It was a mixture of the drink and the action. I couldn't remember getting to bed, my head hurt, just a little, but my body, Ohhh, God I ached. I t...ied to move but decided that was a bad idea. Parts of me seemed to be stuck to the sheet, other parts of the sheet seemed to have been stuck to me earlier. Sami was not of this world yet, so I decided to get up and see if I could take a well earned shower without disturbing her. I stood under the lovely hot spray from the shower head,. I’ll let you–‘ And then she froze, realising why he wanted his wallet at exactly the same moment she witnessed the dawning horror in his expression. ‘Oh…’ ‘It’s all right.’ But something in his demeanour told her he was attempting to reassure himself more than he was trying to reassure her. ‘It’s okay.’ ‘No, it isn’t!’ She regarded him in consternation. ‘Last night–we didn’t use anything.’ ‘I know.’ ‘But–‘ As much panic-stricken by the look on his face as by the thought they hadn’t used. That was not considered sovereign territory was the enclave of Chicago and the remainder of Cook County. It tried to break away and join with the neighbors to the north but the political forces north of the border saw it as a serious drain on their economic and medical resources already strained by rising health care costs. The solution there was that the M.O.A. looked the other way when medical cases entered the new nation seeking medical assistance providing the patients made an honest effort. "I'm sure I've seen him before Jack, I'm positive I was in your office one day when you fired him for being drunk at work!"They drank their tea and kept looking over at me, nothing was said, none of us could think of what to say until finally Jack broke the ice."Do you think I've been straight with thee lad?" More than straight sir, you've both been very kind" Yes well cut the bloody sir out ok?" Yes sir, I mean Jack" Are you and Sarah, your mother, er well are you, oh bloody hell you know what.