Oh, wait, Emily thought idly, as she’d watched Michelle’s eyes start to bulge and burn with rage, and her hands ball up into tight, white-knuckled...fists, Jack... didn’t knock all of us up?Huh.For some reason, Emily had simply assumed that was part of Jack’s conditioning process. Get conditioned, get impregnated, usually by Jack – it was kind of like a package deal. But ... apparently it wasn’t. Which meant that there was apparently some sort of method to Jack’s madness, that he specifically. After a couple rings, a voice she didn't recognize as Patty's answered."Hello?" said Collette."Hi, this is Barbara Taylor. I was looking from my son Bobby — is he there?" Hi, Mrs. Taylor, it's Collette Simpson. Uh no, Bobby left here a couple hours ago at least." Did he say if he was going home when he left?" Barbara asked, maternal panic in her belly beginning to grow again."He didn't really say where he was going. He, uh, he was pretty upset when he left. He and Patty kind of had a fight.". ’ she got in and i climbed into my seat and started my car up. I taxied the car forward and started a conversation with her. I asked, ‘by the way, i don’t know your name.’ she replied, ‘its ritu, sir.’ i said, ‘call me prakash. So where do you live?’ she replied, ‘not far off from your house, sir.’ i said irritably, ‘don’t call me sir, please. Wait a minute though, how do you know where i live?’ she said, ‘i see you at the turning after my house when you are on you way to your office.’ i said,. Calm down, you’ll be okay!”“Riley? What happened? I thought we got overrun.”“Grim, it’s okay.”Things got very dark at that point.I woke up the next morning laying on a cot outside the command post. I blinked in the sunlight, and discovered that both my eyes were working, though my head still hurt. That was a very positive thing, I thought. I managed to get up a little with my right arm, but my left was all bandaged up, as were both my legs, and I ached all over. I looked around. First Platoon.