Chimera Company - Deep Cover 1 by Tim C Taylor

Author:Tim C Taylor [Taylor, Tim C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Human Legion Publications
Published: 2019-10-06T22:00:00+00:00

TAVISTOCK FITZWILLIAM

“Hey, Cisco!” Fitz nodded toward the entrance of the bar where a group of Marines had walked in. “Trouble.”

Francisco Malix said nothing. His answer was to stare at the expectant civilian faces sitting to either side of them on the semi-circular seat.

Fitz followed his friend’s lead, committing the faces to memory, storing them away along with the tingling anticipation of a debauched night – one those Marines were probably about to ruin.

It must have worked, too, because Fitz had always remembered them. The Firm, as Legion Naval Intelligence liked to call itself, sent its operatives on regular Navy postings from time to time, a reminder that the Firm existed to serve the Navy and the Federation. Not the other way around.

The combination of their ensign’s uniforms with Cisco’s silver-tongued charm usually found an enthusiastic audience in bars around the footprint of Samosthan Naval Base, and they rarely spent nights alone when they were on liberty.

Unknown to his best friend, Fitz was beginning to try out Cisco’s charm on his own, developing a persona to add to his arsenal for use at work and at pleasure.

The sound of scraping chairs and raised voices reached across from the entrance.

Damn, but this night had promised to be something special.

The four civilians hadn’t registered the impending trouble. There was a human boy and girl – lovers who had brought along a girlfriend who was all nervous laughter and seemed oblivious to the way she was constantly licking her lips and flicking her hair. But it was the delicate Gliesan girl that Fitz was desperate to team up with.

Alien girls! He’d always had a thing for them. Perhaps it was because when he finally lifted his shades, an alien wouldn’t judge his freakish eyes the way humans often did. She’d even told him she was eager to see what he was hiding behind his shades, because she found human eyes exquisitely beautiful.

Which meant she had been in for a rare sight.

Mostly, though, he hadn’t cared why he liked alien girls. They made his young blood run hot and that was plenty enough reason why.

Fitz sighed and stood up. Any doubts that their evening had been ruined died away. The six Marines had walked into a Navy bar looking for trouble and they’d already found it. Five enlisted personnel in the black fatigues of the Legion Navy had squared up to them.

“Sit down, Zahyn,” Cisco insisted.

Zahyn Zi’Alfu…

His old name felt so uncomfortable that Fitz discovered in that hazy dream logic that he was both in the moment at that Samosthan bar, and simultaneously inhabiting a distant future as Tavistock Fitzwilliam.

“They can wait,” said Cisco, back in his past. “Our friends won’t, and we’re about to clinch the deal.”

“Oh, I don’t think so,” said the Gliesan with that beautiful crystalline voice of her species. She flooded her lips with blood, flashing them at Fitz with purple need. He sat down. “It’s we who are about to close a deal with you,” she teased.

The Gliesan girl shook the glass that she had drained of brandy a short while ago and replaced with six ident chips.

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