[OOC] "When your past catches up to you."

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Calendar of Events:

May 20, 2017:

• William Kutcher is "edu-taining" visitors at an annual Siege of Boston reenactment.
• A student of Hessian involvement in the Revolutionary War (as British mercenaries) and a descendant of a Hessian soldier who defected to the Patriot Cause, William is dressed in a Hessian uniform and carrying an authentic, working, 18th century .79 caliber rifle that was handed down to him through the generations from his ancestor, Danilo.
• As William is demonstrating how the rifle is loaded and discharged, terrorists -- regular ol' white guys it appears -- attack the crowd with automatic weapons.
• As did the others, William finds cover.
• Out of anger, though, William finishing loading his weapon, aims at one of the terrorists, and fires.
• The terrorist is killed with the lead shot tearing him up at the neck.

May 20, 1775:

• William's next conscious thought is of waking atop a table, shot, and being treated.
• He learns -- but doesn't immediately believe -- that he has somehow been transported through time to Revolutionary War Boston.
• He meets Samuel Black, a doctor, and Samuel's very pregnant wife, Elizabeth; and Keziah Wilkinson, who is Samuel's widowed sister and a midwife.
• He learns that he is in a small community just north of the South Wall, a barrier that stretches across the Boston Bottleneck, the now non-existent isthmus that used to connect the peninsular city of Boston to the main portion of Massachusetts. The South Wall and Bottleneck are keeping the Patriot forces out of British-controlled Boston.
• Concerning how he got here:
  
  • William remembers that his last act in the 21st century had been firing his 18th century weapon at a terrorist, killing him.
  • William looks for but can't find his weapon.
  • He concludes that the gun is vital to his returning to his time.
  • But obviously the only way he's going to get that gun is to find it when it first arrived in the Colonies ... with his ancestor's arrival in New York more than a year from now!
• I will add more details later.

May 21st, 1775:

• In the wee hours of the night, William and Keziah were taken hostage by Patriot forces and snuck south beyond the South Wall to a town held by the Massachusetts Second Regiment.
• The Patriot forces take William because he is (supposedly) a Hessian deserter from the British forces and may have some intelligence value.
• They take Keziah because she is a midwife, which is as close to medical assistance as they can get.
• William and Keziah are presumed to be husband and wife, and since it seems in their interest to uphold the misunderstanding, they go with it.
• William's interrogation and the Tyler Farm:
  
  • William's interrogation is not going well initially: the British doubt he is who he claims to be, which raises the chances that they will execute him as a spy.
  • He remembers the Tyler Farm, where a British unit had secretly arrived with a small arsenal, including 2 cannons.
  • Per real history, the unit was to attack the Massachusetts Second Regiment, but after a fire destroyed their powder supply, the cannons were destroyed and the unit withdrew without having engaged Patriot forces.
  • William convinced the Patriots to attack the Farm and destroy the guns. He knew this would secure his authenticity without changing history.
  • Unfortunately, the Patriots captured the guns, powder, and shot instead of destroying them.

May 22nd, 1775:

• The Massachusetts Second Regiment, with the guns, destroy the South Wall and invade the Bottleneck, changing history.
• Over the days to come, the British are expelled from Boston almost a year before they had been in original history.
• Samuel and Elizabeth -- who had still been north of the South Wall in British held territory -- are missing.
• Keziah is escorted under guard to her father's home in Lexington while William proceeds into the Bottleneck to search for Samuel and Elizabeth.

Mid-June 1775:

• William arrives in Lexington with Rose Anne, Samuel and Elizabeth's newborn daughter.
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• Elizabeth had died in child birth; and Samuel had disappeared in Boston during the fighting.
• William had located Rose Anne and -- with his Patriot escort -- brought her to Lexington.
• William expresses his desire for Keziah.
• Keziah agrees that he can court her.

Late Summer:

• After weeks of getting ever more comfortable with one another, Keziah took William to her bed for a gentle night of love making.
• But the next day, she withdrew from him; and William didn't push.
• They went back to normal ... not knowing that Edward, Keziah's father, greatly suspected that the two had made love.

October 1775:

• General George Washington is assassinated.
• Desperate for his unexplainable insights, Colonel Harding of the Massachusetts Second Regiment recruits William (without the latter's input) as a Lieutenant.
• Before he leaves, William proposes to Keziah.
• They marry and spend only their second night together in one another's arms.
• William departs for the war.