“Are you okay?” Janine put an arm around his shoulders.
He looked at her, eyes asking the question his lips couldn’t. Pleading for the answer to be different.
She shook her head. “I’m so sorry. I know you two were still good friends. I never wanted to interfere with that.”
Noddy lowered his breakfast, appetite gone. “How…?”
“Someone brought her jacket to the club last night. Just her jacket. Midget Submarine were playing, so I didn’t see who it was. Must have been one of Mick’s people. It was covered in blood and powder. Too much of both.”
He remembered. So much of both. Too much. He hadn’t been able to reach her where she’d landed, on a rooftop across the road from Mick’s flat. He’d used the ivy to reach the ruined fire escape, rusted and broken against the lower half of the wall. But there had been no way for him to access the building next door, even if he hadn’t heard the pairs of vengeful boots clanging against the iron steps above him.
“Dirk put it up on the wall, in that spot he’d made for Mick’s colours.” She smiled sadly. “The bouncers tried to stop him. Said Mick wouldn’t be happy. He threw one of them across the dancefloor. Threatened to shoot the other one.”
Even Noddy smiled. “Yeah. She would have liked that.”
“She would have. Neil played Vampirella in her honour. Then he played Motorhead for you. He was disappointed when you didn’t join him at the front of the stage.”
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