that could be photographed. Hawkins hoped the flat sides of the pistol’s magazine or the outside of the slide would provide enough for identification, but just to be certain, he stripped the bullets from the magazine.
People might think of putting on gloves for firearm handling, but few professionals were paranoid enough to wear gloves while feeding ammunition into their appropriate magazines on a clandestine operation.
Hawkins turned away from his fingerprint-gathering project and produced the PDA and thumb drives that he’d discovered. “Is she all right?” Hawkins asked.
Manning nodded. “She’s been having a good cry over her friend. She was a teacher at the same school. They were once very close.”
Hawkins raised an eyebrow. “Roommates?”
Manning nodded. “And quite a bit more.”
Hawkins sighed. “And I threw her on top of a woman she loved...killed like that...”
“The other option was to let her get shot in the back,” Manning offered. He took the thumb drives and looked over the PDA. “I have a wire for this device on the sat case.”
“All the better,” Hawkins replied. “The more we know, the more we can get to taking down the fucker who killed Veronica.”
Manning glanced at him. “We never knew her.”
“She was working for our side,” Hawkins replied.
Manning nodded, then rested a hand on his shoulder. “Don’t let it get too personal.”
Hawkins frowned. “I’ll keep my head. But that doesn’t mean I won’t take satisfaction in taking theirs...”
The Canadian Phoenix vet left the younger man to his task. Manning had faced his losses over the years and had made enough missions personal. Every member of the team had. And sometimes, that personal investment was enough to take an impossible battle and push them over the top to victory.
But in the end, it still never quieted the ghosts they vowed to avenge.
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