Tattoo

Continuing …of Heroes and the Misunderstood; a serial Six

This is the next part of a Six Sentence collaboration between Clark (from the Wakefield Doctrine) and yours truly.

Previous parts:

Part 1A 
Part 1B 
Part 2 
Part 3 

Moonbeam got to his feet quickly, causing the man standing beside Rue DeNite to flinch and stand in a battle-ready self-defence pose slightly in front of Rue; ‘steady, Bill Capone,’ Moonbeam quipped, pointing his right hand, palm up, toward Rocco, ‘I’m only standing up.’

Rocco relaxed, and Moonbeam looked at the snoring woman lay in the middle of the room, bringing his attention to the tattoo on her midriff, a crescent moon intersected by a pointed, jagged cross; ‘I know that symbol,’ Moonbeam lifted his top to reveal a similar tattoo on his torso slightly front of his left hip bone (only there was an additional eye to the bottom-right of the cross on his tattoo), ‘it’s taken from the old logo of a company called Mooncross Industries… I don’t know her, though.’

‘Never heard of ’em,’ Rue said, eyeing Moonbeam’s tattoo which was of a more faded purple-grey colour compared to the rich black on the mystery woman, ‘and all that tells me is that it’s either a coincidence you two have similar ink or you’re both together, working or otherwise… and I don’t believe in coincidences.’

‘I don’t know her,’ Moonbeam continued, ‘and the company is involved in research and intelligence… I used to work for them when they were based in Reykjavik, in Iceland… I didn’t know they’d moved to England…’ he looked at Rue and then Rocco a little sheepishly, ‘and I don’t know why I’m telling you this.’ He stopped speaking again, and pressed his index finger into his ear, using his fingernail to flick a tiny switch, ‘Bubblegum, could you find some latest details about Mooncross Industries…’ to which a tinny voice responded with ‘who do you think I am, Directory Enq…’, Moonbeam cut her off with a quick ‘just do it.’

Rue and Rocco looked at Moonbeam in an untrusting silence, Rue thinking about how ‘coincidental’ it was that she had to return to the house – what did I return for… it’ll come back to me – Rocco thinking about Lou’s don’t let anyone kill her – and Moonbeam found himself thinking about the red laser dot that suddenly appeared on Rocco’s left shoulder.

Posted for Six Sentence Stories, where the prompt word this week is ‘nail’.