The hunt
Chapter 1
It was a cold night in Chicago. It was going to snow, or so they said. The streets were empty. Inside the car it was even colder but the woman didn't care about the weather; she was waiting for her man and she didn't care if she had to wait all night long. Camera in hand, ready to shot, she waited for another hour when finally the man exited the house; he seemed to her relaxed and satisfied, as always when he came to visit the old black woman, and those time it was easier for her to do her job: during the day he was always very careful, always watching his back, a couple of times she had even risked to be noticed by him. Now that he had his guard down, follow him in the desert streets was an easy task for someone like her.
She was the queen of the bounty hunters, she was damn good at her job and it happened by chance that she met him in a drug store downtown some weeks ago. She spotted him while he was waiting for his turn to pay at the cash, he was even more beautiful than what he appeared in the pictures: soft caramel hair framed his tanned face where two shining blue eyes stood out along with a short unruly beard on his jaw and what to say about his body? He was perfect, all those years in the Army surely taught him how to maintain himself in good shape. Strange, being a fugitive she thought he would had tried to change his appearance, for instance change the color of the hair but he didn't. In fact, he looked gorgeous.
At first, she couldn't believe her own eyes but then, seeing him flirt with the cashier and the way the woman smiled at him blushing, she knew it was really him: Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck. She was said it was impossible to find them, the A-Team, because they never stayed long in the same place and they were far too good to be taken by surprise by a bounty hunter. And, to tell the truth, it had been a fair coincidence to be in the same drug store with one of them.
The moment she saw him she thought about following him on the outside and try to arrest him; but then she thought better, because if Face was there maybe he wasn't alone and what a big score to find the whole team and capture them all! It took her some days but she was able to locate them all but the game of hide and seek had been too inviting to stop at that point so she decided to wait a little longer before inform the federals. In the little motel room, where she sometimes slept in and that became her headquarter, the woman took all the proofs she had collected: photos, mostly, but also articles and copies of FBI files (thanks to an old friend who owe her a favor) about them.
But there was something that wasn't written in the files, something she discovered casually one night while following Face: that he and John Smith were lovers. She didn't know about Murdock and Bosco, she wasn't able to actually see them together. But the other two she did see clearly with her own eyes! And it was disgusting: two men sleeping together, having sex and doing… things! Despite her profession, the woman was a catholic and she was convinced that what the two fugitives were doing was a sin and they were going to pay in hell for that! Plus, what hurt her most, was that Face didn't seem a fag at all: always caring and loving when it came to ladies, using his charm to make them do what he wanted; what a waste of resources. Someone had to punish them and that someone could had been herself? She didn't know what the Bible said about faggots – as she "kindly" called homosexuals in general – and how to behave with them, it was clear however they were not in the right and their behaviour was very very wrong, according to God's laws.
The fact that she felt attracted to Peck and she fell in love with him the moment she saw him in the drugstore just added more shame and guilt on her shoulders. She decided it was up to her to save the young man from the wrong way John Smith took him in, she was going to teach him how to love a woman and to show him what was good. Maybe Face would decide to leave the Team and stay with her and they could be like Bonnie and Clyde, a modern couple of bounty hunters; with the Lt's skills, it would be a piece of cake to arrest every criminal in the US. About Face being a fugitive himself, the woman thought she could be able to save him from prison by giving the federals the other three men and convincing the military to let him free on her custody.
Lost in her thoughts, she followed the young man until he stopped the car in front of an anonymous building in the far east area of the city; slowly, she parked her car a few meters far from the main entrance of the building and waited for him to enter the door. Once she was sure he didn't see her, she came out of the car holding a gun in the right hand inside her raincoat and slipped inside the building herself.
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