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III
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Sunrise
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5 o' clock.
I didn't bother when a car stopped outside the hut. Though, when the door was flung open with a loud bang and Kitty stirred in my arms, I looked up slightly irritated.
"Ever heard of knocking?" I asked the guy who entered the hut and... aimed a pistol at me?!
"Quiet! Police!" he snarled. I raised an eyebrow. "The cavalry arrived, Kitty" I murmured. She grumbled and buried her face even deeper in my neck. Hm...
"Did you two break into this house?" the police guy asked. He seemed very excited, but then this supposed burglary was probably the most exciting thing that ever happened in his so-called career.
"It's a hut" I said friendly.
"Can you identify yourselves?" I tugged at Kitty's ear. "You got papers by now, Kitty?"
She opened an eye and scowled at me, then pulled her purse from the back pocket of her jeans and showed the police man her pass. He looked at me. "And you?"
Oh how happy he was that I had none and he could take us to the police post.
Oh what a night.
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Kitty was annoyed. "Really, is it that hard to get that guy come over?" she snapped at the police officer, who tried his best to stare her down in return. But nothing was more powerful than Kitty's glare of death.
"He'll arrive any minute now" the officer mumbled. "When he gets on land again. He's a fisherman."
Kitty crossed her arms and looked at Bartimaeus, who shrank under her gaze. She just rolled her eyes and shivered. It was cold in the interrogation room.
Bartimaeus reached out and took her hands in his. "Sorry" he murmured, quite contrite, rubbing her hands to get some warmth into them. "Didn't know they'd make such a fuss."
"It's ok" she said. "I just hope we can go before sunrise. My gran is all alone now."
Finally, the door opened and a man entered the little room.
"Ah" the police officer beamed. "You're the owner of the hut?"
"Yo" he said.
"Please sit down." The officer gestured at a chair next to Kitty. "Well." He rubbed his hands together and looked quite exited. "Is it true, that you two broke into said garden hut?"
"Actually" Bartimaeus confessed "it was just me. Kitty was already sleeping, and we needed a dry place we could stay in."
"I'm sorry." Kitty added in the direction of the fisherman. "Of course we'll buy a new lock for the door."
"Alright" the man said and nodded.
"So" the officer spoke up again, "You will press charges against the two?"
The man looked at Kitty and Bartimaeus, her tired face, his guilty expression. "Nope." he said.
"No..." the officer repeated, crestfallen. Silence. Then, he pushed back his chair and stood up. "You may go." he snarled. "The next time you won't be so lucky."
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Sunrise.
The sunrise is so beautiful at the seaside. Everything is calm and somehow golden. Rays of silent light stream through the hole in the clouds, as if above the cloudy cover there is a world that's made of purest gold, an Other Place of some kind. And the calm ocean is made of gold too, in those early silent hours.
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She still held his hand, she noticed, as they left the police station and slowly walked towards the quay.
"Thanks for not getting us in trouble" she said to the fisherman and smiled at him.
"Wouldn't be a point" he winked. "I see you're good guys. Just buy me another lock and that's it."
"Alright", Bartimaeus said.
"Yeah, like you could buy him a lock" Kitty huffed when the man was gone. Bartimaeus looked sheepishly. "I'm sorry. But you couldn't sleep outdoors, it's too cold already."
Kitty gave a lopsided grin. "I know you meant well. Thank you." her stomach rumbled audibly. She was hungry, and with a start she remembered that her grandma needed her breakfast too. "I have to go home" she said reluctantly. Bartimaeus nodded. "I'll walk you to the bus."
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The doors opened with a hissing noise and Kitty climbed in. She turned to me and smiled. "It was good to see you" she said silently.
I nodded.
She leaned toward me. What was she doing? What I'd just thought of doing myself?
There was a humming in the air.
Our faces were inches apart now. "Will we...?" I asked hoarsely.
Electricity.
The doors closed, dividing us in a most impolite way.
Annoyed, Kitty knocked her head against the door and rolled her eyes apologetically. I raised a hand and smiled, defeated.
The bus left and Kitty said something I didn't quite catch. It could have been "We'll see each other again."
Well, I hoped so.
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When?
Kitty...
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