Mortica walked down and in to the water some after rolling her leggings up and splashed Gregor. "Look at you, swimming as naturally as can be. Well done little one. Now go jump on Larry again." She told him with a smile.

Haleys head tilted to the side a moment "Do I get to lern that?" she asked with a 'PPpppplllleeeeeaaazze' smile on her face.
"If you want to learn how" she reached over and beeped her nose. still a bit of an evil thought crossed her mind "Be right back...got an idea you might like" she swam off a bit over to where Shadow, Morticia, Henry, Larry, and others were. She stopped and let the little pup smell her a moment but looked to Larry.  It was kinda hard to hear being a bit aways and all the splashing and music.  Nikki moved closer.
_{"Larry....would you help me out a moment or two?  I am teaching Haley to swim and get her used to being around non humans.  would you mind taking her for a real fast swim?  I know you normally don't but I want her to get used to a lot of things"} she asked quietly "If not I understand and all you have to do is shake your head for no.  So your choice, please"

Joseph sees her talking to Larry. "This might be good."  He works with Haley till her guardian is coming back then gets out of the water and goes to where his computer was set up, [with the camera facing outward on panoramic] and grabs his head set. Thank goodness these things are all made waterproof nowadays.

  The Little   Larg  sat down in the water.. every now  and the   the waves   wonf  knock him back, but he was content  to stay by Mortica.

 LArry Tilted his ehad  a Bit.. then Ndged her..  to lean on..

  Shadow  was  Coming out of the  water, As    Harry and  Will  charge d down the sand   and into the   water.

  Beth  collapsed on the blanket and   just laide on her    back, reaching for the ball cap to Cover  her  eyes

   Shadow stood  By moment,..Go?.. Have   Fun for a Bit.. I'll stand Guard...f
 The   Mexican woman  finally broke  down , laid her rifle  by  Scarlett's  and  went off..

 ..LC?.. You  are dripping on me...

 ..yeah?.. Guess  I  am... maybe  you ought  a  run down  and  Join the Admiral

 ......why is that?

 ..because?.. it  wouldn't hurt to just be  'crew' for a few  hours...

 She  Sighed,...I'll never get that  tan...

 She got  up and  began a swift run towards  the  unsuspecting Admiral , before  Blindsiding Him into the water.

 Beth chuckled...

"Thank you Larry...Tonight I am going to order a steak for you back on the rec dec." she walked in the water with him  "Haley...got a real treat for you" She let Larry get close to Haley "Haley...this is Larry.  He is a Larg"
A hit taken aback by his size she looked at him a moment.  Even though he was smaller than most Largs he was still big to a 5 year old.  "He's not gonna bite me is he?" she was a bit worried about that.
"Nope....Larry is a crew member, Like An'Teela has wings, and Mr. Zob, They are not human like us, but we are all on the same side" she explained "I asked Larry to take you for a spin" She held her arms out for her to jump off Joes shoulders "He's gonna be fast, so you need to hold on, but not tight enough to hurt Larry okay?"
Haley nodded as she began to hold onto Larry.  "Hi Larry, my name is Haley.  Thank you for playing with me"
Nikki bent down "Thank you Larry ...how about chasing others in the water?" she then let them go off like a torpedo.
She looked at Joseph a moment "I think she'll remember this part"

Teela walked down to the water wearing a one piece Angelsilk suit that shimmered as she moved. It tied around the neck and was backless to allow her wings plenty of space to move. She spread a blanket out on the sand and set her bag down next to the other Hermes crew before watching the Admiral get tackled.

She laughed and looked over at Shadow. "Well done. Are you getting a chance to 'just be crew' today?"

In reply to Roy Zob (msg # 7):

Zob just wasn't digging the rifle all that much but that was personal preference he preferred weapons like the heavy pulse gun cause he had the strength to handle such weapons efficiently but this pistol on the other hand could be useful, so he gave the pistol a few shots and then set it down once the weapon was empty, "This i could see myself using"   

Mortica reached down and scratched around Gregor's ears. "Are you having fun, my little love? These past few days together are just the start of a much better life for you. I promise you I'll make you as happy as I can for as long as I can."

 Larr y  Thumbed his tail  in nthe  water, splashing near by people, though  the Crew folks didn't mind, some  Civies   thought it might be better to move on...

  Once  HAley was    Holding  on..  LArry   Glided  into the  water  a bit.. the    kicked his    tail  and   back legs.. sending them forward  with a  Bit of a wake behind them, like a  serpent , he  weaves his way around startled  people.

  ………

  Gregor     stood up on his  hind legs  trying to  see  LArry Through all the Bodie s  Moving  around.. A Soggy Mils   sat  down by  they  with her tongue panting

  Stefi took a  break from the Stem  kids  who  seemed to be watching the  Larg in awe...She sat down by Henry,..This is  more like  shore leave....not blowing up half the station and eliminating half the population.

 Shade   looked at them, and Bleeped    a few times to Stefi, holding  up a finger , as if to make a point..

 …………….

  Flores   was  Ganging up on the Admiral, with  the Commander.  Two   Guys    walked into each other  as they watched  The Commander  frolicking ..

  MAria  and Scarlett  splashed  around with  some  Guys from  another ship.

……………………..

 Harry  and   Will swam  a bit further out.. Will Managed  to capture   Harry  and  Held her  for a Bit   as they bobbed in the  water..... we got  all day, and all night now..and..part of the day tomorrow..Shadow  lets  us stay at the Condo until  recall sounds.. he watched  some kids  placing drinks  by Hermes people's blankets....looks like   the LC is getting people  drinks..

 Beth   Rolled her  ehad   towards Teela,..Yeah.. Shadow  was out there throwing LArgs, and Com Officers   around

 Shadow   smiled  as he leaned   he waved   around  the area   and pointed to  Drinks.. The Stall Guy  nodded and began  to  make    another  round of  drinks, plus the New  folks.

 The Drinks   guy  borrowed  the Food guy's  runner, and the  tow  kids  went about  setting out tall    glasses of Iced   Tea and Lemonade.  The Stall guy came over to  the Blanket,  setting    trays down   with  drinks for those  in the water, and handing out to Teela  Shadow and beth.

 He   stammered a Moment,..Sir ?.. I hate to bring this up... but... since you have been here, you have been running up a Big Tab  for  drinks  and such?

  ..and  you are worried    that you  and your  buddy might not ghet paid?

 the   guy  shrugged   and smile d meekly..Beth could be over ehard to Mumble. "oh Brother.."

 Shadow points  to the    far corner  of the Etna Star,..see that?.. That's Mine.... Had a  Big assed  party there yesterday.. The Admiral had a  more....refined..big assed party  across the roof...now?.. does that sound like you aren't going to get paid?

 The  Fellow Nodded,..sorry ,, Sir  I was..

 ..Relax.. you're  not used to people spending  Creds  to make other people have a good time... You'll get paid... and if the Etna Star tries to Stiff you...well.. they'll make me upset..

 The Fellow Moved  off with a nod  and a smile.

...............……..

 Shadow's COM  blinked  and he grabbed it,..Shadow..

 ..hey? Boyo..I got  a Block of Potassium here.. it weights  about   40m pounds?... Now?.. what you be needin' this fer?

 ..Great..Great... yeah.. its a gift for someone... I need you to get a driver  from someone on the ship?.. I want that  Block,  brought  down to the Hotel, and  put in a Van..with teh driver... I want it  here around...say...2400 hours...

 ..Lookit it?.. I can't just have this  tossed  about?.. what  are you gonna  do with it...

 ..do you..REALLY..want me to tell you?

 ..yer  gonna cause  trouble, ain't ya...

 ..yep?


 ..never mind then.. i'll have it  down there for ya... and don't be doing stupid stuff...

 The Com  shut off and  Shadow too a deep drink of iced  tea,..hey beth.. you  did better  in Chem class them me..right?

 beth , was  almost dozing as  she said,..everyone  did better in chem class  then you...…she mumbled.

 what happens   when you drop Potassium  in water...

 ..burns...  explodes?.. depends on  how much  of each there is...

  Shadow grinned  and nodded...

When Larry cut through the water and picked up speed like a shark Haley could not help but have her eyes get wide and have a titanic squeal of delight come out of her.  Those looking she had the largest smile on her face as Larry zipped and splashed.

"Oh...think I might need to get Larry 2 steaks"  Nikki said to Joseph.  She watched as they darted back and forth for a few moments.  She laughed even harder when Larry stopped a moment and splashed his tail to send a spray of water onto Shadow, Beth, and Maria.  Then darting away with Haley laughing and giggling having so much fun.  After a bit Haleys ride brought her safely back.....Sending the same style of spray at Joseph and Nikki.  "You just made Haleys day, Larry" finally plucking Haley off of him she gave him a skritch and a kiss.
Being held Haley also kissed Larry "Thank you Larry...that was fun!!!"

    "I'll have to chip in on that."  Joseph said catching some good footage.  He had even caught the tackle on Hack.  Footage of Teela, Beth and Mortica. "You know, that old Barbie franchise could be brought back to life with the Hermes women alone.  They are hard to miss and have strong enough personalities they could star their own reality show.  We'll call it "shore leave.""

Roy nodded at Zob's assessment. "I actually think the hard-ammo/pulse combination is far more useful in a sidearm than as a primary battle rifle.  A lot of heavier sidearms only have eight or ten rounds in a magazine, and you aren't typically using a sidearm in a heavy-fire situation." He looked down at the pistols in his hands.

"Send us four crates of these, as well.  And I'd like to request high capacity magazines...twenty or even thirty rounds for the rifles, twelve to fifteen rounds for the pistols." Personally, he wouldn't be trading in the machine pistols Shadow had given him anytime soon...but the design was robust enough to take field duty, and he did like the thought of the extended magazines, as well as the fire duration allowed by the pulse option if the hard ammo was gone.

Reaching the water mere seconds ahead of Will despite the head start Harry would giggle delightedly as she only just managed to dodge Will's attempt to tackle her before swimming away from the shore. With it quickly becoming apparent that Will was the far stronger swimmer out of the two of them it wasn't long before he'd caught up with her and had his arms wrapped around her as Harry suitably rewarded his efforts with a kiss before settling down into his embrace "Hmm...a nice beach, large comfy bed, a bath and a wonderful, handsome man to share it all with...who could ask for more?" she softly sighed into the side of his neck.

At his mention of the LC getting them drinks Harry would twist her head ever so slightly to watch as a young boy placed a pair of drinks down by their blankets "Ok, let's head back and sit in the sun for a little bit, it'd be nice if I could get a little bit of colour I mean any paler and I'll look like a Vampic" she chuckled. It was around about this point that a mischievous look would appear on her face as she quickly moved her hands from around his back to the top of his shoulders with her dunking the unsuspecting trooper before quickly swimming back towards the shore, giggling as she went.

  Micca Smioed,..allright..Done...

 She LAif  her  sode  arm on the counter,Keep those  two weapons  as  a  gift  for helping Test...we'll have  cases  of sidearms  and what extended mags we have sent up... we'll send the bill for the magsm the weapons  are for  capping Fen Fen... I think your weapon smiths  will be able to  mod  extended  mags  for the sidearms as well

"Looks like the Admiral could use some backup. Maybe a...wingwoman." Teela said with a giggle before jumping up and running down the beach before diving into the water like a harpoon, coming up behind the Commander, and tossing her off of Hack.

  “Nicole, I’d like to play a little for the stem children.  Who knows what lies ahead for them, I’ll leave you to the wet play for a bit.”
       Joseph towels off and heads over to the children stopping to invite Mortica to join him with the baby Larg.  Give the children a different concept of puppy.

     His first song of course is “the rhyme and the reason” John Denver
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Mortica turned to watch Joseph and nodded as he extended his invitation. "How about it, little one, care to meet some children who will play with you? You just need to be gentle with them. Let's go say hello, Gregor."

She started to walk down the beach whilst looking behind to make sure the pup was following.

"Not a problem.  Joy of music can make a wonderful memory or perhaps turn someones fear into hope" she smiled "If you need me, comm me.  otherwise I think it is almost time for a water break and to work on some sand castle building or maybe lunch"
Haley kept trying to learn, getting coordination between arms and legs were hard.

In reply to Roy zob (msg # 25):

Zob took the handgun and put it in the holster it would be a weapon that would see plenty of use in the days to come, "Ill make sure it sees some good use" he chuckled a bit.

   The  Kids  from the  Stem were there  with  Dana  and Libby from the  Rec Dec.. they  were all takign a break with the  drinks that  qwhere  sent ot them.. most watched  the    LArg  with rapt attention.

  Gregor  looked  back at LArry.. then  followed  along, trying  not  to get stepped  on my anyone who ran about.


……………………………

 Will   Came Up from the   water  Laughing  a  bit  and  tried to catch up to   Harry,   and  Managed  to  grab her   about a yard from  the  beach  he   swung her   around, but didn't let he r  go  as he place  her on the sand.. the were both rewarded  with  a Fan-tail splash form Larry

  Shade was  sitting on   the blanket , watching   the others  foir a bit  as he  sipped  his  tall  Iced tea...HArry could see  the skin of his chest and legs  flowed  with  the.
 same odd  colors of Grey, light flesh color and blue.

 Will chuckled,..this  will be  real iced  tea.. LC  doesn't normally drink hard  stuff.

 Beth Mumbled  from   the blanket.. her  back getting a bit  tanned , almost Tine to be  'flipped'.....you see him drink hard stuff.... stay out of his way.... it means he's off the rails...

....................

 Teela  and the Commander  went into the  deeper  water,  Flores  was  Lifted in the Air n by th Admiral  and tossed, though not near  the  Distance  Shadow  did.

.......................

 Stefi looked   at Henry,..look at them.... almost every one of them, a  cold  Blooded  Killer, and pracing  about like kids...

...................

 Nikki and Haley saw the runner   placing the  drinks for them and Joe Mac, as they neared  the blacnkets.

....................

 Melia , with Orria, was  walkign Up the Beach.. the Little Girl ha d on a  bathing suit. Melia's was a one  piece, but  couldn't even begin to  hide  the  'Demon-like' scars on her  body from the testing  she  survived... she   carried  a side   arm on a holster , that was  slung over her shoulder.. they set their Blacnket down  by the   others... two runners cam e with drinks for tham

  Micc  Motioned for them to  head to the dors, the   Techs  gathered up the ctrates  and spent shell casings.

   She had he r arms   wrapped  around her waste,  was the  headed to the Lift,I knew  Enta was  bad... but i didn't know how bad.... there ae still some folks out there that need to be ended... but that will be Elge's  job , i suppose... But  the Fleet has made  my life a bit better...and I should be able to expand  some  ..'honest' weapons  transactions , not that some of the  EDT backed bastards  are dead.

 ..Damn shame that building went up... the weapons he had there?... might never  be seen again, at elast not, out here.

Mortica smiled at the kids. "Hello everyone. This is Gregor and he is a Larg pup. He's very young but very smart and loves to meet new people as long as they are gentle."

She crouched down and stroked the pup's back. "Do you want to meet the children, Gregor? You have to be gentle with them like they will with you. They'll hold their hands out so you can smell them." She looked up at the kids. "Who wants to say hello first?"

 The Little  LArg  peeked  around Mortica's  legs.  One of the younger gilrs  started  making fuss   when she tore her eyes  away from LArry in the water

 ..it is a  Smaller One!

 some of the other   kids were looking... the girl who had been wounded badly , when Garrat over ehard the gang war... stepped   pu.. knneling with some  effort and  held out a hand...

 Gregor  looked up at Mortica  and   then all  around.. he  took a few  steps  closer, tilting his ehad   at 45 degrees.

"There you go, child. Just let Gregor smell your hand and get to know you," she said, still stroking the little pup's back.

"Very good, Gregor. She wants to be a friend so be gentle with her." She scratched around his ears. "He likes to be scratched right around here. What is your name?" She asked the girl.

 The  Gril had a  one  piece  suit on to hide her   Dermaplast, her left arm was held in a bit, like she was afraid   stuff  would fall out.

 ..I don't know for sure... The Stefi Lady said my  chip called me.. Rana Vesta..but   i only knew my name  as 'Sneak'  he    scooted in the sand a  step  closer.

 Gregor  titled  his  back the  othr  way and  his  tingue   zipped out to  Tpuch her.. she jerked  a   Moment...  he    took a  few   steps  closer and thumped his tail twiace.