Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business (Roger Rabbit Book 4) by Gary K. Wolf

Author:Gary K. Wolf [Wolf, Gary K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-02T22:00:00+00:00

The flight was slightly more than halfway over, ten hours into the nineteen-hour non-stop journey.

Robbe and Jessica’s first-class seats both folded back into extremely comfortable single beds.

Jessica glanced over at Robbe.

Robbe was caught up in a movie on his seatback TV. The latest James Bond film. Number twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four? Jessica had lost count.

Ironic that Robbe was watching Daniel Craig do on film the same kinds of missions Robbe did in real life. Was Robbe getting helpful tips that would improve his spying technique? Or, more likely, laughing uproariously at the way simplistic film fiction completely failed to emulate the hard truths of real life.

Jessica stretched out on her flying bed and drifted off to sleep.

Watching the movie, actually number twenty-seven in the series, Robbe was neither looking for tips nor laughing at the storyline. He simply enjoyed the black and white nature of secret agent movies’ morality. The hero overcomes tremendous obstacles to defeat the villain. The good guys always win. Exactly the way real life should play out but too seldom did.

The movie was nearly over when Daniel Craig went out of focus.

Robbe tapped the screen, assuming a technical problem. That didn’t help. The problem wasn’t the screen. The problem was Robbe. His vision had blurred.

He rubbed his eyes. No help. His vision remained blurry.

Robbe’s face twitched. The twitch spread to his shoulders, his arms, his hands, his legs, his feet. Try as he might, he couldn’t stop twitching.

Robbe leaned across the center console separating his seat from Jessica’s. He shook Jessica awake.

“Help me,” he said to her, in a panic-stricken whisper. “My problem. My problem came back.”

“What?” Jessica said. She sat up, sleep dazed, not completely awake.

Robbe’s eyes rolled around crazily. His nose twitched like a rabbit approaching a lettuce patch. His ears flapped forward to back. Jessica wouldn’t have believed ear flapping was possible.

“I gotta hide,” said Robbe. “I can’t let anybody see me like this.

Robbe clambered out of his seat and ran for the toilet.

Jessica left her own seat and followed him.

Robbe went into the toilet. He shut and locked the door.

Jessica knocked. “Are you all right in there?” Jessica asked.

She heard a series of bumps and thumps, loud enough to awaken the two businessmen seated closest to the toilet.

“Nooooo,” came Robbe’s voice loudly through the door.

“Open the door,” said Jessica. “I’m coming in.”

For a moment, nothing happened. Jessica was afraid that Robbe had collapsed.

Suddenly, Robbe opened the door, reached out, grabbed Jessica, and pulled her into the toilet with him.

He closed and locked the door behind them.

Robbe was a frightful sight.

His nostrils were twitching so vigorously that the tip of his nose almost reached the bottom level of his eyes. His ears were flapping hard enough to create a slight breeze.

He had lost complete control over his body. He arms and legs jerked spastically. He was quite literally bouncing off the walls. Thump, thud, thump, thud.

The two businessmen sitting near the toilet, now both wide awake, heard the commotion.

They assumed Robbe and Jessica were in the toilet having sex.

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