Mace’s
code 10 was taking longer than Dak would have hoped and soon he was
forced to distract Lacy Law. Fortunately this wasn’t overly difficult,
other than the keeping her icy hands off of him part. Dak just hoped
that Erin wouldn’t be leading the way and find Lacy practically sitting
on his lap as she was.
When
the door to the hotel room was finally kicked open, Dak lunched to his
feet, which lunched Lacy onto her ass. After emitting a very undignified
chirp when she landed, Lacy suddenly sprung into action.
Lucy
“Come
on Dak,” she yelled while delivering a karate kick to a Jumper’s face.
The man went flying backwards into a wall, his face an angry smear. That
would be enough damage to send that boy back to the Grafter’s cloning
vats.
Since
she was watching, he was forced to stun one of his own allies. When her
kick took out another masked Jumper, Dak realized that his remaining
allies were dwindling. He grabbed one of the Jumpers by his jacket and
together they slammed into a wall. Dak winked at the man, then used his
Flashgun to send a stunning beam of yellow energy into Lucy’s back. She
fainted before she could turn, but he would have just blamed it on the
Jumper anyway.
Mace
When freed, Mace shook his hand. “I guess I finally owe you one.”
“After helping me with Erin you are more than even.”
“Or
maybe you’re going to owe me again,” Mace said, as a smile spread over
his bruised face. With his hand his gestured to two limp bodies that
were being dragged into the room.
“What is this?”
“We
can’t leave you looking like a incompetent can we.” His hand patted the
side of Dak’s face. When he saw Dak’s look, it quickly jerked away.
“These two Jumpers have broken a few of our laws. They’ll take the rap
on your side of the law as their punishment.”
He
was walking over to the unconscious Lacy as he spoke. “That will help
your story, get you your first big Jumper bust, and get rib of these two
dregs all in one move.”
“If
I didn’t know better, I might think you set this all up.” Mace only
smiled. “Hey don’t mess with her,” Dak started but it was already too
late. Mace had found a small dagger somewhere and stabbed it into Lacy’s
leg. It drew more sparks than blood.
“Just as I thought, she has some type of cyber legs. I’d watch out for this one Dak.”
“You
can count on it. Now, since you are still basking in the glow of my
rescue, I wanted to talk to you about Matthews. He needs to be on the
task force. I also think…”
* * *
Erin
was tapping her long pink nails against the glass table. Long blonde
locks hid most of her face and only the side of her cute nose and her
cherry lipped pout could be seen. “Okay what is it?”
Erin
She picked up a nail file without looking at him. “Mace told me you were getting pretty close to that reporter chippee.”
“Not as close as he was.” He couldn’t help but grin.
Turning towards him at last. “Mace doesn’t have a girlfriend.”
“Neither do I.” Her eyes went big, he let his words linger for a moment, “I have a lover.”
She softened. “I could see why that bionic bitch would be interested, but she needs to stay away from my man.”
“I wish she would, but I have a feeling that my new job is just going to be making things more complicated and difficult.”
She
finally moved close enough for him to hold her. “Doctor Max knows what
he’s doing. If he thinks this Task Force is a good thing with you at its
helm, it probably is.”
“Better me than someone else, but it still is putting the flame on high.”
“You just have to make sure you don’t get set up.”
“Or that you don’t get dragged into things.”
That
quieted her and she shivered against him. In the background the news
was coming on. He had wanted to hear how they would cover the event, but
when he heard Lacy Law’s voice and saw her cold piercing eyes, he
turned the vid off.
Skinjumpers
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