Chapter 34: The Direction of Home
From Washington to New York, a four-hour drive, two hours to run, along the way ignoring the traffic lights as nothing, treating traffic jams as if they were thoroughfares, leaving a place of fines for the rich to pay.
Don and Natasha find the home of Jeepta III astronaut, Ben Graeme, a very modest house. His wife, Debbie Graeme, lives here, and she is a beautiful lady, but she looks a little haggard at this time, and is in a wheelchair, obviously with some mobility problems.
"You may be seated. I think you're here for this business, and I've had several groups of people ask about it in the past few days. ”
"I'm sorry, ma'am." Don said.
"Nope." Debbie shook her head and forced a smile: "I'm glad that someone still remembers him." ”
"Is there anything you'd like to tell us?" Natasha asked softly.
"Well, I'd love to share that with you." Debbie's face lit up with happiness, "It was ten days ago in the evening, when I was reading a book in the house, and he appeared like that, looked at me and smiled, but didn't speak, and then, as before, pushed me around the nearby park, and didn't come back until the sun went down." Oh my God, the sunset that night was so charming. The corners of her eyes were unconsciously soaked.
"A lot of people say I'm hallucinating because of my thoughts, and some people say I did see him, but I don't care, because the familiar feeling of him behind me is something I'll never forget."
"Did he reappear later, ma'am?"
"It's just that evening, it's enough for that evening."
"Why did Mr. Graeme want to participate in the jeep project?" Natasha asked.
"As you can see, I'm sick, progressive muscular dystrophy, a rare genetic disease that can never be cured, and the vast majority of people who get it don't live to be twenty years old," Debbie said. Ben refused to give up, and he also had a group of genius scientist friends, so I was able to live to this day. Reid helped us a lot, and one day he said that he wanted to detect something in space, which could help cure diseases, and that he was going to take a spaceship to see it, and Ben was a very good pilot, so he went with him, and he trusted Reed very much, and said that he could never make mistakes, and the result was ...... I guess that's not Reed's fault either. ”
Don and Natasha looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.
"I've never dared to ask if it's possible for you people to come here again and again......" her eyes were filled with hope in case.
As soon as Tang wanted to open his mouth, Natasha had already stood up and said apologetically: "Please mourn, ma'am, please take care of your body, we are disturbing." With that, he pulled Tang and hurriedly escaped from the house.
"Don't give her vague hope." As the two of them walked down the road, Natasha taught, "That won't help her, there's no one to help him." ”
"What do you think I'm going to say?" Tang glanced at her and said angrily, "It's just...... It's just touching the scene. After a while, he suddenly said: "There is not much left of her life, but I think what she wants most is to watch the fiery sunset with the person she loves the most." ”
"Do you think it's possible? Love that travels through time and space can really bring incredible miracles. ”
"Nope." Tang shook his head and said: "Love is love, it represents a kind of close connection between people that is beyond reality, and this connection is so close that time and space cannot cut it off." But it doesn't exist to bring miracles, but to teach us how to cherish them. ”
"You seem to feel a lot about that."
"It's over." Tang took a deep breath, "I also experienced it before I understood. Do you have a family? ”
Natasha didn't expect him to suddenly ask this, bowed her head and was silent for a long time, and said astringently: "There was one, but unfortunately it was fake, and there was a house, I hate it." It took all my might to get out of there. ”
"Then I'm luckier than you." "I had a very real home, my father, my mother, and my sister," Don recalled. But the relationship ...... We had a lot of fights because of work, house, marriage and so on. There was no doubt that we both loved each other dearly, but I couldn't go the way they wanted, and we wouldn't budge, so we got into that. Now that I think about it, why? ”
At this point, he burst into tears, "I really want to go home." ”
"You can go back and see them whenever you want." Natasha comforted him.
"I can't go back." Don stopped crying, shook his head, and said, "Hill told me not to tell anyone about it, but I always couldn't help it and wanted to find someone to talk to. Tiga's power is very strong, but he can't do it, he can't go back, there is no home for me over there. ”
There is obviously something hidden in this, but Natasha is not easy to delve into, not to mention that this remark also touched her sadness.
"Actually, I have a younger sister too."
Tang glanced at her in surprise, do you want to get closer to me?
Natasha didn't sense his abnormality and continued, "Although I am not related by blood, I really regard her as my own sister. I tried my best to protect her from the same fate as mine, but I failed. ”
"Is she dead?"
"No, I did what I had to do, she should be fine by now and living an ordinary life."
"Sounds great, if only my family could think the same way. Didn't you contact her? ”
Natasha hesitated for a moment, then said, "I'm not sure if she wants to see me again." ”
Don recalled: "When I was younger, I wasn't very nice to my sister, or very bad. I didn't care much about her, and I didn't do my duty as an older brother, at that time...... Later, when I grew up and understood some things, I always felt guilty in my heart and wanted to make up for it, but now I don't have a chance. You should find her, Natasha, no one who doesn't want to see their loved ones. Maybe she's been somewhere, waiting for news from you. ”
Natasha didn't speak for a long time.