I’d hate to spend Christmas day alone.”“With me so immersed in my new job and his book signing schedule prior to Christmas, we’ve been togethe...r one weekend since the telethon, Thanksgiving weekend. Living a four-hour drive apart sure beats a four-hour flight, that is more like a ten hour day. That doesn’t include the preparation time away from each other when I lived in New York.”“Luckily my friend, Brooke, has driven every other weekend from Miami to spend it with me. She’s staying with her. ’ As if to protect herself from more depressing thoughts she dropped off to sleep, not to wake until they were being told they were about to land. The wheels clunked again then touched the runway. Brakes squealed, the aircraft slowed and then taxied towards the arrival lounge and came to a softly whining halt. Her sister Anthea was waiting for her and in the excitement of greeting each other Kirk faded from Stella’s thoughts. The next few days kept her fully occupied. She had the final details. Engines, bridge and the weapons in the unaffected areas all seem intact. The ship is mostly cold, but that probably doesn't mean much. A lot of the cargo is likely Swarmtroopers in cryo-stasis, and with no threats expected in this system, most of them will still be frozen. There's more heat around the bridge and the engines, where you'd expect live crew." But there's no sign of the crew actually doing anything?" No sign at all, sir. No acceleration. No course change. No active sensor scanning.. We have to have our cheerleading team in place by fall now that you all have insisted I play football. Let me get my suit on and I’ll be back.’ She went screaming off, shouting to Laura, ‘You won’t believe what he is up to now. Says it’s all our fault.’ In my suit, I accepted a drink from Erica and stood behind, tickling my hand up and down her side. She shuddered and said, without turning around, ‘There’s only one reason you are being nice, you have hired someone without consulting me.’ I.