
<Episode 21>
Dusty looked himself over in the mirror in the bathroom. Outside on the huge bruise that was forming on his side he seemed fine after his battle with the kangaroo. “Hmm,” he mused as he examined his side, “nothing seems like its broken.” He glanced over to her and grinned, “Guess being older than dirt and tougher than leather can be a good thing.” She just smiled back. “Ah, don’t you worry about me little lady, I’ve survived worse than this little mark.”
“If you say so.” Rachel looked down the hall at Jack. He was leaning against the wall not really paying that much attention to them. She knew that look all to well, his guard was up. And she should know, she had seen it enough times in the past couple of weeks. “So Dusty…”
“Y’all still want to know how I knew that boy was a spy right?”, he finished for her as he buttoned his shirt up while he walked by.
“It crossed my mind a few times,” Jack finally said.
“If your looking for a deep conspiracy, I’m afraid I’m gonna have to disappoint ya.” Dusty sat in his chair slowly. “Caught that boy snooping around here a few times. Every time I run him off he’d yell I’d be lucky if he didn’t tell Anderson what’s going on here.”
“Weren’t you worried he say anything?”, Rachel asked him.
“What was he gonna tell him? That a doctor is running an auto part yard? I didn’t last this long without knowing how to hide things.”
“Still doesn’t mean it can’t be found,” Jack told him.
“That depends on how good the finder is and how much better the hider is.” He grunted as he readjusted himself in his chair. “And that made no sense what so ever.”
“We get what you mean,” she told him. “Right Jack?”
“If you say so.” Rachel shook her head. Dusty went to pour himself a cup of coffee, he was trying to look like he wasn’t holding his side while he did it. Before either of them knew it Jack was already there pouring some into Dusty’s cup.
“Much obliged”
“No problem,” Jack sat on the couch. “So why did you risk your neck and fight him?”
“Be kinda hard to explain why I’m hiding the Drakan Killer to every Drakan in town.” Dusty took a sip before continuing, “Besides, I’ve kinda taken a shine to the two of ya already. Hate to see you up and leave so soon.”
“I’d bet,” Jack said flatly.
“Is that so hard to believe?”
“Seeing how most Drakan I’ve come across wants to kick my ass, yeah it is.”
“Jack,” Rachel warned him.
“Rachel,” he returned mocking her tone.
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