Preserving Will by Alex Albrinck

Author:Alex Albrinck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Hard Science Fiction, High Tech, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Metaphysical & Visionary, Contemporary, Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Paranormal & Urban, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2013-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

XIV

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2028 A.D.

“Do you really think this is wise?”

Will sat behind the wheel of the jet black, antique, 1995 convertible sports car, revving the engine, his face lit up like a child’s on Christmas morning. He looked at Hope as the engine purred and rattled the ground around them, and offered her a weak smile. “I’ll leave the top up so no one sees me. I swear.”

Hope rolled her eyes. “Why can’t you just admit you want to drive the car?”

“It’s not fair to send other people to do my work for me,” Will replied with mock innocence. “I should handle these things myself. Besides, we really don’t want anyone seeing the car with Millard.”

Hope shivered internally. His words were a near match to those he’d offered in explaining his decision to face the Hunters in 1994, the encounter that most believed ended with him dead. He was extremely consistent in his philosophy in that regard. “Well, if you put it that way,” she said slowly, “then I guess I should move out of the way and let you go. But please, be careful. I don’t want Lance coming back to tell me you drove the car off a bridge or something.”

Will winced, sucking in his breath, and Hope, eyes wide, stammered out an apology. “I’m so sorry, Will, I…”

“No, no, it’s okay,” Will replied, his face flushed and his eyes wide. “It’s just… I don’t really want to think about… that.”

Hope nodded. The car crash had been the formative event of his young life, a day he remembered with absolute clarity even ten centuries later. Today, it was the realization that he’d been so near death that affected him. But after living so many centuries, what stayed with him was a powerful sensation that someone was watching over him, protecting him, ensuring that he lived when physics stated he should have joined his parents in being zipped into a body bag that day. He’d asked her during his visit to the bunker several years earlier if she’d been there, having deduced that the presence he’d felt so many years earlier had been that of his wife.

Will revved the engine once more and smiled again, though with less enthusiasm than before. Hope returned his smile, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and stepped aside. Will moved slowly down the driveway toward the entrance to the De Gray Estates, and from there he’d meet up with his security team convoy. The convertible, filled with the supplies Millard Howe would need to carry out the terms of their will, would be the means of conveyance for the lawyer to reach the site of the “secure data center” where the documents were stored without risk of alteration. Will didn’t know that “secure data center” was a euphemism for a little used Alliance safe house, a site that would be used only as transfer point for the location of the actual document handover.

Hope headed back into the house. She’d been unusually tired lately, and wondered if the mental fatigue of masking her son’s massive ability had something to do with it.

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