" I confided with him as I continued to use Vera as a fleshlight, climbing onto the couch to pin her head against the wall while I forced myself deepe...r. We were all working up a sweat, and I figured the line would cover for their heavy breathing."Yeah talk about shitty timing with work," he muttered into my ear, but I was too focused on wrapping a hand into Vera's blonde hair."Here, talk to Kat. Work, work, work, you know?" I chuckled and tossed the phone to Kat's recovering body. She quickly. The last thing he remembered was feeling a funny vibration and then a flash of white light. That was during his EVA on the alien ship's hull!'Pete must have saved my bacon, ' Ross thought. He slapped the intercom's call plate by the cabin's hatch. "Pete!"Nothing. "Pete!" he called again."Yeah? Came the groggy voice of his partner."What the hell happened?" What?" What. The. Hell. Happened!!" Ross asked, getting angry."Shit man, I don't know. Last thing I remember was seeing some odd flicker. Derek startled himself when he thought that his mother never even bikini waxed, but stopped that line of thought as quickly as it came.He moved up to the headboard and her wrists, "No one will ever know dear." Holly was obviously relieved. "I just want to go home and have a long hot shower."Something stopped him from undoing the final knot. It was stupid really but the lawyer in him came out and he asked, "What shower mom? I thought you only had a bathtub?" She did, the only shower that Derek. I remembered it was her impish smile and sense of mischief that had attracted me to her in the first place. I reflected sadly how these qualities had slowly faded over the years. It felt good to have them back. Wendy congratulated me on getting a grip on things and then changed the subject. ‘Darling, what should I wear tomorrow night?’ Tomorrow night? I looked at her blankly. ‘You know,’ she reminded me. ‘Dinner. The Marjoribanks. It was you that fixed it up, darling.’ Recollection flooded.