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[quote][b]Asmodeus (Dec 19, 2001 01:47 a.m.):[/b] "No," Nathan said simply, his voice clear and cold, "you're not." Quistin blocked his first punch, and for the first time since his fight with the Creche twins at Command School, Nathan was knocked back as a powerful fist landed squarely on his jaw. The pain woke him, brought his adrenaline into play, and he knocked the next aside and yanked Quistin forward to slam a tight fist into the older man's stomach. The air left the captain in a rush, and Nathan was caught by surprise when Quistin tried to headbutt him. He threw his head backwards and to the side to avoid it and took the reduced impact on his cheek instead. Sensing an advantage, the captain drove a knee into Nathan's stomach and shoved him away, preparing to finish him off. Nathan drew in a single sweet lungful of oxygen and attacked. Robert Quistin was broader than he, but he was younger than Katera's father, and faster, and after the first few solid blows to the head and throat, the captain was much easier to deal with. Nathan was silently methodical. Bruises bloomed on Quistin's face like flowers, the green eyes slowly swelling shut, the slack lips split, and yet he maintained consciousness. Nathan always let him try to rise without interruption. He wanted Quistin to feel the damage he'd done. He always waited until he got to his feet before he knocked him down again. He had to hold the man up to deliver two last vicious uppercuts to his midsection, and this time when he fell, he did not rise. Nathan shook his head to clear the sweat from his brow and knelt next to the fallen man, taking his right wrist in a merciless grip and pushing the cuff back. Quistin began to stir more strenuously, but he paid little attention, unsnapping the sheath and pulling the dagger Nathan had insisted the guards not remove during the search. The swollen eyelids fluttered, trying to open, to see what he was doing, and he calmly placed a hand on the captain's throat to hold him still. "Katera's mother...was this what it was like? Did you beat her the way you beat Katera?" Quistin growled and tried to break free, and Nathan struck him in the face with the hand wrapped around the hilt of the dagger. The man's entire body twitched, and his breath came in wheezes and gasps through his swollen throat as he tightened his grip a little, enough to cause pain but not enough to put him out. The captain was still conscious when Nathan drew a line in the swollen skin above his cheekbone with the sharp point of the dagger. The skin split, blood welled, and Quistin hissed in as best he could, trying to bring a hand around to lay it on Nathan, to make him stop. When he was finished, Nathan threw the dagger away from them, across the room, and pulled Quistin up by his uniform a foot off the floor. The man was heavy, dead weight, and he shook him to make sure he was awake. One eye, only able to open a fraction, half focused on him. "Your wife is dead, captain," he said quietly. "Leave mine in peace." He released his grip and stood, and Quistin fell to the floor with a groan. The guards snapped him attention, and he paused at the door but did not turn. "Get him to his ship. Ask for Dr. Alvarado." The sedative she would give him would keep him under a good forty eight hours, and he would be out of port and well on his way to Earth. They would never see him again. He stood aside as they took the unconscious man away, and waited until Quistin was gone before unlocking the door to the observation room and stepping inside.[/quote]
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