Title: "Secret Fan"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: PG
Summary: Mary prints another bad report on the boys.
Challenge: Anneack's Magnificent Seven Challenge for 6-2-10 to use expletives in a 100-word drabble
Warnings: Drabble, OW
Word Count: 200
Disclaimer: Chris Larabee, Mary Travis, and The Magnificent Seven are & TM CBS, The Mirisch Group, MGM, and Trilogy Entertainment, not the author. Everything else is & TM the author. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.

Citizens scurried out of the way of the man in black as he stalked to the Clarion. He threw the door of the newspaper office open, stormed inside, and slapped the day's newspaper down. "What the Hell is this?" he snarled, keeping his hands firmly on the desk to prevent himself from strangling the doe-eyed blonde before him.

Wide eyes met his gaze. "It's the truth."

"How many times have we saved your asses?"

"Countless," she admitted, "but you failed to save the Skoles' daughter."

"We didn't know in time to - "

"The newspaper does not print excuses, Mister Larabee. It prints facts. However, when you - "

Chris glared as he ripped the paper apart. "Go to Hell." He stormed out, his green-eyed glare piercing all who saw it.

Left alone in her office, Mary sighed. "I was going to say that it will be my pleasure to print the article's sequel, a factual of the heroic men who will bring retribution to young Phyllis' murder."

Sometimes she despised having to print the truth, but she had a responsibility to her readers just as the town's Magnificent Seven had to protect them, which she knew they would do even if it cost them their lives.

The End

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