He looked around his bedroom, and saw his br*ther Guppy standing over him and staring at him. This was a normal morning in his house, but after he rea...ly started waking up, he knew something was wrong. He was almost positive that he went to bed in Los Angeles, so how did he wind up back in his room in Seattle?He pushed his br*ther off him and raced over to check his phone and saw that the date was right. It was December 22, for sure, and he was definitely back home from the trip. He looked. "I got a new dress!" she announced. "Wanna see it?"Mrs. Fisher smiled at me again. Almost apologetically, but it also could have been one of those smiles that mothers give when they think their offspring have said something cute."Come on in," she insisted. "Gail, will you take Rory up to Seth's? I think he's in his room."I stepped into the house as they made room for me, becoming startled when Gail latched onto my hand with a surprisingly strong grip for a forty-pound little girl."Come on,. The thoughts were pushed out of my head by the ringing phone.It was Melanie.“So?” I asked.“I talked to him. At first, it seemed like we would be OK. But the more he talked, the more I realized he thought it had been you. He told me that it didn’t surprise him and he knew someday it would happen. He could deal with it. But then he asked if it was when Michelle was here and all of a sudden I knew he meant you. I really wanted to let him believe that, but I knew he’d eventually say something to. " I can see I'm going to struggle to earn my keep here your Grace. You seem to have the military situation well in hand!" Not so Colonel, I admit I have learned from experience, but I am not a professional and my next mistake could cost many lives. I try not to fool myself."The Colonel was doubly impressed. Normally the human reaction would be to believe you were better than you actually were, Scott's successes would tend to re-inforce that, yet here he had a man who was being brutally honest.