Oooh! That's kind of like what happened in Pterry's Nightwatch, isn't it? When Time repaired itself by substituting a person from the future in place of somebody who was killed, but not supposed to be killed, from the past?
Uagh! I feel like the part of my brain that's compulsive about grammar is about to hand in notice. dizzy

“Is he dead, Lois?”

“No! But I was really mad and I wanted to kick him between the legs and pull his nose off and put out his eyes with a freshly sharpened pencil and disembowel him with a dull letter opener and strangle him with his own intestines but I stopped myself just in time!”
- Further Down The Road by Terry Leatherwood.