Just as the other agency car was moving into position the sedan made a swift U-turn into the opposite lane. He must have noticed that he was being fol...owed and decided to make a run for it. The result of the sedan's move caused a 6-car accident that effectively prevented any efforts to follow him.Within minutes the police were on the scene, as were two other agents. To most witnesses it was just a case of bad driving. Someone had got the sedan's license plate number and along with the. They,d invited a few friends as well as wife Sarah and me and with the exception of the Khans and us the rest were in their twenties. Oona,s parents were the first to have had enough and now it was only my wife and I who were the “oldies” and Sarah claimed to have a bad migraine headache so went to bed before the rest of the youngsters began to leave. As one couple,s car was out of service Chris offered to drive them home so just past midnight it was only Oona and I still awake in the house and. She was becoming used to all this, and she regarded it as a small price to pay for her continued happiness, or at least continued non-misery.Anna turned thirteen on a day like any other, the event unmarked by anyone but her mother, who secretly made her a tiny sweet and hugged her extra-close. Her brother certainly didn't mark it; he had her squat in front of him and piss on the ground, which was nothing she couldn't handle. He came very quickly at the sight of that, his white fluid arching. "Be a sad and lonely man. I know this is Veterans Day and I'm supposed to be nice to my vet, but if you don't change out of your dress uniform, you're gonna get molested."While that had possibilities, Gibbs was hungry. Damn hungry! He was going on eighteen hours with only coffee and adrenaline.He went upstairs, changing into jeans and a comfortable shirt. Gibbs was planning on working on the boat all day and Tony'd mentioned a war film fest, so casual clothes would do. Tony himself had changed.