Honor Few, Fear None Chapter 14
"Jake, I promise you this is the guy! He's prime for the picking!" Hawk argued her point to her cohort.
"Are you sure? We can't afford another mistake!" He was afraid of screwing up again.
"Believe me I understand! I want this as much as you do!" She didn't want to push too hard but at the same time was of the essence. She knew she could handle just about any situation but it would be of great comfort to have Gibbs with her in this craziness.
"Have you found anyone better?" Hawk prayed that he hadn't or the entire plan was going to fall apart.
"No, not really; at least no one that seems as perfect as this guy….." He hesitated partially because it wasn't his idea and also because he didn't like being upstaged by a woman.
"You said it yourself that we are running out of time! Exactly how much time do we have?" She was hoping that he would give her that piece to the puzzle.
"Ok, Ok, you're right we don't have a lot of time left. Let's just say that by the end of the week….these faggots will have a surprise of a lifetime." He was so busy delighting in what they were going to accomplish that he allowed some of the information he hadn't planned on sharing with her to flow from his lips.
She fought hard to not visibly show relief in having gained this little bit of insight. What was increasingly frustrating was that she had absolutely no way of passing it along to either her own team or that of Gibbs's. "I take it that we don't have to travel far to teach these people a lesson?"
"Are you kidding? Do you think we would have spent so much time here in Virginia if the target was far away? Naw…..there are plenty of queers right here to start off the campaign." He figured that she had more than earned her place in the organization; he was reminded of that every time he looked at her face.
"Alright then, look why don't I contact him; part of the information that was uncovered by the search program was his current address and cell phone number. The sooner he is on board the sooner we can get our hands on the rest of the arsenal." She now knew the targeted group and a geographical profile to start working on; unfortunately there was no one to work on it.
"Great! You do that, arrange a meeting today and I'll contact the others and finalize the rest of the plan." Jake then pulled out his cell and walked away; completely unaware of the federal wolf in sheep's clothing that was in his midst or that another one was about to join the flock.
She casually walked to the window and played with some papers at the laptop; there was times like these where she wished she had half the computer savvy as her late husband. He was a self-taught genius in the field. Then perhaps she would have known a way to send Abby this information without risking losing the ground that she had gained with Hanson and the Knights of the Road.
She waited until she saw him pull onto the street on his Harley; then her fingers started to walk across the number pad of her cell and waited for an answer on the other end of the line.
"Mr. Reardon? My name is Alison Malcolm….and I think we have something in common. I am a friend of Eric Clancy; before he left this world he told me some things about you. Would you mind meeting me? I have a proposition for you….." She used the uncover name on the off chance that her phone had been bugged by Hanson or one of the others.