I gave them a minute or so to get into the rhythm and then I got up and went out onto the floor. I approached him from behind, tapped him on the shoul...er and said:"May I cut in?"He turned to see what kind of an asshole would try to cut in on him and his wife. As soon as he was facing me I punched him in the mouth. Okay, it was a sucker punch, but so what? I put my full two hundred pounds and a month's worth of anger and rage behind the punch and he went straight to the floor. He landed with his. ”“Okay. That’s fine.”“Anyway, maybe we should call it a night,” I suggested, suddenly feeling spent. “I keep hoping for a snow day tomorrow, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. The roads are all clear.”“Yeah, we’re not going to get lucky,” Lara lamented. “Back to the grind.”“Ugh, the bus ride...” I groaned. “Where am I going to sit?”Lara laughed, far too happily. “Decisions, decisions.”“I know, right? What should I do? You want me to sit with you?”“They’re still your friends, Matt.. " I'll take that as a compliment," Tom replied before switching his attention back to Mark, "You mentioned an urgent errand?" Yep," Mark answered. "Look at this," he ordered gruffly as he hit a button on the tv remote. A Massengill commercial appeared on the screen."Are you saying that I'm not fresh and clean?" Tom asked.Mark grunted with amusement and then grumbled, "Bad timing. Keep watching. They've been showing what I want you to see nonstop all morning."After a few more commercials and a. The data aboard the Futile Gesture is compromised. The ship itself has been disassembled—it will take a lot of work to make the ship space worthy again. If HoChaRa ever gets their hands on me again, they will torture me to death slowly and in public as an example. The crew can't go home again, either—we're all traitors now." Were you aware that you were infected with a virus?" No, mum," I grimaced, "but it is proof that HoChaRa didn't intend for us to come back. I was feeling ill but the.