"Helen was looking furious and was about to speak when her captor jerked her arm more tightly about her throat and jammed the barrel of the gun harder...against her head. "Not interested, sister," she said. "Lots of quiet is what is needed. You others," she barked at the four Questors staring on in disbelief. "Grab a napkin each, from the table there and push it into your mouth as far as it will go. Then put your hands up way over your heads and get over facing that wall. Get on with it! Are you. Before he could think better of it, he turned his chair toward her. He turned boldly, looking at her hot figure, his dick tenting his pants. [Look at his crotch,] he thought. [Look at it hard, then back at his eyes. Feel your pussy get warm, wet at knowing he saw you looking. Knowing you’re hot, and he wants you.] ‘Yeah,’ he said conversationally, ‘They can be rough. It’d be nice to get a break from them, relieve some stress.’ Laurel paused. Her eyes seemed to look off into the middle. We still had not perfected the fusion plant, it tended to spike high and trigger the automatic shutdown protections, for no apparent reason except to frustrate those involved. But the deep space mission was a political priority, so it was pushed through on schedule anyway. We had just learned to live with the bumps in the road. I took a deep breath as my eyes adjusted to the restored light. I turned to Ted to congratulate him on the quick recovery, but my jaw dropped and it was all I could do. I got to leave the stage now,but he still had to finish his show."Sarah Carerra, everybody," he said softer than I would have expected.The crowd started to cheer, and I took a small bow."Thank you," I replied to them before waving as I headed for the stairsdown off the stage. Originally, Josh had said that he wanted to give mea hug in front of the crowd before I left, but looking at him now Iknew that was a bad idea, for both of us.Dad was there the moment I was out of sight, and the sounds of.