testing the cut thing
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Chapter 12
"You're going to wear a hole in the floor."
"Good, maybe we can use it to get out of here."
"You are just like Old Jackson."
This statement caused the blonde to stop in mid-lap and stare at Nikki. "What?"
"My daddy and I would go to the zoo on Sundays sometimes, a way to play hookey from those long boring sermons."
"You were a delinquent?" Nora asked, glad for the distraction. This room was beginning to feel very small. She hated closed spaces.
Nikki nodded, glad to see Nora was getting involved in the conversation. She knew the blonde had a touch of claustrophobia. "Old Jackson was this ancient tiger."
"Are you saying I am old?" Nora put her hands on her hips as she glared at Nikki.
Nikki gave Nora an innocent look, holding it for almost a full beat before giving in with a smile.
"I am saying he always paced. A royal animal and he just walked around the edge of his cage doing lap after lap. The path was so worn and used. He was so sad."
"Great, old and sad am I? Couldn't give me ferocious or maybe king of the jungle?"
"Sugar, that's a lion."
"Hey, I'm grousing here and call it poetic license then."
Puckering her lips at the completely un-Nora like comments coming from Nora, Nikki held up her hands, beckoning Nora to her. "I meant why don't you come over here instead of pacing like a sad, old tiger?"
"I need to be ready when this psycho finally makes an appearance."
"I don't think we should try to do an ambush Nora… we just woke up in this room, we know nothing else…"
Nora cut in, "I'm getting us out of here."
Nikki frowned as she leaned back against the headboard.
Nora's stubbornness was endearing, useful and someday would get them both killed. She already had prepared a speech, set for when they were on their way to the pearly gates.
"Besides, we still don't know what these are." Nikki held up her arm and pointed at the thin bracelet, then waved at the matching one Nora was wearing. "This might really be…"
Her words were stopped as Nora made a frantic shushing motion, finger over lips as she pointed at the door, the sound of a key being put into the deadlock cutting into the silence. Nora scurried to take a position behind the door.
Nikki sat up and watched. Part of her wanted to say something, to alert the person coming in as she was sure it would avert disaster. Somehow the brunette knew this was not going to end up as Nora Delaney seemed to expect it to… Yet, another part of Nikki was dedicated to her partner, both officer and lover. And you always caught your partner's back.
A tray filled with food appeared as the door opened slightly. Just as a body started to walk through, Nora sprang, using her shoulder to slam the door hard into the person.
The tray's contents spilled, the blonde grabbing their captor's arm and jerking them forward, her other arm raised, fist closed and about to send a punch straight to the face. However her arm went rigid, her upper body tensing, face drawing tight. The blonde cried out, body shaking as she stumbled back and began to fall.
Nikki had sprung up and was there to catch Nora as the blonde collapsed, the captor retreating, closing and locking the door.
Nikki cradled Nora in her lap and arms as the blonde lay there, dazed. Sighing, Nikki looked over at the spilled food, frowning after surveying the mess. Her face took on a disturbed look as she continued to soothingly stroke the blonde's back and hair.
"Damn." She whispered. "Nora, it's our favorite foods."
"Great," Nora paused, her voice a little raspy. "I get zapped and then a last meal." Nikki was glad to hear the sarcasm in her lover's voice, the tone an indication the woman was feeling a little better.
"Well, maybe we can salvage the dessert."
"Yes, must feed that sweet tooth of yours." Nora sighed then. "And looks like I owe you a week of dish duty. These are charged. And please, no smug looks, I'm nursing my ego now as it is."
"Alright, come on and let's get you to the bed so I can get at those shoulders. I bet you are feeling sore already. We had a handyman, rewired a socket wrong and ended up lit up like a Christmas Tree. He was stiff as a board for a week."
Nora nodded a little and let Nikki help her to the bed. "Anyone tell you how wonderful you are?"
Nikki cracked her knuckles in an exaggerated show of getting ready. "Not in the last two minutes. So get started."
Giving the brunette a grateful smile as she felt the tender touches of those slender fingers, Nora closed her eyes.
"Ok so… A is for Awesome. B is for Beautiful. C is for Cutie. D is for Delinquent…" She paused and winced at the slight pinch. "Debonair I meant debonair. E is for Elegant…."