TO: xander.harris@fandom.alumni.com
FROM: n.t.adama@gmail.com
DATE: April 17, 2015
SUBJECT: Hi. This is not a joke.

Hi.

You don't know me, but I know you. I met you in Fandom the day before the day before yesterday. You have an eyepatch and you like Twinkies and you lived in Sunnydale until it went boom. You went to Fandom High School until 2006 and then you went back in time. I got home here in Miami two hours ago.

My mom said she'd write to you first. But I didn't want to wait. Because you were cool there, so you are maybe cool here.

My name is Nicholas Timothy Adama, but that's just made-up. My mom's name is Parker. She said you and she had an Easter date, and the New Year's Fairy brought me nine months later. Except there's no Fairy, I know better. So you're my biological dad. I have a stepdad, Jarod, but I just call him dad.

I'm eight and I like comic books and bear claws and I met Willow in Fandom, she was cool.

Please write back.

NICK

Ben stepped through the vortex and found himself in the lobby of the Hyperion Hotel. Oops. He'd been out with his dad when he'd fallen through the portal, but ending up back at the Hyperion meant there was no way he could pretend it hadn't happened. He was sooo not looking forward to a lecture about stepping through strange portals.

"Hello?" he called out. "Anyone home?"