Me and the Rat
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Benjy was just a mild-mannered engineer, working on a government research platform…until he found out his girlfriend wasn’t a PhD candidate at all, but actually an international spy, bent on nicking the station’s database. What’s a poor boy to do?
Benjy Jackson works for the government. He?s an engineer. An engineer on an offshore laboratory?which ostensibly studies marine life but actually spends most of its time monitoring undersea weapons tests. Benjy likes his job, and even gets along reasonably well with his boss, Jacob Hodges. When Sierra Annis joined the team a few months ago, they struck up a relationship. In fact, Benjy has plans to marry the woman.
Last night, however, Benjy found something out: Sierra is a rat. She?s not here to do her PhD research, she?s here to steal the lab?s data, using it to expose the entire operation to various international agencies?everything the lab does breaks half a dozen treaties and international law. Sierra is due to leave the base in just four days, her research ostensibly complete. She asks Benjy not to reveal her, and tells him that after she?s left, he can meet up with her in Paris…but only if she knows she can trust him.
