5/12/07
4:50 PM
The Grid

"Jo." Adam's voice. He appeared just behind her and sat down on the end of her desk. "You got a minute?" She was about to start closing down to go home.

"Sure."

"I… I just wanted to ask after Zaf. Is he okay?"

"He…" Jo hesitated. He was eating regularly, she came home to find him reading, starting supper, picking the locks Adam had given him to practice with and swearing at them intermittently, he was starting to work on his fitness… She looked round at Adam. "He screams in his sleep."

Adam nodded once. "He will do, for a while. How often?"

"He told me to sleep with earplugs in, before that it was… once a night that he woke me, or almost that, but I think he's waking up more often."

"Does he go back to bed?"

She nodded. "He says you die faster from not sleeping than not eating."

"He's right. It gets to you very fast. He'll be back on the grid before we know it. He'll be alright." Jo watched Adam walk away and wished she could believe him.

Fin

This is the most chapters any fic of mine has ever had. (though it isn't the longest). Thank you for sticking with me for so long, it has now been over four months.

It is possible that more may follow, but it will be a while. Various Marvel fics are obstructing.

I would like to thank my Mother for proofreading this monstrosity of a fic, and God for creating the world and everything in it, then giving his life for the redemption of sinners such as I.