Duty, Honor, Planet: 02 - Honor Bound by Rick Partlow

Author:Rick Partlow [Partlow, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-12-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

“So, where the hell are we now?” Jock Gregory wondered, sitting up in the g-tank and wiping biotic fluid from his eyes.

Jason McKay wondered the same thing himself. Shaking his muddled head clear, he sat upright and glanced at the readout on the g-sleep chamber’s bulkhead display panel. “We’ve been under for forty-six hours,” he said. “That means we’ve gone through at least two gates, maybe more.”

“Are we there yet, Daddy?” Vinnie muttered, levering himself out of the tank.

“Just a little farther,” McKay returned automatically, carefully stepping out himself and moving stiffly towards the showers.

“We’re still alive,” Esmeralda Villanueva observed as she stepped over to Vinnie, brushing her hand against his. “I wondered when we went into the tanks this time if we would be getting out again.”

“Ah yes,” Jock intoned as he headed into the showers, “I too wondered, as I entered the forbidding chamber of deathlike sleep, whether I would ever see your face once more, my dear Captain Mahoney. Sir.”

Vinnie scowled at Jock’s retreating back but Esmeralda’s full-throated laugh interrupted his comeback.

“He reminds me of my younger brother,” she said fondly, shaking her head.

“He reminds me of a dog we used to have,” Vinnie cocked an eyebrow, “who used to shit all over the floor.” He sighed. “I gotta’ get going, Esme…gotta’ meet with Lt. James still…we never did have time to track down where Mironov got that gun.”

“Then I will see you when the opportunity arises,” she said with a wistful smile, letting her leg brush against his as she passed by.

Vinnie felt an electric tingle run up his spine and he closed his eyes for a moment and took a breath before he moved on in to the men’s shower room.

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