<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #80BFFF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Peter Halvardson</span><br/><span style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 116%;">'The Viking'</span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #80FF00">"You're gonna be all right, aren't you?"</span><br/><br/>It was a good question. Peter had a lot of time to think over it while they had waited for the guys to get them out. He had more secure and optimistic about his future than he was now. Not because Alice was closing in on him, he had always known that she wouldn't find anything, if he wasn't making a mistake. No, the problem was them getting close. His escape plan was ready, he would disappear and surface with another name and even if one day the MP would make a connection between those IDs, what would it change? They had not been able to pin any of his crimes to him and they wouldn't be in the future. <br/><br/>But that plan had been knotted together at a time, when he had been sure, that he only had to guard his own ass and those of his men. There had never been a female partner considered in those plans, simply because Peter never had believed in the possiblity to meet one on those planets. Now there was Alice, not only a remarkable and therefore noticeable specimen of that kind, but an MP too. Even if she dropped out of MP after this mission, as she had already at least planned as an alternative, it would be difficult for her to vanish into thin air. And if the MP counted 1 and 1 together and they drew the conclusion that she had fallen for him and they might be togehter, they had a lever on him. They could use Alice to force him out in the open. And as he knew how many high-ranked names were on his list to pay for not listening, he knew that Alice was in danger.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I don't know, Alice. Honestly I worry that I get you in some real danger with us coming closer and closer. They won't forget you that you have not reported me and they probably learn that they can use as a lever against me. Unfortunately they can, as I worry more about your well-being, than I probably should, you being some bossy, stubborn, unbearable MP."</span><br/><br/>Even in such a serious situation he couldn't stop to tease her. She was definitely having that effect on him...and he liked it.</div>