Then, when Carl flashed his badge—Carl was a police officer too—the big guy who seemed to be head of security got al policy on him. Carl got a hard look on his face, took him aside and they had words. Carl came back and said the worst eight words, for me, at that moment, in the English language. “We’re goin’ to the front of the line.” We walked in front of everyone to the front of the line.
Due to our situation they were giving us a wide berth.
Before letting us in, they were waiting longer between the party in front of us and keeping the party behind us wel back.
Carl had explained my stun gun to me. I had it shoved in the back of my cords under Hank’s sweatshirt. It didn’t feel comfortable there but I found I liked having it, even though I doubted I’d use it.
Indy, Al y, Daisy and Jet al carried one. They’d had only one extra and without a word, Jason took it and gave Annette a look. She pouted for a second then pretended she didn’t care.
“Al right, huddle,” Al y ordered.
We al went into a huddle.
“Everyone got a partner?” she asked.
Indy linked her arm with mine.
I looked at her and then my eyes swung, panicked, to Carl.
He gave me a “don’t worry” nod but I don’t think he got it.
I wasn’t worried that bad guys would shoot me. No one in their right mind would attack me here. There were hundreds of people al over the place and very stringent security.
No, I was worried that Indy would go berserk on me.
I didn’t have time to switch partners as Al y kept talking.
“No matter what, stay with your partner.”
Oh shit.
Shit, shit, shit.
“We al stick together. Someone gets caught or cornered, say by the hooded hangman or the crazy, bloody surgeon, we al go back and save them. Never leave a man behind. Got me?”
Oh shit!
Shit, shit, shit!
“Got me!” she shouted.
We al nodded.
“Repeat it.”
We al muttered, “Never leave a man behind.” She nodded to us, “Good.”
Then she linked arms with Carl and said to the ghoul,
“We’re ready.”
The doors creaked open and my heart started beating so hard, I could feel it in my throat.
Annette and Jason were partners, so were Daisy and Jet (with Daisy’s bodyguard trailing them). Indy was with me. Al y was with Carl. We entered in that order.
It was pretty cool; scary, but cool. They’d obviously put a lot of effort into it. Great monsters with fantastic makeup, good props, excel ent scenery, eery, scary, dark and the monsters popped out just in time to give you a thril . It wasn’t as bad as I thought. Indy and I were caught unawares a couple of times and we screamed, scooted forward, then giggled our asses off.
Then we hit the open area with hangman’s section and the character there swinging a noose in his hand like a lasso cottoned on immediately to the scaredy-cats in the bunch. He approached Indy and me and in a guttural voice whispered, “Ooo, I like these girlies.”