Stephen's Secure Blog #308
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 17 in this story, in Summer of year 7 of his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #308 "Dan Is Back"
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Chad went to see Dan. He knew I would be monitoring. It went well.
Then I arrived at the nursing home front door, and asked to visit Dan.
There was a problem. They asked, "Are you a relative?" I said "In my
last life, we were foster brothers." That really confused them. They
had a policy that only family and doctors could visit with the
patients. Chad was a doctor. I wasn't either of those things to them.
So, they said no. I asked to see the boss of the place. She came. I
repeated my request, and she repeated the negative. Then I grew bigger,
and thundered, "You allow doctors. I am more than a Doctor! I healed
him, when no doctor could, when I gave my love to the world. You WILL
let me see my brother!" My Ki was flowing fully, and she had no
resistance. She let me in, and escorted me to Dan's room. Chad was
still there, and saying to him, "It looks like they didn't want to let
Stephen in. Bad mistake." They both laughed.
Dan had been prepared, so he didn't show much surprise at my
appearance. We hugged and cried. The boss left, very confused. We sat
and talked a lot. Then I said, with a glance at the book, and said,
"Why that book?" He said "Well, it was recommended. It's very good. Oh,
I see. You wrote it, didn't you." Chad laughed. I poked him, and he
laughed more, and said, "Stole your thunder!" I said "Yes. I've been
writing a lot, to earn money for Tibet. The dog book wasn't nearly
enough." He nodded and said, "I remember when you found out you could
control animals. Still can?" I said "Yes, and that's a good thing,
because if I couldn't, I would be covered with them every time I
stepped outside." He laughed. I said "I still do dog shows at the camp,
which is run by Jeremy, now. Would you like to visit it?" He said "I
sure would! But they won't let me out. They don't believe in miracles
right under their overworked noses." I said, "Well, at least they don't
have colds." He laughed. I said "Places like this have to be pretty
strict. Too many people want to take advantage of the patients. I don't
think you can live here, and be free to go when and where you want to.
We could spring you from this trap, but you would have to choose
another place to live. Don't worry about money. Got loads."
He grinned, and said, "I don't doubt it." Chad said "Any of your
rescue team would LOVE to have you live with us. Or we could set you up
any way you like." He said "I've been away from the world. I have a lot
of catching up to do. I think I would like to do some traveling." I
said "Great! But you have to escape from here, first, and establish a
residency somewhere. We have apartments available near our school,
owned and operated for students and staff. We also have some communal
setups. You wouldn't even have to cook. Hot and cold running students
to cater to your every needs, if you wanted. Well, being my past
brother, you would be highly respected. And knowing you, loved. Or any
other place in any way. Maybe even with Jeremy at the camp." He said,
"That's a lot to choose from!" I said "Any place in the world? I guess
so." We laughed. We discussed his options in detail.
abilities have grown, since my last life. While we've been talking,
I've been talking with your doctor, and with the director of this
place, via lifelike projections. They don't know they aren't really me.
They know about Chad. If he certifies you are healthy and able, they
will release you at his request. Now, if you want, we have to convince
Chad to do that. I think some kissing and hugging might help do the
trick." They laughed, and explored those procedures with a will. Then I
said, "We still have to have a place for you to go to, now. Naturally,
it can change any time you want it to. I propose this. At least for
today, and until you make another decision, there are two offers on the
table right now. I've been talking with Jeremy, too. He offers his
place, at least for the rest of the summer." I looked at Chad, and he
nodded. I said "And Chad who is alone now, offers his place, too. I
don't have a regular home at the moment, so I can't offer you that now,
but after I get married in about a year, I will have one, and I can't
think of a better grandfather type person to help raise my kids to be
good and loving people." He cried, and we hugged and kissed.
He said, "Still my hero!" Chad said, "Hero to most of the world now,
and to many other worlds." He said, "I really have some catching up to
do!" I said "You don't have to hurry. There's time. Shall we go and get
you released?" We did that, and it went well. Then we ported to
Jeremy's office, and had more hugging and crying to do. Dan opted to
stay there for at least a week, but with a permanent address in an
apartment managed by the school. I said I had something to do, and
ported out. A while later, I was back, and said to Dan, "Sign this,
please." He looked at it, and saw it was a bank signature card. He
signed it. I ported away, and came back with a temp checkbook, and some
Travelers Checks, and had him sign for them, too. Then I went out, and
came back, and said, "Debit card and new passport will be in the mail.
Should arrive in about two weeks. In the mean time, any place you want
to go, we can port you there. Here is a pack of contact cards." He said
"Wow! You really work fast!" I said "That's me, ol' speedy!" He
laughed.
Chad said, "You don't know how fast! He can build a house, a work of
art mansion, in seconds. He built an entire city in less than a week."
They said "Wow!" Chad said "He hears that a lot." They laughed. I said
"It's day there." Chad said "Want to see it?" Jeremy said, "Let me tell
my assistant, Dex." He did. When he came back, he had to explain my big
grin. Dan said, "Still the matchmaker!" I said "Absolutely. My greatest
happiness is to see those I love being happy." We did some more hugging
and kissing. I said "Please stand. Well, I didn't mean those, too."
They laughed. I said "To the play area first!" We ported to my house on
Allguard, to one of the play rooms, and had a very good group squirt.
While we were resting, Dan said, "I didn't know I could still do that!"
I said with a grin, "I did." I got poked.
We cleaned up under the blue light, and Dan had some more wows. I
said I would put one in the camp main residence, which they thought was
a very good idea. Then we ported to the city. They stared around in
awe. Chad grinned his face almost in half. We did the usual tour. Then
did the tour of my house. I explained why I had made it, and the city.
They were very impressed, and by the art, too. I said "Chad, I have an
idea." He said "Oh, oh! It must be a big one, for you to actually
announce it to prepare us for something earth shattering." I made a
rude noise. They laughed. Then I shocked them with, "But you might be
right, this time." That got their attention. I explained about the
computer operated wrist guide, and that it could port people. After
they understood all that, I said, "I could put a real time com link for
the control computer on Earth in different places. Then, even people
who couldn't port on their own, could port." They all said "Wow!"
I said "The real question is, should I, and if I do, who gets the
guides?" Chad said "You shouldn't. We discovered that with Tibet. You
port to that extreme altitude from sea level, and you will be in big
trouble. The computer isn't going to be able to handle the air pressure
adjustment perfectly." I said "Right. I could make it so it could, but
that would severely limit the number of portings it could handle at any
one time." Dan said "But still, it could be used in an emergency, like
a safety escape method." I said "Except when that happens in public,
and everybody screams for one. For people we trust, we can give contact
cards, which we do. They can be ported away by the person they
contact." Dan said, "That is best, I think." I said "Yes. I shouldn't
have raised the issue." Chad said, "No. It's still a valid subject,
which can be made real any time you want to. It's good that we know
about the possibility."
I said "We still have Port-Alls, with the main terminal in the city
in the link. So, if any of you want a house or apartment here, you can
have one. If you want to be all alone." Dan said "Are you alone here?"
I looked at them and grinned. He said "I see. Awkward. We're here with
you." Chad "So would anybody of our group be, at the slightest hint."
Dan said with a laugh, "Just like him. Different monster, same use."
They laughed. I said "Right. Rose and Hawk spend a lot of time here,
including the horizontal. I'll be marrying Rose soon. Would you like to
meet them?" They did, and we were joined by them. We did a lot of
kissing and hugging, and we discussed our future, and the kind of
household we would be creating. Rose said, "We absolutely approve of
Stephen's offer." She kissed Dan very throughly, and then Hawk said,
"My turn!" He did it too. Then they did the same with Jeremy, and with
the same offer. Neither of them objected in the least.
Rose asked Dan, "Can you sing?" He said "Yes, and play the piano and
guitar." I said "Shall we go to the music room?" Hawk told them how I
discovered I could sing, and why I cried. Then Chad told them about
when I asked to play with his organ. We laughed. I stopped. They looked
at me. I said "I've made a lot of instruments, but the biggest. I want
to do that now." We went outside, and I rebuilt my house, with some
VERY high ceilings in some rooms, and of different colored and carved
jade, in a new design. They all said wow a lot. We went back into the
music room, and it was gigantic, and most of two walls were covered
with pipes for the big pipe organ. Chad said to me, "Play it. You know
what." I nodded, and went to it, and played the Bach Toccata. I put a
lot into it, and a lot more came out of the pipes. It was great. I
know, because they said that after I finished. Chad said "That's going
into a new album of classical organ music." Dan said "You have albums?"
Chad gave him a really big grin, and then described my musical career.
There were some more wows. I said "It's all Chad's fault. He keeps
wanting me to do more and more." Dan said "Sure." I made a face at him,
and he laughed. I said "For money for Tibet. I had to go public to help
get their freedom, so we figured the more popular I became, the more
effective I would be. I didn't like that, but it worked."
Rose said "By all reports, Stephen is the most popular living person.
Probably in all history." Hawk said, "With our current population, it
really is in all history." Rose nodded to him. Dan said "What about
Jesus?" I said "Ah, they mean living. I aint dead yet." He grinned, and
said, "True." Then he looked strange, and said, "Were you Him?" I said
"No, but I was a member of his organization. I died shortly after he
did." He said "Oh. Were you anybody in the Bible?" I said "That one,
He nodded.
I said, "The ones I've told some others are, well, I knew somebody
who might be the model for Noah. I was Ishmael. Joseph. Moses. I might
have been some others, but names and places are hard to pin down,
because of different languages and poor reporting. I knew The Buddha. I
was one of the currant Dalai Lama's earliest teachers. The man who
became Genghis Khan, killed me when he was 18, and I was almost. We
were best friends. I was Saint Nicholas, and Saint Francis. I was the
renaissance artist known as Raphael. One more in the Bible I haven't
disclosed before. I had your name, and there was something about a
lion. It was I who wrote a lot of the Old Testament, to encourage the
Israelites I had helped to be free, to leave Babylon and return to the
Land of Israel. Just like as Moses, and now as I am with Tibet, I did
not join them in their new freedom. Please don't repeat those things."
They saw my tears. Rose said, "I remember one past life. It's not fun.
Remember, all lives end in death. He remembers those, too, in total
recall. We avoid causing him to remember things like that." They got
the message.
Hawk said, "He's written about some of those lives, but most are not
under his name." I said "My first life is being published as a science
fiction series. It's been selling well." Hawk laughed, and said, "Top
of the charts!" Chad said, "There have been inquiries about movie
rights. I'm his agent and manager." Dan wanted to know the title. I
told him. Jeremy said, "I've read them! VERY good writing! So they are
actually real. Wow!" I said, "Thanks. Being real is the er, real
problem. Real people just don't live lives that make good books. It's
very difficult to make her life fit into different volumes, and still
keep it accurate, even using flashbacks. I've written all of the books,
but they are being published one at a time, for marketing reasons."
I said "What kind of guitar do you play?" He said "It's been years,
hugged. He said "Standard six string acoustic will do." I said "I don't
do anything standard. Tell me what you REALLY would like to have, no
limit." He did, and I ported it to my hand, and gave it to him. He said
"Wow! How did you know?" Hawk said "You think he had one, and just
ported it in. No, he just MADE it for you, like he built this house."
He said wow again. Then he looked closer, and said, "This is really
different. What is the bridge made of?" I said "Part sapphire. Some of
the inlays are gems, too. Some of the wood comes from other worlds.
Give it a try. It's already tuned. Got all kinds of picks you can take
your er, pick from, if you need any." Hawk groaned. Rose poked him. Dan
grinned, and tried some. He was terrible, and very embarrassed about
it. I said "I think I might know what the problem is. A lot of your
brain is new now. Some of your learned physical memory might not be
fully restored yet. I think I have a way which won't cause any harm, to
help with that, but you would have to give some serious permission for
it." He said "I trust you completely Please do it." I said "Alright. I
will need to enter your mind and brain, and temporarily take over your
body, and play the instrument. That should really speed up your new
integration. You will still be conscious. Ready?" He gulped, and
nodded.
I forced my way into his mind and brain. I said inside to him, +I'm
going to push around, to take control. If you resist, I will have to
stop, to avoid hurting you. Here goes.+ I pushed out into all of his
brain. He didn't resist enough to make me stop. I took over his senses
and body control. I played the guitar very well, and in all the styles
the instrument could handle. Then I said to him inside, +Want me to do
the piano, too? Just think the reply.+ He said he did. I walked him
over to the piano, and played some very difficult pieces. Then I moved
him back to the chair. I held him with my own body, and gently withdrew
from his brain. He said "Wow!" I said "Absolutely!" We all laughed. I
said "Play something other than what I played." I handed him the
guitar. He played very well. He said "I can't believe it! I play better
than I did before!" I said "Older and wiser, and with more experience,
helps with that. Happened to me in my old age last time. When I got my
powers back, two years before I jumped into this incarnation, they were
better than before." He said "Oh. Sure. Whatever you say." I growled at
him, and he and they laughed.
We all had a very good time playing all kinds of music. We had some
food from my food maker, and he had some more wows for that. When it
was time for them to go back to the camp, we all had some really good
hugs with love. Then I ported them home. We sat around after that. Rose
said, "I really do want him to live with us. You too, Chad, if you want
to. Well, you do practically now, and we think of you like that." Hawk
said "Yes." Chad had some tears, and said, "I don't know. We have time
yet, for the decision." Rose said. "We will respect your decision,
whatever it is." Hawk said "If it doesn't involve murder." Chad
laughed, while Rose poked Hawk.
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