Get him on another unit of whole blood." "Already on it," a nurse replied. "And where the hell is Johnson?" The doctor demanded of the room in general... "I'm going to need help getting this kid's face rebuilt." If, she thought to herself, he even makes it that far.+++ I was lost in dreams. Images that seemed to flash by faster than I could assimilate them. More like watching short films than dreaming, really. An image of my mother giving me a pretty pink satin dress for Easter Sunday. The sound. The wife was pretty overweight and definatly not my type. But she was very ‘friendly’ with all three of us guys. Right in front of her husband she would begin to rub my hair and touch my thigh. She would go between the three of us and make comments about us being away from home and asked us how long it has been since we were ‘satisfied’ We all though she was joking. In the mean time I was talking to my wife on the phone and told her about the woman and her husband. My wife was really. ” Evie stammered out.“Yeah,” Dave agreed.“Can we do it again?” Linda asked as Kim grinned.“You will get to do it again when we get to 2214, remember?”Evie interrupted them as she looked at the equipment while they all stood in one of Ship’s massive cargo holds. “I know that Ship uses her inertialess drive, and consequently, we don’t feel any acceleration, but shouldn’t the tractor be tied down, anyway – just in case?”Before Jeff could answer, Ship spoke up. “It is secured. It is gravity locked. Daddy only looked away to sign the check and the waitress looked at me and shuffled back and forth awkwardly. She said thank you and left. Daddy raised his eyebrows and I got up slowly and started to put my coat on. "No." I laughed. "Daddy, it's cold outside," I said. "And?" he asked. "Well...I dont want to get cold, Sir." "Set your coat on the table," he told me and I did so, mechanically. "Now place your forearms and elbows on the table," a shiver went through me. Daddy meant to punish me.