Blonds have more fun? 2/4
"Gerry can you put me out a cup of coffee I only have an hour before Strickland sends the car for me and I'm not even finished packing yet." He's been deliberately being obstructive this morning. I know he's worried about be going on this undercover job but really I could do with a little help or I'm never going to get out of here. Yes before you point it out I know that is probably his aim but making my life more difficult this morning is not going to mean I will suddenly not have to go it just means I will be stressed and we will probably end up arguing before I do.
"Sandra have you actually read this file that his nibs gave you yesterday?" Well duh of course I haven't he knows I haven't I was planning on doing it at the hotel tonight before meeting this Marx bloke tomorrow but since I've just walked into the kitchen to find my requested cup of coffee missing and him looking properly worried I may have been better reading it myself.
"No you know I haven't had time I looked at the basics then I was doing my hair then you distracted me by reminding me that you still find me irresistible even when I'm a brunette. I'll read it tonight at the hotel after I've been briefed by the local guys about what they need me to do." Oh god I can already tell I'm going to get a lecture here about how I shouldn't be doing this and how Strickland is taking advantage and how they need me in the office but he looks a little pale which is not normal when he's building up to a rant.
"I don't want you going and it's not because I'm having a tantrum about Strickland asking you to do it when we have a case or to do with you being away for a week of any of the crap I'm deadly serious here. Have you any idea what this Marx fella did to the woman who's sister you are glibly going to be?"
"He murdered her, we deal with murderers every day of our working life Gerry it comes with the territory." He's starting to piss me off now with this whole master and protector crap I don't need his permission to go and do my job and so far I think I've been pretty patient with his comments about whether I can pull this off but I'm about to lose it here.
"He didn't murder her he tortured and butchered her. He waited until she was asleep then he injected her with a paralysing agent that meant she was conscious through everything he did the pathologist reckons that she was alive when 95% of her injuries were inflicted and he took his time with it too, two days he kept her drugged and had his fun torturing her. There is no way that anyone should be being thrown in there as some sort of twisted bait to try to get this guy to confess and it certainly shouldn't be you. Don't you realise bastard like him don't have a conscience or a better nature to appeal to they are just evil twisted shits who get their kicks from torturing women." Ok that wasn't what I was expecting and maybe I should have read the file in a little more detail last night but it doesn't change the fact that I am now committed to doing this and that it is now only half an hour till the car arrives to take me to the Basingstoke hotel where I'm supposed to be staying to attend my sister's funeral.
"Gerry it's fine it's not like I'm going in there without back up, there'll always be someone just a call away and at any event including the funeral there'll be loads of our guys right there with me. I know what I'm doing…"
"Yeah I'm sure Annie Martin thought she knew what she was doing too, I'm sure she thought she had it all under control right up to the second she woke up with a fucking syringe sticking out of a vein unable to move and at the mercy of this evil shit." He really needs to calm down now, remember I said he was pale well that's changed now he's such an alarming shade of beetroot that I'm worried he's about to have a heart attack.
"Sit down Gerry and listen to me." At least he's actually doing what he's told. "I will never be in a position where he could do anything to me while I slept because I will never be alone with him at night. Actually I'll never be completely alone with him at all we already have a guy on the inside working as one of his bodyguards who will make sure that if I'm with Marx he's there too apparently he doesn't do anything without out a BG our guy put in his report that the only thing he ever does alone is use the bathroom and shag and I have no intention of being around for either of those things."
"You bloody well better not be." See he's starting to calm down a little my slightly bad taste joke eve raised a smile.
"I know you're worried, I know you're frightened and frankly so am I but I can do this, it's what I was trained to do and it's what I did do on a semi-regular basis before UCOS, hell we've even indulged in a little undercover work ourselves if you recall."
"Yeah and look at how that finished up with me ending up in hospital for two days with a fractured nose and three broken ribs and that time we were together we could look out for each other and more importantly I could look out for you. Now I have to sit at home for a week worrying myself sick that you're at the mercy of this guy." Oh god this is going to be harder than I thought I didn't really consider how hard it would be for him to know the sort of situations I'd be in and not be able to be there to make sure I was ok but he's going to have to get used to the fact that will happen from time to time and we can't always be super glued to each other's sides because we feel like no one else can protect each of us as well as the other can.
"Ok look the car is going to be here in five minute so listen and listen good ok? I'm going to be back here in a week having nailed this guy and the only sick and twisted things he's going to be experiencing are the things the other inmates will do to him when they find out what he's inside for. I love you and I know you're going to be worried about me but I promise every night I will call home and let you know I'm ok and if I don't you have my personal permission to march into Strickland's office and demand that I be brought home. Now with all that said will you just trust me and let me go do this without having to leave with the last thing we said to each other having been an argument?"
"I don't have much choice do I? You'll do it no matter what I say but I promise you if there is a single night in the next week that I don't hear from you I'll hold you to that about being able to make Strickland call you back in." The moment's past now and he's holding me tightly as we wait for the car horn outside signifying that I have to go. I can still feel his nervousness and I know he can feel mine but it'll be over soon and I can't wait. I've been brunette for all of 12 hours and very little of that time has been fun, roll on a week from now when I can go back to being blond I'm telling you that day can't come soon enough!
