” I said trying to sound confident. “I have back up.” I glanced at the end of each side of the hallway. My friends in suits were standing there.... I kind of expected them to be wearing sunglasses for some reason. But I guess being able to see inside for my protection is more important than looking cool.“Wait. Have they been following us this whole time?” Jane said a little confused.“Yeah. They haven’t left my site since yesterday after I got home.”“Holy fuck.” Dan whispered. “You’re like the. "That's enough for him," I replied smiling."Come on in let's xray your leg," he demanded."It will wait till we get the Irishman into a hospital," I said."He will be on a chopper for the Athens airport in twenty minutes. From there it is an Air Force hospitial in Germany for him." the doctor said."I can find someone there to look at my leg," I suggested.At the Air Force hospital they insisted that I take the drugs and get off the leg. We compromised. I sat in a comfortable chair, either in the. He arrived at home twenty minutes later and carried his backpack through the front door to the inviting scent of garlic. “Hey, Mom, it’s just me.”“What are you doing home on a Wednesday night?” she asked as she greeted him in the living room with a warm hug.“I could smell the spaghetti sauce and garlic bread from campus,” he teased.“Visiting twice in one week. I could get used to this,” she teased back.His three sisters came running up to hug his legs. Gracie was eight going on sixteen, Riley. “For plant?““Not for the plant itself, but so they won’t be discovered to have it. For twenty or thirty plants the person who’s growing them could go to jail for ten years or more.”“This is madness!” I exclaim. “This plant, this marijuana, has many good uses that help people.”“I know, but we have other things now for those uses,” she says. “The thing is, mostly it’s used today recreationally, to get high. Like alcohol, you know.”“It was used so also among my people, a few,” I tell her. “Not.