”“Dr. Reynolds stops by once a week to look in on Evelyn and Lily,” Elizabeth said. “Dr. Gardner even stopped in once. They’re all hoping Ev...lyn will get pregnant again. They seem to forget that Jack’s been in a different city almost since Lily was born and it’s only been a month.” Elizabeth looked thoughtfully at me and I went on alert. “Why don’t you give Dr. Simpson’s invigorator a try, sweetie? Jack won’t be planting any babies before at least Christmas. We could be underway by then.”“Oh,. ”“Same here. All mine live in striking distance, but Cath and Clare would come here and stay over.” John thought for a moment. “Why don’t you write and ask them what they would like to do, and we can go from there.”Claire sent off an email to them all, including Thomas, and the same evening there came a reply from Elizabeth.We have discussed it and there is no way we are going to Dad’s if you are not there. We are all agreed we would like to spend it with you, but I do not think there is room. She sat down so her warm lips were on my leg and started to grind back and forth. There was no doubt, even a paraplegic could feel it, that my leg was being used as a stimulus to her clitoris. I looked at her immediately and she stuck her tongue out at me. Youre asking for it, I whispered. Am not, she replied, still moving back and forth on my leg, Im demanding it. God damn the human race if I wasnt hard by then. For a moment it genuinely hurt it was so hard. She placed her little hand on my. Well, this is Joe's baby now. The time machine."Ready Joe?" the disembodied voice of Bennett comes from the in-chamber speaker. "Starting the countdown. Good luck, buddy."You take a deep breath as Bennett calls out numbers from ten slowly down to one. Then suddenly, a fog-horn type alarm sounds and Joe feels the strangest feeling surging through his body.Then he feels light-headed, and his body drained of energy. He collapses to the floor, and his vision seems to fizz as though his eyes are.