"So that´s all? That´s the plain truth?" Kitty sat behind the steering wheel of the T.U.F.F. mobile and interrogated Dudley. She was alone with him in the car because Keswick and the chief took the T.U.F.F. van. Dudley had to collect some stuff from his cell and he wanted to say goodbye to Snaptrap what was really surprising.
"That was the whole story about that what really happened in the past. You´re angry?"
What a naïve question, of course she was angry.
"No, I´m not." Lied Kitty.
"Oh yes you are. You always say that you´re not but you are. So why are you angry?"
She didn´t answered to that but Dudley didn´t give up. He turned the table and began to question Kitty with the same phrase all the time. "Come on Kitty, tell me." He repeated that like a broken record until it was enough for her.
Kitty jammed the brakes and drove the car to the side of the road. She turned her head from the street and looked angry at him. "Do you really have to ask me why? Isn´t that obvious Dudley?"
"Not really I mean I…"
"Dudley" Kitty sighed annoyed and interrupted him before he could say anything stupid. "If you don´t understand it… You haven´t understood me…" she sighed again and continued driving. Until they drove into the T.U.F.F. garage they remained silent.
"So… what happened when I was away?" Dudley felt that he said this sentence much too often in his life.
"Keswick caught this monster thing."
"Really? Keswick." The car stopped, both got out it and walked to the elevators.
"Yes." Confirmed Kitty also with amazement in her voice. "But he said that this thing more or less give itself up. And it speaks!"
"It speaks?"
"Yep. Also pretty fluent."
"Interesting. And what do you think?"
"I don´t know what I should think about this all yet." Kitty answered pensively.
The doors of the elevators closed and the annoying elevator music began to drone. With that both fell silent again.
This time not because they were angry at each other. It had become a habit recently that nobody speaks in the elevators. The younger agents overdone that and began to hold their breath over the whole time in the elevator.
If you do that from the basement to the first floor that´s not a problem, but holding your breath from the garage level to the eight floor it becomes a problem. Some agents were even dragged unconsciousness out of the elevator. Also Dudley couldn´t resist testing his lung volume.
As the doors opened he sucked fresh air into his breast. Kitty raised her eyebrow.
"Really Dudley? How old are you?"
"Hey, I´m still…" Dudley was stopped in mid-sentence by loud laughter that was coming from the office. Dudley and Kitty recognized some of these voices.
But one distinctive voice stuck out of the maze of known voices. Dudley stepped into the office and couldn´t believe his eyes as he saw the advisor sitting with the chief, Keswick and Keswick´s daughter Ruby around his desk.
"And then he said 'Do I look like a clown for you' with this strong Russian accent and I said. 'Beppo, you are a clown'. HAHAHA" Sam began to laugh and the others around the table joined him.
"What the hell?" Dudley and Kitty stood there and watched the group unbelieving.
"Oh Dudley Kitty, come and join our little tea party." Suggested Sam.
"What…"
"I think I can explain that." Intervened the chief fast. "We came in here and saw Sam sitting on your table drinking tea. He asked if ye like to join him and after a short period in which we were standing with our guns pointed on him we decided to join. You should too. He knows really funny stories. Like the one with the fish and the baseball bat."
And again the group began to laugh. Also Dudley began to laugh now suddenly what made all others stop laughing.
"Okay, I understand it now. HAHAHA, this is just a dream right? Finally everything makes sense." He walked to his desk, past Keswick´s daughter, opened a drawer and pulled his gun out. Everybody backed away from Dudley and stared shocked at him.
"Dudley, what are you up to?" asked Kitty worried.
"This is a dream. And I saw this movie!" Dudley pressed his gun against his head. "I´ll pull the trigger and then I´ll wake up in my warm bed again beside Kitty. Without any trouble or worries."
All others continued staring shocked at Dudley except Sam who suddenly began to giggle.
"Okay. If you think that is the only way. Pull it. Come on. Pull the trigger."
"I will!"
"No you will not. And do you know why? Because you know exactly that this is not a dream. The last five years were like a dream for you and your only fear was that you might wake up. But know when things are starting to fall apart again you are afraid and the certainty came to you that this is not a dream. But you wish that it would be. Pull the trigger if you want. You know that this would be the only way."
"Goddammit!" coursed Dudley and let the gun sank down again. "Let´s get straight to the point. Why are you here this time. AND WHY ARE YOU SHOWING YOURSELF!"
"Well that is an excellent question. And the answer is… I have no idea! I was somehow brought here and I lost my powers. All in all, I am stuck here." Sam explained it with a serve voice but Dudley reacted with a fit of laughter.
"You kidding right? That is just so fair!"
"Haha… funny. You want to add something to that?" Retorted Sam sarcastically.
"Karma is a b*tch right?"
"I would say it is fair… but I do not know what I could have done."
"Hmm… let´s see. You send me a terrible nightmare, you let me run through a terrible hard training, you put me in that unsafe time machine and you always make fun of me. I think that´s enough for the universe to react." Enumerated Dudley mockingly.
"And you really think that you are important enough that the universe had to intervene? I do not think so. But anyway, whatever the reasons for my presence here is, it is not a good sign."
Dudley could just agree to that. He maybe had no idea about how the things in Sam´s world worked but it was apparent for him that this shouldn´t happen.
The whole thing looked like some kind of banishment.
"So what are our next steps?"
"You have to free me. I am useless when I have to stay in this building. And I mean I freed you. Before you ask, yes I obtained your release from prison. And before you ask how, I hacked into the police server and changed the fingerprints in your file. With the fact that you cannot leave anymore fingerprints right now the police is not able to compare anything to the fingerprint on the wallet."
Sam stood up and pretended that he tried to calm down an applauding audience. "Thanks. I know that was brilliant. No need to applaud. You can get your autograph later."
"We haven´t… anyway. Why should we free you?" Kitty asked.
"Because I am innocent!"
"Why should I believe that?"
"Because I have two hobbies. Watching movies and annoying Dudley. Killing defenseless boy scout is not on the list." Sam justified himself.
"Even though, how c..c..could we free you? Your situation is much more complicated. A bit h..h..hacking won´t help you." remarked Keswick.
"If there is a will there is a way. That is for sure." meant Sam confidently.
While they all talked with each other the elevator doors opened again. A little dog girl was pushed out of it with the words. "Deliver the letter to him." Confused look the girl around. The room in which she was, was empty. It was Sunday so all agents were at home.
Everyone who was in the office now was just there because of Sam. From the distance she heard she heard voices and also some laughter. A sound she hadn´t heard for a long time. Fearfully she tiptoed with the letter held tight in her little hand towards the closed door from which the sounds came and peeped through the keyhole.
Some people sat there and a thing she never ever saw in her short life. And this thing suddenly began to stare at her. Did it know that she was there?
"Guys we have a spectator." The thing said. It must have seen her!
She wanted to run away but her little feet were paralyzed from the fear she felt. She continued peeping through the keyhole and saw how the thing pointed at the door. A white dog turned towards the door and walked hesitating towards it. The little girl tried again to move her feet but with no use.
She just stood there as Dudley opened the door and looked astonished at her.
"Well, I thought an intruder would be older. Or are you some kind of super kid assassin?" She shook her head.
"Well, young lady… what are you doing here?"
"I have a letter for Dudley Puppy." She said quietly and fearfully.
"Then I´m your man." Dudley took the hand of the little girl and brought her into the room. Then he took the letter away from her and began to read it.
Dear Jason or Dudley or however you damn fraud call yourself right now.
Yes, I searched for you and I found you. When you read that I´m gone. I just can´t make it anymore.
And this is your fault because of all you done. That should be enough to take the sleep away from you. But don´t get me wrong. I´m not searching for revenge anymore. I´m done with revenge.
The little girl you can see which delivered the letter to you is the result of our fateful encounter. I just want you to take care of her.
That´s all. It´s time. The depth already screaming my name and I can´t stand the scream any longer.
Becky.
Dudley read the letter again and again. That couldn´t be the truth, that was totally impossible. But what if not? Did that mean that this girl was his daughter? And that Becky is really trying to…
"Dudley, are you alright?" Kitty took the letter out of his hands and began to read it out loud.
As she finished it all eyes in the room were fixed on him. But Dudley didn´t care. He just thought about the last sentence of the letter and put two and two together.
"Damn!" he rushed thunderstruck towards the stairs. Maybe it wasn´t too late.
-Well, that was chapter 11. hope you enjoyed it :D-