Partners

“That’s quite the wild story, young lady,” Officer Mike Jabowski lamented.

Gus took a deep breath. He was worried he wasn’t getting through to his partner. Trying to explain who he really was despite the body he now had; attempting to tell him it had something to do with some low-level criminal they apprehended the other day; he could tell Mike was dismissing all of it in his head. Gus made one last go at it, “I don’t expect you to believe me. Hell, if our situations were reversed, I wouldn’t believe it either. But I’m not even asking you to believe a crazy body swapping story; I’m just telling you to watch your back from now on. Whoever is actually in my body can’t be trusted. I don’t want to see you get hurt, okay? I took a lot of risk tailing you both just so I could wait for him to go to the bathroom to tell you this as soon as I could. If I’m still here when he gets out, I don’t want to know what he’ll do. So I’m going to bounce, okay? Just promise me you’ll watch yourself, okay?”

Mike still didn’t want to believe this woman. She was crazy, right? And yet there was just something very familiar. Maybe his partner had been acting off this shift? He looked at her square in the eyes, “I’ll watch myself. Now you get out of here, okay?”