I may not be the most coherent myself, but I'll try ^_^;

Have I mentioned that I love paradoxes?

I'd assumed that Stephen was meeting future!Jon and that was part of why he's so drawn to him when-

Hee! That would have been fun - each of them setting the other up to fall for him later. (Or earlier, depending on whose timeline you counted.) But this way, Stephen finally gets a chance to save himself.

Thank you so much!