I ask if she wanted to go to the movie. She looked at me with a devilish smile and said “ Hell no I want to go for a drive in the country.” I was...familiar with most of the ranches in the area from day working as a cowboy on most of them on my days off. The pay was not that great but it supplemented my police pay which was less than great as well. We drove several miles south of town where I knew of a long ranch road where we would not be seen except maybe a game warden or night hunters. During. Lost in his own fantasies, he almost missed the bell.”Shit!” he muttered as he gathered up his things. Snapped from his fantasy, Vincent didn’t realize he had gotten hard thinking of his best friend. Erin was, thankfully, walking out the door, so Vincent’s crude fantasies stayed his own for another day. He headed out to his own locker, and opened it up to find a small piece of paper fall out.”Huh…what’s this?” Vincent mused over what turned out to be a small note.“Hey, Vincent…do me a. “Oh, we are touchy today, I see,” but the grin stayed in place.The First shrugged. “I need to ask you something.”The Chief just waited.“Will your warp coil repairs hold at normal cruising speed – at least for a while?”The Chief’s grin turned into a frown. “I told you that I would have to continue my tuning of the coils as we gradually increased the load on them. I presume there is a reason for your question? Nothing has changed that would make what I told you any less valid. So why do you ask?”. The 3 cheats all turned their guns at me, so I was now committed to a fight. I started blazing away as fast as I could cock, aim, and fire. I thanked that gunsmith who had reworked my pistol, because it operated smoothly just when I so badly needed it. I got off 4 shots before any of the others could manage a single shot, and then I dove the rest of the way to the floor and rolled toward the end of the bar.I was already rolling as fast as I could move, and they apparently didn't know how to hit.