*** The Doctors Voice Can Be Heard In A Room ***
This had been the most cheerful mood I had been in weeks. Jo had let me have the kid for a week. He's a good kid. Closest thing to a son I think I have ever had on a long time. * slight chuckle *
He has grown up nicely. He has brownish blond hair, a lean frame, and a keen mind, which I was ever so happy to fill with the wonders of the universe. He is 12 years old, which also made his mind very impressionable.
His mother had done a good job of teaching him the values of being kind to your elders and taking things you don't understand slowly so when you get them you get them right. His respect to those who were different from him astonished me. She had done a good job of teaching him that too.
Cliff was to caught up in his work to even notice that his son was growing up into a fine young lad. But I mainly think that it was because he was different. Though I think that it was through Jo's and my efforts that the boy turned out the way he did.
He was always eager to learn and like I said I was always eager to indulge him. By the time he went off to boarding school he was well above the high school standards for math, science, and he was enrolled in AP English. Made me feel proud that my hard work had gone to such lengths. Never thought that I would get this far on him. Sure surprised me though.
Over the years I grew to love him as my own, but I knew his mother would never let him call me anything other than uncle. So I became Uncle D. A rather odd name I thought at the time, but as long as he used an endearment in my name I was happy. It never ceased to amaze me how his tone of voice always lit up when he saw me as if to try to impress me with something he had just learned. I tried never to give him a reason not to trust me, and I think I succeeded. He always looked up to me and I would smile every time.
I will always remember those times when he would get into my lab and take things apart. I would control my temper, and then I would tell him to put it back together again. He got quicker at it, and I told him that he could never give up when he started something. All he said to me was hypocrite. I finally realized that all he wanted to do was to see how my tools worked so I just let him in there with instructions on how to out them back together and let him to it. Of course I would stay in there to make sure he didn't blow anything up.
I always had faith in the boy's abilities and his mother was surprised when I came up to her and handed her a certificate to the bank. I had put a 250,000-pound scholarship in the boy's name. I wanted him to go to college. Then I would be free to take him out and show him the universe and his mother would be none the wiser, but until then I have to be content with these small visits that she permits me to have. We did things that any boy would like to do. Play baseball. Stuff like that. But I always made him study. That's one of the things that she made me do that I insisted upon.
Tomorrow would be his birthday and I finally got a birthday. I was really happy. I was going to pick up the boy from his school and we would be off. Tegan, Nyssa, and Adric will be surprised but they will come to like him. After all he is my nephew and every one eventually ends up liking me.
Adrics is misbehaving, AGAIN. It gets frustrating, but I know he means well. I have to go bye.
*** Machines Voice *** JOUNAL ENTRY # 8403975649-8365 OF YEAR 901 RECORDED SUCCESSFULLY.
-with this a small tear is shed and is sent in a sloping slide down the doctors cheek.-
END
This had been the most cheerful mood I had been in weeks. Jo had let me have the kid for a week. He's a good kid. Closest thing to a son I think I have ever had on a long time. * slight chuckle *
He has grown up nicely. He has brownish blond hair, a lean frame, and a keen mind, which I was ever so happy to fill with the wonders of the universe. He is 12 years old, which also made his mind very impressionable.
His mother had done a good job of teaching him the values of being kind to your elders and taking things you don't understand slowly so when you get them you get them right. His respect to those who were different from him astonished me. She had done a good job of teaching him that too.
Cliff was to caught up in his work to even notice that his son was growing up into a fine young lad. But I mainly think that it was because he was different. Though I think that it was through Jo's and my efforts that the boy turned out the way he did.
He was always eager to learn and like I said I was always eager to indulge him. By the time he went off to boarding school he was well above the high school standards for math, science, and he was enrolled in AP English. Made me feel proud that my hard work had gone to such lengths. Never thought that I would get this far on him. Sure surprised me though.
Over the years I grew to love him as my own, but I knew his mother would never let him call me anything other than uncle. So I became Uncle D. A rather odd name I thought at the time, but as long as he used an endearment in my name I was happy. It never ceased to amaze me how his tone of voice always lit up when he saw me as if to try to impress me with something he had just learned. I tried never to give him a reason not to trust me, and I think I succeeded. He always looked up to me and I would smile every time.
I will always remember those times when he would get into my lab and take things apart. I would control my temper, and then I would tell him to put it back together again. He got quicker at it, and I told him that he could never give up when he started something. All he said to me was hypocrite. I finally realized that all he wanted to do was to see how my tools worked so I just let him in there with instructions on how to out them back together and let him to it. Of course I would stay in there to make sure he didn't blow anything up.
I always had faith in the boy's abilities and his mother was surprised when I came up to her and handed her a certificate to the bank. I had put a 250,000-pound scholarship in the boy's name. I wanted him to go to college. Then I would be free to take him out and show him the universe and his mother would be none the wiser, but until then I have to be content with these small visits that she permits me to have. We did things that any boy would like to do. Play baseball. Stuff like that. But I always made him study. That's one of the things that she made me do that I insisted upon.
Tomorrow would be his birthday and I finally got a birthday. I was really happy. I was going to pick up the boy from his school and we would be off. Tegan, Nyssa, and Adric will be surprised but they will come to like him. After all he is my nephew and every one eventually ends up liking me.
Adrics is misbehaving, AGAIN. It gets frustrating, but I know he means well. I have to go bye.
*** Machines Voice *** JOUNAL ENTRY # 8403975649-8365 OF YEAR 901 RECORDED SUCCESSFULLY.
-with this a small tear is shed and is sent in a sloping slide down the doctors cheek.-
END