“And she gives in to his seduction,” Le Gris concluded.Marguerite was so distracted that she missed the next beat, moving after everyone else. As ...hey bowed and squared off to face one another again, the dance began to repeat. She shook her head to clear her thoughts, then replied, “I think you have misunderstood the story.”“Oh, have I?” he asked, playfully. “Then please tell me the real story of the dance.” They began the sequence again, moving together and apart, turning and stepping in. So do I. So does Kara. So does your friend Doctor Barton. And so does Jessica.”“Fuck,” I sighed. “OK. Forget that problem for a moment. We’ll deal with that in just under two weeks. I have another problem to deal with today.”“She’s not here to try to claim you, is she?” Kara asked.“No. That’s one thing I’m sure of. But it’s the only thing I’m sure of. As I said, I can guess WHY she’s here, at least the root cause. What she wants from me is another question altogether. I’d bet just an ear to. I was debating on sending out the drone fighters to take care of the mines. With how far they where spread out it would take months to deal with them. And at the rate the crew was dying we would have no worry from them soon enough. I mentally rebuked myself, we would figure something out; we had to.I went back to the readings from the planet itself, I ordered the ship to move over the source of the signal, I needed to get a detailed scan of the area. I watched as we came toward the signal, the. I had grown paranoid I guess.We talked on the phone almost every chance we'd get, but matching up free time seemed to be damned near impossible. If I was off, she'd be working. The one weekend we did have off, her Aunt Mary passed away and she flew to Florida with her family for the funeral.Finally the weekend after her aunt's funeral we were able to go to a movie. I went to pick her up and was met at the door by her father. I wasn't sure what to expect when he asked me to come in. "Pleased to.