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until she laid into you!” William grinned back at Bobcat.
“I don’t think she put as much arm into it.” Bobcat shrugged.
“She told me later you looked a little anemic; she didn’t want to break a bone.” William chuckled.
Marcus asked, “What did you do with the tiny black woman you had never met, who was beating you with a spoon?”
Bobcat looked over at Marcus and smiled, “I took it like a man. I was taught to mind my manners around the adults and,” he pointed to William, “his mother was the adult that morning.”
“What finally happened?” Marcus asked.
“She fed us left overs from the day before,” William answered.
“God, I think I begged you for three months before you would take me back,” Bobcat said aloud, then turned to Marcus, “He made me sign a promise we wouldn’t go out drinking the night before. I signed that damned piece of paper so quick you would think it was a chick asking if I wanted to have sex. Hell, by then I would have told the chick no just to get your mom’s cooking.” He cocked his head to the left, “I don’t think I ever understood the phrase ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ until that experience. Hell, I’d of married your mom if she was available.”
William chuckled, “Don’t think my ma didn’t know that. She would tell my dad all the time if he didn’t walk the straight and narrow, there were men lined up to steal her away.”
Bobcat reached over and pulled the next three beers and passed them around before leaning back in his chair.
“So, here we are gentleman,” He said, “I’ve been talking with our boss lady, and she informed me that the three of us were officially off the clock for twenty-four hours. If she found out we had defied her orders, then she would create a painful punishment to make sure we didn’t defy her orders again.”
Marcus pulled the tab on his second beer, “Well, if the boss requires it.” He took a sip and sat back. “Is that why you told me to cut everyone loose until tomorrow?”
Bobcat nodded, “Yes.” he took the beer in his hand and waved it around the room, “This ship is the culmination of over eight hundred people up here, and thousands from back on Earth. But if you go back far enough, you will find that there are three people Bethany Anne points to as the team she depends on to make this shit all work.”
Warm feelings of pride and accomplishment filled Marcus for a few moments as he stopped to consider what Bobcat said. He had come a far distance from that house in Orange County, and the first meeting he had with Frank Kurns.
He had traveled millions of miles, but more than that he had been thrust into the future, and his body had traveled to the past. He was fitter than he honestly had ever been in his life. He had spoken with an honest to God alien and worked with him every day.
He had two of the most unlikely friends who had his damned back no matter what the three of them were up against. He took a sip of his beer, reliving the moment he saw the sign on the first gravitic containers they moved up to the moon.
The fateful ‘kiss my ass NASA’ sign that these two had done for him without asking Bethany Anne first.
Because it was right, and they were damned sure their boss would be ok with it.
And she had been.
It had felt so good. He vaguely remembered dancing, honest to God dancing, when he saw that sign on the tv screen. Then, the tears had come. Both of these men were there for him.
His brothers from other mothers.
Marcus lifted his beer to William, “If the chance ever happens, promise me you will take me to eat at your Mom’s?”
William smiled, “Hell to the yeah, my brother. My mom would stuff you so full of food it would be embarrassing.” He chuckled, “Then she would probably try to marry off my second sister, Tina to you.”
“Not sure I’m ready for another
“I don’t think she put as much arm into it.” Bobcat shrugged.
“She told me later you looked a little anemic; she didn’t want to break a bone.” William chuckled.
Marcus asked, “What did you do with the tiny black woman you had never met, who was beating you with a spoon?”
Bobcat looked over at Marcus and smiled, “I took it like a man. I was taught to mind my manners around the adults and,” he pointed to William, “his mother was the adult that morning.”
“What finally happened?” Marcus asked.
“She fed us left overs from the day before,” William answered.
“God, I think I begged you for three months before you would take me back,” Bobcat said aloud, then turned to Marcus, “He made me sign a promise we wouldn’t go out drinking the night before. I signed that damned piece of paper so quick you would think it was a chick asking if I wanted to have sex. Hell, by then I would have told the chick no just to get your mom’s cooking.” He cocked his head to the left, “I don’t think I ever understood the phrase ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ until that experience. Hell, I’d of married your mom if she was available.”
William chuckled, “Don’t think my ma didn’t know that. She would tell my dad all the time if he didn’t walk the straight and narrow, there were men lined up to steal her away.”
Bobcat reached over and pulled the next three beers and passed them around before leaning back in his chair.
“So, here we are gentleman,” He said, “I’ve been talking with our boss lady, and she informed me that the three of us were officially off the clock for twenty-four hours. If she found out we had defied her orders, then she would create a painful punishment to make sure we didn’t defy her orders again.”
Marcus pulled the tab on his second beer, “Well, if the boss requires it.” He took a sip and sat back. “Is that why you told me to cut everyone loose until tomorrow?”
Bobcat nodded, “Yes.” he took the beer in his hand and waved it around the room, “This ship is the culmination of over eight hundred people up here, and thousands from back on Earth. But if you go back far enough, you will find that there are three people Bethany Anne points to as the team she depends on to make this shit all work.”
Warm feelings of pride and accomplishment filled Marcus for a few moments as he stopped to consider what Bobcat said. He had come a far distance from that house in Orange County, and the first meeting he had with Frank Kurns.
He had traveled millions of miles, but more than that he had been thrust into the future, and his body had traveled to the past. He was fitter than he honestly had ever been in his life. He had spoken with an honest to God alien and worked with him every day.
He had two of the most unlikely friends who had his damned back no matter what the three of them were up against. He took a sip of his beer, reliving the moment he saw the sign on the first gravitic containers they moved up to the moon.
The fateful ‘kiss my ass NASA’ sign that these two had done for him without asking Bethany Anne first.
Because it was right, and they were damned sure their boss would be ok with it.
And she had been.
It had felt so good. He vaguely remembered dancing, honest to God dancing, when he saw that sign on the tv screen. Then, the tears had come. Both of these men were there for him.
His brothers from other mothers.
Marcus lifted his beer to William, “If the chance ever happens, promise me you will take me to eat at your Mom’s?”
William smiled, “Hell to the yeah, my brother. My mom would stuff you so full of food it would be embarrassing.” He chuckled, “Then she would probably try to marry off my second sister, Tina to you.”
“Not sure I’m ready for another
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