She was being hugged by her husband and daughter, and she said to the camera fervently, “I owe the Lion of the Federation my life! It’s not every ...ay you get to be in the presence of a true hero!”The cameras switched back to Jehanna Elani, and she smiled at her audience and said, “Profound words indeed. We here at the TFNN team, wish to thank you Commodore Blake, for protecting the hardworking citizens of the Terran Federation.”Dylan switched off the viewscreen, and turned to face them, an. I heard the couple of what I presumed were practice swishes before I heard and felt the crack of leather connecting with my bottom.“One” said Mrs Whittingham.For a second or two I felt nothing then felt a searing pain in my bottom.“Two” the second stroke landed just as I was feeling the pain from the first stroke.When the third stroke landed I cried out “Jesus Christ”.“Do not use blasphemous language in this house” shouted Mrs Whittingham angrily “that’s just earned you a further six strokes,. You better get back here." She said."Fuck that, I'm going to the school," I said."Get everybody you can find out there now," I said. "Tell the dispatcher you speak for me." You got anything in the car?" I asked Osborn."I have my service Glock in there," she said. Get it, you are riding with me. When I got into the car, I slipped opened the locked glove box and pulled the old five shot .22 mag out. I ran with the .22 mag derringer in the pocket of my sweat suit. My newer eight round revolver was. All he needed was a good camera, a second-hand car and his own demoralized vision of the world to follow suit. He had a talent to spot peoples weaknesses, exploit them and move on unscathed. Though he sold himself cheap, he knew when he had something good to work on, manipulate his clients into heftier amounts of money, as he suspected nothing paid quite like revealing other peoples secret lives unto their loved ones. Hector was like a vicious canine, once he spotted a piece of meat, he didnt.