The Adventures of Doctor Abby Normal, The Basement Diaries

The Courtship of Abby's Mother, Part 8

"He was found in the Elbe river in Dresden, someone shot him in the chest."

"What was he doing there?"

"He had been offered a promotion and had gone there to sort out some details."

"Who shot him?"

"Probably the guy who got his job."

"Was he KGB or Stassi?"

"KGB, Katya  was Stasi."

"I thought she was KGB."

"She worked for both, she dabbled." That was how she had ended up in Yemen. 

"Kostya Koval," interesting guys. "Wait a minute, he married his sister?"

"He was taken in as a child, he was born in...somewhere in Poland."

"How can you, oh my." Was that a real place? "That's kind of weird."

"The Red Army being nice or marrying basically his sister?"

"Those are both weird too, but how old was he?"

"I never asked Katya."

"Do you think he ever told her?"

"Her dad's a bit of a sore spot." An alarm was going off.

"Katya!" She was pounding and screaming on the cell door.

"Liar!!!"

"Da."

"You say-"

"I say a lot of things."

"You say you no kill him."

"Who? I've killed and not killed a lot of people."

"Papa."

"Why would I kill him?"

"You have him-"

"True," said the Chameleon. "But why?"

"She wouldn't be doing this if they were working together," thought Bela, or it was an act.

"Dmitri!!!"

"Please, we know each other."

"Maybe ve don't."

"Oh, we don't?"

"Vat you do?"

"I've done lots of things rybka." That did not help.

"Katya!"

"Go!"

"Katya..."

"Ve discuss."

"You can discuss-" Katya didn't like hearing no.

"Uh oh," said Gary. 

"Security Personnel to cells, there is an incident."

"I taught you well."

"I deal vith you, I say ve discuss!"

Moscow, 1981

"Hello, I am American spy."

"Hello, I am Katya." Katya shot the dummy.

"Rawr!"

"You cool, ha!" Katya saw his "I Heart Capitalism T-Shirt". "Try to distract vith bear."

"Hello, I am smol child."

"Hmmm..."

"I have internal passport."

"Whoops."

"He have internal passport."