Sixteen
Lyn and Sam trotted down the steps of the police station together.
"How were things in there?" she asked him.
"I've had better days, to be honest. They were implying I had something to do with it."
"What? Why would they do that?"
"Because I know about explosives and I wasn't there when it happened."
"That's ridiculous."
"It's insulting. I wanted to smack him."
"I'm sorry, Sam. I wouldn't have dreamed they would give you a hard time. It's only because of you we got Alice out safely. You got me out safely too. Who knows what would have happened if you weren't around?"
Sam mumbled something that might have been 'you're welcome'.
"So what are you going to do now? Go back to the base?"
"We were going to take advantage of the long weekend," said Sam, "But I guess that won't be happening now." He smiled to himself, thinking of the things that might have been. That should have been. "We were going to go to Paris and cause some trouble there. We brought our passports."
"Your things are still in the office aren't they?" said Lyn.
"Yeah. Mine and Andy's."
"Come on, we can share a ride back to the lab." Lyn stepped into the street and waved down a black cab.
"So what are your weekend plans?" Sam asked as they settled in and the driver swore at a passing cyclist.
"We have to rebuild the lab. Or see what we need to do to rebuild the lab. I don't know how much of our equipment still works. Some might just need recalibrating."
"You can rebuild a lab in a weekend?"
"It depends what we need. We need to get the IT back in place immediately and we can have some spare equipment supplied by Monday. We can be up and running with a partial lab by Tuesday. Then we can get some of our samples and embryos from our backup facility and we are back in business. Easy, right? We might need to delay your next visit by a week but I can talk to your office about that."
The ride from Shoreditch back to Old Street took twice as long as it did earlier. The late afternoon traffic was beginning to fill the streets as people hurried to leave the city early in anticipation of the long weekend to come.
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