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• Is it Considered a Nightmare if it Happened Before Your Very Eyes? by Hey_YesImTrash_Writes

  Fandoms: Back to the Future (Movies)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
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  • Complete Work

  02 Jan 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Emmett "Doc" Brown & Marty McFly
  • Marty McFly
  • Emmett "Doc" Brown
  • George McFly (mentioned)
  • Lorraine Baines McFly (mentioned)
  • mentions of Doc’s initial death at the start of the first movie
  • Takes place during the first movie
  • Marty’s first trip to the 50s
  • Nightmares
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Father-Son Relationship
  • Dad Mode Doc
  • Doc realizing he’s adopted the future boy on accident
  • he now owes this kid big time for what his future self did
  • at least that’s how he views it
  • Marty blames himself
  • are we shocked
  • I hope not
  • I wrote this while so sleep deprived
  • Rated Teen for Marty’s Breakdown
  • dude describes doc’s death in minor detail so

  Summary

  Emmett didn’t just live because he decided on a whim to tape together that note. He didn’t just live because of stroke of luck. No, he knew what would happen before Marty gave him the note. He knew what his fate had originally been. How?

  Marty told him.

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  Just a little ‘What If’ story I’ve been thinking about. What if Doc knew about his death before the note? What if, in a half asleep state after a nightmare, Marty told him?

  Series

  • Part 9 of The BTTF Fixation Returns

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