Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Leslie Langtry

Author:Leslie Langtry [Langtry, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Published: 2015-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

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"That was AWESOME!" Theo jumped in the air, pumping his fist.

"It's not a bad story…" Dak said grudgingly. His wife, Leonie, kissed him, and he smiled.

Eulalie the Dodo woke up and stretched her tiny wings, before hopping down off my lap.

Veronica, Leonie, and the other spouses left to put the kids to bed, leaving Gin, Paris, Dak, Cy, Liv and myself sitting in front of the fire.

"You know," Gin said as she stared into the flames, "I always thought it weird that no one ever tried looking for those five bastards."

Paris shrugged. "I don't think the world missed them much."

Liv walked over to Eulalie and sat down beside her on the rug. She rubbed the back of the bird's head, and the dodo made a trilling noise, her eyeballs rolling back into her head. "It's too bad we are retired. That we don't kill the scum of the Earth anymore."

Dak nodded. "I miss that. Like you said in the story, I always felt like we were making the world a better place."

"I miss it," I admitted. "Retirement is dull."

Everyone stopped and stared at me.

"Tell me you don't think so," I demanded. "Tell me you don't miss the excitement, the planning, the execution, all that."

One by one, each one of them nodded.

"Yeah," Gin spoke up. "But I don't miss the Council."

"Or all those rules," Liv added.

"Being told what to do," Paris said. "And when."

We were all quiet, musing on the nostalgic satisfaction that comes from knowing you took some of the worst people on Earth out of circulation. In the kitchen I could hear Leonie and Veronica singing Christmas carols and the clank of dishes being washed.

"So," Cy said thoughtfully. "We all miss killing bad guys to make the world a better place." He leaned forward, a sly smile crossing his face. "Alright. What are we going to do about it?"

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