Happy Independence Day, everyone. Posting this before we leave on our BIG family vacation this weekend.

The last part set up Laura and Jon's stories, and this one has CJ and Clark. We have now set up all 4 parallel stories that will be told with this fic (4 for the price of 1!). We'll try to keep things moving along, but it's hard when you have to service 4 plot lines... they will converge eventually, though.

Hope you enjoyed this part. We'll post more in a couple weeks.


"No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space."