I Do by Kris Jacen

Author:Kris Jacen [Jacen, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Anthology
ISBN: 9781934531709
Publisher: MLR Press
Published: 2009-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

I DO! 143

Joe stared at Roux, shocked. “You do?”

“Would I tell you if I didn’t?”

“No, Sergent!”

One brow slightly raised with the usual infuriating mockery, Roux gave Joe an address. “Can you remember that?”

“Yes, Sergent!” He’d memorised it already.

“I expect you to be there on the Monday of leave, for two days.”

“Yes, Sergent!”

Joe broke into a grin when he left the office, to get back to his bunk before lights-out.

Sergent Roux’s apartment was small, a kitchenette cum living area, bedroom and tiny bathroom, up on the fifth floor of one of the old granite buildings.

Roux had let him in without a word, and Joe put his backpack down in a corner, looking around. Wondering where on earth he was meant to sleep, since he could only see a bed, no couch. Time would tell, he’d learned never to presume anything.

When he turned back round, he found Roux standing in the doorframe, cigarette in one hand, coffee bowl in the other, holding it out to him. The sergent seemed to be a different man in civilian clothes, if it weren’t for the shaved head, and the face and eyes, as striking as ever.

“Thank you, Sergent.”

He was grateful for the hot, milky coffee, and at the same time feeling oddly displaced by being given something instead of being told to fetch it, make it, do it.

“Don’t call me Sergent out there. No ranks.”

“What should I call you, Sergent?”

Roux huffed tonelessly at the address. “Roux. That will do.”

Joe nodded and took a sip from his coffee. They stood like that for several minutes, until Roux stubbed out his cigarette and Joe had finished most of his coffee. Roux took the bowl out of Joe’s hand and placed it onto the breakfast bar.

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