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“Bodacious!” he said.
CLASSIFIED
ISLAND
20:15 HOURS
Agent Jones dipped the darts in the liquid Mind’s Flower. Since the unfortunate incident with Miss Texas he’d had to replace his stock. It made him feel safe to have them. And considering how screw-the-pooch things were going on the island, he needed something to make him feel safe.
Harris breezed past in a Knicks jersey, a ridiculous sweatband across his head. “Looking a little rough today, Jonesy,” Harris said.
Agent Jones did not look up. “Did you fix the manual override system?”
Harris put up his hands in a back-off gesture. “Going to. Got a pickup game with some of the black shirts in a few.” Harris faked a jump shot. “Nothing but net.”
“Don’t do that, Harris. It’s cliché.”
“What crawled up your ass today?”
“Pirates,” Agent Jones answered.
Harris nodded. “Whatever floats your boat. Ha! I made a pun. Get it? Boat? Pirates?”
Agent Jones closed his eyes for a second and tried to cast his mind back to a more pleasant time, when he had helped stage a brutal coup in a small South American republic. Bullets flying. Grenades exploding. Pandemonium and blood and screaming in the streets. And no Harris.
“Don’t you have something to do?”
“Yeah. Yeah, I might. You don’t think I can handle this, do you?”
Agent Jones did not answer.
“Well, you are going to be surprised. I can handle myself just fine. I already did handle myself. Wait, that came out wrong.”
Agent Jones packed away the fourth dart. One more to go.
“Don’t you want to know what I did?”
“No.”
“Just a little.”
“No.”
“I’ll bet you can’t guess —”
“No.”
Harris was quiet for a full fifteen seconds.
“Fine, I’ll tell you. Remember Benny from product development? The one who came up with our Lady ’Stache Off bomb? I killed him.”
o;There’s something I think I should tell you right up front… .”
Loud shouts reverberated in the cabin. George ran down the hall. He looked terrified.
“Cap’n! Cap’n!” he said, out of breath. “It’s Charlie.”
“What’s happened?” Sinjin said, all business.
