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“What do you mean what happens—”

“Shut up, Carl. I’m speaking. Two things can happen. One: you turn up and make peace, we figure out how we can all get along, and you take John home with you. Happy ending. Or two: no one shows up and we come back here with a bigger force, with all our weapons, and we don’t hold back. We wipe you out. Kill you if we have to. You understand? It’s your choice.”

46

On a Friday or Saturday night we’d get pizzas and watch DVDs.”

“Me too . . . Only we used to get Indian takeout.”

Sam and Rhiannon were sitting in the darkness of the car. The nightlights that Nick and Rachel kept burning twenty-four hours a day on the platform outside cast no light in here. All Sam could see was a vague yellow glow in the window, and Rhiannon’s head silhouetted against it. They were sitting opposite each other, keeping the fear away by talking of old familiar things.

“I used to love chicken tikka,” said Rhiannon.

“Me too,” said Sam. “But we didn’t get Indian food much. It was too spicy for my little sister, Ella.”

“Don’t she like chicken tikka? Everyone likes chicken tikka.”

“She likes it a bit. But she’s not very good with food. She’s fussy. All she really likes is plain cheese pizza.”

“Boring,” said Rhiannon.

“I bet you wouldn’t say no to one now, though,” said Sam.

“Maybe we could call for a delivery,” said Rhiannon, and she giggled.

“Domino’s,” said Sam. “Can I take your order?”

“Veggie Supreme.”

“I don’t think I ever had one of those.”

“We’ll rent a DVD and have pizza,” said Rhiannon. “What shall we watch?”

“We used to watch TV series mostly,” said Sam. “Sometimes three episodes in one night.”

“Yeah,” said Rhiannon. “I love box sets.”

“Star Trek,” said Sam. “And Heroes. But it was a bit gory.”

“We were halfway through Lost,” said Rhiannon.

“That was too scary for Ella,” said Sam. “She liked Ugly Betty. She didn’t really understand it, though.”

“Did you have a Wii? We had a Wii.”

“No,” said Sam. “I used to play games on my computer. World of Warcraft.”

“My favorite was The Sims.”

“Yes, I sorta liked that. But I preferred World of Warcraft. I had a Tauran shaman called Dorkcrawler. I wanted to call him Darkcrawler, but that name was already taken. I also had a Night Elf Warrior called Deathblooood, with four O’s, and a gnome called Shortybottom. He was level sixty-two.”

“Were you on Facebook or MySpace?”

“No. My mom wouldn’t let me,” said Sam. “I used to use MSN sometimes, but mostly I played World of Warcraft. Though I was getting a bit bored of it. My friend had Grand Theft Auto. I really wanted to get that, but Mom said no way.”