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Opposite Ends Meet Here



Opposite Ends Meet Here
Copyright 1998 by Jerry J. Davis



Kyle was alone, as usual, working out with his gyro stick in the small room he rented
above the gym where he worked, when he had a premonition. He stopped what he was doing
and opened his window just in time to hear a woman cry out in fear and surprise. He poked his
head out, blinking in the sunlight, and looked down into the alley below. There was a man
with short gray hair and a silver spacer's jacket advancing on a blonde woman dressed in a
flowing, flower-pattern dress. In the man's hand was a large, ugly knife. "I'm going to enjoy
this, you bitch," he told her. He was advancing, and she was backing away.
"Finney!" the woman yelled. "Finney!" There was the bite of raw fear in her voice.
Gyro stick still in one hand, Kyle swung out the window and hung suspended for a
moment, waiting for the man with the knife to move forward a few more steps. The woman
saw Kyle, and obligingly took a few more quick steps backwards. "Finney!" she yelled again.
"By the time Finney finds you," the man said, "you're gonna---"
Kyle landed on him, so he never finished his sentence. He collapsed like a rag doll, the
knife clattering across the stone walk. Kyle got to his feet, ready to smack the guy in the head
with the gyro stick, but he was already unconscious. The woman, with a look of disgust,
picked up the big knife and walked quickly to the prone figure. She jabbed it into his back
several times.
Kyle stared at her with his mouth hanging open. "Lady!" he yelled.
She pulled the bloody knife out and held it ready. "What?" She was young-looking, thin
and blonde and sharp-angled. Her eyes seemed too blue to be real.
Behind them a gate burst open and a small, black-haired man with dark features came
scurrying up with a gun. He pointed it at Kyle, but the woman shook her head. "Put it away,
Finney. This ape-man just saved my life." She wiped the bloody knife off onto the dead man's
jacket, flipped the blade into the air and caught it, then handed it to Kyle handle-first. "Give
him a card, and put him on the payroll."
She gave Kyle a cold smile, then turned and walked with gliding steps out of the alley.
Finney produced a card and held it out for him. Kyle took it into the same hand that held the
knife and stared at it with a stupid expression.

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"She's in the need of a bodyguard," Finney told him. "The job pays an obscene amount, and
I can give you an advance." He produced a large wad of planetary currency, holding it out for

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Kyle to take. It was a lot --- enough to make him think twice about what he was getting into.
"What happened to her old bodyguard?" Kyle asked, staring at the money in Finney's hand.