(eng) Paul Tassi by Herokiller

Author:Herokiller [Herokiller]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THEY KEPT TALKING UNTIL the sun dipped down behind the wall, and the Glasshammer snipers were black dots against the pink sky out of the window. Mark heard a ripple of laughter from a floor down. Brooke put away the flexscreen and turned to leave.

“Better get out of here before the Heroes and Legends audience starts buzzing about us,” Brooke said with a half-smile.

“Ah, whatever,” Mark said. “It’s nice seeing you outside of an S-lens, you know.”

Brooke turned back toward Mark, and leaned against the door.

“You could stay, you know,” he said.

Something unspoken passed between them. They both knew what it was.

“I think someone might not like that,” Brooke teased, defusing the tension. “Miss Rosetti?”

“What?” Mark asked.

“I caught the episode from the night of the invasion. They put a nice little spotlight on your moment by the lake before they cut out all the other footage. I’m sure she was whispering something quite nice in your ear.”

Brooke was smiling, but her eyes were a bit sad.

“No,” Mark said. “It wasn’t like that. It isn’t like that.”

“Mark,” Brooke said, her tone changing into something sharper. “Why do you think that matters to me?”

“You know why,” Mark said. And there it was. He didn’t even have to be drunk to say it.

“It’s not …” Brooke said. “It can’t be …”

She looked frustrated at not being able to find the words. Mark had moved closer to her, but the look on her face made him stop. It was pain, pure and simple.

“You heard about the mountain team, right? For Spearfish?”

“I, uh, of course. I know they succeeded,” Mark said, caught off-guard by the topic change. “They never told us anything about the other Spears. Deniability. Why?”

“It was a team of three,” Brooke said. “They were supposed to set charges after infiltrating the base to blow the whole thing up with General Lin inside. The first piece of the puzzle.”

“And they did,” Mark said. “But what does—”

“Once they got out,” Brooke continued. “They realized there was too much shielding in the walls for their remote detonation signal to go through. They only had one choice.”

Mark stared at her.

“One volunteered to sneak back in. Actually, they all did, as the story goes. But in the end, they drew straws, as they only needed one to bring the remote back inside the base.”

“I don’t understand,” Mark said. “How do you know all this? You weren’t even in the Agency back then, and they don’t share that shit with anyone.”

Brooke blew out a sigh.

“It was my brother, Ryan, who detonated the charges himself. He was a field op like you, hand-picked for the mission. They never recovered his body, as it was either blown up by the blasts or crushed by the collapse of the mountain itself. He’s still there.”

Mark blinked, stunned.

“My family buried an empty box. My parents were told he died in a training accident, and they begged me to drop out of the military altogether. They didn’t know I was also training for the Agency.

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