PolicyPolice

The fevered mind of steve presents:

Reaching the LEARNER

Part 4

I’ve just had to run

from a helicopter

gunship and I’m in a

dumpster with a kid

who smells of vomit

and junk food.

Life could be better.

It’s all gone. Everything’s

gone.

Agency hit squads. This kid’s just not worth the budget.

They could have sent a security guard with a night stick…

You wanted us dead for a little hand-job. What kind of cop are

you?

…but they sent me.

Asshole. I had a life this

morning. Now look. Now look.

They sent me.

So what are you going to do about it.

Not just expendable. Disposable.

They weren’t after you, they were after me.

Then you really do owe me.

If you hadn’t come I’d…

I’d...

…be sharing a shitty

apartment with a dead junkie..

Instead I’m sharing a dumpster with a cop with a price on his head.

You should have left me to die.

Shit.

You got people? You got family?

No.

You sure?

Sure I’d never tell you. You owe me

remember.

OK, Kid, what’s your name?

……

I can’t just call you Kid.

Why not?

Didn’t anybody give you a name?

C… Chrysanthemum. I’ll always hate them

for it.

Well they gave me a reason. C’mon, Kid. Let’s get

outta here before the cleaners

arrive.

?? ???

We do government work. We work out

what needs to change, we gather evidence to convince the political

classes. Then we make it happen.

The Agency?

Like I said, cops.

To help people like you pull themselves

out of the hole they’re in. Get a

better life.

Make us more like you. Cheap cops.

Class cops.

…. …

See. You’re trying to turn me

into a cop.

A cop called

Chrysanthemum?

Surely HR have policies

about that sort of thing?

Find out in next time in

Reaching the

LEARNER.