I barely manage to dodge in time, though a knife in the shoulder rather than the heart is still a knife.
I crumple to the ground, clutching my shoulder in a vain attempt to keep my fluids on the right side of my skin.
Roger towers over me, laughing. "Howzzat feel, Filler-face?"
I grunt in pain, and do the one thing I can do that seems appropriate at the moment.
I hiss, "Go to hell, Klotz."
Roger raises the knife high above my head, all the while doing that stupid laugh of his. I'm pissed that that laugh is going to be the last thing I hear.
Next thing I know, Roger's on the ground, spasming wildly and shrieking in pain.
"Tell me, how's THIS feel, Roger Klutz?" Ingrid asks, a tazer in her hand. "They say these things are a humane alternative. Grotke disagrees: she had one in her car for a rally this evening where she'd use it on herself. What do YOU think?"
Roger barely manages to choke out..."y-you...you w-WHORE!"
Guess he finally managed to come up with an insult for Ingrid.
Two hours later, Roger's arrested for two counts of attempted murder and I'm enjoying some brand new patchwork near my collarbone. Normally, I'd be happy to call that all she wrote were it not for the fact that Grotke still needed her name cleared.
An interview reveals something..troubling.
Roger never stole Grotke's password. His assault in the parking lot was supposed to be his revenge. I grill Penny afterwards, and she confirms it: a few quick warrants later and a few computers cracked apart, and I find out that no computer Penny could have touched between the time Roger got his failing grade and the first bogus website visit showed up was using Grotke's password.
It looked like that would be it for Miss Grotke...before ANOTHER circumstance happened. Raycliff stepped down as Vice-principal of X Middle School, naming Mr. Peter Prickly as his replacement. Prickly, it turns out, knows Grotke, and was willing to take her word for it.
All's well that ends well, right? Still... the case doesn't sit right with me. Who leaked Grotke's password? Why had Raycliff stepped down and chose Prickly as his successor?
To top it all off, guess who's been visiting Roger every day this week?
Somedays, man, it's hard to keep the faith.