Sultry: Another Country Heard From
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 10
"Appreciate the help, Sultry, Seven and your Powers ... even if it is unsettling to watch you discorporate," Alfred said.
There was a long pause... (see) ... and Cassie said, "What about me? I helped, too."
Helped, too was said with a catch in her throat and a tear in her eye.
And an even longer pause.
Sultry finally said, "For all I know, Cassie ... you sent my Jack to his death."
"Sultry. There's a lot of things you could say to me and about me but don't you EVER say that to me again! I'll have you know that Jack was MY first Hero, he is my only Hero and I love him ... I love you, too."
(A long and very uncomfortable pause should be inserted here while Sultry tried to keep up her pose ... did she really feel like that? Would Cassie betray Jack? Was she here on Chaos to see that We don't make it back? Does she really love me?)
Cassie continued, "Although, lately, I seem to feel my judgement is faulty.
"Alfred! You say Eva sent you to be our hero?"
"Yes, Cassie."
"That's not going to happen. Sultry is MY Hero and I am HER companion ... not yours!"
The Powers that Be recombined and the Seven nodded, "Me, too ... what Cassie said. Go find your own Damsel."
"Now, see here! Just you wait a minute!" Alfred spluttered. "Eva told me..."
Sultry stuck her nose in his face ... well ... she Would have ... if she wasn't so short. She did manage a finger in his nose though, "Al ... what's your day job?" she growled and gave him the mom eye.
"Umh..."
"Just before he left, Jack had been mulling over the idea that the Feds were in cahoots with Cassandra. And you're a FED!"
Poor guy ... distracted ... not only was her nose almost in his sternum and her finger in his nose ... but he was looking straight down at round, white mounds of snow and stiff brown child chewed nipples.
Sultry realized where his suddenly out of focus eyes were looking. She looked too.
"Fuck! Forgot my mail shirt!"
The next bit was confusing. About the only way she could have fallen would have been if she was climbing ... scaling him like a wall ... and later she asked the witnesses if she had been trying to look him in the eye. There were eight people watching so there were eight varying opinions as to what she was doing ... but everybody said she let go to cover her boobs ... whatever her intentions were ... and she dropped to the ground.
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