He had not known his intervention into the past would backfire to this extent. Jason Mallory was working at the University of California when he married his highschool sweetheart, she died the same day they would have gone on their honeymoon.
This happened suddenly, after a minor argument . It was over a silly dispute about a box or something. He had not known exactly what had happened. Unfortunately at the time of his wife's tragic accident that lead to her death he had lost her in one hour after the accident occurred. She was only twenty five years old.
She was a physicist working on a project he participated in, as a theoretical scientist it means he came up with the ideas as theory. While she made the ideas work. Together they worked on this or that thinktank project. She created the "Thing" they were working on at the time as she was the brilliant mind behind his ideas making his plans come to life as it were. They were a formidable team together as they never stopped formulating their ideas.
As things were they were working on a side project no one knew about as it was so radical they just assumed no one would believe the progress they had made. They were just about to test their theory of time travel after they created a machine... it never happened she was taken far to soon it never seened fare in any case. He was devistated actually inconsolable to say the least,
He never realized time was so short , he never thought her time here on earth would be cut off like it did. The time machine was completed they were going to test it together but now she was gone. He put the time on the machine to just a week before her death into the machine control system but unfortunately he had not added the correct date as the machine actually threw him seven thousand years into the past instead of seven months.
He found a world so different to his own. He had no way of getting back as the machine had brocken down or used up its battery functions...
He was here in the time of the Persian Empire on his own and strangely enough he never aged. He was in a limbo situation. It was the start of his new existence as the Grand vizier. At first he had no intention of altering any timeline that could lead to the future disasters ,but why worry now he was lost here. As his unending existence stretched forward he changed, his aim was finding some semblance of his past. His past was the earth's future it's as strange as that .
When he first arrived as he climbed out of the time capsule he noticed a cave where he stashed the capsule. Time went by slowly at first as he had to do menial labour at first seeing that he had to find something to do, a man had to eat after all. He could eat and he had body functions but he did not age.
In the first ten years he had decided to practice medicine again as his first decree he received was a doctorate of medicine, he achieved a science degree afterwards . There had been many doctors in the future but here his services was actually needed making his time worthwhile after all.
There was so much to do he actually found himself busy at a constant pace, people where always sitting at his office or surgery it was a regular busy clinic except for the fact that he was paid with all kinds of things as money was not a comodity of this time period yet.
In the capital city he found the most beautiful citadels of great opulence and spectacular splendor, mother of pearl domes and great buildings whose structures were so much more than the ruins he was used to seeing on expeditions of his youth. If he could have known how the past looked it would have been fun even ,if he could have visited here with Anthia instead of being stuck here alone. He had been here almost fifty years when he finally met up with the sultan of the Persian empire. The sultan needed medical attention he was by then known to be the best physician in the land.
Time was dripping by slowly, he had given up hope thinking the twentfirst century would be very far away. It was then that he met Antineba's mother. He never had an affair with her but there had been bad rumors that could destroy anyone even the royalty of this land was susceptible to lies and innuendos.
The sultan was a sour man that had his queen imprisoned in the cave of whispers. The sultan had the five wives of the leader of the Masters clan do his dirty work but relented afterwards, yet he never brought back the queen as roumors spread no-one ever ecaped from that cave.
The sultan was told lies as he believed his wife had died yet that was not the truth she had lived in a solid state , Jason Mallory or the Grand vizier as he became known found her but he was unable to bring her back. As the little Antineba grew the Grand vizier was able to see that she was actually Anthia. How this happened he had no idea but he tried speaking to her on many occations it seemed she had a hatefull attitude towards him.
He had to find a way to speak to her as his chance to connect with Anthia was crutial as he missed her and he actually needed her help in getting back home. She was a gifted scientist , he was quite sure she could help him but how. How was he going to access her help?
It was crucial Anthia would help him , he needed to find a way to jog her memories of him and them he needed her...