Date: 01 Jun 2013 22:34 Title: Chapter 9
Well, Lili does as I expected her to do: try and bargain with Q to get little Kevin to live. She is the selfless sort and the interplay between the two is just golden. Q seemingly does his best work when talking about these types of things with humans … tackling these bigger and grander themes. It’s nice of him to be able to do this here, even if the mystery he’s tackling is one that we, as humans, don’t quite seem to get ourselves.
Malcolm and Doug head back up to the house while that’s going on and discover that this storm, this twister, is not the kind that happens naturally. Snow? Blue skies behind it? Yeah, this is weird but at least they can get food and stuff to bring back down. The situation is not immediately threatening and that’s a good thing for them.
But it could get immediately threatening if Q doesn’t get his answers. Once Lili understands that Kevin’s death is part of the timeline and unpreventable (I disagree, Q, the future is not yet written!) he still wants her to explain what’s going on. Even after he drops the bombshell that Doug dies of natural causes and she remarries to Malcolm (good for them both). I hope, really, that she can manage to give Q some answers because that storm over the house makes me nervous. As it well should make Lili the same.
Author's Response:
Lili's participation is not fully voluntary, and Q knows this, so he is essentially holding her captive in all of this. He demands his answers, and she won't give them to him, so he's going to - in his own way - force her hand.