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bruhlsbees · 3 years

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better man || ken hutchinson x fem!reader

summary: still wrecked from being put on suspension and learning about starsky's application to be transfered, hutch calls you to come over to comfort him

pairing: ken hutchinson x fem!reader

word count: 4,762

warnings: smut, 18+, minors dni, angst, maybe a little ooc!hutch?? i made him super soft in this

a/n: pls accept this soft!hutch fic as the first of many owen wilson related content coming from yours truly

You weren’t expecting to get a phone call from him that night, let alone ask for you to come over.

It wasn’t his usual night for you to meet up. The both of you had a mutual understanding of each other’s outside lives - him working during the day, you working at night. Unless he came around to Huggy’s, you’d only ever see him on the night you had off - where it was usually spent at his house, listening to him play the guitar and having one too many drinks.

So when you got a call from him that night only minutes before leaving for work, desperately pleading with you to call in, you couldn’t help but ask why.

“Huggy ain’t gonna like this, Hutch. You know we are already short-staffed with the girls. Can’t you come down to Huggy’s and we can talk there? What’s going on?”

You heard him whine faintly over the phone, sighing throughout your words as he tried to think of a good reason on the other end as to why he wanted to see you. Would it be so wrong to just say he just missed you?

“Tell Huggy I’ll pick up some extra jobs for him. Tell him I’ll owe him any favor he wants if you can get tonight off. Please, do this for me. Just this once.”

Something about the phrase ‘just this one’ didn’t sound too believable. Hutch had a good way of getting what he wanted even if he said prior that it was just a one time thing. But you couldn’t point all the fault to him, cause every promise you believed - you still ended up giving in.

“Fine,” You agreed after a moment of thinking, “I’ll give Huggy a call and then I’ll head over. Just give me a little bit to change. I’m not walking down the road in my work uniform. I don’t need to get picked up.”

Before you could get another word out, you heard Hutch rush his goodbye before hearing the phone call end with a ‘click’.

So after calling into work, relaying the deal that Hutch wanted you to negotiate with Huggy, you were free from your night of dancing down at Huggy’s Place and changed out of your uniform and into something less revealing and more comfortable.

Whether you would just be taking them off when you got there or not didn’t matter, you weren’t heading out into the neighborhood in your nightclub uniform for someone to mistake you for something you weren’t.

It only took you about twenty minutes before you were at Hutch’s front door, rapping your knuckles against his screen door until you waited for him to let you in or call for you to just come in. Not even thirty seconds later the door opened and you were greeted by Hutch.

“Hey...thanks for stopping by.” He greeted, stepping out of the way for you to walk in before he shut and locked his door. You nodded, slipping your shoes off before heading into his living room.

“Yeah, no problem. Huggy said he’d let you know if he needed a favor by the way, but he also said if you were going to start making this a habit, you’d need to pay for me to come over.” Unzipping your sweatshirt, you tossed it on his couch before turning, looking back at him.

Chuckling to himself, Hutch shook his head and made his way towards you, hands at his waist until his toes touched yours, hovering above you.

“Why do I get the feeling you made that last bit up?” He questioned, smirking down at you. You returned the smirk back, shrugging your shoulders before your hands moved to the front of his button up, resting on his chest as you hummed.

“Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t.” You moved your hands up his chest before wrapping them around his neck, feeling his own arms wrap around your waist as he kept you close. “So are you going to tell me what you called me over here for or what?”

Leaning forward, Hutch pressed his lips to your forehead, exhaling through his nose while he held his position for a moment, until he pulled back to look down at you.

“Work stuff. Apparently I’m a shit cop with a partner who would rather transfer to another precinct than work with me,” He paused, shaking his head and pulling back from you, heading over to his couch to plop down on, running his hands over his legs, “Guy’s such a tight ass, I don’t know why I’m even letting him get to me.”

With a sympathetic smile, you listened to him carefully until he was finished, heading over and sitting down in the spot beside him, your left hand going to his hair to play with while your right hand found one of his hands to hold.

“It sounds like you care about him...and care about how he sees you,” Before he could protest your observation, you moved your hand from his and pressed your fingers to his lips to hush him, “You’re not a bad cop. Yeah your ethic might not be as union-friendly as it could be, but that doesn’t make you a bad cop. You’re a good cop, a great detective, and an even better man.”

Your words came to him like a prayer, taking in every syllable you spoke. He hadn’t planned on you coming over to praise him, but damn did you do a good job with it, and it did cheer him up...so maybe all along this was what he was looking for.

The relationship you had with Hutch was...interesting to say the least. It was well known down at Huggy’s that you were his favorite dancer and he was your favorite customer. The first time he walked in alone turned your legs to jelly and ever since then he had you wrapped around his finger.

What you had going on had been happening for a while now, escalating into not-so-secret evenings spent together at his place usually. Maybe it was just a hookup sort of deal, but you ignored that idea entirely, focusing on how Hutch made you feel.

He was a flirt with any pair of legs that walked by him, but he always knew how to make you feel special. The other girls down at Huggy’s always seemed to point out how well he would tip you, or even the look he’d give when you were giving him a dance. ‘He’s a customer, that’s what customers do,’ you’d remind them.

But that wasn’t the entire truth. You knew not too deep down you enjoyed being the only one he looked at, being his girl on the nights he came in and his pretty thing when you’d go to his house. The sex with him was great, there wasn’t any doubt about that, but you enjoyed the nights just as much when you didn’t have sex - when all you did was talk.

It felt, almost, like something real...hell, like you were dating.

His eyes moved from the coffee table and to you, smiling weakly as his blue eyes took you in. You looked tired, drained from the long nights at work, but there was still something so gentle about you, so pure.

“You’re the prettiest thing to walk this Earth, you know that?” Hutch whispered, head beginning to lull forward, closing the space between you.

Blushing, you followed in suit, your own face leaning closer to his, “When did you start going soft on me?” You found yourself asking, but before he could answer, your lips were already on him.

Humming into the kiss, your hands moved to cradle his face, holding either side in your hands as you were pulled into his lap, straddling him now as you continued to make out on the couch. He tasted sweet like honey and bitter like whiskey - overall though, sensuous.

You felt his hands run up your back, under your shirt until his fingers found the back of your bra. Being the man Hutch was, the back of a bra was like the back of his own hand. He could unhook a bra in his sleep if he wanted.

Maybe he was a grade a sleaze for the most part, but in times like this when that facade broke, and Hutch was just himself, nothing else really mattered besides you and him.

Pulling away from him, you leaned back to pull your shirt off, slipping your bra off your shoulders before tossing it to the side to join your t-shirt. At the sight of your exposed breasts, Hutch leaned forward with a sigh, his mouth warming your left breast while his right hand massaged at your other.

“O-Oh...Ken.” His name left your mouth like a song, holding his head close to you as he continued to suckle at your nipple, overstimulating your breasts until you began to shake in his arms.

Pulling away with a ‘pop’, Hutch looked up at you with a smile, keeping his eyes on you as he kissed up your chest, to your neck, before finally reaching your face. As he made his way up your body, your fingers found the front of his shirt and began to fumble with the buttons until his chest became exposed.

“You know everyone calls me Hutch, right?” He reminded you, smiling against your cheek before peppering your face with kisses. He couldn’t help the grin that pulled at his face, hurting his cheeks at the sound of your laughs.

“I know that, but you’re my Ken. Can’t I call you Ken when we’re alone?” You watched as his face pulled away, smiling your way and looking at you so endearing, as if you were his. Could there ever be a time where you could call him yours?

You shivered under his touch when you felt his calloused hand hold your face, fingers bending to stroke up the side of your face, “You can call me whatever you want.”

Pushing his shirt off his shoulders, you leaned forward and pressed yourself against his warm torso, wrapping your arms around him again as you went back in for another deep kiss. This time, while his right arm was wrapped tight around your middle, his left hand held your ass, lifting you up as he carried you to his bedroom.

Clinging to him until your back hit the mattress, you sank into his bed with ease, sighing against his lips as your muscles relaxed. He always did have a better mattress than you did. You were half expecting him to stay on top of you.

At first you were disappointed when he stood up, standing at the foot of his bed, only for that disappointment to turn into a grin when you saw him unbuckle his belt and pull his jeans and boxers down. He leaned forward and grabbed the waistband of your pants, yanking them down your legs and off, throwing them behind him.

Grabbing onto your calves, Hutch pulled your body down his bed and towards him, grinning at the way you stretched out on his bed, staring up at him with that serene look he always felt safe with. Before he could lean forward to sink his teeth into your plush thighs, you unexpectedly grabbed him there, possessively almost, your gaze darkening when you met his.

He choked on his words when your grip tightened around the base of his cock, slowly pumping him - your eyes never leaving his. His chest raised and fell back, staring down at your hand until his chest tightened, closing his eyes.

You leaned forward and swiped the tip of his cock with your tongue, continuing to slowly pump him as you heard the low grunts come from him above you, his head falling back and mouth gaped open.

“Y-You don’t gotta do that, you know.” He choked out, gasping when he felt you spit on him to later in your hand, the slick sounds of your spit mixed with his pre-cum sending him over the edge.

Pulling his cock up, you leaned forward and took his tightened balls in your mouth, sucking on them before pulling back and letting them fall out of your mouth. At this point, Hutch didn’t know how much longer he’d be able to hold on.

“I know, but I want to. You always take care of everyone, why don’t you let me take care of you?”

He carefully opened his eyes and let his head fall back forwards, looking down at you and reaching forward to tuck some of your hair behind your ear. You smiled and closed your eyes, leaning into his touch before feeling him shift in front of you.

Crawling on top of you again, Hutch pulled you up by your thighs, wrapping them around his waist as he quickly positioned himself at your entrance, running the tip of his cock between your folds, sighing at how wet you already were.

“Next time,” He promised, pulling you even closer to him, if that was even possible, “Right now I just need to be in you. Okay?”

Nodding, your hands found his shoulders, holding onto them as your head settled into his pillows, staring up at him. You couldn’t help but admire his features; how his eyes were blue but sometimes twinkled green, the obvious bend to his nose where he broke it all those years ago, and even if you never meant to kiss him - you still ended up doing so because his lips were just that desirable.

“You’re beautiful, you know that?” You found yourself admitting, blushing when you caught the words slip out of your mouth. He didn’t seem to mind though, his cheeks going pink for a moment before he kissed you quickly.

“That’s supposed to be my line, you know that?” He teased, mocking you. Before you could really lay it on him, wanting to be the one to have the last word, your breath hitched to your throat, choking on your words as he suddenly pushed inside of you, filling you up instantly.

Hutch wasn’t cruel, he could be rough sometimes in bed, but he wouldn’t let you spend the entire time wincing away in pain. As he stayed inside you, feeling your walls clutch almost too tight around him, he waited until you adjusted to him, letting out a shaky breath before nodding for him to continue.

You didn’t need to tell him verbally to move, your nod was enough for him to grip the sheets beside your head and begin pumping in and out of you, staring down at your face as your mouth fell into an ‘o’ shape and your eyes fluttered shut.

He couldn’t say it enough, how beautiful you were. In the dark overcast you were his sunshine. And maybe that’s why it hurt so much to know that you weren’t truly his.

You could lay under him all day, any day, crying out his name and whimpering in his neck until you both came undone together - but there was still that empty feeling inside of him, like something was missing.

As a cop, he knew he had a commitment to his job that left him with a bare minimum social life - which is why he was often found socializing on the hour. It wouldn’t be fair for you to be sitting around waiting for him to come home everyday - Jesus, was that the best excuse he could come up with?

No, that wasn’t the case at all. He knew the real reason why - of all the men on your street, hell, in Bay City in general, there were plenty of better men out there than him. Hutch was selfish and if he couldn’t have you, he didn’t want anyone to.

“Hutch? I think I’m close.”

Pulling out of his thoughts, Hutch looked down at you, feeling your hands move to hold his face as your body began to tremble under him. How long had he been thinking for you to already be close?

That didn’t matter though, the clamping of your walls around him were enough for him to feel his own climax rising. Nodding his head, Hutch grabbed onto you and pulled you up, flipping so he was sitting and you were in his lap.

His face fell back into your breasts, cheek resting over your heartbeat and listening as the rhythmic pumping picked up as you clung onto him tighter, bouncing in his lap. With his fingers sinking into your sides, Hutch kept you at your current pace, helping you move when your thighs began to quiver and you began to choke up.

This was about him, you had to remind yourself. This wasn’t anything more than a quick fuck, and maybe that’s why it hurt so bad to feel him hold you the way he did. With your own face resting on the crown of his head, kissing his hair, your hands grabbed onto any part of him you could find.

Continuing to rut up inside you, leaving you bouncing in his lap like a ragdoll, your stomach began to twist and coil into knots, leaving your walls pulsating around him. Usually you’d last longer than what you were going at tonight, but you weren’t complaining, and neither was Hutch.

When he heard your breath hitch, your movements freezing, his own movements picked up, feeling everything inside of him tighten and burn up until he was coming undone inside you, gasping against your skin, pressing light kisses to your collarbones.

You weren’t far behind, whimpering when your toes curled as you felt the wave of relief hit you, the high feelings hitting you like a wall until you laid slack against him in his arms. Hutch held you in his arms, stroking your hair, “Don’t worry...I got you.”

When the both of you finally came down from your high, Hutch felt you push off of him, groaning at the loss of weight inside of you and the loss of heat for him. You weren’t entirely sure if he wanted you to stay, or if this was just what he wanted you for, so you began to search for your clothes, picking your jeans off the floor until you felt his hand grab your wrist.

Turning you first looked down at his hand before at him, seeing him seated in the same spot, his bangs sticking to his slicked forehead. He looked tired, but more at peace than before when you first arrived. You sent him a smile, moving your hand to hold his, giving it a squeeze.

“I should probably go so you can get some slee-”

“I’m not working right now...you don’t gotta leave just yet, if you don’t want to,” He moved his thumb over your knuckles, gently caressing your hand until he pulled you towards him again, “You could stay the night if you wanted to.”

Now this was new. You had never spent the night with him before, let alone did he ever offer you to. There was the one time when you had quite a bit too much to drink, but you insisted on him just walking you back home. Tonight though, tonight he had actually thrown out the idea for you to stay with him.

At first you didn’t know if you should, but with how he was already feeling, how you were feeling in the moment, and how late it was - you knew you’d regret it if you didn’t say yes.

After not-so-careful consideration, you smiled weakly and nodded, “I’d like that.” Your words came out in a hush and before you knew it you were being pulled down into his bed, letting him hold you in his arms as he pulled the covers over the two of you.

You weren’t exactly tired, seeing as though you were usually up late anyways, but in that moment - feeling the weight and warmth of him around you - the safety and security of him brought you into a slow lull.

With your cheek pressed against his chest, listening to his heartbeat, you hummed quietly as you felt his fingers trace patterns along your back, his movements growing slower until the both of you fell into a state of slumber.

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Hutch wasn’t expecting to wake up to the smell of bacon being cooked, nor was he expecting to hear the sound of you singing ‘Good Vibrations’. It was a pleasant surprise though, one that he could get used to.

Shifting his body a little in bed, Hutch stretched up and reached towards the shelf above his bed, pulling up his alarm clock to see that it was going on just a little after nine. It wasn’t too early for him, but he knew for you it must have been hell getting up.

Then he began to think, had you even slept the night before?

It didn’t take him long to get dressed. Pulling out a clean pair of boxers and one of his old concert t-shirts, Hutch headed out of his room and down the hall towards the kitchen. At the sight of you lost in your own thoughts, dishing out food onto plates, Hutch could only lean against the doorway and admire you.

To think - he got so lucky, and yet you weren’t even his.

When you turned around, the plates in your hand, you jumped at the sudden sight of him, letting out a gasp before settling back down, letting out a weak laugh to match his.

“Hutch! Hi, morning - I’m sorry, was I being too loud? I was hoping to surprise you with breakfast in bed.” You explained sheepishly.

Shaking his head, Hutch took a couple steps forward towards you, taking one of the plates from you before kissing your cheek, “No, you weren’t being too loud. Sorry for ruining your surprise.” He listened to you tell him not to worry about it, beginning to ramble on about how you couldn’t sleep and went out to get stuff to make breakfast.

He hadn’t noticed at first, but now that he was hovering over you, he noticed you were wearing one of his turtlenecks, the long-sleeve swallowing you. When you realized he had noticed, you watched his free hand grab onto your waist, his thumb running up and down.

“I can take it off, I just couldn’t find my-”

“No, no, don't worry. It looks good on you. Hell, I think it looks better on you than it does me.” He admitted, watching as you smiled and shook your head.

“That’s not true, you always look good in your turtlenecks.” You leaned forward and met him in the middle with a kiss, pulling away after a moment to follow him into the living room, settling on the couch to enjoy breakfast.

He appreciated the kind gesture, having you take care of him the night before and that morning after explaining his situation with work. It made him realize just how much you cared for him, and how much he began to accept the feelings he had for you.

Chewing on his strip of bacon, Hutch glanced over your way and watched as you were contently eating, your eyes casted down at your plate, thinking to yourself. Leaning towards you, Hutch pressed another gentle kiss to your cheek, watching as your head pulled up and looked towards him.

“Thank you, for everything,” He began. When you opened your mouth to tell him that it wasn’t anything, he stopped you by stuffing the rest of his bacon strip in your mouth, smiling as you giggled, “What are you doing today?” He asked out of the blue.

After chewing the rest of the strip of bacon, you shook your head, “Nothing...tonight’s my day off so I don’t really do anything,” You explained, watching as he nodded his head in thought. “Why?”

Shrugging his shoulders, Hutch dropped his head down towards his plate, picking at the eggs, “Oh, nothing really I was just thinking that since you’re here, and wanted to, maybe you and I could go out for dinner or something? If you were up to do something today?”

Taken back by his suggestion, your expression faltered slightly, not sure how to take his offer. Would you be going out to dinner as friends?

“LIke a date?” You questioned hesitantly, clearing your throat to choke back your own nerves with the question.

You were surprised entirely to see him nod, smiling at his plate before he looked back up at you. “Yeah...a date.”

Staring at one another, Hutch carefully watched your face, waiting for your reaction. When you let out a laugh, Hutch frowned, cheeks going pink at the embarrassment that now settled in.

Had he gotten the wrong expression all this time? Were you not interested in the way he was with you?

Seeing how red he became, your laughs died down and you reached towards him, grabbing the back of his neck before pulling yourself to him for a kiss. When you pulled away, you saw him return the smile, visibly relaxing.

“Ken Hutchinson, when did it become so hard for you to ask a girl out?” You teased, caressing the side of his face. He shrugged his shoulders before leaning forward to kiss you again.

“When ‘that girl’ is someone I really like.” It was your turn to turn red, falling back in your spot, looking back down at your plate with a smile stained to your cheeks. So he did like you like that. “I just hope she feels the same way.” He whispered.

“She does,” You confirmed, slowly picking at your eggs, chewing them carefully so you didn’t choke, trying to find the right words to say next. “She just didn’t think you liked her.”

He couldn’t question why you had thought that, because it was the same way for him. At this point, the both of you were settled on the couch silently kicking yourselves as the revelations became clear. All this time, mutual pinning, and yet neither of you were able to see it.

“So it’s a date?” He confirmed after a minute, waiting for your answer.

Smiling, you looked up at him and nodded, “Yes, it’s a date.”

Letting his head fall back down to his plate, Hutch finished the rest of his plate with a smile on his face, the same as you. This time, while you ate, your body perked up at the thought of going on a date with Hutch. What would you wear? Where would you guys go?

For the rest of breakfast, the two of you sat in comfortable silence, eating the rest of the food that you made that sat in the kitchen before you decided it was time to go - wanting to get some sleep and get ready at your own place for that night.

Later that night, when Hutch came to pick you up, you were pleasantly surprised to see him holding a small bouquet of roses, wearing one of your favorite outfits of his - a pair of slacks, his black turtleneck, and brown jacket.

On the other hand, he nearly sank to his knees at the sight of you dolled up. Wearing a dark red dress that stopped at your calves, paired with a pair of black heels and makeup to match. He all but choked up on his words, watching as you pulled the bouquet from his hands to smell.

“Thank you, Ken, these are beautiful.” You noted, smiling up at him.

His own lips pulled into a smile, hands stuffed in the pocket of his slacks to keep from nervously twiddling with his fingers, “Well I had to find something equally as beautiful to match the owner of them.”

You blushed at his words, nodding in acknowledgement before motioning to the inside of your place, “Let me go put these in a vase really quick, and then we can go.”

Nodding, Hutch watched you walk inside and towards your kitchen, waiting out on the front porch for you.

Turning towards the street, the moon illuminating the neighborhood, Hutch couldn’t help the smile that stuck to his face, or the warm feeling he had in his belly. At that moment, he could believe your words now from the night before. It didn’t matter what anyone else said, so long as you believed in him.

With you, he knew he could be a better man.

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thranduilsperkybutt · 5 years

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Imagine catching Hutch talking all sweet to his houseplants.

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You had just gotten out of the shower, drying your hair with the towel you shook through it, when you emerge into the living space. The smell of whatever Hutch was cooking for dinner catches your nose, reminding your stomach just how hungry you were as you feel it rumble with anticipation.

Before you can call out to ask what he has that’s smelling so great, you hear a low coo from the kitchen.

“Wow, don’t you look beautiful--- one, two, three new leaves,” it’s Hutch, picking through one of the many plants on the windowsill above his kitchen sink with a satisfied smile on his lips. His voice was soft and slightly proud as he spoke to the plant, “Yeah, you’re doing just great!”

With an amused grin, you lean against the archway, “What’s cookin’, good lookin’?”

Hutch looks up from the plant to catch your eye, a slight dusting of pink along his cheeks, “Oh, well, I was thinking pot roast. That sound good?”

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euphoricssentimentalist · 3 years

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am i doing this right

#lets just imagine one of these dudes has dark curly hair ok #gays being cops #dave starsky #ken hutchinson #french kissing prime time homos #starsky and hutch

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scifistudies · 6 years

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Thank you to @nans-motivates for the tag!! :>

rules: answer 20 questions and tag 20 followers you would like to get to know better

name: I don’t have anything against my birth name but only my family and my flatmates use it, most of my friends use other names for me

nicknames: Jimmy, Benji, Chet, Kentigern (and variations on those!)

zodiac sign: Capricorn

height: 5′1″ (yep I thought I was 5′2″ but Apparently Not lmao) im a shortass but its ok bc dana scully is also a shortass so i feel Valid

languages spoken: English, intermediate level German, a fair amount of Russian

nationality: British

favourite fruit: apricots all the way! but mango and blueberries are super good too

favourite season: I used to be an autumn person and I think maybe I am still but this last winter was so long and I’ve never struggled with seasonal depression until this year and I’m dreading it coming back so I guess summer is good as well

favourite scent: rose, that mild chlorine swimming pool smell, idek. i’m not very imaginative rn lol

favourite colour: dark green, mustard yellow, teal, pastel pink

favourite animal: dogs, elephants, giraffes, cats, corvids of any sort

coffee, tea, hot chocolate: coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon, hot chocolate in the evening

average hours of sleep: 6-7

favourite fictional characters: (here we go, in no particular order) Purdey from The New Avengers, Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson from Starsky & Hutch, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from The X-Files, Jamie McCrimmon from Doctor Who, Napoleon Solo from The Man From UNCLE (the TV show, not the 2015 film I found film!Napoleon really irritating lol)

no. of blankets you sleep with: 1 in summer, 2 in winter

dream trip: Rome, St. Petersburg, Berlin, the Scottish highlands

blog created: February 2016

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Wickenburg: Two drinking locations in this central Arizona community that allowed individuals to devour within the institutions in violation of an characterize issued by the governor to abet stop the unfold of the coronavirus will be reported to the town felony reliable for a name on imaginable citations, police said Saturday. Police Lt. Kenny Lutkiewicz said both institutions that will most most likely be reported in response to officers’ observations Saturday were presented copies Friday of Gov. Doug Ducey’s characterize barring dine-in drinking for the length of the coronavirus pandemic. Nobody became once arrested or issued a citation Saturday, Lutkiewicz said. “Our purpose is to coach,” he said. Lutkiewicz said there had been stable feelings domestically about enforcement of Ducey’s characterize. Other folks crowded sidewalks and were inside just a few drinking locations that were open for industry Saturday, said Jack Howell, a Wickenburg resident who observed the scene. “Every person became once well mannered … however there became once no social distancing,” Howell said.

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Miniature Rock: Two declare prisoners died from the illness precipitated by the coronavirus, well being officers said Saturday, as Gov. Asa Hutchinson informed residents to “tip very generously” when businesses shuttered as a consequence of the virus reopen within the impending days. The two inmates, both in their 60s, were from the Cummins Unit, the assign apart as a minimal 860 prisoners have tested obvious. Health officers announced the deaths because the declare prepared to delivery rolling support its coronavirus restrictions this week, with gyms opening Monday. Eating locations can reopen their dining rooms May perhaps perchance even 11, however simplest at one-third their capacity. Hair salons, barbershops, tattoo retailers and rubdown therapists can reopen Wednesday with fresh tips on buyer interplay. Hutchinson said he hoped Arkansans would exhaust cash on the businesses however notice the social distancing measures akin to wearing a hide.

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Antioch: A metropolis authentic has been ousted after he instructed on social media that ill, extinct and homeless individuals must be left to meet their “natural direction in nature” for the length of the coronavirus pandemic. City council individuals in Antioch, a metropolis of about 110,000 individuals 35 miles east of Oakland, voted unanimously Friday night time to resolve Ken Turnage II from his put up as chairman of the metropolis’s planning commission. NBC Bay Residence reports there became once a swift uproar after Turnage characterised individuals with frail immune techniques as a drain on society. He wrote on Fb: “the World has been presented to a fresh phrase Herd Immunity which is a correct one. For my part we must adapt a Herd Mentality. A herd gathers it ranks, it permits the ill, the extinct, the injured to meet its natural direction in nature.” As for homeless individuals, he added that the virus would “repair what is a foremost burden on our society and sources that can also be extinct.” Turnage later deleted the put up however refused to resign or support down from his comments.

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Denver: Getting a haircut and perusing in particular person at retail retail outlets were allowed all over again in unparalleled of the declare starting up Friday as Colorado persevered to ease restrictions dwelling up to forestall the rapid unfold of the coronavirus. Nonetheless, dwell-at-dwelling orders remained in pickle for unparalleled of the Denver space, with simplest very crucial businesses like grocery, liquor and hardware retail outlets open there. Goodwill became once reopening 16 retail outlets around Colorado with changes to provide protection to individuals’s safety. Dressing rooms will be closed, and one-approach aisles had been dwelling up to originate it more straightforward for patrons to dwell 6 toes apart. Elective surgeries and curbside pickup at retail retailers were allowed to delivery exterior the Denver space Monday within the necessary wave of the comfort of restrictions below Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ “safer at dwelling” characterize. Locations of work can reopen starting up Monday however simplest with half of the identical old workers to enable for social distancing.

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Hamden: Fair appropriate-attempting spring weather introduced individuals out to declare parks Saturday, forcing officers to shut many who was too crowded below the declare’s guidelines for social distancing. The Department of Vitality and Environmental Safety had closed as a minimal 11 parks because their parking areas were at capacity. Officers had informed residents to strive lesser-extinct parks to own far from crowding. Among the parks to realize capacity were Sleeping Giant Insist Park in Hamden, Wadsworth Falls Insist Park in Middletown and Talcott Mountain Insist Park in Simsbury. The DEEP has implemented decrease capacity limits at parks to augment social distancing. It says that the closures are rapid-length of time and that parks will also be expected to open the following day.

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Dover: Police enlighten Gov. John Carney’s characterize requiring individuals to wear face coverings in public for the length of the coronavirus pandemic is mostly being observed, however now no longer everyone has been absorbing to conform. In Cheswold, a Valero patron who became once rebuffed by a clerk for now no longer wearing a hide kicked and shattered a glass door Tuesday. The Delaware Insist Facts reports more than one other police departments and businesses said most americans were complying with the characterize. Delaware Insist Police spokeswoman Grasp Cpl. Melissa Jaffe said a particular person that continues to refuse administration requests to proceed away a industry may perhaps well perchance be in an arena to be charged with third-level trespassing or disorderly habits. Jaffe said there are exceptions, akin to if any person has a scientific condition that precludes them from wearing a face covering.

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Washington: Amid the fight in opposition to coronavirus, metropolis leaders thought to hire as a minimal 200 additional individuals to be part of the Contact Designate Drive and compare native cases of the illness, WUSA-TV reports. Contact tracers play a key feature in stopping the unfold of a virulent disease by talking with individuals that have tested obvious and understanding with whom they've near in contact. “For us, it approach that we receive to it faster, and we own it faster,” D.C. Department of Human Sources Director Ventris Gibson said. “You own the unfold by making decided you pull the neighborhood collectively that had the exposure.” In the meanwhile, the metropolis’s hint force has 65 individuals. By hiring 200 additional individuals, Gibson said, the metropolis may perhaps well perchance receive an even bigger defend on the virus. “We are doing this to construct lives, to construct hospitalizations and to receive us support to a healthy declare,” she said.

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Orlando: Deputies arrested a particular person that had been residing out his quarantine on a shuttered Disney World island, telling authorities it felt like a “tropical paradise.” Orange County Sheriff’s deputies figured out Richard McGuire on Disney’s Discovery Island on Thursday. He said he’d been there since Monday or Tuesday and had planned to camp there for every week, in step with an arrest document. The 42-year-extinct said he didn’t hear a form of deputies shopping the deepest island for him on foot, by boat and by air because he became once asleep in a building. He told the deputy he didn’t know it became once a restricted space, no matter there being a form of “no trespassing” signs. A security e book for Disney said she saw McGuire the exhaust of a firm boat Thursday. She requested the agency to press charges. McGuire became once arrested on a trespassing payment and taken to penal complex with out incident.

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Atlanta: Georgians gathered in tiny groups atop parking decks, on rooftop patios and alongside usually busy interstates to behold U.S. militia fighter jets that flew over the Atlanta metro space in a tribute to well being care employees struggling with the coronavirus. Spectators cheered loudly because the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Drive Thunderbirds roared overhead Saturday afternoon. The jets flew in formation as they disregarded the gap’s necessary hospitals. At the ancient Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, spectators in overall adhered to social distancing guidelines, however few wore masks. Some carried garden chairs and beverages whereas others pushed strollers. Statewide, two dozen more deaths of individuals with COVID-19 were reported Saturday by the Georgia Department of Public Health, bringing the declare’s loss of life toll to as a minimal 1,174.

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Honolulu: Lt. Gov. Josh Inexperienced said Friday that the declare is coming into into “Piece 2” of its effort in opposition to the coronavirus now that it has successfully diminished the tempo of fresh infections and “flattened the curve.” Inexperienced said in a video posted on social media that low-chance actions like non-compulsory scientific procedures are resuming, and officers within the following couple of weeks will keep in thoughts authorizing medium-chance actions. “Can our gyms open? Can drinking locations that attain social distancing open? That’s what we’re engaged on,” Inexperienced said. The subsequent step after these actions may perhaps well perchance be “increased-chance stuff” like dazzling gatherings of individuals and bars, he said. Gov. David Ige has prolonged the declare’s dwell-at-dwelling characterize thru May perhaps perchance even 31. A 14-day quarantine for vacationers arriving within the declare additionally remains in discontinuance.

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Boise: Three northern Idaho residents have filed a federal lawsuit nerve-racking statewide restrictions ordered by Gov. Brad Miniature as a consequence of the coronavirus, announcing it violates their religious freedoms. Two religious leaders and a churchgoer filed the lawsuit Thursday in opposition to Miniature and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen. The lawsuit targets Miniature’s dwell-at-dwelling characterize as unconstitutional and particularly cites restrictions on religious gatherings. That characterize expired Thursday and became once replaced by one which permits church gatherings however accrued requires social distancing. But attorneys said Friday that the closing restrictions on church buildings remain unconstitutional and that they thought to are looking forward to a rapid-length of time restraining characterize to have them lifted. They additionally said they’re alive to Miniature may perhaps well perchance reinstate the dwell-at-dwelling characterize may perhaps well perchance accrued Idaho behold a spike in infections and deaths as a consequence of the virus.

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Marion: A neighborhood of award-winning barbecue drinking locations in southern Illinois is coming collectively to produce meals for well being care employees and other employees struggling with on the entrance traces of the coronavirus pandemic. The Hands of Hope foundation will collaborate with the eateries thru a program called Operation BBQ’d Hope to produce meals for roughly 4,000 individuals at Heartland Regional Medical Center, Herrin Clinic, St. Joseph Memorial Clinic and Memorial Clinic of Carbondale. The neighborhood served its first meal closing Tuesday at Heartland, The Southern Illinoisan reports. Extra meals are planned for Tuesday in Murphysboro and Thursday in Carbondale. The barbecue caterers raised cash to fund the dinners, and the inspiration supplied the proteins and first ingredients. The drinking locations fragment their data, to boot to staples akin to salt, sugar and spices. Volunteers prepare truffles.

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Indianapolis: Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Friday the steps in direction of stress-free industry and exercise restrictions imposed to tiring the coronavirus unfold for unparalleled of the declare, allowing more manufacturers, retailers and perusing malls to open their doors, starting up Monday, below well being and social distancing guidelines. The Republican governor’s thought targets to progressively ease tips with the purpose of allowing nearly all actions to resume July 4, potentially opening the approach for necessary summer events such because the rescheduled Indianapolis 500 on Aug. 23. The fresh directive lifts dawdle restrictions below the statewide dwell-at-dwelling characterize that took discontinuance March 25 however doesn’t enable drinking locations to resume in-particular person dining or hair salon reopenings for some other week. Health facilities, film theaters, bars and casinos are amongst businesses that can remain closed until as a minimal gradual May perhaps perchance even.

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Whiting: A couple who had been married for nearly 70 years are support dwelling after they both recovered from bouts of COVID-19. Bert McCandless, 88, and his 89-year-extinct partner, Ardis, contracted the illness precipitated by the coronavirus in March, The Omaha World-Herald reports. They were hospitalized at Creighton College Medical Center-Bergan Mercy, the assign apart Bert nearly didn’t originate it. Ardis spent three days within the health center in gradual March, however as she began to receive better, Bert’s condition worsened. He became once placed on a ventilator for 2 weeks, and doctors estimated he had no better than a 20% likelihood of surviving. On April 24, even supposing, Bert returned to the couple’s dwelling in Whiting, the assign apart Ardis became once so overjoyed she climbed onto his lap. “She hasn’t accomplished that in 30 years,” Bert said. “So I no doubt must be a sizzling commodity.” Both are accrued recuperating, however they’re busy gardening and visiting with grandchildren and gigantic-grandchildren.

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Topeka: The declare began releasing inmates closing week as a technique to test the unfold of coronavirus in its prison machine, however it stopped when an outbreak created a hazard of returning infected offenders to their communities, Gov. Laura Kelly said Friday. Kelly said the Department of Corrections released simplest six inmates and assign apart them below home arrest for the leisure of their sentences. But confirmed coronavirus cases on the Lansing Correctional Facility have skyrocketed, and the prison is below quarantine. “We bought the sorting out results at Lansing and realized that we had some other work to realize sooner than shall we let anyone else proceed,” Kelly said. The Department of Corrections said now no longer one among the six released were from Lansing. Problems on the prison didn’t stop Kelly from promising to prefer a statewide dwell-at-dwelling characterize as planned within the boring of night time Sunday or outlining a thought to progressively reopen the declare’s coronavirus-battered financial system by June 15, starting up with drinking locations and masses other businesses Monday. Nonetheless, her financial thought frustrated some industry home owners, who obtained’t be allowed to reopen until as a minimal May perhaps perchance even 18 whereas others can.

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Louisville: A federal appeals courtroom on Saturday declined to dam the governor’s rapid-length of time ban on mass gatherings from applying to in-particular person religious products and providers. The three-mediate panel did sure the approach for Maryville Baptist Church to own pressure-in take care of products and providers whereas adhering to public well being necessities. That’s an replace that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has strongly encouraged throughout the coronavirus pandemic. However the panel stopped in want of applying its characterize to in-particular person take care of products and providers. The Cincinnati-based fully appeals courtroom panel informed a federal district mediate to “prioritize resolution” of the church’s claims in its lawsuit. Beshear recently announced that locations of take care of in Kentucky will be in an arena to over all over again defend in-particular person products and providers starting up May perhaps perchance even 20 as part of a broader thought to progressively reopen the declare’s financial system.

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Baton Rouge: Gov. John Bel Edwards says he doesn’t foresee armed protesters disrupting lawmakers when a coronavirus-interrupted legislative session resumes Monday. Speaking at a data conference Friday, the Democratic governor authorized that, no longer like in some other states, company in Louisiana aren’t allowed to carry firearms into the declare Capitol. “Clearly we have now some individuals across the declare who are attempting to give narrate to their opinions, that are diversified than mine for the time being, with admire to the need of the dwell-at-dwelling characterize,” Edwards said. “I'd quiz these individuals to realize that in a suitable and safe manner. If they attain that, then there obtained’t be any issues akin to you saw in Michigan” – the assign apart tons of of protesters, many with out face coverings and a few openly carrying guns, entered the declare’s Capitol on Thursday in opposition to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s restrictions assign apart in pickle as a result of the pandemic.

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Portland: Gov. Janet Mills acknowledged the tempo of restarting the financial system became once sorting out individuals’s patience Friday as an offended restaurant owner openly defied her govt orders by reopening his restaurant for the day. Mills assured individuals she’s paying attention to their issues however warned there obtained’t be unanimous settlement on everything as she grapples with the safest path ahead for the length of a virus. The main part of reopening the declare began Friday with restrictions lifted on the exhaust of golf capabilities; visits to the dentist, barbers and hairdressers; and dwell-in-your-automobile religious products and providers. Mainers additionally were required to delivery wearing masks when social distancing isn’t imaginable. But a restaurateur in Bethel extinct the megaphone of an appearance on Fox Facts Channel to criticize the governor, claiming she became once going “rogue” and wasn’t paying attention to industry home owners. Rick Savage openly shared what he said became once the governor’s cell phone number dwell on TV.

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Frederick: Several dozen residents demonstrated in opposition to Gov. Larry Hogan’s dwell-at-dwelling characterize Saturday by caravaning across the declare. A neighborhood is called “ReOpen Maryland” organized the tell in opposition to the governor’s mandates for social distancing and other measures designed to provide protection to in opposition to the unfold of the coronavirus, which has killed bigger than 1,100 individuals within the declare. Hogan has additionally ordered the closure of all nonessential businesses. “Shall we accrued’ve had the replace to stick with sure tips and regulations somewhat than be shut down,” James Knowles, a Queen Anne’s resident, told The Baltimore Solar for the length of a lunch stop in Kent Island for the length of Saturday’s tell. Protesters made just a few stops as they drove from Frederick to Salisbury. Team individuals pledged to note social distancing guidelines by closing in their autos, however many did now no longer.

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Dartmouth: A neighborhood of about 10 federal immigration detainees who refused to be tested for the virus that causes COVID-19 precipitated intensive wretchedness to the heart the assign apart they're being held, the sheriff’s pickle of job said in a unlock. The inmates alive to about the incident on the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center reported more than one symptoms of COVID-19, and when told they wanted to be tested, they rushed officers. A data unlock from the Bristol County sheriff said the detainees barricaded themselves throughout the ability, ripped washing machines and pipes off the wall, broke dwelling windows and “trashed the total unit.” A diversified response crew restrained the detainees, the department said. One detainee became once hospitalized with “symptoms of a agonize assault,” some other as a consequence of a preexisting condition and a third “for a scientific incident after being removed from the ICE waft.” All three are expected “to be ultimate,” the sheriff’s department said.

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Lansing: The governor said gun-carrying protesters who demonstrated inside her declare’s Capitol “depicted just a number of the worst racism” and “awful parts” of U.S. historical past. Democrat Gretchen Whitmer told CNN that the protests featured “Accomplice flags and nooses,” apart from as swastikas. Participants of the Michigan Liberty Militia protested the declare’s dwell-at-dwelling orders closing week, some with weapons and tactical gear and their faces in part lined. They went throughout the Capitol, the assign apart being armed is allowed, then demanded receive entry to to the Residence flooring, which is prohibited. Some went to the Senate gallery, the assign apart a senator said armed males shouted at her. The Republican-managed Legislature has wondered Whitmer’s authority to lengthen dwell-at-dwelling orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. However the governor extinct an govt characterize to lengthen a declare of emergency declaration and has directed most businesses statewide to dwell closed. “This is a public well being crisis,” she said.

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St. Paul: Insist Residence Republicans have vowed to dam Gov. Tim Walz’s proposal to borrow cash for public building initiatives except the Democrat ends his COVID-19 emergency powers. Residence Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, a Republican from Crown, said Saturday that it's miles “crucial that the Legislature be alive to about the selection-making process” about how to address the coronavirus pandemic. “The Legislature is in session,” Daudt told the Superstar Tribune. “We predict about we have now to be working with the governor on the response to COVID-19 and keeping Minnesota safe.” Walz declared a “peacetime emergency” March 13 aimed at stopping the unfold of COVID-19. The declaration, dwelling to dwell May perhaps perchance even 13, gave Walz the ability to shut colleges and businesses. Closing week, Walz prolonged the dwell-at-dwelling characterize to May perhaps perchance even 18, whereas loosening some restrictions on retailers to enable them to reopen for curbside pickup and deliveries starting up Monday.

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Jackson: Lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Friday and asserted their administration in an affect fight with the governor over who has the authority to exhaust $1.25 billion the declare is receiving from the federal authorities for coronavirus relief. Republicans who lead the Residence and Senate enlighten the Mississippi Constitution gives spending authority to the Legislature. But Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has said a declare law enacted 40 years within the past gives the governor some spending energy for the length of emergencies. The Residence and Senate every voted by huge bipartisan margins to proceed the equal invoice, which puts many of the federal relief cash into a fund the Legislature controls. The governor would accrued must comply with spending plans that lawmakers dwelling. Reeves would now no longer straight away enlighten whether or now no longer he'll veto the proposal however said legislators were tying the fingers of individuals responding to the pandemic, including the declare well being officer and the declare emergency administration director. “You care more about energy than individuals,” Reeves said of lawmakers.

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Kansas City: A crew of academics is taking part with the College of Missouri to produce a excessive college curriculum about the fresh coronavirus pandemic to coach to students whereas colleges are closed. Pat Friedrichsen, a professor of science education at MU, became once awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to abet develop a coronavirus curriculum aimed at informing Missouri excessive schoolers on the science of the pandemic and its results on day after day existence. “I mediate it’s no doubt subtle for kids,” Friedrichsen said. “They’re very social. They strive to be with their pals. And so we wished them to designate why this protection goes to abet us flatten the curve.” The crew of academics at MU makes exhaust of online modeling tools to develop and educate lessons about the virus. “Let’s enlighten 20% of your population is bodily distancing,” Friedrichsen supplied as an instance. “What does that attain to your an infection curve versus if 80% of individuals attain this?”

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Helena: A role force appointed by Gov. Steve Bullock to originate ideas for how the declare may perhaps well perchance accrued exhaust $1.25 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding presented its guidance Friday, starting up with quick grants for “safety procure” products and providers akin to food banks and homeless shelters, alongside with hire and mortgage help for individuals and nonprofits. The 20-member Coronavirus Relief Fund Advisory Council did now no longer originate explain monetary ideas however outlined spending priorities to again individuals, businesses and nonprofit organizations, said council chairman Larry Simkins with The Washington Cos. The advisory council quick prioritizing funding in response to individuals who are affected the most and these who did now no longer win funding in other locations, apart from as deploying the funding swiftly thru reward channels akin to financial construction companies, lending institutions or declare capabilities, the document said.

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Gretna: A mall that pitched itself as a case uncover about for how to reopen safely welcomed prospects Friday for the necessary time since closing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Fewer than a dozen prospects were at Nebraska Crossing when it opened 11 of its bigger than 80 retail outlets at 11 a.m. Other folks that were there wore masks and wandered the open-air mall’s mostly empty pathways, stopping at times to glimpse into shop dwelling windows. The outlet coincided with other malls within the declare allowing prospects to shut Friday, including Lincoln’s Gateway Mall and Omaha’s Westroads Mall. Nebraska Crossing resumed industry with fresh safety measures in pickle, including signs to advertise social distancing guidelines and Plexiglas boundaries in drinking locations. All however one among the entrances were taped off. Mall officers faced criticism for deciding to reopen sooner than the virus became once contained.

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Carson City: A newly formed declare Department of Training committee has been tasked with helping produce a thought and guidelines for college districts and structure colleges to reopen for the 2020-2021 academic year. Insist Superintendent Jhone Ebert said the committee consists of faculty district superintendents, well being officers and safety consultants. Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered Nevada colleges in March to shut as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Sisolak directed that faculties proceed operations for the length of the most stylish college year by providing distance studying to students. Ebert said that has raised challenges that consist of receive entry to to expertise, training academics and quality academic supplies. A newly formed tutorial collaborative will exhaust federal help to bolster distance studying capabilities, Ebert said.

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Concord: Republican Gov. Chris Sununu on Friday prolonged the declare’s dwell-at-dwelling characterize to May perhaps perchance even 31 whereas allowing the restricted reopening of drinking locations, hair salons and other businesses throughout the month. “We’re now no longer taking monumental leaps ahead. We’re correct now no longer at that level, however we attain are attempting to produce the replace to flex a majority of these items open, and we mediate it’s a gigantic first step,” he said at a data conference. The declare issued guidelines for all businesses on screening of employees, pickle of labor cleansing and other practices to forestall the transmission of the coronavirus. Campgrounds, already allowed to feature below previous orders, are now cramped to 50% capacity, and out-of-declare company are prohibited except they're individuals of a non-public campground. Golf capabilities additionally will be cramped to residents and individuals when allowed to reopen May perhaps perchance even 11. Ocean beaches will remain closed, whereas declare parks can open with some restrictions.

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Island Seaside Insist Park: Nearly everyone perceived to cooperate at a sprawling oceanfront park Saturday as Novel Jersey reopened its declare parks to a populace itching to receive sand between their toes after months of being cooped up as a consequence of the coronavirus outbreak. Island Seaside Insist Park in Ocean County became once amongst the parks to reopen, drawing just a few hundred individuals to a seaside that routinely handles hundreds for the length of the summer. In the four hours that an Connected Press reporter watched the gang, shut to all complied with a requirement that they dwell as a minimal 6 toes apart to forestall the unfold of the virus. A tiny neighborhood of individuals wearing Rutgers T-shirts over their swimsuits reclined on towels 6 inches apart in preference to 6 toes. And just a few individuals saw pals on the seaside, went up to them and hugged. Unexcited, bigger than half of wore masks, at the same time as stable sunshine bore down. Gov. Phil Murphy said he became once happy with initial reports from web sites that reopened Saturday.

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Gallup: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham invoked the declare’s Riot Shield an eye on Act on Friday as she sealed off all roads to nonessential web page visitors in one among the largest communities bordering the Navajo Nation, the assign apart a surging coronavirus outbreak has already precipitated widespread restrictions and weekend lockdowns. She additionally required that corporations in Gallup shut from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. within the metropolis of about 20,000 individuals alongside Interstate 40, which remained open to thru web page visitors. Gallup is a hub for traditional family supplies, liquor sales and water-container refills for individuals residing in far-off stretches of the Navajo Nation – usually with out stout indoor plumbing – and indigenous Zuni Pueblo. The Navajo Nation has imposed evening and weekend curfews on the reservation. COVID-19 an infection rates in Gallup and surrounding McKinley County originate it one among the worst U.S. sizzling spots for the pandemic as sufferers crush intensive care facilities.

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Novel York: Novel Yorkers were mostly adhering to social distancing tips whereas exterior having fun with the warmest weekend in a spring clouded by the coronavirus crisis, Mayor Invoice de Blasio said Sunday. “The gargantuan story right here's what Novel Yorkers have accomplished correct,” de Blasio said. Tens of hundreds of individuals flocked to the metropolis’s parks and public spaces Saturday as temperatures hit the low 70s. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said officers issued 51 summonses Saturday, including 43 in parks. Shea said he became once responsive to three arrests. Police had to interrupt up some dazzling gatherings and stop individuals from playing crew sports actions, that are accrued banned. Officers were additionally handing out face masks, which individuals are required to wear when social distancing is now no longer imaginable. “The overwhelming majority of Novel Yorkers have no doubt risen to the instruct,” de Blasio said, even supposing he and Shea acknowledged some hiccups. De Blasio said he additionally requested police to originate bigger patrols Sunday in The monumental apple’s Hudson River Park after crowding issues there Saturday.

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Raleigh: Several necessary browsing malls within the declare are expected to reopen on the equal day Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 dwell-at-dwelling characterize is scheduled to dwell. The Facts & Observer reports Simon Property Team announced it plans to reopen the SouthPark and Concord Mills malls and Charlotte Top payment Stores on Friday. Simon is the largest mall operator within the U.S. Its other North Carolina property, Carolina Top payment Stores in Smithfield, is additionally dwelling to open Friday. The planned reopenings are in response to “most stylish declare and/or native dwell-at-dwelling or closure orders, that are arena to alter,” in step with a assertion on Simon’s online page. The mall operator said all employees will be required to wear masks and take hand-washing breaks. The malls will additionally limit entrances, hours and the replace of individuals within the structures. Chairs in dining areas will be removed, and drinking fountains and play areas will be closed.

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Fargo: The North Dakota High College Activities Association is canceling spring sports actions, ultimate arts and other declare contests as a result of the coronavirus. The vote Friday by the neighborhood’s board of directors came after Gov. Doug Burgum’s characterize to own colleges closed and proceed with distance studying for the leisure of the educational year. The pass additionally assign apart an end to hopes of ending the Class A girls and boys basketball tournaments and the Class B boys basketball match. Board president Scott Privratsky cited social distancing guidelines by the Services and products for Illness Shield an eye on and said the “well being and safety” of these alive to became once the most critical component in calling off the events. “This subtle conclusion did now no longer near easy, as we designate the excellent sacrifices students have made,” Privratsky said.

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Columbus: Reopening the declare is a “balancing” act between bringing the financial system support and keeping individuals, Gov. Mike DeWine said Sunday, noting that he'll be prepared to take movement may perhaps well perchance accrued the peril irritate all over again. Insist officers are monitoring the information on coronavirus in Ohio “every day,” DeWine said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” On Friday, the Republican governor prolonged the declare shutdown until May perhaps perchance even 29 whereas additionally allowing retail retail outlets to originate bigger their industry sooner than expected. Development corporations, distributors, manufacturers and workplaces are allowed to reopen Monday and retail businesses May perhaps perchance even 12. Health care workplaces were allowed to reopen Friday. DeWine issued an characterize for individuals to wear face coverings in retail outlets however swiftly reversed himself, calling it a stable suggestion however now no longer a requirement. He said Sunday the characterize “went too far” because “individuals weren't going to settle for the authorities telling them what to realize.”

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Oklahoma City: The declare went into its first weekend of a reopened financial system for the length of the coronavirus pandemic as residents were allowed to nearly about drinking locations, mall and other retail outlets. Tempers flared in some parts of the declare over restrictions accrued in pickle. In Stillwater, metropolis officers on Friday amended a local emergency declaration after businesses reported being threatened by prospects who didn’t are attempting to be forced to wear masks to enter. The changes now originate masks optionally on the market for patrons in preference to foremost, even supposing they're accrued strongly quick. Employees are accrued required to wear them. “Store employees had been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse,” Stillwater City Supervisor Norman McNickle said in a assertion. “It is far additional distressing that these individuals, whereas exercising their believed rights, assign apart others at chance.”

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Salem: The declare will originate an ambitious COVID-19 sorting out program and originate bigger contact tracing as it prepares to reopen the financial system, Gov. Kate Brown said Friday. Other folks will be chosen at random for sorting out and requested to volunteer in a partnership with Oregon Health & Science College. The governor additionally said some rural counties the assign apart there are nearly no cases may perhaps well perchance delivery reopening slowly starting up May perhaps perchance even 15. “This program is a sport-changer,” Brown said. “This may perhaps well give us a more appropriate idea of the correct payment of infections in Oregon and to have ongoing precision monitoring of any fresh outbreaks.” Officers have said Oregon wants the ability to habits 12,250 assessments every week, for a payment of 29 per 10,000 individuals. That level would must originate bigger as dwell-dwelling orders are eased. In most stylish weeks, COVID-19 sorting out has increased to bigger than 9,000 assessments

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York: Hundreds of protesters chanted and carried signs exterior the governor’s dwelling to tell his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and receive in contact with for an end to restrictions on industry exercise. About 100 to 200 individuals paced alongside the avenue Saturday afternoon exterior Gov. Tom Wolf’s home in York, repeatedly chanting “open up” in direction of the dwelling. Participants of the governor’s security crew wouldn’t commentary on whether or now no longer Wolf became once dwelling. “Start the doors as of Monday,” Joyce Cordell of Hamlin, Wayne County said from a motorized cart. “It’s now no longer correct to own us closed up.” Her county became once now no longer amongst the 2 dozen of the declare’s 67 counties that can have some restrictions eased May perhaps perchance even 8, even supposing it had 105 cases and a handful of deaths. Karen Bosco, a 62-year-extinct retired safety e book from York Haven, said the governor is “killing tiny industry.”

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Windfall: A Brown College student has filed a class-movement lawsuit in opposition to the Ivy League college attempting for compensation for tuition, room, board and other charges connected to the campus closure in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The proceed well with filed Thursday in federal courtroom in Windfall alleges breach of contract and unjust enrichment on the part of the college. “Faculty students enrolled in classes when the COVID-19 outbreak struck were left and not using a receive entry to to their dorms, to faculty rooms, campus cafeterias or other facilities they paid to exhaust,” Steve Berman, an felony reliable for the students, said in a assertion. “We predict about there’s absolutely no causes why they may perhaps well perchance accrued proceed to be caught holding the invoice for tens of hundreds of bucks, simplest to be kicked off campus.” An email attempting for commentary became once sent to a Brown spokesman.

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Columbia: Other folks flocked to declare parks and beaches Saturday because the declare prepared to dwell its coronavirus dwell-at-dwelling characterize. The parks were reopened Friday after bigger than a month, and masses reported stout parking tons. Picnic shelters, playgrounds and interpretive museums remain closed, and rangers required social distancing and other keeping measures. Webcams of beaches confirmed tons of of individuals sunbathing, tossing footballs or playing within the surf alongside the Mammoth Strand on Saturday, a day after accommodations alongside the seaside were allowed to reopen for individuals with reward reservations. However the replace of cases retains climbing. South Carolina is additionally starting up to behold sizzling spots in declare prisons. Thirty-one inmates are infected with COVID-19, all at Allendale Correctional Institution or the Kirkland Correctional Institution, the assign apart all fresh inmates are introduced, the Corrections Department said.

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Sioux Falls: Smithfield Meals’ shy pickle within the metropolis will in part reopen Monday after being closed for bigger than two weeks, in step with the workers’ union. The meatpacking plant requested about 250 employees to document to its Sioux Falls plant Monday to workers two departments – flooring seasoned pork and night time cleanup, in step with the United Food and Industrial Workers union native. The plant has been closed for bigger than two weeks after an outbreak infected 853 of its 3,100 employees. Meanwhile, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is calling into employee complaints that the plant operated below unsafe circumstances. The criticism filed April 20 became once first reported by inforum.com. The Services and products for Illness Shield an eye on and Prevention toured the ability April 15 and quick just a few changes to diminish crowding and toughen well being and safety.

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Memphis: Gov. Invoice Lee issued guidelines Friday for locations of take care of to feature, because the declare moves ahead with reopening locations the assign apart individuals can catch for the length of the response to the fresh coronavirus outbreak. The fresh statewide ideas contradict stricter tips issued Thursday by officers in Memphis, who now enlighten locations of take care of may perhaps well perchance accrued notice Lee’s guidelines as a replace. Lee said locations of take care of across the declare may perhaps well perchance accrued defend products and providers below sure boundaries, akin to asking congregants to dwell 6 toes apart and wear face coverings. Gathering rooms may perhaps well perchance accrued simplest be extinct at 50% capacity, and folks which may perhaps well perchance be over 65 or have underlying illnesses may perhaps well perchance accrued now no longer befriend products and providers. Lee had earlier quick that folks defend far from church gatherings, however he by no approach mandated it. His fresh guidelines suggest for a “phased-in” process to originate bigger receive entry to to locations of take care of.

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Austin: The replace of fresh confirmed coronavirus cases within the declare surpassed 1,000 for the fourth consecutive day Sunday, and the replace of deaths increased by as a minimal 20. Insist well being officers reported 31,548 confirmed cases, an originate bigger from 30,522 reported Saturday, and 867 deaths as a consequence of COVID-19, the disease precipitated by the virus. The replace of infections is believed to be far increased because many individuals haven’t been tested, and study suggest that folks will also be infected with out showing symptoms. This past weekend became once the necessary of the declare’s reopening the financial system after Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide “dwell-at-dwelling” characterize for nearly 30 million individuals expired Friday. Residents were allowed to proceed support to malls, drinking locations, film theaters and retail retail outlets in cramped numbers, even supposing some protests of the closings persevered.

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St. George: Officers at Zion National Park announced Saturday that they planned to reopen the park May perhaps perchance even 13, even supposing they emphasized that it may perhaps well most likely perchance simplest open in “receive areas.” Essentially the most-visited of Utah’s “Mighty 5” national parks, Zion became once closed April 3 after Gov. Gary Herbert and the declare’s high well being officers requested it. Local officers, including the mayor and town council of the gateway community of Springdale, had written to park officers inquiring for the closure apart from. The overwhelming majority of Zion’s 4 million-plus company yearly originate exhaust of its main canyon, the assign apart attractions like Angels Touchdown, the Zion Narrows and the Zion Canyon Lodge entice hundreds of hikers on a regular foundation. The park saw bigger than 370,000 company for the length of April 2019, with the warmth-however-now no longer-sizzling weather and seasonal instances like spring atomize and Easter weekend helping to generate just a number of the largest crowds of the year.

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Marshfield: Gov. Phil Scott announced more tiring steps Friday to reopen the declare’s pandemic-afflicted financial system by expanding the replace of employees allowed to work at a producing, building and distribution industry from five to 10 if the workers notice safety necessities. “I’m happy to enlighten we’re in an arena to receive hundreds more Vermonters support to work starting up Monday,” the Republican governor said. The workers must dwell 6 toes apart and be screened, including for their body temperature, on the starting up of their shift, they veritably must wear cloth face coverings around others. Those businesses may perhaps well perchance originate bigger to stout operation May perhaps perchance even 11 within the occasion that they alter to “additional, stringent” necessities, Scott said. But he warned that the declare, which has seen slightly few cases of the coronavirus, must remain vigilant and test that other states nearby are accrued facing big outbreaks. Scott additionally announced Friday a fresh requirement that public transit employees and prospects must wear cloth masks.

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Richmond: The declare will win three decontamination techniques that can collectively sterilize up to 240,000 objects of private keeping gear on a regular foundation for the length of the coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Saturday. Northam said in a data unlock that the decontamination techniques will change into operational in Blacksburg, Newport Facts and Chesterfield County throughout the following week. The objects were licensed for Virginia by the Federal Emergency Management Company. Northam said the expertise will abet address the national shortage of important private keeping gear to abet provide protection to well being care employees and first responders engaged on the entrance traces of the pandemic. The machine makes exhaust of a concentrated hydrogen peroxide vapor to decontaminate N95 masks.

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Spokane: Yakima County has the excellent payment of coronavirus cases of any county on the West Waft. Health consultants reveal a dazzling replace of very crucial employees, a dazzling replace of cases in lengthy-length of time care facilities, and a dazzling agricultural crew residing and working in shut quarters because the causes. The county has about 250,000 residents. “We correct haven’t been as unparalleled down because the leisure of the declare because our crew goes to work,” said Lilian Bravo, a spokeswoman for the Yakima Health District. “Physically going to work day-after-day goes to position you at a increased chance than others.” As of Friday, Yakima County had 1,203 obvious cases, a payment of 455 cases per 100,000 residents, the excellent within the declare. Second became once Franklin County at 326 cases per 100,000. The statewide common became once 185 cases per 100,000 residents. Yakima County, 140 miles southeast of Seattle, additionally had a slightly excessive replace of deaths from coronavirus with 47.

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Charleston: Monday marks the 2d week of Gov. Jim Justice’s thought to push the declare’s financial system ahead in response to the coronavirus. The governor’s thought consists of the reopening of tiny businesses with fewer than 10 employees, drinking locations with out of doors seating, barbershops and dog groomers. Bodily distancing will be required. Closing week, hospitals were allowed to resume non-compulsory scientific procedures, whereas other products and providers were allowed to reopen, including necessary care doctor and dental workplaces and physical and psychological treatment. Starting May perhaps perchance even 11, other businesses may perhaps well perchance be allowed to reopen in response to on hand sorting out data. Those businesses consist of pickle of job and authorities structures, arena of expertise retail retail outlets, dine-in drinking locations, parks, casinos, gyms, and well being and game facilities.

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Madison: The declare Supreme Court announced Friday that this may perhaps well perchance hear oral arguments early this week in a lawsuit attempting for to dam Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ dwell-at-dwelling characterize. The justices dominated 6-1 to settle for the case and scheduled oral arguments for Tuesday morning by the exhaust of video conference. The arguments are expected to closing as a minimal 90 minutes. The ruling said the courtroom will keep in thoughts whether or now no longer the characterize became once no doubt an administrative rule and whether or now no longer Palm became once within her rights to arena it unilaterally. Despite the indisputable fact that the characterize doesn’t qualify as a rule, the courtroom said this may perhaps well perchance accrued weigh whether or now no longer declare Department of Health Services and products Secretary Andrea Palm exceeded her authority by “closing all “nonessential” businesses, ordering all Wisconsin individuals to dwell dwelling and forbidding all “nonessential dawdle.” Conservatives defend a 5-2 majority on the courtroom.

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Casper: Two days after the declare’s high well being authentic loosened restrictions on businesses, as a minimal two counties have already moved to additional switch the strictures on their communities. Park and Teton counties are on reverse ends of the coronavirus pandemic in Wyoming. Park has correct one case, no matter the virus’s early presence within the county. Teton, meanwhile, has 65 cases, the most per 100,000 individuals within the declare. Earlier this week, Dr. Alexia Harrist allowed barbershops, tattoo parlors, gyms and receive other businesses to open with restrictions; as part of that switch Friday, numerous counties can originate their very indulge in orders. Both Park and Teton counties have applied for changes that may perhaps well perchance enable them to address the pandemic in their areas, the Casper Superstar-Tribune reports. Teton County wants the businesses that the declare said may perhaps well perchance reopen Friday to as a replace be ordered closed thru May perhaps perchance even 11. The are looking forward to from the county has been licensed, officers said. Park County’s well being officer, Dr. Aaron Billin, told the Superstar-Tribune the county became once asking the declare for permission to enable for out of doors, in-particular person dining at drinking locations there.

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Doctor Who Infinity game announced for PC and Mobile

Tiny Rebel Games Ltd. and BBC Worldwide have announced that a new Doctor Who game, Doctor Who Infinity, is to be released for PC and mobile platforms worldwide, in Spring 2018.

Details from the press release follow:

Today, Tiny Rebel Games Ltd. announced that Doctor Who Infinity, will be released worldwide in Spring 2018, under official license from BBC Worldwide.

The new game is being funded as a joint effort between the Welsh Government’s Media Investment Budget and British game publisher/developer Double Eleven Limited. It is being developed in close collaboration with Seed Studio along with a broad team of UK-based talent including well known Doctor Who actors, writers, and artists. Cardiff-based award-winning audio designer and composer Stafford Bawler will be providing audio direction for the game. Doctor Who Infinity will be released both on PC and on major mobile platforms.

Susan Cummings for Tiny Rebel Games says:

“As executive producer on Doctor Who Infinity, it has been an incredible delight to be able to pull together such extraordinarily talented people to realize our ambitions for this new game. I am continually humbled by the quality of work they are doing, and I think Doctor Who fans everywhere are going to be amazed with how we have taken everything we have learned from making the award-winning gameplay of Doctor Who: Legacy and brought it to the next level in every way imaginable.”

Doctor Who Infinity builds ambitiously on the addictive puzzle gameplay of Doctor Who: Legacy to immerse players in comic book style puzzle adventures, beginning with The Dalek Invasion of Time, written by George Mann. Each story-based adventure has its own unique art style and author. To bring these original stories to life, Tiny Rebel Games has recruited an incredible team of major British Doctor Who writers and internationally renowned UK-based comic book artists to illustrate the stories.

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Economy Secretary, Ken Skates says:

“We are delighted that Tiny Rebel Games recognizes the world-class creative talent present in Wales, especially in writing, art, and audio. By moving their business here from Los Angeles last year, Tiny Rebel has given Wales a valuable opportunity. Enabling us to invest in and grow the country’s experience in the burgeoning video game industry, while also utilizing local talent. The fact that the company have now developed a Doctor Who game, which of course films in Cardiff, only adds to this ‘made-in-Wales’ success story.”

Lee Hutchinson, managing director of Double Eleven Limited says:

“As an indie publisher, we’re always looking for up and coming UK talent that we can support, and this was a perfect opportunity for us to partner with Tiny Rebel Games in making an exciting new Doctor Who game. It also allows us to expand our expertise in mobile gaming whilst contributing our knowledge of the PC marketplace.”

Doctor Who: Legacy, released in 2013, quickly became one of most popular Doctor Who games of all time with over 2.5 million players and broadly spans the history of Doctor Who with every Doctor, hundreds of allies, companions and monsters and includes extended universe content from Big Finish, Titan Comics, and BBC Books. Still popular four years later, the game continues to add new content weekly and is well over 120 hours of gameplay.

With a soft launch in early Spring, Doctor Who Infinity will be live globally on PC, iTunes, and Google Play in late Spring 2018. Follow news about the game at www.tinyrebelgames.com , www.facebook.com/doctorwholegacy , www.twitter.com/doctorwholegacy.

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Doctor Who Infinity - Coming Spring 2018

Latest from the news site: A new Doctor Who game, Doctor Who Infinity, is to be released for PC and mobile platforms worldwide, in Spring 2018. The game is produced by Tiny Rebel Games Ltd, the team behind the popular game Doctor Who Legacy, under official license from BBC Worldwide. The new game is being funded as a joint effort between the Welsh Government’s Media Investment Budget and British game publisher/developer Double Eleven Limited. It is being developed in close collaboration with Seed Studio along with a broad team of UK-based talent including well-known Doctor Who actors, writers, and artists. Cardiff-based award-winning audio designer and composer Stafford Bawler will be providing audio direction for the game. Doctor Who Infinity will be released both on PC and on major mobile platforms. Susan Cummings, of Tiny Rebel Games, is the executive producer on Doctor Who Infinity. It has been an incredible delight to be able to pull together such extraordinarily talented people to realize our ambitions for this new game. I am continually humbled by the quality of work they are doing and I think Doctor Who fans everywhere are going to be amazed by how we have taken everything we have learned from making the award-winning gameplay of Doctor Who: Legacy and brought it to the next level in every way imaginable Doctor Who Infinity builds on the addictive puzzle gameplay of Doctor Who: Legacy to immerse players in comic book style puzzle adventures. Each story-based adventure has its own unique art style and author. To bring these original stories to life, Tiny Rebel Games has recruited an incredible team of major British Doctor Who writers and internationally renowned UK-based comic book artists to illustrate the stories. Ken Skates AM, Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure in Wales says We are delighted that Tiny Rebel Games recognizes the world-class creative talent present in Wales, especially in writing, art, and audio. By moving their business here from Los Angeles last year, Tiny Rebel has given Wales a valuable opportunity. Enabling us to invest in and grow the country’s experience in the burgeoning video game industry, while also utilizing local talent. The fact that the company have now developed a Doctor Who game, which of course films in Cardiff, only adds to this ‘made-in-Wales’ success story. Lee Hutchinson, managing director of Double Eleven Limited added As an indie publisher, we’re always looking for up and coming UK talent that we can support and this was a perfect opportunity for us to partner with Tiny Rebel Games in making an exciting new Doctor Who game. It also allows us to expand our expertise in mobile gaming whilst contributing our knowledge of the PC marketplace. Doctor Who: Legacy, released in 2013, quickly became one of most popular Doctor Who games of all time with over 2.5 million players and broadly spans the history of Doctor Who with every Doctor, hundreds of allies, companions, and monsters and includes extended universe content from Big Finish, Titan Comics, and BBC Books. Still popular four years later, the game continues to add new content weekly and is well over 120 hours of gameplay. With a soft launch in early Spring, Doctor Who Infinity will be live globally on PC, iTunes, and Google Play in late Spring 2018. You can follow news about the game via the website and on Facebook, or Twitter. Doctor Who News http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/09/doctor-who-infinity-coming-spring-2018.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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why do the yankees always win? - ch. 6

chapter summary: All good things pt. 2

Any time Ginny’d let herself imagine her first season in the majors, she’d tried to keep a level head. She was, at heart, a realist. She knew what she was capable of, but almost more importantly, she knew what the world would decide she was capable of. So, she didn’t imagine what it would be like to throw the last out of Game 7 of the World Series; she wasn’t a closer and no manager in their right mind would put her in that spot. Honestly, she didn’t really even dream of making it to the World Series; as long as the Padres didn’t trade her, it seemed like a pipe dream.

Much as she tried to temper her expectations, keep them low, she never once stooped to thinking that she’d end her first season on the DL, kept from even shagging balls during batting practice by her worry wart of a manager and teammates. She definitely didn’t think that Amelia would have abandoned her or that her brother would have lied to get more money out of her.

And yet, here she is.

On the other hand, though, there was no way she would have even thought to imagine Mike Lawson.

Or that she’d practically be living with him, pretty happy in spite of all the other bullshit in her life.

Ginny’s not sure how, but he’s become the person she trusts the most in her life.

Which is ridiculous. How is her best friend a 36-year-old car salesman?

To be fair, Mike seems as lost on that front as she is.

One, day, he looked down at her in bemusement. They were sprawled on his couch, Ginny tucked under his arm as they both failed to pay attention to the documentary playing on Mike’s flatscreen. Blip could make fun of her all he wanted, but Ken Burns was boring.

“I’m not convinced this isn’t the set up for your off-season reality show,” he teased, a funny little frown on his face.

“That’d be a pretty boring show. Are people just supposed to watch us watching TV?”

“C’mon, think about it,” he said, pulling her foot into his lap and starting to knead. Like he didn’t know exactly how hard that made it for Ginny to think. “People love to see celebrities being regular humans. And I’m sure more would love to keep up with your recovery. Only makes sense for someone to try and capitalize on that. ‘Ginny Baker: On the Ball’ has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?”

“Don’t think someone hasn’t already tried,” she muttered back, trying hard not to encourage him. But then Mike’s hands were dancing up her legs and the reality of her life, televised or not, went out the window for the time being.

But she can’t avoid it forever.

With Amelia gone, Ginny’s been forced to field most of the business side of the Ginny Baker Brand herself. Eliot’s been as helpful as he can, continuing to take care of her social media presence and a lot of her scheduling, but since he’s not an agent, he’s technically not allowed to negotiate contracts for her.

That’s all on Ginny.

She is reasonably sure a couple separate networks have floated ideas for reality shows, but hasn’t brought herself to look over any of the proposals.

She should really look into hiring a new agent.

Every time she starts to stress about it, though, unwilling to admit that maybe Amelia is out of her life for good, Mike swoops in and helps her relax. Gets her to take her mind off things for a while until she’s in a better headspace.

Which can be difficult.

What? It’s not her fault that it can be hard to think when she’s around Mike.

Which, on the one hand is such a fucking relief Ginny sometimes wants to scream.

On the other, it leads to phone calls like the one she’s currently on with her mother.

“I just think you should have told me that you were seeing someone, Ginny Bean,” comes Janet’s worried voice over the connection. Ginny suppresses the urge to roll her eyes before remembering that her mother’s all the way in North Carolina and can’t see her. She rolls her eyes. “I mean, to find out from Mrs. Hutchinson down the street because she’d been reading Us Weekly...”

“Mom,” Ginny groans, trying to remember if Us Weekly is the one that ran the pictures of her with her hand in Mike’s back pocket or if that was something else. She’s pretty sure it doesn’t actually matter since the pictures are apparently telling enough that her mom has broken their biweekly phone call rule to chew her out about this. Slumping to the counter, too tired to hold herself up and deal with her mom at the same time, she grimaces when her bad elbow comes down too hard on the surface. In fits and starts, the joint is getting better, but not with the speed or ease that she wants. “It’s not like that. Mike was just helping me out while I had to wear the sling.”

Janet snorts, and Ginny wonders why she even bothers. “So you’re not living with this man?”

Well. While there is technically still a room in Ginny’s name at the Omni, she hasn’t seen the inside of it for more than a few hours at a time in weeks.

“I’m staying with him, mom. It’s not like we moved in together.”

“That doesn’t change the fact that you’re dating someone and didn’t tell me.”

There wasn’t much Ginny could say to that. She could say that she and Mike weren’t dating, but more and more, that was starting to feel like a lie. And not a lie that she wants to tell.

She hasn’t had many boyfriends in her life, but Mike Lawson is better than all of them. And has stuck around longer, too.

Ginny sighs down the line and bites the bullet. “Fine. I should have told you and I’m sorry I didn’t.”

“I accept your apology,” Janet replies primly before shifting to what must be her real reason for calling. “Now, when am I going to meet him?”

There’s a ringing in Ginny’s ears. She has to shake her head hard to get it to quiet. “Meet him?” she finally rasps.

“Yes, meet him,” her mom echoes, like it should be obvious. “I think I have a right to meet my daughter’s boyfriend. Particularly if you’re living—oh, I’m sorry—staying with him. Are you two coming for Thanksgiving?”

They’re hardly even into October. Ginny’d thought she’d have weeks to plan an excuse for not going home to Tarboro. An important appointment with her doctor, maybe, or some event for the front office. Because while she hasn’t even asked yet if Kevin will be in attendance, the prospect of a long weekend with her mother and Will is more than enough to make her want to stay far, far away.

To make matters worse, Mike picks that moment to walk in the front door, laden with grocery bags, his tie hanging loose from his neck. The soft grin he shoots her has Ginny letting her guard down, which is never a good thing when her mom is involved.

Scrambling to come up with something, she replies, “I don’t think so? The doctors haven’t cleared me to travel without a team physician, yet.”

And they never would. Ginny Baker might be an investment for the Padres, but it's just a bad case of tendinitis.

Her mom’s disappointed huff isn’t a victory, but it sounds so much like one to Ginny’s ears. “All right,” she sighs. “But you better be coming home for Christmas.”

Ginny makes placating sounds without promising anything, doing her best to get off the call without giving her mom any fuel for their next argument. There’s a 60% chance she’s unsuccessful given Janet Baker’s hum of disapproval when they finally say goodbye, but she can’t bring herself to care.

Ginny groans and slumps all the way down, her forehead landing on the kitchen counter.

“Your mom?” Mike chuckles. There’s a quiet clink next to her ear, which, when she lifts her head, proves itself to be a hard cider he’d begrudgingly made room for in his fridge.

“How’d you know?” she drawls back, pushing her hair off her forehead and giving it a ruffle for good measure before grabbing the cold bottle. “Was it the tone she always says I get or the attitude that needs an adjustment?”

It’s nice to have someone to complain about her mom to. As understanding as Blip and Evelyn are, they both lucked out in the parental lottery. Neither of them really understand what a truly tense relationship with a parent is like.

But Mike? Mike understands.

She realized this when he overheard a call that ended with a terse, “Yeah, okay. Fine. I’ll call you later,” and nearly fifteen minutes of silent fuming as Ginny tried to rein in her temper. When it became clear that wasn’t actually working, he’d sat down next to her, but didn’t say a word. Ginny wasn’t sure what it was he did, but somehow, she spent the next half hour spilling her guts about her mom and Kevin and her dad and the crash and the immense pressure she was constantly under before finally collapsing heavily on his chest while he rubbed soothing circles on her back.

He told her that he and his mom hadn’t seen each other in years and that it never stops sucking to have a shitty relationship with a parent.

It wasn’t precisely helpful, but it was honest, and Ginny could always do with more honesty in her life.

And when that honesty comes in a Mike Lawson shaped package, she’s really not going to argue.

Mike just shakes his head at her and starts loading produce into the refrigerator. Ginny hops up on the island to watch, rolling her cider between her palms. After a moment, he asks, “What’d you two talk about?”

“Thanksgiving and whether or not we’re joining them in Tarboro.”

“We?”

Her eyes widen. Shit. It just slipped out, natural as anything.

Before the silence stretches out too long, she blurts, “She thinks you’re my boyfriend.”

Mike, to his credit, doesn’t freeze at the word, just continues putting away groceries. But Ginny can see the way his shoulders twitch like he’s doing everything in his power to remain nonchalant. “Oh?” he asks, tone a few notes higher than usual.

Ginny picks uneasily at the label on her bottle, unsure of what to make of Mike’s refusal to make eye contact. She’s gotten pretty good at reading him, but when all she can see is his back, even she has a hard time.

“Yeah,” she breathes.

Finally, Mike closes the fridge doors and turns back to her. His face is carefully blank when he asks, “And what do you think?”

“Um.” Instinctively, she takes a swig from her bottle and then sets it down beside her. To give herself a moment. Mike watches her steadily and finally she has to reply, “I don’t know?”

His lips quirk a little at that, but he doesn’t move closer and there’s a wariness in his eyes. Still, he replies, “That’s okay. What about this: are we dating?”

“Does it count as dating if we don’t ever leave the apartment?” she jokes, trying to dance away from the topic at hand.

(She knows what she wants, but what if Mike doesn’t want the same thing? He had to have lots of chances to settle down before he met her, and never did. Even though he’s been so good to her lately, she can’t imagine that he’s been single so long by anything other than choice. How hadn’t the single women of San Diego snapped him up before now?)

Mike’s half-grin remains, but Ginny doesn’t miss the quick furrow of his eyebrows or the way he blinks twice, right in a row.

“Is that what you think?” There’s nothing accusatory in his tone or Ginny would bristle and tell him to forget it. Instead, it’s just curiosity. And maybe an edge of hurt that makes her gut tighten.

“I mean,” she says, wishing she had more time to think, “we go out to run errands or pick up more of my stuff from the Omni. Mostly, though we just hang around here—which isn’t a bad thing! I like hanging out! But we don’t go out out. You know?”

He nods like what she said wasn’t just nonsense.

“To be fair, we did try that,” he says and Ginny thinks of the trips to the zoo and the museum. Wandering between the animal enclosures and exhibits, tucked under Mike’s arm. How good she’d felt there, in spite of the pangs in her elbow and the occasional pause to take a picture with a fan. Why had they stopped those? Like he reads her mind, Mike continues, “You’re just too popular for your own good.”

That, unfortunately, is true. It hadn’t taken long between the first picture of her and Mike wandering the zoo holding hands hitting twitter before they were practically overrun with paparazzi. Ginny’d thought they’d have better things to do than follow her around as she looked at the animals, but it was apparently a slow news day.

Come to think of it, those were the pictures that ended up in Mrs. Hutchinson’s copy of Us Weekly.

(Which is another thing. Why on earth would he sign up to ride out the rollercoaster of Ginnsanity with her? What sane person would sign on for that, no matter how much they like her? He hadn’t seemed to mind the crush of press right after her injury, when it seemed like she couldn’t move without setting off a flash bulb, but maybe he was just being a good sport or it’s gotten old now. Is the public scrutiny too much for him?)

She shakes her head. “You know I don’t care about that.”

Finally, Mike takes a step towards her. He reaches out and cups her cheek. Instantly, she feels better, which she knows isn’t good if she and Mike aren’t on the same page. Who’s going to make her feel better if things go south?

“I know, Gin,” he soothes, his thumb tracing the apple of her cheek before he pulls his hand away. “But that doesn’t mean you should have to put up with all the staring and gossip and speculation about why you’re dating some middle-aged nobody when you could have anyone.”

Ginny stares at him for a long moment.

“Mike,” she grins, so overcome with fondness for this man. Her hands come up to lace behind his neck. “You know that no matter who I’m seen with, there’s going to be wild speculation, right? Like, I went to In-N-Out with Will while he was here and someone got a shot of us. At least four gossip sites ran it with a story that he was my new fling. My brother, Mike.”

Reluctantly, he smiles at her grossed out shudder.

“Maybe you’re right. Maybe I could have anyone. But if I’m going to be the object of gossip because of who I’m dating, then I should date the person I want.” Here, she makes sure he’s looking her full in the face when she finishes, “And I want you.”

Thankfully, Mike doesn’t give her much of a chance to get nervous about her declaration because he pretty much flattens her against the countertop, his mouth moving insistently against hers. His hands settle heavily, perfectly, on her waist, the wide spread of his fingers covering more of her than she’d thought possible. His hold tightens on her as he climbs onto the counter to really drive home his enthusiasm for her assessment.

Well, he tries.

His knee slips off the edge of the island and it’s a close call between his teeth and Ginny’s full bottom lip.

“Shit,” he hisses, standing upright and drawing Ginny up, too. At the sight of her bright, laughing eyes, he shakes his head. “I’m getting too old for this, rookie.”

“Maybe I should trade in for a newer model, old man,” she teases even as her knees tighten around his hips and her fingers tangle in his tie.

“How about you take this one for a test drive and I show you what it can really do,” he purrs back, looming over her.

Laughingly, she agrees, reeling him in to let him get started.

When, a whole month after the fact, a familiar name flashes across Ginny’s phone screen for the first time, she seriously considers ignoring it. But she’s technically finished her workout for the day, even if her regimen isn’t as strict as it is when she’s in the rotation. So, she stops cycling and picks up the phone.

“Hello?”

“Ginny,” comes the no nonsense voice of her (former?) agent. “I’d like to speak with you. Do you have time this evening?”

“Uh.” Ginny’s feet slip off the pedals, thudding heavily to the ground. “What?”

Amelia sighs impatiently, but doesn’t elaborate. Instead, she repeats, “Do you have time to speak with me this evening?”

Ginny’s mind tumbles as she tries to make sense of what is happening. Why now? Why at all?

Still, she finds herself answering, “Sure. I guess.”

Which is how she finds herself sitting in the hotel room she hasn’t seen for more than twenty minutes at a time—except for the few times she and Mike got distracted by the pillow top King size mattress—in weeks, staring down her agent.

They both sit in bar stools, untouched glasses of water before them.

Ginny waits, unsure of what Amelia has to say, and unwilling to be the first to speak. After all, she isn’t the one who ghosted after a fairly traumatic experience only to show up a month later demanding a meeting.

She uses the silence to study Amelia. She looks good. Less frazzled than usual, for sure, so the time off did her some good. She’s tan, too, clearly having spent a lot of time in the sun. Not a whole month, which Ginny guesses isn’t surprising. There’s no way high-strung, high-achieving Amelia could have let go enough to spend a whole month laying on a beach somewhere. Maybe a few days to wind down, but not four weeks.

Which begs the question: what has she been doing?

Finally, Amelia sighs and begins.

“First, I’d like to apologize for the way I handled your brother. While I stand by my instincts, I’m sure there was a better way to go about acting on them. I wanted to protect you, but I can see that I didn’t and I’m sorry.”

Ginny nods at this, slow and considering. She appreciates the way Amelia doesn’t try to shift blame, even though Evelyn has told her about how she’d gone to Amelia for help upon finding discrepancies in the restaurant’s accounts.

Still, she’s not sure it’s enough.

“I can understand if you don’t think you can work with me any more, but I do believe in you, Ginny. More than any other client I’ve worked with. If you think we can move past this, I would like to go forward with our working relationship.”

She nods again, chewing on her lip. Finally, she looks Amelia square in the eye. “Thank you for saying that. You’re a good agent and I’d like to have you back on my side. But I think we’ll need to figure out our boundaries before we do that.”

Amelia’s mouth twists at that and her eyes cut to her briefcase.

Because Ginny knows Amelia, knows that look, she just closes her eyes and asks, “What did you do?”

There’s a rustling and then the sound of paper sliding across a smooth surface. When she opens her eyes, she’s treated to the sight of a slim manila folder, Mike’s name printed clearly on the tab.

“What is this?”

“I did some digging—”

“You ran a background check on him?” Ginny asks, incredulously staring at the file but refusing to take it.

Amelia huffs, looking entirely unimpressed. “Of course I did. I run background checks on everyone who has access to you, Gin. And mostly, I overlook the trivial stuff—you wouldn’t believe what ballplayers get into and think they can cover up with a few sloppy NDAs—but this guy spends so much time with you and you got attached so fast.”

“Only you could make me befriending someone sound bad.”

Amelia doesn’t back down. “Don’t tell me you’re just friends, G. I’ve seen the pictures.”

Ginny doesn’t flush because she hasn’t done anything wrong. The thought that this, and not repairing their fractured relationship, is what has brought Amelia back sits hard in her throat. Hearing about the injury hadn’t been enough to bring her back, but Ginny in the media spotlight without any guidance had tipped the scales.

“Fine,” she replies, pushing the file folder away. “We’re dating. Which really isn’t any of your business, Amelia. I like him. He doesn’t lie to me—”

Amelia snorts. Or as close to snorting as the elegant blonde gets. She flips the file folder open and shows Ginny a page. “Doesn’t lie to you? Did he tell you he has a record?”

Ginny doesn’t look, but asks, feeling a ball of guilt and nerves settle in her stomach as she does, “He’s been to jail?”

“Juvie.”

“Amelia,” Ginny groans, suddenly feeling much better about this conversation. She’s pretty sure a solid chunk of the Padres have done stints in juvie, not to mention kids from her high school.

Her agent had the grace to look sheepish. “I know, I know, G. But you need to see this.”

Reluctantly, Ginny takes the folder, but she doesn’t read the page. Isn’t this some kind of violation of privacy? She checks, “Don’t juvenile records get sealed or something?”

“It’s not his actual record. Just read it,” Amelia urges.

With a sigh and because she knows the blonde won’t rest until she does, she looks down at what looks like a photocopied newspaper clipping. Well, at least Amelia hadn’t broken any laws for this information. Ginny skims just enough of the article to get its gist, though she writes off some of the more sensational aspects. Just the author trying to spice up a fairly routine article, no doubt.

Nonetheless, she feels guilty the whole time she reads. Guilty and a little crushed at this glimpse of Mike’s childhood. He hasn’t told her much about growing up, and Ginny gets the sense that he doesn’t like thinking about it, let alone telling her all the sordid details.

Firmly, she shuts the folder, wishing it would be as easy to shut off this new information.

If Mike had wanted her to know this about himself, he would have told her. It’s as simple as that. And it happened so long ago. And anyway:

“He doesn’t even talk to his mom anymore.”

Amelia’s lips purse and while Ginny is intimately familiar with the woman’s “You go ahead and think that you poor simpleton” look, it’s never actually been directed at her.

“Maybe that’s true,” the blonde says doubtfully. And there it is. “But I’m just looking out for you Ginny. That’s all I’ve ever done.”

“Think you can keep up, old man?” she asks as she stretches one hamstring and then the other.

“I’m sure I can’t,” he replies dryly. He’s stretching half-heartedly, mostly because Ginny’s entirely unsympathetic to his aches and pains when he doesn’t even pretend to limber up. And Ginny’s sympathies are, if she says so herself, not to be missed.

She hops in place a few times and says, “I’m holding you to that!”

Grinning wide, she takes off, laughing at Mike’s indignant squawk.

When they make it back to his apartment, both sweaty, but Mike definitely breathing harder, Ginny doesn’t wait to get into the bathroom to start peeling off her clothes.

This, undoubtedly, is the best part of running with Mike. The first time they’d come back, she’d raced up the stairs to get into the shower first, unwilling to sit around in her sweaty clothes while she waited around for him to finish up. Ginny thought she’d won, happily soaping up as she heard Mike groan all the way from the front door.

It wasn’t until the shower door opened and another body joined her, that she realized winning might not be everything.

“What are you doing?” she’d asked as one of his big hands came to rest on her stomach and the other pulled the soapy washcloth from her grip.

“Maybe you haven’t heard, but we’re in the middle of a drought. Just doing my part to save water,” he murmured, drawing lazy, bubbly circles over her body.

“Oh, well,” she drawled tipping her head back against Mike’s shoulder, “if it’s for the environment.”

They’re very eco-friendly around here.

Mike’s fingers curl into the waistband of her running shorts as Ginny kicks off her shoes and socks. The shorts—and her underwear—quickly join them on the floor.

Before he can get too solid a grip on her, Ginny spins in his arms, whisking his shirt up and over his head in one smooth movement. He chuckles at her impatience, but that chokes off when her hands work into his shorts, wrapping around his dick. It’s already half hard. His mouth descends on hers, all-consuming.

Mike stumbles a little as he works off his shoes, not once unsealing his lips from hers.

Finally, they’re both naked, standing in the middle of his apartment, making out like teenagers. Ginny’s hand hasn’t left his erection, which has swelled to full attention under her eager ministrations, and Mike’s have gravitated to her ass.

They do have to breathe, though. Ginny’s forehead drops to Mike’s shoulder and she draws in a deep breath.

As soon as she does, her nose wrinkles.

“You smell, Lawson,” she accuses, reeling away from him.

Mike roars with laughter, his arms banding behind her back to keep her from getting away. Ginny wriggles, giggling herself and liking the rub of his thighs and stomach against her. Eventually, he manages to gasp out, “You’re no spring rose yourself, Baker.”

Her giggles die away. She leans back from him. Which has the double effect of allowing her to glare at him and also pressing her stomach against his hips, trapping his flushed, hard dick between their bodies.

The laughter fades at that, but he’s still smiling. “C’mon, rookie. I know how we can fix that.”

For people who are theoretically saving water, Mike and Ginny probably spend too much time under the shower head. Most of it not spent getting clean.

Most of it, in fact, spent being very, very dirty.

Eventually, though, they do have to get out or risk turning into prunes. Besides, it’s not like they have to be in the shower to do what they’re doing. There’s the bed for that. And the couch. And the kitchen counter.

The thought makes her giggle a little. Mike just offers her a goofy grin, wrapping a towel around his waist.

“I’m gonna get started on dinner. How does pasta sound?”

“Perfect,” she replies, settling onto the edge of the tub to start combing through her hair. She’s tried to do it around Mike before, but inevitably gets distracted. Which in the short run is pretty fucking fun, but in the long run leaves her with a mess of knots and snarls to deal with. Same with her post-shower skin care. As nice as it is to have an extra set of hands to rub lotion into her back, when those hands turn wandering, it’s hard to stay focused. And ashy knees and elbows just aren’t worth it.

When Ginny emerges from the bathroom, skin moisturized and hair detangled, she opens her mouth to ask if Mike needs any help. He never does, but she’d feel weird not asking. Before she can speak, though, the sound of Mike speaking catches her attention.

At first, she doesn’t want to interrupt him, thinking he’s on the phone with a client, but soon, she needs to hear how the conversation ends. She hovers in the bathroom door, concealed from sight, just listening.

“Yeah, ma,” he says, and Ginny almost doesn’t hear the frustration in his voice, not when who he’s talking to sinks in. His mom? Before she can dive too deep into that rabbit hole, he continues, “She’s still staying here.”

Ginny’s heart lodges in her throat as she struggles to wrap her brain around what’s happening. He’s talking about her? To his mom? The mom he told her he hasn’t contacted in years?

“No, I told you, it’s gonna take time.”

All at once, Amelia’s folder of information swim to the forefront of Ginny’s thoughts. Snatches of that article (“Like mother like son.” And, “Makings of a career criminal.” And, “Only time will tell.”) flash across her vision like she’s living out some kind of thriller and this is the moment she uncovers the crucial piece of evidence.

But she can’t quite make herself believe it.

Maybe there’s another explanation. Maybe he’s not talking to his mother about her.

And what the hell is going to take time?

“I know. Ma,” he says, blowing out a frustrated breath. “I know what you told me, but it’s taking longer than I thought it would. Just be patient, I can handle it.”

What he says next, though, it cements that sickening, unsettling feeling in her gut.

“You’ll get the money when you get the money.”

The ground falls out from under her. Mechanically, hearing her heart throb in her ears, she steps out of the bathroom, closing the door hard behind her. With just her towel clutched to her chest, she feels far too exposed. Too fragile.

Mike looks up at the latch of the door. When he catches sight of her, the frustrated frown that’d pulled his eyebrows down into a furrow smooths into a fond little smile. He holds up one finger and Ginny finds herself nodding in spite of herself. That smile, it automatically makes her smile back. Despite the roiling emptiness inside her.

“Yeah, all right. See you soon.” He hangs up , continuing to smile at Ginny like nothing is amiss. Like the earth hasn’t shifted underneath them.

Maybe for him, it hasn’t. Maybe this has been the plan all along.

“Who was that?” she asks, impressed with herself for keeping her voice so steady.

Blithely, Mike slides the phone into his pocket. “No one,” he replies, smiling so tenderly at her.

Nothing of her misgivings must show on her face because Mike leaves the kitchen to come to her, that same, gentle smile on his face. When she’s within reach, he kisses her as sweetly as he ever has, but something bitter still unfolds on Ginny’s tongue.

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