From: "Aubrey W. Adkins" <xazqrten@norfolk.infi.net>
Subject: Lyta Chronicles Part 1G (WIP)
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 18:30:54 -0800

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Title: Lyta Chronicles Part 1G (WIP)

There are no spoilers in this story.

"--" = spoken words
<--> = telepathy
[--] = self thoughts
`--' = emphasis

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   <Good morning Uncle John.>
   <Good morning Julie, how is the forced vacation going?>
   <Not bad, I have learned a great deal about the Fjon people and their
capabilities.>
   At that time Harold entered the room and headed to the table where
the Julie and the Sheridans sat sharing breakfast.
   "Good morning Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan."
   "Julie has been telling me that you have learned much about our Fjon
hosts."
   'Yes sir. The locals have been most cooperative and helpful.
Unfortunately I haven't learned enough of their language. I am going to
depend heavily on a good translator."
   "I am sure Julie will be adequate."
   "She does seem to have a good grasp of the language."
   "She cheats," interjected Delenn."
   "Ma'am?" queried Harold."
   "She uses her telepathic abilities to surface scan the meanings from
whomever she is conversing with."
   "I thought the telepaths here weren't supposed to scan the local
population?"
   "We aren't, but how do you stop her?"
   "I resent being talked about in the third person,"  injected Julie.
   "So sue me," replied John.
   "I don't do any harm and it helps prevent me from making gaffes."
   "Okay,  back to our original conversation. What are your opinions
about using the locals in the research you are supposed to conduct?"
   Harold replied, "I think they will be just fine. Since they are, like
me, non-telepaths, they won't have any effect on our results. Using
telepaths in the labs might skew the results. Besides they are very well
educated and their craftsmen are first rate. The manufacturing
facilities that we have visited have been most impressive."
   "Uncle John, when will we be able to begin our work?"
   "Delenn?"
   "We have had some unexpected delay getting the asteroid into its
final orbit. It's going to be another month and Lyta said to make sure
it is stabilized before letting you set up your labs. She also asked
about the two of you."
   "What did you tell her?" asked Julie.
   "The truth."
   "What truth?"
   "That you and Harold were housekeeping."
   "You didn't have to tell her about that."
   "Actually she already knew that you and Harold were having a
relationship. I am curious how she learned that."
   "The mental link between you and Uncle John, magnify that several
thousand times. When we made love the first time, mom probably knew.
That is why she was so worried when I was in the
coma. Only death should have been able to interrupt her link with me"
   Delenn and John just looked at her with wide eyes.
   "Mom believes that is how the Vorlons stayed in contact with one
another. Individuals who shared a common link."
   "It's also how I seem to be able to do a great many things without
any instruction. My subconscious uses the link to access mom's knowledge
and abilities."
   "So you are a combination of yourself and Lyta?" queried Delenn.
   Julie nodded in the affirmative.
   "It is like having two powerful telepaths in one body," replied
Julie. "I think that might be why I was able to keep the station from
being blown up."
   "I am doing a tour for some of the locals on the asteroid today. Why
don't the two of you come with me?" asked John.
   Both of them agreed it would be a useful endeavor.
   "What time do we leave Uncle John?"
   "The shuttle leaves at 1000 hours, meet me before that in my office."

   They finished breakfast and John took his leave. Delenn looked at
Julie and asked, "how are things progressing between you two?"
   "Pardon Mrs. Sheridan?" asked Harold.
   "You and Julie have been together for some time now and there are no
human birth control devices available."
   "If you mean am I pregnant yet. I don't know," replied Julie. "You're
almost as bad as mom."
   "That puts me in good company," replied Delenn with a warm smile.
   "I am still here, ladies," said Harold.
   "We know Harold," replied Julie.
   Shaking his head and muttering to himself in a very low voice, Harold
headed to the apartment
to get ready for the asteroid tour.
   <Aunt D', I am late. I was due last week, but it is too soon to see
the doctor.>
   <See her anyway when you get back . I remember the first time Lyta
got pregnant. I don't want a repeat of that experience. It would terrify
the locals.>
******************************************************
   The flight to the asteroid was uneventful. The shuttle had
rendezvoused with the Whitestar Alpha and the trip had taken less that
an hour. A short jump to hyperspace had reduced the planet
to asteroid part of it to less than five minutes.
   On the asteroid the group rode an internal railway to the main
portion of the base deep inside the asteroid. It was Harold's and
Julie's first trip this deep within the base. In some places it reminded
them of how Babylon 5 was constructed. There were several open spaces
where the overhead was half a kilometer high. This overhead was in fact
the floor of another section. The asteroid would be one large
honeycombed rock when the base was finally finished. Lyta and her
associates had big plans for this base and the planet below.
   "Uncle John, the labs look great. All they need now is our
equipment."
   "Mr. Sheridan, if there weren't labels on the walls and doors you
wouldn't be able to tell the difference between these rooms and the ones
on Epsilon III."
    "Once they get your equipment installed, it won't look so generic.
That is some sophisticated looking equipment Harold."
    "I will discuss it at length later Mr. Sheridan."
   "Couldn't you call me John, Uncle John or something else besides Mr.
Sheridan?"
    "No sir. It wouldn't be proper etiquette ."
    "Uncle John, maybe after we tie the knot, he will come around," said
Julie.
    John walked to the front of the tour group and resumed his place as
tour guide.
    "Tie the knot?" queried Harold.
    "Just a thought Harold," said Julie with a smirk on her face.
    "Are you pregnant?" asked Harold .
    "Why do you ask?"
    "If you are I have a right to know. You missed your last cycle."
    "How do you know?"
    "We have been sleeping together for two months. I know when your
last one was and you are late."
    "Okay, but that isn't abnormal."
    "I accept that. Are you pregnant?"
    "I don't know. Aunt D' wants me to see the doctor when I get back,"
said Julie.
    They had to pick up their pace to catch the rest of the tour group.
The tour showed several square miles of living areas, gardens,
industrial areas and such, or at least the areas where they
would eventually be located. The power generator plants capable of
providing for several major cities and self-defense systems of
staggering proportions were dispersed throughout different
sections of the asteroid. The intent was to prevent a major malfunction
from ruining the whole installation. In time they would also provide
energy for the propulsion and stabilization systems.
Like any large project it would be opened up a portion at a time as
needed.
    The tour took most of two days just to hit the major points. The
Fjon leaders were impressed and had myriad questions. John answered what
he could and made arrangements for other knowledgeable personnel to
answer the remainder.
    After the tour was over, Julie took John aside and asked, <Uncle
John, do we get to see the special test site on this trip?>
    <It's only forty per cent completed Julie. It is too dangerous.>
    Julie nodded and said to Harold, <No visit to that site this trip
sweetheart.>
    Harold received the thought with no outward change of expression.
Julie had been working to get him accustomed to communicating with her
using thought only. He couldn't send a thought per se, but he could hear
a thought directed to him by a high level telepath and Julie, if nothing
else, was definitely high level.
    Julie linked with the whitestar and did a thorough scan of the
asteroid's surface during the shuttle ride back to the whitestar. What
she learned would be fuel for discussion with Delenn and
John when she got back to Fjon. The return trip to Fjon was as
uneventful as the trip out to the station, the only difference was the
buzz of the officials talking amongst themselves.
******************************************************
    At supper John was asking Delenn why she looked tired. She detailed
her day of negotiating new trade agreements with the Fjonians.
    <I thought our present  treaties and agreements have several more
years before they expire..
    <They do, John.>
    <Then what's the problem?>
    <It's not really a problem. They just want to get started early,
because they want so many things to be covered in detail. They aren't
really asking for much more than they already have, they just want all
of it in writing.>
    <Diplomats and lawyers, they seem to live and die for paperwork.
Present company excepted.>
    <Love you too, dear. How was the tour?>
    <It went well. The locals were very impressed and must have had a
thousand questions, all of them interesting.>
    <How about Julie and Harold?>
    <They got much more out of it than the Fjonians. Julie is wanting to
talk about the defensive installations.>
    <The tour didn't cover any of the defensive installations.>
    <She used the whitestar's sensors to do a complete scan of the
asteroid while we were in the shuttle returning from the base to the
ship.>
    <John, how we control her?>
    <We don't.. All we can do is offer guidance. She hasn't done
anything to interfere with our mission here.>
    <What if she should use her telekinetic abilities here? The locals
have never encountered a teek before.>
    <We will have to have talks with her on a regular basis and
emphasize that fact. After all, the work she and Harold will be doing is
almost pure telekinetic research on her.>
    <What kind of research?.>
    <Delenn, I wouldn't understand it even if they tried to explain it
to me.>
    <Is it going to be dangerous?>
    <They are building one part of the testing facilities on the
asteroid surface in an isolated area. I think that means some danger
will be involved at some point. Maybe we should invite them to
dinner and ask them then.>
    <Good idea. When?>
    <Your call.>
    <Tomorrow night is good.>
    <I will let them know.>
    <John, how about a weekend camping trip?>
    <You mean like the one with Alfreda?>
    <Yes.>
    <When do you have in mind?>
    <Two weekends from now.>
    <I will make the arrangements.>
******************************************************
     Harold and Julie had just sat down to dinner with John and Delenn
when Delenn told them about an idea for a camping trip.
    "A camping trip, Aunt D'? I have never been camping before," said
Julie enthusiastically."
    "Neither have I," added Harold, "and it's for the entire weekend?"
    "Yes," answered Delenn.
    "I supposed we should read up on camping?" asked Harold.
    "You can if you wish, but it is not really necessary," responded
Delenn.
    "That mean's we definitely read," said Julie, "or I could just scan
Uncle John and project the results into Harold's mind."
    "Definitely read," responded Delenn.
    "The last time we did this was when Michael was here with Alfreda,"
said John.
    "That was ages ago, Uncle John," responded Julie.
    "You wanted to talk about the defensive installations?" asked John,
changing the subject.
    "Uncle John there are enough weapons hidden on the asteroid to
destroy a fleet of ships and do serious damage to the surface of a
planet."
    "So?"
    "I just wondered why there were so many? After  all, we aren't
planning on attacking anyone are we?"
    "All the systems are for defense only. You haven't seen what a group
of ships can do with heavy weapons. Our intention is that anyone who
makes the mistake of attacking the base won't
get a chance to repeat it. The asteroid is going to be the main line of
defense for the facility we are building on the planet."
    "Just what is the facility going to be?"
    "Ask your mother."
    Julie was taken aback by that response, but decided she would do
just that at the first opportunity.
   Delenn asked, "did you see the doctor yet?"
   "Yes."
   "And?"
   "I am pregnant."
    John congratulated the two of them and Delenn offered her best
wishes. Harold didn't say anything.
    "Harold, exactly what is the research in telekinetics that you and
Julie are going to be doing?' asked Delenn.
    Harold gave them an extensive briefing about the nature of their
research. He detailed how they were going to try to explain and
duplicate Julie's teek abilities using an organic intelligence unit. He
explained that they were hoping to be able to design a new defense
system based on this technology. Delenn and John were very much
surprised. Whatever they had imagined this wasn't it.

MTC