”After another minute: “Do you really love me?”I leaned close to her, and she turned to head to look at me. “Yes.” I looked into her eyes, a...d her lips parted slightly. My lips touched hers before I knew that I had moved. I drew back to look at her.She sat very still, and then she turned toward me, twisting her torso to face me. She reached up to take my face in her palms. Tugging gently, she brought my mouth to hers, and we kissed, softly at first, and then urgently.“Ahem,” my younger cousin. “Looks like you assholes get to live a few days longer, but you still better not give me any excuse to shoot you,” I said in my best Russian.I went back upstairs, “Andy, are you doing a body count?”“Yes, there is a reporter wanting an official statement,” he replied. “By the way we are on generator - the lines were blown down - and the front has been secured. I told the Ellen, Alice and Linda good job and to see if they could get the communications center up and running.”“Ten of my men are on. I’ve always wanted a playmate at work, male or female, just somebody who can understand my desire and need for sex and attention. But, actually, I'm a wallflower and not really social at work. Nobody knows in my office of over sixty people that I'm a total slut, a swinger and polyamorous woman. So, it was spring and we’d finally got some good weather and wore lighter clothes and… well, hormones were raging, especially mine. I was in the cafe room where most people eat lunch or get coffee, when. “I have an idea, though even it, scares me to some degree.” Wren said, then explained her idea to Flugret.Thomas was growing closer and closer to using his skills he’d learned on Ceti-5, to kill the entire bridge crew. Catching his self, he did all he could to calm before that happened.The crew had seen him like this before, they were staying out of reach of him. All the good that it did them as Thomas, was far faster than any of them.A look at the sensors showed that his bitch half-sister.