“Three years?” Amanda asked.

“Yeah, someone thought it would be a good idea for me to brush up on my education.” James and pointed at Tommy.

“I paid for it, what are you complaining about?”

“I think I need to sit down,” Amanda said as she went to the closest table.

James sat next to her and set down what looked like a diploma. She opened it. It had James name on it, it was a DBA from Harvard dated two years ago. “You really aren’t kidding me, are you?”

“No.”

“So Tommy invented Time travel to go back and stock up on collectibles?”

“How little you think of me Amanda,” Tommy said with a sad look. “I have done it for a shitload of collectables.” Now he was smiling.

“There is a lot more going on than that,” James said as he shot an evil look back at Tommy. “That is what I was doing, getting more training so I can help him.”

“And I just happened to stumble into it?”

“Apparently.”

“Well, we can just go back to this morning and make sure you don’t forget your keys.”

“Really dude? Are you going to dismiss her that fast?”

“I’m not trying to be an ass, but I have a plan in place and unknown factors can really mess up things. So, convince me we can use her?”

“Use me?”

“He means can you help us in our goals.”

“Depends on what they are.”

“Right now, I just know he is amassing a huge fortune. He hasn’t gone into specifics with me on what comes next.”

“When the time is right I will, but until then I don’t want to get unneeded complications.”

“Well then the simplest thing to tell you is that she makes me happy and thus a better partner in whatever you need me to do.”

“Good enough, I will get a hold of Mr. Robertson then to have her sign some forms.”

“Forms?”

“Well we are talking time travel here, not like I want that kind of info getting out, though the forms are a bit more generic. Even my lawyer doesn’t know. As of now just us three.”

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“I think I need time to process this. Kind of thing that a girl doesn’t get hit with everyday.”

“We have a lot more time than you know too,” James added.

“I am sure the mechanics behind it is something we could spend some long night s talking about,” Amanda said.

“Not really, more like a half an hour, then you ask me all the questions I can’t answer for the next three. This isn’t Star Trek.”

James thought Tommy’s tone was a bit harsh, so he said to Amanda, “I don’t get a lot of it either, but I trust him so far. I mean he said he did a lot of tests and stuff. He isn’t dead or a fly version of Jeff Goldblum so I say we can trust him.” Amanda nodded. Then she got up and went to leave.

“Where do you think you are going?” Tommy asked.

“To work. I do have a class to teach.”

“Not until you sign those forms. I think you need a week off of school.”

“And just how do you think I can swing that?”

Tommy was on his phone as she replied. A few minutes passed with him talking to someone. When he was done he looked at the pair of them. “We will wait here for a bit, Mr. Robertson is on his way. Until then, I say we sit and talk.”

“What about…..” Amanda was interrupted by her phone. She answered, acknowledged with a couple of yeses and then hung up. “That was my school, they said take as much time as I need. They have a sub already. I asked if they were firing me, they said no. What did you do?”

“I have a guy that can make things happen, and fast.” Tommy replied.

“I guess I could use some time to take all of this in.”

Tommy walked over and sat by the pair. “I am sorry if I have been kind of an ass about this. It is a bit much to realize I messed up. I have been so careful to this point. I’m just hoping that by bringing in James I didn’t start becoming sloppy.”

“This was on me Tom, my fault.”

The trio sat for a while and Tommy answered all of Amanda’s questions as best he could. Not a lot more than he was able to tell James. By the time there was a knock on the door the conversation had pretty much played itself out. Tommy got up and opened the door. The familiar lawyer, at least to Tommy and James walked in. He went to the table, placed his briefcase on it and pulled out some documents.

He indicated where Amanda should sign and date. When she looked all of her information was already printed down. “You work fast,” she said as she read some of the legal wording and signed.

“What ever is needed we do.” The lawyer calmly replied. Once she was done signing the documents, he picked them up, placed them in his case and left.

“He was like a genie, just popping out of nowhere.”

“Actually he came from New York City. He has a fast jet.”

“And he just up and leaves like that?”

“He is well compensated for his time. So he will be fine. So as I was saying, what shall we do now?”

“I have a whole week off. I might just ask to kidnap James and disappear for a while.”

James looked at her kind of confused. “We have a time machine. We can go and do anything within the last forty years and you just want to go hide away for a while?”

“I keep forgetting about that, as far as what we can do. But I would feel bad about using Tommy to go do something using his tech. I don’t want to make him feel like a third wheel.”

James countered, “Oh believe me, he won’t be the one feeling awkward.”

“What do you mean by that?” Amanda asked.

“He knows people through out the ages that provide him with things.”

She pondered this a minute and then realized what James was saying, “Oh!”

“I have an idea of what we can do,” Tommy said. “You both just sit there while I make a call.”

The pair sat and Amanda reached for James hands. “I have been meaning to tell you something,” she said.

“And what would that be?”

“That I love you.”