"What in the world happened?" the young man asked rushing to his young bride, who collapsed gratefully into his arms. He saw the red prints on her arm...and for a moment thought she had been abused in some way."What did you do to her?" he shouted at the black soldier who was just closing the door behind himself. He only grinned and shut the door."I'm... I'm all right, Doug," the little blond tried to pull out of his arms now. "I'd like to sit down, but nothing happened," she said with a touch of. A few days later i went back to the store to buy some more tights and saw Jodie again. As usual she gave me a smile and i smiled back. This time she was wearing a pair of navy opaque tights. I was wearing a pair of black opaque tights under my trousers. After looking through the tights i selected a pair of patterned mock suspender tights that were really nice and sexy then took them over to the counter. As jodie picked them up she smiled and said "these are really nice i have a pair of them. " Hey ... whoa ... you can't quit now. You're one step away from my job. You know it's there for you," Lloyd exclaimed."Lloyd ... think about it. How am I going to run a sales department after what happened yesterday? I'll never have the respect of the guys. What about social events? Jeanette wouldn't be able to show her face. The gossip, the stories — you know better than I do how people will react." Brent spoke with the voice of finality. He had thought it out and he was convinced there was. In 2002, his vessel returned to Earth to check on humanity's progress. When the 'Xhul marines landed to retreive the transponder, they were disturbed to see how poorly human civilization was faring in "Somalia", as the area was now called. They captured a young man named Khalid Ali they found nearby. He said that his part of the world was in shambles because of an evil empire across the ocean, the Great Satan, America.When asked, Khalid identified his leader as "Osama Bin Laden." So the 'Xhul.