Death of Megan’s Parents
What Happened
This is not a public historical record—it is Megan Toole’s own past. Sometime in the 2020s, on a suburban street in Maplewood, Indiana, a nine-year-old Megan lost both of her parents in a car crash caused by a driver running a red light near her childhood home. She was raised afterward by her grandmother, and the loss became the quiet engine behind everything she would later become.
Historical Context
Unlike the disasters and atrocities the device usually forces the team to witness, this jump has no place in the public record. It exists only in Megan’s memory—and, after this jump, in a second memory that now contradicts it.
Timeline of the Event
- The device, activated by Megan’s own control input for the first time, pulls the trio to a quiet suburban street.
- Megan recognizes the neighborhood—her childhood home—and realizes what night it is.
- She commandeers her mother’s car from the garage to pursue the driver responsible for the crash.
- The team rams the oncoming vehicle to force it out of the intersection before the fatal collision.
- A police officer intervenes moments before the device pulls the team out, leaving the outcome uncertain until they return.
The Five Seconds Connection
This is the first jump Megan ever controls on purpose—and the first time the team successfully changes an outcome instead of just witnessing it. Megan returns carrying two sets of memories at once: the version where her parents died, and the version where they lived. The jump proves the device can be steered. It also proves that changing the past comes at a cost none of them fully understand yet.