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my co-workers and pulled fast as we both went forward into a center curb covered with grass. We both fell forward as we heard the crash—the loud boom made when two vehicles came together was behind us. We heard the cries of people that were hurt along with the screams of surprised bystanders.
    Bill, my co-worker and I rolled over. We looked in shock at the mess behind us where we had been standing. Unfortunately, one of our office staff was one of the victims hit, thrown a few feet past us. Bill went back towards the cars as I went over to the girl tossed on the tarmac past us. As I got there, someone else was there a second before me. He told her not to move, then looked at me with those black eyes.
    I halted for only a moment, but concern for the girl let me move in to her. As I knelt down, he looked at me over her.
    “She should be okay. Looks like a broken leg.” He nodded at the leg that was bleeding showing a strange bump. He moved back on his heels as if to give me room to take care of her.
    I knew better than to try to move her, so I just took her hand, assuring her help was on the way. I pulled out my cell and with one hand dialed 911. I reported the accident, aware that he was watching me. I refused to look back at those eyes so I just hung onto the girl. I looked around waiting for the distant sirens to reach us.
    “You moved out of the way before the accident,” he said in a low voice.
    There was a lot of noise around us as people were rushing in to help the cries they’d heard. I could hear his voice. It was as if it carried to my ears for some reason. I finally looked at him as I held her hand. I felt I had to say something. “A warning, inside. Happens sometimes.” I stared at the dark eyes. This close, I could see that they were entirely black, so that one couldn’t distinguish the iris.
    He sat on his heels for another moment, looking at me. He actually seemed to be trying to figure out a puzzle, then the sirens began to come closer. He looked around and stood up. With one last look down at me, he turned and moved off. There was a crowd forming. He had no trouble disappearing. Funny, the warning signal vibe wasn’t from him. I was more confused than I had been before I had first seen him.
    It took another hour for me to get away from the accident. I had to get people to move to back my jeep out, but at last, I could head for home. I was gratified to find out that both of my co-workers had not sustained life-threatening injuries. Unfortunately, the people in the cars were a lot worse off.
    When I got home, there was a message on my phone from Steve. He was going to close the office for a couple of days due to the accident. Everyone would get paid. He was so nice. I agreed with him wholeheartedly. I needed time to think. We all needed time to pull ourselves together. We needed to visit our co-workers at the hospitals and think about re-arranging our office duties.
    I felt the man with the dark eyes was following me or at least knew where I was. There was a nice State Park close by. It had trails to walk or jog with a couple of decent size lakes. I had a plan that I knew would work.
     
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    F. J. Franklin
     
    “Sir, sorry to interrupt, but we have had a strange field report that I felt you would want to know about.” The man dressed in plain black military fatigues had stopped Franklin just as he was about to leave for the airport out of Washington. He frowned at the young brawny man who was holding out a snapped security folder.
    His driver, seeing him hesitate spoke. “Sir, we don’t really have much time.”
    “Come with me while I read this in case I have questions.”
     
    In the back seat of the plain government sedan, he read the report. “Okay, we had a covert operator deep in a drug cartel under a contract we had with an outside source, and unfortunately he got killed in an alley drug sale. Why would this be of interest to me?”
    “Sir, we got two items that add up to one