Orphans Beloved… "East by SouthWest…"
Summary: Like my Immortal Beloved bits in my Buffyverse stories, these are fragments and short bits, some longer…Just to fiddle with ideas, possibly forming longer tales later.
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The stark, futuristic Dyad Institute tower…
"All I want is the girl…Er, woman…" grimly insistent tone…
"Hey, she really got under your skin, didn't she?" Aldous Leekie, leaning back in chair at desk, smirking grin…Glance to the woman by his desk, Rachel Duncan…In all her power, powder-blue, suited, frosted hair glory…
"Allison was a nice girl…There was no reason to kill her." The initial speaker, Donald "Donnie" Hendrix, currently in business suit.
"Well, Mr. Hendrix…The betrayal was mutual…" Rachel, coolly. "We'd no idea our clueless, lovably schlempy monitor was a US government agent."
Still can't believe this lump is a Fed…Paul, likewise in suit, standing opposite Leekie's chair.
No, something's not right here…
"Hendrix, no one regrets poor Allison's death more than me. Given neither of us was exactly honest in our dealings with the poor kid, lets just put it down to an unfortunate mischance. So, let me understand this…" Aldous rose… "I give you our dear Ms. Duncan as our 'fall' lady and you give us the time we need to clear out…Secure our files and equipment and go…Just like that…Before your people move in."
"I can keep them off…But I want her to get what's coming to her." Hendrix, nodding.
God…Donnie…Beam…
You're doing so terrific…We've got to try acting together in the playhouse back home…You're a natural…Like…Cary Grant…Allison, repressing smile…
Paul, though, catching her slight gleam…
Hmmn…
Something tells me maybe our Ms. Duncan didn't succeed so well as we thought in impersonating the little paranoid housewife…
And the lump is likely just that…
Oh…Allison realized she was missing her cue…
Anger the motivation…
"Hendrix, you're still just a fool, agent or no…Aldous isn't about to hand me over." She sneered.
Well…Aldous eyed her…
Aldous?...Her return stare…
After all we've meant to each other…?
And…Eehew, eehew, eehew…God, I wish I'd never learnt about this…You're practically my …Well, her…(cause, God I will never acknowledge you as my) father…
Still…Aldous reflected…She does know a bit too much to hand her over…
And God, she's not only good in bed as Rachel but she's terrific at playing all the others…
I mean two weeks ago, when she was doing Helena… "Before I kill, Devil…We see how good you are…"
What a rush…I can still feel the touch of her knife up my chest…
God…Allison repressed a gag at Leekie's leer…
He's fantasizing about me, isn't he…? Oh, eehewwww…
"I'm afraid it's out of the equation, Mr. Hendrix…" Leekie shrugged. "I'm quite willing to be reasonable and negotiate, but not on that particular item."
"Think again, Doctor…" Donnie insisted. "My people will be here in fifteen unless I make a call!"
"Enough!" "Rachel" pulled out a pistol from her purse… "I've had it with this silly fool!"
Donnie, be careful how you fall…Do it just like we practiced…
Shots fired as Paul watched coolly…Leekie rather less so…Donnie collapsing. Blood issuing from wounds…
Ah, the blood packets worked just fine, well done Felix…Allison repressed a contented beam…
Leekie hurrying to her…
"I shot him!...Aldous, I had to!"
Paul eyeing the scene coolly…
Uh-huh…
Right…
But given fat boy probably does have a crew on the way…
"Paul? Is he…?" Aldous eyed the body as "Rachel" moved to him, embracing…
Leekie taking the gun from her hand…
One never knows if the Helena will out in our girls…Best to take no chances…
Allison for her part, a hair reluctant to give up the gun but following the script…
He has to see it really seems to have been fired, etc…
Hmmn…Paul went over, examining…
Well, does seem…
"He does seem to be dead."
Maybe…Maybe not… He rose and with sudden violent jerk, kicked the corpse…
Nothing…Except a slight whitening and tense clench of hands on "Rachel's" part…
Oh, if that damned gun really fired real bullets you miserable son of a…Fighting, fortunately for her self-control with…
Donnie…Wonderful job…Even if one allows for the drugs.
Anyway, I could always impersonate Helena and slip into this jerk's holding cell later…Sarah's convinced the crazy blonde freak's still alive after her corpse disappeared.
But, on with the playlet…We need to get those files…
"We…We have to get out of here, Aldous!" she urged. "The police and US authorities will be coming!"
"Yes…Time to pull out. Fortunately we can be ready in a few minutes, darling…" Leekie, nodding. Eyeing the blood on "Rachel's" suit. "I think you'd best use the time to change while Paul and I secure things."
She, looking down…Oooh…Slight trembling…
It's not real…Well, it's not really Donnie's…He's fine…Assuming they don't throw him out of a window or into the trash compactor…Or he wakes up from his drug-induced false death state too soon… "Yes, I'd better…Thank you, Aldous…Sorry…I guess I just lost my head."
Well…In a manner of speaking, she eyed Leekie…Ok, quite literally when Sarah had to decapitate her in their final one-on-one when she saved Kira from an "aunt" nearly as crazy as Helena…Your girl did…
And even if she had Helena's and Kira's regenerative genes, I don't think she'll be regrowing a head anytime soon…
"I'd better dispose of that gun, Aldous." Paul suggested…Aldous nodding and handing the gun over. Paul leaving the office, a moment later…Gun in hand.
"I'll go change…Thanks again, Aldous…Uh, what about…?" she eyed Donnie on the floor.
"A present from us for his friends…" Aldous shrugged. "Better hurry, dear. Paul and I will get crackin' ti secure everything…"
"All right…" she gave wan smile, heading out…Passing a smiling Paul who nodded to her as she exited.
"Paul? We'd better get moving…" Aldous noted, eyeing computer. "Just the main files, everything else should be ready." He clicked a few times with mouse.
"Fine." Nod. "Aldous? Do you really intend to bring Rachel along?"
"Paul?" stare. "Not only is she rather an essential component of the project, she's a senior staffer and a team player…Very much so…" he eyed the corpse on the floor… "And of course she and I…"
Leering…
Eeheww…Paul winced.
God, the woman is practically your daughter, you perv…
But, a job's a job…And I do rather like it… Plus these guys can clear me of my past…Not only the "friendly fire" incident…Never cross me in business, boys… And that silly little mass murder charge…
Hey, everybody I hit deserved to be hit…
Well, the kids were collateral…Shit happens…
"Paul? I think I've made it clear that Rachel is coming with us?"
Paul shaking head as Aldous pulled a flash drive out of his computer…
"This all doesn't seem a bit too pat for you? She escapes from Sarah with a blood sample from Kira? She nails our friend Hendrix over there."
"Rachel's always gotten the essential job done…And in a moment of panic…This matter's closed, Paul. Lets…"
"I don't think so…" Paul, pulling gun…
"Paul?" Leekie staring as Paul fired several times…Point blank…
… Without effect.
"An old trick from the Gestapo…Shoot one of your own to win trust…She just freshened it up with blanks."
Shit-eating grin…
"Hey!" he backed away from Leekie's sudden punch…
"That's mostly for that shit-eating grin and partly in mourning for my girlfriend…" Aldous glared.
"It's got to be Allison…" he noted, looking to where "Rachel" had left a moment ago.
God, there's no one stupider than a husband in love with his wife…Should've known that lumpen drone would turn on us…
"What about Hendrix? He's got to be under…" Paul, feeling jaw…
The things I put up with for the job I must admit I love…
Even to having sex with that bitch Beth…And Sarah as Beth…
After all, I'm gay…
"Leave him…He can wake up to find his little game worked and we took her with us…"
Well, maybe I can get in a few more kicks as we leave…
"We're taking her? Aldous?"
Thin-lipped smile…
"I'd say this problem's best disposed of over water, from a great height…And I'm taking her, Paul. No one said anything about you getting a transfer."
Damn…Thought I'd finally have a chance to be alone with him on that long flight to Zimbabwe, our new unregulated land of opportunity where Science can continue its giant strides unfettered by moralistic nonsense. But God, he's so devastating when he goes into menacing mode…
"Aldous?" Allison, now changed to a traveling suit, from the office door…
"I'm ready…"
"Great, dear. Come in. We're just about set. I'm just making my good-byes to Paulie here." Leekie smiled coolly.
"Ms. Duncan?" Paul smiled. "I just want you to know I hope you'll imagine me being along on this trip with you, in spirit."
"Thank you, Paul." Allison nodded, wan smile.
You two-timin', betraying lil'…Can't wait to see your ass roasting in jail…
Ally? Donnie, paralyzed as yet but having heard all…
Get out of here!...Ally!...