PART FOUR

All you women who want a man of the street

But you don't know which way you wanna turn

Just keep a coming and put your hand out to me

'Cause I'm the one who's gonna make you burn

I'm gonna take you down - down, down, down

So don't you fool around

I'm gonna pull it, pull it, pull the trigger

I'm like evil, I get under your skin

Just like a bomb that's ready to blow

'Cause I'm illegal, I got everything

That all you women might need to know

I'm gonna take you down - yeah, down, down, down

So don't you fool around

I'm gonna pull it, pull it, pull the trigger

Shoot to thrill, play to kill

Too many women with too many pills

Shoot to thrill, play to kill

I got my gun at the ready, gonna fire at will

'Cause I shoot to thrill, and I'm ready to kill

I can't get enough, I can't get the thrill

I shoot to thrill, play to kill

Yeah, pull the trigger

I'm gonna shoot to thrill

Play to kill

Shoot to thrill

Shoot to thrill – AC/DC

Vera accepted Sarah from Zoe's arms.

“You keep her safe, now.”

Vera nodded, “To my last breath, if it comes to it.”

Zoe bent her head, “Momma won't be long. Got to go deal with a real bad man and rescue folk.” She gave Sarah a tender kiss and walked off.

Jayne lingered nearby, seeing how easy Vera looked with a child in her arms. He remembered them looking after Ping, then that screaming toddler and his kid sister. Playing Ma and Pa hadn't been nearly as much fun as it had looked from the outside. But there was still a small part of him wishing he could put a child of his own in Vera's arms, no matter how medically impossible that was for them and how dangerous, with the 'verse likely to bite back.

He sidled closer, “If we could'a...?”

Vera read the undercurrents and the unspoken message in his eyes, “*If we could, then yes.”

He nodded, satisfied. For a split second there was heat and gratitude in his eyes, “All I needed to know.”

“We could still adopt.”

“Not a baby, though. Had my gorram full share of them. If'n it were our