Pinch: A Little Here, A Little There by SD Hatfield

Author:SD Hatfield [Hatfield, SD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mad Moon Publishing
Published: 2015-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

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“Can’t you go any faster?” Dave urged Jonas. “C’mon.”

“We’re almost there.” Jonas was weaving through traffic like a mad man. They had tried Miguel a couple of more times but he wouldn’t answer. Jonas even tried Josie’s cell but only got voice mail. “That’s weird.” Jonas pointed to the horizon.

Dave looked at the glow coming from the subdivision ahead. His heart sank. Once as a kid he and his parents had left the house for dinner and on the way back they say the same glow, just like that. HE remembered joking with his mom how funny it would be if it where there house. It turned out that it was. The family sent the night with the fire department and the neighborhood watching their life burn to the ground. This time it would be something far, far worse.

Jonas pulled on the street that Miguel’s house was on and knew something wasn’t right, sirens and flashing light, people milling about. Much like Dave he had a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. He stopped the car down the block from the house, got out and walked the rest of the way. Dave was right behind him. They got to the house just as the EMT’s were wheeling out the bodies. A sudden gust of wind combined with the still glowing embers of the house caused a grisly sight as the charred bodies were exposed to the crowed for a brief second.

“C’mon, we have to get out of here.” Dave put his hand on Jonas’s shoulder. Jonas shrugged it off.

“What do you mean?” HE was tearing up. “Their dead, whoever did it either got the drive or destroyed it.”

“Yeah, but they can’t be sure we didn’t make more copies. They are going to come for us Jonas.”

“No, no, no. You. They are going to come for you.” He started walking away. Dave caught up.

“It’s not that easy.” Hr grabbed Jonas this time and spun him around. “Look, I am sorry, this was not what I had planned, but we are in this now and we have no leverage to fight them with. We have nowhere to run and now where to hide. They are going to try and clean up this entire debacle and that means us, both of us.”

“Let’s just go to the cops.”

“Won’t do any good against these people, but maybe we can reach out to the Feds.” Dave let Jonas go. “The Deep Net, if I can log in there I can find one of those stupid Feds and get help.”

“OK, yeah, that may work.” They were back at the car now. “Where do we do it from?”

“It has to be the office; all my proxies are setup there.” Dave stopped. “Are you going to be OK?”

“Miguel is dead.”

“I know.”

“No, I am not going to be OK. I just want this over.”

“Me too. Just get me back to the office and I can fix this.”

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