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"You okay?" Jame asked softly when his mother had gone.
"Yeah. Thanks for backing me up." Jonny shook his head. "They don't understand."
"I'm not sure I do, either. Is it because of what I said about people being afraid of you?"
"That has nothing to do with it. The people of Adirondack were afraid of us, too, some of them. But even so-" Jonny sighed. "Look. Horizon is all the way acr...
Jame touched his brother's arm and nodded silently. "I'll go call Gwen," he said a moment later.
Pearce came back into the house. He said nothing, but flashed Jonny a disappointed look before disappearing into the kitchen. Sighing, Jonny went to wash his...
Dinner was very quiet that evening.
* * *
The interviews the next morning were complete washouts, with the two prospective employers clearly seeing him just out of politeness. Gritting his teeth, Jon...
By the time Jame came to bring him to dinner he had exhausted all the numbers on the list. "Not even any interviews this time," he told Jame disgustedly as t...
"Come on, Jonny, there has to be someone around who doesn't care that you're an ex-Cobra," Jame said.
"Perhaps you should lower your standards a bit," Pearce suggested. "Working as a laborer wouldn't hurt you any."
"Or maybe you could be a patroller," Gwen spoke up. "That would be neat."
Jonny shook his head. "I've tried being a laborer, remember? The men on the road crew were either afraid of me or thought I was trying to show them up."
"But once they got to know you, things would be different," Irena said.
"Or maybe if they had a better idea of what you'd done for the Dominion they'd respect you more," Peace added.
"No, Dader." Jonny had tried explaining to his father why he didn't want Cedar Lake to honor him publicly, and the elder Moreau had listened and said he unde...
"Well, then, maybe you should go back to school," Irena suggested.
"No!" Jonny snapped with a sudden flash of anger.
A stunned silence filled the room. Inhaling deeply, Jonny forced himself to calm down. "Look, I know you're all trying to be helpful, and I appreciate it. Bu...
Minutes later he was driving down the street, wondering what he should do. There was a brand-new pleasure center in town, he knew, but he wasn't in the mood ...
Alyse seemed surprised when he announced himself over her apartment building's security intercom, but she was all smiles as she opened her door. "Jonny, it's...
"Hi, Alyse." He smiled back, taking her hand and stepping into her apartment, closing the door behind him. "I was afraid you'd forgotten about me while I was...
Her eyes glowed. "Not likely," she murmured . . . and suddenly she was in his arms.
After a long minute she gently pulled away. "Why don't we sit down?" she suggested. "We've got three years to catch up on."
"Anything wrong?" he asked her.
"No. Why?"
"You seem a little nervous. I thought you might have a date."
She flushed. "Not tonight. I guess you know I've been seeing Doane."
"Yes. How serious is it, Alyse? I deserve to know."
"I like him," she said, shrugging uncomfortably. "I suppose in a way I was trying to insulate myself from pain in case you . . . didn't come back."
Jonny nodded understanding. "I got a lot of that on Adirondack, too, mostly from whichever civilian family I was living with at the time."
Alyse seemed to wince a bit. "I'm . . . sorry. Anyway, it's grown more than I expected it to, and now that you're back . . ." Her voice trailed off.
"You don't have to make any decisions tonight," Jonny said after a moment. "Except whether or not you'll spend the evening with me."
Some of the tension left her face. "That one's easy. Have you eaten yet, or shall I just make us some cahve?"
They talked until nearly midnight, and when Jonny finally left he had recaptured the contentment he'd felt on first arriving at Cedar Lake. Doane Etherege wo...
"Jonny?" a whisper came from across the room. "You okay?"
"Fine, Jame-just great," Jonny whispered back.
"How was Alyse?"
Jonny chuckled. "Go to sleep, Jame."
"That's nice. Good night, Jonny."
* * *
One by one, the great plans crumbled.
With agonizing regularity, employers kept turning Jonny down, and he was eventually forced into a succession of the level-nine and -ten manual jobs he had ho...
As his search for permanent employment faltered, so did his relationship with Alyse. She remained friendly and willing to spend time with him, but there was ...
But worst of all, from Jonny's point of view, was the unexpected trouble his problems had brought upon the rest of the family. His parents and Jame, he knew,...
And so matters precariously stood for three months, until the night of the accident. Or the murder, as some called it.
* * *
Sitting in his parked car, watching the last rays from the setting sun, Jonny let the anger and frustration drain out of him and wondered what to do next. He...
The sun was completely down by the time he felt capable of driving safely. The sensible thing would be to go home, of course. But the rest of the Moreau fami...