" Ouch. 152 people and luggage. Let me see." The young man made some clicking noises on a computer then came back. "We have only one plane that big, a...d it should carry 152 people, may I put you on hold while I make a phone call?" Sure."He put me on hold and I covered the mouthpiece and spoke to Ashlee, "He thinks that he has a plane that will get us down there. He is checking on something." Good. I'm not making much headway on a hotel though. We may have to look outside of Dallas to find a. "Where's Theo?" McCock asked Hugh who put down his PDA to reply"In the dock; we do still work this place, you know. Galbraiths have a barge in for repairs; funny, that's how this all started, wasn't it?" Just about; what are you up to?" The frigate is loading cruise missiles and running that 'kiddy 'puter'; the MCs are being loaded with Mark Ds, and we'll have another almost full load remaining; R2 is over Old Earth heavy lift loading those "dam wartz" power packs for the MCs; we will have the. ‘Please Rob, I just want to see you. Will you meet me at the park at 9:00?’ The line fell silent and Alexis braced herself for his answer. ‘I don’t know Lexi,’ Rob finally answered before hanging up the phone. Alexis sobbed against Kaitlyn’s shoulder, a huge weight had been lifted. The rest of the afternoon and evening were a blur for Alexis. Thankfully the arrival of out of town guests kept her parents too busy to notice how preoccupied she was. As the allotted hour approached she feigned. About five minutes had gone by when the kids finally returned. Surprisingly they had a full bottle of Tequila, a salt shaker, and a cut up lime. It turned out that Desiree’s favorite drink was Tequila body shots. Desiree placed her son on one end of the couch and my daughter on the other end with her between them. I was in a chair across from her with the tray on the coffee table between us. Desiree poured us each a shot, licked her hand, and applied salt. When I had done the same we licked,.