For another, I’ve had very extensive military experience, even if I don’t remember it all.”He takes a breath and glances down at the bed. “Th...re’s also the fact that I owed them one for a favor in the past. Fury called in my marker. They needed someone who could work on his own, someone who could take out specific people with what they like to call surgical precision.” He shrugs. “If I’m not good at that, who is?”“But the X-Men are not killers. Or at least, we try very hard not to be. . ” She came close to me and said, “Oh but you can and you will because you want to.” Her hand went to the hem of my dress and she lifted it. “I can get you better food stockings, lingerie if you are my whore. If you do as you are told I shall take care of you. If you do not then things might be less comfortable for you.” She kissed me then, hard. Her hands roamed freely over my uniform which was dull and grey and poorly-made like most wartime attire, for the occupied French at least. “I shall. Today I just realized that I am in love with you.” “Don’t you care that I am older than you are and that I was married to your father?” “You are only two or three years older than I am why should that matter. Besides, I believe Dad would have been happy to know that I was taking care of you. I feel I want to protect you and cherish you.” “Oh, Jack you are so like him. Not only your looks but also how you think. I love you my darling.” I felt a thrill run through my body when she called me her. ”Karin and I got up from the table and went upstairs to the spare room. This had been Birgit’s room, but I had never been in it when she had been here. I had, of course, made love in this room, but it had been with Michelle Parker many years before and, I remembered, also with Sarah Leonard, before I went to Sweden. The room didn’t hold the same kind of memories nor have the same aura as Birgit’s room in Stockholm and I was glad for that. I knew I needed to see Karin as Karin, and not as some.