His booted foot hit the tile floor as if he had walked into the lab from the main door. As usual, Samantha’s memory was spot on perfect. Everyone was exactly where he expected them to be. Three feet in front of him were the two armed guards and the earlier version of himself. The colonel stood just left of the guards with a quite surprised Captain Chandler behind the desk. The earlier version of himself, who had yet to enter the first quantum door, only glanced at him briefly. Shock had ceased to be a part of his mental state after so many years with Samantha in the lab. He knew the earlier version of himself accepted what he saw. The other Boomer quickly looked past him to the sight within the new quantum door. In his memory, Boomer knew what held his attention. The sight of Samantha in the arms of a strange man and the pain so clear in the man’s eyes spoke clearly of love and loss. Behind them, Captain Jeff Harrison stood holding her precious laptop computer.
