Heather was sitting at Bailey’s, nursing a glass of water while waiting for her food when she saw Emily come in - alone for once. She called her over and demanded she stay for lunch.

“Sorry, can’t, just picking up lunch to go.”

“For you and Jake?”

“And Eric and Gray and Hawkins and Jimmy and Bill.”

Heather made a show of looking out at Emily’ ( Read more... )

Heather was sitting at the table, picking at the food that had been delivered to her by a friendly soldier. She hadn’t had to put on too much of a front; Edward had given him orders to simply leave the food between the first and second doors. No reason to increase the possibility of germ transmission. His men were shorthanded as it was. She knew ( Read more... )

Heather sat on her couch in her pajamas, mind reeling.

She felt…almost bipolar, veering from giddy excitement at the prospect of being together to despair that he might decide she was safer without him. She tried to keep in mind his own reluctance to walk away, but the longer the wait, the louder the doubtful voice in her head got. She jumped ( Read more... )

Beck stared up at the canvas of his tent, thinking about last night. He couldn’t believe what he was doing. He shouldn’t be doing it. It wasn’t that he was interested that was wrong - he’d had that discussion with his wife when he’d made out his will. He knew she wouldn’t mind. Of course, the assumption was that he’d be the one who died first. ( Read more... )

Ooh, I could put an X on a double letter word score - and another three letters would take it to triple word score!

It wasn’t until Heather raised an eyebrow at him that he realized he’d put down the word sexual.

“Uh,” was all he could think of to say. She shrugged at his reaction, and immediately put down ‘acquit’ - with the a attached to the ( Read more... )

Heather took a swig of water during a rest break. She was here at base camp, taking those self defense lessons from sergeant Dixon. They felt more like boot camp than ‘lessons’. She caught a cluster of guys sitting nearby quickly averting their gaze from her when she looked their way, and hid a smile. She’d initially felt embarrassed - guys didn’ ( Read more... )

Heather was counting chairs as she heard yet another knock at the door. Geez, who else is there? Most of the office staff, including Captain Dunne, Jimmy and Bill, Gail, Jake and Emily, Eric and Mary, Stanley and Mimi - even Dale and Skylar - had already shown up.

She opened the door and found Darcy and Hawkins had showed up, but that was not ( Read more... )

Heather walked out from behind the counter into a hug from Emily.

“Thank god you’re safe. I nearly killed Jake for not telling me that something had happened until after I finished breakfast.” She released Heather to look her in the eyes. “How are you holding up?”

“Could be worse.”

Gail looked on, assessing Heather in the way only mothers can ( Read more... )

“Now I want you to tell me everything that’s happened between you and Constantino.”

“Not much, really.”

He sighed in exasperation.

“Heather.”

“Yes?”

“You’ve got to tell me. I need to know all the little details, even if you don’t think they’re important.”

Heather had the grace to look abashed at his tone.

“Ok, where do I start?”

“At the ( Read more... )

Edward woke up at reveille. He grimaced as he sat up, reminded of last night’s events by several bruises. He stretched, recalling. Last night was...interesting. And Heather - what was he going to say to her? That was probably the worst night of her life. You’d better think of something quick. She’s only a couple of tents down. He stood, putting ( Read more... )