(Written for the Drabble Day "line" challenge on the_safehouse livejournal community: use the line "It's important to know where you came from, because if you know where you came from, then you can remember what you wanted."))


"Who's there--? Bodie?"

"Hello, Ray."

"It's Alan now. You know that."

"Pleased to see me, are we?"

"It's not like that, Bodie. It's just--"

"--that I'm CI5."

"Yes."

"I'm also human, Ray. And--"

"Don't say it!"

"Ray, if you really don't want me, just send me away."

He's heard that it's important to know where you came from, because if you know where you came from, then you can remember what you wanted. Unfortunately, remembering isn't always a good thing.

Don't think I can, Bodie. He sighs, and switches the bedside lamp off again. He doesn't have to wait long.

-- THE END --

June 2005