The couple on the bed never noticed them. Lisa had on Annie's favorite stetson hat and her ostrich skin boots and nothing else. She was on her hands and knees. Jimmy was behind her pounding away while she was screaming "Ride em Cowboy. Yee-haw."

He let her struggle for awhile.

"Annie, calm down. I'm not gonna lose you by letting you kill them. It's not worth it."

His words barely registered but she finally stopped. He took his hand from her mouth and set her on a workbench where she kept her shooting supplies. He took her pistols and removed the cylinders. She lay there shaking.

He touched her gently....