‘Was…was that Rod?’ Lise sobbed. ‘Yeah, it was,’ Luke replied. ‘He shot Sergeant Mills and he’s taking off. I need to go after him. Back...up and an ambulance are coming. Can you stay with Sergeant Mills and do what you can?’ ‘I…I guess so,’ Lise responded. When Luke braked to a stop, she climbed out of the car. Brushing broken glass off herself, she started toward the prone form of Sergeant Mills, knelt beside her, took her wrist, and checked for a pulse. She felt the woman’s pulse was surprised. I want to be sure of who it is before I wake them. I slowly and smoothly raise one side of the blanket, rolling out from under the covers. I put my feet and catch myself as I fall out of the bed. I lower the covers behind me, careful not to disturb the sleeping figure. As my eyes adjust to the darkness, my breath catches. It’s a girl. She looks about my age, her long, fiery red hair pooling on the pillow. My mind races with thoughts, the most prominent of which being How in the nine circles of. Now it was Harry’s turn to laugh. “I told you that the silencing charm would let us be as loud as we needed.”“Still though,” Hermione hesitated, “doesn’t it feel a bit wrong to you, messing around in front of all of these people?”“Not at all,” Harry replied. He pulled Hermione tightly against him, letting her feel his hardness. “In fact, I think I like it. Do you?” He went back to kissing her neck while his hand continued to pleasure her.“I-” Hermione gasped as another burst of pleasure hit. In Rick's case it was a black catnamed Lucifer in his sister's favorite story Cinderella. In Cinderella,Lucifer was Lady Tremaine's black cat, born with a sneaky somewhatwicked personality, and Rick always equated the cat with their gangsterstepfather Mack back when Rick was a child. As Rick remembered him heeven looked like that cartoon cat a little which brought his sister totears from laughing so hard.They were at the bar reminiscing a little, quietly, covertly and justout of earshot over.