Chapter 25Taggart was the first to wake the next morning. He turned over in the bed, blinked several times, and then found Rory’s hand under a blanket. He was still sleeping deeply from what Taggart could tell. Taggart squeezed his hand twice. It was enough to remind him where he was before he got out of bed.
The moment he stepped outside the door, the cat mewled at him. They’d decided as they re-watched Back to the Future the night before that Doc was a good name for her. Not Doc Brown, since her fur was white, but Doc since she had the hair of Christopher Lloyd, along with the demeanor of a mad scientist. She continued to mewl at Taggart as he set foot in the kitchen.
“I hear you, I hear you,” Taggart murmured. He figured this type of reaction was extreme, even for Doc, but then he not
