Jeff thought about it and decided that with his Mom being fifty-four, it didn't exactly make too much sense for his father to be her son. The memories he had were that she had been expecting to go through menopause when she'd unexpectedly gotten pregnant with John as a "whoops" baby. Further he started to wonder what it would be like to be John's father himself. It'd be a bit of fun and it'd likely help his bond with John, and he could experiment with adding a few years to himself.
Returning to the computer he added three years to his age and went down and edited his relationship to John to shift from being his brother to his son. The Chronivac beeped and asked whether it should adjust relationships with the rest of his family due to this change, and Jeff agreed to this. Looking to see what this changed, Jeff checked the family tree feature and saw that John had moved from being on equal level with Jeff and his brother and sister, to instead being the next level down with a line coming down from Jeff. Another line led from Jeff off into a question mark where his mother theoretically should be. Jeff clicked on this and found that a window popped up explaining that reality would alter to provide a mother to John's past history and the Chronivac was set to random at the moment. Jeff wondered what other options there were so he clicked on it to find a short list describing scenarios in which John was conceived and the status of the mother currently which was also set to Random. The first seemed to be ordered from the most intimate to least
<u>Conception Backstory:</u>
High School Sweetheart
Girlfriend at the time
Sophmore Dinner Date
Summer Fling
After school Hookup
Random Selection
<u>Relationship Status:</u>
Married
Together
Dating
Estranged but amenable
Filing a lawsuit for custody
Coma
Dead
Random Selection
Interesting. For now Jeff decided to leave both settings to "Random Selection" simply to give him something unexpected to the scenario of becoming John's father. It would only be for a week anyway if one of the more negative situations were chosen.
Jeff accepted the changes, and then rushed to his mirror to observe his own changes. He had one last growth spurt that hit as he approached the mirror causing his balance to be thrown off for a second. He steadied himself by grabbing the back of his chair and then turned to see himself in his mirror. His shirt looked a little smaller on his broadening chest, with an inch or two of his abs showing due to the shirt creeping up. His shoulders were a little wider and Jeff no longer looked as lanky as muscle that had been filling in over the last year or so, plumped up to a nice respectable thickness which wasn't too jacked nor too lean. Hair seemed to emerge everywhere, from a treasure trail, thicker forest poking up out of his chest, more plentiful amounts on his legs and arms, and bit of scruff growing on his chin and blossoming into a short and well trimmed beard. It wasn't long after that that Jeff seemed to notice he'd stopped growing and his clothes now adjusted, growing slightly larger to account for his growth, but largely didn't change in taste or style.
Curious to how John would now react to see him, and how he'd react to seeing John, Jeff left his bedroom which was beginning to shift as he shut the door. He hurried down the steps to find John still watching television, but now the sight of him affected him far differently. There was some stir in his feelings at just the sight of his son, his boy. As John entered the living room, John, looked up from the television and perked up immediately. He smiled and laughed and jumped up on his lap as Jeff sat down, calling him "Daddy!" so endearingly, Jeff couldn't help but hold his son closer.
Wondering what scenario the Chronivac had chosen for explaining John's existence in this time line, Jeff sifted through his memories to find...