Michael decided to take a chance. This giant looked like he could break Chad into pieces. "Where are you taking me?" Somewhere safe."Studying the face...of his protector, Michael found he couldn't contain his emotions. He leaned in and started to cry. He didn't count the doors they passed through. Eventually, the giant put him in a chair."This is where you're going to stay for a few days." Commander Kennedy walked over to a little kitchenette. He returned with some tissues. "Wipe your eyes." He. “It’s you and your friends on the bench.”Pointing to a fifteen-year-old he said, “Eddie, here, is a pretty good example. He was burglarizing an apartment and was surprised by the young woman who lived there with her husband. He ran down the fire escape but she had seen his face. Then two things happened that are pretty rare around here. First, the woman actually called the cops, reported the break-in, and gave the police a description.“The second was even more surprising. One of the officers. She was eighteen and had no steady or even infrequent boyfriend.She felt downhearted and cheerless. Here she was dressed alone in a plain and skimpy white gown that skirted her wide hips barely letting the tip of virginal white cotton panties showed. It seemed a waste even to her. She shook shoulder length dusty blond hair that framed a common shallow face of minute interest.Employed at the Acme Realty office as a clerk secretary she was prim, efficient and accurate. Anywhere else she went, she. I want you to think of me as your Mother away from home.”“Is Michael supposed to be our father away from home?” One of the boys asked.“No…I want you to think of Michael as your big brother. In fact, he is the actual big brother of Jerry Winston who is a member of this Den. And while I am at it I want to point out my two real sons, Dan and Don Glover. I want all of you to consider our Den as one family with a Mother and Big Brother.”Cathy saw Michael struggling with concealing his bulge. She.