzyk | Donna Eleese
Dennis Wolfberg | Irving Gushman
Susan Diol | Beth Calavicci
Georgina Reilly | Janis Calavicci

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PLOT

prologue | tillie wakes up lost and confused in a time which she does not belong. she meets angiolo, a man only she can see so she assumes that he's her guardian angel. even after she's corrected and the situation is explained to her, she continues to call him her guardian angel.

act one | three years have passed since her first leap. it's at this time that she comes across one doctor sam beckett and realizes that she's not the only one stuck leaping through time. sam has been leaping through time on his own, but it's only after coming into contact with tillie that his connection to al calavicci is restored.

act two & three | without giving too much away, the chaotic situations that these leapers find themselves in while trying to make their way back home to their own timeline.

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NOTES

1. tillie and gio have the most adorable sibling dynamic without actually being related. they annoy one another and act like it's an inconvenience to be linked to one another, but should anything go wrong they immediately grow protective of one another.

2. sam has absolutely no idea what to do with tillie. normally he's quite good with kids, but he's clueless when it comes to this one. there's something about her that's eerily familiar and he constantly experiences moments of deja vu.

3. al and gio are both holograms; however, they are from separate timelines. for al, it's like no time has passed since the original show's finale. to him, it feels like it's only been a few days since his connection with sam was severed and restored. meanwhile, gio has accessed the project from 2009 not long after tillie's first leap.

4. after tillie and sam first meet, their jumps become linked allowing them to jump into either timeline stream rather than just their own—therefore allowing tillie to jump back to a time she didn't exist and limiting sam's jumps so that he can't leap without her.

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AUTHOR'S WORD

So many of these fics live rent free in my head, so this is where they'll come to live from now on. Like so many others, this fic needs a bit more development before I start writing it, but here's the general concept.