From: Zakharin Newsgroups: alt.tv.quantum-leap.creative Subject: For Tomorrow We Leap part05/05 Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:14:07 -0400 Message-Id: <31FBCA0F.1CDB@voicenet.com> Well, I was almost disappointed in writing this when I found out how bad a writer I was, bud I had to finish it if anyone at all got excited about this. I know this is weak, but I saw many stories left hanging and I didn't want to be one of them. ****** For Tomorrow We Leap By Boris Zakharin Part 5/5 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Donna went about meeting Sam, hugging him, and all as well as she remembered it the first time around. Finally, Al appeared. "Ziggy gives a 75% chance that you are here to get pregnant. Apparently, this is just the right time for your child to possess Sam's genius." At that moment, Sam came in. "Al?" With an "Uh Oh!" Al clicked some buttons on Ziggys Handlink and disappeared. Sam dismissed Al's action as just another one of his weirdnesses. _That's easy_, Donna thought. She had no problem convincing Sam to do that. Suddenly, she felt a tingling sensation. She leaped. She was in a very nice looking room in bed alone the electronic clock on the desk read 11:48pm. Since she didn't sleep all night with Sam, she decided to make herself comfortable, turn off the light and go to bed. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "For tomorrow we leap" June 12 1999 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Suddenly, Al appeared. "Sam! I found you! You..." Sam interrupted him, "Al, don't retrww wro!" Sam's voice was swallowed up by the leap. Al returned from the imaging chamber. _I wander what it was Sam was going to say. Was it important?_ Al thought. "Admiral, we have located Dr. Beckett. He is in Hacken Sack, New Jersey on June 12 1995. And get this. Dr. Elisse is in the very same house." _It couldn't be a better retrieval situation if I were in charge_ Al thought. "Prepare for retrieval! Turn accelerator up to full power!" he said aloud. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In fact, Sam *was* in the very same house in the room next to Donna's. Not suspecting it, however, and seeing the clock on his computer show 23:49:13.09, quickly quitted Windows NT 4.8a noting he was somewhere in the late 1990s or maybe in the year 2000, however, turned off the light, and went to sleep. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Start countdown!" "Ten seconds to retrieval, nine..." a female voice started. Suddenly, al remembered what Sam was saying to him. _I think it was "Don't something him, or me, some short word. And the second word started with re. Retry? Redo? Retain? Yes, retsomething! Uh oh! Retrieve!_ "(T)wo, one..." "Gooshie! Stop Now!" "Retrieval aborted." As Al came into the imaging chamber, with a loud rumble of thunder, everything around him flashed around him. In the morning, "Uh oh, Sam, it's a good thing we did not attempt to retrieve you or you would..." "Be killed by lightning during retrieval, I know," Sam continued. Donna, waking up, entered Sam's room. "Hello... Um," sam began giving his hand to Donna. As soon as they touched, a tingling sensation was felt in both of them. "Donna!" "Sam!" They embraced. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The retrieval was done at the very end of Thunderstorm as soon they made sure all was safe. Sam took some time reaquainting himself with real life. The first thing he did was visit his family who, to his surprise, still lived on the farm. His brother was married and lived right there on the farm. Sam barely held his overjoy at seeing his brother alive and well. They invited Sam to live on the farm, but he found that milking cows was much harder than saving people's lives. (Yeah right!) Donna had a beautifull baby boy whom they called John after Sam's father. She went back to work on the project and many more to come. Sam and Al continued to work on the project breaking new frontiers in time until the next hearing where the project was cancelled. However, time travel was now discovered, so Sam, Al, Donna, Gooshie, Tina, and Beth worked in other exciting top secret government projects and led an exciting life. Sam even proceded to get a degree in psychiatry. Oh boy... The End * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Was there any evidence that after "Promised Land", Sam's family did or did not retain their farm? Comments welcome at addresses below. -- Boris Zakharin zakharin@juno.com Editor, Quantum Leap Mailing List Zakharin.QLML@juno.com My family zakharin@voicenet.com My homepage including QLML online http://www.voicenet.com/~zakharin "Those who dance with the devil are bound to get burned" -Al the devil, "The B**gi*m*n", Quantum Leap Remember, even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat...