"But Maaaargaret..."
Probably more than half of the sentences Frank ever managed to come up with all by himself, started with those two words.
"Are you absolutely sure that their words have... no truth to them at all?"
Margaret turned around in her seat from where she was giving her blonde hair its necessary one hundred strokes, and fixed Frank with an icy glare. He slipped his hands into his pockets and shuffled his feet, slinking backwards a few inches.
"Yes, Frank, I'm positive. They're morons, each and every last one of them! Pay them no attention, and they'll drop it. The chopper pilot is just one of their degenerate cohorts that they tricked into going along with it." Frank smiled a bit.
"Oh, darling, you're right. You're so smart... that's exactly what my wife would have said, dearest!"
WHUP!
Frank spun, disoriented, out of Margaret's tent amidst angry yells, holding one hand to the place were her hairbrush had connected with his skull. He was tripping over his own boots and trying not to fall down as he stumbled through the night, towards the Swamp.
That's when he saw them.
At first he thought he might have a concussion or something, and contemplated going to postop to enlist in the help of a nurse. His face turned sour at the thought, but Frank immediately turned his attention to this discovery once more.
There were lights. Little white and yellow lights flashing on and off in the sky around the tents and above them. They looked so close, yet at the same time, so far away... Frank screamed like a little girl and ran into the Swamp, slamming the door shut behind him and diving under the covers of his cot. Other personnel, thinking it had been a nurse screaming, rushed out of their tents to see what was the matter.
A few stayed in, just figuring that she was being molested by Hawkeye.
They stared at the lights, swaying slightly where they stood, and then walked slowly back into their tents.
The aliens were coming.
(A/N: Well, no more updates for a week. I'm going to Washington DC to participate in the National Spelling Bee... review, or I might never come back! :D)