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She considered for so long I thought she'd gone back to sleep but her eyes were open. She finally said, "Yes."
That wasn't enough of an answer. "Yes to which."
"Yes," she said again. "They're evil. They're vile. They break fragile things and they like doing it." She met my eyes squarely. "Make them disappear, Sir," she said.
When she fell asleep that time, I could see she was deeply, healingly asleep.
I stepped out of the hospital and went to make some carefully coded calls.
It seemed like a long time later when Annie woke up again. "Still looking at my ass."
"I was not." I had been. But I'd been brooding about the damage. Wishing I could demand Decker turn Bevington over to me.
Knowing I wouldn't. For Annie's sake.
She started to fall back to sleep and I slid down so we were face to face. "There's something I wanted to tell you."
She blinked at me.
"I was afraid I wouldn't get the chance. But."
She was starting to look wary.
"Annie, I love dark chocolate. I can't go a week without it."
Annie frowned, seemed to think through possible responses, and finally said, "You're weird, Sir."
She fell asleep again before I stopped laughing.
