Blue Sun Room FICTION - MYSTERY

Guess Who's Coming to Donner?: Chapter 1

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Caught between a rock and a hard place, Timothy Donner betrays his partner and makes a deal he may regret.

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The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.- Captain Jack Sparrow

Timothy Donner examined the coding that was the A.I. program he had acquired just a couple of weeks ago. When the contact within Blue Sun he knew only as Johnson had first told him about it, Donner had been indifferent. It was the sort of loot he wouldn't have normally handled. The A.I. was Unique, and Unique was notoriously impossible to fence, as those morons who had stolen the Lassiter were probably learning. Since Donner only stole for profit, it had been near the bottom of his list of priorities.

Then Warren came to him with her slightly crazy scheme. For it to properly work, the A.I. would be practically required. Deciding to take Johnson up on his offer, Donner contacted him and made the necessary arrangements.

Donner had studied both the program and the notes Johnson had provided. Though he understood enough to make use of the A.I., there were still a few bits of coding which were beyond Donner's comprehension. While it wouldn't get in the way of Warren's scheme, such unknowns bothered him.

Donner's thoughts were interrupted by a pounding at his apartment door. Uneasy at someone calling at this late hour, he grabbed his 9mm pistol. Looking through the peephole, he was surprised to see Johnson there. Letting him in, Donner asked, "What the hell are you doing here? I recall us agreeing never to meet face-to-face for our own safety."

"Screw that!" Johnson ranted. "If I had never told you about the A.I., th

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