2004
"Larry! Don't you see that I"m busy!" Charlie snapped loudlyto his worried and startled friend.
"It's just that I overheard some of your students..." Larry began softly. Don could see the concern in the physicist's eyes.
"I can't enter a conversation right now!" the mathematician began to scribble frantically.
"Oh...hi Don" Larry suddenly noticed the agent.
"Hey..."
"I take it that you would like him to come home?" Larry asked with twitchiness.
"Our mother wants him home" Don said.
"That's going to take a lot of doing." Larry shook his head somberly
2005
"I had a right to know!" Charlie said.
David began"I wanted to sue for at least partial custody when I first found out about you, but then my dad, your grandfather asked me this profund question 'How do you tell a little boy that the man he looks up to isn't his father, but a stranger is?'. Realizing that I didn't want to put you through that, and the fact that your mother and ..stepfather were taking great care of you, I decided to wait until you were older to press the issue. Then, you went to Princeton. I knew that because I hired a P.I to keep track of how you were doing. I actually went to visit you once.."
"Did you by any chance, pay the rent?" Charlie interupted, still absorbing what David was telling him.
"Yeah, for one school year, but your mother sent it all back in bits via Western Union..."
"Tell me more about your visit."
"Yeah...your mother was alone in the apartment. I tried to talk her into this idea I had in which she was introduce me as a family friend or someone who needed tuturing, but she refused." David had decided to edit out the part about not even being let in. He didn't want to unnessarily upset Charlie.
"She really didn't want you in my life, did she?" Charlie mused with sharpness and anger at his mother.
David didn't want to say anything, but a part of him was also mad at Margaret.
"Why don't we continue this conversation in a park?" the artist asked suddenly.
"Sure"
TBC