Chapter No.65. Pax Collection.

Peace returned to the Freemont area. James and Sylvia were back in high school, Janet was back at her job in the credit union and Robert was home making improvements to their home. Surprisingly, the Steris family really weren't all that happy about being superheroes. They only wanted to be normal people living in a calm world.

Unfortunately, the world was anything but calm.

The Russians decided to change their government by ousting the President and making changes to their Duma. The United States President decided to cool it and not involve the superheroes in sensitive international problems. The rest of the world hungered for information about the superheroes as if they were a TV serial.

What the Steris family needed was a break from the need to save the world, but they also yearned for a chance to heal those who needed it the most. As it turned out, Father Johns had a solution for their psychological malaise, and he presented it to them after mass on a Fall Sunday.

The Hope Children's Hospital has an overflow of cases. They were wondering if you would agree to a healing session."

"We would be happy to do it," Robert said. "After what we've been through recently, it would be a blessing."

"They're setting up for a session on Friday evening at seven."

"We'll be there."

Father smiled. He was happy to see that the superheroes were happy.

James and Sylvia attended their Freemont High classes. They were together in several of them, including a class in which the subject of quantum physics was being discussed.

James held his hand up. "The Pauli exclusion principle states that two fermions with the same half spin cannot occupy the same quantum state. What would happen if this principle were violated?"

Mir. Stevens, the physics instructor, rubbed his chin. "Well, I'm not sure because it's not possible. I would think it would result in a quantum transformation, one that would allow two quantum states to coincide."

James nodded his approval. He turned to Sylvia and whispered. "That might explain how we can be in two or more places at the same time."

She just smiled at him.

Later, when they were together in the cafeteria, Sylvia had a response to his statement. "Yes, but it would suggest that we can break quantum physics laws."

"Maybe that's the way that superheroes can operate."

"You might be right, but we have no way to prove it."

"Speaking of being in two quantum states," James said with an ornery grin. "Let's go see what's happening in the woods behind our place."

She frowned. "We already know what's back there."

"It's possible that we don't," he said.

"Okay, let's do it," she said.

They appeared at the back of their house. Robert was sitting on the patio finishing his lunch of a burger and fries when he saw them.

"Why are you here?" he yelled.

They turned to walk back to him.

"We . . . or I should say, I had a thought about what we could do with the back area," James said.

"Not much we could do. There's a lot of trees back there."

"Yes, but there's an open area that stretches to the back of our property. It's overgrown with mostly weeds. I was thinking that we could convert it to a golf link, well, at least one hole."

"Why golf?"

James shrugged. "I don't know. It's just something that would be fun to do."

Robert smiled. "Go for it!"

Janet was at the credit union, and she had a delicate problem she was not sure how to handle. Judy, one of her tellers, had a son who had a brain tumor that she could easily cure, but it would mean she had to reveal her identity.

Something was about to happen that would solve that. A man she hadn't seen before came into the credit union and Janet sensed that he was packing a gun, which was strictly forbidden by federal law. Somehow, that law was superfluous in most situations.

The bearded man wearing a hoodie, pulled the gun out. "Give me your cash."

Janet calmly walked over to him. "I don't think that's a good idea, sir."

The man turned to sneer at her before waving his weapon in her direction. "This says it is."

Janet made the gun fall out of his hand and drop to the floor. The man reached down to retrieve it, but he couldn't pick it up. "What the fuck?"

"Seems like your gun suddenly got too heavy," Janet said with a slight grin.

Suddenly, two policemen came in the credit union and realized that they were walking into a crime in progress. They pulled out their service guns and pointed it at the would-be thief. "Hands up!"

Janet made the thief's weapon capable of being picked up. One of the police officers retrieved it while his partner cuffed the suspect before hustling him out of the credit union office.

Judy turned to Janet. "Why couldn't he pick his gun up?"

"I made it too heavy."

Judy gave her a confused expression. "What?"

"I think you probably know. You have a son with an incurable brain tumor. I can fix that."

Her eyes ballooned monetarily. "Oh my God! You're one of the . . . "

"Yes, Let's go cure your son,"

They appeared in his bedroom. Judy was both frightened and excited.

"He should have been in a hospice," Janet said. "His tumor is terminal."

Judy broke into tears. "I can't afford the hospital's charges. I don't have anywhere to turn,"

"Well, I can take care of that," Janet said before she walked over to her son and placed her hand on his head. After several minutes, she took her hand away. "All fixed."

Judy was bawling when she saw her son sit up in the bed and smile at her. Janet waited until she was more under control before she said anything. "All I ask is that you don't reveal who I am. I don't want to have to move away from here if I can avoid it."

"I am eternally grateful for what you have done," Judy said, still crying. "I will never reveal you."

"You can take some time off. I can handle the office."

Judy squinted at her. "Who's at the office now?"

Janet smiled. "I am. I can be in more than one place at a time."

"Why are you still working? You could do and have anything you want?"

"I and my family are doing God's work to save humanity. The best way to do that is for us to be normal people."

Judy smiled. "You are amazing."

"Thank you. I'll see you back at the office after you feel well enough to come back."

Judy nodded.

Janet appeared back at her home. "What's going on?"

Robert turned to her. "James wants to create a golf course out here." He pointed to the woods behind their house.

"I don't think we have enough land for that."

"He's only creating one hole."

She smiled. "Oh." She looked at how James and Sylvia were replacing a stretch of weeds and brush with beautiful grass. "I suppose we'll have to get all the accruements of Golf."

"That's the easy part," Robert said. "Learning how to use them will be the interesting part."

She laughed.

James and Sylvia walked up to them. "What do you think?"

"Looks great. It's going to need proper grooming."

He laughed.

Robert turned to his wife. "You had a problem to attend to today."

She frowned. "Yes, but hopefully there won't be any repercussions."

Robert smiled. "You handled it perfectly."

She smiled.