The Spy that Loves Me

Chapter 31

Webby held Louie's hand tightly as she sat next to Gandra's bed. Gandra was busy using her Bio Tech she built in her eyes to scan the inside of Louie's body for any more unpleasantness that they can't ignore, because Louie's face had gotten extremely red, and he was having a hard time breathing.

As Gandra stood on the other side of the bed and did her thing, Webby thought back to the kiss. She had wanted to kiss Dewey the minute he entered the cell, but Webby was still shell shocked at what had just happened to her, and by after the way she had acted around Louie when all he was simply trying to do was comfort her...

It just didn't feel right at the time.

Then, when she saw him leaving. She just couldn't hold off on it any longer. Not with the way things were going.

Webby did feel nervous about Dewey leaving her and Louie with Gandra of all people, from they way the dealt with her in the past. But if Dewey trusted her with their lives...

Then Webby did.

"You, You see anything?" Webby asked a frown slowly formed on Gandra's faces.

She blinked in surprise though at Webby's voice and Webby, herself, was surprised that it was hard for her to talk. She put her other free hand up to her throat and winced when she felt it red and knew that Toxic had choked her at some point during his 'fun,' with her.

Webby had been surprised when he cut her loose from her chains afterwards, stating that she'd probably be to sore and shaken up to run, and he had been right about that.

"He seems to be fighting off some pretty bad emzymes that had entered his body at some point." Gandra told her, breaking Webby out of her thoughts.

"Wait...What?" She asked, confused. "You mean... He's sick?"

"Not sick." Gandra said, she walked around to Webby's side to get closer to Louie and put a hand on his forehead. He was still burning up, and sweat was pouring all over his face leaving Gandra to scrunch up her beak and wipe the sweat off her hands onto her pants. "He's been poisoned."

"Poisoned!?" Webby gasped. "Who'd -?"

Gandra shook her head.

"Don't have a clue, but what I do know is that the chemicals within the emzymes are mixed with a drink commonly known as PEP." She answered.

Webby's face paled.

Someone had been close enough to Louie to be able to poison him with his favorite drink?

"Can you help him?" Webby asked, weakly.

Gandra didn't say anything at first but she sighed deeply and pushed her feathers out of her face.

"I can. But I need time. Fenton and I could come up with an antidote if we knew what the poison was." Gandra replied.

Webby noticed she was fiddling with something on her finger nervously and when she looked the corner of her bill slowly lifted up into a small smile.

"You and Fenton are engaged?" Webby asked, staring at the diamond ring on Gandra's finger. Gandra startled by the question and the look of life in Webby's eyes that she blushed slightly and nodded.

"Yeah." Gandra said. "He purposed to me a couple of months ago." She told her and held out her hand so that Webby can study the diamond.

Gandra saw the girl excited for the first time since she's seen her. But that excitement quickly turned into pure terror when a knock came roughly at Gandra's door and a voice called out that made Webby's blood run cold.

"Gandra! Open up! Bradford sent me to get you! He's calling an emergency meeting right now!" Toxic's voice called through the closed door.

Webby's whole body started to tremble and shake as she slowly backed away from Gandra. Her mind racing a mile a minute. Could Dewey have been wrong about her? Was this some sort of sick, and twisted plan to -...

Webby looked around wildly and spotted Louie's backpack that she had placed on a chair nearby when they brought him in and wondered if Louie had anything in there that she could use. But before she could make a move for it Gandra grabbed her shoulders and looked at her straight in her eyes.

"Webby. I promise, it's going to be okay -." She told her softly.

Webby shooked her head and tried to get away from her but Gandra held onto her more tightly. She wanted to scream, to beg Gandra to let her go, but her throat was still sore from earlier and all she could do was listen to Agent Toxic's loud demands to open the door and banging.

"I won't let him hurt any of you." Gandra whispered. "I promised." She reminded her and to Webby's surprise pulled her into a tight hug. Webby suddenly stopped struggling and stared at the wall over Gandra's shoulders before she slowly wrapped her own arms around Gandra's waist.

This felt right too.

This felt...

Safe...

Gandra quickly pulled away from her and slowly but swiftly went for the bedroom door. She looked back at Webby then over at Louie before saying,

"Stay here. Don't leave this room and don't open the door unless it's me or Dewey. Understand?" She told her.

Webby nodded as she slowly began to calm down just a little.

"I'll be back as soon as I can." Gandra finished and she left the room.

Webby inched close to the closed door and opened it a crack just as Gandra opened the main door wide and crossed her arms to glare at the wolf.

"Could you be anymore louder? Toxic? I was just taking a nap for cryin' out loud." Gandra snarled at him.

Agent Toxic glared back then peered passed Gandra towards her room making Webby quickly duck back behind inside and flatten herself against the wall behind the door. Her heart racing fast.

"Who do you have in here with you?" Agent Toxic asked. "Not banging another egg head are you? That why you were taking a nap?" He asked, with a snicker.

"Shove off, Toxic." Gandra snarled, and roughly pushed him out of her way. "Come on, wouldn't want to keep Bradford waiting, now, would we?" She asked him, quickly shutting her apartment door behind her.

Toxic snorted and followed Agent Dee down the stairs towards the meeting room but not before taking another look at the door. He sniffed the air and he smiled, licking his lips.

So...

She was in there was she?

Toxic looked back towards Gandra who was quickly heading down the stairs, not looking back at him. He glanced back at the door and a low growl escaped his throat.

He was going to have so much more fun then he thought.