Daddydavek

We will take what we can get! And still clamor for more......

Being the visual beings that we are, I thought it the most appropriate analogy. Thanks for reviewing!

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I plan to post on late Wednesday, or early Thursday your time and late Saturday or early Sunday your time.

Thanks. I thought a lot about this version of the future and how it worked out and then had to do some research to make it half-way believable. I hope you enjoy the rest of the story!

And the plot thickens! Matt settling Zach down with the run and talk was perfect. The fact that Barry is fired because he couldn't fix the problem he caused is really his just rewards. Good riddance to that leech. That poor Frank is being drug out of his comfort zone and into a family brouhaha with Zach's application for a change of guardians is certainly forcing him to take a stand. Interesting! More please!

Thanks for your comments. Telepathy as I envision it involves linking with another mind. As the AI has a mind, Abel just needed a bit of focus to try making the connection and that is perhaps where you thought it was a bit less polished or technical. I used the mike in the bridge as the outward sign of the inward process and once the connected was threaded, it was easier. Linking minds with his family and then linking with the AI just made sense after that. I am surprised more have not mentioned telekinesis. It does play an important part in the story.

Methinks the captain plans to ravish his newly neural implanted prize.....

Yes they are and yes they do! Thanks for your review, I really appreciate it!

I used the first incident as the 'trigger' for Abel coming into his power and tried to make it as non-offensive as possible and I am glad that you think it succeeded. The second incident occurred after they had each sorted through the other's mind, a far more intimate sharing in my humble opinion... Thanks for your great review!

A lot of routine work because I didn't want my readers to be completely clueless....Glad you think it worked! The old Angus remark will be made clearer over the next couple of chapters. Thanks for the review!

Chapter 3 Back to Work Still June 2733 but it seemed an eon had passed: After breakfast the next day, I reported to my desk in accounting. Rich was my co-worker on the same shift. The chief of accounting was Mark and he worked the second shift. Jason worked the third shift and left just as Rich and I arrived. Rich asked how I was doing and I explained much better. My dad had put out a cover story that I had an ear infection, which caused me to be extremely dizzy. He also told the med sect

I'd love to see a new chapter of the Kandrick Saga as it is at a really interesting point where things could go either way. Just hoping that Kyle get's his mojo and notes together so he can get it a little further along....... Anyta is a wonderful writer and has teamed in the past with Andrew Q. Gordon as well!

The cousins do figure into the story and I'll let the story tell you when and how. Abel's power is growing. I plan on postings late Wednesday night into Thursday morning and again late on Saturday night for a while. At least until I run out of completed ones.........

Thanks for the encouragement! The background is important to understand the story and the distance between the family members.

Well that about settles a guilty verdict, doesn't it? Good job KC! Can't wait until next Wednesday!

Cia does like to keep things complicated! And Tiger is the brother-in-law???

Mark has presented Will as perceiving this as Zach being caught in a power game and Will considers himself good at such games. Therefore, he believes he can win this one if he "plays" it right. Despite being shown all about power games repeatedly in the past several months, Zach still appears to be clueless as to how they are played or when they are played on him. His focus remains fixed on his career ambitions. He wants to make it out of Claremont on his own and this skews his perspective every time. Adding his 'advisor' into the mix, is where it could get really scary. Will is not above employing some reality checks on that smarmy little toad to teach him a lesson he will never forget. Of course, Matt could just talk to Zach and make him understand one jock to another what it is all about and Arbour could choose that option as well. I guess we will just have to stay tuned.....

That he has absolutely no memory of his home for his first nine years says more than anything else about the level of trauma he endured.... Sadly, at his age, he is forever changed and I doubt his family appreciates just how much.

Poor Sacha. He likes them big, tough and somewhat rough and finds he has landed in the land of gentility.

I agree with B1ue, you really don't want to make Will your enemy!

Zach does not yet understand power games, despite having them demonstrated by everyone around him. Will is right that it is about time he grow a pair as well as a spine and think about what is really important. Zach just keeps seeing everything through the narrow focus of his career goals without taking anything else into consideration. Matt and Wade are in a whole other place. Not perfect, but at least they both see an 8 or 8.5 chance out of 10 of being together in five years. That is major progress from where they were just a short time earlier. I predicted some drama was about due in the forum and Arbour never fails to deliver. More please!

LOL!

Back in the dark ages of the 1950's and earlier we had large state institutions for the insane. People were committed and force fed drugs to keep them complaisant. It was horrible. Of course, the pendulum swung too far in the other direction and now it is nearly impossible to get a psychiatric commitment and then they are usually only a 96 hour hold. So now we have a whole group of people who should be institutionalized, who aren't and it hasn't worked out as bad as many thought. However, there are exceptions and when horrific crimes are committed we wonder why no one picked up on their bizarre behavior earlier. And of course, people had, but their hands were tied unless the person presented an imminent threat. The sad truth is, that even professionals can not always or even most of the time tell with any precision when a mentally ill person will lose it and commit an atrocity. The even sadder truth is that there is so much stigma to mental illness that most people who need treatment don't get it because they can't afford to be labelled and also they can't afford the treatment. As much as people seem to hate the Affordable Care Act, one of it's goals was to increase insurance coverage for mental health treatment. Perhaps over time, it will make a small difference.

Hal was a nod to the original. Another AI is in a later chapter and her name is a nod to another computer genius... The shower only works in space with gravity of 50 percent of Earth normal or less....

Hal was a nod to the original. Another AI is in a later chapter and her name is a nod to another computer genius... The shower only works in space with gravity of 50 percent of Earth normal or less....