.." She fell quiet and looked down. "I'm a virgin," she said quietly. "And I know that's a good thing, right? But at the same time, I'm so curious and...... some of my friends are talking, and I feel like I can't keep up with them." I sighed. "Okay," I said. "Well, even if you're a virgin, you at least do masturbate, right?" She stared at me blank-eyed. "Not?" I asked incredulously. She shrugged. "Would you have sex with me?" she asked, avoiding the apparently unpleasant questioning. Now it was my. It will be fun."Beth and Jamie came in the door later in the day. Beth went up to her uncle and hugged him tightly."I missed you, Uncle Jason."She gave Jason a soft, lingering, kiss on the lips. It was definitely not the typical kiss a niece would give to her uncle. Jason's hand automatically slipped down to Beth's ass and fondled it. When he realized he shouldn't be doing that in front of Jamie, he quickly moved his hand up, but Jamie had already noticed. Jason glanced over at her and briefly. Hell it's only 900 miles from Philadelphia to St. Louis. We'll travel that far to Santa Fe and there's another thousand miles on to California." Hobart stared at the herd for a few seconds and said, "But that's what we got Josh and we'll just have to deal with it. Or maybe I should say you'll have to deal with it."On the way back to camp Hobart led Josh over to the temporary corral where the horses were kept."See that big bay?" Hobart said pointing out the horse. "That's Diablo; I bought that. 'Ok, that was more than enough for me. I was about to tell the admiral just what he wanted to know despite Bonnie insistence to the contrary when another voice came into our heads.'Delightful' Rouge thought, 'I can watch you die at the hands of the Permethian's 7th fleet. Oh, this is so sweet!''Damn it, Rouge! Even you couldn't really want the station destroyed by them''Ah, that may be, Captain. However, there is nothing I can do to stop it. It seems that Captain Ramie called in a favor from.