.."I frowned, sighed, then stood up, handed him his guitar, went back to give Moira a kiss, (and, on impulse, I gave Jake one too) then headed back to...the stairs and down. Down, down, like into the dungeon, down.The office door was closed, of course. I stopped, took a deep breath to calm myself, then knocked. "Come," came muffled through the door. I opened it and went in."Close the door," Kate said, without any greeting. I shut the door behind me.She stared at me for a long time, while I stood. .?” and as I stared at the screen, I could clearly see that – apart from a very different hairstyle and make up – THAT WAS NIKKI!!!!!!!! “OH MY GOD!” I thought as the guy spoke some very clichéd porn film script. The next thing I knew, Nikki (or the character she was playing) was leading the guy into the room behind the desk, and the shot changed to show a red, leather Chesterfield-type sofa. Nikki walked across the shot and sat down on the edge of the cushions, and the guy followed but. 'Shrugging his shoulders, he walked in the room where Molly was just sitting down."Hi, Molly. How bad is it?"Molly looked up at Ken, glanced at her computer screen, and sighed, "Bad, Captain. We have sixteen dead, seventy-seven wounded and six still missing. Most of them I recruited." Molly said with tears running down her face.Ken shook his head as he walked over and pulled her to her feet and said, as he took her in his arms. "Seven are missing."Molly looked up at Ken and then back at the. " I requested. Jason gave me a concerned look and said "Coming right up." He walked away to get our beers. "Are you going to open that letter?" Pat asked me. "Not without a little (or a lot) of fortification." I replied and lifted beer and took a long swig. For the next couple of hours I did my best to drown my worries in alcohol. Unfortunately the more I drank the worst my anxiety got. Finally I gave up. I drunkenly looked at Pat and asked "Are you ready?"She looked back at me and said.