Quote:Ford stared him down over the sights of her gun,
“Don’t come any closer to me shithead,”
He smiled at her. It wasn’t a pleasant smile.
“Somehow,” he said, “Hi don’t tink hyu vill shoot me,”
He took a step forward, her finger was tense on trigger, taking up the slack. She’d shoot him. God help her she’d shoot him if he got any closer.
“Hyu don’t haf de look hin de eyes,”
Her heart was thumping in her chest. His eyes dropping down warned her that the diagnostic kit wasn’t anything more than a pretense.
“I’ll kill you!”
Shoot him, and the mission’s blown.
“Not a chence,” he said. “Hyu are scared ov me Hi tink. If Hyu vere goin to keel me, hyu vould not be afraid. Hyu vould not be afraid to keel.”
His smile broadened into a grin. She could see her own frightened eyes reflected in each on of his golden teeth.
She felt her blood chill, her body going dead calm. Him dead or bleeding and her explaining things to Sato would be far better than the alternative. She was going to shoot. she had to shoot.
“Stop vasting time end get back to vork!” someone yelled from across to bay. “Kent hyu zee ve hef shit to load?”
He turned around. “Sorry boss,” he drawled. “Hi gots distrected,”
He leered back at her and she clung tight to the pistol. Her slips twisted into a snarl, her gaze hardening.
“Ah,” he sighed with satisfaction. “Dets de look.”
He turned and left her, stunned for a few moments, just standing there with the weapon in her hands. Deep breathing, let the adrenaline fade away. The bastard was getting back to work at the other end of the bay. She returned her pistol to its holster, letting that familiar weight sooth.
He’d been right about one thing. As far as she knew, she’d never killed another human being.
She did her best to just put it out of her mind while hooking the diagnostic tester up to the truck. It gave it’s answer after a few seconds.
She placed a warm hand against it’s cold metal body. “Poor thing. Just give me three days and I’ll have you good as new,”
She got to work. First, remove all the damaged parts.
“Yes we can,” she promised herself. It would be a small miracle to get it going again. It was time for an insistence on small miracles.
Ah... this is still going. I've just been busy doing something else for a quick break.
Which is something set after this, which effectively is also Jet taking a break in Australia in and around the Lake Gairdner area.
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