" Good god, Christina," he sighed.I kissed him lightly. "But you're right ... sadly, longingly right..." Dammit." Girls, we're going to the office," I...announced loudly."Gotcha, Mom," I heard from Terri's room.Naturally, our arrival at the office precipitated a flurry of questions, all to be happily answered.Cindy was giggling. "Can you IMAGINE?!? There she is, fresh from her last visit to a trailer at the bad end of a dirt road, and she pulls in HERE?!? And interviews the pTerridactyl?" Terri. She'd injured her back in the military years before and it had a habit of acting up every once in a while, but after a few days rest, it might literally be years before another flare up. If her blood sugar hadn't been so out of control, she would have been released with the usual, "Take care, don't over-exert yourself, take two pain killers and call me in the morning," shtick. The combination of the medicine and the fact that she hadn't been eating well were causing her glucose levels to go up. "You too," he said. "You guys just chilling on some wine?" he asked.Piper was mortified when she realized that her panties were laying conspicuously on the coffee table, barely blending in with the magazines. She couldn't grab them back without drawing more attention, so she just prayed he didn't notice."Yeah, just some jazz and some wine," said George."Nice," said Mike. Whatever awkwardness there was in the room, he seemed to be missing it. "You guys doing anything later? I got some sweet. Lilly did not understand everything, but she caught that the men said she was already dead. First she though they referred to wanting to hurt her for speaking out of turn, but then she understood that they said that "let's have some fun with her, either way she's already dead."--- "What's your name?" --- said one of them approaching her.--- "Berry." --- she said --- "And I think this little bird would use a break."That was a mistake.--- "You think you can order us around? To stop having our fun.