"I have never known what love was. Until now...yes, I meant it." She studied my face as I thought. "I love you Jessica, I can see being with you fo...ever but..." She looked skittish. " I just don't know where I stand with you. I mean you still date, your ex-boyfriend came down and tried to rekindle things with you. I mean your mom let him stay at your house...shit, for all I know the two of you fummmph..." She had straddled my lap and pressed her lips to mine and forced her tongue nearly. Pellington turns to his communications officer. “Open a line to the rest of the crew.”“Yes sir.” The officer pushes several buttons then turns back to the admiral. “It’s ready sir.”Pellington picks up the microphone and speaks into it, “Attention crew, this is Admiral Pellington. I am addressing you this evening because of an important matter that has come up. Right now as I speak two special agents are hunting down the saboteur. However, this ship is in danger of being sent to the bottom of. The one good thing about living on a naval base was that nobody bothered to hire babysitters for older kids. After they had moved here, his parents had decided that he was old enough to be on his own and that had made leaving all his friends behind a bit more tolerable. The next day, Jack’s father took him to the cemetery. Jack had been expecting his father’s important appointment to be in some kind of an office building, not a graveyard, especially since his father put on his dress uniform,. " OK," he said disarmingly, relaxing his hold. "But don't forget, I'm really counting on you."When they got to the door Daniel reached over Emma's shoulder and opened it. As Emma's eyes slowly adjusted to the semi-darkness, she gasped, and Daniel felt her stiffen against him."Danny, what the hell is that?" she whispered."Aw, don't worry, Emma, that's just... ... Frank. You remember him, don't you? He's got some pretty wild tales of the times you spent together while I was in Freeport."Emma was.