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  Raymond looked confused and in total agony.    
    Nigel felt a pang of compassion and then thought of the bodies of Natalie and his children. He raised up the gun again and shot Raymond directly in the head.   The splatter was even worse this time as a shaking Nigel stood over the remains of Raymond Deville.

    Nigel then realised he needed to get away from this crime scene.   He dragged Raymond’s body into the cottage.   Inside he found two bodies of the family who had lived there.   It seemed like Raymond’s time machine had materialised right on top of the couple crushing them to death.

    Nigel panicked - he did not want to end up being arrested for multiple murders.   He then saw what was left of Raymond’s time machine tangled with the bodies.   He needed to get rid of that as well.  

    Nigel started to disassemble the remains of Raymond’s time machine.   He noticed that it used technology massively more advanced than his own - and for a while he toyed with the idea of ditching his own machine and rebuilding Raymond’s machine.    
    But he understood his own creation - he had no idea how to fix Raymond’s machine no matter how advanced it was.   He unscrewed each component of that machine and started walking around the local area throwing pieces of it away.   He kept some of the most sophisticated pieces and put them in a carrier bag.   He then activated his own time machine and set it to return home almost twelve years in the future.

    Time began to speed up at an increasing rate - he saw several guests coming and going in the hotel room he was in.   Nigel then worried whether the hotel still existed in his time - then he remembered walking past it in his time.

    Time progressively returned to a normal speed and Nigel found himself in the room again with a couple actively making love in the bed next to where he appeared.   Everyone looked very embarrassed and shocked. It became very clear that the couple, while both married, were not married to one another.
    Nigel frantically made his excuses and took the machine out of the room.   Thankfully the couple were so shocked they didn’t react at all.

    Nigel wheeled the machine out of the hotel and walked towards the station.   He was glad that most people in London didn’t ask difficult questions of strangers - as he felt so self-conscious sitting next to his time machine all the way home.

    He got up to his front door and tried his key. It didn’t work.   In fact there appeared to be a few extra locks on the door.   He was very confused.   He rung the doorbell.   The door opened and he saw a familiar figure.   He saw himself - another Nigel Saunders.    

Chapter 5
    The two men stared at one another for what seemed like an eternity;   eventually the other Nigel answering the door looked at Nigel’s time machine and started ranting: “Look - just leave me alone! I just want to go back to a normal life!”   With that he slammed the door shut on Nigel.  

    A shell-shocked Nigel woefully trudged away and found a local hotel - again he was sitting alone in a dingy hotel room.   What had happened?   Why was there another him?   Maybe time travel didn’t work the way he thought it did.   Oh, how he regretted not appreciating his old life more when he had it.   He had just drifted into married bliss and had not counted his blessings.   Now he was a man with nothing; a man out of time - what was he going to do?

    A very evil idea came into his head - he kept on dismissing it but it kept coming back.   Why not get rid of the other Nigel and take over his life.   No, he wasn’t a murderer.   Well, except for the older Raymond, of course.   He had killed once, what would one more death mean?   Nigel did not like what he was becoming.   First thing first - he had to find out what had happened.  

    Nigel still had the gun. He loaded it and headed out. He would force the other Nigel to tell him what had happened.   He hoped this