- So are you sure you know how the application works?
I looked at that icon portraying a soft clock very similar to Dali's, once again. It was safe and sound uploaded at my phone. Right now there were only two people in the whole universe with the key to travel time. Fooling and I.
Everything was top secret and the other 15 group members who stayed that afternoon at the room and so they shared the secret, just could get very specific updates. Forget about technicals details about the operation. It was permitted only to the designer and his lab rat.
I looked once again at his eyes disguised behind his elegant glasses with its twisted sidepieces and his short-sighted eyes gave me some sort of comfort. Fooling was a top level scientist and if that thing was true, if you can really travel time, it was at his marked an historical milestone. Nothing like anything discovered before.
And everything could do it passing one finger on a phone screen and following the steps. Just like when you shop online, you download pirated movies or doing the neccesary paperwork.
- I got it under control.
I knew what I got to do to get back in time and get back to 2020 in case of things got tough. Everything was unknown. I was a real guinea pig and it was understandable that any of my colleagues wished going through this. No matter how much any of them would love to see, touch and talk to Freddie.
Fooling and I have spoken tiredlessly about the mission. I was convinced the right year to trying save Freddie was 1977 and I was ready to travel that year.
If the mission was proved useful my question was clear: How much time must I stay on that limbo? What would it happened with my life, my parents, my friends, my studies just to finished, my work? My life in 2020.
- Your 2020 life has become secondary, Black. Now you are tied to 1977 and a succesful mission. It's all you must worry about.
- That's very hard, Fooling. Can't you see?
- I can see -he gripped my hand-. And I know perfectly to whom I entrust this mission. To someone who won't disappoint me and she'll change the history. We're changing the history.
- I'm very nervous. What if I don't get it, if I won't be able...?
- Shhh, I've explain to you a million times. Just one failure, just one sign of weakness, you can speak to me through the application. You've seen already the similar application like whatsapp in one of its tabs. I'm here 24 hours a day just for you. Nothing can go wrong.
- I think everything can go wrong. You trust so much in this.
- Are you going to be positive? Look at me -he grabbed tightly my chin to look at him-. Are you going to be positive?
- You're talking to the first traveller time. Positive is not the right word in my vocabulary. I'm sorry. I'm shaking.
- I notice. I'd shake too.
- You should be the guinea pig in your own experiment. You have more experience in life. I don't know...
- Shut your mouth up. I know perfectly why I've chosen you. I know what Freddie can need.
- Oh, yeah? Enlighten me. What can I provide him?
- I think a lot of inspiration.
- I don't know, Fooling. 1977 is such a troubled period. I know it couldn't be another one but I just don't know. David Minns, Joe Fanelli...
- And many more, darling. That's Freddie and that's is the challenge.
- And I got no cock nor an ounce of testosterone.
- That was never a problem to Freddie. And don't start like Killer. I'm not asking you to fucking our man. Although if you want and is not risky to the operation, you are a free woman.
- Oh, Fooling. I think that's making me sick. Leave out that theme. You don't help me.
- Hold me.
- Yes, please.
I buried in Fooling's big body feeling with that embrace filled with love and expectations. He could express a lot of things, he was an unusual scientist. Very cosmic.
- Take care of that phone as though it was your own life. Make up your mind and think of it as your own heart... and mine.