Good stuff, but the anticipation of waiting for all these looming crises to burst into the open has got to be bad for me goofy

Me want more! (as always)

PJ

p.s., I used my super-editor powers to put the part number in the title of part 6; hope you don't mind...

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K