The Fae World: Jessica: Stepping Into A Story

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At first Jessica thought she’d made a mistake. It wasn’t as though she’d had any help, because it had been her idea and she was as certain as she could be that no one had ever used magic the way she had. There had been stories about people finding themselves living through the storyline of a book, movie, TV series, or game, but she hadn’t heard anything about someone who had chosen to step into a fictional world. Of course that didn’t mean it hadn’t happened. With fae magic no one seemed to be quite sure of anything, which was why she’d never mentioned her plans to anyone. Someone would have tried to talk her out of experimenting, especially as her plan was to create a magical portal that would take her into a fictional world so she could change something and see what happened when she left again.

In all honesty it wasn’t the most sensible plan Jessica had ever come up with. She knew that. There was just a part of her that wanted to see if she could create a portal that would send her into a fictional world, another part of her that really wanted to have some control over the books she read, and a third part that simply wanted to play with magic now that she could. A fourth part, a really quite fourth part, kept telling her that something had to go wrong, because she was playing with fae magic. Ignoring that part was much easier than she anticipated, which was why she was standing in the fictional world of her choice with nothing but the clothes she was wearing.

Well, that was where Jessica thought she was. The point she had chosen in her fictional timeline was one that had been mentioned, but was never actually a part of the story, and that was probably the stupidest thing to have done. She wasn’t sure exactly where she was meant to be. All she knew was that there had been a death at that time that she wanted to prevent, in order to change things in the future. If she could change one thing then it seemed possible that she could change the other things she had disliked, making the storyline go the way she thought it should have done instead of the way the author had made it go, because she was the one in control.

Biting hard on her lip Jessica looked around. The portal had appeared in front of her, the way it was supposed to, and she had stepped through it, so she should be where she planned on being. She should have done a test first, going to a part of the storyline she knew well, but she had been adamant about what she wanted to change first. It would, if she got everything right, make a huge difference to a couple of the characters in the future, which was what she wanted, because she had grown to love the characters and she wanted their lives to be happier.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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>>A fourth part, a really quite fourth part,<<

Should that be "really quiet" above? Or something like "really sensible" instead?

I love this setup. The protagonist is an idiot ... but a very entertaining idiot from the safety of several universes away.