The Professionals Circuit Archive - Into the Blue	  Into the Blue

 

by Verlaine 

 
 *Written for the Halloween challenge for "Discovered in Fallen Leaves" on
the discoveredinalj livejournal community to the prompt "a black cat."*


 Doyle claimed afterwards he'd seen some kind of a big black cat running
off, a tiger or panther or something. Bodie laughed, but without much
conviction. He didn't mention he'd seen something too, something he firmly
told himself was only a dog, probably an Alsatian, limping around the
corner.

 The prisoners had vanished. The door of the holding cell was still
locked, and none of the security systems had been breached, but they were
gone. Nobody could understand how two handcuffed men who'd both been put
through serious CI5 questioning could have got up and walked away. The
kid, especially, wouldn't be doing any walking for some time. He hadn't
been particularly stoic, unlike the big man, who hadn't made a sound
despite the best efforts of some real experts at digging for the truth.
But the kid's screams and curses had all been for his partner. Not one
scrap of information, or even a whimper about his own pain.

 Bodie didn't believe a word of the rubbish the informant had babbled
about super senses and mystical powers. He believed in armalites and
fists.

 But the prisoners were gone.

 And Doyle said he'd seen a black cat.

 -- THE END --

 *October 2007*

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