R. doctors were finished with him, Luke had been moved upstairs and admitted to the hospital. The doctors assured him he’d only be staying overnight...to make sure no further problems developed. That didn’t make him too unhappy. ‘How’s Sergeant Mills doing?’ Luke asked. ‘Is she OK?’ ‘She’s got bruised ribs,’ Tim said. ‘She was luckier than you. She got to go home. Kind of rough to breathe, is it?’ ‘A little,’ Luke replied. ‘You know, it’s funny, I hardly felt the pain when all that shit was. After one such episode in a local pub he was seized bodily by a group of pilots and flung head first into an adjacent pond to cool off. That night he had prowled the streets of Soho, looking for a prostitute to take out his anger and frustration. After the incident with Maisey, he found himself increasingly drawn to rough sex and more than once his victims ended up in hospital claiming to have 'fallen down stairs.'He heard the news of Peter's appointment to 12 Group with something like. So maybe it was only natural that once we bonded over that, we startedconsidering playing by a different set of rules entirely.It was Jamie who came up with the idea of us swapping genders.It started because I was at her place one day, and found myself admiringthe petty dresses that had been stuffed into the back of her closet,never worn.So when she realized I was drawn to them, she offered the opportunity forme to try them on.I know it's kinda cliche, but that first time in front of a mirror. I shrugged, purposely reaching out to pat her hand. "I'll worry about that Monday. He's not going skip the party at the lake to come chat with me." It's not worth it, John. You'll get hurt and nothing will change." Oh, I don't know, Missy. Junior and his friends are bullies, but I don't think they'll actually do anything physical. We'll chat and I'll try to get my point of view across and then apologize. I can act sufficiently awed by their muscles to keep things from getting out of hand."I.