I don’t remember the outcome, so to speak, but do remember a one off with him sucking me off a day or so later. It was just the once and of course, ...ith the exuberance of youth, was a very short interlude. My load was unshipped in short order. Then I discovered girls, or rather, they discovered me. Believe it or not, I was quite shy in those days. In truth, the first woman I screwed was the one I married and remain with to this day. The day before I was to marry, being. ’ That was… something. A chance. Those physical hurts she’d suffered had been smaller in scale than Fiona’s. No permanent damage, though she’d taken similar breaks on her right arm and leg from the roll of the car, and retained a number of scars from the broken glass. All of this could heal. The two women had been given separate rooms at first, but the hospital had honored Mary’s request to give them a shared room once their conditions had become more stable. Their mother had taken up her own. It would keep the two of them laughing.John and Billy got all the air out of the airbed and put the bed and blankets along with pillows behind the seats in the truck. John checked his mail for the last time. Before the computer was unplugged the day before he had sent in the information as to his moving to the Post Office. As was John’s nature, he was 15 minutes early, “Would you have a cup of coffee for a homeless fellow?”“Come in, coffee’s ready and apple juice for the Billy?” Mary laughed,. I did and do what I think right. I never meant for it to bring hurt to you. I acted to protect you in the only way that I knew how. Cadmus, I need your oath that you will defend those two above all others; upon them all depends for they hold our future. Please, swear it to me." She pleaded in a husky voice."I hold no memory of you other than joy in your nearness. My heart bears nothing but love for you and that is how it shall always be for me when I think of you, but please, Sabratha, do not.