Friday, March 20
A Love in Need: Part 9 – Orgy of Evidence
Hammer and Jim-Bean ran into the front office.
“OH, GOD, PLEASE NO!” shouted a man. ”I’ll give you money. As much as you want!”
There was the sound of a struggle, but it was distant. When Hammer pushed open the door to the back room, he caught sight of who was screaming.
It was a film playing on a video monitor. A man, Andrews, was begging a killer in a mask for his life.
A wall of monitors all displayed different angles of the motel rooms and grounds. Video cameras and equipment were piled all over the place. There were shelves of tapes lining the walls, each one hand-labeled: Steve and Sharon S., Glen and Flo D., John A.
“Damn,” said Hammer. “We were so worried about Jawolalski we never even considered Kraygen.”
“I think he’s working with the alien dogs,” said Jim-Bean. “They were doing some sort of surgery to the kid.”
“What kind of surgery?” Hammer knew better than to ask Jim-Bean how he knew.
“I don’t know. They took something nasty out of him and put it in Andrews. Whatever it was, it’s like BIOSAN-4 only worse. It was so powerful I got infected just getting inside Andrews’ head.”
Another shelf was stacked full of dusty watches, jewelry, toy dolls, truck stop souvenirs, a collection of rearview mirror crucifixes and rabbits feet, drivers licenses of various people ... all victims.
“Why do I get the feeling Kraygen’s not human?”
Something bumped beneath them. Jim-Bean and Hammer trained their Glocks on the floor as the mat shuddered.
Archive smashed open the trap door, Glock pointed upwards.
Jim-Bean rolled his eyes. “That’s a good way to get shot—“
A trashcan came hurling through the glass at the front of the office with Kraygen fast behind it. [MORE]
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