Just sitting there, being there for me. I leaned down and scratched him behind the ears. The tail started thumping. Good old Dino.I went in my room an...d lay down on the bed. A couple of minutes later there was a knock on the door."Come in."It was Sara. "Oh, shit. I didn't even think. I'm so used to coming in here." Take it easy, Jack. It's OK." She came over and sat on the bed. What are you going to do about it?" About what?" Global warming, you jackass. What are you going to do about Jill?". "She's pretty down. I did what I could. I think it would help, if you talked to her." OK, if you think so."I looked around the ship for Geneva and didn't find her anywhere, so finally I just knocked on her cabin door. She opened the door and looked out at me. Her face was still wet with tears."I just came by to talk to you," I said.She peered at me through the partially opened door for the longest time. Finally she stepped back, still not saying anything. But she opened the door wider, and I. I’m surprised the doctor hasn’t started charging for those phone calls in the middle of the night.’ Garrett smiled. They’d stolen a few minutes to be alone, leaving Frank and Caitlyn on their own at the resort. Easing his hands up Barbara’s legs, he touched her stomach and kissed it. ‘You still don’t want to know if it’s a boy or a girl?’ she asked. ‘Nope. I like surprises. The doctor can look at the sonograms but I want to do this in the traditional way, as a surprise. We’ll find out when the. When they returned,she had expected him to be bitter and angry for tranquilizing him, butwhen he awoke back on the ground, safe and sound, he seemed like a changedman. They had a long talk where he expressed his deep regret for being anasshole."I know we aren't supposed to talk what transpired while we were all onthe threshold of death, but now I see life from a different perspective.I'm suddenly grateful for the second chance I have been given, and believesomething happened up there,.