Murder on Metro 4 by Mattie Hope

Author:Mattie Hope [Hope, Mattie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Bisexual, Science Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2018-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Zheng had had a guard called Oisin O'Brien join PF, since for obvious reasons he couldn't do it himself. So far it hadn't yielded very much helpful information―they were planning a rally, but they'd already informed the Guard about that. They'd gone through the proper channels, done everything legally. There was going to be a Guard presence, but Zheng wasn't expecting much pertaining to the Gershon case to come of it.

O'Brien had been testing the waters, talking about the importance of direct action, and everybody had agreed, but nobody had stood out as champing at the bit to commit violence. When he'd brought up Doctor Gershon, it seemed they'd changed their tune. Apparently, she was no longer a threat to the sanctity of human rights; she was now a human martyr, and a probable victim of the diversity drive.

None of this did much to assuage Zheng's doubts that People First were behind her death. They were assholes, certainly, and mostly idiots, but his gut was still telling him that they weren't murderers. And if they were going to start killing people, he doubted they'd start with a minor scientist whose book they didn't like the sound of. Enough for a few of them to make threats, but to poison her? And very competently, too.

Today's report from O'Brien, though, had something new.

You might be interested to know that PF got (another) new member―that kid who found the body, the one who likes to be called "Ajax". It's strange though, I'm sure he recognized me but he didn't say anything. He asked a lot of questions (even more than me) and generally made a nuisance of himself. Not sure what the hell he's playing at, but I'm sure it won't be long before someone starts thinking he's a UC or a journalist. Not good for him but might help keep attention off of me.

What the hell, indeed, was Ajax playing at? It seemed obvious that he had taken it upon himself to infiltrate PF by himself, for whatever stupid reason. Zheng wanted to tell him to back off, that he was putting himself in danger―but contacting him might draw attention to him, put him in more danger. And then there was the possibility that Zheng didn't want to think about―that their argument had turned Ajax, that he had legitimately joined PF. In that case, any contact from Zheng would lead to questions about how he had known that Ajax had joined, and would compromise O'Brien. Even worse, what if Ajax had been a bigot all along? You didn't have to think splices deserved human rights to want to fuck them. Men had fucked women for hundreds, if not thousands, of years of human history without believing they deserved equal rights.

It disgusted Zheng, sometimes, to think he had been bred and educated to emulate these people, who were capable of such awfulness. But they weren't all bad; he knew that too. And he didn't think that Ajax was, truly. He didn't want to believe it, at least.

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