Whatever happened to Owen Numan?

Who: Peter & Peggy Marwood
Where: Jupiter Station & Blue Dwarf
When: An Hour after Peter received Peggy's call
Peter sat on one of the benches near the catwalk extended from
Jupiter station to Blue Dwarf, nervously awaiting the arrival of his
mother. He saw her coming a mile off, pulling behind her a large,
pink Suitcase and wearing a bottle green jacket over a black blouse
and black skirt, with bright pink 5 inch heels.
"coo-eee! Peter dear, its me!!, come and give your mother a kiss"
she called out as soon as she saw him and tottered over to where he
was sitting.
"Hey, Mum" he said, rising to help her with her case. It was much
heavier than it looked and planting a kiss on his mother's cheek.
"How's my boy then? You looking after yourself? eating properly? You
should get your haircut" she said all in one breath.
"er...come on. I'll show you to your quarters" he said, trying to
avoid his mum's nosiness.
"Aren't you going to ask your dear old mother why she's signed on to
this ship?" she asked in her thick cockney voice.
"Yeah, I was wondering about that. What happened to the Horns?" he
asked.
His Mother turned and looked at him. A Deep Sadness registering in
her eyes.
"Well, you remember when your father passed away, about a year ago?"
"All to well, I remember, I had just been transferred back to Earth,
to work at Space Corps HQ."
"Yeah, well dear the thing is, Your father and I spent so many
years, and had so many good times running that place, that it just
felt empty without him. But then I met this nice young man named
Owen Numan."
A Nasty feeling came over Peter "Oh God Mum, your not marrying a
younger man are you?" he asked in shock.
Peggy gave him a clip round the ear "Course Im not you little
scallywag, What I was going to say was, he was telling me how he
owned a bar aboard some JMC Vessel, but was looking to set up shop
on Earth. He said the ship was called Blue Dwarf, and when I traced
you to there, I gave him the Horns, and he sold me Parrotts."
They arrived at Peggy's Cabin, and when Peter looked inside he
noticed that it was significantly larger and more luxurious than
regular cabins.
"Jesus Christ!" Peter exclaimed, taking in the luxury of the Cabin.
Peggy gave Peter a slap across the cheek. Which resulted in pain of
biblical proportions to spread through Peter's face.
"That's for blasphemy that is! I didn't raise you to take the Good
Lord's name in vain."
"Yeah, didn't mean you had to slap me!" winged Peter.
"Oh Shut up and stop acting like a baby." was Peggy's reply.
She deposited the suitcase on the large mattress.
"How did you get these quarters then mum?" inquired Peter.
"I pulled some strings with those Admiral friends of your dad's. If
Im going to spend my days on a Mining Ship, travelling through the
Universe, I might as well do it in style. And besides, I've stayed
in those cramped ship Quarters before, No room at all in them."
"If you say so" Peter said, no longer really caring.
"Well, now I've got to go see some chap called Efof about running my
bar."
Peter, thinking about the potential situation that could erupt out
of Peggy meeting an alien for the first time, decided to fill her in
on Efof.
"Mum, there's something you should know about Efof."
"There's something I should know about Efof. He's not gay is he?"
"No, he's an alien."
"What? He's Mexican?"
"No, he's an alien. A real live Alien."
"Oh, for a minute there I though it may have been serious."
"Ok then. Well, I'd better take you down to Parrotts."
They left her Quarters and took the Xpress Lift up several hundred
floors, walked down the Promenade and came to a stop outside
Parrotts. Its quintessential pub-ness made it look that it look like
it was meant to belong on a Village green, not in the middle of a
Space Ship.
"Looks rather cosy. Why don't we take a gander?" said Peggy,
entering through the double doors.
Taking a look inside, Peggy saw that the pub was virtually empty. A
couple of young Technicians were sitting having a pub lunch, two
security guards were having a game of pool, a strange green man in a
bobble hat was wiping down the bar, looking happy. Peggy walked up
to the bar and the green man looked up.
"Hello, can I help you?" he asked.
"Yes. You can" said Peggy "cos Im your new boss!"

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