Garrick was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected to ever see Mira again after he left for the Academy, much less sleep with her on the night of humanity's greatest technological triumph.<br/>It was true, he always had a thing for her, even when they were kids, boyhood curiousity about women had led to this thing and that...and eventually to that summer's night on clifftop overlooking the moors. Mira had in many ways been closer to him than his own family.<br/>Yet this sudden turn of events...and last night...<br/>It struck Garrick like a bag of bricks.<br/>He had slept with a colleague...worse a superior officer.<br/><br/>Things had happened so fast last night...<br/><br/>Garrick barely even listened to the brief.<br/>His palms were sweaty, blood rising and the room seemed to increase in temperature.<br/>What if someone found out? Would he get court-marshalled? Stripped of his rank?  be reassigned to ferry pilot.<br/>The possiblitiies were too frightening.<br/>For a man that has invest so much in his career, his passion, to lose it all over one night of comfort in the arms of an old friend...<br/>He gulped.<br/><br/>"...watch each other's backs out there, and lets all make it home in once piece." Mira finished, her voice suddenly tuning back into Garrick's mind.<br/><br/>"Alright, everyone to their stations, wheels up in twenty minutes. Dismissed."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>