{"id":2889,"date":"2013-03-25T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:40:56","slug":"homewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"Homewards (by faust)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary: <\/span><\/em>After so many years, Adam is coming home.<\/p>\n

540 words, rated T<\/p>\n

My Story Index and reading order for the Art-Universe<\/a><\/p>\n

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Homewards <\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Adam stared at the paper on the desk before him. The pen ready, his hand hovered over the white sheet. But the words didn\u2019t come. What would one write after so many years? I\u2019m sorry?<\/em> He was sorry, well, in a way. But he\u2019d rather tell Joe that face to face.<\/p>\n

So much had happened since he had left the Ponderosa, there was so much he had to tell Joe. But not in a letter\u2014especially since the letter wouldn\u2019t be in Virginia City before he\u2019d be there, too.<\/p>\n

No, he\u2019d just write a telegram to announce his arrival. He was lucky the ship offered a telegram service to all passengers.<\/p>\n

Arrival at Virginia City April 22nd-stop-Big Brother-stop
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\nAdam smiled. If this wouldn\u2019t drive Joe up the wall, he didn\u2019t know what would do the trick. Joe had always complained Adam was leaving out more than he actually said in letters. And Adam had always replied he was saying the important and leaving out the irrelevant. Of course, this time he was leaving out some important things, too. Like why he had decided to travel home now, and not ten or twenty years earlier. Or like what he had done all those years. But again, these were things he\u2019d like to tell Joe face to face.<\/p>\n

Joe. How old was he now? Seventy. Great god, his baby brother was an old man just like he himself. Adam wondered if Joe still had his unruly shock of curls. He ran his hand over his own bald head and sighed.<\/p>\n

He fervently wished Mary would stand behind his chair, like she had done so many times, planting a kiss on the top of his head and teasing him, \u201cAt least I don\u2019t need a mirror anymore. I can see myself clear as the day!\u201d Of course, this had been before the illness had stolen her beauty. After that she had never talked about mirrors anymore. She hadn\u2019t talked much anyway from the day they had discovered she would die an untimely and ugly death until the moment she had left this world in her own quiet, dignified way.<\/p>\n

Maybe he would tell Joe all about this as well. Just like he would tell him about the good things: His children, his grandchildren, his house at the seafront in Brighton, his library. All right, perhaps Joe wouldn\u2019t want to hear about the library. But there was so much more to share. And he would listen to Joe\u2019s tales about his <\/em>life and his <\/em>losses, about the Ponderosa and about Virginia City.<\/p>\n

They\u2019d catch up with everything. They\u2019d have all the time in the world.<\/p>\n

Adam looked at the paper again and\u2014still the orderly businessman\u2014added the date, April 14th, 1912. He stroked his thumb over the emblem in the right upper corner of the paper sheet. What a very fitting name for this ship that would take him home: Titanic.<\/em><\/p>\n

*** fin ***<\/p>\n

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“As I was put into the boat, he cried to me, \u2018It\u2019s all right, little girl. You go. I will stay.\u2019 As our boat shoved off he threw me a kiss, and that was the last I saw of him.” ~ Mrs. Warner Marvin, survivor<\/em><\/p>\n

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