And then, if I had nothing else planned, I would often reverse my route, down the long hidden driveway, and take off to an evening cruising the street...s of the college town, watching street buskers, lapping ice cream, and smiling at the fine young ladies around me. Jo and I would get together sometimes at my house, or sometimes at hers a mile or so down the road. We knew we had nothing serious going on, as I was moving away at the end of the summer to begin graduate school, but we were. " Me?" Yes you, you fool, I've..."She hesitated and looked into my eyes,"We've just lost our mum and dad, neither of us have anything left, Dave, except each other. I just needed you, that's all."Her words hit me like a sledgehammer."What? You just needed a fuck, is that it, just a quick fuck?"Thank God she was more mature than me, far more mature. As I made to get up off her, she gripped me and held me tightly, her eyes were still misty as she said softly."Dave, I'm tired and probably just a. Right...here." Scott said, her voice becoming softer with each word. -the baby's alive! if I can only convince her to... -no! I - will not - do this to her.Ula shook her head and took a deep breath. "Scott ...love ...I want youto know, I'm here for you. Have the baby or don't, stay in Deirdre'sbody or return to your own ...whatever you do ...I will help you andsupport you." I don't understand, I thought you wanted me to have this child." "I did... I do!" -calm, be calm..."But it's not. Friday morning - before the news conference - I had asked the legal team about seizing the financial assets of the six centers and the one that owned the Minnesota farm.I found out that all that needed to be done was for me to sign the request and forward it to the Justice Department. That made it easy because now there were two Justice Department officials on my team. Their accounts had been placed in escrow by noon on Friday. I was surprised that there had been no screaming yet.I called Ben.