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extremely attractive body and a great set of tits. For David, sleeping with RJ was like sleeping with your dog. It was warmer than sleeping by yourself, and gave you someone to turn to if you had a nightmare.
     
    What they had was far more important to David than sex, even more important than love. He made a silent vow to whatever powers might be listening that he would never let anything come between them. That he would not let friend or foe, man or woman, or even their cause, separate them.
     
     
     
    When David woke up he heard the shower going. He was freezing cold, and that damned woman was taking a shower! He knew from experience that there was no hot water.
     
    "You're insane!" David screamed at her.
     
    The man in the apartment next to theirs apparently didn't appreciate the noise.
     
    "Keep it down, you assholes!" he yelled, throwing something solid against the wall.
     
    "Bite me!" RJ screamed back. She walked out of the bathroom drying herself. Modesty was not one of RJ's strong suits. But then, having been in the military all of her life, she was used to showering in communal, coed showers.
     
    David took a good look at RJ. She looked to be in the peak of health, not a scratch, not a bruise, not so much as a skinned elbow. Even the sparkle in her eyes seemed genuine. She wasn't hurt, not even a little. That just wasn't possible. Was it?
     
    "You'd think you'd never seen a woman before," RJ mumbled.
     
    "I've never seen anyone heal so quickly," David said defensively.
     
    "Oh. Well, now don't you feel like an ass?" she mumbled to herself.
     
    David smiled. It wasn't very often that he got the better of RJ. He enjoyed it when he did.
     
    "Part of my training included learning how to take a hit, to roll with a blow, how to pull out of a punch so that it does the least damage." She watched David from the corner of her eye. Was he going to buy that?
     
    At first he frowned. Clearly, he was finding that hard to swallow.
     
    "There was a lot of blood coming from my nose and inside my mouth where he loosened a couple of teeth. But besides being a little sore"—which was a lie; her only symptom this morning was a dryness in her eyes which was caused by the drug—"I feel fine. I have taken worse beatings." That was a lie, too.
     
    This time David smiled; he believed her.
     
    RJ sighed with relief. She dressed quickly, topping her ensemble off—as usual—with the chain, oblivious to the dried blood which now covered it, and was coming off in flakes as she wrapped it in her usual fashion. She took the bag off the back of the bike and went through it, checking the armaments inside. Satisfied, she added the pistol gleaned from the dead secondary to the assortment of weapons and explosives.
     
    David helped her, and they dug through the wreckage till they found both blasters. RJ put hers in her holster, then helped David to customize the shoulder harness he'd used for the gun he'd lost in the bar, making it fit the blaster. They grabbed their jackets and bag and left. They were halfway down the stairs when David realized they had forgotten something.
     
    "What about the bike?" David said, stopping in his tracks.
     
    "What about it?"
     
    "You don't plan to walk, do you?"
     
    "I've got a truck." RJ started walking again, and David followed.
     
    "Where did you get that?" David asked.
     
    "We'll find one," RJ said with a shrug.
     
    "You mean STEAL one!" David shrieked.
     
    "Shush," RJ hissed. "Only Reliance bigshots get to own cars. The rest are used by the military or in farm work. Not even an Elite can buy a car or truck. They're too rare, and too expensive. There are several vehicles in Alsterase. Now, use your head, where did they come from in the first place?"
     
    "They must be stolen," David answered.
     
    RJ clapped.
     
    "Well, it's different stealing from the Reliance," David said in a harsh whisper. "You're going to steal from someone who stole from the Reliance, and that is altogether