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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote in [community profile] give_satisfaction 2020-06-23 10:35 pm (UTC)

Time Travel: Double Drabble: Gen

Title: A Good Reason
Rating: 200
Rating: Gen
Characters: Jeeves & Bertie
Also for: [community profile] drabble_zone prompt of 'A Good Reason'
Summary: Bertie returns from a excursion via a time-traveling wardrobe.

“Jeeves! How long have I been gone?”

“Seven minutes, sir. I confess confusion at your sudden absence. You gave no indication you were leaving the residence.”

“I gave no indication because I had no indication. I dug into the wardrobe in search of my green homburg and suddenly found myself somewhere else! Or more precisely somewhen else!”

“Sir?”

“Believe me or believe me not, but I somehow wandered about a hundred years into the future!”

Jeeves opened the door of the wardrobe and peered inside.

“And would you believe it, I got my own show on what passes for the wireless. Except they can see you, too. They’re gaga about the way I talk. People pay money, ridiculous sums, to have me read the newspaper, well, it isn’t paper, exactly, and tell them what I think. I had hundreds of thousands of followers on, what’s the word, the You tube and the Instant gram. I was what they call an influencer. But I had to return.”

“Why, sir?”

“For a good reason. There are virtually no gentlemen’s personal gentlemen in the future, Jeeves, and I simply couldn’t do with you.”

“Next time, sir, we shall look for the homburg together.”

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