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at this." I looked at her and grinned. "Well let's see if we can figure out who's next. Maybe we can arrange a little surprise!" and I growled deeply.
    She growled back, smiling fiercely, "I like that idea."
    By Friday we were ready, but we weren't in time. We obviously had been close though, when we came up to the front door a we heard a car speed off on the street behind. Kicking in the door, we could see the mess, but at least in their haste the criminals had left their scent all over. When we ran out the back door, we found their abrupt departure had attracted attention as well. We even got a couple of descriptions!
    "Damn!" I swore when we got back to the office and were reporting our findings to Marshall Jackson. "We were close, really close. Another minute..."
    Rasha's tail was whipping around in anger, so was mine.
    "Don't be so hard on yourselves." He said, "You both did a pretty good job, considering the difficulty of it. Also there's your the fact that you're both just rookies."
    "Still," Rasha complained, "If the local police would have helped, instead of not wanting to get involved, we might have had them."
    He nodded, "Yes, prejudice is never a friend, or an ally. I'll go rattle the Chief's cage on this tonight though. We're closing in on these criminal's now, and if you call for back up again. I'm gonna make damn sure they send it."
    He dismissed us then and we headed back to our own desks. "Good job, both of you." He said as we opened the door to go, "and don't forget that."
    "Thanks boss." Rasha said
    "Thanks," I echoed.
    Walking over to my desk I plopped into my chair, which protested loudly at the treatment.
    "You're gonna break that thing real soon Hon." Rasha said, settling into her own chair with much more grace.
    "I'm still bugged, I hate losing."
    "Who's said we lost?" She said leaning forward to lick my nose. "We got them on the run now. And we have more leads then ever before."
    I smiled, "True..."
    Just then the phone rang and Rasha grabbed it.
    "Yes?"
    I couldn't make out what was being said, I noticed she was having a hard time following it as well. Then the line went dead.
    "What was that?" I asked.
    "A tip. Supposedly one of our kidnappers lives out on Haley road, out in Tigard."
    "Well, shall we check it out?"
    "Might as well."
    It was a good twenty minute drive from the office to the place. When we got there, it looked pretty deserted, a run down  house behind an old auto wreckers.
    We got out of the car and started walking carefully up to the door, trying to use what cover there was, drawing our guns.
    Suddenly we both heard a sound from behind us.
    "Shit!" Rasha said.
    "Run for it!" I told her and took off for the door. I heard a gunshot and felt a sharp pain in my left shoulder. I hit the door going flat out as I heard more gunfire erupting behind us. I felt another sting in the leg as the door flew open, Rasha diving in behind me.
    I rolled and came up on my feet right in front of four well armed men. I opened fire barely before they did. Maybe they had thought the door would hold. I got the first one before he could fire, then jumped into their midst hoping to keep them from shooting Rasha. I shot the next two as I felt their bullets hitting the body armor.
    The last one got his gun inside the duster and shot me in the chest, I crushed his face with my free hand, then broke his neck as the pain hit. I turned to look at Rasha who had killed a man behind me, his chest missing and her hand all covered in blood.
    "Old habits" she said shrugging.
    "We better barricade that door," I said gasping. We could both hear the gunshots, there were a lot of people outside. We were pretty well trapped.
    She nodded and pushed some kind of dresser in front of it, "I guess we walked right into this one."
    "Sure did, love."
    Right about then they charged the house, Rasha took a few shots out the partially blocked door. I took a few out the one window.
    "Get any?" I coughed then, I could feel the blood