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June 20th 2035, Project Quantum Leap, Stallion's Gate:
'This is too dangerous, just too dangerous. Something could seriously go wrong here!'. It was not often that Sam Beckett got so wound up that he lost control and started shouting. But, when he did, as usual it was Al who he took it out on. Well, what were friends for?!
'Hey, buddy, I know, I know. You're not the only one worried here. Hell, I'm just wondering what Nicholas has been doing to Ziggy and telling Gushie and Tina since I've been gone. Hmm, maybe I should get back and find out what's going on. If Nicholas has become more cooperative, my guess is that we'll learn a lot more than him than from Ziggy this time round. After all, look who his father is!'. Sam gave him a look. It was no time for jokes.
'Ok, you go back, and I'll see what I can do here.'
'You got it, pal. Nick might even be able to remember why you're here. Well, Ziggy doesn't know. She's got no historical data to work with this time. We're all in the dark. The shoe really is on the other foot this time. I'm really beginning to feel sorry for our visitors, you know'.
With that, Al closed the door of the imaging chamber and went back into the past.
May 17th, 2003, project Quantum Leap:
Taking just a minute to collect his thoughts, Al went immediately to the waiting room. We've had problems before, he thought to himself, and always got through them. Yeah, but nothing like this, he reminded himself. Sam's son! God, he didn't even know what to say to the boy! It was just too tempting to ask about his own future, and Sam's. Would he ever come home? Nicholas would know. And, if he didn't, then who was Nicholas' mother? Al hoped if wasn't another situation like with Sammy-Jo. Talking of which, he really would have to tell her about her father one of these days, he realised. The poor girl couldn't be kept in the dark forever.
When he got to the waiting room Al was relieved to see that Nicholas hadn't let anyone else come and talk to him. Apart from himself and Sam, and perhaps now Nicholas, there was no-one else who really understood the details and problems of leaping, and how the time-lines were always changing. The less people who talked to Nicholas, the better; especially Sammy-Jo and Donna. Sam was right. This was very, very dangerous. Yet, they also needed Nicholas to give them some information to help Sam. The sooner he leapt out of there the better, as far as Al was concerned. He knew that he would have to tread extremely carefully here, but that was his job after all, and, they hadn't made him an Admiral for nothing!