. Sergeant Major," he said on seeing the pins my collar. "However, I don't like your..." That was as far as I let him get, before I interrupted."With ...ll due respect, Colonel, if I hear one single word from her in the morning about anything happening tonight or in the morning, I will file charges against you and your wife, and I WILL make them stick." How dare you, and on my own front porch," he started."Yes, I dare. You all have treated this girl very poorly for a long time now. It will stop,". "Alan then spoke up, "Now wait just a dog gone minute everyone. Ruth, you can't do that unless I can do the same thing to Deana."Jeff laughed and looked at Ruth, then back at Deana. Then he said to Alan, "Why not, we are all close friends now."Deana stood up and moved over to where Alan was. She put her arms around him and kissed him. Jeff did the same thing to Ruth.Alan kissed Deana hard and trembled from head to toe. He then whispered in here ear, "God you're so hot. I want to fuck you now. Shaylee looked around at the ash filled scene and asked, "Are we still in trouble?" Yep," said her sister, laconically.Shaylee moved to her sister's side and said very softly, "Maeve? Thank you for saving me."Maeve looked at her sister in surprise and said, "Hell, girl, we saved each other! That was a doozie of a fire!"Shaylee lowered her head and said, almost in a whisper, " No! I don't mean here. I mean back at home. I don't think that I could have taken being raped by all those men. It would. The words flowed seamlessly through her pen onto the cool crisp sheets of her notebook.By lunchtime, she was happy. She flicked through the pages, reading it almost as if it had been written by somebody else. She pulled her battered laptop onto the table and began transcribing her notes. Her ex had always laughed at her for writing everything in longhand first but Catherine found that trying to write on the computer meant she was constantly editing, deleting, erasing as she went and was then.