. killed them all.As we quickly moved through the burning tents and vehicles I knew there would be hell to pay when I got back to base.Out of the dark...ness a man appeared, his face and uniform bloodied. He was very close, and as I shot him the grenade he was holding fell from his hand and rolled toward me. I yelled "Grenade!" as I dropped to the ground trying to make myself as small as possible.My helmet and body armor saved me but still the docs pulled over a hundred pieces of metal and bits of. I also caught a glimpse of a squad holding up the behemoth carapace and using it as a shield to mask themselves from alien counterfire as they advanced under a torrent of alien fire.And then with a sudden lurch my grav-pack kicked in and I more or less glided into the narrow space between the top of the alien barrier and the upper wall of the Silcom media foundation, firing my serial pellet firer on any target I saw. I then did a sharp drop to ground level and with my falchion almost sliced in. My partner for the evening - she's older and not my girlfriend - is sitting on my lap. All I can think of is holding her and trying to get comfortable. Jesus, she has a bony ass! Then I realise the inevitable is happening - at age 17, and with hormones coming out my ears, I am getting an erection. And I know it's going to be a big one."Oh, God!" I think to myself, "not now!" But it has no effect on what's happening, and soon, too soon, I have a big problem. In the dark and chatter of the slow. “You’re my girls,” I said as if that answered it. “I want you to succeed. If you need something and I can give it to you, it’s not a question. It’s yours. I seriously don’t want either of you to have to make shitty choices like that while you’re in school. We’ll pay your tuition in small enough chunks that it all gets paid on time, but without any suspicion about where the money came from. Books and supplies we’ll buy in cash. I also want to make sure you both have the best computers and.