Different We | Completed Story | Cheating Stories
Different we Chapter 1 what does it matter where my body is my mind is still going on White Night from Alice in the Looking Glass your reality is what you think it is in essence Kito ero
Su so what do you think when you see something that can’t be real that was the question I asked myself when Curtis flew over my left wing I had never encountered an ancient warbird in Flight especially one as unusual as the war hawk so I waved and smiled in greeting he flapped his
Wings and pointed toward the coast visible on the western Horizon I Shrugged embarrassedly and pointed the pilot over my left shoulder to my destination he gestured again this time very affirmatively I gave him the finger the flight from the Bahamas to Lauderdale had been
Routine up to that point but a thunderstorm had developed over the destination so I waited out the ATC ground stop traveling on a lazy 346 de heading intending to turn onto Vector 241 when the stop was lifted the weather was beautiful and I was enjoying the Splendor of the ocean as I flew
Over the saraso sea then clouds started to appear in front of me and I crossed to 14,000 ft which was close to my ceiling but a strange formation followed me and I flew into thick fog while performing IFR that’s when the turbulence started the up and down jolts and wild yawing tossed the
Cherokee around like a canoe in a North Atlantic storm my life was flashing before my eyes as I watched the altitude and roll indicators trying to stay in the right direction then suddenly the chaos ended the fog disappeared and I found myself in Clear Blue Air at that moment my new
Friend joined me he swerved and disappeared only to appear above me and behind me with those words he fired a stream of tracers at the front of the Cherokee I had no idea what this jackass was up to
But I was Furious I immediately regrouped in the direction he pointed and began to descend we’ll settle this on the ground maybe with a kick in the ass I met cat at a frat party I didn’t belong among the audite aspiring alcoholics I was too introverted to feel comfortable in a seething
Pack of Macho men but I was an athlete a swimmer and frat rats like to throw jocks around at their parties it keeps up the illusion that they’re all clean looking and Clean Hands even so by inviting
Me they must have been scraping the bottom of the barrel the guys they usually invited played team sports like soccer baseball and basketball among them was my roommate Todd mcgonagle he stood in the center of the room impressing a gaggle of sorority girls with overblown Tales of Saturday
Night Leisure domain ironically my roommate was a typical college quarterback at least for that era 6 feet and maybe 190 lb not surprisingly he was built like a Greek god Broad shouldered narrow waisted and played Collision Sports Todd’s dancing Irish eyes handsome face and full head of
Curly blonde hair completed the image of the Great American Hero it was disgusting whereas I a humble aquatic creature was 4 in taller and 30 lbs heavier and streamlined like a barracuda with a shaved head to get that extra hundredth of a second worse instead of showing off my daring
Deeds every Saturday I was practicing a solitary sport where success is measured by how agon inly you can get to the pool wall first Todd was watched by thousands while I was lucky enough to have a 100 Spectators most of whom were my significant other unfortunately I didn’t have a
Significant other it’s hard to get a woman when you spend three agonizing hours a day 6 days a week shuttling back and forth in a chlorine soaked environment swimming got me into college but there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for small athletes so I took full advantage
Of my chance with a solid degree Todd on on the other hand was already interviewing agents which is why my roommate was performing in front of an adoring flock of female students while I stood next to the paneling leaning against an absolutely incredible grand piano that stood in the corner of
The house’s huge living room as far as I knew no one played the piano but it gave the place an air of class and sophistication College socializing is the impression you leave at that moment a sweet
Voice from somewhere from under my left elbow said are you as bored as I am I looked down and saw the pixie leaning against the piano next to me had she really been here all this time it was dark
In the back of the party and she was quite tiny maybe I’d missed her I looked her over naturally that’s not polite but seriously I’m a guy she had a gorgeous round face framed by a thick mop
Of blonde hair huge blue eyes a small snub nose and an almost seductive mouth sort of Tinkerbell is a sorority girl she was no more than 5T tall she was dressed in an appropriate outfit for the
Occasion a dark blue sleeveless T-shirt with the alpha-i crest on the left side a pair of white shorts and Topsiders on prominent well-tanned legs I think I even licked my lips I said I’m only here because Captain America brought me I nodded toward Todd who was currently doing the
Can can throwing his arms around the shoulders of a couple blonde cheerleaders and watching all the bobbing and bouncing showing off I was hoping he’d blow up his knee pixie said in her sweet
Melodic voice I had to come because they make all the newbies attend but I can leave at any time how about treating me to a burger at the Brown Jug apparently God exists my new friend was a riot
Of color under the garish fluorescent lights of this eery shiny golden blonde hair sparkling blue eyes and bright red lipstick I had never been in this establishment with such a stunning ly beautiful woman we barely spoke as we walked it was hard to hear her because the top of her head
Was below my shoulder we chatted just long enough to exchange names her name was Katherine but she was always known as cat she was 20 years old and a freshman sophomore in a sorority the fact that
She was from Gross Point made it possible to find out all the socioeconomic details it also made me nervous my roots are deeply rural Howell Michigan so I immediately realized that I was way out of my
League at least as far as social Gatherings were concerned this led to the obvious question we were just getting settled in the booth when I looked up at her beautiful round face and asked do I know
You there had to be some rational explanation for this miracle she gave me a cute grin and said I attend all of the University’s house meetings okay that explains it Todd may look great in all his
Loin cloths but you have no secrets when you’re standing on blocks in a tiny Speedo plus given my height and build I swim distances 2500 thus I was on view much longer than the sprinters apparently
She liked what she saw I asked her why she went to the meetings she replied that it was to see her brother I had yet to learn the last name so I asked who is your brother she smiled and said Brad
Wilson everything fell into place Brad was number two in the competition I was competing in so his little sister cat watched me get my ass handed to him on a regular basis I defended myself don’t
Hold it against me she smirked and replied maybe we’ll see oh [ __ ] I knew what I was talking about there was so much more to this pixie than an Angelic face and a graceful body I said trying
To steer the conversation in a direction that was less likely to make me blush I’m in engineering school civil engineering I want to build things what are you studying without blinking an eye she replied theoretical physics then she added well I’m only a sophomore but I’m taking all
The higher math and linear algebra courses I want to be an astronaut so I’m also in the Air Force Roc Squadron I don’t get a scholarship but I serve with them I just sat there with my mouth
Open the woman may have been petite but there was nothing small about her I asked how do you manage to combine all the necessary study time with the cleanup and polishing you need to pass your military background check she Shrugged smugly and said math isn’t hard and if you keep up with
Uniforms and equipment it doesn’t take much time but gym class takes up a chunk of my day so you have to be disciplined I went back to imitating tuna this little woman actually a girl was clearly
A genius with none of the classic nerd Tendencies I could see the ROC nerds running around campus in gray t-shirts and shorts she must have been part of that pack and I thought I was Superman doing a
Full load of engineering while also participating in Big 10 sports then this woman shook me to the core she gave me a look that had nothing girlish or nerdy about it and said let’s cut to the chase
Okay thanks to Brad you’ve been a part of my life for some time now and I’ve always admired you you don’t know me but I can assure you that I’m keeping up so what do you think should we go
Out she was asking me who I thought she was and again she was two steps in front of me I said I am an engineer dear not a theoretical physicist we are working in the Here and Now please explain
To me what coming together means to you she gave me a beaming smile and said you’re not that stupid I know I’m attractive and you’re just handsome we’d be perfect for each other we should explore that this little woman just handed me the line that most guys use for dating I didn’t know
About the hum part but she absolutely said she was attractive in fact she was a miniature Barbie stunningly beautiful like a doll with a voluptuous body I was alarmingly certain that I could never in my life achieve more than she did of course the fact that cat had taken all the first steps
Was frightening but a woman of her character and intelligence wouldn’t delay waiting to be swept off her feet pool decks aren’t kid-friendly places and she’d been watching me for months so she had the advantage of knowing me at least superficially how I interacted with others and what motivated me
On the other hand I’d known cat for about an hour and a half nevertheless I already knew the three most important things about her which is all you need if you’re a guy she was smart beautiful and
Interested in me there was only one more thing I needed to know I said well this is unexpected but I agree that we should explore this further so how about you come over to my place she said
Firmly no we need to go to my place I don’t have a roommate and I’m a bit of a screamer I quickly discovered that cat is more of a wild cat than a cat smart women have all the intimate desires that
Their less intelligent sisters have but they also have creativity a vivid imagination and a need to discover new things not to mention the passion of their fiery Souls we didn’t make it 3 ft to the door before cat dropped something pulled out what she was looking for and started devouring ice
Cream on a scorching day the sensations made it problematic to get up so after a couple seconds I grabbed her under the arms and lifted her to her feet there was a mask of lust and disappointment
On her face I hissed frustrated Dopey she went back on the attack as soon as my ass was down on the plush leather cushions from the sounds of it she was enjoying herself as much as I was I
Wondered do women really enjoy doing things like this I know I was pretty naive back then I was getting to the point where the Monstrous forces were about to break loose when she grabbed the object of her affection to stop what was about to happen and sat staring at it panting loudly cat
Was Venus herself except that her firm little body was better than anything alexandros of Antioch had ever carved then the panting got louder when she reached my shirt buttons flew off in different directions her predatory look said that she was not afraid of any anything in
This sphere how could I be so lucky I grabbed her and we had our first kiss she looked like a woman on a mission for a moment she froze between us we looked into each other’s eyes then her eyes rolled
Back what followed was 20 minutes of yapping back scratching and biting proof that cat was indeed a cat it was that dreamy moment in your lives when you both realized that this was the beginning of
Your life’s passion there would be no going back from here we ended with me standing up holding her cheeks and me walking hard toward the metaphorical light at the end of the tunnel she’d done this so
Many times already that my only goal was to get to the Finish Line when that moment came she screamed in my ear then the entire universe shrank to the singularity that preceded the Big Bang only to expand outward in a cataclysmic Outburst cat let out a loud Cry of surprise then collapsed
I pressed her dead body against me to end the inevitable I moved the love of my life onto the couch and she hung limply with her head thrown back she must have weighed 95b so it was easy to
Lay her down gently her eyes opened and she looked confused then I saw her powerful mind take control and she said with a mischievous smile I’ll never let you go and that was the bottom line we would
Be together forever our courtship was unimportant it took a long time until we really got to know each other but we enjoyed every minute of this journey and were inseparable even though our coming together was rather sudden and unexpected at least on my part neither of us ever doubted the
Value and benefit of our choices we had found each other cat was a complex woman brilliant driven and passionate at the same time she could be soft loving and kittenish I never doubted her Devotion
To me and tried very hard to live up to her gift the moment was amazing but it was the least of our relationship we nourished our friendship life is not easy but having a capable and trustworthy
Companion makes it so much easier the next 6 years passed in the usual vicissitudes of life I was a year ahead of cat I graduated from high school and got a job with a local construction firm that’s
When cat had her fairy tale wedding her parents had money her brother Brad was my best man it seemed fitting since he was the indirect reason we met cat received her doctorate in theoretical physics it took another 5 years to get that degree my wife was very smart her commitment to the Air
Force was fulfilled by a contract with the NASA Aerospace Research Center on campus where she did things related to light amplification please don’t ask me what that was I’m an engineer not a scientist life seemed perfect and then it got even better we talked about kids we both liked them
But we were in the early stages of our careers nevertheless once we were both immersed in the Pleasant routine of married life we decided to try for a baby of course my capable little wife immediately produced One my darling baby Piper was the light of my life she was what women call
An easy child beautiful like her mother and full of smiles my daughter was walking by one year-old and talking by two and she especially loved her daddy I took her everywhere even to work wearing a miniature yellow construction helmet over her beautiful blonde curl she wore it proudly
Because Daddy had given it to her I adored her in return she and her mom were my entire existence the only thing I truly cared about that’s why it was especially hard when a drunk on a gas tanker
Truck drove over the center line and killed them both they were on their way to get ice cream a simple decision on an ordinary day I imagined them laughing happily and singing a song as they drove down the Busy Highway eyewitnesses say the fireball was huge cat and Piper were trapped
In the mangled wreckage of our brand new SUV the First Responders assured me that my loved ones were dead before the explosion they tell you that so you don’t think about the alternative the other
Vehicle was a semi so the driver got out before it happened he didn’t have a scratch on him fatal car accidents happen every day you just have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time Life Is
Random and unspeakably cruel but for everyone else the world keeps turning and their world stays the the same and me I was so distraught they put me in an asylum until I pulled myself together cat’s family sick to pack of lawyers on the hapless company owners they knew their driver was prone to
Daytime drinking I got almost $30 million most of it in punitive damages the ghostly shell of a man sitting at the plaintiff’s table became a living argument to the jury the driver got a 12-year sentence for special circumstance manslaughter and me I thought he deserved a chair then her parents
And I made a hopeless attempt to put our lives together without two of God’s best and brightest Angels We buried them next to each other in a small Cemetery her family could afford a mausoleum but the beauty of the place located right on the shores of Lake St Clair was irresistible it was
So peaceful I sat with them for hours in all kinds of weather talking to them crying bitter tears and begging God why them you son of a [ __ ] after an unimaginable catastrophe there is no turning back you have no future no hope you drag out a miserable existence sucking the light from the
Remnants of your days and pray for a quick end I was 30 years old and irrevocably broken a walking dead man I had a pile of settlement money and was determined to succeed to honor their memory so
Acting quite normal at least outwardly I started an engineering firm and worked 16 hours a day to expand the business sleep was just a habit and what else did I have paradoxically the company grew to the point where we were soon doing multi-million dollar construction projects
The IPO made me extremely wealthy but I was still broke no amount of money could bring my loved ones back it’s been a while I was the nominal head of the firm it was my money and mostly my ideas
But I was too personally flawed to be trusted to make any practical decisions so I was given the title founder and consultant it was a ploy for shareholders to get this fruit cake into the pasture and keep it there when your world breaks down you become completely obnoxious so you become
Obsessed with the idea of orderliness perhaps in response to the seeming chaos around you so I was constantly looking into our projects to make sure everything was done right no one wanted me there I was considered a nerd but no one could tell me to fail because I owned the
Company with my own airplane it was easier to get to where I was doing various things so I took lessons and got my VFR IFR and CFI ratings with a complex certificate flying became another
Of my odd hobbies and I quickly became a master Aviator then it was just me and my trusty Piper Cherokee I chose this place because I liked the name of the company it made me feel closer to my daughter the Cherokee is a rugged and tolerable machine with its 180 horsepower Lycoming engine
Fixed pitch propeller and trimmers it can be driven by trained baboons so flying from our Miami office to construction sites in the Bahamas was more like a commute however this day has been particularly strange first there was the weird weather and now some nut job in a vintage military
Airplane is forcing me to land where I don’t want to a guy in a war hawk took me across the coast to a real dirt landing strip in what I assumed was Florida it was located on a prometer north
Of what I assumed was Port Canaveral I saw quanset huts and a rudimentary Tower but had no idea what frequency ATC was on so I just circled around to leward turned around on approach and landed if the
Cherokee has a flaw it’s that it’s too buoyant the Hershey bar-like ground effect on the wings makes it float forever and it was a relatively short field of course I never cared whether I survived or died which allows me to fly without worrying about crashes in fact if it weren’t for my fear
Of the unknown I probably would have killed myself by now but still Karma has a way of mocking me and I seem to be facing another one of its blows a military vehicle sped toward me I lowered the
Flaps dropped the wheels and pressed the control lever again they chased me down the runway as the Cherokee pulled gingerly toward the ground I came to a stop dangerously close to the end of the runway jumped out of the cockpit door onto the right wing in a righteous rage I yelled what
The [ __ ] do you [ __ ] think you’re shooting down a private citizen in unrestricted airspace all I could hear was the clanking of the M1 bolts I froze in mid tiid a guy with a gold Oak Leaf on
His collar walked over to where I was standing on the wing looked me over from head to toe and said gruffly I think it was in German I said irritably I don’t speak German tell me in English what the
Hell is going on here the guy gave me a testy look and said get off the plane fritz or we’ll take you off it half an hour later I was sitting in the walled off part of the quanset Hut my first
Thought was where’s the air conditioning it was beastly hot in there they sat me in a staff car between a couple of stout MPS and then drove me to what looked like a command headquarters not
A word was said the MPS then dragged me into the building and pushed me not too gently into a room there was a metal table with three chairs I didn’t think we were going to have tea finally the door
Opened and a pair of minions burst into the room they were followed by two gorillas they took up position at the door arms crossed looking like a pair of stone statues in front of a Pharaoh’s tomb
The suits took the two chairs opposite me and gave me an appraising look the eldest of them resembled a hamster but quite kind and intelligent His companion was a very different rodent a weasel I said trying to sound reasonable could one of you please explain what’s going on why are you
Treating me this way I haven’t done anything wrong weasel snorted and said as if asking a rhetorical question flying in restricted airspace isn’t bad gee maybe we should change the rules and what’s that thing you’re flying some kind of messers Schmid I laughed out loud and said that’s a
Piper Cherokee buddy I know the model is obsolete but you should recognize the type what’s the story with the Restriction it looks like Port Canaveral over there there I added getting even more Angry there’s nothing military in that area except Cape Kennedy how can a private airplane flying at Sea
Violate all that they both looked at each other as if wondering what the [ __ ] I was talking about then the hamster said listen Fritz you and I both know that our ICBM test program takes place on the
Cape have you been scouting it out can we expect a visit from your AR 234s I stopped for a second and just stared at it I was a bit of a military history buff at least before Armageddon put an
End to everything and I knew that the AR 234 Blitz was the only operational jet bomber that flew during World War II was it one of those Nazi Wonder Weapons that Hitler was counting on to turn
The tide of the war against the Allies I said wearily Nazi bombers you must think it’s 1944 weasel hummed and said I wish maybe things would be different now okay so the whole thing was a f
It was supposed to be World War II reenactors and I was starting to get tired of their game so I said annoyed when now hamster said with a look like he didn’t like being fiddled with come
On Fritz you know it’s 1962 a wave of irritation swept over me oh [ __ ] I wasn’t in Kansas anymore at least I had the good sense not to blur it out that I was from a 60-year-old future but maybe I
Wasn’t apparently it was a completely separate universe similar to mine but not quite the same maybe they calculated the date differently I’m an engineer I plan and act Based on data so far the only information I had gotten was that the US seemed to be at war with Germany why and why not
Remained a mystery but I began to get a creepy feeling about how I might have gotten there when I encountered this strange fog I was within the boundaries of the legendary Bermuda Triangle in fact I was flying almost the same course as the 5 TBM that disappeared there in 1945 so maybe
The Bermuda Triangle did exist after all like some random phenomenon that pops up from time to time to devour ships and airplanes I thought about all this while two bureaucrats pressed me to admit that I was a German spy I needed more information so I said trying to sound reasonable
What makes you think I was spying for the Germans at least that would let me know what they were thinking they laughed and said the airplane you flew in looks like a variant of the me18 and you
Were right over the place where our test missiles fall what were you doing there Fritz making a map so the Huns Could reconstruct our research I said starting to get annoyed stop calling me Fritz my name is Eric they both nodded sagely hamster said that’s a good German name I said
It’s German because I was born and raised in belloit a lot of Germans settled there I have a construction company in Miami and I was flying from Nassau to the Fort Lauderdale Airport before you clowns intercepted me the weasel said gleefully as if I’d finally made a fatal mistake
Okay smartass if you are who you say you are give us your fingerprints and we’ll run them and then after we find nothing you tell us who you really are [ __ ] no ID proves I’m not from around here
I was stuck in that stifling hot room for the entire time it took to get the prince Meanwhile my two mute friends were standing at the door looking as if they expected me to be about to run
Off to a Bund meeting I was nervous think about it how would you react if you were cozying up in one world no matter how miserable it was and then you mysteriously find yourself in another where you’re about to be shot as a spy the emotional blow was brutal nevertheless the situation was
Becoming even more puzzling Upon returning the bureaucrats apologized profusely hamster said in a much friendlier tone we didn’t know you were the die then he added but it says here that you’re dead what is this how could I have a past in this world if I didn’t exist here a copy
Of me perhaps a doppelganger was living my life in this world and what’s worse he’s dead now oh woe is me what shall I do I was desperate to get away from these guys so the only way out for me was to
Bluff but that’s my instinct I chuckled and said as if between us boys in the immortal words of Mark Twain reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated everyone laughed even the guards this
Was clearly my chance to get out of Dodge I said so I’m free and stood up they were off balance now and I wanted to keep the momentum on my side the two henchmen looked at each other and weasel
Hesitantly said I think so we’ve confirmed that you’ve always been a wealthy businessman so you’re clearly not a Nazi spy it sounded strange to me in my world the Nazis were long gone at least at first glance I wondered if they had settled in some back corner of American culture as they
Had in mine I said as if I were deeply offended of course not then I added in a voice that brooked no objection I’m leaving and you two will replace the fuel I burned when you distracted me I was
Entering my role as an outraged Citizen and from a practical standpoint I’m really going to need more gasoline to fly the 200 mil back to Fort Lauderdale on the way back to the piper I had
Much less company in fact it was just me and my navigation charts I got in the airplane put on my harness and headset turned on the fuel pump pressed the gas pedal and started the engine I
Checked the pressure on the gauges all normal and revved it up to 2300 as I taxied onto the dirt Runway there was no ATC to serve me but there was no visible traffic in the area either so I
Pressed the throttle to takeoff speed and soared up over the Atlantic I knew I was going to have a hard time coping with this Brave New World a world in which I existed but never lived nevertheless I
Felt a sense of exhilaration the loss of my former life should normally have crushed me if I hadn’t already lost everything yet strangely enough I felt as if I had been given a fresh start it was
A different page of storytelling in fact it was a whole new book I was completely free of sadness and pain I had nothing but new challenges in front of me and the sense of Liberation gave me hope so
I felt a strange sense of peace for the first time since that unspeakable bastard in the tanker truck had ended my happiness the drive along the coast gave me time to think back at the air base I’d
Been scrambling around trying to keep my eyes on the situation now I was thinking more long-term and strategically I knew that I would need a place to live and money to live on so the first thing
I did was to acquire those two Necessities I’ve been told I’m rich perhaps the version of me in this Dimension LED exactly the same lifestyle as me seriously logically speaking it was a parallel universe so all the fundamental aspects must be identical right I had no idea how and when I came
Off my deathbed in this Dimension consequently there was no way to prepare a story explaining my miraculous Resurrection Direction therefore I would have had to play every situation by ear but fortunately I really was that guy right down to my fundamental DNA and yet they remained the problem
Of personal history I didn’t know any of the things I had done in this world not recognizing your best friend for example could raise suspicion even if you had fingerprints to prove it but that wasn’t a problem for me because I didn’t have any friends at least not since that sad day so
Maybe my past was nothing I remained who I was both physically and psychologically therefore it was logical to assume that I was leading the life I was leading no matter what dimension I was in
That led me to the one thought I’d been trying to avoid about cat what would I do if she were alive and if she was how would I find her and what would happen after I did the Dynamics of parallel
Universes require that all the major events of your life be similar so cat undoubtedly existed here perhaps along with Piper or maybe they died in this timeline too not twice the thought was too painful to contemplate the only thing I knew for sure was that I was dead in their space and that
Was probably why I could cross Dimensions after all the theory of relativity is pretty clear that the same object cannot occupy the same space at the same time another thing I knew for sure was that my head would explode if I kept thinking about it any longer when I arrived at the Fort
Lauderdale airp report it was already dark and the runway lights were off as I made my Approach for most Pilots the lack of visibility would have been a problem but I knew this approach like my driveway nevertheless as I crossed the edge of the runway to land lightly I immediately
Noticed a problem The Landing lights of my Piper were Illuminating another airport for one thing it was clearly military there was no commercial terminal and actual operations were reduced to two intersecting runways and a control tower along with the ubiquitous quanset Huts there were a few
Rudimentary hangers but no permanent buildings I pulled onto the grass where the terminal stood and shut off the engine the abrupt silence and darkness were frightening my only companions were 10 million cicas several billion mosquitoes and the mild Florida KN there was no movement nearby
Besides the fact that it was dark as hell here the smell of Mag Grove swamps was something new it was like I was in the undeveloped Florida of the 1940s rather than the modern Mecca of heathenism it had
Become I already knew I was in a different world this new view confirmed it then I saw a sedan heading toward the control tower I didn’t have an ATC frequency so I did not request a landing spot the authorities must have wondered why the strange airplane landed without permission the car looked
Like an old Ford it even had blackout curtains I felt like I was was in the set of a World War II movie all I needed was the swirling fog some grubby guy got out of his car and walked over to
Where I was putting my bird away he looked like he was a security guard who had come out to see what was going on he wasn’t military like the place I’d just flown from he said in a nasy Southern
Accent this is a military airport y’all you’re not supposed to land here apparently he was a local rough neck looking out for an empty Airfield I’d been through this farce once before so I was prepared for it I laughed and said like it was the most normal thing in the world sorry about
That buddy but I was just running out of fuel I’ll reschedule it for the morning and went back to my postflight checklist he stood there not knowing what to do next then he Shrugged and turned to
The car saying over his shoulder make sure you do that ah I said just as nonchalantly could you give me a ride to Lauderdale buddy I guess it’s too late to call a cab it was another Bluff I
Was going to have to walk 6 miles to my my house on New River if he didn’t want to give me a ride he laughed and said sure just buy me a beer when we get there I said let’s go and jumped into the
Cabin apparently in this Dimension Broward County International Airport was a provincial place if the guy they’d hired to monitor it could just cut loose for a drink I didn’t have any money to spend so even beer would have been a problem if I hadn’t pawned my Rolex and that’s when inspiration
Hit me I could buy everything I needed at home it made a lot of sense I had a lot of cash stored in the safe and really seriously I supposedly lived there the man was about 20 years older than me he
Was so unkempt that it was hard to determine his exact age he was clearly a local from The Glades talkative and friendly they make their living in the Everglades doing God knows what with the local FAA mostly fishing and alligator hunting I said carelessly the airport has changed since the
Last time I was here he had no idea he laughed and said they’ve improved it now the government does anti-submarine patrols here so they paved the runways and even built a pby hanger I took
Him at his word it was too dark to see anything but this place was nothing like the modern one I had flown out of last week I directed him to my house at the time it was a 10-minute drive he was
Impressed in my measurement the house cost me $15 million even so it wasn’t the biggest or grandest in the neighborhood there was big money in the neighborhood and had been for Generations as we drove down the circular Road the house was dark no one seemed to live there I knew my current key
Wouldn’t work or maybe it would but I always kept a spare under a pot of monstera delicata by the door if I living in this world was really there I could only hear the bugs chirping as I carefully
Moved the pot and bingo the key was there it gave me a new confidence for it confirmed that I had once been a part of this world I now had a real sense of presence that reinforced me I opened the
Door and cautiously stepped inside this was the Tipping Point most people in Florida were armed at least in my day and I’d have to do something if the owner wasn’t me but I’d been told he was
Dead and if that was the case I’d round third base and head for home the thing is it’s a lot easier to start over if you already have tons of money and an established identity so unless the
Version of me in this Dimension wasn’t around to say otherwise I could take on all the trappings of My Doppelganger life the house was hot and musty like any other place if it had been closed for
A long time the light switch was to the right of the door I fumbled for it in the dark and it was in place the overhead chandelier illuminated the Chic elegant room my new buddy followed me into
The room looked around and ahead I said trying to sound casual sit down I need to change he flopped down on the couch still looking around as if he’d never seen such Splendor my bedroom was
By the pool on the first floor at the back of the building I didn’t need a change of clothes but the safe was there and I wanted to grab a few things I hoped that I would find what I was looking for
In there it would confirm that I now belong to this Dimension I turned the picture on the wall by the dressing room door and made sure the safe was exactly where I expected it to be I twiddled
The dial I always used the same combination this was the moment when I would either confirm that I was now well settled in this Dimension or realize that I was really screwed I slowly turned the dial
To the last digit the toggle switches clicked and the safe opened the transition into this world was complete it was like that feeling you get when you reach a safe harbor after a particularly deadly storm I hadn’t realized I’d been holding my breath there was a w of cash in the safe along
With other valuables I plucked a handful of bills and stuffed them into my wallet then I tossed the money I’d brought from the other world into my sock drawer when the evidence of my past life was
Safely buried under a pile of argiles I returned to my new life the hillbilly sat on the couch his eyes empty and his mouth a jar it seemed as if he might be dead but I knew that was just his
Version of thinking I said cheerfully you know I’ve been traveling and I have a bunch of things to do tomorrow so why don’t we just have a drink here you should probably be getting back to the
Airfield anyway the guy’s eyes became like saucers as I pulled out a bottle of shivas and poured him three fingers he took a sip of my expensive whiskey and said man that’s smooth I took a
Sip from the finger I had poured myself and said yep getting this dude drunk would have been easy I needed information and my new acquaintance was the most suitable Source he wasn’t exactly bright and as he got drunk he understood less and less so I planned to keep pouring Scotch down his
Throat until I was sure he wouldn’t blink an eye if I told him I was from Tatooine which in many ways was just as likely as my real origin now it was time for this redneck to tell me a bit of
History if indeed he knew it I said it’s stuffy in here why don’t we sit by the pool and talk you give the impression of a man who knows his business and I want to get your opinion on what
These people have gotten us into what the hell why not flatter the guy the those people I was referring to remained unspecified but guys like him always have a they and it’s usually a gummy mint I turned on the decorative poolside lights as we stepped out onto the deck I didn’t have to
Think about where anything lay it was instinctive I was completely me in this Dimension we sat down in a couple of lounge chairs and I offered him a big fat panatella he lit up and puffed for a minute sipping my Scotch he was obviously very drunk then I ventured into conversation what
Do you think really caused the trouble with the Germans I would have answered Hitler but I needed my questions to be as vague as possible he let out a cloud of smoke took another sip of my expensive
Whiskey and said from what I understand it all started with the election of Lindberg in the 40s wow Charles Lindberg was President it must have been very much a populist movement lucky Lindy was an International Celebrity but he was was also the king of American firsters and an egregious racist
And anti-semite of course that’s how you could characterize much of the United States in 1940 so maybe it wasn’t so shocking but this guy had no qualifications whatsoever to lead the country my Tipsy friend muttered in those days we were all in favor of isolationism there was an Atlantic
Ocean between the US and Europe so we could sit back and not worry about what was going on over there he smirked the way true fools smirk when they expound their particular version of wisdom and added we were all in agreement with Lindy you heard nobody wanted anything to do with that dirty
European War Joe Kennedy was Secretary of Defense at the time and he curtailed the Armed Forces so as not to provoke the Nazis and saved us a lot of money you bet he did that explains a lot Lindberg
Was a famous Aviator not a strategic thinker he had no background in geopolitics although he made a lot of money after his famous flight he still had a minimal understanding of the world from the Midwest he would have been easy prey for Hitler and his minions to make matters worse Joe
Kennedy was no Statesman he had made his family fortune in bootlegging and was Irish to the core Ireland wanted Independence and Kennedy knew that a pro-german or even strictly neutral us position would be a disaster for the British therefore any plausible pretext would do I was disgusted with
What I had heard so far still I wanted my Tipsy friend to keep talking because he was filling in some important blanks I gave him a go-ahead gesture and said trying to sound impatient as if
I already knew it all but what does this have to do with where we are now he looked at me like I was an idiot and said incredulously Hey kid you mean to tell me you don’t know that the English
Surrendered as well as the French he paused and added with undisguised respect but it took them nine long years to wave the white flag then he snorted and added instead of the 6 weeks it took the frogs I replied high-handedly of course I do the scenario in which Britain would be left alone
Was discussed in my Dimension Under The Heading what if and the conclusion was always the same without us help Britain had neither the men nor the resources to stand up to the axis forever my companion laughed and said caustically they lasted a lot longer than we all expected we
Thought they they were a bunch of cowards with their superiority and snotty accent but thanks to the ubot blockade and the fact that we left them to their own devices they finally gave up I was starting to like this guy less and less my drunken buddy continued that freed up all
The German tanks for Russia Stalin didn’t think his buddy Hitler would stab him in the back ha the Nazis took the Communists out of the war in less than a year just like WWI he poured himself
Another glass and said these steps were perfect for tanks it only took the Nazis 9 months to go all the way from the Polish border to the Ural Mountains most people think it would have been different if that part of the war had dragged on into winter I metaphorically beat myself over the
Head as my Grizzly friend spoke how could people in this Dimension be so stupid but I had to sit there looking like the two of us were reminiscing about the good old or perhaps a more appropriate
Term would be ignorant days he added looking at me suspiciously I know you remember when they invaded Iceland I was watching his schedule 9 years plus two more for Russia plus a couple years to prepare
And said sure that was in 53 right he looked as if I had answered something more than his simple question he said yes it was awkward the Germans just showed up and took over I thought they the
Vikings were tough and they turned out to be wimps I estimate that there were about 300,000 men women and children on the entire Island I bet the Germans landed more troops in the first wave I understood what would happen next Iceland would provide the Reich with the perfect springboard to
Invade Canada the justification would be that Canada was Commonwealth territory and therefore belonged to them after all do the Nazis now own the British Navy so Germany rules the waves I said I remember that that was what eventually started the national mobilization I guessed
But not unreasonably that the appearance of the Nazi army in Canada would lead to the beginning of events in the United States and I had to start speaking knowledgeably the dude took another long sip from the bottle which he was now drinking straight from the neck and said yeah that’s right
That was after the invasion of New Finland by then public opinion had shifted from appeasement to war Eisenhower was vice president when Lindberg died of a stroke and he took over he leaned back in
His chair and said wistfully Ike sure knew how to organize an army I said it was in 55 if I remember correctly I guessed but I wanted to continue the conversation so I made an estimate based on what
He told me he laughed and said where have you been Buddy it was 57 we were already at war with the damn Japs but like you said we were afraid of the Germans oh crap I forgot about the Japanese
But my Village friend had already decided that I was an ignorant rich guy just like all the other unjustifiably Rich losers so he kept talking he said angrily those damn Japs made a secret deal with the Mexicans allowing them to land as many as three armies in the south of this country far
Enough away that we wouldn’t notice fortunately they invaded the Arizona desert east of the Rocky Mountains and General MacArthur’s troops held the passes into California and Nevada leaving the [ __ ] stuck in the middle of all those lizards snakes and heat he took another puff
And added then in 58 the Arizona Oklahoma and the rest of the squadron’s battleships caught up with the main Japanese Supply Fleet off encinada and defeated it that same week the Lexington Yorktown and wasp sank all of their aircraft carriers off Midway it was a coordinated attack and our first
Step in fighting back he grinned and added because of that a lot of Japanese ended up on a foreign continent continent and supply lines were cut so they just set up store in Mexico now they call it
New Yamato he cast a baleful glance and added the Japanese have become violent ever since they took over Central America that’s why they still have a hard time suppressing the revolutions that keep breaking out there no one in South America wants them and that’s good news for us because it keeps
The nips out of our business while we deal with the Kuts I was already pretty good at guessing events based on what I had already heard I said have I forgotten the name of the treaty that nailed the Japanese back to the other side of the Rio Grande the boy absent-mindedly replied
Monteray that was it the Americans and Canadians were fighting the verm in the Wilds of Quebec while the Japanese were sitting on our Southern border putting out fires in their own section and waiting for a new opportunity to invade at least that explained the paranoid reaction when I just
Appeared on the military’s radar logically it wasn’t quite like that in my Dimension the fact that I was in a parallel universe with 40s technology was probably due to the fact that we were still fighting World War II you were putting your resources into bullets and guns
Not into improving consumer goods still there was a time travel aspect to the story anyway this was my reality now and after the most eventful day of my life I was exhausted luckily my rat guest was already out lying with his head thrown back snoring like a blast furnace saliva dripping from
His open almost toothless mouth so I just went to the same bed I’d woken up from a couple days ago in a completely different Universe the difference was that I was able to fall asleep as I hadn’t
Been able to do since that horrible day when my life stopped making sense I woke up as usual yawned stretched and then I was hit like a cartoon safe had fallen on my head I was in a familiar
Bedroom but not in my usual ual world the Sun was shining as it always does in Florida and it was getting hot I remembered that air conditioning was rare here this was going to take some getting used
To I put on shorts and a t-shirt which of course fit me and went to see if I had killed yesterday’s spine Runner he must have come in sometime before Dawn because he was gone and so was his car the
Bottle of my good scotch was gone too I didn’t think that was a coincidence I was sipping my first cup of coffee which I had to make with an oldfashioned percolator and stove when there
Was a knock on the door or rather knocked on the door I kind of expected it so I wasn’t surprised when upon opening the door I found a bulldog in a sheriff’s uniform standing at the entrance he
Cried out shocked what the hell and almost fell off the porch I said that if law enforcement always showed up on my doorstep good morning Sheriff would you like some coffee he continued to stand there with his mouth open at last he shook himself and said but you’re dead I saw
You being transported after the accident so that’s the reason for his surprise well I’d better come up with a good story I said you were almost right I was getting pretty good at faking it but trying
To excuse my death didn’t help this guy at all he said incredulously when we were informed that your place was taken I decided to go in and see for myself but I never expected to find you here
What a story why did you come back and how are you alive anyway I was improvising but the Riff was getting easier and easier I knew that in those days recordkeeping was limited to paper files so
It made sense to just lie the sheriff would have to dig through a bunch of old records to disprove my story and he didn’t look good I said like I couldn’t believe he didn’t know that didn’t they
Tell you that then I stopped and theatrically as if pondering said well I guess they wouldn’t it was no longer a law enforcement matter the sheriff looked both confused and Furious so I added with a creepy chuckle I actually woke up on the Undertaker’s table I’ve been told that happen
Sometimes he looked at me in disbelief and was about to say something so I hastily continued they were already preparing to embal me when I opened my eyes it scared the hell out of everyone again the creepy laughter I added maybe I am Immortal do you think the sheriff was clearly starting to
Buy my spirited story I added trying to look like I was reminiscing I was in rough shape for a long time and it took months of Rehabilitation but now I’m here and everything is fine I thought the little self-deprecating platitude at the end was a nice touch I added tentatively because
It was really a question did anyone miss me he laughed out loud and said who’s going to miss an [ __ ] like you okay that was a little hurtful and and very cryptic I asked anxiously didn’t
Cat miss me I just assumed cat was alive after all my house was still the same and I looked as wealthy as ever it was inconceivable that she’d accidentally died in both worlds as my old man used to say lightning never strikes twice Eric but where was she the sheriff asked puzzled why
The [ __ ] are you worrying about whether the cat missed you I said trying to be polite even though I was beginning to feel like I was talking to an idiot no cat my wife he was laughing so hard that
Three of his chins were shaking he looked at me as if he still thought I was teasing him and said as far as I know you don’t have a wife of course with all those [ __ ] you’ve been walking around
Here I suppose one of them could have been a real cat well uh it was weird what kind of person was me in this Dimension I knew I was that guy in every way but we obviously had a very different
Approach to marriage the sheriff was starting to make me nervous nous he was the local Authority and he obviously knew me from my old life so he could have gotten wind of my story so I wanted
Him off my doorstep and out of my life as soon as possible before he asked me a question I couldn’t answer I said hurriedly as if I had something vital to do if the sheriff has nothing else I
Really have to go I left my plane at the Broward airport last night and I need to get there as soon as possible to secure it he looked me over one last time as if still not believing I was
Alive finally he tapped the brim of his round hat and said well have a good day and turning on his heels he stroe back to his black and white car I worked out a plan as I walked to my garage
Inside were two cars a white 1955 Cadillac Coupe Devil with tail fins soaring and a powder blue 1956 Thunderbird convertible both looked like they had just rolled off the assembly line I chose the bird simply because I lik the way it looked and the Heat of the new Day suggested that the top
Had better be down there wasn’t a single air conditioner in this Dimension I hadn’t eaten in almost 24 hours so my first stop was Howard Johnson’s on the Atlantic that was 1962 where else could I get a quick breakfast then I went to the Broward County Public Library of course
There were no computers there there were only card cataloges back then but I collected local newspapers from 2 years ago thanks to sheriff Grom I got an approximate date it wasn’t what I thought it would be a July 31st 1960 article described a ghastly accident involving a drunken fool me
In an arena craft fiberglass ski booat and a rock Jetty at the entrance to Lauderdale Harbor on the hotels on Miami Beach wow in another reality my old man Stanley owned a hardware store it mentioned that I was married to Katherine Grayson aged 28 but it didn’t say what had happened to her
Or where she was now the wave of relief that swept through me was Indescribable I really feared I had lost cat in two Dimensions as you might expect things were different in this Dimension but the players were the same I spent hours scouring every possible resource for any trace of my
Wife but she was nowhere to be found meanwhile I still had to do something about my airplane that’s when I discovered another of these differences in this world 911 was still 40 years in the future
Therefore there were no guards at the gate so I could just drive up to where my airplane was parked on the grass by the runway I was making my postflight rounds when I saw a Jeep heading my way
It was one of those old-fashioned Willies models you see in World War II movies the guy behind the wheel looked like a regular army soldier tall trim and No Nonsense I started talking as soon as
He got out of the Jeep I said sorry about that boss but I ran out of fuel so I had to make an emergency landing the guy looked me over with a slight smile like I was a green recruit he was
A few inches shorter than me and about the same weight muscular with a chiseled face he had two silver stripes on his collar he said different we chapter 2 he said that’s not a problem sir
But you’ll have to remove them I said trying to sound humble I’m not from around here where is the nearest private airport he looked at me as if I had just asked the world’s stupidest question and
Said are you telling me you don’t know there’s a war going on we’re not in the recreational flying business anymore we need all the fuel we can get for our Fighters and bombers damn what am
I supposed to do now then he added puzzled what is is this anyway I said it’s a Piper Cherokee 180 he said incredulously the only thing Piper makes is cub and this looks like an me18 the Germans use
Them to transport VIPs a light bulb went off in my head just like the coyote in the cartoon I heard the mi1 108 comparison from the people at Cape Canaveral and it gave me a brilliant idea I said
Conspiratorially it’s experimental we developed it based on captured mi18 [ __ ] me and my big mouth I already knew what his next question would be he said who are we thinking quickly I nonchalant replied OSS I work directly for Wild Bill it was the only World War II Secret Agency I could recall
In my Dimension the OSS had become the CIA by 1947 and Wild Bill Donovan had been put out to pasture for bad behavior but who knows here the captain nodded sagely at me and said so it’s classified
I wasn’t about to correct him I said yes that’s right we are trying this new model to see if we can use it for the same purposes as the Nazis the guy said hopefully so you’re fing people I was
Burying myself deeper and deeper into the hole but I wanted to appear compliant and I couldn’t think of any other way out so I said lightly sure but I’m taking a break between assignments and then
Hopefully added can I leave it here until I find another cab he said admiringly well I can give you a job right now who do I call to set it up damn now that would be a serious problem if someone
In Authority answered the phone I said with excessive eagerness I don’t need permission if you give me fuel we have to keep our activities in the shadows I winked at him saying you know just between us Insiders he threw me a Sly look and said no problem buddy when can you leave I
Said as soon as I get some basic stuff maybe in 2 hours he said admiringly the general and his wife will be waiting for you right here on the point that’s how I got into the air care business if
The bureaucracy needs you it will use you it’s too big to give a damn about reasons so there’s always room for a smart young man who can make money in the nooks and crannies I had a luxury jet and the
Army needed transportation so who would look a metaphorical gift horse in the mouth at least it got rid of the sheriff I had a good reason to disappear sooner or later one of the locals would figure out that I wasn’t from this Dimension and that Discovery might lead to me being dissected
In a shadow lab right next to the aliens so I locked up the house and grabbed two suitcases one with all my clothes and travel stuff and the other stuffed with cash then I took a cab back to
The airport ready to find the love of my life the general was an arrogant [ __ ] and his wife was a cranky old fogy who complained about the intense vibration all the way to Washington the flight
Would have been much less turbulent if we hadn’t had to fly over land all the way to Washington but there were supposedly German aircraft carriers in the Atlantic the very ones they had captured from the British so it made sense to stay Inland including refueling the Thousand M Journey dragged
On until late afternoon even at 130 knots finally I flew over the capital at night because of the war it was Pitch Black there but I followed the moonlit path sparkling on the pomac to Washington National if you’re wondering about the name Ronald Reagan was still making movies then
During the trip from Lauderdale the general made the unilateral decision to hire me as his personal chauffeur I didn’t blame him the interior of the piper was very soft compared to the cockpits of all other airplanes of that era which was for forunate for me I now had the basis for a new
Identity Washington was not the self-indulgent place it had been in my day we were at War so the pork spending that characterized this den of iniquity was confined strictly to the military this in turn reduced the vain self-indulgence that gave us the marble buildings that crowded
The federal triangle and Constitution Avenue in my Dimension it also greatly improved the appearance of the place of course there was no Subway and I had to get around the city somehow so I bought an unassuming but very reliable 57 Chevy and rented a small apartment in Alexandria not far from DCA I
Could have lived much more luxuriously as I still had a suitcase full of money but I wanted to keep a low profile then I entered the general service providing transportation for all the important people he wished to bestow his generosity upon by the standards of my Dimension I was paid a
Small fortune but it was cheaper here and and I had access to all the fuel I needed the flights themselves were not complicated every week or so I would transport some VIP from one place to another usually on Army business I even started bringing extra stuff like snacks and booze to
Keep my fat cat guests happy meanwhile I scoured every Source in DC looking for any mention of cat I realized that I was in the perfect position to achieve my true goal of reuniting with my beloved wife I visited the Census Bureau and reviewed their records cat was alive in 1960
Thus I knew she existed that was a relief no new sensus had been taken since then so her current whereabouts were unknown according to the latest information she was living in Manhattan I tried the Social Security Administration in Baltimore but that turned out to be a laughable
Endeavor even for me for some reason the people there were not inclined to share my ex-wife’s personal information with me they even mentioned stalking charges if I contacted them again but of course fate really likes to mock me hell maybe it happens to all of us anyway I was about to resign
Myself to loneliness and despair when that fickle [ __ ] waved her magic wand and changed everything drastically all summer I had been transporting Eggheads from LaGuardia to a strip in the Wilds of East Tennessee I didn’t know who these people were or more importantly why they were dropped
Off in this hollow part of the Appalachians but it was clear they were not military if I had to guess I’d say they were scientists or some other kind of super intelligent nerds nevertheless it was clearly a covert government operation because the guy who made the flight
Schedules warned me not to talk to the passengers and I was told to forget everything I overheard I was supposed to pick people up in New York and drop them off in Knoxville no questions asked on that fateful morning I took an hour-long flight to to a small strip in Princeton New
Jersey it was a routine flight but it was clear that I had a very important person to pick up I even had an army PR man in the right seat placed there to smooth the way for my mystery person the
Curator’s name was Todd and he reminded me of my former roommate with the same name he was very good-looking in a clean uniform adorned with the kind of ribbons that the army awards for excellent paper shuffling think Tom Cruz in A Few Good Men and he was also a First Rate sodomite ER
So I had to listen to endless Tales of conquering women to the point where I considered opening the passenger side door and making a radical right turn we pulled up to the building that served as the terminal in this Backwater field I kept the propeller spinning while Todd came out to
Greet the frail white-haired gentleman who was our main passenger all in all it was business as usual except that there was a second passenger with the old man it was a petite woman but both Todd and I
Were the center of her attention Todd because she was incredibly beautiful and me because she was my long-lost wife the fact that I didn’t pass out from the shock was a credit to my physical fitness but still my vision was shaken and I felt a strong metallic taste from the adrenaline that
Had just entered my bloodstream I missed cat very much I mourned her for six long years I dedicated my life to finding her and now she was walking nonchalantly toward my airplane of course
I knew she was dead and I was dead in her world so you can imagine how rotten the situation was cat and the old man were helped into the cabin by their friendly overseer Todd a [ __ ] Like
Himself stared mesmerized at cat’s beautiful round ass as he helped her in I had the good sense to turn my head and stare intently at the left side of the airplane I didn’t want my wife to see who
Was flying the plane at least not until I got a grip on myself Todd was especially thoughtful of cat gee I wonder why on the other hand I was at a loss for words which was unremarkable considering
I wasn’t supposed to be talking to passengers stepping aboard cat threw me no more than a casual glance there was a pilot seat between us and I was wearing a baseball cap and mirrored aviator sunglasses more importantly I was dead I chatted with ATC as usual started the engine and
We took off in the air toward Tennessee it turned out that the second passenger was Albert Einstein I knew about Einstein from my Dimension so I didn’t need to be introduced that meant that the place I was taking all these Eggheads to was the Manhattan Project facilities at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory while we were in the air two things were happening simultaneously the horned man in the right seat was bombarding the passenger in the left rear seat that is my wife with ingratiating charms it was such a blatant attempt at seduction that it made everyone but Todd uncomfortable she
For her part ignored him talking exclusively to Einstein cat was clearly one of the great man’s acolytes which made sense given her aptitude in physics at least in my Dimension I wasn’t paying attention to the absurdly self-serving conversation Todd was trying to make but I was
Listening intently to the discussion going on in the back seats for she was explaining what had happened to me the two of them were discussing Einstein’s theory of the origin of the universe what I took from their conversation was that the concept of a single reality is overrated according
To Einstein the universe consists of an infinite number of parallel universe bubbles that were created simultaneously as a result of a single event called The Big Bang the result of this was similar to the phenomenon that results when you place two mirrors so that their Reflections go to
Infinity I mean you get an infinite duplication of the same thing thus in every reality there are an infinite number of of possible outcomes all dictated by context and choice can I hear you saying what the [ __ ] are you talking about well for example in your Universe you turned left
And walked into a bar and in another reality you turned right and got hit by a bus same situation two different choices two different outcomes both valid and it all happened to you in my
Universe cat was in the wrong place at the wrong time but the cat who lived in this dimension was not it was the same for me if I hadn’t decided to fly towards the saraso sea I wouldn’t be where I
Am now in my case it was fortunate because I ended up in a dimension where my beloved wife was still alive as you can no doubt guess I was experiencing a storm of emotions yet I knew
I had to keep those feelings in check there were too many unknowns any one of them could be fatal so I successfully suppressed the urge to do something stupid I mean uh I could have opened up right away maybe I should have but really really The Cat In This World knew I was
Dead and I had no idea what she’ do if I turned around and said Tada I’m back I bet it wouldn’t be something I wanted to experience from what the sheriff told me we had been living apart for some
Time but why maybe the answer to that question will help me find a way in at any rate the shock of my sudden appearance would probably kill her so I needed more information that’s why the role of an anonymous pilot suited the circumstances just fine in this Dimension Knoxville McGee Tyson was
Mostly military I landed on Runway 234 right and took the parallel Runway to the terminal there were three c119 airplanes lined up on the parallel Runway like it was rush hour it looked like it was a busy place a guard of Honor came out to meet and see Einstein off they respectfully seated
The Great man and his acolyte in the waiting service car the Strangler jumped into the front seat and they drove off I stayed behind after the flight in the piper and pondered how I could make
The 25 miles to the Oakridge facility before this [ __ ] could settle the score with my wife on all my other trips I had parked the Cherokee in one of the hangers so I asked the PFC who was helping me
Roll the car if he knew anyone who wanted to sell an old car the guy was in the Tennessee National Guard so he had to know the local scene the dude stood there scratching his ass contemplating or
Maybe his ass was just itchy anyway after a long hesitation he said I don’t know about the car but Charlie over there has an Indian Scout he’s trying to sell it’ll probably cost you 40 bucks it
Was beautiful in those days the Scout motorcycle was over 30 years old but it was still one of the best motorcycles out there this motorcycle looked like it was military because it was Olive colored and still had the the big Spotlight between the handlebars but these motorcycles were maneuverable
And fast and they could run forever with almost no maintenance that’s why they were used by the military I pulled two 20s out of a stash in my backpack and within an hour I was on my way
Carrying a cloud of blue smoke behind me the guy I bought it from even put me a leather flight helmet and goggles between noxville and Oakridge is about 25 Mi the terrain is green and mountainous so the
Drive down Tennessee Highway 62 was Scenic except without the rain I could have done without the rain I got to Oak Ridge around lunchtime the town itself is in a long and deep valley with ridges
Which is why it got its name the idea was that The Ridges would contain any accidental detonations in case someone messed up actually these divided valleys were one of the main reasons Oak Ridge was chosen the city itself was top secret the federal government created it from scratch in
Just over 2 years in that time the place went from deeply rural to 75,000 residents making Oak Ridge the fifth largest city in Tennessee but of course you won’t be able to find it on a map and that’s
Because it was dedicated to one thing only the creation of the atomic bomb everything around me was lit up like a carnival as I climbed the crest of the last Valley the Manhattan Project was well documented in my Dimension therefore I knew more about it than any normal person living in this
Dimension for example that there was to be nothing but a few rednecks in this Valley that was also the reason why the clearance problems had to be sorted out first fortunately I had the answer the administration building was called Castle on the hill it was located on the ridge on the east side
Facing the ridge where I was sitting on paper it was the Clinton engineering works but in reality it was the name of the engineering District of Manhattan it was the place I had to go for
Help I felt like just showing up at the God house and asking permission to talk to my old buddy Les Groves I had transported the General on a number of occasions he especially liked the Tennessee
Whiskey I took with me on my trips and he was in charge of the whole project when I approached them the MPS were skeptical but I insisted they called the building where Groves his office was located
And after a couple of minutes an employee came out of there he was wearing a silver oak leaf he must have been close to the general he said in a friendly manner the general told me there
Wasn’t enough whiskey to make him go out in this rain that’s why he sent me I laughed politely and said I’m a fery pilot and I’m stuck here for a couple days could you help me out find a place
To shelter me the guy gestured to the hill behind us and said we already know who you are and the general has authorized you to stay in the guest house for the rest of the week that my friends
Is how a Dead Man became a temporary resident of the defunct town of Oak Ridge Tennessee the guest house was used to house dignitaries it was a Stones Throw from Jackson Square which was the
Center of town in this top secret location and the fact that I had a bed there was a modest Testament to how far in this world you could go for fine whiskey I planned to reunite with my wife as soon
As I could find her so I started looking for cat as soon as I dropped my backpack a couple hundred yards down the hill there was a big dance going on at the tennis courts and cat loves to dance so
I was sure I’d find her there I was coming down the hill dressed in my best attire a black silk shirt and the same white linen pants I was a man of contrasts more so than is obvious the
Rain had stopped and a crescent moon hung over the beautiful Tennessee evening the music wafted to me as I made my way to the place where the dance was being held it was a cleared tennis court with a
Real band playing Glenn Miller and Tommy dorsy Tunes I stood in the dark on the backstretch and looked for cat among the dancers the band was playing Moonlight Serenade one of the most romantic songs of the 40s era I got about halfway through the hall when I stopped and just stared my
Wife was swaying in the arms of my [ __ ] former passenger damn he’d made a lot of progress in the 6 hours since I’d last seen them that [ __ ] was relentlessly harassing cat so I guess I expected
To see what I saw but still the lightning bolt of jealousy almost made my knees Buckle I know it’s not fair to call it a betrayal I mean I was dead for God’s sake and cat is a gorgeous and sensual
Woman so she had every right to be seduced by any man she chose but really Todd seriously they danced swaying closer and closer until she pressed herself against him resting her head on his chest her fingers interlocked and her eyes dreamily closed closed they were in a world of their
Own as the music played just you and me Summer Sky Heavenly Breeze a kiss among the trees it was too much I ran into the road and threw up right in the middle of these metaphorical trees unfortunately
Todd had also moved into the guest house so I had to put up with him at breakfast he looked alert and good-looking as soon as he saw me he came over briming with a sense of camaraderie pulled out a
Chair and sat down grinning like an idiot I tried to ignore him the first words out of his mouth were well I nailed that girl last night I knew it was coming and I was ready for it however that
Straightforward statement of Conquest almost made me die in Two universes calm down boy I raised an eyebrow and said trying to hide how much I was shaken by this [ __ ] success with my wife
And I should care why he said she was one of the most beautiful mxes I’ve ever had the pleasure of associating with but the weird thing is once she got involved she started calling me Eric aswipe smirked mockingly and added I’d be offended if she was anyone else that little insight was bouncing
Around in my skull like a22 caliber bullet when he laughed like it was the most incredible thing in the world and exclaimed hey isn’t that your name man what a coincidence I thought [ __ ] he
Then added but as soon as we finished she threw a tantrum I had planned to spend the whole night with her but she wouldn’t stop crying it was like she felt guilty for getting involved with this
Eric guy I saw it hit him you don’t think she’s married do you I haven’t seen the ring but some ladies hide it to get the full Todd blankin ship experience he puffed up like a [ __ ] peacock I
Said with annoyance how should I know I’m just a cab driver and I only met the woman yesterday how would you react that man drove a stake through my heart and in doing so cat was obviously still
Mourning my death as I was mourning hers so a little voice in my head screamed she still loves me [ __ ] paused and muttered puzzled man I got to tell you that little lady is just nuts she’s probably the prettiest one in the whole complex maybe the whole state of Tennessee but
She’s all yours I’m done with her I thought what a condescending [ __ ] let me assure you friends I’m not as weak as they make me out to be in this situation it’s just that interd itional travel is
Disorienting ha I bet no one else has ever said that there are too many ways to stumble and it makes you doubt nevertheless listening to this jerk brag about touching my wife or whatever you call someone who was an intimate part of your soul but whom you’ve never met I finally started to
Clean up my ACT I had been playing Hamlet for far too long now I was determined to stop acting like a worldclass [ __ ] and just get down to business I asked with heat in my voice where is she staying
He raised one eyebrow and looked at me skeptically then he laughed really you wouldn’t stand a chance with a woman like her I said through clenched teeth I appreciate your advice now where the hell
Does she live he got the message this [ __ ] was seven in shorter than me and 50 lb lighter and he could see in my eyes that he was about to be sewn into a burlap sack and dropped from 10,000 ft he
Said soothingly take it easy kid if you want to get shot by that hot little girl you’ll then feel free she lives in her own prefab House near y12 she’s doing some top secret monkey business there the historians in my Dimension had exhaustively described what happened at Oak Ridge so I knew
All about y12 it was an electromagnetic separation plant that produced the enriched uranium used in the two bombs we dropped on Japan it was a couple miles down the valley as I drove my trusty Scout
To the y12 location I was trying to think of the best way to approach cat it was an Absol absolutely gorgeous sunny day in East Tennessee you could see why the people who live there consider it God’s country the problem was how to introduce himself to his wife at least not without
Scaring her completely people don’t come back from the dead I could think of only one such case and I wasn’t about to start a new religion so I couldn’t just knock on cat’s door and ask her out the Scout
Kickstand was broken I was just leaning my bike against a tree when cat solved my problem she appeared pacing lessly down scarra road heading toward a small green hill across from a large blocky y12 building I restrained my fervor from rushing into the woods right behind her instead
I followed her stealthily down a parallel path she was wearing a pale yellow sundress that stood out among all the greenery it made her easier to track as cat came to a small rocky ledge at the
Top of the hill a mocking bird sang in the trees she sat down tucking her legs gracefully under her and just stared out at the the green Tennessee Countryside it was quiet and peaceful and she had
Clearly come here to think it was a touching scene I knew exactly what she was feeling and why for I had been doing exactly the same thing sitting on my little bench next to her grave now my
Long-lost wife was right in front of me gorgeous and alive and I was 15 ft away from her standing behind a big old oak tree my heart raced when I said softly please don’t turn around sure enough
She gave a startled sigh and turned around the gods had deducted style points from my scorecard the cat couldn’t see me from behind the tree so I said keeping my voice low and loving I’m sorry I
Scared you and I promise I won’t hurt you then I added fervently with all the love in my heart but I must remain secret while I tell you something I hoped she would recognize my voice cat jumped
To her feet clearly frightened but she also looked intrigued I said soothingly now I’m going to come out from behind the tree and I want you to have as much time as you need to digest everything but I
Can assure you that what you see is real and that I love you she said in a trembling Voice who are you don’t touch me I said I would never hurt you I love you from the moment we met at the fraternity
Mixer years ago and walked out from behind the tree for a second she just stared at him in amazement eyes wide with fear then those beautiful blue eyes slowly rolled back into her head and she lost Consciousness she came to lying on the ground with her head in my lap and me stroking
Her forehead her intelligent blue eyes opened and she saw my face and sobbed with recognition I said it’s me Peaks my wife really was a gorgeous little pixie and that was my special name for her
I was the only one who used it it was my way of telling her it was really me cat may have been small and compact but she wasn’t fragile at all her powerful mind took control of the situation
And she asked in Surprise is it really you Eric I nodded she jumped up threw her arms around my neck buried her face in my chest and burst into tears after that there was a period where the two of us
Just hugged and cried tell me what would you do it was very painful for me to realized that I would never see her again and she went through the same thing the emotions had to go somewhere now we were
Hugging as if that was the only reason we hadn’t flown off the face of the planet she asked through her tears how are you here it’s an incredible story and we need time to tell it but let’s
Just say that the two of us had to defeat death to be reunited she sniffled for a long time then she threw her head back and asked what do you mean death how are you alive alive anyway I was told
You died in a boating accident it was so bad that the coffin was closed I was at your funeral I said you’ll have to disbelieve me a lot when you hear this story and I’m not quite sure how it happened
Myself isn’t there some private place where we can talk it over together housing in Oak Ridge ranged from Shacks that housed African-American laborers yes segregation was still alive and well in this Dimension to neat houses for Scholars like cat my wife’s house was within walking distance of
The y12 facility with its busy catron racetracks where the ingredients for nuclear Holocaust were pumped out it was all set in a bucolic setting of Dusty roads green fields and mountain ranges you almost expected people to sit on porches and play banjos cat’s house was one of those
Pre-fabricated buildings that grew like mushrooms in a damp cave the whole neighborhood was somehow alien and hostile small houses surrounded a massive Square building drowning in a a sea of fences and barriers we didn’t say a word as we walked side by side down the slope it reminded me
Of our first walk in another time and another dimension cat’s 20x 24 plywood cabin had one bedroom it was scrupulously neat and tidy like cat herself the house had a combined living and dining room and kitchen a bathroom completed the square there were two armchairs and a reading lamp in the
Living room cat gestured to one chair and asked coffee I decided that my wife needed time to think things over so I said sure cat fiddled around in the kitchen for a few minutes while I watched her
Just assessing her this version was not the wife and mother she was in my Dimension this woman was a seasoned professional nevertheless in her early 30s she had become even more beautiful her body had become Fuller and her hair had grown back to a sheath of wheat that looked like a
Glistening golden Mane it had been almost eight long terrible years since I had last last seen her and the certainty that I would never see her again was a torment as far as I could tell it had
Only been about 3 years since I had died in this Dimension but still I could tell that cat’s pain was no less intense to keep the conversation going I asked how did you end up working for Einstein
She turned around surprised and concerned and said how do you know who he is the government keeps him a secret it must be a top secret assignment I said I know a lot of things for example I know that this is the Manhattan Project it involves creating the ingredients for the atomic bombs
That will end the war and that Einstein who is already famous for his theory of relativity is part of the brain trust along with Oppenheimer and sard Cat nearly dropped the coffee pot she
Said genuinely upset how do you know all this what are you a German spy I laughed and said I am not a German spy and the reason I know all these things is part of the explanation for how I ended up here
Cat brought two steaming mugs into the living room handed me hers and sat in the other chair looking both loving and concerned I marveled for a moment at the contrasts of my wife beautiful modest energetic loving brilliant and currently very anxious I started like this when you and Einstein
Were flying in the airplane she interrupted me as if I had just confirmed my impression you were the pilot I had a strange feeling that you were with me but my mind told me it was ridiculous because
You were dead I said well yes and no remember the part about parallel universes that you discussed with Einstein she eagerly replied yes it is the most recent theory of cosmology Einstein and desitter predicted this phenomenon based on the revised theory of relativity I worked with both
Of them on the density expansion equations and the Hubble constant I said affectionately everything you just said then cautiously added gauging her reaction I am living proof that Einstein is right I could see that this embarrassed her she asked puzzled what do you mean right okay this was the
Moment to roll the dice I muttered a little prayer and said he’s right about parallel universes because I’m not from this one a look of utter incomprehension appeared on her pretty face I said I might as well spit this out I don’t know about any density extension equations but I’m telling
You that I’m really as dead in this universe as you think I am what’s more I’m absolutely certain that you and our little daughter are also dead in the place I came from cat continued to remain
Utterly bewildered okay now it’s all in I took a deep breath and said we met and married in college and had a very loving life together it was a perfect existence until you and our daughter were killed in a traffic accident it was one of those things something you experience but
Can’t change I never stopped grieving cat began to think that I had succeeded in getting through to her she said softly the same thing happened to me when you were killed I’ve been crying ever since your funeral I nodded sympathetically then added I was sure I’d never see you again I accepted that
As a fact no matter how much it hurt me I tried to fight for Life tried to make something of my life and succeeded in my career and yet losing you was a black hole in the center of my soul
Eating away at it from the inside out she said with tears in her eyes I felt exactly the same way I’m one of Einstein’s research assistants but there is no love in my life I’m just trying
To cope as best I can I nodded sympathetically at her in that respect we were fellow Travelers I said and then on a very ordinary day as I was flying between the Bahamas and Fort Lauderdale I
Came Upon something strange when I came out the other side I was in a world where I was dead and you were alive and apparently our daughter was never born cat sighed her mournful look said it all she muttered sadly things must have been different in your dimension we tried God knows
We tried that was one of the reasons I thought separation was justified I replied irritably wek get to the non-essentials in a minute the main thing you need to know is that in my Dimension the
War that is still going on here ended in 1945 she looked stunned she asked how I said simple enough Roosevelt was the president not Lindberg and he understood the geopolitical situation the rest so to speak is history then I added carefully but what you’re doing in this place put an end to that
At least it did in my dimension apparently history in these Dimensions differs in the variables that lead to different outcomes she said seriously naturally logically the inhabitants are the same in every Dimension but what happens to them is the sum of the decisions they themselves and
Others make so in my reality Germany is in Canada and we are preparing a solution to that problem I thought fondly the Eternal nerd I said so my being around you is a happy paradox we are both dead in
Each other’s worlds but here we are together and frankly I don’t intend to lose you again under any circumstances then I paused and added meaningfully or at least this time I’m going with you a look of horror appeared on cat’s refined face she said frustratedly you can’t it’s too dangerous I had
No idea what she was talking about I said firmly I have no happiness Without You therefore if you die I will die with you she excitedly replied I’m the one they chose and I’m the one who agreed to
It but this is a one-way trip I’m not going to have you killed along with me moreover I don’t even know how you found out about it did it really happen in your dimension as well a we
Were obviously talking about two different things I was telling her I couldn’t live without her she thought I was volunteering to go on some suicide mission with her I said wait wait wait what are you talking about are you saying you’re getting ready to do something potentially lethal my wife
Was as emotional as I’ve ever seen her cat’s usually a cold customer that’s what happens to women with her type of intelligence but she was completely upset maybe that’s why she just blurted out the Nazis have nuclear capability and they’re going to use it I’m the one who was chosen
To stop them I was sure she shouldn’t have said that to me I just stood there with my mouth open [ __ ] I knew cat was a patriot because rich and very beautiful college girls don’t usually spend
Their free time with rooc Nerds but what was that I said explain it to me the Nazis have the bomb and you volunteered for some one-sided mission to destroy it her face was Grim as she uttered wner
Heisenberg [ __ ] I knew this guy he was the Nazi version of Oppenheimer the father of our abomb Heisenberg did have the upper hand in 193 9 but he never got the support he needed to even come
Close to building a bomb in my world must be one of those variations based on Choice cat went on to say manufactured four bombs at the Lac coock facility on Rene laaser Island behind the Sagan line I looked puzzled and she added by way of explanation this is the line of fortifications
In Quebec where Omar Bradley has been holding the Germans for the last couple years we can’t let the Nazis use one of those against our defenses we have half a million men in those lines it would destroy everything I said oh my God the Manhattan Project only developed two bombs and they ended
World War II in a couple weeks I can’t imagine making four cat looked at him intently right but nuclear devices are triggered by a complex Vision reaction which I’m an expert in so I’m going to infiltrate their facility and make sure the u235 triggers and the equipment used to make them are
Destroyed this will set the Nazis back enough that we’ll have our own nuclear capability before they recover she looked at him with satisfaction and said then the shoe will be on the other foot I
Said with skepticism in my voice and how are you going to get there are they going to drop you off at this place like the Airborne units did during the Normandy invasion she had a puzzled look on
Her face and I thought oops wrong Universe she replied I don’t see what Normandy has to do with it it’s in France not Quebec but the Germans have air superiority with their jet fighters so an amphibious invasion is out of the question our crew will be taken by submarine to sep ises and
Make their way North to Rene leur I said and you must have a map with the whole route laid out on it of course she did if my wife is anything to go by she is well organized I like to fish and hunt
And I’ve been known to fly over the area at least in my dimension I knew it was going to be a 120 M hike through off-road terrain with nothing but wooded Hills lakes and rivers great terrain if
You’re bear hunting but challenging and grueling if you’re on a mission to blow up Nazi equipment it was almost 300 mil from the German lines which were located on the sagon river so there would likely be no military presence there but there were so many rivers and swamps between the landing
Site at sep ises and Rene leaser that it would be nearly impossible to get there even if cat and her friends hadn’t dragged a bunch of explosives with them I figured these guys wouldn’t even make it to their target let alone successfully infiltrate a high security compound full of ss
Guards I asked with disdain in my voice who came up with this stupid plan she replied surprised that I was so negative that was our own OSS in fact the reason I am here at Oak Ridge has
Nothing to do with the Manhattan Project I’m only here to get the detailed specifications for the fion triggers I weily asked so you don’t work for Einstein she replied enthusiastically of course I know that’s exactly why you and I broke up then she realized I was the wrong husband and added
Softly you couldn’t accept the fact that I would be studying at Princeton and you would be tied to the construction firm in Miami that you inherited when your father died it couldn’t be forever so I didn’t think you’d take it so hard cat brightened and added for a theoretical physicist like me this
Was the opportunity of a lifetime we veered off topic but I had to ask I know we were separated when I was killed in this Dimension what happened she made a sad look and said affectionately as
I said I was offered a job at The Institute for advanced study Einstein liked my work on special relativity of course that meant I had to live in Princeton I hoped that you would realize that our separation was temporary and that there was nothing tying us together like the baby we
Had in your dimension we argued but in the end you seemed to accept it however you started drinking right after I left and it eventually led to your death she burst into tears I’m so sorry okay that explained it because of the size difference I was tied up with construction in Miami instead
Of practicing Engineering in Michigan Cat saw the separation as an opportunity to to advance her career and I saw it as a betrayal perhaps I thought I had lost her she said sincerely I was absolutely faithful to you all the time we were apart I heard that you weren’t but I forgave
You because I loved you cat was a beautiful and sensual woman if what she had just said was true and I had no reason to doubt it then her loyalty had to be a real sacrifice I could have berated
Her for last night’s episode but I wasn’t that juvenile I mean she was a grieving Widow until today and you’d have to be a complete [ __ ] to expect her to be faithful to a dead man therefore this particular conversation was moot besides now we’re way off course I thought is she trying to
Distract me on purpose but the fact remained that cat was about to do something that would get her killed I said I know the OSS in my Dimension we call it the CIA who do you report to she
Replied seriously no reporting we are isolated from each other to maintain the secrecy of our mission she added by way of further explanation since we left Washington we are completely on our own cat slightly added everyone thinks I’m helping Einstein but I’m actually part of a three-man team
The other two have been fighting the Germans since the invasion of New Finland they’re the oddest couple she’s a French Aristocrat and he looks like a gorilla it’s kind of like Beauty and the Beast I
Asked still angry did they come up with this crazy scheme cat furrowed her brow and replied no the planners in Washington did it this meant that the supposed plan was a bureaucratic cluster [ __ ] full of noise and fury signifying nothing Cat kept talking King and bernardet are supposed to get me
To the facility and bernardet is an explosives expert she’ll handle the detonation I stood staring at her completely dumbfounded how could she be so stupid there was absolutely nothing realistic about about this plan cat apologized her huge blue eyes filled with tears honestly what did
I have to live for you were dead okay I get the situation a bureaucrat whose ass would never be in danger came up with a plan to thwart the Nazi nuclear threat cat was probably the only person
Under 70 who had the knowledge to diffuse those bombs and the youthful stamina to get to them so the OSS forced her to volunteer appealing to her overdeveloped sense of patriotism thus the pathetic fact was that my beloved wife had to play the role of Nathan hail because some basement
Monkey at Langley had a crazy brain overload the Inconvenient Truth that this dear woman was going to die in the process didn’t bother because people who plan such things have no soul and as we also know that the end justifies the means one horrible thought kept flashing through my mind like a bad
Neon sign oh my God I’m about to lose her again this was absolutely not an option so I had to find a better option of course there were a few minor difficulties like the fact that I wasn’t supposed
To know about the mission and the fact that I was dead however it was wartime and we were at the very end of the command Chain Tree so I was confident that I could cut in at the execution
Stage the other two were obviously partisans used to improvising especially if someone had a better idea I said I want to meet your team members because I have an idea that will work better cat weely replied they isolated in a neighboring house while we complete operational planning I
Raised an eyebrow and asked in the Next Room she threw me a really look and muttered this is the most secure place in the US except for Los Alamos cat didn’t need to explain this to me Los Alamos
Was where the enriched uranium that Oak Ridge was producing was being assembled into a real bomb of course it was safe suffice it to say the thought of my wife being killed again was simply
Unacceptable so I needed to induce her and her two companions to do what I wanted to do as soon as possible I said impatiently can we meet cat looked wary I’d probably be wary too her dead
Husband showed up out of the blue and immediately tried to get involved in a top secret classified Mission she undoubtedly understood why I wanted to do it I just couldn’t lose her again still to agree to such a ridiculous proposition she would have had to disbelieve me intensely and Trust Me
To The Bone I said look I understand I really do this is a very important Mission and I’m basically a stranger to you plus there’s a million holes in my story so I may be a German spy playing a
Trick on you but you must feel the same way I do right she nodded her beautiful head uncertainly tears in her beautiful blue eyes and then the dam broke she threw herself into my arms our lips Mee meeting and lightning raced across the SpaceTime Continuum cat kissed me frantically desperately it
Spoke volumes about how upset she was by my death I could feel the contained frustration she had experienced from years of Love deprivation I knew it because I’d been through the same thing myself there simply wasn’t another cat in my world so moments with other women were nothing more than a
Biological necessity not loving nurturing my wife had a bedroom and we both knew we would end up in it I lifted her up and laid her gently on top of the neatly spread covers I was vaguely aware that
It was the same bed on which she had entertained deep [ __ ] last night but the difference lay in the circumstances our need for each other was all consuming it was like comparing a hurricane to a
Light Summer Breeze the whole time we made it from the living room to the bedroom cat never once let go of my neck she was still kissing me frantically then she lay back and looked at me receptive and
Ready her body was as perfect as I remembered long slender legs wide hips narrow Waist Deep chest she said with anguish in her voice no foreplay I am much larger and heavier than my
Wife so I have always been careful not to crush her however this time she was in no mood to be careful at that moment she gasped for breath and began to shudder i’ done this with cat countless
Times so I knew that her sudden burst of emotion wasn’t my doing it was an indication of what this strange new situation meant to her I looked into that beautiful face and it was completely open to me clearly this was a profound moment for my wife we then immersed ourselves in the familiar
Rhythms of love that had been established over all our years together this aspect had not changed in the slightest at the same time she told me how much she missed me and how good it felt cat’s usual bursts of emotion are events most women would remember for a lifetime but I sensed that
She was working on herself preparing for something even more startling it was a strange combination of debauchery and loss it was the beginning of a climax like I had never seen before I remember thinking that if there was someone nearby they would have heard but I didn’t care in a way it
Was the most sensual thing I’d ever experienced when it happened cat just collapsed on my chest as if she’ died her arms fell around my neck and I could see her tear stained face for the first time
I understood Those Tears I felt the same sense of wonder by an incredible stroke of Fate our Eternal gloomy despair had been transformed into something unique and special I brushed away every tear as realization returned to her and said one word with all my heart forever she looked at me
With impassioned love and complete companionship and said forever different we chapter 3 we were flying at tree level on Vector 030 out of misini in Northern Quebec there were four of us me cat an elegant frenchwoman and a guy who looked like Bigfoot our destination was Renee levur Island
And perhaps Destiny it was a two-day trip from Knoxville to Montreal and then from Montreal to misini the journey to Montreal was approximately 600 miles if I had been operating at 10,000 ft I could have flown my kite 650 Mi so we arrived in the afternoon there we were much closer to the
Front lines and I wanted to have fresh thoughts when we got to missini so we stayed overnight at the hotel lorenzian in the center of town after refueling we drove the 500 miles to misini in
Another 3 and 1 half hours misini is part of the lands of the cre tribe in the summer it hosts some of the best fishing in the world but we were aiming for something more amb ambitious than trout
So we stopped in this town for a couple days while everyone checked and rechecked their gear and I made modifications to the Cherokee misini is on one of the largest lakes in the Canadian North so
We retrofitted my airplane to mount a pair of bush plane floats on it the floats reduced air speed and burned more gasoline but they were necessary to land at laak Coke the target of the Rene leaser
Island flight Rene levur and the Nazi lab would be an hour and a half away but all that time would have to fly at an altit ude of less than 300 ft to merge with the ground besides it was the hour
Before total darkness so getting there without crashing into something would be difficult calling Rene levur an island is a bit of a misnomer it was actually formed by a meteorite that hit Earth 214 million years ago the impact created a crater about 60 m in diameter that’s why the lake
Surrounding the island is almost perfectly round Rene levur itself is the second largest largest lake island in the world it lies at the center of an impact crater separated from the mainland by a narrow strip of water that’s why it’s huge Lac Coke is in the northwest corner about 10 hours
Away it is one of several normal-sized lakes that dot the surface of the large island the Nazi bomb Factory was on an even smaller island in the center of Loke as planned night fell as we came
In from the southwest this scheme could only work if the Nazis were unaware of our presence a large number of SS men were stationed on the shore of the lake but no one was guarding the island where
The facility was located why would they it was in the middle of a small island in the middle of a big island in the middle of the desert it was a tough flight radar is in direct line of sight
And we had to keep within sight of the big Nazi installation at Port Cartier nevertheless we had a good chance of getting into the bomb shelter if I could manage to land so that no one would
Notice our arrival the idea was to land on the Lake Shore opposite the verat camp and paddle the rest of the way using a small island for cover after I explained what was on my mind cat
Reluctantly agreed to introduce me to her friends but in doing so she warned me not to tell them who I was she told me to just play along because guest From Another Dimension is not a very believable
Backstory two of her friends were in the yard of a neighboring house tending a small garden the woman whose name was bernardet was wearing in a frilly dress with a fancy little apron that looked expensive the man was stripped to the waist and was sweating digging at the places the woman
Pointed out his name was King like Kong which was appropriate he was short stocky with huge muscles in his shoulders and arms because he was so broad he might have seemed overweight but when I took off his shirt I saw that this was an illusion King was built like a tank he didn’t
Have an ounce of fat on him I thought he was a brainless gorilla until he looked at me and I saw the shrewd intelligence behind his eyes he was a very formidable man bernardet was an Exquisite
French woman with laughing eyes and a will of Steel cat had already told me that this lady was the mares bernardet lar deluk there must have been a whole story about how they got together at first glance they were the most mismatched couple imaginable but underneath they were exactly the
Same strong Brave loyal and clearly adoring each other there was no better pair of companions to accompany them on their perilous Journey Bernadet was trained by the British Special Forces to blow things up she wasn’t just a plastic explosives artist she was Van go himself of course all the
Supposed explosions would happen after we left because the Nazis had stationed a whole Brigade of SS men just a couple hundred yards away on the far bank and we’d be like chickens in a fox
House if they discovered we were there King first got rid of the roving guards he had 250 lb of of silent killer in him was as agile as a cat and unusually strong right now however the two of
Them resembled Fred and Wilma digging their little vegetable garden they were both slightly wary at our approach bernardet smiled kindly at cat and asked bonjour Katherine who is your friend cat said that’s Eric he was sent here to change the plan she didn’t mention that he was From Another
Dimension both King and bernardet looked even more wary no one likes last minute changes especially when they’re made by complete strangers I knew I had to act quickly and convincingly so I said as disarmingly as possible I know last minute changes are bad craft but this will increase our chances
Of survival and push the mission timeline back a few weeks now they both looked interested I said the disadvantage of the old plan was always the Trek to and from the site it would take you
A long time and it’s hard that’s why I’ve been hired to take you directly to the Target in a special airplane that can get you there undetected I wasn’t exaggerating by World War II standards the Cherokee was a technological Marvel I added you’ll be able to accomplish your mission and
Get out of there before anyone can react King said and how are you going to do it the Nazis have air superiority everywhere I was hoping that’s what he was going to ask I said we going to fly around the
Range of their Fighters and come in through the back door the Mi 262 is excellent but its maximum range is 300 mil closer to 200 if you include patrols I failed to mention that I got all of this from Wikipedia that might confuse things a bit now they looked very interested I made
My closing argument so we’ll fly into Montreal and then completely bypass their bases on the St lence flying far north and then up to Rene leasor we’ll stay at tree height to hide from their radar
Are when we blow up the facility we will return the same way it’s guarded by SS paner grenadiers they won’t be able to pursue us King looked at bernardet and she nodded it was clear that this
Small fragile woman was a modern-day Joan of Arc and that their partnership was going to be real king stood up held out his hand to me which was the size of a shovel and said it’s a deal buddy this started a beautiful friendship the weather turned perfect which suited my mood just fine
Okay I may die next week but it will be with the woman I loved it was very exciting all day cat and I worked on the itinerary and timing details and then we made love all night we even ran into
Todd in Jackson Square the joy of watching cat and her ex-lover try their best to act casual almost made up for the grief their little tet AET had caused me I especially like the radiant grin Todd
Bestowed on cat when he said hello to her my wife as she left muttered dum dum dum dum dum dum cat didn’t know I knew about their little Escapade and of course Todd couldn’t believe I was with her so
I told him on the side how often and passionately we spent time together I could see that jealousy was killing him okay I’ll admit it I liked twisting the knife since we had deviated from the script we arrived at the Knoxville airport separately to avoid uncomfortable questions about
Cancelling the original plan cat King Bernadet and all their gear traveled down in an army double I rode the Scout and then gave it to the private who had originally warned me about it then we loaded all the Necessities backpacks and Bernadette’s little pets into the Cherokee and set off to
Meet our destiny to make it work we had to land as quietly as possible so I throttled up with the flaps fully closed almost on glide I struggled to maintain course as any error at stall speed would
Be fatal it was completely dark and landing on the water in a low plane is difficult you have to do it by feel because you can’t see where you are trying to land before tonight I had made exactly
Three practice Landings with the pontoons so I had my fingers crossed as the Cherokee searched for water fortunately it was a large lake a creaking sound Was Heard under the pontoons so I took the wheel again and cut the power for a few seconds we carried on the surface and then slowed down
And stopped the game was really in full swing everyone in the cabin seemed to Exhale we went into our well- rehearsed routine there is only one exit in the Cherokee and that is across from where
The pilot sits bernardet ended up next to that door with King in the right rear seat to balance his weight bernardet jumped out and jumped onto the Pontoon Nimble as a squirrel on a tree branch and King unloaded we had an inflatable raft in the cargo area behind the back seat bernardet opened
The hatch and King pulled out the Big Raft he then unloaded the the rest of the stuff while bernardet inflated the raft meanwhile I secured the airplane with a simple mushroom anchor the raft was almost
Full of the four of us and all our gear but we were only 50 yards from Shore I would have called our near-perfect arrival great piloting but I knew it was really just dumb luck King and
I pulled the raft onto the rocky scree while the women unloaded the very brave people at mosquito rcaf had taken detailed photographs of the site and we had studied them all the previous 4 days so we knew exactly what we were looking at we found ourselves to the southeast of the bomb building
Which was hidden in the trees about 30 yards away there were no guards in sight but that didn’t mean there weren’t any King disappeared noiselessly into the woods and for the next 15 minutes we heard a series of small sounds like those of dying men I counted six but there might have
Been more King reappeared tucking in his knife and looking as impassive as a man who had just wandered into the woods to lie down he said said everyone outside the building has been neutralized I thought that was an interesting choice of words the building itself was undoubtedly Disturbed and
That’s when cat surprised me she slipped past us and did something to a metal box with light bulbs and wires we were all in tight black clothes with balaclavas on our heads I couldn’t resist gawking at her perfect round ass as my wife opened the access panel and exposed some wires cat fiddled
Around some more then whispered the alarm is disabled apparently she also unlocked the door because King just opened it and walked in he disappeared for a couple minutes when he came back and whispered all clear I didn’t ask how many more bodies there were the building looked like a
Small Factory there was equipment everywhere and it was confusing but cat seemed to know exactly where to go she headed resolutely toward an area with elevators and large carts using a penlight to skirt around objects one of which was a body with its neck at an incredibly odd
Angle the objects my wife was walking toward looked like large aerial bombs they were hanging from elevators and there were strange cylindrical objects on carts underneath them cat was wearing a tool belt and she started unscrewing the access panel on the first cylinder inside was a shiny
Metal sphere which she removed with King’s help and put into her backpack she then moved on to the next cylinder and repeated the process when she was done she had four small balls in two separate packages it was all done with the Precision that has always been my wife’s trademark in
The meantime bernardet was busy climbing on and under objects applying a putty-like substance that I carried for her I also had a spool of wire with me she would pull a section out of it which she would connect to something that looked like a pencil and insert into the putty
As she worked the woman hummed sir Leon Softly bernardet was a great customer the whole feat took no more than 15 minutes then King who was carrying both backpacks as casually as if they were shopping bags came over and handed one to me it was so heavy that my knees nearly buckled these
Little balls weren’t bowling balls or cannonballs they were much heavier I asked what’s here he said indifferently as if we were just chatting oh these are you 235 Vision triggers don’t drop them oh my
God I was holding a bag full of nuclear Holocaust and he tells me not to drop them we returned to the raft loaded the division triggers into our backpacks and King swam the oares they were so
Heavy they almost sank the raft then he came back and picked up cat and me we prepared the Cherokee for takeoff and King swam after bernardet who lingered on the shore holding another small metal box I had time to warm up the engine before King and Bernadet climbed into the cab as
We taxied out there were a few muffled thumps in the building not loud enough to alarm the camp on the opposite bank then as we picked up speed I saw the whole place begin to collapse I circled
Over the object and turned back and there he lay in a pile of masonry and bent steel the Nazis wouldn’t be making bombs in that place for a long time even better we had their existing fision
Triggers on the way to misini we were gloomy for one thing I had to keep my concentration on the job flying around trees and mountains we were right on Deck because the Luft Buffa could show up in full force as soon as they got the message and my poor Cherokee wouldn’t stand
A chance against me 262 however there was another Factor King bernardet and Cat were convinced that they had volunteered for a suicide mission now they had their lives back more importantly cat now had the husband she thought she had lost forever as for me my beloved wife was alive I
Don’t know if you can imagine how heartbreakingly satisfying that was was just imagine the tears I cried sitting on that lonely bench in Michigan and maybe you’ll understand what I’m talking about believe me it was a feeling Beyond Earthly comprehension landing at misini was as dangerous
As at laco because I still had nothing to guide me but Moonlight but it was a big lake and I was so inspired by the thought of having my dear woman with me that I could land on the wings
Of love carrying a Cherokee on my back we parted ways at the Knoxville airport the search for King and Bernadet didn’t end until the last Nazi was killed and cat had to return to Oak Ridge
To quit her job her life as a Commando scientist was over forever she was my wife and I was her husband me and my trusty Cherokee well we just disappeared into the fog like we never existed there’d be too many questions if I’d stayed who cares about Fame when you’ve got everything you
Could ever want in life dear viewer we have reached the epilogue let me remind you that the full version is on our patreon but in the meantime I’ll continue the narrative I sat by the pool and watched Piper swim laps she was almost 11 and her paddling was as smooth and
Powerful as someone who had long ago existed in another dimension the realization that you have passed on a special part of yourself to one of our children gives you a pleasant sense of immortality speaking of love my beloved cat lay face down in a modest bikini that did nothing to hide her
Stunning ass her thick sheath of wheat hair was bleaching Almost White by the sun and the rest of her gorgeous body was covered in a rich Golden Tan my wife has a feline ability to sense when someone
Is looking at her she raised her head and smiled secretly at me it was full of carnal promise as the biblical dude said my cup overflowed the war ended almost 12 years ago our feet became a footnote in history like the Telemark raid in my Dimension but it was decisive because it allowed
The us to win the nuclear arm race shortly after our return Manhattan Project scientist perfected a warhead that could be delivered by an Atlas missile the atlas was America’s version of a secret weapon it was developed at Cape Canaveral and the secrecy surrounding its development no
Doubt explains why my sudden appearance at the test site startled the military the atlas was capable of hitting a Target thousands of miles away in just 20 minutes therefore although the Nazis controlled the Atlantic and had air superiority on both continents
It was impossible to stop the delivery of instant Armageddon from the far reaches of the exosphere the first nuclear warning was transmitted to all occupied territories in October 1962 oddly enough this coincided with the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis in my Dimension the deadline
For unconditional surrender was set for the following week of course the demand was ignored leading to the blossoming of a fire Mushroom on an uninhabited part of the Greenland ice cap the physical physical demonstration should have convinced the Nazis that we intended to
Do business but they stubbornly refused to even discuss surrender as a result the next blow was to their main logistical Center in Iceland most of the population was concentrated in raic as a result there were few civilian casualties but the verm in Quebec quickly found that it had run out
Of food and ammunition it was then that the US and Canada launched a swift left strike north of the sagun line led by M4 of Patton’s third Army the Old Blood and Guts successfully trapped two entire German armies in a cauldron between bomo and Bradley’s forces on the Sagan it was Stalingrad on
Steroids and this major coup virtually ended the German presence in North America and again there was a call for unconditional surrender that was ignored by the leaders of the Third Reich their spies told them that we only had two bombs so the Germans thought we had used them up that’s
Why the Nazis were so stunned when the quaint old city of Dresden disappeared in a nuclear Blaze the loss of life and destruction was horrifying but fewer people actually died in that Dimension than the 200,000 who died in the mind bombing of Dresden it was then that the Nazis realized that
The four triggers we had captured during our raid had made a difference the call for unconditional surrender was sounded again and the entire Nazi leadership went to Berlin to decide what to do the decapitating blow to the Reich stag settled the matter Hitler and his entire gang of homicidal
Maniacs were vaporized in a nanc paradoxically there were fewer civilian casualties than during the last battles around Berlin in my Dimension after the grand finale the Germans managed to scrape together Alfred yodel and Albert Spear to sign the surrender documents this took place
In Bon which was to become the capital of the German Republic while Berlin was deactivated it was estimated to take about 40 years the surrender guaranteed that all the land seized by the Nazis would return to their former owners and all their loot would be returned strangely enough the German
People themselves celebrated in the streets as if they too had been liberated for them life under the heavy hand of the Nazi party was no different from that of the citizens of France or England the threat of the two remaining bombs was enough to convince the Japanese that it would
Be a good idea to pack up and go home the terms were simple the Japanese promised that they would not Retreat from their original territorial boundaries in return the two great cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would continue to prosper and do business after the war American society
Boomed and the construction industry boomed as more and more Americans enjoyed the good life on Miami Beach it was for this reason that I as a very wealthy and relatively young man sat on the pool deck of a mansion in Coral Gables I didn’t run the company anymore I had people for that
Instead I dedicated my life to making cat and my two daughters Happy in two lifetimes I’ve learned a few things the first and most important is that without a family you are nothing that’s a lesson I plan to never forget my exceptional wife has managed to raise two children and make me happy
While doing pioneering research in string theory and interdimensional interactions any woman can do that if she’s brilliant enough the scientific community was utterly amazed that it was almost as if cat had comprehended super symmetry it was as if she had observed the phenomenon herself
From time to time cat went on trips to visit the large hadrin collider at CERN after all a girl has to be involved in partical physics somehow doesn’t she of course my two daughters and I would go with her my wife would be doing pioneering experiments with bozon and ferons
And the kids and I would be skiing or traveling through the beautiful towns of provance all in all just a normal family vacation Piper my oldest was a natural born athlete just like I once was
She was daddy’s little girl and went everywhere with me it was exactly the same strong bond I had with another little girl in another dimension sometimes I felt like Piper’s Sweet Soul had traveled across Dimensions with me I don’t think it’s possible to love a child more than I loved
My oldest daughter on the other hand Brooklyn who was 8 years old was A Mir image of her mom petite and very beautiful she was the idealist in the family passionate about the environment it was
Strange to see such a young child so attuned to the big picture but my girl was born with an old soul that reflected the wisdom of life experience Brookie was as patriotic as my wife cat cat of
Course was a Lac Coke hero so she was always in demand at patriotic celebrations such as the 4th of July Brooke walked around with her mother dressed in an Air Force forse class a uniform
Just like cats only cat had a pair of gold stars on her collar bernardet and King have become key figures in a small company in Langley Virginia King may look like Bigfoot in a custommade suit
But he’s one of the chief planners at the tip of the spear in a world of subu and deception he seems comfortable there his dainty little wife still likes to blow things up King and Bernadet are nearing retirement so they divide their time between their home in mlan and their hereditary
Chef near Aenon it is there that their extensive Vineyards are located these two have come a long way from the small garden they were planting when I first met them the fourth member of this heroic group simply vanished into the mids of time as the Lone Ranger his identity is still a mystery
That historians are struggling to unravel that was exactly what he wanted for the greatest reward of all awaited him I am here to tell you that I have come a long way from sobbing next to two graves in
The dark and and gloomy place where I was born I became the husband of a very special man and the father of two wonderful young women that is truly all a person can expect from life or as the
Case may be life ladies and gentlemen thank you for listening to my stories and this incredible journey through a story of Courage sacrifice and Triumph a quick reminder that many scenes have been censored and cut and the full version with it all is on our patreon as we navigate The
Twist and turns of this gripping narrative Our Heroes face the daunting task of infiltrating the Nazi bomb Factory on the island of Renee levur our protagonist Eric uncovers a daring plan to change the course of history by enlisting the help of a formidable Duo King and bernardet
These seemingly incompatible heroes are united by Unstoppable strength courage and a love that defies conventional expectations as the team faces the dangers of of landing on Lac Coke maneuvering in the dark and executing their plan with surgical precision as they complete their mission cat Maris
And the Mysterious Lone Ranger play crucial roles in the Symphony of Espionage and destruction what struck me most about this story was the fusion of seemingly disperate elements Love and War science and subu Eric excited by the prospect of being reunited with his beloved cat organizes a
Daring feat that ultimately changes the course of history the post-war aftermath described in Vivid detail underscores the profound consequences of Our Heroes actions the Nazi surrender the Swift left strike and the nuclear strikes on Dresden and Berlin all orchestrated by captured fion triggers
Turned the world order upside down transported to the present Eric reflects on a life filled with love family and the pursuit of happiness the sacrifice es made during that Dangerous Mission laid the foundation for a future free from the tyranny of the Third Reich in conclusion this
Story is a testament to the resilience of the human Spirit The Power of Love and the ability of individuals to shape the course of history Our Heroes faced with insurmountable odds triumphed over Darkness leaving behind a legacy that Echoes Through Time thank you for
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