“If he’s still out there why
the hell hasn’t he made a move,” Daniel groused as he read over the assignments
the Supe Council had e-mailed to them.
“He might be playing a
waiting game, if he picked up our signatures that night, hoping we’ll reveal
the location of the wand. Or he has no idea who took it and has given up.”
“I doubt he’ll give up. The
bad asses of this world never do, until someone eliminates them.”
Jared ruffled Daniel’s hair
as he leaned over his shoulder to see what was on the schedule. “Are they
serious? A zombie?”
“Looks like. A pair of them
in fact. It seems one of the local bars
hired them to promote their new version of a ‘Zombie’ drink, and the bartender
didn’t realize that they were the real thing. She let them taste test it and
things went south from there. Luckily no one was hurt but the cops were called.
They notified the Council and guess who gets to go round them up before they do
something seriously bad.”
“Us.” Jared checked the
address. “You know where this is and where we can land?”
“Yep and yep.” As soon as
he’d put the computer to sleep, Daniel took Jared’s hand and they arrived on a
rooftop seconds later. “Three guesses where they are,” he said, looking over
the edge.
“I don’t know. Maybe inside
the bar that the cops have cordoned off?”
“Got it in one. Shall we?”
They dropped down from the
rooftop into the alley and crossed the street, stopping just long enough to
show the cops their IDs so that they could get into the bar.
It was dimly lit and smelled
of cigarette smoke, stale beer and rotting bodies; two bodies in fact—that were
standing behind the bar with the terrified bartender between them. Her hands
were shaking as she poured the ingredients for a Zombie into a pitcher. The
only other people in the bar were two customers huddling in the back corner.
Every time they glanced towards the door, as if contemplating escaping, one of
the zombies growled at them and shook his head.
“Aw hell, Charlie, you
promised,” Daniel grumbled as he strode across the room, leaning his elbows on
the bar as he looked at the taller zombie.
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