Noecker grunted in pain as his shoulders shook in a brief burst of laughter. “We’re not going to the Cape, Frankie. Not yet.”
Noecker grunted again as Francina roughly wrapped a gauze bandage around his shoulder. “Why not? That was the plan.”
“Sorry, honey. I changed my mind. Just getting in touch with my feminine side.”
Before Francina could find a loose sharp heavy object to smack Connor with, Noecker grabbed her wrist with his good arm. “We don’t know which of us has the rogue DNA we need. And with me… well, like this, that cuts our chances in half.”
“But we are pretty sure that your little darling is going to make our current nightmare a lot worse,” Connor added. “And we know she has exactly what we need. So, all things considered…”
Francina gasped, Noecker grunted, and Connor grit his teeth as he put the plane into a controlled dive. Below them, and not far ahead, they saw a battered flower-bedecked hippie van cruising along a single lane country road much faster than any hippie van had a right to cruise.
“Connor!”
“Not now, honey. Daddy’s working.” He pulled back on the controls and slowed the plane till it was just above and maybe a hundred metres behind the crazy wagon. “Hey, old man. This is an older model than I’m used to. Are the machine guns still controlled from your side?”
“Connor!”
Noecker leaned forward with another, louder grunt. “I only need one hand for this.”
Connor grinned. “No time for that, you old pervert. Just force that godawful monstrosity off the road before I flip this bird and kill us all.”
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