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no matter how much pain he was in, he was the only one left.
    "Ok. You can go" Dan said, looking around.
    He saw only Rangers, Jimmy and Neil, and knew that they were shielded from the house by trees.
    "Really?" He asked, the revelation stopping his tears instantly.
    "Yes. How far is your place? I'll drop you off" Dan said reasonably. Dumbstruck, the man’s mouth opened and closed a few times as he processed what he had just heard.
    "You know the athletics stadium?  Just off the motorway?" He asked, naive and hopeful.
    "Yes" said Dan, drawing the suppressed Walther from his vest and putting one round behind his ear at point blank range.
    Nobody spoke as the man’s body slumped to the floor with his friends.  His legs gave out just like someone had switched off the power supply. A few seconds of silence reigned as they all stared at the additional body on the ground.
    "Well, that was frightfully silly of the man" declared Neil in his favourite accent, breaking the silence "Who would pick a fight with a group of armed gentlemen and expect to get away?"
    They laughed at Neil's impression as they all accepted their agreed account of how the man died.
    "Silly chap. Still, couldn't be helped, eh?  Who wants a cup of tea?"

CLEAN UP
     
    The bodies were stripped of anything useful, as were the cars. It had been months since they had burned dead people in the tennis court, but they used petrol to light another fire as they had before. The difference being that they had made these people dead intentionally.
    Ewan spent the afternoon using the big forklift to drag the five cars to the track that provided access to the rear by the lake. They were dumped in tight formation to block it completely from the road.
    Joe offered to move to the gardens for a while until things settled down, taking his vehicle and extra weaponry.
    Everyone was brought in for the day to get to grips with what had just happened.
    Marie gave the facts to the assembled group. Now they numbered over seventy – Dan couldn’t keep up – she had to stand at the pulpit in the chapel, or diverse multiple faith room as the sign read, to be heard easily.
    She gave the brief facts, left out the gory details, and told everyone what was being done about it.
    "Some of you will remember Kyle, the others will have heard about him I'm sure" she said. "It seems that after he fled from here, a group of undesirable people found him and imprisoned him. He must have given them in depth details about our home which allowed them to attack us."
    Murmurs rippled around the crowd.
    "Their attack was repelled" she spoke loudly and confidently. "Their group is no longer a threat to us. Everyone who knew about this is dead" she let that sink in.
    "Thanks to the quick thinking and bravery of Cedric, Pete, James, Neil and our Rangers we are still whole." She looked at each person she named as she spoke.  Rangers were expected to fight, she said, it’s what they chose to do.  When farmers and gardeners and mechanics put their lives on the line, then that needs recognising to reassure them.
    The murmur picked up a notch.
    "Now, it's true. Pete has been shot in the attack as he and James defended us"
    The murmur dropped in happiness a level.
    "But expert medical care from Leah at the scene and then Kate, Lizzie and Alice has saved him. He is now resting in medical and needs time to heal, but I'm sure all of our thoughts are with him" again she looked at those as she named them, amazing Dan at how she knew where they were in the crowd.
    The murmur swayed from concerned, to proud and now returned to happy.
    "I know this has been difficult and frightening, but until order is established on a wider scale then we must do as we have done to protect innocent people"
    She paused, orchestrating the mood of the crowd like a maestro.
    "We have all been through bad things since it happened, and more bad things may be in store yet, but today we have proven that we are stronger as a group than these