Seymour - *Backpost* - "Jenny + Alota are kidnapped" pt1

Who: Seymour Niples
Where: Flying back to Titan from New New New Zealand
When: About a year ago
Seymour hated flying on public interstellar transport. The passenger
transports had a top speed of lightspeed, but they never went above
half, just in case they encountered what was commonly known
as "future echoes". This was some phenomenon rumoured to happen on
ships without temporal deflectors, where travelling at lightspeed or
faster causes visions of the near or distant future to appear. Most
of the time people didn't want to see what happened next in their
lives, and the public transport companies didn't want anyone to find
out in the future that they'd die on public transport, then go insane
and cause the ship to crash. Self fulfilling prophecies were hard to
prevent.
Seymour was in such a hurry to get back to Titan to protect his baby
that he bribed the pilot to go faster. He hated having to do that,
not from a moral standpoint, but because he was extremely tight.
The clunky spaceship skidded down the runway and almost collided with
the spaceport main building. "I say old boy, I told you to go fast,
not reckless." Seymour said.
"I got carried away sir." said the pilot.
Seymour disembarked, and stole one of the small vehicles used for
moving spaceships around on the runway. He drove through the streets
of Titan like a madman until he got to the Zero-gravity crèche where
he had left his daughter. He ran in and spoke to the woman on
reception who was wearing too much make-up.
"I'm here to collect Alota Niples" he said, panting.
The woman checked her records. "I'm sorry Mr Nipples but it says you
picked her up forty minutes ago."
"What?!"
If Seymour had been a more violent person he would have grabbed the
woman and shaken her to death for being so incompetent. Instead he
fell to his knees clutching as his head and screamed. Then he vowed
to write a narky blog post about this place.
He walked sullenly back to his stolen car and sulked. His only
daughter had been kidnapped by a medical company. He thought of all
the testing and poking and prodding they might do to her.
He leaned forward on the steering wheel. He thought about Jenny, was
she really an alien? He had always assumed she was human, and now
felt silly for never asking if she wasn't.
A sudden panic came over him, maybe they had taken Jenny too? He
raced the the Hospital and burst into the room where she had been for
the last few weeks.
Normally, he had to prepare himself to see her with all the pipes and
tubes going in and out of her body, but today he just barged straight
in without thinking.
The room was empty.
Seymour put a hand up to his face. They had taken them both, mother
AND daughter. He sat down, he had no-one left. He covered his eyes
and wished none of this had happened. He had never even wanted a
child in the first place. It all stemmed from one drunken night of
rumpy-pumpy, and before he knew it, he had a baby girl.
Him and Jenny didn't even get along very well, but she had fallen
into a coma, Seymour realised that baby Alota really needed her
mother. Now he missed them both.
< Getting there, this is the reason Seymour hates TransMed! To be
continued... >