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Chapter 3: Aftermath
"Lauren!" James knocked loudly on the door of his little sister. "Lauren!"
"James, you're a bloody idiot. What do you want?" Lauren snapped opening the door.
"Why didn't you tell me you had a boyfriend?"
"What?" Lauren asked. "James are you drunk or something?"
"Mike Conrads."
"What?"
"I know that Gary Conrads little brother Mike tried to snog you during basic training and got a hundred pushups from Large." James couldn't control his laughter burst out laughing.
"What! Who told you?" Lauren exploded.
"Ummm," was all James could say in between laughs. He never really got a full answer, their conversation ended with Lauren hitting him with a magazine several times before he finally went away, still laughing like crazy. He talked to Mac about his encounter with Danny fairly quickly before he went to hit the dojo where he saw Danny again.
"Hey Danny," James gave a friendly wave.
Danny nodded and waved back. There weren't too many people in thb\e e dojo, about ten or twelve roughly. "Wanna be sparring partners?" Danny asked breaking the silence.
James nodded. Both boys stepped into fighting stance as one of Takada's assistants refereed.
"Go!" she called.
James wasn't sure how he was meant to go. Was he meant to show how strong he was or hold back a little? He wasn't given time to decide. Danny lashed a perfect roundhouse kick into James' stomach. James stumbled back a little but quickly regained his footing.
"Oh, it's on." he muttered. James charged forward and aimed a headshot at Danny. It was a narrow miss before James pounded his fists into Danny's chest.
Danny coughed out and tried to hit a powerful side kick onto James who dodged and tried to launch a spinning kick but was blocked by a perfectly executed back turning kick via Danny. James attempted a triple combo high punch, he landed the first two but Danny managed a double outside block, knife-hand strike and almost kneed James' head who only just managed to get away and side kick Danny in the head.
"Time!" Takada's assistant called. The kids exited the dojo. Danny went up to James.
"You had some kick-ass moves in there dude!"
James smiled. "Thanks, I try." Before he could continue Kyle came rushing up.
"James," he panted. "Mac wants to see you in his office. You think he found out about the whole water balloons thing?" Kyle asked anxiously.
"Ummm… I don't know but I should go find out. See you later Danny." James said as he bolted off to Mac's office. It was probably another meeting concerning Danny. He darted up to the building. He entered the office.
"You wanted to see me…again?"
Mac nodded. "Remember that mission I told you about? The one Danny was perfect for."
James nodded. "Yeah."
"It turns out you aren't going to have as much time as we thought."
James narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean not as much time?"
"Well," Mac said in a suddenly very serious tone. "The mission was classified as medium risk, it involved collecting a lot of information and befriending kids involved in certain…gangs. I can't discuss too many of the details with you now, not here anyway. The point is that something went bust and the mission is now classified high risk."
"So?" James asked.
"I received some Intel from one of our contacts at MI5 and if we don't get someone in now there will never be another chance, not a good one anyway so we need Danny sooner than we thought."
"How much sooner?"
"We originally thought we had a couple of weeks, maybe a month or so, but now we need him in exactly one week."
James could have passed out. It would have been easier to.
"A week! I can't convince him to go on a mission in a week! We've just become friends, I don't even know if we're really friends yet! Can't you give any more time?"
Mac shook his head. "Sorry James. You have a week."
James looked down solemnly as he left the office. He had one week.
