I have to keep telling myself this. Rose will be fine. I feel her pushing and look to Poppy. She is holding something. It looks.. wrong. Misshapen. Sh... looks at me and shakes her head, setting the dead pup aside under a towel. I frown and lick Rose's face. One of them is already dead.. -Rose's point of view- I try to smile at Mark. Him just being here helps, even though he isn't really doing anything. Then I feel another thing coming between my hips. This one hurts. I push and it hurts worse. I. ”Mom piped up, startling me.“David’s got a lot on his plate and doesn’t need this distraction. Keep me in the loop on what your plans are, and on what’s happening as it happens.”She turned and saw my raised eyebrow. God, I loved mastering that look!“What?” she asked. “You always call me ‘the mama bear protecting her cubs.’ This time I get to act the part.”We all chuckled at that and ended the call on a high note.Tuesday May 3I’d forgotten to turn my alarm on since I hadn’t planned to run today.. ‘Damn’ Ortega exclaimed as the fighter passed in front of him. LT Ortega eased the brake more, he pushed the fighter to the port, while the Selorian accelerated rolling starboard. Both fighters came out the roll with Selorian in a perfect firing position. LT Ortega fired the gluon disruptor, the shots hit the mark and nullified the enemy’s shields. With all power gone the Selorian fighter vented the fusion into space. The ship dead stick knew what was next. Unable to steer the ship into a kill. .. personal.The reason the tank was empty was her post-Christmas sales. She’d done them all, particularly treasuring those leather boots she nervously said were a bargain. Yeah, I knew what we saved, not the cost. She owed me big time.Fifty would fill the car, twenty, a necessary top up. I lifted the fat purse from the bag, possibly full of clod I could use for car-parking meters. What do girls keep in purses, anyway?I was on virgin territory here.Yup, change aplenty, plus a key ring with two.