Besides. her friends weren't here, working in an underserved rural area where people did the best they could with what they had. She'd been paid in CH...CKENS, for pity's sake! And she LIKED Dub, whether he was educated, or urbane or not. He was a sweet, gentle, caring man. How many women got a chance at one of those? She rolled over to face him."What does it mean if we ARE sparkin' each other?" She winced at her adoption of his word for courtship."Well, I reckon it means we're serious, and ain't. On the floor surrounded by a number of hospital staff was a naked torso who’s limbs had clearly been viciously severed leaving angry open dirty wounds. As she got closer she realised it was Abbie, she ran to get closer. The hospital staff had now got Abbie onto a trolley cot and were wheeling her quickly into the Emergency Department. As they ran past Natasha she screamed again as she realised Abbie’s eyes were missing leaving just bloodied empty sockets. As they covered Abbie with a blanket. "This is a nice room," she said."It is ... I hope I find a couple more just like it for the next two nights. I had pretty good luck when I was coming across the country." I watched her as she looked around the room appreciatively. "Why don't we go for a walk around town? It's early yet. Who knows, we might even work up an appetite for dessert," I suggested."Sure. That's sounds like a good idea."By eight-thirty, it was getting dark, and we worked our way back toward the Valley Inn."How about. I deserved discipline.”“Discipline maybe, but what I did, no you did not. Why do you make it so hard for me?”“Sir? I make it hard for you? How can you say that?”“Baby girl, I mean you make it hard for me to be in complete control of the scene because I ….”“You what Sir?”“Never mind, go sit down, I’m getting you something to eat and then we are going home, I can’t be with you right now. I need time to think.” He was just saying how sorry he was and now he can’t be with me, he needs to think? We.