So I was thinking and thought this needs and epilogue! So here's a quick epilogue!
A few days later...
"Hey Mom I'm heading out for a walk!" Basil called out.
"Alright but make sure you wear a jacket." She called back from somewhere upstairs. Basil opened the door letting in the warm air and soft breeze. He stepped out and closed the door behind him heading for the park. When he reached the sidewalk he heard a voice behind him.
"Mind if I join you for your walk?" He looked back to see Dad strolling up to him.
"Sure." Basil said letting him catch up.
They walked down the dirt path that lead a straight shot to the field and playground. Dad took a deep breath and sighed rubbing his forehead.
"Something bothering you?" Basil asked.
"More like it has me confused. How did everything fit so perfectly from Mileva sending me here to her meeting me in the time hallow before she even knew who I was to me actually being your father? How so much disaster was the only way to keep time going?" He confessed.
"Does it really matter? It's like this dirt, it looks settled, permanent." Basil kicked up some dust and breeze picked it up and settled down the path. "Things happen, everything adjusts. But if that dirt was really meant to be there it wouldn't have moved. But it knew it had to move so it stayed loose and now you can't even tell the dirt moved down the path." He tried explaining.
"So you're saying that dirt knew it was meant to be kick to somewhere else?" Dad asked scrunching his eyes in confusion.
"No. I bet if you asked that dirt it would've said that wasn't supposed to have happened and now everything's messed up. But it was meant to be moved, that's why it was loose." Basil said.
"I think I'm getting it. It's about perspective right? From where we are it doesn't look so bad. But if we were in the dust it would've looked like everything is messed up until it's settled down again." Dad nodded. "But what about those things that seemed random but turned out be vital?" Basil looked at the side to see trees scattered about. He stopped them at a tree next to path.
"Have you ever noticed in Biology at first glance the small stuff looks pointless and a waste of space and as we dig deeper we find out that without that small piece we couldn't do something. Like the pinky toe or finger." Basil grabbed a branch and started pulling himself up. He turned his body and took a seat on the branch. "Without it we wouldn't be able to balance like we do or grab. It looks like it has no point because everything else looks more important. Even then we couldn't move like we do without them." He looked down at Dad who had his hands in his pockets and shifting weight from foot to foot.
"But we could still live life it we lost them." Dad said. Basil gave his head a quick cock.
"Ants. They're small hardly noticeable in the wild but they sculpt the ecosystem they're in. Someone has to eat them and someone has to eat then thing that ate them and so on." Basil said then jumped down so they could continue walking.
"But do the ants have a choice to be where they are or what they do?" Dad question as they began to pass the playground equipment.
"Tell me why did you save me from the fire when you didn't have to?" Basil looked up at him.
"You were helpless and my heart went out to you." Dad shrugged.
"What about Mom? Did someone force you to be with her?" Dad shook his head. "Then why?" He looked at the ground they tromped on for a moment then at him.
"I fell in love." Dad answered quietly.
"And it worked out didn't it? So why can't be fate and free will be one and the same? Helping hands." Basil eyed him.
"I've heard that before!" He grinned.
"So maybe that's what the ants want." Basil said. Dad smiled and nudged him with his elbow.
"I will never understand what your biological parents were thinking when they tried to kill you, you are one in a lifetime!" He put a hand on his shoulder proudly and pulled him in his side.
"One more question." Dad said happily.
"Alright, what?" Basil smiled.
"How is it that you don't have that you don't have a degree in philosophy?" He chuckled causing him to chuckle.
"One, because there's no jobs in that department and two, I want to be a space explorer! You know for someone directly related to Albert and Mileva Einstein I thought that would have been obvious." Basil wrapped an arm around him.