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I opened my eyes, but shut them tight again. Even the dim light of the room hurt my eyes. Turning my head, I opened them again. Suzie sat at the small table, head in hand, elbow leaning on the table, legs crossed at the knee, asleep.
I was feeling no pain. I didn�t know what they had given me, but it was working. Sitting up I felt light headed and dizzy. I tried to move my right shoulder, but couldn�t and I looked at it to see a red spot in the white bandages that covered the area and part of my chest.
I grunted slightly as I moved to set my feet on the floor. Suzie jerked awake. �Ah, no you don�t Petri Burns; you lie back down right now.�
I stopped and looked at her, almost in shock. �How long have I been asleep?�
�Asleep?!� she laughed. �Honey, you�ve been knocked out for about two weeks from the sedatives I�ve been giving you.�
�What?� I stood up, but fell back to the bed. �Two weeks?�
�That�s right. Me and Radar know you Petri. You�re careless. You would have gotten up and not given it time to heal. We thought it best.�
I looked to the floor. Now I understood why I felt light headed and dizzy. I was groggy too. �You thought it best?� I looked back to her.
It must have scared Suzie, the look on my face or in my eyes, something, because she sat back in her chair a bit. �We didn�t want you going after that Neoweapon Petri. You can�t just kill a trained assassin like you think. And those pistols aren�t going to pro-tect you like you think. Granted they will because they will fire, but that Neoweapon is better then you. Stronger, faster, reflexes are better. You are a sixteen year old child! You can�t win against decades of technology.�
�I can try.� I was almost yelling. �Don�t you think I know this?! But I�m not giv-ing up! I�m going to have revenge for what they did to Jene! Whether it kills me or not!�
�Jene was one of them!� Suzie slammed her hand on the table. �Don�t you under-stand that?! The Jene DeVowe you knew was the prototype Neoweapon! A programmed killer. And you want revenge?!�
�Jene was my friend!� I yelled back. �I really don�t care what he was. He never once tried to hurt me or anybody else. He was kind and quiet! That�s who I plan on gain-ing my revenge for! Not the Neoweapon in which you speak!�
�Bronze would kill you without even blinking twice!� Suzie swiped her arm through the air and took a step towards me. �And you know that just as much as I do!�
�He�s still Human!�
�Yeah, maybe, he looks Human, but come on Petri, he�s not. He�s a Cyborg, with a part of a computer brain. You wouldn�t stand a snowball�s chance in Hell! And you don�t strike me as the suicidal type.�
�Suicide?� that stopped me. That had never accrued to me. A suicide run? It couldn�t be, could it? Didn�t I stand a chance or were these Neoweapons really as dan-gerous as they�ve been said to be?
�You heard me!� Suzie walked to the door. �Think about that for a while, why don�t you kid.� She opened the door and closed it behind her.
�Yeah whatever.� I swung my feet back onto the bed and leaned against the wall. �I will get him, if it�s the last thing I do.�