She moved so quickly, the look on her face as though she were near some foul smelling thing. She was almost disappointed he didn't even try to talk the price down.

Tess was standing next to her pants in heartbeat and slipping them on the next.

" Twenty-four hours, Mervy. I guarantee, seventy-two hours after those creds are in my hands, your problem will be taken care of."

She turned to him, scowling once again. " Now get out. I have to find my blouse."

Mevris, flustered, lept up from the bed and dusted off his jacket.

He shook his finger at Tess and grinned.

"Now I know what the boss' saw in you, you got gahonies!" He stated making a cupping gesture towards Tess.

"Out Merv!"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm going already, sheesh!.

The door clicked shut behind Mervis when he finally got out of the appartment, leaving Tess to look around by herself. She was begninng to thing doing this favour for that spinless jackass wasn't a bad thing. 500k was a lot of money, and it was going to be hers free and clear.

Free and clear once two men were dead.

But that was the fun part.

She found the transparant blouse tossed up onto a shelving using and as she pulled it down she started to laugh.

Tess had forgotten about the camera the apartment's owner though she was too drunk to remember. Well, he was partially right. Probably was going to try to blackmail her or sell it on the holovid. Not that she cared.

But now, lifting the camera from its place she hooked it up to the apartment's vidscreen and played it back. Nothing to shocking or unexpected, but as she sped the playback forward the grin on her face widened when she got to the part where Mervis entered the picture.

Every word recorded, ever image captured, she couldn't help but think of the possibilties. What would happen if someone from Danfe Midis' operations were to get ahold of this information? No, that wouldn't be good. Would cause too many problems for the Family and she would most likely find Meschi or Brahle waiting for her in some dark alley.

But what would the little schmuck's wife think seeing him in such a compramising position with a half naked woman?

Pocketting the vidchip from the camera she slipped the blouse on and grabbed the pile of information from the bed.

Perhaps when all this was said and done, she and Mrs. Mervis Somir would have to have lunch...

A few minutes and a speeder's drive, Mevris pulled up outside the credit office.

As always, Mevris stepped from his limo, and was accompanied to the credit access point by his bodyguard Bruno.

"That girls costing me a hell of a lot already. 500k! Just for two hits. . . but if I get this done, then I'll be wiping my ass with 500k every day."

"Right boss." Grunted Bruno.


Lights flashed, and buttons beeped, and a few moments later the transaction was done.


Loading the credits into a durasteel briefcase, Mevris climbed back into his speeder and set off, back to Tess' apartment.

The shower turned off and she stepped out, wrapping the towel around her just as the door chime sounded through the apartment in the Somir Plaza Building. Tess moved from the bathroom into her bedroom where a video feed of the camera outside her apartment door showed Mervis standing there with silver case in hand.

A smile spred across her lips and she let Mervis in.

" That was quick. I like a man who knows not to keep a woman waiting."