"My favorite! Yes Please!" She said.Marcus went off to make the drink to a corner bar that Tonya had not noticed before. Freak and Dave stood off to t...e side watching the movie. Marcus handed the freshly prepared drink to Tonya and settled down beside her on the couch. Tonya sipped it and noticed that it was very cold and strong. She took a larger sip and smiled back at Marcus."Thank you it is very good." Marcus then looked over at his two friends and said."I was thinking that you two should go. "So, whose idea was it to delay getting back?"She just knelt there, silent. I could sense desperation in her aura, coloring my sense of her. She was torn between fear of the pain and punishment and of betraying her Mother. I'm glad she stayed silent.Taking pity on her, I bent over, took her collar and fastened it around that slim neck. "Twenty minutes late. For you."She looked over at the clock and back at me with big eyes. The clock showed that they had been over 30 minutes late, even before I. They have a nice flat in Bucharest and a Dacha near Romania’s Black Sea coast, this all came about because Eva did and does still have some considerable influence in high places.Well every thing seemed quite innocent, I got tired of Bucharest the long walks through and across the bridges, and so was allowed to stay at the Dacha, Robert and Eva came out at the weekends, initially the weather was not too warm, in fact they said it was a bit early in the season for them to use the Dacha, but came. Meanwhile, the fighters had been relentlessly pouring laser fire at the Earth ships. This fire had done no harm to the Earth ships because of the efficiency of the shield. The fire had been returned by the Gatling Guns, eight per ship, mounted on the 12 ships. This Gatling Gun fire consisted of solid slugs of depleted uranium fired under control of the FTL radar. It was almost impossible to avoid being hit by the swarm of bullets fired from these guns, but a few of the fighters did manage that.