An Acceptable Risk

Nome Alaska, 7:55 am;

Tina ran to the outskirts of Nome completely opposite of Jenna‘s house, she was panting heavily but she didn’t want to risk Balto and Jenna's lives if the Outsider was around. She tried to piece things together. "Ok, I probably forgot because of shock, no surprise there." she said. "The Outsider was caught in the warp too so it should of came back but why can’t I feel it anymore? From what I know about the Outsider‘s durability, the lightning probably didn’t kill it but the time stream might have, probably easier for me to survive the trip because of I‘m smaller. That could also mean it is still in the time stream and could still make it out, just later than I did, the link will probably reform in that case so that isn‘t so bad. I might be stuck here but that isn‘t necessarily a bad thing as long as I‘m careful not to mess up history to much, not hard to do that when you‘re a dog." She thought of something that terrified her. "Ok, worst case scenario; it was sent back and the link was severed by the warp, unlikely considering how the link was designed but still…" She heard someone walking behind her. She snapped around so fast she fell over. Tina let out a sigh of relief, it was just a human walking by. "Well that almost gave me a heart attack, as if I didn’t have enough problems."
She walked back to Jenna’s house slowly, thinking over her situation more. Once she reached the house, she nudged the door open enough to see through. The humans weren’t in the room but Tina could hear their voices in another room, probably having breakfast. Jenna and Balto were lying in front of the fire, Jenna had her head resting on Balto’s front paws and appeared to just be waking up, she got to her feet with a yawn. "Did you sleep better?" asks Balto.
"Yes, its easier to sleep knowing you’re safe." said Jenna, nuzzling Balto.
"I’m sorry I worry you, this is a nice place but I’m just not an inside dog."
"I know, you’d probably have as much trouble sleeping here as I would sleeping on your boat. We’ll find some way to make this work."
"Yeah…that‘s not the only thing on your mind is it?" he knew Jenna better than anyone and he saw something was bothering her.
"Balto, I‘m not sure if we should trust Tina." Jenna felt awful for saying that but something about Tina just didn‘t feel right, so did how much she knew.
"Jenna, I trust your instincts a lot but Tina really looks up to us and she‘s lost a long way from home, that‘s probably why she was scared. We can‘t help her home, New York is just too far away, but we can try to make her feel at home."
Tina understood how Jenna felt, she showed up knowing everything about them and then ran off, she’d be untrusting if the roles reversed. She wasn’t scared that she was lost, she didn’t have anything to get back. Even if she liked her old life, Damien was dead and the lab had probably been leveled by now in some kind of cover-up. Still she needed them to trust her, if the Outsider had came or was coming back, she couldn‘t stop it alone and they were the only ones she could turn to, she couldn‘t speak human. "Ok, the Outsider may be here already or it might show up, if that’s true, I‘ll need their help which means they have got to trust me, that‘s easier if they know." she told herself, she took a deep breath. "Come on Tina, you can do this, there is no other choice, even if the Outsider doesn‘t show up, I might be stuck here and its better they find out sooner than later…" she groaned. "Please don‘t let this destroy the universe." She nudged the door open more and barked, Balto and Jenna looked in her direction and she motioned to them.
"Glad you’re alright." said Balto as they walked outside.
"Sorry for running out like that, I just needed some time to think."
"Its fine."
"…Look, I overheard you guys talking."
Jenna looked down at her paws. "I’m sorry, I shouldn’t of said that, its just I‘ve had a bad feeling all day and then you showed up and you kind of scared me back there so I wasn‘t sure what to think." said Jenna, she felt ashamed for what she had said.
"Its ok, you had every right to be cautious, I’m a stranger and I’ve done nothing to earn your trust."
"You haven’t done anything to betray our trust ether." Balto pointed out.
"Yes I have, I’ve kept something very important from you but I’m not going to keep it a secret anymore."
"What is it?"
Tina suddenly looked very serious. "Balto, I wasn’t fooling around earlier, well I was but not about what you thought."
Balto realized what she was talking about and would of thought she was joking again but he saw how serious she was. "You’re saying you really are from the future?"
"Wait, what?" asks Jenna.
"Something I told Balto earlier and then told him I may of been joking, I wasn’t. I am from the future, Sunday, June 15, 2008, if you wish to be exact."
Jenna and Balto looked shocked. If she had told them that when they first met her, they might of thought she was joking or crazy but not after seeing the things she knew. "I’m sorry Tina, I‘m just not sure if I believe you or not." said Balto, confused.
"Same here." said Jenna, just as confused as her mate.
Tina chuckles. "I didn’t expect you to believe me, I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t happening to me. I’ll just have to prove it to you." said Tina with a smirk.
"How are you going to do that?" asks Balto, slightly curious.
"I could tell you some things that should happen soon but if I‘ve learned anything from watching Doctor Who, its tell someone too much about their future and the universe might implode…sorry, that hasn‘t been created yet. I was very close to one of your descendents, so I know every detail of your run. Go ahead, ask me anything you think I shouldn‘t know about it."
Something instantly came to Balto‘s mind. "What did I meet when I fell off that cliff that night?"
Tina thought for a second. "I believe you met a white wolf."
Balto and Jenna looked at each other with shock. Jenna was the only one Balto had ever told about that, he hadn’t even told Boris. "You’re right."
"If you still have doubts about my story, I’ve got something else to show you. Jenna, do you know what this is?" asks Tina, slipping her bandana off and laying it on the ground in front of Jenna.
Jenna looked it over and sniffed it. After a couple seconds, her eyes grew wide when she realized that she did recognize it. She looks at her own bandana and back to Tina’s. They were the same one, except Tina’s was torn and faded which would make sense if Tina was from the future. Jenna knew for sure it was the same one, she had only taken hers off once since she got it and that was to give it to Balto that night. "My bandana?" she asks even though she knew the answer.
Tina nodded and slipped it back around her neck. "This was a going away present from your descendant, I’m surprised it looks this good after 83 years. As to why we look