The front door opened. I strained to listen, but only heard gasping, giggling, and some muddled whispering, followed by two sets of footsteps back tow...rds Heather's bedroom. I watched the computer screen as they emerged into camera view. Seeing my gorgeous daughter so giddy and happy brought a huge smile to my face.CJ followed Heather into her bedroom and went immediately over to the crib. 'Good boy,' I thought. It was sweet that CJ's first instinct wasn't to just grab my little girl and start. Following his orders, she tugged her short, tight, black skirt up around her waist. "Look at your beautiful reflection. Stockings and suspenders too. Just how I like it. Now be a good girl and assume the position."Mia pressed her hands out in front of her. Looking back over her shoulder, she could see and feel Liam drop to his knees. Moving her feet apart, she allowed him better access. Liam acted like a starving animal about to devour his prey. His face pressed against the dampness of her. We had also modified my ship a bit. I now had a shield! Shields were just becoming a reality in my universe, and they weren't very good yet. They had a poor record of performance. True, they helped to some extent, but they collapsed quickly, and had not been much of a benefit, so far. Except now, I had a better shield! One that could take hit after hit, for some time, before it failed. With that, plus my newly updated gravity compensator's and my 5 torpedoes, add a newly installed 50 cm Ion. ”“It’s a bit late to get that for January.”I nodded, “It only just came up. But I have some time.”“What’s the project?”“Voter tracking software. Basically for candidates to use to target specific voters when they walk their precincts or for get-out-the-vote drives. It would be some database work and some coding, with a collection app on a PDA, like a Palm Pilot. And then supporting and expanding the code.”“Is this a NIKA project?”“No. It would be something private. It’s for a friend of mine in.