A Perfect Darkness

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Authors: Jaime Rush
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her gaze to Petra and saw that she didn’t either. However, Petra did give away her anxiety by cracking her knuckles.
    Seconds passed. Music pounded the air. Eric’s gaze was as hard as his body as he shifted it to Amy and then Petra. The wind kicked up, flapping the fabric and shaking the metal frames holding it. Their eyes never left each other’s.
    Then Eric ducked his head and ran his fingers through his hair. “Yeah, yeah. We’ll get him.” He looked at Petra. “I’ll start working on it.” To Amy, hesaid, “Thanks for the info. Act like you belong here so the spooks or whoever they are think you came for fun.” He seemed to appraise her. “You could pass for a lesbian.”
    She wanted to deck him, but he started to turn away. She grabbed his arm. “Wait a minute. You’re not leaving me out of this.”
    He looked at her hand on his arm and then at her. After she pulled her hand away, he said, “This is our business.”
    â€œIt’s mine, too. According to Lucas, I’m one of you. An Offspring.”
    Eric said, “Involving you is problematic.”
    â€œBecause of Cyrus? I told you—”
    â€œIf what you’re telling us is true, you’re still too closely tied to him. He knows your habits, your weaknesses. That makes you a liability. We’ll take care of this on our own, but thank you for your interest.”
    You’ve been excused, a voice whispered. You can go back to your cocoon of a life. Leave saving Lucas to them.
    No! Instinctively she knew that together they could save him. That was more important than her safe little world. “You need me. I can communicate with Lucas. And…I need you.” How she hated the plaintive sound of those last words.
    Eric seemed to consider while the band on the other side of the stage butchered Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee.” Then he said, “You have to prove yourself. Trusting the wrong person can be dangerous for us. Look what happened to Lucas.”
    Yeah, that stung, deepening her sense of guilt over causing his capture. “It wasn’t as though I turned himin. Fine, what do I do? Swallow a goldfish? Walk over coals?”
    He crinkled his eyes at her sarcasm. “Something useful. Get on Cyrus’s computer and get more Offspring names. At least if he catches you, he won’t kill you. Probably.”
    God, the thought of that, that Cyrus would kill anyone…She didn’t know that side of him, because he never talked about his work. “You think the CIA is behind this?” She didn’t want to think that.
    â€œSince Cyrus is involved and he’s CIA, yes.”
    â€œAll right. So how do I know when he’s logged on?”
    â€œI’ll let you know. The tricky part will be getting you out of there without your spy coming along.”
    â€œI could take laundry down to the little building that’s at the rear of the complex.”
    â€œThat should work. I’ll call you and say, ‘Paul, blah blah whatever, and you’ll play it off like it’s a wrong number. Pay close attention because what I tell you is going to indicate what kind of car I managed to get for you. I’ll park it behind the laundry building and put the key under the visor, but you’ll have to be sneaky about getting to it.”
    She wasn’t going to ask how he would be getting the car. “I’ll be sneaky.”
    â€œAnd fast. You’ve got to get to Cyrus’s place pronto. System security will probably log him off if he’s inactive for long. Or he may log off when he’s done. I’ll come up with a way to distract him.”
    Petra said, “If he’s at the main page, it’ll look like a Web site. Click on the link for ‘DARK MATTER.’ At the left of that page there’s a list of names with hyperlinks. Have you ever been to MySpace?”
    Amy nodded. She’d checked it

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