Brian's alarm went off at 6am. He's had the same nightmare for weeks. Brian got up. Shook it off. And left his apartment. He decided to walk around town for a little bit.

He walked past an alley and heard a man laughing. "haha! Come on baby, just a little boob action?"

"NO!" came the scream of a young women. "Get the fuck off of me you freak!"

"hey! No one rejects the Buck man!"

"get off! Get off!!"

Brian ran down the alley to see the Big-ass from the bar, Buck, holding a young women down in a sexual position. Brian grabbed a 2X4 piece of wood and walked up behind Buck, and smashed it across his head.

"get off of her asshole!" whack "no means no!" whack whack "I'll call the cops on you creep!" whack wh---

Buck caught the board, snapped it in half and went at Brian. Brian yelled and backed up, tripped over a trash barrel and fell on his ass. Buck stood over him like a mountain ready to stomp on his head. Just as he lifted his leg they heard the sound of a rifle being cocked.

"get off of him Buck!" came a faintly familiar voice. "I'll shoot. You know I will."

Buck stepped back, "OK OK you win Mike, you win." Buck ran toward the other end of the alley, and disappeared.

A hand came from the darkness. "lemme help you up my friend."

Brian grabbed the hand and got up. And saw the scrawny biker from the night before. "thanks. I would've been flattened like a pancake, haha"

"yeah well Buck's an ass. How'd you even get entangled with him in the first place?"

and that reminded Brian why he had ran into action in the first place. And he looked to see a women about 29 maybe 30.

he waled over to her and helped her up saying, "are you OK, lass?"

"yes. Yes I'm fine. Thank you... I'm sorry I didn't catch your name?"

"Brian, Brian O'Reilly at your service Ma'am."

"well thank you very much Mr. O'Reilly." she looked up at Brian and kissed him on the cheek.

Blushing the Irishman said, "no thanks necessary. No buddy is getting raped on my watch."

"well still I wanna make it up to you. How about dinner maybe?"

"uh... yeah. That sounds great...."

"oh right my name is Kate, Kate R."

"what does the 'R' stand for?"

"I'd rather not say. It usually scares away most guys."

"alright Kate, well let me give you my number." Brian pulled out a notepad and a pen and wrote down his number and gave it to her. "call me sometime."

he turned to Mike and shook his hand. "thank you Mike. And it was nice meeting you."

"same here O'Reilly. I'll see you around, eh?"

"yeah. So long." and Brian walked out of the alley.