"After getting out of work late one night, I was too horned up to sleep and I was bored with the handful of porn magazines and videotapes I had (this ...as the 80's). There was an adult bookstore off the highway about a half an hour away. I had never been in one before, but I had been curious for years...before I knew it, I was pulling into the half full parking lot. As I walked in, they checked my ID at the door, and I entered a new world. Lots of chrome and neon, and porn playing on a TV. “But she’s definitely hot in that ‘girl next door’ sort of way. Let’s see here….”She thought for a moment and then typed, “girl with long blonde hair and small boobs.”Melinda heard Brian’s breath catch and she looked over at the stunned kid, smiling.Her search filter was off, meaning that mature images wouldn’t be blocked; several of the women on the screen were topless or fully nude.Brian squirmed, not blinking. His hand hovered toward his crotch as if magnetized; he obviously had experience. Once we have sufficient personnel to repair him we can reestablish command on board. The Excalibur has agreed to tow the Lanvy to a safe location near Mars until we can get him repaired."David took the beacon and shook his head. "Sounds like you have a plan?"Riu smiled up at him as the two of them appeared on the much smaller bridge of the EDS Excalibur. "Yes Sir, when you put me in command of the Lanvy you made me the ranking officer, all military decisions concerning the ships and their crew,. Needless to say he wasn’t happy about the candy wrappers I’d been leaving around. Gabriel had a mother and baby sister he went home to every day. He never spoke about them but I heard my father once tell my mother that all the money he paid him Gabriel gave to his mother. We grew up going to different schools. I went to Vance Prep and he went to Stem High, but at the end of the day we were both covered in the same dust and grease watching as my dad showed us how to repair a fuse box or.