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A/N: The first 2/3 of this chapter is action/adventure, the final 1/3 is leading up to the smut that will be in chapter twenty. It is lightly smutty. Probably a hard PG-13. You may recognize certain actions and a bit of reversed dialog from the episode Rose.
Chapter NineteenJames Lumin is more frightened than is humanly possible, which of course is normal, being as he is entirely not human no matter what face he presents to his adopted world. He is paranoid, not by nature, but by necessity, both because of what he is and what he is protecting and because of his particular line of work and the corporate espionage that runs rampant within the industry.
( This could be the start of something... )