Chapter 7the long night 1
6:12 P.M.
"OK, a woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold morning. Both of their cars are totaled but neither of them get hurt." The sky cowboy began as he, his wife and the others were sitting in the family room. Kendrix in her husband's lap and Kelsey in Ryan's.
"So you're a man." The woman begins. 'That's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left, but we're unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should meet and be friends and live together in peace for the rest of our days."
"Oh yes, I agree with you completely, this has to be a sign from God!" The woman continues, "And look at this, here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune."
Then she hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half of it and then hands it back to the woman. The woman takes the bottle and immediately puts the cap back on, and hands it back to the man. The man asks, "Aren't you having any?" The woman replies.
"No. I think I'll just wait for the police.... ""
"Joel!" His wife pegged him with a pillow and eve Kelsey was smiling at the typical joke from the joker of the group.
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The figure who'd been about to wound her with the syringe missed stabbing it into the corpse instead.
Before he could recover Dana was moving into ranger mode, flipping her morpher and gong ranger sooner than her attacker could recover.
"You think your so smart Pink ranger but your not or your daddy would still be alive." The voice hissed as the assailant rushed her again. It struck Dana that the black clad figure was not used to fighting. If it were her attacker would have done it all very differently.
Executing a flying summersault she came up behind her attacker and would have grabbed the figure but it faded into a black smoke like vapor.
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6:23P.M.
"That son of a…Carter was racing into the building with mike and Leo at his sides. The halls were still but as they reached the exam room they found Dana, running some type of test on a hypodermic. She seemed calm but she was holding tight to a scalpel, as if for dear life.
"Dana! He called and she turned slowly as if nothing had happened. And she did look like that, to anyone who didn't know her.
"Carter I'm glad you guys are here. I might have some info on our killer. She said motioning them all forward to look at what she'd been working on.
"But I thought you were attacked?" Leo asked in confusion.
"Yes, and I managed to lift two good prints off of the syringe he had. She replied and Carter's eyes narrowed. She'd nearly been the next victims and she was more worried about finger prints? True he was all for catching this guy, had even asked for her help but…
"Prints…" he muttered moving forward even as she frowned at his odd reaction to what she thought was good news.
"Well yes we do…" Dana never had a chance to finish as Carter jerked her to his chest and climbed her mouth in a hard kiss.
Dana felt her thoughts flee as her hands fisted in his jacket. It was as if the fear she'd temporarily held back was finally given vent in this kiss. She didn't even think about it as she let him carry her from the room, leaving it to the other men.
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6:26P.M.
"Well that takes care of one problem." Leo said looking over at his big brother a little smile tilting up the corners of his lips. Kendrix and the others would at least be glad things between their friends were coming together.
"I'd say." Mike agreed.
"Now about these prints." Leo moved to where the slides sat.
"They're finished?" Mike asked and Leo glanced at them a long moment.
"Yes, and I'm not even sure if their human. They look…" Leo moved back from the microscope to let his brother have a look.
"There to long to be human." Mike noted grimly.
"Exactly." Leo sighed running a hand through his dark hair. "I'll run them through the computer when they come back."
"Bro I don't think carter will let Dana go for a while. Did you see how he was looking at her?" Mike asked and Leo rolled his eyes.
"Yeah like I did when we got Kendrix back." Leo laughed a little as he began bustling about the room.
"So what do we do with these?" Mike asked glancing from the finger prints and back at the other am.
"Why don't you go get that bride of mine, she'll know how to make the imprints." Leo suggested.
"Fine." With that mike left.
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6:33P.M.
"Carter you just can't carry me off." Dana said once they were out in the corridor.
"Looks to me I just did." He said with a smug smirk.
"But work, you know we have to break this case…" She tried to get him to put her down as she knew in a sudden flash of memory what her attacker had said…
"Dana has your boss ever told you you've just been taken off a case?" Carter asked oblivious to the tumult of emotions suddenly contained by the creature in his arms.
"Oh no, there is no way your doing this to me!" She exploded and suddenly Carter found himself struggling to hold onto her. If she wasn't careful he'd drop her but then she wanted that, what was wrong with her? "Not now…"
"Dana what is it? What happened?" He asked moving to another room, it was a waiting room. He moved to one of the padded armchairs and sat down, still cradling her in his arms.
Dana had stopped fighting and was now simply sobbing as if she were dying inside. Carter truly didn't know what to do for her so he just held on and stroked a hand over her hair and back.
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7:16 P.M.
"That son of a…Carter was racing into the
When Leo appeared in the doorway Carter silently told him to call Ryan. Carter just had a feeling that whatever was wrong and he knew there was more than just upset over the attack had to do with him too.
TBC
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What do you think? Was it dumb? I know it's short but things will pack up soon? Just think the wedding is coming on faster now… But then there's no telling what might happen next. *double evil grin*
In any event the both of us would really appreciate any ideas you might have or even just a, I like this chapter, it stinks or IC. *shrugs*