He failed to notice hisvarious security measures being circumvented and overridden. He failedto notice his machine was being hacked."PHASE 2 - BODY AD...PTATION TO PRESET MEASUREMENTS."Tails blinked in surprise. "What? I didn't program tha-"He was cut off as another pair of arms, these ones ending in a pair oflarge metal domes lowered and quickly clamped onto his chest. A metalband wrapped around his back and clicked shut, holding them in place.The child genius let out a yelp of surprise and. Worst, though, was the libido increase; sex went from a tool used to manipulate Ned to something Judy needed increasingly -- while she became less and less appetizing to look at. Masturbation went from an occasional thing to take the edge off to a daily requirement -- then twice daily...Stubbornly, stupidly, she held on until Ned deployed, and it was too late...It was a Company-level deployment -- a sweep of as much territory as they could take and hold over a two-mile front. Leopard-class. It was not that his parents didn’t love him. But it was the kind of love you might feel for a for a distant relative with whom you occasionally corresponded. Not long after the new baby was due William would leave for college, and he imagined it would be like he’d never been there at all. He just wanted to keep things together until then, to make his last weeks at home semi-pleasant and semi-normal for everyone. So, no telling his parents about the hallucination (if that’s what it was), and. ”Maggie pointed out his bedroom and asked if he wanted a drink.“I’ll have whatever you are having.”“After you greeting me at the office the way you did, I think I will make a vodka martini as I still feel the aftershocks.”Bill sat on the couch watching Maggie making the drinks and appraising her. He didn’t know how far their relationship would go or what would evolve, but just to see and be with her was worth coming out to California.As she handed him his drink he said, “I really like your.