Broken Reflection

In the movie this would be about the time when the young girl would possibly throw her purse at them and then they would try and get away as quickly as possible. There would be no blood, knife wounds or tearing of clothes. Moe had been a cop for some time and he knew which version of the story was most likely to play out.


He half leapt, half fell, off the top of building - not unlike someone casually diving feet first into a pool. His instinct was perfectly balanced - he landed with a resounding thud in between the girl and the pair. The girl, already on the border of completely losing it, screamed. She was wearing nice jeans, a sweater and carrying a backpack. Probably a college student who thought the neighborhood offered cheap rent.


Moe stood straight and glared at the pair of assailants. They were like a broken reflection of her- dirty jeans, old sneakers and hoodie sweatshirts. They did not scream but stopped their sudden charge and held their ground.


"Just run," Moses said.


The one on the left was taking this as sound advice when the one on the right pulled out a streetlight special - a Glock he probably bought for about a carton of cigarettes - and pointed it at Moses. Moe the Boy raised an eyebrow - honestly unsure as to what was going happen next. His hand instictively dropped to his sidearm which wasn't actually there when the kid let off a shot. The crack rang through the alleyway and the girl started crying behind Moses.


He felt slight pinch and heard the jingle of metal. He looked down to see a small rip in his shirt and his skin showing the signs of becoming an irritated form of red. The shell was stilling bouncing off the ground. He had been paintballing once with some guys from the department. That hurt worse than this had.

I'm once caught up - but hopefully I'll get ahead some tonight. Thanksgiving promises to put behind at least two days instantly, so I'll want some padding there. I've generally tried to finish NaNo the weekend before the end of the month, but this time it might be close.

A note to anyone who might actually be reading the "novel in progess" with the link in the right. For one thing, I know there's contradictions and I mispell a few characters consistently. That latter part is just kind of a toy a keep playing with since I never really decided what that character's name is.

Also, this is the first year I've been going back and adding scenes that weren't previously there. For instance, I just added a bit about Josephine which occurs as Moe is going through his first round of testing, labelled oddly "2B Josephine gets a visitor".

Honestly, it's a work in progress of a rough draft of a notion - so it's so ragged it could cut is what I'm saying.