Part eleven
Girls kick ass, says so on the T
AN: I should have asked this earlier, but well, better late than never. I need a beta reader. Is anyone out there who could help me out, please?
bigparola@yahoo.com
Finally. He was alone. She was just about to barge in when it occurred to her that Behrens was talking on the phone. Patience, Max, the universe is right on schedule. Damn, where had that thought come from ?
*
Stetter was about to leave the barely lit corridor when through the slightly opened door he heard glass crashing. Should he dare peek in? Maybe Behrens had decided to take out his frustrations on the ever present bottle. Or maybe he had come to the conclusion that his job was too tough and rid the world of his sorry presence? Summoning all his guts, Stetter peeked through the crack feeling like a teenager spying on his older sister. However, he was not prepared for the sight that greeted him.
A rather scrawny long haired girl clad in black had jumped in through the window and had Behrens pinned to the wall. Wow, the lass could swing a punch, indeed! How come that long hair didn't get in her way? Another upercut left Behrens lying on the floor.
„Who are you?", he heard his boss ask.
Probably ex-boss by the way things were looking. Glancing behind him, Stetter made sure the noise wouldn't alert the guards waiting two doors away and settled to watch. Ouch, that must have hurt. Every time Behrens fell down, the girl picked him up with barely two fingers to land another punch.
This time Behrens reached for the gun in his coat on the chair. CRASH! The chair was gone and Behrens had flown a few feet towards the window inmidst of the glass shards. Another kick. The last one had gone way below the waist line.
„I'm the one asking questions here". Her voice was hard and icy. Stetter couldn't see her face very well from the position he was in but one thing was clear. Her voice and her looks didn't say anything about her abilities.
Behrens tried to score a punch himself, but the girl was incredibly fast and pinned his arm behind his back.
„I'll ask again. Who were you talking to on the phone?" THUD. Behrens landed on his fat ass again. Beautiful left hook.
Another pitiful attempt from the colonel to swipe her feet from under her. No such luck. The lass was awesome. She had just jumped behind him in an incredible twist.
„For the last time... Do you know how many bones the human body has? Maybe you'd like to brush up on your counting skills".
„Sssenator.... Mc McKinley..."
„What's he to you?" This time only a slight kick was needed.
„He requested .... this inquiry."
„You call this an inquiry?" She swiped him up and propped him on the desk, her face close to his.
„How did you find Eyes Only?"
Oops. Behrens was reaching for the alarm button incorporated in the desk. Should he intervene? Nope, not necessary. A sickening crunch announced the fact that the girl had noticed the move and prevented the colonel's fingers from reaching their target.
This was getting kind of ugly, but Stetter could not bring himself to leave. While he enjoyed seeing his boss getting whacked, the violence of it was amazing. He would have eventually left if there hadn't been the slight issue of the informant net. This definitely was a big piece of news. Yep, it was fun. Besides, the informant net had involved intel only on a need to know basis. This girl was asking all the right questions and he wouldn't mind hearing some answers himself.
„We... we've been monitoring Cale for months, him and other journalists. We found out that last year he was involved in a rescue attempt with a hostage situation at the Steinlitz hotel."
Behrens stopped to spit out some blood and was promptly nudged to go on. Definitely not a pretty sight.
„The officer in charge remembered Cale had promised Darius a way of spreading information without being stopped."
„So what, that's the way journalism normally works when it doesn't have the gag of censorhip."
„Since the whole transgenic thing, Mc Kinley has provided us with information and we had a hunch Cale was involved with Eyes Only."
„You had a hunch? Since when does the MP act on a hunch?" From his point of observation the move had looked like a pat on Behrens' head, but Stetter could bet his life it had been a lot more, judging from the deep groan emmitted by the colonel.
„The NSA is in it, too. He's been stirring up the masses for the transgenics and there is some risk of the government being overthrown or even of civil war." The girl snorted.
„That wouldn't have been the case if you hadn't stirred the masses against the transgenics in the first place."
Wow, she must be a huge fan. She whacked Behrens again, as if to remind him of the consequences of his reluctance.
„So what happened, did you send a commando to take care of a man in a wheelchair or did you do it yourself ?" At this she shook the colonel and brushed him off the desk just as she would a dead fly.
A light suddenly blinked on the desk and the girl's attention was diverted for a fraction of a second, enough for Behrens to grab a letter opener and lounge at her. After all, the colonel was a trained soldier.
„Intelligence is measured by the ability to learn new things" she quipped dodging it. „Doesn't look like you range higher than a normal ape."
The makeshift knife had flown in a high arch towards Stetter's hiding point behind the door and he retreated briefly. He was getting nervous. The guards might become suspicious that Behrens was still in his office at 04:00. That didn't happen a lot. They might come to check.
„Are you going to answer or should we start counting what is left of your bones?"
„We... we sent a man to ... bring him in. There was a fight and Cale got killed." Behrens tried to smirk disdainfully. „Would have thought ... the great Eyes Only had had .... a contingency plan."
CRASH! Stetter was afraid to look. Indeed, Behrens didn't seem to learn. But he hadn't told the whole story. Would the girl notice the colonel was withholding important information ?
„Like I would believe you! The way you make it sound, your killer was in self defense!"
Nope, she hadn't seemed to notice.
„Where can I find McKinley ?"
THUD. Behrens didn't seem to be in much shape to even talk anymore. Time to go. Stetter left the door ajar just as it had been the whole time and tiptoed out of the corridor the moment he heard heavy steps running towards the colonel's office. Probably someone had noticed things were amiss. Loud voices and shattered glass resounded back to his hiding place on the emergency exit stairs. The girl seemed to have made it out in time. Incredible, the lass. Must have been one of the transgenics. Well, all in all he was glad he could forward an interesting report. The one for Behrens he could as well forget.
AN: How's that ? Feel your trust in my intentions grow? Or are you an adept of the X-Files and Mulder's „Trust no one"? If you hit that review button now, I won't go all X-Files on you... Hehe, sorry about that. It's just that I'm a bit disappointed by the review number.
Girls kick ass, says so on the T
AN: I should have asked this earlier, but well, better late than never. I need a beta reader. Is anyone out there who could help me out, please?
bigparola@yahoo.com
Finally. He was alone. She was just about to barge in when it occurred to her that Behrens was talking on the phone. Patience, Max, the universe is right on schedule. Damn, where had that thought come from ?
*
Stetter was about to leave the barely lit corridor when through the slightly opened door he heard glass crashing. Should he dare peek in? Maybe Behrens had decided to take out his frustrations on the ever present bottle. Or maybe he had come to the conclusion that his job was too tough and rid the world of his sorry presence? Summoning all his guts, Stetter peeked through the crack feeling like a teenager spying on his older sister. However, he was not prepared for the sight that greeted him.
A rather scrawny long haired girl clad in black had jumped in through the window and had Behrens pinned to the wall. Wow, the lass could swing a punch, indeed! How come that long hair didn't get in her way? Another upercut left Behrens lying on the floor.
„Who are you?", he heard his boss ask.
Probably ex-boss by the way things were looking. Glancing behind him, Stetter made sure the noise wouldn't alert the guards waiting two doors away and settled to watch. Ouch, that must have hurt. Every time Behrens fell down, the girl picked him up with barely two fingers to land another punch.
This time Behrens reached for the gun in his coat on the chair. CRASH! The chair was gone and Behrens had flown a few feet towards the window inmidst of the glass shards. Another kick. The last one had gone way below the waist line.
„I'm the one asking questions here". Her voice was hard and icy. Stetter couldn't see her face very well from the position he was in but one thing was clear. Her voice and her looks didn't say anything about her abilities.
Behrens tried to score a punch himself, but the girl was incredibly fast and pinned his arm behind his back.
„I'll ask again. Who were you talking to on the phone?" THUD. Behrens landed on his fat ass again. Beautiful left hook.
Another pitiful attempt from the colonel to swipe her feet from under her. No such luck. The lass was awesome. She had just jumped behind him in an incredible twist.
„For the last time... Do you know how many bones the human body has? Maybe you'd like to brush up on your counting skills".
„Sssenator.... Mc McKinley..."
„What's he to you?" This time only a slight kick was needed.
„He requested .... this inquiry."
„You call this an inquiry?" She swiped him up and propped him on the desk, her face close to his.
„How did you find Eyes Only?"
Oops. Behrens was reaching for the alarm button incorporated in the desk. Should he intervene? Nope, not necessary. A sickening crunch announced the fact that the girl had noticed the move and prevented the colonel's fingers from reaching their target.
This was getting kind of ugly, but Stetter could not bring himself to leave. While he enjoyed seeing his boss getting whacked, the violence of it was amazing. He would have eventually left if there hadn't been the slight issue of the informant net. This definitely was a big piece of news. Yep, it was fun. Besides, the informant net had involved intel only on a need to know basis. This girl was asking all the right questions and he wouldn't mind hearing some answers himself.
„We... we've been monitoring Cale for months, him and other journalists. We found out that last year he was involved in a rescue attempt with a hostage situation at the Steinlitz hotel."
Behrens stopped to spit out some blood and was promptly nudged to go on. Definitely not a pretty sight.
„The officer in charge remembered Cale had promised Darius a way of spreading information without being stopped."
„So what, that's the way journalism normally works when it doesn't have the gag of censorhip."
„Since the whole transgenic thing, Mc Kinley has provided us with information and we had a hunch Cale was involved with Eyes Only."
„You had a hunch? Since when does the MP act on a hunch?" From his point of observation the move had looked like a pat on Behrens' head, but Stetter could bet his life it had been a lot more, judging from the deep groan emmitted by the colonel.
„The NSA is in it, too. He's been stirring up the masses for the transgenics and there is some risk of the government being overthrown or even of civil war." The girl snorted.
„That wouldn't have been the case if you hadn't stirred the masses against the transgenics in the first place."
Wow, she must be a huge fan. She whacked Behrens again, as if to remind him of the consequences of his reluctance.
„So what happened, did you send a commando to take care of a man in a wheelchair or did you do it yourself ?" At this she shook the colonel and brushed him off the desk just as she would a dead fly.
A light suddenly blinked on the desk and the girl's attention was diverted for a fraction of a second, enough for Behrens to grab a letter opener and lounge at her. After all, the colonel was a trained soldier.
„Intelligence is measured by the ability to learn new things" she quipped dodging it. „Doesn't look like you range higher than a normal ape."
The makeshift knife had flown in a high arch towards Stetter's hiding point behind the door and he retreated briefly. He was getting nervous. The guards might become suspicious that Behrens was still in his office at 04:00. That didn't happen a lot. They might come to check.
„Are you going to answer or should we start counting what is left of your bones?"
„We... we sent a man to ... bring him in. There was a fight and Cale got killed." Behrens tried to smirk disdainfully. „Would have thought ... the great Eyes Only had had .... a contingency plan."
CRASH! Stetter was afraid to look. Indeed, Behrens didn't seem to learn. But he hadn't told the whole story. Would the girl notice the colonel was withholding important information ?
„Like I would believe you! The way you make it sound, your killer was in self defense!"
Nope, she hadn't seemed to notice.
„Where can I find McKinley ?"
THUD. Behrens didn't seem to be in much shape to even talk anymore. Time to go. Stetter left the door ajar just as it had been the whole time and tiptoed out of the corridor the moment he heard heavy steps running towards the colonel's office. Probably someone had noticed things were amiss. Loud voices and shattered glass resounded back to his hiding place on the emergency exit stairs. The girl seemed to have made it out in time. Incredible, the lass. Must have been one of the transgenics. Well, all in all he was glad he could forward an interesting report. The one for Behrens he could as well forget.
AN: How's that ? Feel your trust in my intentions grow? Or are you an adept of the X-Files and Mulder's „Trust no one"? If you hit that review button now, I won't go all X-Files on you... Hehe, sorry about that. It's just that I'm a bit disappointed by the review number.
