The sergeant above all was concentrating on well drilled routines. Observe, cover, advance, and observe over and over, on and on. He could see through...his night sight the ship and house, and he wondered if the sexy young scientist he had recently started dating was safe or desperately in need of his help.Jackie felt very exposed standing in the courtyard. "Why would they need some sort of cannon?" She repeated over and over in her head. Her com line hissed and she realized her link with her. "What opportunity?", she asked, "Why and how the hell is Peter involved in this?"I knew that I had no choice but to come clean about Peter and me. I told my Mom that Peter had caught me in his room going through his stuff and had kinda blackmailed me into subsequent events.Mom said,"If all that happened was Peter catching you going through is bag then why didn't you tell me, sure it's a bad thing to do to a guest, to go through their personal belongings, but I wouldn't have been too mad. I have. I just didn't want people to talk. Remember, I'm almost old enough to be your grandfather."I didn't think it would be a good idea for you to be pregnant before we were married. People would definitely talk and not very nicely about us either."I don't want people to say that I'm a letch, which I am, but I'm a letch that loves you and only you. Nor do I want anyone to say that either one of us HAD to marry the other because you were pregnant."If we married before anything happened, then it all. Especially since I was naked.“Uh. Hey bro. What’s going on?” I asked as I stood up and sat in the armchair next to him. Someone needed to sit in the damn thing, so why not me?“Not much my man. Been sitting here contemplating what to reward you with now that you’re chilling up here in heaven,” the fat guy responded. I think he was Asian.“Right on brothe- wait, what the fuck? Did you just say heaven?”“Yeah man. Bad luck about the parachute. Sky diving is usually pretty fun and really gets the.