3 months later....


"You're not going to make me tie my shoes again, are you?" Olivia remarked while grabbing the ten pound bowling ball from Sam Wiess.

"Cute, but no. Get down on the floor. Lie on your back. Fifty crunches while holding the ball in front of you. You want to be fit for duty again, right?"

"You're crazy. I'm not doing this. I just got my stitches out today. This is going to rip me apart."

"Really. Okay. And just for doubting me, make it one hundred crunches. Come on, Dunham. I thought you were tough."

He certainly knew how to push her buttons. No one tells Olivia Dunham that she's not tough enough.

Olivia positioned herself on the hard floor of the bowling alley. Sam got down with her and held her feet. While exhaling hard she pushed her upper
body off the floor. She kept her arms extended out and her hands holding tight to the bowling ball. When her back hit the floor to finish the first
crunch, she winced.

"One. Ninety nine more to go," Sam grinned.

"Why do you seem to be enjoying this?" Olivia grunted out in between another crunch.

"Because I enjoy making you do things you don't want to do."

"That's very noble of you," Olivia seethed after crunch number three. Her insides were burning already.

"So your step father did this to you?"

"Oh here we go," Olivia said while breathing out and pushing up again. "Pop psychology session while...doing....crunches....in a...bowling alley."

"And how does that make you feel?" Sam quipped.

After another exertion, Olivia gasped, "I'm good with my...step father...he's dead now."

"Glad to hear you've come to terms with that."

Olivia stopped doing crunches to glare at Sam.

After a moment of silence, Sam said, "How many was that, ten? You should stop now."

"You said to do one hundred," Olivia said in her mean voice.

"I lied. You just got your stitches out. Go home." Sam got up from the floor and headed to the front desk. "See you tomorrow, same time."

Olivia propped herself up on her elbows in disgust.

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Short I know! More to come later...