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It wasn't until our little dog, Sparky, started yelping that Millie burst out, flashlight blazing
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Sparky whimpered and the mermaid flopped around on the floor
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Luckily, Sparky hadn't been completely tied up yet, so he broke out and growled as fiercely as a corgi/dachsund mix could
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But when they all piled into the kitchen, even Millie and Sparky together got scared they wouldn't make it out of the kitchen alive
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Johnny replies, "Oh yeah, that's my dog Sparky
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If he were caught he knew no life sentence awaited him—in Florida—his kind got one thing, Old Sparky, waiting patiently in Starke
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“Sparky, relay to the captain I have positive ID on two of her old friends
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It sounds good in print, but what happens when the facility is full, Sparky is getting old and there is still a few thousand left in Sparky’s care account
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If Sparky were to depart a little early, there’d be room for another wealthy resident and Sparky’s assets would revert to the care facility
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Vincent's dog Sparky came over and rested his head in
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from the television and squinted his jealous eye on Sparky
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While they were kissing, Sparky
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Just as she got a hole in one Sparky took his head off her
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Sparky couldn't wait to
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Sparky trotted over and put his head on Tina's lap to comfort
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" Sparky!" He shouted
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Sparky bit down on the watch band and the wrist watch
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happening, Sparky was hovered over her licking the wounds
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Sparky wagged his tail and licked Tina on the cheek
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pointed the gun at Sparky
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" Good bye Sparky
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Vincent had also repaired his watchband that Sparky
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marks in the watchband where Sparky had chewed through
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Roxanne whistled once and Sparky, the
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hooked it up to Sparky's old shock collar
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Where was Sparky? It was Sparky's job to alert him of
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Sparky sat beside him on the bed, always his friend
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hurriedly scooped them back up and put them back in the dish before Sparky had a
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“Of course,” he said, petting Sparky as the sehlot grew more insistent on a treat
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Sparky slept on a mat beside his bed and this was one of the rare times that his sehlot wasn’t asleep and snoring loudly
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Tammas had never known an animal that slept as much as Sparky, but then, it was under six years old, and in sehlot years, that was pretty old
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He wondered if Sparky was vicariously excited because of his own anticipation of his birthday party with Persis
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Sparky a treat that he kept on the table beside him
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Sparky laid his head
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Sparky in his absence and he should jump when T’Pau spoke
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Sarek was petting Sparky as he chatted
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Sparky came over to him and pawed at his leg
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Sparky licked his face
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Could he? Tammas hugged Sparky and began to silently cry
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“Sparky can stay with us,” Sarek said
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The fact that he missed Sparky was apparent to McCoy, but they both knew the sehlot would not do well coming to Earth,
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It reminded him of Sparky, and he was
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Sparky had died
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“Sparky died,” Tammas said
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Sparky was just the trigger you needed to let your guard down long enough so that you could be vulnerable with me
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Sebastian was sparky and chatty, promising the band a surprise later in the day, but beyond the occasional grunt of confirmation not one of the band members spoke during the entire journey
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Sparky was on the shorter side and had the dullest expression on his olive complexioned face, as I had ever seen before on a man
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Sparky was the first one to break, as he stuttered out, “Eleanor the plane? It… you… we don’t have an auto pilot function!”
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Titus glanced to his left, as Sparky arrived to stand beside of him with two cases in his hands
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Sparky looked out at Eva for a moment and then up at Titus and in his slight Middle Eastern accent said, “It is time for an intervention I think, don’t you?”
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Sparky walked away leaving the cases sitting on the desert sand
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Glancing up he saw Sparky had set two chairs in the shade
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Sparky was elegantly lounging in one chair with a chilled glass of wine in his hand
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Plucking one of the bottles from the sand he twisted the top off and then reached out to clink it off Sparky’s glass of wine in a silent toast to themselves
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“What do you think of her Titus? Will she do?” Sparky asked speculatively, as he watched Eva switch back to the shotgun in the distance
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Sparky nodded slightly and took a sip of his chilled wine
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Sparky looked at the horizon shimmering in the distance
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” Sparky quietly intoned, as he set his still half full glass of wine down on the chair arm
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Sparky stood up as I neared them
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Sparky was such an odd name for him, as there appeared to be nothing even remotely sparky about him
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There were two stools of which Sparky was sitting on one and he gestured for me to sit on the other
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Titus picked Talaric up, as if he was a feather and started for the plane following after Sparky and Catherine, who were carrying Eleanor
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Sparky had hooked an IV up to him and for all general purposes he appeared to simply be resting and recharging from a harrowing experience, if anything Eleanor was blabbering about was true
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” Came Sparky’s droll commentary from somewhere
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Sparky was barely able to contain himself, “Okay where to start? Ahhh, you ladies will appreciate this!”
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Sparky held the largest diamond I had ever seen in the palm of his hand
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Sparky extended it out to me and I grabbed a hold of the spectacular treasure gingerly
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Sparky began dismantling the binding of one of the scrolls and then unbelievably he pulled a white sheet out that had been sandwiched in between the two layers of parchment
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Sparky took a magnet from his hip pocket and threw it up into the air over the five white sheets
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” Sparky intoned, as he squinted through his glasses at the vivid detail that was forming before us
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Talaric and Sparky looked at each other as if comparing mental notes
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” Sparky said aloud, but nothing happened
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Several hours later we landed near the spot that Sparky thought correlated with the spot on the globe
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Sparky, dressed in casual gray with only a 9mm strapped to his hip, checked his calculations for the hundredth time
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Sparky affronted to the implication that he had gotten something wrong shot back, “There was a flood don’t you know! Not to mention several thousand years have gone by
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Equally testy Sparky shot back, “The scale was perfect and so were my calculations! I checked them twice!”
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Talaric was already lowering himself through the hole closely followed by Sparky
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Sparky, enthralled along with the rest of us, of what had taken place in the past managed to get out a question, as he stared vacantly out at the empty hanger bay, “Where did it go?”
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Sparky looked, as if he was about to say something, when he was abruptly cut off by Titus, whose out of breath voice from the doorway behind us boomed out loudly
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Ellanara’s voice was calm, as she instructed Sparky what to do, even as she typed on two separate keypads and glanced between her two screens over to Sparky’s repeatedly
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Ellanara’s fast-moving fingers never stopped as she glanced briefly at Sparky, he caught her glimpse at him and looked into her eyes as she said, “If you only knew Sparky!”
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Sparky swallowed slightly and quickly refocused on his work, as he couldn’t redirect attention from the focus of his work like she could and still be productive
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“We’ve got to leave! Now!” Sparky hollered out, as excited as I had ever seen him before
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Sparky pulled his glasses off to clean them, as he shook his head no
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Sparky soon arrived accompanied by most of the others
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Sparky looked over the brim of his glasses at the big man, “Well then, would you mind enlightening the rest of us!” He said testily
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“We got that!” Interjected Sparky heatedly
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Sparky cut in excitedly, “X marks the spot! Each of you men go to where the four books were found!” Sparky said
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Sparky pulled a case up out of the sand that lay next to the old crate
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” Sparky said softly
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Talaric spoke up, “You couldn’t have known this was going to happen Sparky!”
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Ellanara reached out and touched Sparky’s arm, as he continued to stare dejectedly at the computer screen
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Ellanara shrugged slightly, “You’ve been a lot of help Sparky, but yes I did manipulate the situation a little
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She worked quietly for a moment, “We all make mistakes Sparky
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We’re slightly immature in this area of our natures Sparky
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She glanced up to see if Sparky was being made angry by her words, but he wasn’t
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We as a group stared at Sparky in questioning shock
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Roric and I both looked at each other uncertainly, as we considered what Sparky was planning for us
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Do you understand what your part in all this is then?” Sparky asked, looking from Roric to me
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I could tell that I’d shocked them all, except for Sparky and Talaric
