’ And then she didn’t think about any of this again, because her shift finished up real busy. When Laurie walked out of the diner, she looked up, ...nd there he was, leaning back on her car hood. He was smoking a cigarette again, and when he saw her, he gave her a saucy ‘you can’t tell me to put it out now’ look. That’s not what made her jaw drop, though. What caused that was that he’d taken off his T-shirt, and she saw now that the tattoo pattern covering his torso was a cascade of faded blue. This time, at only about fifteen meters, I put one between his eyes. I brought my weapon up on the pilot who was hidden from me as he was trying to get into his airplane. The other guy looked around the aircraft and raised his hands.The whole thing took maybe fifteen seconds, maybe not that long. I felt something wet on my sleeve and looked to see red on the sleeve of the coveralls. Now I felt hurt. Shit, another good shirt. I pulled the coveralls down to see how bad it was. I had to rip my. You had to with that hot water system. The coil that heated the water continuously got cool after a while and the water became only tepid. I had pretty much figured out when it was going to happen and timed my shower accordingly. Wash my body under hot and my hair under somewhat cooler, but still warm water.Even with all the jumping through hoops, I had time to get coffee and meet with Wilson in the lab. "Alright Wilson what did you come up with?" I asked."I found prints all over the place, and. . it was just a shame that it had to be under such sad circumstances. We all hope and pray that Sister Catherine makes a full recovery. Just the cereal, Dear?”Tommy wasn’t long picking up his car: he could have afforded anything he wanted, but such was his practical, down-to-earth nature, that it wasn’t even new, but a year old. Due to his profession, he had to pay a hefty insurance premium, but he’d had the same thing with other cars he’d owned so it came as no surprise.“All set Mary?”“Yes, I.