Alex picked up one of the towels that were on the floor and laid down using the towel as a pillow. He put one arm under Erin’s head and pulled her o...er to him, her head on his shoulder. Alex closed his eyes. I stood up and walked towards the steps. I looked back at Alex and Erin and I flipped the light switch. Erin’s arm was across Alex’s chest and Alex was rubbing her back. I turned out the light and walked up the stairs. I went into the bathroom and cleaned myself up with a wet towel. I then. I thought briefly at that point, about going back to Martin and sleep. I quickly dismissed the idea. I wasn’t likely to sleep. I sat down beside him. ‘I was in ‘Nam. I still have nightmares.’ With his head in his hands, he went on. ‘I can’t seem to shake them off. I guess I don’t deserve to be able to.’ ‘Why?’ A single quietly spoken word was all I could master at that point. ‘Some bad, unforgivable things happened in ‘Nam. And I did nothing to stop them. There were times when I stood by and. Ever since he had married Molly almost twenty years ago, Danny had made a daily effort to stay removed from the thoughts of the violent past and carefully avoided discussions of politics and religious matters.Against his better judgement, he allowed his sixty-five year old brain to return to those years of the Trouble and he sifted through his eye-witness perspective to see if there were glaring holes in the reporting in the present-day newspapers. They had made a complete muck of the bombing. The chick was pretty good. Well, he was assuming it was a girl, might just be a guy having a laugh with his tag. After the game he hit the party up button; a couple of the players stayed in the group while some new ones filled the gaps. Actual Girl stayed. Before the next game started he got a message from her. Got a headset? Usually he left his headset off playing free for all; listening to a bunch of 12 year old assholes mocking you didn’t add to the experience. He checked the player list..