After Drake droped off Jarhead at home, Drake sped his way to the Eclipse. "Damn," Drake said to 
himself outloud. "Why do I get cases like this! Just for once I would like to get an case where I might not 
end up dead.!" As he was on his way, it started to rain. "Rain, it can only mean one thing, trouble."

     When Drake pulled up to the Eclipse, all of the lights were out. The bright neon sign that usually be 
blinking from old age was out also. Drake remembers the time when Hack had someone gunning for him 
because he had some info on a robbery once. Hack had told him if the sign ever went out, he was in trouble. 
Drake, at first, figured it was out because of the storm. After looking at the other buildings, however, 
showed that it was not the case. `Ok. something is not right about this.' Drake said to himself. He then 
drew his pistol and walked to the door.

     When he got to the door, he could tell something was wrong, `No noise. not good at all.' He said. 
Slowly he opened the door and right then and there, he knew he was in deep trouble.

     Facing right in front of him was the person formerly known as Carl the bartender. The poor guy looked 
like swiss cheese stain with blood. Some of the bullets even went threw him and smashed some bottles.  

     Drake walked towards the dead body and touch its neck. `Carl is still warm! Damn, they might still be 
here."  As he was about to turn around, he started to hear something from Hack's office. "What the hell." 
he said to himself as he walked towards the door.

     "Ok Hack, we are gonna start over." Said one guy, "Who broke into Mr. Tanner's house."

     ".I don't know, I swear to god!" Hack said, sounding like he was halfway dead.

     "I think he is lying to us again Lou." Said another man.

     "You what Steve, I think your right." Said Lou, cracking his knuckles. "I just hate it when people lie right 
in front of me. I think we should teach `Mr. Hack' a lesson in respect."

      Drake knew Hack was going to die in the next few seconds and he had to do something. Problem was 
that it sounded like it was two of them and it was only one of him. `Think Drake Think!' he screamed in his 
mind. All of a sudden, it came to him.

     "So Hack, don't wanna tell us huh?" Said Steve, while starting to load his gun. "That is just too bad. If 
you knew, you could had lived."

     Just when Steve was about to pull the trigger, a ball was rolled into the room.

    "What the.." Said both Lou and Steve at the same time.

     That was all they got to say as a hale of gunbullets hit both men. As Hack looked on in shock, a man in a 
trenchcoat and holding two guns came out of the shadows.

     "They allways fall for the classics." Drake said with a smirk. Then he walked over to Hack "You 
alright?"

     "No. I'm not alright!" Said Hack, who was tied to a chair and looked like both of his hands was broken. 
"Your boy Robbie played us both!"

     "What do you mean by that?" Drake said, hoping it wasn't what he though it was.

     "They want to take out people that are giving them trouble, your number one on the list. They came after 
me because they think I had some `book'.

     Drake look into his pocket and look at the book again "..damn."


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MMckin9850@aol.com

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