The Kids Grow Up by Trish Hanan (novel24 .TXT) 📖

his soldiers. They nodded and marched forward. Reverend Milo looked shocked and stepped back with the rest of the group. Frank and Carl stepped forward with their guns and prepared to fire. But when they fired, the Galacticans fired and their weapons were made useless. Panicked they turned to Harry who lifted the Galacticans off the ground and into each other with such a force that everyone heard bones crack. The Count gasped and turned around to run.
“Don’t let him get away, Harry,” Jake shouted. Harry lifted the Count off the ground and snapped his neck. Then he rushed up the ramp to the ship to see if there were any more of them. Sarek followed him and they found the ship empty but with a red light flashing. Sarek frowned as he looked at the instrument panel.
“We must get this ship as far away from us as possible and very soon, I’m afraid the Count activated some kind of emergency self-destruct,” he told him. Harry nodded and sat down in the pilot’s chair. Jake stood behind him.
“Honey, run and tell the others what we’re going to do, we have to get to the Elizabeth and away from here very quickly now go,” he said and Jake ran off the ship. Harry quickly looked over the panel and pushed the correct buttons and they lifted off and flew to his hanger where he dropped off Sarek and Carl who quickly got onboard and followed him. Harry called them on Carl’s cell phone.
“It looks like I’ve got fifteen minutes so I’m heading out to sea, there is a boat here and I’m going to fly low, jump out and let the ship keep going so look for the boat,” he informed them.
“Right, Harry, we’ll follow you, don’t worry, we’re right behind you,” Carl said. Harry looked at Frank and grinned.
“Do you feel like going swimming in shark invested waters?” he teased and the man frowned.
“Not really, Harry,” he declared and they both laughed. Harry put the ship on auto-pilot and looked around to see if there was anything interested he could steal. He opened a closet and began filling a bag with stuff.
“Watch and make sure we stay on course,” he told Frank who nodded. Harry filled two bags with stuff and then stopped the ship as close to the water as possible. He and Frank dropped the boat and he lifted the man and the bags down to it. Then Harry put the ship into a heading and put it on maximum speed and stood by the door. He used his telekinesis to push the button and jumped. The ship speeded off and he hit the water next to the raft. Scared shitless he swam for the raft as Frank reached for him. Laughing Harry climbed aboard and lied in and they both grinned. Then the raft was bumped and both men lost their grins. They looked over the side and saw a huge black shape. Harry looked at the sky.
“Where the hell are they?” he said. Frank shook his head and reached for his cell phone. He dialed Carl and asked when they were coming because they didn’t like their present company. Harry grinned.
“There they are,” he called out with much relief. He waved his hands and Sarek brought the ship down. Carl opened the door and Harry lifted Frank and the two bags and the men threw down a rope for him, luckily he always carried one in the ship. Harry climbed aboard with much relief and they watched a very large shark attack the little boat. Carl frowned.
“That could have been the two of you,” he stated. Harry shook his head.
“I would have pushed that bastard out of the way,” he told him and they all nodded. Just then they heard a big explosion and saw a flash of light in the distance.
“It seems that the Galactican ship has exploded,” Sarek remarked. All the men laughed.
“You don’t say, let’s head for home, my friend,” Harry said and patted him on the shoulder.
“You do not want to pilot the ship?” Sarek asked. Harry shook his head and sat back.
“You seem to be doing a great job so far,” he told him and with a pleased smile Sarek turned the Elizabeth around and flew back to the Center where all of their worried friends and families waited for them.
Jake took one look at his wet clothes and hustled Harry into the warm Center and the four men told their story. Everyone was impressed with the big shark. Jake shook his head.
“You could have been eaten by a shark, don’t you know better than to go swimming in shark waters, babe,” he scolded him. Harry grinned.
“I could push any shark away, honey,” he told him and everyone laughed.
“Well, Harry, you saved us again, without your telekinesis, all of us would be in a Galactican zoo pretty soon,” Jan remarked and everyone shuddered. Reverend Milo bowed his head.
“Let us pray for the souls of those three men who were so misguided,” he said. Max snorted.
“You pray for them, Reverend, they were going to take you away first,” he said. All of the women shuddered. Sarah wiped her eyes. Harry sighed and patted the Reverend’s arm.
“You pray for their souls, Reverend, and we’ll get busy burying them,” he told him and Reverend Milo nodded.
They made a graveyard away from the Center near the woods and buried the three men. Max wanted the cape of the Count and with a grin Harry took it off and gave it to him but he took the man’s jewelry for himself saying he had killed him so he got the spoils of war. Charles and Max didn’t like that but they were slightly afraid of him after watching him kill three people with so little effort. That made Jake and Harry laugh after they put the kids to bed. Harry walked to the garage and brought in the two bags he had taken from the Galactican ship. Jake looked at them with interest.
“What have you got there, babe?” he asked. Harry grinned.
“Some crap I took off the Galactican ship before I blew it up,” he told him. He sat on the couch and opened the first bag. “Did you see how Max and Charles backed down at the graveyard, when I told them I deserved the jewelry because I had killed the Count?” he asked and Jake laughed.
“Oh, yeah, I thought old Max was going to piss himself, he didn’t want to make you mad and get his old head snapped,” he said. Harry pulled out the first item that looked like a coffee pot.
“This looks like a coffee pot doesn’t it?” he asked and handed it to Jake who examined it.
“It sure does, but the metal looks different than ours,” he said. Harry pulled out another metal item and this looked like a container of some sorts. The whole bag was filled with metal items, coffee pots, cups, metal containers, salt and pepper shakers, all kinds of things. Jake grinned.
“It looks like you cleaned out his galley,” he teased and Harry giggled.
“I just opened a closet and started grabbing stuff, I didn’t have much time to look around,” he told him. Jake grinned.
“What’s in the other bag, maybe some Galactica food?” he asked and Harry opened the next bag. It contained plastic containers of toothpaste, shampoos, lotions, soap, green milk, nuts, junpar, olives, pickles, chocolates, and bottles of Galactican alcohol, about ten different varieties.
“Wow, this Count was a real lush,” Harry remarked and Jake laughed.
“You know we can’t let anyone know we have this stuff because there’s not enough to share with anyone,” Jake told him. Harry nodded and they put it in a box and put it in their bedroom closet. The metal containers he put on a shelf in the kitchen and tried an experiment with. He filled one of the coffee pots with cold water and one with hot and left them on the counter for an hour and when he came back to check on them he found the liquid inside the hot one was still the same temperature and the cold one was still the same. When he told Fran and Jake about it they were very impressed.
“Wow, a metal that acts like a refrigerator without a crystal, that’s pretty cool,” Fran said. Harry grinned.
“That means, Fran, when you make a pot of coffee in the morning, you can put it in this pot and it will stay hot all morning and not get bitter like it does on the coffee maker, the same with a pot of tea,” he explained and her eyes lit up.
“That’s great, I can make a pot of tea in the morning and have it all day,” she gushed. Harry grinned.
“Yep, and I can take a pot of coffee to school with me and have it for all day,” he gushed and Jake laughed and hugged him.
“If those metal containers keep things cold, think of all the fun we can have taking ice cream and cold stuff on hikes and stuff,” he said and they all grinned. Harry tilted his head like he tended to do while he was thinking. Jake grinned; he thought he was so damned cute when he did that.
“You know if this metal is common in this part of the universe, we could probably find it in our mountains and make our own containers,” Harry told them. Jake nodded.
“We should look around the next time we take the kids camping,” he said and Harry nodded.
“Well, until them, these containers are our little secret,” he declared and they all nodded. Fran pretended to zip her mouth and they all laughed.
The next Sunday Reverend Phillip’s sermon was about our Savior saying us from our enemies and Harry sighed, these two were never going to let up on this Savior nonsense until the other children started to heal people. He smiled at everyone when they all clapped and cheered for him and little Jackson beamed at the people cheering for his father. Both girls climbed on Harry’s lap and got kisses. Little Danny pushed them off and got fussy so Jake took the two girls and gave them more kisses.
“You have to admit, Henry, that you continue to save us from disaster,” his mother Kate remarked during Sunday dinner. Harry laughed.
“I guess I do but all this Savior talk is embarrassing,” he told her and all the adults laughed. Sissy sighed and looked at her son.
“Well, I guess my son really did make the right choice when he married you,” she said and Jake grinned and got up and kissed her cheek. Dr. Jackson laughed and kissed his grandsons, he had one on either side of him.
“I wouldn’t have these fine grandchildren if he hadn’t, I love my grandchildren,” he bragged and they all laughed again.
“You would think he was the only man in the room who had grandchildren,” Reverend Milo remarked to his wife Sarah who giggled. They looked at their six children and smiled at their two older daughters who both shook their heads.
“Don’t look at me like that, I’m never having children, you