Hee! (Again) Great Spike line. Very excited for the next chapter. Cordy, Billy (I KNEW it!), the reprecussions of torturing the Mayor, Numfar! Can't wait! I'm really enjoying your characterizations and the way you're bringing past stuff from the shows.

Another side note...I know a guy who served in Bosnia and here's my history-geek side note, but...um, wasn't the US mostly involved in air strikes? I seem to recall that most of the ground "peace keepers" were Canadian and other NATO countries (becasue of the whole atrocities thing that lead to a lot of trouble in Canada, which I remember hearing about incessently on the news, and the closing down of the RCAF, thus leading to us having, for all intents and purposes, no army). Milosovitch didn't actually stop his "ethnic cleansing" until he was faced with the possiblilty of Clinton deploying ground troops. It's actually because of Bosnia that Americans got used to the idea of "war without casualties", since there were negligable American losses (like 4 people, I think) when compare to other wars. Sorry to bring it up, since it throws off a fabulous plot idea, but I can't leave the history stuff alone. However, if Billy were, say, shot down in his place...that could work *g*

Author's Response: Glad you liked the story. I've actually read a lot about Bosnia and the Bosnian war. Yes, you're correct. The U.S. never deployed ground troops and in fact fought the war because they didn't want to deploy ground troops. It's a confusing thing that has to do with treaties, but if you read Richard Holbrooke's memoirs *To End a War*, you'll get teh story. So yes, minimal casualties making Billy's POW status unlikely. But I do have an explanation planned. However, I may not time to get to it because Billy is mostly a pretty minor character. We'll see.