‘I don’t want to lose you as my friends.’ Hans really looked bowled over, looking at each of us in turn, but saying nothing. Lisa looked really ...roubled, but came over to kneel beside my chair. ‘I don’t know how all of this will affect us, but I do believe that you don’t want to come between Ted and me. You’re going to have the baby, right?’ I closed my eyes. ‘Of course I am. Abortion isn’t something I can do.’ I looked at Gretchen. ‘Even if I weren’t married, I would have this baby. Since I’m. "I don't get it, we just took out their ride home, and they still choose to fight?"Rainer started to speak just as the laser hits started to strike the ship."They would rather die than be disgraced by surrendering."Jason said, "Shields holding at 99.9 percent."The antimatter bullets started hitting the ship. Small anti-matter explosions were littering the shields forward. They could all see the basketball-sized explosions.Jason reported, "I don't know what they are using, but shields are. I walked back to Jake, Bob and the Captains, "Well, let's go see what a compound looks like. Do you captains want to come along?" I asked."I would not turn down that invitation," Captain Hamilton replied.I drove with Jake in the passenger's seat and the captains in the back. At Morton Airport lane we had to slow to almost a crawl; the blacktop patch just does not work very well in freezing weather and frozen ground.We followed the road around to the rear security gate where I had to use my ID. He decided he would see what his Mother had, although he had never seen her wearing stockings or seen them in the wash basket. So, it was with some trepidation he explored his Mother’s lingerie drawer. She was out at work and Nanny had taken George, his younger brother, to the park. She did not have anything as nice as what Nanny wore, but she did have a nice lacy black bra and a couple of suspender belts. He searched for some stockings through the pile of thick black tights Mother wore most.