"Don is still pondering out there who could be that oblivious, isn't he?" John asked as Judy cradled Joshua.
Judy looked out the window of the Auxiliary deck looking down upon the man resting in the lawn chair.
"He hasn't gotten the answer." Judy said.
"Thinks there is a answer to a question that cannot be answered." John said.
"There isn't one that we don't like." Judy said.
"He is asleep." John said, softly, looking down toward the boy in her arms that had grown quiet
"About time," Judy said, softer, but smiling. She turned her attention off the boy in a pink, green, and yellow onesie toward her father. "See you in the morning, father."
"See you in the morning, Judy." John said.
Judy left him as she went into her cabin with the young boy in her arms as she softly sang to him. John went down the staircase of the ship leading to the surface of the planet. The door closed behind him as he descended. The sky was highlighted by the thunder wrecking mayhem around the Jupiter 2 that was protected by the force field being generated by the generator.
Don was spinning the fidget spinner between his index finger looking on toward the scenery as if seeking for answers that weren't there. The patriarch of the family came to the lieutenant colonel's side then sat down.
"I heard it's still on your mind."
"Smith is the kind of individual that you know who he is at first contact." Don replied lowering his hand with a frown and put the fidget spinner into the cup holder. "And know that he is alive." Don sighed, leaning forward with his hands clasped together in his lap. "That's the part that keeps me asking."
"Well," John said. "They might not know because of a series of circumstance. Like say, he can't speak."
"Or write?" Don asked.
"It could be." John shrugged. "The path that has brought him to life may not allow him to write or speak."
"You're talking about a baby," Don laughed then he paused as a thought struck him.
"What is it?" John was disturbed by the silence coming from the younger man. "Don, you look pale."
"It's me!" Don bolted up to his feet in shock and horror. "I am the one oblivious!"
The thunder struck close to the Jupiter 2 with a loud boom.
"I don't take you as oblivious." John said.
"She changed her looks, her appearance, her age," Don said pacing back and forth in front of the Jupiter 2. "Smith said that he would make her suffer." His hands were in fists. "Well, she doesn't look like she suffered one moment!"
"Bronius!" John stood up to his feet. "She was here? Recently?"
Don paused then turned toward John.
"She changed her last name to Gampu." Don said, grimly.
John's face paled, as the implication began to be made, at the familiarity of the old last name then stood up.
"I don't like where this is going." John said.
"And she went under my radar." Don shook his hands pointing them in front of himself. "She was right there in front of me."
"She planned this," John said. "She planned this all along after finding out Smith's resurrection machine."
"So was he!" he stretched his arms out then his hands fell into fists, irritated, but angry. "And I did not recognize her."
"Our Smith was with her?" John asked.
"Weeks ago." Don said. "She had a little bundle in her arms and called it. . . " his stomach twisted with a look of disgust. "her little Isaac."
"She brought him back but didn't want to tell us her intentions of raising him herself." John said. "I have a very good feeling that what she did is illegal."
"Trip to Tauron in the cards, mayor?" Don asked.
"Just to make sure that we are right about this theory." John said with a nod.
"Long time since we gone there," Don noted.
"It has been." John agreed.
The lieutenant colonel was looking toward the night sky's clouds highlighted in white by the thunder. The lieutenant colonel smiled at the thought of going back into space. This time, no dark thoughts plagued him about where they had to go.
"Returning on better terms is a lot better than how we had to come. Speaking of terms," Don turned toward the mayor then had a short laugh. "first time was about Smith and Will being in deep trouble."
"As a baby, Smith deserves law abiding parents." John said. "Not someone who wants redemption and goes the wrong way." Then he lifted a brow facing the lieutenant colonel. "Got your answer, Don?"
Don smiled.
"Yes."
And thunder struck loudly near the lieutenant colonel; highlighting in black and white the two men grinning then returning into the Jupiter 2 over the fading boom of the thunder.
