"Trust me, you'd be in a hell of a lot of trouble." I know," she acknowledged, still grinning. "Amanda told me that Commander T'Pol can be quite unsu...btle in letting you know that she wants you to keep your hands off a certain engineer." What the hell's that supposed to mean?" he asked, slightly irritated."Shouldn't you be on your way to the captain's mess?" she asked, evading the answer."Dammit," he swore and ran out of engineering.Jon fought the urge to chuckle when he noticed Trip's obvious. . David had driven around a good deal after her blow up. He had stopped for a beer but only drank half of it. Finally later, he headed home, no better off than he was the minute Carol had told him she had been about to let Tony fuck her when they were interrupted. How could he deal with this? She was going to go back to LA in two days and be there with Tony for the week. He knew in his heart that Carol would go to bed with Tony. After they had been so close to doing it already, it would happen.. “Well you are certainly free of him now,” I said.“I am and if I have not said it before, let me say it again: Thank all of you for what you have done.”“You’re welcome,” James replied. There was something there but I knew it was best not to push it. We had a lot of traveling still ahead and anything could come of it.We rode on for the next two weeks staying at inns most nights along the way. It would have been a costly affair but with what we had recovered and then sold that wasn’t of much.