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believes I will live forever, but you must remember what the
war is about Jean. It's not about the Committee, it's about
good and evil. Never forget that. Promise me."
"I promise you Rene, but I'm not sure I understand."
"You will my friend, you will."
There was a short silence.
"You know, I'm glad you got yourself married. She's a fine
woman. You are smarter than me."
"Oh no my friend." But Rene had slipped back into
unconsciousness.
Jean continued holding his hand as the heart monitor softly
beeped in the background. He held the old man's hand and
laid his head down on the bed and waited. His mind drifted in
a timeless fog until he was brought back to consciousness as
the beeping had been replace by a soft but insistent hum. He
swore the man's hand had grown slightly colder.
A nurse came in and then left quickly, returning a short
time later with a woman who appeared to be a physician. The
nurse guided Jean away from the bed as he watched the
other woman checking various vital signs. There was no
insistence or panic in her actions. Jean noticed that her
actions were slow and deliberate. Finally, she turned to Jean
and said, "Your father is dead. I'm sorry."
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Jean almost corrected her, but knew she may have been
right about Rene being his father. "Thank you Doctor, I know
he has earned his rest and that he will have it."
The physician smiled weakly and seemed to disappear
when he blinked his eyes. Certainly she had many other
patients to attend to.
He turned to the nurse and said "May I?" Nodding towards
Rene.
"Of course. I will be back shortly to take care of him."
Then she too vanished.
Jean leaned over the body of his friend and kissed his
forehead. "Go with God my friend, Go with God." He was
gone when the nurse returned.
3
Kit was nervous as she and Pat worked their way down to
David's rooms. Like most others, she was very uncomfortable
around David, but did her best to see him when she could.
David had almost killed her twice and it was hard to forget
that. He had also been a very close and dear friend when they
knew each other only in cyber-space. She had, in fact,
cybered with David many times.
But there was something else. David now had this way of
looking inside you now that was very creepy. It was like he
knew more about you than you knew about yourself. He could
call up your deepest insecurities. He could make you relive
your most terrible memories. He could evoke your greatest
joys. She was an open book to the man and evidentially he
had been skipping ahead.
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"Morning, David. Look who I brought." Pat had said when
David opened the door.
David looked quizzically at Kit. For a moment she believed
he truly didn't recognize her. Then a flash of recognition
crossed his face and he smiled broadly.
"You brought me the old Kit."
"The old Kit?" Pat reflected.
"You know, Kit how she used to be. How fun." David was
grinning broadly.
"How is Kit now?" Pat inquired.
"You know, new and improved. I told you that already."
David looked at Kit, "I'm so sorry. It was quite a shock,
I'm sure you'll agree."
Then he laughed "Oh I forgot, you don't know do you?"
She couldn't tell if David were being coy or really couldn't
form his thoughts any better.
"What's going to happen?" Kit asked directly.
"Going to happen?" David turned the idea over in his mind
"Oh, you mean from your perspective. You know time is just
a matter of which direction you look. If you're looking back
then the future is behind you. Of course, if you look sideways
then the future and past all happen at the same time. It's
really quite exhilarating."
"David!" Kit yelled, "Stop this and tell me what's going to
happen."
David looked at her and said "You don't have to yell, it all
worked out just fine. Or maybe it's all working out just fine.
Hard to keep those straight sometimes."
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Kit was getting furious. She had prepared herself for this,
but David's sanity was questionable at best. "David! Please?"
"Please? No, thank you. Thank you for you will be so
glorious. It's hard for me to see you now, so dull and weak
like this."
Kit's inner voice told her that David would never tell her
more. She had learned a lot of discipline lately and she used
every bit of it now. "Pat, if you don't mind, I'll leave you two
alone. David, it has been a pleasure as always." She lied.
"Oh no, it isn't" David said cutting through her artifice
whenever she used it. "No it isn't, but it will be. Yes it will.
Quite a pleasure indeed."
Kit left quietly and then stalked her way to the firing
range.
"I need ammo, lots and lots of ammo." She told the range
master.
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Chapter 9
Kit had had a vague notion that vampire hunting would be
glamorous. When she was traveling under Jean's protection,
they had flown in private jets and lived in luxury hotels.
Jean's apartment was in an upscale high rise in Atlanta. There
was a gym and all services were included, including meals.
Jean would pick up a phone and things would be ready for
him as he needed. Kit had since learned that she was living in
Jean's world and Jean was a blue level agent.
Kit was now a black level agent. While she was proud and
happy to have made it as far as she had, the contrast was
remarkable. She traveled, but she flew commercial and coach
class at that. She was going to learn to hate peanuts she was
sure. She stood in lines to rent economy cars that she and
her new partner would need. She would stay in comfortable,
but hardly luxurious motels. She had no one to call on the
phone for arrangements. She was the one who got called to
arrange things. The last two months had been spent running
errands for higher level agents. Getting their cars, talking to
local authorities to make sure that they would access to
things they needed. If one more fat policeman called her
"Honey," she was going to scream.
If her earlier gopher jobs hadn't taken the shine off her
promotion, she knew this one certainly would. They were
anticipating another bug attack in the next few days and
black teams had been scouring Oklahoma staking out biker
bars. One of the snoops picked up some intelligence
indicating that the next attack would happen in Oklahoma. Kit
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was sure that some gypsy had spotted the bugs in the area
and had dropped an e-mail to one of the snoops.
Pat had told her that he would get two or three gypsy
notes a week. Part of his job was to cross-reference the
message and try and determine its authenticity. One thing
that Pat always did was to try and retrace to message to its
sender. The rule of thumb was: "If you can trace it back, its
phony." Gypsies were too smart to send a traceable message.
Pat had told her that you could, however, get a triangulation
on the sender, maybe find an area that it came from.
Evidentially this message had been verified.
Kit and her partner Alex now had the job of getting the lay
outs of biker bars in southwestern Oklahoma. This was the
seventeenth bar they had been in since their assignment
began. They were all basically the same. They were dirty and
cheep. The bars were small and run down. The selection of [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]