Those were new, he hadn’t counted on those. The guard started to stagger to his feet and he pawed at his hip for his gun. Max turned him around, gr...bbed his pistol, and threw him against the broken doorframe in one fluid motion. The guard slumped to the ground and began to breathe in raspy gurgling draws. Max looked up and down the hall with the bulkheads to his back, he knew that was the hull of the ship. There were two more doors in the hall, one to the left of his and one to the right. The. ’ Emma got up on her knees and kissed the tip of her husband’s nose. ‘Don’t be long!’ She put an extra wiggle in her step as she left the living room, but couldn’t watch whether he noticed without being too obvious about it. Emma was following Derek’s suggestion of acting more sexy around Peter. By the time her husband came up, she was out of the shower, dried off and in bed with the covers pulled up to her chin. She’d reluctantly put on the long tee-shirt she wore to bed, not wanting to start. "What now love?" I asked. He laughed this full deep manly laugh that gave me butterflies, "how about a boat trip? Key West or Bahamas? Well I guess a better question is how long are you staying??" "To be honest I'm not sure, but I took two weeks off from work. I just had no idea what to expect and I knew you had some vacation time you could use if we hit it off like we thought we would. I'm sorry if that was forward of me..." "Not at all, I love that you were thinking about us hitting it off. It was clear to C that all was lost. The best that he could hope for was mercy at the hands of his captors. He prayed that he hadn't been to rough on any of the men and women that had been used as forced labor by the Militia.Bryan had sent three men to escort the twenty-two prisoners back to the prisoner stockade, and then he and Meredith met up along the central trench where company C had surrendered. Meredith moved South, Bryan moved north, bearing down on the two separately pinned down.