She helped him take off his shirt tossing it on the ground beside them. He returned by slipping his hand down in her shorts and playing with her wet p...ssy as they kissed some more. Leah moaned her need into his open mouth as their tongues cavorted in their devouring mouths. Suddenly she stood up and took off her shorts, placing them beside his shirt. She took off his pants and boxers next and placed them in the pile next to the other clothes. Jamie took her by the hand and pulled her back down. Some of the after gun crew were blown over the side, plates were sprung, buckled and bent below the waterline and the aft compartments began to flood.Grimly Krusenbourg held on, and still his guns fired at the German as well as they could. His crew, he saw, were performing magnificently. They set about their tasks with grim determination and spirit, he thought them heroes all.Finally, with the ship visibly listing and down at the stern, another shell plunged into the Chasseur amidships and. She wanted to get through all the layers and find him. "I don't . . . I don't do this," she said breathlessly. His lips moved to trace her jaw and he tugged her hair gently so she would expose her neck. "Do what?" He pressed his lips to her pulse and smiled as she trembled. "I'm not . . . not like this." It was the most wonderful frustration not to be able to think clearly. "I know," he said, moving his head back so that those eyes focused on hers again. He took her face in his hands, stroked. He also showed, for all to see, his nervousness at the changes he was asking to undergo. "Well?" he asked after the silence became unbearable to him.Mike glared down at him, then tilted his head back and roared, a loud, soulful cry toward the heavens. As the wail died, he glanced back at Jason. "I was warning the Empire that a new warrior was about to join them!" he bellowed. Danni nodded. "Kind of a 'birth howl', instead of the 'death howl' from the Next Gen," she explained. Despite a.