As we materialized, I felt the pressure again on my leg. I almost collapsed under the pressure. They carried me to a table and I was moved into a different room. I either fell unconscious or they forced it on me. When I awoke my leg was healed. Raising my head, I caught a glimpse of Andrew and a doctor talking to each other. I let my head rest on the table and waited until one came over. It was Ryan. He checked to see if I was awake. Noticing that I was, he went to tell Andrew. “So, our guest is alive after all! Do you want to try to walk on that leg?” He asked, helping me up.

I was sitting upright on the table. I got down and started to walk. I lost balance and almost fell. I was helped up, although by the nurse. “Hello, I’m Nurse Todd.” He said.

“Thanks.” I responded.

“Nurse Todd, take him to recovery room 3.” The doctor said. Todd helped me out the door and to recovery room 3. He opened the door. He helped me sit in the chair, and he sat across from me.

“Nurse Todd (can I call you Todd?) Who was that?” I asked.

“That was Doctor Jill Colley.” Todd said.

“What exactly am I doing here?”

“I really don’t know. It’s not normal policy to bring people from the past into the future. I guess we’ll just have to wait until we find out what you are to do.”

“Great.” I said sarcastically.

“How is that great?” He asked.

“I didn’t mean it that way.” I responded.

“Oh! I didn’t stop to think that you might speak a little differently than we do. Sorry.”

“So now what do I do, just sit here forever? Is there anything to do?”

“Well, there’s not much you can do on that leg. What would you like to do?”

“How about some softball?”

“I’ll ask the doctor.” He got up and exited the room. The room that I am in is about normal size with pink walls. It has kind of a slot in the wall, kinda like the food replicators on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Next to my chair is what looked like a computer. I reached over to it and accessed something, but I didn’t know what it meant.

Todd reentered the room. “The doctor says, ‘If he can walk, he can play softball.’ She says that tomorrow you’ll be ready to leave.”

“Well, let’s see if I can walk.” I started up and was able to support myself. Todd gave me some decent clothes and we went out of the recovery room and to another room. It had ‘Recreation’ marked on the door. We went inside where there were all sorts of games already in progress. This room looked immense. We went into the area marked softball where there was a game in progress. We sat on the side lines. Some one saw us and call us into the game on opposite teams.

The game’s rules must have changed. I can’t even begin to describe the game. It had changed so much, I barely knew how to play. When we finished, Nurse Todd took me to a bedroom in a dorm like hall. There he said, “I get off duty in a few hours, I will be substituted for Nurse Tim.”

“Aren’t there any girl nurses?” I asked.

“Why of course there are, but they are tending the girl patients.”