"Rat turds," she smiled."She made me sleep alone for two nights after that remark," Tim told him. "By the way, I have arms aboard here for our protect...on. Two AK-47's, a few rapid fire automatics and a couple of handguns of the .44 kind." Do you have the necessary certificates?" You mean bills of sale and registration?"Jinx nodded."I've got the papers down below," Tim stated.Jinx turned to a sailor, "Go below with him. Bring him right back here after he collects the documents." Aye, aye, sir,". The office was in a renovated colonial style home, traces of old wrought iron fence posts framing the front entrance. The trim was done in a light pink color with a gazebo off to the side, a profusion of roses climbing up the trellis.I walked up the brick path and through the large oak doors. A receptionist in a room off the foyer took my name and asked me to have a seat. I looked around, feeling like a hick on her first time to the big city. The understated elegance of the whole place had me. “I’ll do it,” Gordon, the youngest, offered after a thirty second silence at the table.“From the mouths of babes,” Doctor Hooker smiled. Turning his attention back to Jimmy, he addressed the boy in a kindly voice. You were shy, your brother was boastful but didn’t jump at the chance to intimidate the ladies with his manhood. Yet a thirteen year old doesn’t have a problem with it. I think it’s because he’s not yet become self conscious like the two of you and as his reward, he will get to. He was living in the affluent neighborhood of Apple Gate in a cramped spare bedroom nestled in Metropolis’ Upper East Side. David had convinced a single middle-age woman he was homeless and had nowhere else to go. She had taken him in and he was happy to have the comfort of a warm bed again.Making his way to a nearby window he peeped through the elegant blinds. Temporarily blinded by the morning sunlight, he rubbed his eyes and glanced out the window again. Across the street, through the tree.