Pancake peers down a pistol
Who: Justin Pancake and Captain Chrysler
When: After Justin grabbed the potion and ran
Where: Hangar
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The hangar bay doors ground open, Justin impatiently prodded the access control button a few times in a futile attempt to hurry them open. The doors parted slowly, but as soon as the gap between them was wide enough he squeezed through
and stumbled into the hangar.
"Going somewhere Pancake?!" Justin looked up, Captain Chrysler stood there, a pistol held at arms length, aimed squarely at Pancake's head.
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Justin froze, and slowly brought his hands up above his head. The vial of potion in his hand. They stood like that for a few moments, each of them considering what to say next. Justin decided to play this like the innocent party.
"Captain. Why do you have a gun pointed at my head?" Justin asked, and faked confusion. "I'm a good JMC Officer."
"Don't play innocent with me Pancake." Jay said. "I know you're trying to steal that vial of... whatever it is."
Pancake shrugged. "I was given some orders which I'm following. Orders that were given to me by YOUR boss."
"Put the vial down!" Jay said again. Pancake nodded and complied. He placed the vial on the floor. It didn't look as green as it did when he'd picked it up, and it was possible he hadn't even picked up the correct vial. He didn't look at it right now though, instead he looked Jay straight in the eyes.
"What are you going to do Captain?" He asked, looking down the barrel of Jay's laser pistol. "You can't arrest me because technically I've done nothing wrong. If this goes to a Space Corps tribunal, they'll rule that I was following the orders of the JMC's Managing Director. They'll make you look like an idiot. William Eckerslike will probably be so smegged off with you that the next ship you command will be a sanitary-towel collection hovercraft on Titan."
"Shut up!" Jay said, and started to think.
"You don't know what to do with me do you?" Pancake said, and started to grin. It was a patronising grin which made Jay hate him even more. "You can't arrest me. You can't even kill me, or Eckerslike will know. If you have a problem with what I've been doing there's only one person to blame, and that's Eckerslike. Take it up with him. I'm just the man who's doing what he says."
Jay tightened his grip on the laser pistol's trigger.
<Tag Andy, what does Jay do next?>