heh - love this chapter! i love that the instincts to protect their own that katina and volk learned so long ago are still in use now as they have valeria to look after. and i still can't get over how freakin adorable valeria must be...
lena's joke was freakin priceless! i can just see her being all serious and rational, rattling off why it'd be *such* a good thing... lmao! *great* work parrish!!