. “We choose you, then. Be our Sheriff. We need one who can set this county straight. It’s been on the wrong path since before Doomsday, even more... so since. We need law and order here, and not of the kind that Sheriff Aston Milam gave us. I followed his orders before, thinking that you were a menace, but you actually make sense. Stay ... and be our Sheriff, at least for now,” one of the deputies urged me.“I agree. So does God. You will resume your trek westward in time, but for the moment, you. "Can you change it to the same one we were using at Headquarters?" Sure, but it's against regulations." Do it; then ask Xing to okay it." Right."When she returned to the room, Pru said, "That went well." When you've been a sergeant major as long as I have, you learn how to communicate. Anyway, Xing's got these people clued in. We can do just about anything we want. He'll know about it before we do, anyway. Good man — for a man."Maeve watched the clock count up to 0800 and keyed the com. "Good. I’m not the same guy who had more than thirty lovers before he turned seventeen.”“So make an exception,” she demanded.“No, I won’t,” I said firmly. “I owe you a favor, but screwing isn’t what I owe you.”She got up, looked daggers at me, hissed, “Bastard!” and stalked away.I sighed. It would have been one thing if I had led her on recently, or if she’d shown any kind of interest since seventh grade. She’d been a friend, but not even a close one, quickly eclipsed by Melanie, Jennifer, Bethany,. We settled in to eating our dinner. This was one of my favorite restaurants but I became aware that I wasn’t the least bit interested in my food. I noticed that my hands were shaking while I played with my food. Oh my god I thought, this man had really done a number on me!George was kind enough to leave me to myself. I think he understood that I was busy processing my feelings. I was determined not to look in Gregory’s direction. I almost wished that he would leave to remove my temptation to.