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problem off their hands.

"What's wrong, Larry?" I asked, and I couldn't keep the worry, out of my own voice.

He swallowed hard enough for me to hear it. "I'm okay, but Tammy isn't."

I clutched the receiver. His wife was Detective Tammy Reynolds, member of the Regional Preternatural
Investigation Squad. My first thought was that she'd been hurt in the line of duty. "What happened to
Tammy?"

Micah leaned in against me. Nathaniel had gone very quiet beside me. We'd all been at their wedding.
Hell, I'd been at the altar on Lafry's side.

"The baby. Anita, she's in labor."

It should have made me feel better, but it didn't, not by much. "She's only five months pregnant, Larry."

"I know, I know. They're trying to get the labor stopped, but they don't know…" He didn't finish the
sentence.

Tammy and Larry had been dating for a while when Tammy ended up pregnant. They'd married when
she was four months pregnant. Now the baby that had made them both change all their plans might never
be born. Or at least not survive. Shit.

"Larry, I'm… Jesus, Larry, I'm so sorry. Tell me what I can do to help." I couldn't think of anything, but
whatever he asked, I'd do it. He was my friend, and there was such anguish in his voice. He'd never
mastered that empty cop voice.

"I'm due on an eight a.m. flight to raise a witness for the FBI."

"The federal witness who died before he could testify," I said.

"Yeah," Larry said. "They need the animator that brings him back to be one of us who's also a federal
marshal. Me being a federal marshal was one of the reasons the judge agreed to allow the zombie's
testimony."

"I remember," I said, but I wasn't happy. I wouldn't turn him down or chicken out, not with Tammy in the
hospital, but I hated to fly. No, I was afraid to fly. Damn it.

"I know how much you hate to fly," he said.

That made me smile, that he was trying to make me feel better when his life was about to break apart.
"It's okay, Larry. I'll see if the flight has some empty seats. If not I'll get a later flight, but I'll go."
"All my files on the case are at Animators, Inc. I'd stopped by the office to get them and load up the
briefcase when Tammy called. I think my briefcase is just sitting on the floor in our office. I got all the files
in it. The agent in charge is…" And he hesitated. "I can't remember. Oh, hell, Anita, I can't remember."
He was panicking again.

"It's okay, Larry. I'll find it. I'll call the Feds and tell them there's been a change of cast."