User:Van Man
About
Van Man
Real name is Timothy.
Was born on May 30, 1977.
Lives in California.
Joined The Acorn Cafe on January 9, 2005.
Fan-Fiction
Somewhere in Time
The film begins in December 2004, when Van Man meets an old woman who gives him a pocket watch asking him to come back to her. In 2005, Van Man stays at the Acorn Cafe Hotel and falls in love with a photograph of a beautiful woman. Van Man asks Arthur Biehl, an old man who's been at the hotel since 1912, who the woman is and learns that she is Elise McKenna, a famous stage actress. Van Man then researches who Elise is and learns that she was the old woman who gave him the pocket watch in December of 2004.
Van Man learns about time travel from an old college professor of his and that it can be achieved if one can go under hypnosis. However, to achieve this state of hypnosis, one must remove all things from sight that are related to the current time. He is also warned that such a process would leave one very weak, perhaps dangerously so. Van Man heads back to his hotel room and then tries to travel back in time to the year 1912 under hypnosis with a tape recorder only to fail under stress. After a trip to the hotel's attic, Van Man finds an old guest book from 1912 with his signature in it only to learn that he was there.
Van Man again goes under hypnosis (this time without the tape recorder, since it was not around in 1912) and succeeds. Upon arriving in 1912, Van Man looks all over the hotel for Elise, even meeting Arthur as a little boy, and has no luck finding her. Finally, Van Man meets Elise standing by a tree by the lake and she asks him if he's the one. Before he can ask why, Elise's manager, William Fawcett Robinson, tells Van Man to leave Ms. McKenna alone. Van Man continues to seek Elise out again until finally she agrees to walk with him. Van Man finally asks why Elise asked if he was the one and she replies that Robinson knows that she will meet a man that will change her life. Van Man also shows Elise the same pocket watch in which she will give him 95 years later.
Upon returning to the hotel, Elise invites Van Man to her play. Van Man attends the play and upon visiting Elise during intermission finds her getting her picture taken. Upon spotting Van Man, Elise smiles and the picture is then taken. This picture is the same one in which Van Man will see 95 years later at the Acorn Cafe Hotel. Later, Van Man receives a letter from Robinson asking to meet him immediately, that it is a matter of life and death. Robinson tricks Van Man and has him tied up and thrown into the stables. Later, Robinson tells Elise that Van Man has left her and isn't the one, but she replies that she doesn't believe him and he's wrong. Elise admits to Robinson that she loves Van Man and that he will make her very happy. Dispirited, Robinson leaves her dressing room and reminds her that they leave within the hour.
Van Man wakes up the next morning and escapes the stables. He runs to Elise's room only to discover that her party has left. Van Man then goes out to the hotel's deck to find Elise running towards him. They return to his room together and kiss. Later that evening, Elise asks Van Man if he's going to marry her in which he responds yes. She then tells him that the first thing she will do for him is buy him a new suit (the suit Van Man has been wearing the entire time in 1912 is about ten to fifteen years out of style). Van Man begins to show Elise what a wonderful suit it is because of its many pockets. He is alarmed when he reaches into one and finds a penny that has the date of 2006 on it. Snapping him out of his hypnotic-induced time travel, Van Man fades from 1912 with Elise screaming his name in horror as he drifts back to 2007.
Van Man wakes up in the Acorn Cafe hotel having returned back to his own time. He is very weak, physically and emotionally exhausted from his trip through time. He tries to hypnotise himself again without success. After wandering around the hotel and staring for hours at Elise's picture, Van Man returns to his room where he sits in a daze for days without eating. Indy checks on Van Man in his room and finds him very sick and calls for a doctor. Van Man then sees himself drifting above his body and is drawn to a light in a window. In the light is Elise, waiting for him just as he remembered her where they will remain together for all time.
Transportation
A van.
