fanfic_name = The Sit. Room Incident
chapter = 12
author = Dwparsnip
Rating = AP15
Type = Romance
fanfic =
She crumpled the piece of paper in her trembling hand and said in a loud voice that was shocked and angry, “Promoted! You can’t be serious!”
Miriya looked at Lisa and said sympathetically, “I am afraid so, Lisa. It came over the wire this morning, as the saying goes.” It was 1800 hours, and it was the first chance she had gotten to see Lisa all day.
Jean looked at Lisa and said worriedly, “Calm down, Lisa. Getting upset like that isn’t going to do you any good.”
They were in Lisa and Rick’s quarters, sitting around the table. The boys were off in the gym for a very light workout, and Miriya felt compelled to take the time and be the one to break the news to Lisa about Graham’s promotion and award. Just in case Lisa really got upset, she asked Jean to join her as her back up.
She was glad she did.
Lisa opened the paper up to look at it again. She read aloud, ‘for acts of bravery and courage above and beyond the call of duty’ my sweet…” She took a deep breath. “It’s signed by the chief of REF intelligence and Forsythe.”
She couldn’t blame either of them of course, and she realized it. All they knew were her record and her actions in the rescue of her husband. If it was her and she didn’t know anything about Graham’s attempted seduction of Rick, she would have done the same thing.
‘It sure as hell don’t make me feel any better though’, she thought bitterly.
She looked into the concerned eyes of her friends and calmed down considerably. She said resignedly, “Well, there isn’t anything I can do about it, is there?”
Jean smiled and said soothingly, “No Lisa, there isn’t. People think she did a very brave thing, and to a point they are right. She did pull him out of the shuttle and let you and Max know where to find them.”
Lisa nodded and said, “I know Jean. It’s just so frustrating…” She stopped and took another deep breath. She looked at them and her voice was soft as she said, “I don’t know what to do. What can I do?” She hid her face in her hands and tried desperately to keep from screaming. As Jean and Miriya moved to her, Jean placed her hand on Lisa’s right arm and Miriya placed her hand on Lisa’s left shoulder, trying to show her their support.
It was then that the door opened and three sweaty, smelly men entered the cabin. They were laughing about something that Vince had said, but the laughter died suddenly when they realized something was wrong.
Rick bolted to Lisa, only sparing the tiniest glance at Miriya and Jean as they moved away towards their husbands.
He knelt down and moved her hands from her face. He looked into her eyes and asked quietly, “What’s wrong, Lisa?”
She threw her arms around his neck and hugged him fiercely.
He hugged her back and said into her ear, “It’s okay baby.”
Lisa saw Miriya and Jean give their husbands a look and they turned to leave.
“No”, Lisa said to them and they stopped.
She leaned back to look at Rick, and when she saw the concern in his eyes she smiled the most heart-warming smile. She caressed his clammy cheek with her hand and said confidently, “I’m okay.” It was then, touching his damp cheek, that she realized her husband’s physical state. She coughed as the bitter scent of perspiration invaded her airway and pinched her nose saying, “You stink, Rick.”
The room was filled with laughter from all quarters as Rick and Lisa both stood up.
When the laughter died down she looked at her friends and said, “Please sit down.”
They did as she asked, with Miriya and Jean sitting on either end of the couch, Max taking the chair next to the couch and Vince taking the recliner, which faced the couch. Rick brought over a chair from the table to sit on and Lisa, realizing what Jean and Miriya had done, sat between them on the couch.
She appreciated their support more than she could possibly tell them, though she reminded herself to at least try later to make them understand.
Though she spoke to all of the men, she was looking at Rick. “Sue Graham has received a commendation for valor and a promotion to Lieutenant Commander.” Max and Vince looked at each other, shocked, and Rick took on the air of someone who finally understood why his wife was so disturbed moments earlier.
Max leaned back into his chair, pushed his glasses up and whistled. “Wow.” He looked back and forth between Rick and Lisa and said, “Lieutenant Commander? How could that happen? I mean, I assume that neither one of you signed off on it.”
Rick remained still and said nothing, letting Lisa answer for them both. “No, but Captain Forsythe has the authority to approve it, and he did. And I have no problem with that.”
She looked at Rick. His eyes were betraying the same frustration that she was feeling.
Vince was the one to break the silence, and when he spoke his deep voice spoke the cold hard truth. “We’re stuck with her then, aren’t we?”
The silence spoke volumes. After several more seconds of awkward silence Max looked at Lisa and said, “We’ll do what we can to help, Lisa.” He turned to Rick and said for his benefit, “Anything you need, Boss.”
There were nods of agreement from Miriya, Jean and Vince, and Lisa and Rick couldn’t help but be touched by the sentiments. Both of them knew however, that there was very little that could be done, perhaps even nothing.
Trying to lighten the mood, Lisa turned the conversation to another topic, and after only a few more moments the vinegary stench of sweat forced everyone to scatter to their respective cabins.
Lisa sat at the table as she waited for Rick to shower, thinking again about what could be done to neutralize Sue Graham, and again her thoughts amounted to nothing. She was sitting with her hands folded underneath her chin and her elbows resting on the table, almost holding her up and she was so deep in thought that she never heard Rick come up behind her.
When Rick was behind Lisa, he slowly reached his hands out and placed one on each of her shoulders. Lisa lowered her hands to the table in relief as he started to rub her knotted up shoulders, his strong hands doing the most wonderful job of ridding her of the tension that had been building there over the last few hours. Slowly, methodically, he moved his hands across the top part of her back, beginning at the shoulders and working his way to the middle of her back and out again, massaging the kinks out all the way.
She let out a little moan of satisfaction and leaned her head forward to give him easier access to her neck. Taking his cue, Rick moved her hair to one side and then brought his hands to the sides of her neck, his fingers rubbing away the tenseness on the sides and his thumbs on the back of her neck.
“You’re hired”, she said softly, and as he hit a tender spot she quietly grunted in a mixture of pain and relief.
He smiled and replied jokingly, “It’s nice to know I’ve got something to fall back on in case this Admiral thing doesn’t pan out.”
She laughed at him and brought her hands up to take his, locking her own fingers with his. She brought their joined hands down to rest on her chest and said, “Thank you.”
He kissed the top of her head, and after taking a second to breathe in her wonderful fragrance he replied, “Anytime baby. Anytime.”
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Lisa was as emotionally drained from thinking and worrying about Graham as Rick was physically exhausted from his workout, so a short time later they decided to turn in early. Rick held Lisa lovingly as she fell asleep, but he just couldn’t get to sleep himself. He gently released Lisa and slowly, quietly got out of bed. He found the clothes he had discarded when he got ready for bed and took them into the living room where he turned on the light and put them back on. He sat down in the recliner and began to think.
He thought about that night in the Sit. Room that seemed to be the start of this roller coaster nightmare he and Lisa now found themselves on. He also thought about the MED and the events that happened in that dark cave.
In other words, he thought about Sue Graham.
‘What does she want from me?’, he asked himself in a questioning tone. ‘Get a grip Rick, you know what she wants…she wants you.’
When he had rebuffed her advance in the Sit. Room, he honestly thought that that was the end of it. He made himself perfectly clear that he loved his wife and nothing could happen between him and Graham. What else could he have done?
‘Nothing, I did what I could’, he thought, though not really convincingly.
He shook his head. ‘I should have listened to Lisa, instead of thinking she was a little paranoid, especially after Graham started doing the EoDs. I should have let Lisa and Max transfer her to the Jupiter Division.’
He stood up and yelled at himself. ‘Enough should haves, could haves and did nots, Rick! Lisa is hurting, because I couldn’t control a situation that I should have been able to handle.’
His thoughts returned to the woman he loved and the pain she was in now. He sat back down on the couch and folded his hands on his lap. A couple of times since the Sit. Room Incident, he caught Lisa looking in the mirror, examining an alleged wrinkle or imagined blemish. There was nothing there of course, she was still as beautiful ever. But with a younger, beautiful woman seemingly competing for him Lisa’s self confidence was taking a very palpable hit. It had been the same way for a long time after they had first gotten together. She had constantly compared her physical attributes to those of Minmei, and with Lisa being Lisa in those days, she always thought that her beauty wasn’t even close to that of the music star. It had really hurt him to know that she thought that way.
It was killing him now.
She hadn’t exactly commented on Graham’s looks in relation to her own, but Rick could tell that the comparison was being made, and he knew that like those many years ago Lisa was selling herself way too short.
It had taken a very heartfelt talk from him back then, to get Lisa to rid herself of the insecurities she felt about her own looks and Minmei’s. It was a few weeks after the destruction of the SDF-1, and after seeing another interview of Minmei on the television in which she practiced a little revisionist history about her and Rick’s relationship, Rick heard Lisa mumble something at the mirror in her bathroom.
He remembered:
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‘You’ll always be older than her Lisa, and you’ll never be as beautiful’, she had said to her reflection.
The last part made Rick snap and he went into the bathroom, grabbed a startled Lisa by her hand and dragged her into the living room. When they got to the center of the room he released her and moved a couple of steps away. He turned to face her and said, ‘Okay Lisa, let’s finish this, once and for all.’
He could see the surprise in her eyes, but he continued. ‘I never want to hear you compare yourself to anyone ever again. It’s not fair to everyone else because you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my whole life. And I have lived my life, so I know what I’m talking about. But if you feel you must, let’s have at it this one last time. What about Minmei do you think is beautiful?’
Stunned, Lisa couldn’t say anything.
Rick gave her another few seconds and spoke again. ‘Come on, Lisa, what about Minmei is beautiful?’
Lisa lowered her gaze to the floor and said quietly, ‘Her eyes.’
She looked at Rick, hoping he would end the embarrassment, but he just said, ‘Keep going.’
‘What do you want me to say, Rick? Everything. Everything about Minmei is beautiful. Her eyes, her hair, her body, everything.’
Rick looked at her and said, ‘Fair enough. What about you isn’t beautiful?’
That question made Lisa laugh. She was about to speak when he moved closer to her. He answered for her softly, ‘Everything about you is beautiful, Lisa.’
He moved to stand right in front of her and took some of her hair gently in his right hand. He took in the delicate scent of it and then held it against his cheek. “Your hair, Lisa, smells like roses all the time and feels as soft as silk all day, every day. And the color, the color of your hair reminds me of the color of the trees in the forests where I grew up. Absolutely gorgeous.’
He soldiered on. ‘Your eyes, your beautiful green eyes, remind me of emeralds. And I know you have never noticed all those times that you looked in the mirror, but they sparkle with the most brilliant light I have ever seen, like the sun is bouncing off of each of them all the time.’ He paused for a second and added when he noticed the tears building up in her eyes, ‘Even when there are tears in those beautiful eyes, they sparkle.’
‘Rick…’
He interrupted her by touching her nose with his finger and her ear with his other hand. ‘Your ears and nose are perfect Lisa. Perfect.’ He brought his index finger down from her nose and ran it along her lower lip. ‘And those lips’, he said as he reached in and gave her a gentle kiss, ‘taste as sweet as chocolate and look so perfect.’ He looked at her and laughed a little as he said, ‘Except maybe when you get nervous and chew on the bottom one like you’re doing now.’
She blushed furiously and it gave him another point to make, not that he needed another one. ‘And when you blush, those perfect cheekbones light up like pink beacons, only adding to your radiance.’
He felt her cheek and said, ‘Your skin. I can’t even describe how beautiful your skin is, the color, the feel, I just can’t find the words.’
He took her hands in his and said, ‘These hands, so delicate and so strong at the same time.’ He kissed each hand and held them to his chest. ‘Beautiful.’
‘Your body, Lisa, toned muscles and athletic curves. It’s enough to drive any man insane with it’s beauty.’
He moved closer to her, so close that when he spoke and his lips moved, they brushed against hers.
‘You’re the most beautiful woman I have ever known, Lisa Hayes, and I haven’t even mentioned…”
She kissed him with those perfect lips with an intensity he hadn’t felt from her before, and when she stopped she looked at him. Love filled her emerald eyes and she said adoringly, ‘Thank you’, before she kissed him again.
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Rick opened his eyes, not even sure how long ago he had closed them and smiled at the memory. She had never again said she wasn’t beautiful, and he hadn’t seen her insecure about her physical attractiveness after that.
That is until now.
Thinking of Lisa hurting spurred him on. ‘I can’t let that happen.’
He looked at the clock, which read 2241 hours.
‘I wonder if Max is still awake’, he thought. He got up, and after writing Lisa a short note telling her where he had gone in case she woke up and missed him, he left to go to Max’s quarters.
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Sue Graham was in her quarters getting ready for bed, still marveling at the days events.
‘A citation for valor and a promotion in one morning’, she thought happily, ‘it doesn’t get much better than that.’ As she had that thought though, her mind registered that there was in fact one way in which it could have been much better. ‘If only Rick would have been there with me.’
She smiled at the thought of him, and as she imagined him being with her as she received her promotion, a warmth spread throughout her body, a glorious loving warmth. She sat down on the edge of her bed and undid the belt of the robe she had put on after getting out of the shower. Her midnight black hair was still wet, and as she started to dry it in a towel there was a knock on her door. She looked at the clock next to her bed: 2315 hours.
‘Who could that be at this hour?’, she thought. She knew it wouldn’t be Andrea or Angela; she had only left them an hour earlier in Grace’s quarters where they held a little surprise celebration for her.
She retied the belt around her robe and paused at the door to check herself out, making sure she was at least presentable. Believing that under the circumstances her appearance was more than reasonable, she reached for the door handle and turned it.
The door opened to show her a vision, a vision she had been waiting for a very long time to see.
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After finding out that no one was home at Max’s place, he went to the hangar bay to discover that both Sterling’s were out on patrols. Max always did like the late night patrol runs.
He was heading back to his own quarters when a thought came to him, an extremely dangerous thought. He stopped in the middle of the corridor and said to himself, ‘I’ve got to talk to her’, and he started walking again, in the opposite direction.
He came to her door and brought his hand up to knock, but he couldn’t. He put his hand down and scolded himself. ‘What the hell are you afraid of, Rick?’
He again brought his hand up to knock on the door and this time did just that.
He waited patiently.
Finally, the door opened and he looked at the source of his wife’s sadness and his own discomfort, standing there in a bathrobe with her black hair all wet. She was obviously shocked to see him, and after several seconds she found her voice. When she spoke a smile graced her lips and could even be heard in her voice. “Admiral. It’s good…very good to see you up and about.”
“Thank you, Commander. May I come in?”
“Of course, Admiral.”
“I hope I’m not disturbing you, Commander”, Rick said neutrally. As he stepped inside he became acutely aware of the rapid increase in his heart rate and the sweat that now made the shirt he was wearing begin to stick to his back.
“You’re not disturbing me, sir.”
He turned around abruptly and looked into her eyes. “We have to talk”, he said as coldly as he could.
“Of course, sir. Please sit down.” Her voice was as warm as his was cold. She had motioned with her right arm to the couch and winced when her arm hit its maximum extension. “Ouch. Sorry sir, I pulled a muscle or something during the MED. Still smarts.”
“That won’t be necessary, Lieutenant Commander. I won’t be long.” He looked into her hazel eyes and became lost for just a second. ‘I’ve seen that look somewhere before, in someone else’s eyes. What is it? Longing?’, he thought. To her he said politely, “I’m sorry to hear that. And…thank you, Commander, I understand that you saved my life.”
“Think nothing of it, sir. It was my pleasure. Are you sure I can’t offer you anything?” As she spoke she stepped closer to him, so that by the time she had finished speaking she was very close to him. He could see how rapidly her heart was beating by the throbbing of the little vein in her temple, she was that close.
He shook himself free of her gaze and said, “No, thank you.” He stepped around her, feeling a profound need to be near the door. “Commander, when you kissed me that night in the Situation Room, I told you to never try anything like that again. Do you recall that?”
Rick found it strange, disturbing even, when a small smile came to her lips when he mentioned the Sit. Room.
“Yes, sir.”
“Then Commander, can you explain to me what happened in the cave on that moon?”
“Sir?”
“What happened in the cave, Commander?”
She took a deep breath and said, “I treated your head wound and set up the communications gear, sir.”
“That’s all?”, asked Rick.
She hesitated for a second and a look of resignation came over her face. “No sir, that isn’t all.”
Rick was genuinely surprised. He had expected her to deny what had happened between them in the cave, but it looked as though she was going to take responsibility for her actions. He was almost impressed.
“You kissed me, sir, and began to undress me”, she stated as if reading a report. “You said sir, that you wanted to be with me.”
Rick was shocked. When he spoke he was calm, but just barely. “Commander, it didn’t occur to you that I was injured, or that I wasn’t myself?”
“It didn’t seem that way at the time, sir”
“I thought you were my wife, Commander, and I know that you had to know that. You knew it and you still…allowed me to kiss you.”
She stepped closer to him again, and he could smell the strawberry scent that still permeated her body from her recent shower.
“You were quite…insistent, sir”, she said softly. She hadn’t planned on doing it this way, but she figured it was just as well to roll with it now. “As a matter of fact sir, I don’t recall your wife ever coming up.”
‘So much for taking responsibility’, he thought sourly.
“I called her name several times, Commander”, he said hesitantly. Some very small part of his mind noted that what she was saying couldn’t be trusted and wasn’t the truth, that he had said Lisa’s name several times and that Graham was lying to try to confuse the situation in her favor.
Unfortunately, it was a very small part of his mind and it was being over run by doubt in his own memories.
Sensing the hesitation, she countered, “I’m sorry, sir.” She stepped even closer, so that he could feel her breath on his face when she breathed. “Before we kissed and you took off my top, there was no mention of your wife. The only name you said was mine, sir”
She leaned in to kiss him but that blessedly paranoid small part of his brain had hollered for him to watch out and he stepped back before she could make contact.
He turned to take the handle of the door. He wanted to get out of there, badly. But the thought of Lisa, looking in that damn mirror with a sad and hurt look on her face made him stop. He took a deep breath and turned around.
“Rick…” She grabbed him by the arm as he turned and held on tightly. “I don’t believe for a second that you didn’t enjoy what happened down there! I saw the look of desire, the want and passion in your eyes when you looked at me, Rick. At me! I felt the tenderness in your lips and in your touch when you kissed and touched me. You wanted me, Rick, you wanted me very badly. There is no way that all of that was for Lisa.” She touched his chest where his heart was and said, “Somewhere in there, you knew it was me and you wanted it. Why can’t you admit it? Why are you trying so hard to convince me that you thought I was Lisa, or are you trying to convince yourself?”
Again she leaned in to kiss him on the lips, but Rick put his hands on her shoulders and held her at bay.
“You’re wrong, Sue. Dead wrong.” She stepped back as his eyes went cold, and his voice was stern as he pronounced, “Commander, I remember what happened down there. I know that you took advantage of the situation to further your personal ambitions. I know what I thought and what I felt.” This time he moved closer to her so that she could not mistake his seriousness and intentions.
“And I’m not trying to convince you of anything, I’m just telling you what I know to be the facts. I thought that I was kissing and undressing my wife. I know that as certainly as I know that I’m talking to you right now. So understand me when I say, Commander, that that is the only reason, the one and only reason, I kissed, touched and undressed you. The tenderness you felt… the love that you felt, was and is for her and her alone.”
He let that much sink in for a second and continued, his voice still harsh, “You have lied to me, Commander, and not for the first time. Never do it again. Given the common knowledge of recent events, people around here think you’re a hero, that you personify what is good about the REF. We know better, don’t we? But morale being what it is, I have to leave this alone. Busting you now and letting people know that the latest hero of the REF is a conniving, manipulative…woman…will drive morale into the basement, and that will not be tolerated. You will no longer do the EoD briefings. If you don’t or can’t get out of it, I’ll talk to Woods.”
He turned to leave but said over his shoulder to her, “And make no mistake, Commander, if you so much as try to touch my hand from now on, I’ll send you to the farthest reaches of the fleet deployment that I can find, understaffing be damned. Your actions are hurting people Commander, especially the woman I love more than my own life, and I will not stand for it anymore!”
He opened the door and stepped outside. He looked in at Graham and noticed something that made him pause. He had expected her to be distraught, upset at the very least, but the look he saw on her face was neither. It was rage. And that worried him. ‘Hell hath no fury …’
“Good night, Commander”, he said as he closed the door.
She went to the door and put her hand on the last thing in her quarters that he had touched: the door handle. “You’re wrong Rick, it was me you wanted and I know it, even if you don’t.”
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Rick’s heart was thumping so hard he was sure it was going to explode in his chest. After he left Graham’s quarters he didn’t trust himself to go straight home, he needed some cool down time. He walked around the ship, which at that time of night was practically deserted. It was what he had hoped for.
He was thinking about the encounter so hard that as he turned one of the corners he slammed into someone. He just kept walking but managed to say, “Sorry.”
“Boss?”, said a familiar voice.
Rick stopped and turned around. Miriya was looking at him with an oddly annoyed expression, and next to her stood Max, rubbing his shoulder and wearing a somewhat mystified look on his face. They were both in flight suits.
“Max, I’m sorry. I was…deep in thought I guess, I didn’t even see you coming or notice it was you. Sorry.” He turned around and began walking.
Max looked at Miriya and gave her a small kiss on her cheek. “You go on ahead, Miriya. I’ll see what’s eating at him.” He cast a glance at Rick who was almost out of sight and said to her, “Don’t wait up. Looks serious.”
With that he gave her another quick kiss and took off in a slow jog to catch up to his friend.
Miriya just shook her head, her green locks rocking with the motion and continued on her way home.
When Max caught up to Rick he put his hand on his shoulder and asked, “What’s up, Boss?”
“It’s late, Max. Go home with your wife and get some sleep.”
“What, and miss out on all the goodies? Never. Come on, Rick, what happened?” An unpleasant thought came to him and he asked, “Did something happen between you and Lisa?”
Rick shook his head and answered, “No, Max. We’re fine.”
“Well then…was it…did you…what?!?!”
Rick stopped and looked at Max, and Max could see the anguish in his friend’s eyes.
Max looked around to figure out where they were. He thought to himself, ‘G deck, section 15 Delta. Think. Think. Conference room in section 17.’
“Come on, Rick”, he said as he took Rick by the arm.
Rick didn’t resist, or even enquire as to where they were going. A couple of corridors later, they came to the Maintenance Division briefing room. Max opened the door, turned on the light and pushed Rick inside. After entering himself, he closed the door and sat down at the table.
Rick took the seat across from him and looked at Max. Max, to his credit, just waited for Rick to find his own time to begin. It had always been that way with Rick when he had something big to say. Pushing never helped.
Rick took a deep breath and told Max the events of the evening, starting from where he got out of bed. When he spoke of Lisa his voice was loving and gentle, and Max was happy to hear that in his friend’s voice.
When Rick started speaking about Graham however, his voice became angry and harsh. Max couldn’t believe what Rick was telling him, and he couldn’t for the life of him close his mouth after his jaw had dropped after the initial shock.
When Rick finished his saga, he leaned back in the chair and rubbed his eyes. Then he locked his hands together behind his neck and waited for Max to say something. It had always been that way with Max after he had told him something big. Prodding never helped.
“Un…unbelievable”, was all that Max could manage for his first effort. “It’s just…unbelievable.”
Rick looked at Max with understanding. “My gut tells me there’s going to be trouble, Max, big trouble. I just… this is all my fault. How could I not see this coming? Lisa warned about Graham. I knew Lisa was hurting over the Sit. Room mess, why didn’t I just fix it?”
Max looked at Rick and said calmly, “Come on, Rick, this isn’t your fault. Graham is messing with you. She’s trying to come between you and Lisa, and you just can’t let her win. And when she tries something, and she will try something, you’ve got to be ready.”
Rick looked at his good friend, who’s very presence inspired him with confidence. “I’m not going to let her win, Max. Lisa has been hurt enough, and I’ve seen enough of her tears because of Sue Graham. I just don’t know what Graham is going to do…yet.”
Rick Hunter stood up and moved to the door, turned to look at Max and said with assurance, “I’ll be ready. Nothing is going to come between Lisa and me. Nothing.” He opened the door, stepped outside and waited for Max to join him.
Max enjoyed seeing the change that had come over Rick, the change from a worried, unsure man to a protective, confident husband.
When he got to Rick he put his arm around his shoulder, and as they started walking he said to him, “Don’t worry, Boss, Miriya and I are watching your six. Jean and Vince too.” He smiled widely and said satisfyingly, “And with all of us working as a team, when was the last time was were beaten in a fight?”
Rick thought for a second. “It’s been a long time.”
Max didn’t hesitate and said gleefully, “Damn straight.”
A few minutes later, Rick said good-bye to Max as they split up to head to their respective homes.
When Rick got home, he found his note in the same place that he had left it on the table. He looked into the bedroom and saw that Lisa was still sleeping soundly in their bed. Tomorrow would be their last day to themselves and then it was back to work. He took off his clothes while still in the living room as to not disturb Lisa, and when he was ready he headed to the bed. He gently lowered himself onto the bed and put his arm around his wife’s waist, and even though she was sleeping, her hand reached for his and held it tightly.
‘Nothing will ever come between us Lisa, I swear.’
That was the last thought that went through Rick’s head before he fell asleep.
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