Danger Money by John Van Stry

Author:John Van Stry [Van Stry, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, furry, Fiction
Published: 2011-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

9

I wasn't dead of course, just drugged. It turned out Azelett was able to come back for me. She put me in a box and had me shipped by unpressurized freight to the moon. It took three days and I was nearly dead when I got there, but I got there all the same.

She didn't however.

It took a month before I was even allowed to regain consciousness, another three weeks before I was allowed out of the hospital. Azelett had used some fairly potent drugs on me to slow my system down, then sealed me in plastic. The day I spent in Deep space transit hadn't been the tough part, it was the two days that the crate took in the company mail system to get to the right place that nearly killed me.

Nobody in intelligence ever found out what happened to her, one of them even suggested that she might have been the spy. I would have killed him for it if I had been strong enough; instead I just gave the doctors a lot of interesting reconstructive work to do on his face.

Nobody ever suggested that to me again.

Once I finally made it back to the Palace, I locked myself in my room and for the first time in my life I cried. I didn't venture out until my stomach forced me too, and even then my forays were brief and far between.

Eventually I did come out of my shell a little, Dara had started coming to my room again and wouldn't stay away. Teri had died in the latest surge of work, actually about half of the whole section had been wiped out. So she was the only one of my 'lovers' left alive. As she was another assassin, I was surprised she even wasted her time trying to help me. We weren't a very caring and sharing bunch.

Especially to each other.

Eventually I rejoined the world, or what bizarre piece of it that I actually lived in. I was back to spending nearly all my time out in the garden, I rarely slept in my room anymore. Dara was still hanging around, actually I noticed everybody who was still alive was at the Palace. There were only about eighteen left, so it wasn't exactly crowded. I hadn't seen Mr. Siedman since I came back, or any of my other 'Handlers' for that matter. My entire debriefing had only been that one conversation with the Intell people. It wasn't right, but then everything was getting strange, if such a thing could be possible here that is.

I was lying among my Lilac's when I heard the intercom say "We have an uninvited guest! Attention, we have an uninvited guest!" I was wondering who or what could be crazy enough to still try and break in here when a large explosion shook the complex.

"Attention, we are under attack! Attention we are under attack!" The computer started, until another explosion cut all power. I could hear the sounds of small arms fire being exchanged, and quite a few smaller explosions.

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