She fought, and fought against the slavers, and often it ended with a call to him. She had picked a spot, deep within the desert, and lain herself out...under and overhang of rock a few dozen feet from the bottom of a cliff face. As she had learned in her weeks of following the old cat, he enjoyed taking a dune buggy out into the desert as often as his “work” would allow him to. This particular day though he was in for a surprise. In her arms she held her favorite rifle. An XS-1, which fired the. And your hair!’ I said while running my fingers through it. It was soft to the touch and made me shiver lightly. He put his hand on my hip and chuckled. ‘I know. I grew it out once I moved out.’ He smiled and bit his bottom lip when I took my hand out of his hair and placed it on his shoulder, ‘Want to go for a walk and catch up on things?’ I smiled and nodded, taking his manly hand into my small petite one. I lead him through the crowd of people and outside, down the stairs of the porch and. Thomas gave half the money to Joe as agreed, and they left. Me, Joe, and Heather all went to eat at Long Horn Steakhouse till he had to go back at two. Joe arrived back at Mark's house right before 2pm. He knocked on the front door 3-4 times for dramatic effect, then after no answer he went to the garage and it was locked, he walked around back to the door that he knew had already been kicked in. He walked in and hollered for Mark. He then preceded upstairs "Mark, Mark....." Joe I am back. Then he left without a word.She was distracted from the manner of his leaving as she went to her calendar and looked for the little “p” she marked on it every time her period started. She relaxed as she saw that this unplanned event had at least fallen at a moderately good time in her cycle. According the calendar, her last period had ended a week previously. It would be another week before things were truly dangerous. Of course that didn’t matter, because they weren’t going to do that again..