Excellent story. Any chance of a sequel?

Great story! Love it when Steph's "spidey sense" makes it happen. Thanks for sharing and take care.

P.S. Your Merry Man is Cal - you changed him to Hal partway along.

Excellent one shot-enjoyed the story very much.

One small concern...the Navy doesn't have Colonels or Private First Class ranks-those are Army ranks. In the Navy the equivalent rank of a Colonel is a Captain and the equivalent rank of a Private First Class is Seaman. In the Navy, the Seaman ranks are further subdivided:

"Seaman is the third enlisted rank from the bottom in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and other navies and coast guards. For the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard the rank and pay just above that of a Seaman Apprentice and below those of a Petty Officer Third Class. This naval rank was formerly called the Seaman First Class.

The actual title for an E-3 in the U.S. Navy varies based on the subset of the Navy to which the sailor, seaman, submariner, aviator, hospitalman, nurse, etc., has been assigned. Likewise, the color of his/her group rate mark also depends on his section of the navy.

Those in the general deck and administrative community are "seamen". They wear white stripes on their navy blue uniforms, and navy blue (black) stripes on their white uniforms.

Hospital Corpsmen are now called "hospitalmen." They possess the only rating in this area of duty. They wear white stripes on their navy blue uniforms, and navy blue stripes on their white uniforms.

Those in the ship's engineering and hull maintenance area are called "firemen", and they wear red stripes on both their navy blue and white uniforms.

Those in the aviation area of the Navy are called "airmen", and they wear green stripes on both their navy blue and white uniforms.

Seabees are called "constructionmen", and they wear light blue stripes on both their navy blue and white uniforms."

Don't mean to nitpick on this but after 17 years of service in the Navy, I felt the need to bring it up... If you wanted to fix your story, it's really easy-just change him from Navy to Army.

great story - there should be a sequel! :-)

Great story! You really drew me in at the beginning and held my attention for the rest of the story. Well done!

good story!

I just ran across your story via someone's fav's list. Loved it! It's a shame you don't write Plum anymore! You have lot's of tallent! :O) Hope someday you'll pick up your proverbial Plum pen and write more!

SueK

PS

not to be nit-pickey but Maine is at least 9 hours from Trenton, not 3. :O)

You're done? Thats it? Darn it, you have good characterization, good plot, it would have been good if Stephanie had freaked out slightly more (in her head) when Evangelista (nice name:) had found her but all in all you had a great set up for a real novel, especially with Vinnie taking on Sal's Bond Agency. Oh well I hope there is a sequel, I promise to read it when its done (i don't start stories till they're finished).

Great story! Can't wait to see what happens at the Bat Cave!

Great story.

Excelent!

Great fic, would love to know what happens after they get to the Bat Cave.

I enjoyed Hard Stop very much. You did a great job hooking me at the beginning and held me thru the story. I hope you will write more in the future.

VERY well written, and I can't wait to see what you write for us next. Keep it up you have a talent.

:) I loved it! I was expecting a chapter, not an entire story...what a pleasant surprise!