I'm Captain Matthews, the ringleader of this particular circus. Nice to meet you all." Nice to meet you too sir," Rebecca responded, "and I'm Captain ...orrison. Exactly why is my squadron being kept here?" Ah, well," Captain Matthews answered with a sigh, "quite simply, we have no Marines onboard; most of our guys were killed in battles on the ground, so you're supplementing for our lack of ground deployable manpower. Also, our best helmsman was killed in a fleet engagement a week ago, when this. How do you keep from being talked about with something like that going for you?" "I try to stick to women who keep their mouths shut," he told her mock-sternly. "Oh, my, shutting my mouth on that would be a very nice idea!"Frank groaned at her joke. She dropped down then and shut her mouth for a while, stuffed it and stretched it really, and soon he groaned again for different reasons. When Melanie broke off to smile up at him, he pulled her to her feet to kiss her again. Then he put his hand. "Still reading those magazines Jim? "Magazines," I asked? She smiled hugely. Yea, the real "good ones" I've got a spread in the new "Hardman" magazine with Denise a galpal of mine. Every wonder what it would be like to make it with a girl Jim, As a girl??" I was a little surprised, as this was a line of conversation; all our talks had always steered clear of sex. We'd talked politics and religion and movies but we never talked about sex. Claire I were old films buffs and so was she.. "Now what in the world would I want with my picture?" she stated rather than asked. "Nobody's given me any beauty prizes lately." Well they're even less likely to next year," he persisted. "'Sides, I'd kinda like to see what the little lady does for an old bat like you in just five minutes," he grinned. Jill gave him a hip smile, knowing that the wife must have heard these good- natured jibes for years."Well I wouldn't. You know I wouldn't like it anyway. If you're so int'rested, why don't you.