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“Right,” he nodded.
“It’s likely to be bigger and trickier to diffuse, but I’m sure you’ve got this.”
I grinned at him, knowing he would give in. I’d worked with him too long for him to pull that crap with me.
“What about me?” Slider asked.
This was the fun part. “You get to come with me. This is going to be good.”
“Good?” Slider asked.
“Yeah, fun, you know?”
“No, I don’t know. It’s a bomb.”
“Yeah, but just a tiny one.”
“You said the next one would be bigger and trickier!”
“Right, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be huge. Worst case scenario, you end up in the hospital for a few days with third degree burns. I mean, as long as it’s not complicated.”
I moved to leave, but he stepped in front of me, placing a hand against my chest. “Complicated? You do this for the thrill of it.”
“Right, and I’m good. Don’t worry about it.”
I tried to move again, but he stopped me. “You’re contradicting yourself. You said it could be tricky and we might get blown up, then you tell me you’ve got it. Which is it?”
I thought about that. “What would make you feel better?”
Okay, that probably wasn’t the best thing to say to convince him we were fine. But I had this. I mean, once I found the other bomb. It would be good as long as nobody did anything to fuck this up.
“I knew I should have stayed in bed today,” Slider muttered.
“That’s the spirit! Tally-ho! We’re off to find an explosive and do our best not to set it off!”
“You know, I liked it better when you were down there and I was up here!” he shouted after me.
I chuckled to myself as I climbed the stairs back to the first floor. Two bombs and it wasn’t even noon. This was going to be a good day.
42
FNG
“You know,this reminds me of this one time?—”
“I really don’t want to hear another story right now,” Thumper snapped. He’d been twitchy ever since he joined me down here fifteen minutes ago. I wasn’t trying to annoy him. I just thought he would appreciate the distraction.
“It’s a good story,” I said to myself. “I was actually in a very similar situation.”
It was dark down here and kind of creepy. Not that I was scared, but it was a shitty place to sit with a bomb. Not to mention the lack of space for Thumper and me when neither of us wanted to sit too close to the device that could essentially blow us to smithereens.
He finally looked over at me. “When you were missing?”
The question was out of sheer boredom. There was nothing for us to do down here but wait. And with the device between us, that left out all kinds of fun activities, like rappelling down the cable to see who could go the fastest.
“Yeah. I mean, there was no elevator and there was only one bomb. And I didn’t have an IRIS to dismantle the bomb. So, maybe not quite the same.”
“That’s not at all the same,” he huffed.
