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Episode 2

As Time Goes By

Chapter 9

The rest of the weekend has pasted uneventfully, there was no further discussion of the future, and the twins had mostly kept to themselves with the occasional comment on something.

Harriet had been plagued with worry, she and Bud spent the rest of the weekend with AJ and Susan, Harriet debated whether or not to inquire deeper about her children, but she wasn't sure she wanted to know, or whether or not the twins would elaborate further. Bud decided he didn't want to know it was like that question, if you could know the exact day and time you were going to die would you want to know? Bud decided he didn't. The twins had yet to elaborate on anyone else's future, not even their own, though everyone had a million questions.

Monday came and everyone reported to work, they knew that work would not be the place to discuss last Friday's conversation, but they hoped to find it as a distraction and a sanctuary from the questions that plagued their minds. They were hoping for an uneventful day…

NASA

Houston, Texas

1130

Major Montego sat in the lobby of the temporal dynamics department at NASA Space Center, he had requested an appointment last week when this event first occurred, but this was the first available appointment he could get.

"Major Montego?" Major Montego looked up and into the eyes of a taller gentleman; he must have been in his late 50s. His hair was mostly gray and peppered with the occasional black strands of hair, he was well built for a man his age, but the wrinkles in his face were a giveaway. "I'm Dr. Robert Potter I'm sorry for keeping you waiting, if you'd follow me." The major stood and followed the doctor out of the lobby and through a secured door, they made their way down a well light hall occasionally decorated with pictures of space, he was then lead into the doctor's office. For a man who seemed well kept in appearance, his office was an array of paper, folders, and textbooks. There was no sign of a desk under all the papers and his laptop and the only thing that covered the walls were message boards that had to have at least a hundred papers each tacked to them. The doctor offered him a seat in a worn letter chair while he sat opposite of him behind his desk trying to provide organization to his mass chaos. "I apologized for the mess I don't spend much time in my office it's a huge joke around her that my is office is more of a storage room then an office." He attempted to excuse his mess.

"Quite alright." Major Montego excused, hiding his appall, an office in his building would never have the audacity to be in such disorder, or their commanding officer would have their six. The major only assumed that every government office was to be held at similar standards.

"You have to understand I was quite surprised when I was told that a US marine officer was making an inquisition into temporal dynamics. It's a brand new field, we were not expecting interest from the military so soon." The major had been careful at the choice of words when he made the request for an appointment, vague in most detail other than he wished to speak to a higher ranking official whose expertise laid in temporal dynamics theory. A concept he had overheard the twins mention he figured if that anyone would be involved in such a field in this time it would be NASA.

" I hope you understand sir that anything I discuss with you is highly classified, and in truth is merely a hypothesis." The major reminded, the doctor nodded his understandment, it was not the first time another branch of the government had approached NASA and made 'classified' inquires, but it had been a first for him in the temporal dynamics department. Only a handful of government officials even knew that this department existed, most just believed it was theory which at this stage, it is.

"Of course, I'll try to help you as best I can." The doctor offered, his anxiety growing, if this major had any hard core evidence of temporal dynamics he would be quite anxious to examine it more, it would no doubt be an opportunity of a lifetime.

"My question involves time travel." The doctor raised his brow in curiosity not exactly what he expected, but he wasn't quite sure what kind of question he was going to get, the major remained in a straight poker face his expression never faltered, he must be an excellent poker player.

"Could you elaborate more?" The doctor inquired wondering how much he was going to have to beat out of this officer.

"Understand this is only a hypothetical question." Repeated the major. "Lets say that there was a person, who exist in this time, but their future self was somehow able to come back to the past. How would this person be able to return?" The major inwardly cringed, on the flight south he had rehearsed about a million ways to approach such a question, and unfortunately that was the best he could come up with. He could read the curiosity in the doctor's eyes and knew that there was no other way to elegantly put it, and that it was too late to back out now. The doctor shifted positions in his chair, resting his hands on a stack of paper, he looked up at the major.

"Well major hypothetically that is still quite a vague question. I would have to know more detail, how this person came to this time, what technology they used, and so on and so far. If this were truly a hypothetical question I would need more hypothetical detail. If this is not a hypothetical question which I believe there is more to this inquiry then merely a hypothetical scenario, then I need to see more hard core evidence to give my best advice." The doctor had seen right through him, after all if this had truly been a hypothetical question the major would have not flown down at the first available opportunity. The major leaned forward, the major and his superiors knew that these lieutenants could not remain in this time, but no one had yet to come up with a solution on how to return them. In the mean time anxiety was growing amongst his superiors of the true nature of the lieutenants and whether or not it was going to develop into an issue of national security. In the end they realized they were going to have to grow their circle of trust to include others. Obviously Dr. Potter and his team were their newest recruits. The president himself had become involved, and even though there was a handful of top level security and intelligence officials, it was the president who made it clear that they need to get some experts involved. Mean while the lieutenants, Rabb family, and the admiral had been intentionally left out of the loop, afraid of how they might react.
"Doctor Potter perhaps it would be best if you assemble a team of your best scientists whose expertise lie in time travel and temporal dynamics, those you know, and have proof, that we can trust with highly classified material."

I end here for now…what do you think…it might not be scientifically correct, but its my story, my imagination so I don't want to see any complaints about that please…in the mean time please review, and I'll post my next chapter soon!