”“Then, that blue sedan is at your disposal for the rest of this assignment. Now, get out of here.”The young marines answered, “Oo-Rah!”Eliz...beth Johnson slowly walked down the hall. Her face betrayed the emotional pain, conflict, and helplessness she was feeling at that moment. For the first time in her life she began to understand the depression that so easily gripped a majority of her patients, and that realization was adding to her thoughts of despair. As she approached the waiting room. " He pointed to pock marks on the mount. "So, I improvised and mounted two Squad Automatic Weapons that I had lying around." You just happened to have two SAWs lying around?" Liv asked incredulously."I've got my sources." Finn's dad winked. "Besides, I was developing this for the army. I was hoping it would be mountable on a smaller vehicle like a Hummvee or," he gestured, "a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8."Finn examined the machine guns lovingly. He checked their actions, while his dad went back. Embassy’s bowling league just because Cowboy was on it, and I got as close to his inner circle there as possible. Eventually, he invited me to come up and see him sometime at his flagship Cowboy’s bar. As, at the time of the invitation, he had his hand under a table exploring my basket, I didn’t have any illusions what his invitation entailed. This suited me just fine, of course, and I wasted no time in scooting over to Cowboy’s to see him one afternoon in the next week.When I walked into. I didn’t want to bring up the thought of what might be next because I was enraptured with the pleasure of the present and dreaded that the merest word might shatter what we had. I had fallen into Vi’s mentality: I wanted to keep things as they were for as long as I could and consider the future as little as possible. So I had ignored the deadline, even as it inexorably approached, second by second.And now it was here, unavoidable.I felt a sense of doom as we headed back into the house, our.