{"id":148,"date":"2009-11-27T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/?p=148"},"modified":"2009-11-27T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T19:14:16","slug":"chapter-56-tommy-guns-and-fencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 56: Tommy Guns and Fencing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Back off Mickey! You take so much as one step nearer with those pretty shoes a&#8217;yours and the dame gets it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The tommy gun was pressed hard into the young woman&#8217;s side.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">You always were a coward Fingers, hiding behind others even to the end. But no more.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mickey hawk eye raised his gun and fired, Fingers McGee was blown backwards through the window and down ten stories, landing on a cab. His Trilby floated down to the floor, a  bullet hole in the front, but none at the back.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mickey! You could have hit me!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Deborah was in shock.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Relax doll, this gun is justice, and its bullet&#8217;s never miss their target.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mickey holstered his gun, put his jacket and trilby on over his bloodstained shirt and turned for the door.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I don&#8217;t want to have to rescue you again miss, if you gotta do your journalism game, play with folks who play by the rules, this part of town&#8217;s just too dirty for a flower like you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mickey closed the door behind him, leaving Deborah alone in the room with nothing but Finger&#8217;s McGee&#8217;s unconscious goons.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">But&#8230; this is the only way I can get closer to you mickey&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The movie stopped and the screen went black.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Zephyr, what have I told you about watching these movies!?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">But Dad Mickey Hawk eye is so cool, he&#8217;s like a warrior hero!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Real warriors don&#8217;t use gun&#8217;s these days Zephyr, business deals and transactions are applicable to all conflicts. And if you must settle something physically, fencing is the honourable way to do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">But dad I don&#8217;t like-\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I don&#8217;t care if you don&#8217;t like it, it will teach you discipline and your lesson is in 5 minutes, go and get ready before you are late again.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Zephyr hit the ground hard. He hated how these lessons ended this way, if he was allowed to use a gun like Mickey Hawk eye he could easily beat his cousin in these sparring sessions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Zephyr, you haven&#8217;t been practising. Your Cousin Polot beat you in two moves that time. If you continue to lack discipline I will be leaving the company to him.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mr Zee stood up and walked to the gym door. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Such a disappointment for a son.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Back off Mickey! You take so much as one step nearer with those pretty shoes a&#8217;yours and the dame gets it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The tommy gun was pressed hard into the young woman&#8217;s side. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You always were a coward Fingers, hiding behind others even to the end. 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