He would have all night before anyone missed her. He waited until she had gone into a stall before stepping out of the janitor’s closet. He waited p...atiently just far enough away so that she could not see his shoes. When she came out of the stall, she turned immediately toward the door, which meant her back was to him when he struck.The cloth over her mouth was just a rag. It already had a piece of duct tape on the outside of it. He quickly used one hand to wrap the tape around her head. The. How she had ever been content before she met him she didn’t know. So many things in her life were clearer now. She’d existed for so many years, telling herself she was happy. Friends and family didn’t make up for the lack of a real love, though. ‘I have some things in my apartment that would fit in here perfect.’ ‘Then we’ll get them here. In fact, I was thinking of that apartment just this morning,’ he said with a grin. ‘You were? Why?’ ‘Unless you plan to go back to it, then there’s no need. I pushed yes and then increased the time and the severity, it came back and asked if I wanted to be secured because of the increased severity and I pushed yes. Lucy could see this and was trying to get my attention to get me to stop but I was still not thinking clearly. The last prompt asked for an implement and I picked the horse whip, it came back asking to confirm my choices and I pushed yes. Well it was too late to go back now, the machine started to change shape to accommodate the bigger. She asked me to come home to help out with the family business until he could recuperate. I agreed. So I packed all my uniforms, boxed up my commendations and medals and left the Navy with an Honorable Discharge. I made many good friends in the Team and I would miss them. We were truly a ‘Band Of Brothers’. It took me two days of hard driving to get back home. Driving into town, late the second night, I observed that things had not changed all that much. Some of the store fronts downtown had.