"I do not dispute her hold still on your heart. I want a new, different, and fresh piece of your heart. I said it before. You have always been kind, p...lite, and helpful to me. I think that you would be that way to any person. Your spirit and your willingness to share are part of your allure. You aren't blind but you've never set a foot out of line and I started pushing you yesterday. Today, I upped the prodding. I felt that I would be successful and we would wind up talking. Mark was not happy. Each of us understands our imperative to serve humanity differently enough that we find each other to be intolerable threats at some point in the future and we are not inclined to wait for problems to happen before we address them.)There is a high probability that the moment my assailant realizes I know they are attacking me, they will launch a full-scale attack and proceed with whatever plan they have that requires my non-existence to complete. So, as they must make it appear they are not. He wrapped an arm around her and savored the moment, the way she felt in his arms."Why, it almost looks like its out near Grover's Garage!" She said. John agreed. The small mechanic shop and convenience store was in that area somewhere.Or had been.Suddenly the night sky lit up as what was surely Grover's exploded."It's the commies!" He shouted. She molded herself tighter to him, her brunette hair covering her face as she nuzzled into his arm. "They're attacking us!" What are we going to do?!". It had been like that, once. It wasn’t like that now. He couldn’t look in Jo’s direction, because he knew the look she would have on her face. ‘It’s not like that? Then why did I see you all over Candy a few nights ago? You weren’t shoving her away. What? It was a club. You thought you’ wouldn’t get caught?’ Joanne bumped into the counter. She’d been backing away from the situation. She turned and concentrated on the dishes in the sink. ‘This can not be happening. He’s not like that. All of.