Fernando
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EDIT: Section added to fit Jeanette's post. "Jeanette, I told you that I did not want her near me. Period." Fernando tells her sternly before turning to Moro, "To answer your damed question: Mankind has learned to take care of the earth and despite his numbers of 30-billion plus by this time, things were better in tune with earth and the planet no longer suffering from the squanderings of generations before. Use of fossil fuels was ending and other means of generating clean power from renewable resources were being implemented. Places like South America and Iceland were already doing since the 1980s if not before. Other places were starting to so do by 2000, including the USA. But places like China and the Arabic arm of OPEC only cared about the almighty dollar and they suffered greatly. Thus the Earth was being healed but this was not going to take one generation to get done but it would be done - during the time from 2000 to 2060: three generations. At the same time we would have Space stations, Moon bases and putting our first steps on Mars. But you spirits destroyed all that. Your actions and inactions to prevent this time line from happening set mankind back over 1000 years because that is how long it is going to take to recover from this. So if you do not mind, get away from my face. I got work to do." Living up to his promise, Anna was sent back to her time while everyone slept. The sun shone in through the gaps in the curtain, waking Fernando up at 6AM whether he liked it or not and he didn't. Macey had her chest, shoulder and head resting on his chest as she held him tightly in her sleep. As much as he did not liked to wake up so early, he had to get up and get ready or the day. And he had to get Macey awake and get her ready for the day as well. "Wake up, girl..." He gives her a slight shake on her shoulder. Macey stirs and complains about waking up, going back to sleep immediately. He shake her again a bit harder than before, "Macey, wake up!" She wakes up this time, rubbing her eyes, "I'm awake... I'm awake..." "Good. We need to shower up and get dressed." He tells her before getting out of bed. "I'll shower up first. You get your things together, you can wear the same skirt and polo-shirt from yesterday but get some fresh underwear to put on." Before he gets up out of bed and gathers his things. "OK... daddy..." She says before he disappears in the bathroom to shower up but instead of getting her things together, Macey goes back to sleep. Fernando does what he can at the same time he showers up, shaving the stubble of his face and brushing his teeth. It cuts the time he should spend in the bathroom to just a few minutes instead of an 1/2 hour. When using the facilities, he gets partially dressed before stepping out. He finds Macey sleeping again. Putting his things down at the end of the bed, he sits up by Macey and gives her a long shake. "Wake up!" He tells her. "I'm awake... I'm awake..." Macey awakes up again, not happy with the intrusion of her slumber. "Get in the bathroom, use the toilet and then shower up. I'll get your things ready." He tells her. "Alright..." She replies after a yawn. "Now, Miss!" He holds back from yelling at her. "Alright... Alright... I'm going..." Macey replies as she gets from under the blankets and covers and trots over to the bathroom. While in the bathroom, Fernando gets her things ready, with fresh sox and underwear for her to put on under the skirt and polo-shirt she had on the day before. Once he hears the shower going, he goes inside the bathroom and takes her underwear she had on and replaces them with the fresh set. He tells her, "Here's the fresh set of underwear for you to to put on." "Thanks, daddy..." Macey says from inside the shower stall. Once back outside, Fernando finishes up getting fully dress for the day. Macey gets out o the bathroom when Fernando finishes getting dressed. Taking a small bag, he stuffs their sox and underwear into it. "I'm going to see about getting these things washed, you need to get dressed while I'm gone." He tells her before leaving the room. Macey sits on the bed as he leaves before falling back on the mattress. "Might as well get up and do as he says... I don't want him mad at me." She sits up again and gets the skirt and polo-shirt to put on. After putting on her skirt and shirt, she puts on her sox and shoes next before she begins to brush out her hair. Fernando returns with the bag of dirty clothes, "They wont be open until after 8. But we got to get to Hondo's truck soon enough. You ready to go?" "Yeah, I'm ready." Macey replies. Fernando takes her to their campers, and gets the things he stated to Hondo the night before: the remains of the bread rolls, cold cuts and the spent quart of milk from Jeanette's camper and the half dozen eggs from his camper. He leaves a note on Jeanette's gas camper's windshield and wiper saying what he took, where he's going and offering her that Hondo will take her to the market if she gets there early but he won't wait forever. After leaving the note he and Macey walks to Hondo's truck, arriving there at about 6:45AM. He knocks on the door and it opens. "Glad you can make it." Hondo says as Fernando lifts Macey into the camper before handing him a bag of food to him. "That should do for breakfast. I left a note for Jeanette to come but I do not know when she will." Fernando tells him. "We'll wait for her for a while since they should open up around 8 or so." Hondo replies, adding, "So, how do you like your eggs?" "Make it scrambled with meat and cheese in a roll and lots of coffee." Fernando replies.
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