"While my family began eating, I talked to Steve. "I've been thinking about that thing with Billy. I'll bet that would be a good type of manufacturing... that could be done here and would be profitable. I think we could use your school and have classes for beginner apprentices, accomplished craftsmen, and master machinists, or whatever they are called. With the schools and an apprentice program, we could be training men for a good future with us or another company."Steve said, "The school we have. I leaned over and kissed him lightly on the lips and then sat myself up in my bed. “I'm going to go take a shower.” I said to him in a monotone voice. I did not have a lot to clean up really, except his sweat all over my body. He had condom on and I did not get very wet. Still I felt as if I needed a shower. “You want me to join you,” he laughed playfully, reaching over and rubbing at my back. I looked back at him and gave him a smile, shaking my head no. I really wanted to take the shower by. Just because a guy is a senior citizen does not mean the lusty thoughts have vanished.The sun beat down on my head as I finished nailing down the last few feet of the roof shingles on my sister-in-law’s house. Linda, my sister-in-law lived alone about 150 miles from where we lived and had suffered severe roof damage in a wind storm over the winter. I have been in the building trades for over 40 years and agreed to repair the roof.My wife, 15 years older than Linda, could not get off work so I. I had to admit to him that Eve was the only thing I had against him, but it was enough. He was safe here, as I had no intention of ever going through one of those portals again. However, if I was ever forced to go back to Earth the first thing I was going to do when I got to Earth was go to London and kill him so that when I got to Crossroads I could have Eve as my Caretaker. I didn’t really hate him, and I thought he deserved to know why I was going to kill him if I ever got sent back to.