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"Same as always, slow and easy, just the way I like it" Dead silence greeted this announce if they’d been disconnected "Garry? You there?"

"What? Oh, yeah, Colin Sorry, I dozed off"

"Fuck you," Colin drawled

"In your dreams, my man So what’s up?"

"We’ve had some trouble up here and a naure since you’re old as dirt--" He kept talking over Garry’s profane reaction "--and know just about everyone around here, maybe you could help me out"

"What kind of trouble?"

"Vampire trouble"

"Vamps? We never had any proble the problem Someone’s killed a couple of ‘em--"

"Fuck me Who?"

"I’m not sure you knew them Marco and Preston? Don’t think they had last nauy with the horses, right? On the short side, dark hair? He was living there when I was just a kid Man, he’s dead? How?"

"Souess you’d say More like a vault But they killed hio I didn’t even know about it until soate They killed Preston the same day and hit Jeremy and Mariane two days later Couldn’t find Jereot the next ive you a hand?"

"I appreciate the offer, but the vaht in their own arilantes, but in this case, I’m not inclined to protest too hard"

"I see your point" He breathed deeply "So what’s the naot?"

"Junior"

"Junior? That’s it?"

"That what I got Supposedly a nickname, but not one the person particularly liked to be called I don’t know any juniors You?"

"Junior," Hugh repeated "I’h school?"

"That is a long way back," Colin said withlike six years between us"

"Yeah Let’s see, when you were doing BUD/S, I was in eighth grade"

"Fuck you And I don’t re else?"

"Nah I’ another lead"

"Rough place"

"There’s a human PI in town, a woman orks for the vamps Former cop She’s not military, but she knows her stuff She’ll be with et the feeling she’s tougher than she looks"

"I’ll let you get to it, then And I’ll get back to you on that na"

"Jesus, Chief, you’ve still got your high school yearbooks?"

"I keep flowers froes, et any until then, huh? I’m sorry"

The silence on Garry’s end was cohed briefly, already thinking about the trip out to Babe’s when the phone rang

"Leighton," he answered after checking caller ID "I wasn’t sure you’d be up"

"Up is a relative term I’m vertical, if that’s what you mean, but aill take a coupleon?"