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PART VIII CINDY ENCOUNTERS SIDNEY BEKON

"I have to ask you", Mario whispered to the sweet smelling brunette as he held her close in his arms, "Why has a Navy Joe gotten so lucky as to meet a special gal like you?"

Cindy nurturingly rubbed his head as speculator light danced on the ocean water in front of them. The soft sound of waves could be heard hitting the shore. The sun was just begining to rise as a gentle breaze made its way into the truck.

"Do you think that you an' and I", he stuttered, "could become ... a...?"

"Mario", Cindy interrupted in a slow tone pulling back to her side of the seat, "I think we better get something to eat."

Mario started the truck without answering. As they made their way over a winding road back into the Santa Clara Valley, neither of them spoke.

Bekon spotted!

Around a half hour later, the couple pulled into Colgan's Hamburgers on the El Camino Real in Mountain View. This was a long wooden and brick building that had an awning out front for drive-up service.

As they entered the eatery, the pinging and bells from pin ball machines could be heard coming from the rear. Wake Up Little Suzy, by the Everly Brothers played on a small speaker at the corner wall. Wooden picnic type tables, covered with checkered tablecloth, lined the large windows. Mario went up to the front counter to order.

As Cindy looked about the room, she spotted a man with glasses reading the paper. Looking closer at the slight man with a bow tie, she began to notice features similar to Sidney Bekon, who she hadn't seen for 16 years prior to 2002.

As Bekon looked up from his paper, he had noticed Cindy, but failed to recognize her because the length of time. He began to wonder why she suspiciously continued to look in his direction.

Cindy slowly began walking toward Bekon's table. Bekon eyed her, still not recognizing the girl who brought him the the floor with one sucker punch in 1986.

Mario completed his order and looked around the room for Cindy. As he saw Cindy walking toward the back, he began to follow.

Bekon knew something wasn't right and began to stare at Cindy as she approached his table. As she came closer, Cindy Taylor's facial features began to come into focus.

"My god!", Bekon thought to himself, "It looks like Cindy Taylor!"

Her hair was shorter with a little gray and she wore a scarf, but it looked just like his once prize programmer.

He looked at Cindy as she walked by, but she purposely looked straight to avoid eye contact. He studied her face as she walked past. Cindy sat down at a seat directly behind him, facing his back. Oblivious to what was happening, Mario grabbed the bench seat across her.

Discusted by the look of the little dork, Cindy just glared at with with contempt.

"Cindy", Mario asked lightly tapping her arm, "What's wrong?"

Cindy didn't say anything and continued to glare at Sidney Bekon. His blood ran cold as he felt Cindy Taylor's eyes focusing on the back of his head like a laser beam.

"How could it be Cindy Taylor?" Bekon thought to himself, "This is 1957 and Cindy hasn't even been born yet?"

Mario started to get irritated over Cindy's strange behavior. He got up and walked toward the back to the arcade machines.

As he put a nickel into a pinball machine, Mario began to wonder what he was doing wrong to cause Cindy to become so elusive.

As Bekon put down the paper and slowly turned around, his eyes locked with Cindy's. The pupils of her light green eyes became dilated as contempt escalated into rage.

Bekon let out a squeel, quickly rose up and ran out the door.

Cindy watched him as he nervously fumbled for the keys to get into his car.

Bekon turned the ignition over several times, but the car wouldn't start.

"That was positively and without question Cindy Taylor", he thought as the car his motor wound but wouldn't catch. One last try, the car chocked to a start. He felt the cold sweat on his hands and a dry mouth as he looked into the hamburger joint to see the face Cindy Taylor glaring out at him.

As Bekon squealed out of the dirt parking lot on to the El Camino Real, he looked in his rear view mirror to see the eatery shrinking as he gained distance. He began to realize that something was terribly wrong.

Mario came out from the back and sat back down with Cindy.

"What's wrong, Cin?" he asked as he gently touched her arm. She was trembling terribly.

"Mario", she whispered, "you must go now."

"I don't understand Cindy", he replied trying not to choke on his words, " I like you very much, and I thought you liked me too."

"Ahhh", Cindy sympatheticly answered as she put her hand over his, "You will meet someone, a wonderful woman."

At that, Mario put on his sun glasses, got up and left the restaurant. He got in his truck, put the key into the ignition and just sat and looked out. He knew deep in his heart that he would never ever meet a woman like Cindy. A tear ran down his face as he put the gear in neutral started the motor.

Cindy looked at her watch and realized it was the time she and Penny had both agreed up on to make the call at the designated spot. She went to a pay phone in the back and dialed the number to the Bayshore Cafe. When a waitress answered, she asked for Penny.

"Cindy, where have you been?" Penny asked.

"I just saw him", Cindy answered. "I saw Sidney Bekon- much older, much uglier- but it was him.

"Where is he?"

"He's gone", Cindy cried, "I let him go."

"Where are you?" Penny demanded, "I'll be right down."

Bekon to plan the next course of action

Meanwhile, Bekon arrived back at his headquarters at the Bank of America Building in Downtown San Jose.

He became convinced that Cindy probably teamed up with Penny Cest and unlocked the secret to get into the 1957 time period. For the years he spent in prison, he wanted to get back at Detective Penny Cest for his 16 year hell in prison and Cindy Taylor for punching his face.

He opened his laptop computer and began to access all the information he had stored about Cindy Taylor.

Her father Rex Taylor had met his soon to wife, Nancy Setmen, around this in Los Angeles, according to his records. Cindy was born in the mid-sixties, at which time they moved to the Bay Area. Several years after, they had a son named Jeff.

"Ah ha", Bekon thought, "I will set a trap for our little Ms.Cindy Taylor."

"You may be a very intelligant woman, my dear, but you are no match for me", Bekon said breaking into an evil laugh.

Meanwhile, Penny and Cindy were driving up the Bayshore Highway, Penny at the wheel.

"I'm sorry, Penny", Cindy apoligized, "I don't know what got into me."

"I understand; I really do", Penny said, "Is it possible that Bekon recognized you?"

"We made eye contact and that little weizle ran for the door." Cindy said.

"We must act fast", Penny answered, "If he knows you're here, he knows that I am as well. There is know telling what he's got up his sleve".

NEXT: PART IX BEKON SETS A TRAP