Well, the pot thing was stupid. I'd bought extra for my buddies, using their own money. The cops said I was trying to deal. I wouldn't snitch on my so...rce so I served 8 months. I wouldn't say it set me on the straight and narrow, because I wasn't into a lot of trouble then. But it definitely showed me where I didn't want to wind up. So I did my time and a friend of my family helped me get hired.”It sounded to her like Michael had had to tell that story over and over.“Thank you for telling me. "I'm going something to eat.", I said. But, I walked around to the front of the couch from the far side and stood there. She was just staring at me oddly, and again I said, "What!?", rather annoyed at this point, as I was hungry and she's just sitting... staring. "Sit down for a minute", she said. Again, a strange, what I took as "serious" tone I couldn't really read. So, I sat down.She was sitting at the far end of the couch and I just plopped-down in an annoyed fashion on the middle cushion,. ” Merlin started.“NO! You look old man! I have an asshole to kill, so that these people no longer live in fear. If I die then problem solved, we aren’t bonded yet so she’ll survive. If I live? Then I come back here and I kick the shit out of you! Agreed?” Alan said his eyes flashing the anger he felt.Merlin smiled so Alan wasn’t against his daughter yet, good they needed to build on that. “You might find that harder than you think but you can try young man.”“HA!” Alan shouted back over his. So does our friend out there." What friend?" Lucy asked."The skunk that lives at the bottom of the hill," William answered covering the microphone on the headset. He pointed through the door at the small animal curled up by the patio bar. He raised a finger to his mouth and said, "We need to be quiet now."Lucy and Ken ducked behind the couch. Lucy was having a hard time keeping from giggling at the thought of what the skunk would do when the bullets started flying. Ken looked at her and.