This is a fight scene from River Tango. My brother has a theory readers will go for cute dog scenes. Enjoy:
Jack had a difficult time paying attention as all his senses tingled with expectation of an assassin’s knife. The Oriental woman was next in line of rotation to Jack when Carlito introduced ‘le doble cruzada’: the double cross. The instructors demonstrated the movement once to gasps of astonishment, then excused everyone for a ten minute break.
Jack made a break for the restrooms located at the eighth floor stairwell outside the studio. Penelope was right behind him toting her cat and dog on shining chains. As the door closed behind her, Drago appeared from the stairway and swung his right fist hard at Jack’s jaw. The battle-tested warrior ducked and Penelope took the hit full force on the side of her face, knocking her unconscious.
Jack slammed his shoulder into Drago’s midsection and rammed him into the sill of a large open window hoping to break his back.
Penelope fell to the ground and the cat, Muffy, a melanotic twin-less Siamese, seized this opportunity to push Buttons, a sugar-white Shih Tzu and partner on the leash, through the rungs of the stairway railing where it fell to the length of its chain and hung suspended above ninety-seven feet of unobstructed open space.
Drago produced a knife and smiled, his light-blue sapphire catching a glint of sun through the open window making it sparkle. He lunged at the CIA agent who instinctively grabbed the nearest object, Muffy, and thrust it into the Serbian’s face.
Buttons was yanked back through the railing as Muffy found himself forced into Drago’s mug and began clawing the man’s nose and mouth, digging in its hind legs and dredging furiously. The knife dropped from his hand as he stepped back onto the stairwell, lost his footing and toppled out the open window. The chain connecting the cat and dog zipped across the marbled floor as the feline disappeared into the open air. Buttons was pulled across the floor and caught himself on the metal casement. The fluffy white snow-ball of a creature nearly turned inside out as the chain suddenly pulled on its thin, fur-covered neck.
Its front legs taut against the pane, the canine dug into the hard stone wall, trying to get traction to pull itself away from the porthole and the open expanse beyond. It was a hopeless maneuver of claws frantically scratching an impossibly slick surface. The desperation of the little animal overcame the laws of physics and it pulled itself, and Muffy, back from the precipice.
Muffy’s mug and paws pressed hard against the translucent glass of the window pane as Jack regained his footing to reach out and pulled the cat back inside the stairwell minus the Serbian assassin’s face. Setting it down upon the hard floor, Buttons quickly ran to it and began licking it profusely with the kind of joy only a dog can exude.
Just then Penelope regained consciousness and Jack quickly grabbed her left arm to support her and help her to her feet.
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