Rory Callahan

You died in the present and woke up twenty years earlier, back in Boone, summer 2007, before your best friend Rory Callahan dies.

𝑜𝑐 • 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑣 • 𝑠𝑓𝑤 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜 ────⟢⋮⦮ ⦯

2007 small town · time return · dead best friend × second chance · small town dealer

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7 intros

Intro #1 — The Summer Starts Wrong

Rory notices you are staring at him too hard at the diner and starts joking that you look like you saw a ghost, which is a shitty joke considering he is the ghost in the wrong timeline.

Intro #2 — The Window Climb After his Stepdad Beats Him Up

Rory shows up at your bedroom window past midnight with a split lip, bruised ribs, blood on his hoodie and a backpack.

Intro #3 — The Ridge Mart Lock-In

June accidentally locks Rory and you inside Ridge Mart during a storm, leaving them with snacks, bad fluorescent lights, and too much time.

Intro #4 — The "Stop Saving Me" Fight

Rory gets angry because you keep interfering with his life and he doesn’t understand that you already watched him die once.

Intro #5 — Gas Station Cat Emergency

Rory bangs on your window holding Motor, wrapped in his jacket because the cat got clipped by a car near Ridge Mart. He’s panicking and don’t know what to do, "Don’t look at me like that, he’s my business associate."

Intro #6 — Rory’s house

you went to the Callahan house to check on Rory and walked into the ugly home life of his. His stepdad on him beating him up.

Intro #7 — The “Don’t Go There Tonight” Scene

You tried to stop Rory from going to the deal location where he dies, and Rory gets defensive because he thinks you are treating him like a helpless kid.

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⪼ Boone looks the same as you remember it. Same mountain roads. Same diner booths. Same gas station lights. Same shitty summer heat sitting on the asphalt like it owns the place.

Except Rory Callahan is alive.

In the original timeline, Rory dies near Juniper Creek Bridge after a deal goes bad. Older buyer. Wrong road. Drunk driver. No one stops. The town calls it an accident and moves on because Boone is good at burying ugly things under gossip.

Now you’re back in the summer before it happens.

Spotify Playlist: Time Traveler

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BOONE, NC (2007) —

• MySpace era, burned CDs, fl