Jimmy Coates: Target. Joe Craig
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Jimmy huffed a little to disguise the fact that he was about to laugh. How could he take his worries seriously when Felix was there to make light of them?
“Thanks, Felix,” he whispered. “I suppose I’m just paranoid.”
“Yeah, and don’t tell your mum any of your crazy theories or she won’t let us go out again.”
They both turned over in a fresh attempt to get some sleep. Then Jimmy spoke again, quieter than ever, as if he was talking to himself.
“Felix,” he muttered, “sometimes, just before I go to sleep, I feel like my programming takes me over completely. I don’t feel human at all because I don’t feel anything.”
Felix was silent for a second. Yannick’s snorts filled the room.
“Jimmy, don’t worry,” Felix replied eventually. “You’ll always seem human to me. You smell human anyway.”
With that, he burst out laughing – and so did Jimmy.
“That wasn’t me!” Jimmy grinned. “It was Yannick!”
A few days later Jimmy and Felix were hanging out at the lake. In fact, Felix was literally hanging out. He was dangling from a tree trying not to fall in the water below him.
“Jimmy!” he shouted, the branch dipping drastically under his weight. “Get up here!”
Jimmy closed his eyes for a fraction of a second to feel inside himself for that powerful sensation. It washed over him so easily now, and for the time being he was still able to hold it in check. He ran three strides towards the tree and bounded upwards. His hands scurried up the bark and his legs kept running as easily as if they were on the ground. It was only seconds before Jimmy was as high as Felix. But he didn’t stop.
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