Re: Strangers & Milliseconds CC,mature, ch30 pg13, Aug 27, 2
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 2:05 pm
begonia9508: Many years ago when I was in college and believed that citizens should participate in politics, i came across an essay about shadow governments. Since then i have watched and now I believe that the men who hold the positions are not necessarily the ones who run things. I imagine that this is the same in most countries.
L-J-L 76: The question is not will they find Max and friends, but will they do anything to them. Powers are something that Max is studying.
keepsmiling7: I guess if Max has blood type alien 101 then the women have blood types 102 and so forth.
Chapter 31
Roswell
Jim Valenti, that is sheriff Valenti, had not seen Kyle, his son, for several months. Roswell had its problems. They were the problems of any rural community trying to become a city. Of course, there were the never ending rules and suggestions from the city counsel. Laws were to be enforced, except for when they entrapped relatives or worse, mistresses of counsel members. Milk visitors and tourist for all the infractions you can, but when the visitors were bringing in money during conventions, be lenient. Remember they were paying your salary.
Jim still stopped by the Crashdown, but the old restaurant just wasn’t the same. Jim had to admit that he enjoyed seeing the mini skirted waitresses and their bobbing head pieces every morning as he stopped for coffee, but he also enjoyed talking to Jeff Parker. Jeff always had a finger on the pulse of the small city. Now, Jeff and Nancy had moved to the city to be near their daughter and soon to be grandchild.
Amy, his live in girlfriend and almost wife, was suggesting that she wanted to take a vacation to the bigger city up north to see her daughter, Maria. Jim agreed with her because he would like to see Kyle, also. It was 8:30 in the morning. He was sure that Kyle’s job should have gotten him up by this time. Jim thumbed in Kyle’s number as he broke the law about using cell phones while driving. There had been no answer. Jim left a message on the machine.
Amy had also called Maria. A sleepy sounding Michael stated, “Maria isn’t here right now. She is helping Max at the medical office at his lab.”
Michael typically did not think to elaborate. Amy could only think, “What could Maria be doing at a medical office? Maria wasn’t cut out to work with a doctor. Maria couldn’t stand the sight of blood. Maria couldn’t stand the sight of needles. Amy couldn’t imagine anything beyond tongue depressors that Maria could handle.
It was afternoon when the office called Jim. “You have a phone message from Kyle. The message says, ‘ It’s a boy.’”
Jim immediately called the office and began to arrange to take some time off. “It’s a boy,” was enough to excite Amy. She wanted to see Maria, but all women get excited over births and babies.
In the city
Jim had no idea of how to find Max’s lab. There was no notice of anything like it is the phone directory. He called Max, but both he and Liz were not at home. He finally reached Jeff Parker. “Hey Jim, congratulations. You are a granddaddy,” Jeff said the minute he recognized Jim’s voice. Jeff didn’t know the location of the lab either, but he did have Liz’s cell phone number. When Liz heard Jim’s voice she said, “Hey grandpa, If you will drive to this address, Maria will come out and guide you into the building.”
Of course, when he heard that Maria would guide him in, Jim wondered why Liz wouldn’t do that. After he entered the building and saw Liz trying to hold the baby when she no longer had any lap, he understood. It wouldn’t be long before another baby would make its appearance.
Maria led Jim and Amy into a small lunch room off the series of offices and labs. It wasn’t long before they were joined by Kyle. It was in the middle of Jim congratulating Kyle for the birth of his son, when Maria stated, “Everything Kyle did was nine months ago. The hard work today has been done by Tess, Doctor Sanchez and me. We threw Kyle out of the delivery room because he kept getting in the way. Of course, a promise to change diapers for the next month might make us appreciate Kyle’s effort in this event, today.”
Kyle made a terrible face. This prompted Jim to say, “Kyle when you were born, things were still good between your mom and me. I changed many a diaper while she was recuperating. I changed many diapers later also.”
Kyle was more into “I will take him to baseball games when he is ready. We can go fishing together, later on.”
Jim laughed, “Kyle the baseball games and fishing trips are for grandparents. You have to earn a living to bring this kid up. In case you don’t know it, kids cost a ton of money to raise.”
There was a buzz from the intercom. “Mrs. Guerin, could you please come to the delivery room?”
Maria stood, “There is no rest for the weary. The doctor needs my assistance. I am nurse on call today. I hope everybody remembers. When it is my turn, I want a heap of assistance in the delivery room.”
Amy looked very perplexed. They hadn’t known of Maria’s accommodation to Michael’s DNA and they hadn’t known how hard she was trying to help her friends. It wasn’t much later that The Evanses and the Parkers all crowed into the lunch room. There was a lot of nonsensical jabbering, but finally, the message was conveyed to both Jim and to Amy. There would be another baby delivered this day. It had been a good thing that Liz had hauled herself to the doctor’s office to see Tess and Kyle’s baby. Liz had quickly handed the baby back to Tess, as the doctor and Maria prepared her for her turn. It would be Max who now would pace the floor as he became a father. This delivery was very different than that of Tess. Liz was human. The only thing keeping her alive as the baby arrived into the world, was the gandarium in her blood. The tiny amounts of gandarium were not alive as they flowed through the blood stream. They could only keep the stream healthy and come to the aid of whatever the body indicated was intrusive. The gandarium had to split its allegiance into two entities. The baby was intrusive now that it was ready for birth and part of the gandarium must follow it. The ganderiun had two lives to be responsible for. It would be for Max, later, to understand, that in a human mother, the gandarium must multiply faster to support both of them, while in the hybrid, Tess, the gandarium only had to support the child. The mother had been making gandarium all her life.
The problems that Liz had in the birth were again haunting Max as to what he had done. His seed had allowed Liz to become pregnant and his blood was now at odds with what might be thought of as unnatural. Once again, Max thought of Maria, she could have been left alone. She and Michael could have had a life together, although childless unless she agreed on some other solution. Now, she was even more vulnerable than Liz. Max gave blood to Liz because he feared her death. Michael gave blood to Maria, just because she asked him too.
It would be later, also, for Max to seek out the DNA of each child. At this time, there were only three choices, alien, human or hybrid. Each species would have their own problems of living in the community to which they were born.
Lab of Doctor Albert Simms, candidate for the next Nobel prize in Biology.
Doctor Simms was notified that there had been two births with the mothers both infected with the green flecks. Again, Max had refused Doctor Simms information about the other families. Oh, how Doctor Simms would like to get his hands on those babies. Not only did Max refuse Doctor Simms getting anywhere near the others, but again, Max threatened to quit his cooperation and maybe, he had included a veiled threat that he would retaliate if Doctor Simms tried to establish any contact with anyone else other than Max.
Carlos Herrera had been a grad student under Doctor Simms. Of course, he knew nothing about the doctor joining the mysterious group. Carlos now was the leader of the research Doctor Simms was conducting. Carlos knew that Doctor Simms was a shoe-in, for the Nobel Prize in biochemistry. The way this investigation was going, Carlos believed he also, might be in line for several honors. Simms, in his benevolence, had already assigned Carlos along with George Johnson, his other assistant, several papers about the mysterious green flecks. They would present these papers at several meetings in the next year. Simms wanted his Nobel Prize to place him in history. Now, with the new organization, Albert had many other considerations about his future. He wasn’t ready to break with the university, but he was ready to start making demands of his own.
As lead scientist in this project, Carlos, also, had noticed that there was a discrepancy about the blood samples. Albert had assured him that he was aware of the missing samples. They were needed for other projects.
There was another thing that bothered Carlos. The lab was set up to do almost any test required in medicine. A set of specimens had arrived. They were marked only with a number. Carlos was sure they were from the same person and that the person was a woman. This was seen both by the character of the specimens and also by the requested tests. The specimens originated within the organization that Doctor Simms had created, but there was a request that no record of the tests were to be kept and that all results were to be returned to sender. Carlos saw no reason not to do as the sender had requested, thus, the reported information about Maria, was only viewed by the sender, Doctor Sanchez.
Maria had an appointment at the Office of Doctor Sanchez.
This was so different from the appointments that her mother had arranged and simply informed her about. Maria knew that there were changes in her body. Max had told her as much as he knew about the changes, at least what he had observed in Liz. Doctor Sanchez had informed her that every person was different. He had information that even Doctor Simms was not privy to about Liz. The tests that he had ordered came back normal for a person who was clearly abnormal. The lab still hadn’t named the green stuff. Albert made it clear that when the time came he would choose a name. Everyone who knew Doctor Simms knew that he would immortalize himself, some way, in naming this mysterious substance. Before he slapped his moniker on this stuff, it would be best to wait to see if it wasn’t in some way dangerous. Albert made it clear to everyone that protocol was being followed. There were to be no human experiments. Carlos Herrera knew well enough that there were things going on that were not on the books. The fact that the tests he had run for Doctor Sanchez were not normal for any human woman. The green stuff counts were all over the charts. Carlos could only surmise that the unknown woman had just recently been exposed to this anomaly. Her body was still adjusting. The rest of the tests were normal for a young woman. Her health was better than fine. There were no pathogens at all to be detected. Carlos knew that one side effect of the green stuff in the blood was to protect the host from any disease. One of the orders of Doctor Simms was to verify if that included things like different varieties of cancer. Carlos was denied access to the subject so all that he learned was from the samples that had mysteriously been tested. There was no name and no receiver of the tests. Carlos only knew that the doctor ordering the test was part of Simms’ organization.
“Mrs. Guerin, we obtained your previous health records from your former doctor in Roswell. Except for the green flecks anomaly, everything else is better than normal. You are extremely healthily,” Doctor Sanchez stated.
“Doc, when I am your nurse, you call me Maria. Why are you so formal today?” Maria asked.
“Mrs. Guerin when you are my nurse, I see you differently than when you are my patient. It is necessary, at least in my mind, that I keep that straight,” Tomas explained. “I understand that you want badly to get pregnant and Max states that without the green stuff, that would not be possible. I would like for you and your husband to keep using protection for a while. There is still a lot of instability with the green flecks. Max sends his apologies, but he needs blood samples drawn every other day for a while. He still is worried that there are differences between you and his wife. It is my guess that she also received exposure to what ever this stuff is. It is also my guess that her exposure was very different from yours. Max asked me not to question you about it, but at some point, Max is going to have to explain all of this to me as your doctor. I do wish they would name that stuff. You do not know how un-medical it is to use the words green stuff every time.
The home of Kyle, Tess and little Jimmy
Kyle was learning, talking to the boys at the office how expensive becoming a father could be. He had to be careful about telling anyone that all his medical bills were taken care of through his friend Max. The other fathers were talking about the bills, which kept piling up. Kyle could only thank his alien wife and her family.
Alien wife and now clearly an alien baby, Kyle found out the hard way. He was learning to change diapers. Kyle figured that by the time Jimmy was potty trained, he, Kyle would be an expert. Then, Tess informed him, “You will be ready for the next one.”
Kyle had not thought this through, yet. Did Tess intend to have an entire football team in the same household? There was that one time. It was fourth down. The score was tied. Jimmy had become fussy and soon the odor made it clear that he badly needed changing. There were only thirty seconds left. The game would hinge on what happened in the next half minute. Kyle was sure that Jimmy would understand as soon as he was old enough to watch TV with his dad. There was no doubt in Kyle’s mind about Jimmy becoming a star football player.
The snap was made. The fullback fell back and made the pass. By this time Jimmy’s fussing was gaining in crescendo. The camera panned back and you could see the teammate preparing to catch the ball. He would have only a couple yards to cross the goal line. There were several of the other team rushing to intercept. Jimmy gave a loud yowl and the TV turned off. The clearly alien baby did the only thing he knew to gather his father’s undivided attention. From then on, when he was caring for the baby, Kyle made sure the PVR recoder, was turned on. He would erase it, if the game was uninterrupted, but he was prepared for the power of his son. He would be a hell of a player, especially with his alien powers. Clark Kent was just a wuss for not using his super powers in football, when he had them at Smallville.
L-J-L 76: The question is not will they find Max and friends, but will they do anything to them. Powers are something that Max is studying.
keepsmiling7: I guess if Max has blood type alien 101 then the women have blood types 102 and so forth.
Chapter 31
Roswell
Jim Valenti, that is sheriff Valenti, had not seen Kyle, his son, for several months. Roswell had its problems. They were the problems of any rural community trying to become a city. Of course, there were the never ending rules and suggestions from the city counsel. Laws were to be enforced, except for when they entrapped relatives or worse, mistresses of counsel members. Milk visitors and tourist for all the infractions you can, but when the visitors were bringing in money during conventions, be lenient. Remember they were paying your salary.
Jim still stopped by the Crashdown, but the old restaurant just wasn’t the same. Jim had to admit that he enjoyed seeing the mini skirted waitresses and their bobbing head pieces every morning as he stopped for coffee, but he also enjoyed talking to Jeff Parker. Jeff always had a finger on the pulse of the small city. Now, Jeff and Nancy had moved to the city to be near their daughter and soon to be grandchild.
Amy, his live in girlfriend and almost wife, was suggesting that she wanted to take a vacation to the bigger city up north to see her daughter, Maria. Jim agreed with her because he would like to see Kyle, also. It was 8:30 in the morning. He was sure that Kyle’s job should have gotten him up by this time. Jim thumbed in Kyle’s number as he broke the law about using cell phones while driving. There had been no answer. Jim left a message on the machine.
Amy had also called Maria. A sleepy sounding Michael stated, “Maria isn’t here right now. She is helping Max at the medical office at his lab.”
Michael typically did not think to elaborate. Amy could only think, “What could Maria be doing at a medical office? Maria wasn’t cut out to work with a doctor. Maria couldn’t stand the sight of blood. Maria couldn’t stand the sight of needles. Amy couldn’t imagine anything beyond tongue depressors that Maria could handle.
It was afternoon when the office called Jim. “You have a phone message from Kyle. The message says, ‘ It’s a boy.’”
Jim immediately called the office and began to arrange to take some time off. “It’s a boy,” was enough to excite Amy. She wanted to see Maria, but all women get excited over births and babies.
In the city
Jim had no idea of how to find Max’s lab. There was no notice of anything like it is the phone directory. He called Max, but both he and Liz were not at home. He finally reached Jeff Parker. “Hey Jim, congratulations. You are a granddaddy,” Jeff said the minute he recognized Jim’s voice. Jeff didn’t know the location of the lab either, but he did have Liz’s cell phone number. When Liz heard Jim’s voice she said, “Hey grandpa, If you will drive to this address, Maria will come out and guide you into the building.”
Of course, when he heard that Maria would guide him in, Jim wondered why Liz wouldn’t do that. After he entered the building and saw Liz trying to hold the baby when she no longer had any lap, he understood. It wouldn’t be long before another baby would make its appearance.
Maria led Jim and Amy into a small lunch room off the series of offices and labs. It wasn’t long before they were joined by Kyle. It was in the middle of Jim congratulating Kyle for the birth of his son, when Maria stated, “Everything Kyle did was nine months ago. The hard work today has been done by Tess, Doctor Sanchez and me. We threw Kyle out of the delivery room because he kept getting in the way. Of course, a promise to change diapers for the next month might make us appreciate Kyle’s effort in this event, today.”
Kyle made a terrible face. This prompted Jim to say, “Kyle when you were born, things were still good between your mom and me. I changed many a diaper while she was recuperating. I changed many diapers later also.”
Kyle was more into “I will take him to baseball games when he is ready. We can go fishing together, later on.”
Jim laughed, “Kyle the baseball games and fishing trips are for grandparents. You have to earn a living to bring this kid up. In case you don’t know it, kids cost a ton of money to raise.”
There was a buzz from the intercom. “Mrs. Guerin, could you please come to the delivery room?”
Maria stood, “There is no rest for the weary. The doctor needs my assistance. I am nurse on call today. I hope everybody remembers. When it is my turn, I want a heap of assistance in the delivery room.”
Amy looked very perplexed. They hadn’t known of Maria’s accommodation to Michael’s DNA and they hadn’t known how hard she was trying to help her friends. It wasn’t much later that The Evanses and the Parkers all crowed into the lunch room. There was a lot of nonsensical jabbering, but finally, the message was conveyed to both Jim and to Amy. There would be another baby delivered this day. It had been a good thing that Liz had hauled herself to the doctor’s office to see Tess and Kyle’s baby. Liz had quickly handed the baby back to Tess, as the doctor and Maria prepared her for her turn. It would be Max who now would pace the floor as he became a father. This delivery was very different than that of Tess. Liz was human. The only thing keeping her alive as the baby arrived into the world, was the gandarium in her blood. The tiny amounts of gandarium were not alive as they flowed through the blood stream. They could only keep the stream healthy and come to the aid of whatever the body indicated was intrusive. The gandarium had to split its allegiance into two entities. The baby was intrusive now that it was ready for birth and part of the gandarium must follow it. The ganderiun had two lives to be responsible for. It would be for Max, later, to understand, that in a human mother, the gandarium must multiply faster to support both of them, while in the hybrid, Tess, the gandarium only had to support the child. The mother had been making gandarium all her life.
The problems that Liz had in the birth were again haunting Max as to what he had done. His seed had allowed Liz to become pregnant and his blood was now at odds with what might be thought of as unnatural. Once again, Max thought of Maria, she could have been left alone. She and Michael could have had a life together, although childless unless she agreed on some other solution. Now, she was even more vulnerable than Liz. Max gave blood to Liz because he feared her death. Michael gave blood to Maria, just because she asked him too.
It would be later, also, for Max to seek out the DNA of each child. At this time, there were only three choices, alien, human or hybrid. Each species would have their own problems of living in the community to which they were born.
Lab of Doctor Albert Simms, candidate for the next Nobel prize in Biology.
Doctor Simms was notified that there had been two births with the mothers both infected with the green flecks. Again, Max had refused Doctor Simms information about the other families. Oh, how Doctor Simms would like to get his hands on those babies. Not only did Max refuse Doctor Simms getting anywhere near the others, but again, Max threatened to quit his cooperation and maybe, he had included a veiled threat that he would retaliate if Doctor Simms tried to establish any contact with anyone else other than Max.
Carlos Herrera had been a grad student under Doctor Simms. Of course, he knew nothing about the doctor joining the mysterious group. Carlos now was the leader of the research Doctor Simms was conducting. Carlos knew that Doctor Simms was a shoe-in, for the Nobel Prize in biochemistry. The way this investigation was going, Carlos believed he also, might be in line for several honors. Simms, in his benevolence, had already assigned Carlos along with George Johnson, his other assistant, several papers about the mysterious green flecks. They would present these papers at several meetings in the next year. Simms wanted his Nobel Prize to place him in history. Now, with the new organization, Albert had many other considerations about his future. He wasn’t ready to break with the university, but he was ready to start making demands of his own.
As lead scientist in this project, Carlos, also, had noticed that there was a discrepancy about the blood samples. Albert had assured him that he was aware of the missing samples. They were needed for other projects.
There was another thing that bothered Carlos. The lab was set up to do almost any test required in medicine. A set of specimens had arrived. They were marked only with a number. Carlos was sure they were from the same person and that the person was a woman. This was seen both by the character of the specimens and also by the requested tests. The specimens originated within the organization that Doctor Simms had created, but there was a request that no record of the tests were to be kept and that all results were to be returned to sender. Carlos saw no reason not to do as the sender had requested, thus, the reported information about Maria, was only viewed by the sender, Doctor Sanchez.
Maria had an appointment at the Office of Doctor Sanchez.
This was so different from the appointments that her mother had arranged and simply informed her about. Maria knew that there were changes in her body. Max had told her as much as he knew about the changes, at least what he had observed in Liz. Doctor Sanchez had informed her that every person was different. He had information that even Doctor Simms was not privy to about Liz. The tests that he had ordered came back normal for a person who was clearly abnormal. The lab still hadn’t named the green stuff. Albert made it clear that when the time came he would choose a name. Everyone who knew Doctor Simms knew that he would immortalize himself, some way, in naming this mysterious substance. Before he slapped his moniker on this stuff, it would be best to wait to see if it wasn’t in some way dangerous. Albert made it clear to everyone that protocol was being followed. There were to be no human experiments. Carlos Herrera knew well enough that there were things going on that were not on the books. The fact that the tests he had run for Doctor Sanchez were not normal for any human woman. The green stuff counts were all over the charts. Carlos could only surmise that the unknown woman had just recently been exposed to this anomaly. Her body was still adjusting. The rest of the tests were normal for a young woman. Her health was better than fine. There were no pathogens at all to be detected. Carlos knew that one side effect of the green stuff in the blood was to protect the host from any disease. One of the orders of Doctor Simms was to verify if that included things like different varieties of cancer. Carlos was denied access to the subject so all that he learned was from the samples that had mysteriously been tested. There was no name and no receiver of the tests. Carlos only knew that the doctor ordering the test was part of Simms’ organization.
“Mrs. Guerin, we obtained your previous health records from your former doctor in Roswell. Except for the green flecks anomaly, everything else is better than normal. You are extremely healthily,” Doctor Sanchez stated.
“Doc, when I am your nurse, you call me Maria. Why are you so formal today?” Maria asked.
“Mrs. Guerin when you are my nurse, I see you differently than when you are my patient. It is necessary, at least in my mind, that I keep that straight,” Tomas explained. “I understand that you want badly to get pregnant and Max states that without the green stuff, that would not be possible. I would like for you and your husband to keep using protection for a while. There is still a lot of instability with the green flecks. Max sends his apologies, but he needs blood samples drawn every other day for a while. He still is worried that there are differences between you and his wife. It is my guess that she also received exposure to what ever this stuff is. It is also my guess that her exposure was very different from yours. Max asked me not to question you about it, but at some point, Max is going to have to explain all of this to me as your doctor. I do wish they would name that stuff. You do not know how un-medical it is to use the words green stuff every time.
The home of Kyle, Tess and little Jimmy
Kyle was learning, talking to the boys at the office how expensive becoming a father could be. He had to be careful about telling anyone that all his medical bills were taken care of through his friend Max. The other fathers were talking about the bills, which kept piling up. Kyle could only thank his alien wife and her family.
Alien wife and now clearly an alien baby, Kyle found out the hard way. He was learning to change diapers. Kyle figured that by the time Jimmy was potty trained, he, Kyle would be an expert. Then, Tess informed him, “You will be ready for the next one.”
Kyle had not thought this through, yet. Did Tess intend to have an entire football team in the same household? There was that one time. It was fourth down. The score was tied. Jimmy had become fussy and soon the odor made it clear that he badly needed changing. There were only thirty seconds left. The game would hinge on what happened in the next half minute. Kyle was sure that Jimmy would understand as soon as he was old enough to watch TV with his dad. There was no doubt in Kyle’s mind about Jimmy becoming a star football player.
The snap was made. The fullback fell back and made the pass. By this time Jimmy’s fussing was gaining in crescendo. The camera panned back and you could see the teammate preparing to catch the ball. He would have only a couple yards to cross the goal line. There were several of the other team rushing to intercept. Jimmy gave a loud yowl and the TV turned off. The clearly alien baby did the only thing he knew to gather his father’s undivided attention. From then on, when he was caring for the baby, Kyle made sure the PVR recoder, was turned on. He would erase it, if the game was uninterrupted, but he was prepared for the power of his son. He would be a hell of a player, especially with his alien powers. Clark Kent was just a wuss for not using his super powers in football, when he had them at Smallville.