The Black Willow 3

The Black Willow 3
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This part 3 will connect The princess and the Captain and The Black Willow though, I suggest you
read the Princess and the captain first. This part starts 9 years before the Princess and the
Captain and ends when Jim contacts her to help.
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Mary stretched, it had been a long night, Ann her sister sprang from her bed dressing in a
hurry. “I start work at the palace today!!” she shrieked in glee.
“Yeah, yeah, so glad uh huh,” Mary grumbled not quite ready to get out of bed.
“Sister get up! You have to see what I am wearing now! Come on get up!” she shrieked again,
grabbing her sister’s arm almost pulling Mary out of bed.
Groaning Mary sat up sore all over last night’s job had been a hard one, “alright, alright, I’m up
geez!” Mary almost growled she loved her sister but there were times that she could be a pain in
the ass.


Trying to not upset Ann , Mary really didn’t give a rat’s ass about the palace or the
empire, but this was a good start for her sister. At least she would be legitamite, her sister
never expressed a real desire to play the games Mary and their guardian did. She also never really
wanted to know what Mary was doing when she was away, it seemed because she could read at a high
level that she was in demand teaching and being a nanny. At 16 Ann was extremely beautiful, this
slightly worried Mary making Ann a target. Damnit! with the jobs she was starting to take off
world now she was gone for days at a time.


Sighing she knew she worried far too much but then again being that worried all these
years HAD kept her alive. Thomas was finally starting to slow down, the years having finally
caught up with him but each day he still stretched with Mary. Hell, Ann had even gotten into the
stretching each morning with them, now her body was also starting to tone up making her even more
beautiful. This was what Mary was afraid of, a lovely young beauty like her, as innocent as she
was would be fair game to the many playboys, among the not caring royals. Mary listened with
pretended interest as her sister Ann prattled on and on about the palace and palace life.


Preparing to leave soon after Ann did, Mary took Thomas aside, “You have to meet her each
night, I won’t be here for a week this is the first real high paying job and will be the most
difficult to date. If I do this I am afraid I will be in a much larger demand.”
“I don’t see how any job would be difficult for you Mary, your tech is far from anyone’s detection
systems,” he said low so Ann wouldn’t hear.
“It’s not the tech I am worried about it’s the mark he’s been known to pay assassians off, you
know I’ll work for the highest amount, I have no loyalty except to my family and Jim and I don’t
really expect him to ask a favor for a long time. As I told him when we went our seperate ways, it
better be damn important or I’ll come for you.” she answered.


“Look Mary, you have a good head on your shoulders, you have been taught by the best of
all in the city, hell the whole world girl. Oh yes, I know about all your training, I may be old
but I still have ears everywhere as I heard you do.” Thomas said.
Mary smiled slyly, yes, she had kept tabs on him also. They both smiled, then Mary told Ann to be
good as she would be gone a week and wanted to hear all about it when she got back. Sighing Ann
wished her luck and kissed her cheek, after they left she contacted all her spys in the city to
watch Ann they’d be paid when she returned. With that she set out to the space port she almost had
enough to get her own ship, it had taken time but this job was the one that would get it for her.


The trip out was boring as usual giving her time to work on her tech, she had kept up with
Jim hearing about some of the improvements he had made, damnit he’d already passed her on the
cloak but she had far surpassed him on the voice configure box and the matter through matter
teansmitter. Shit, she felt she was back in the lab with him all those years ago each trying to
out do the other, sighing she knew he would always out do her with what ever he was working on. He
was brilliant to a fault, and from what she had heard after the war he had all but disappeared, it
seemed his family had lost most of their holdings but was still prized by the emperor


She had heard about a new space station on the outskirts of the empire with more advanced
weapons than anything she had ever heard of. For some reason she felt that Jim had a hand in that,
checking further she was sure of it, then she heard about the shields, son of a bitch. They were
what really impressed her, hell with those she could do her jobs directly and never be touched. Oh
well, there always was wishing, the ship docked 2 days later Mary was ready. Heading to her
contact she again donned a disguise, this time an old poor woman.