Copyright 1999, Lyta. All rights reserved. No part of this story may be
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Disclaimer: Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict is copyright 1998, Tribune
Entertainment Co. Its characters are used without permission, no infringement is intended.
Rating: PG
Title: Crosshairs
Author: Lyta
Lyta_1028@yahoo.com
Summary: Mitch learns of Julia's arrest
"Crosshairs"
The color leached from Mitch's face and he nearly staggered
when he saw Julia Cook being led away in handcuffs by two heavily armed guards on the
evening news. The part of his brain that somehow still managed to remain focused on the
images he was seeing noted that Julia was rather dressed up, which was unusual for the
nature girl, and that Liam was also visible wearing a worried expression. Mitch shook his
head, trying to get his emotions back on track; he would do nobody any good if he went to
pieces now when he didn't even have the whole story. He always tried to avoid jumping to
conclusions prematurely as those conclusions were usually inaccurate.
He remembered the concerned expression on Julia's face when he had been
abruptly jarred out of his near death experience at Augur's. She had not approved of him
taking such a risk for Be'lie, but Julia was not the type to let a friend go down without
a fight. He could almost hear her screaming his name and shaking him in an effort to
revive him.
Sure Julia was a hothead, but she was no murderer. If she had been a
killer that Volunteer, Amanda Haynes, would have been shipped home in a body bag after her
squad conducted a raid on their Resistance cell.
Mitch wondered just what Julia had been doing at the Presidential
debate. He also was curious about how she had gotten a weapon past security. That place
had to be locked down tighter than Fort Knox. Maybe Liam had helped or Augur forged the
fake press pass the news anchor claimed she and the rest of her team had on them at the
time they were arrested.
He changed the channel. Sure enough another station had interrupted
their regular programming to cover the same story, this one with the anchor still
introducing the audience to the story. A minute later, they showed their footage of the
assassination attempt at the debate. The look on Julia's face alone told Mitch that she
had been set up, but that still left the question of why she had been carrying a gun. She
had not been there to kill Thompson, assassination was not Julia's style, nor could he
imagine Liam approving such an action.
He flicked off the television in disgust as a panel of so-called
"experts" discussed the so-called Resistance plot to kill President Thompson.
Mitch had heard enough. He went into the bedroom of his small apartment and picked up his
global from where he had left it on the night stand. There would be severe repercussions
from this and he had to warn the rest of his cell to brace themselves for the hurricane
sure to hit them soon. Mitch also intended to find out what had gone so terribly wrong. If
he had to pry the information from Liam Kincaid himself, then so be it.