We moved toward each other. It was times like this that I was so glad for my National Guard training. I was no boxer, but I knew how to fight.He rushe... me like a bull. I reached out, pulled him forward and hammered him in the ribs as he went past. I heard his breath whoosh out as I hit him.I could have ended it right then by jumping on him and beating him down, but I might have killed him, which I didn't really want to do.He came at me again. I caught him by the arms and sat back, kneed him in. "He recognized the voice of the naked woman with glasses. Damn, he still didn't know her name. The surface he was lying on felt soft and yielding. A disembodied voice was droning somewhere in the background, "Alpha waves peaking at... " He relaxed, and slowly sank back into dreamless oblivion.Someone was pressing a cup of acid-tasting liquid to his lips. He choked and coughed some up. Orange juice. Argh! It burned going down. He ached all over, and there were twinges of pain behind his eyes. He. Francesca splashed me on one side while Zaza got me on the other.************************************************************************"Fuck!' shouted Nick in frustration. "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" I'm OK!" I assured Dennis. "Now what do we do?" asked Zaza.And with that one of Gigi's favorite movies popped into my head."Come on everybody! It's like what Judy Garland always said to Mickey Rooney.'We can do our own show!'"You would have thought I'd grown two heads with the way they all were. I was done with her and decided to leave. However, I realized that she has seen me before being knocked out. That means I cannot let her live if I wanted to remain a free man. I looked at her lying there peacefully, softly breathing, so beautiful and vulnerable. And she had smiled at me just now. But I have no choice. I wrapped my gloved hands around her soft, yielding neck and slowly started to squeeze. I watched as her breathing began to sound laboured and noisy. Slowly, it stopped. I kept.