Invisible Liaison
part four
by mardel
I just borrowed them for the story.
Alex was driving and trying to think of what she could say to Darien.
She knew sometimes there were no words, especially when it involved the
loss of a loved one. She knew Darien and Bobby were close. Partners were
almost always close.
Darien was staring out the window, one leg bouncing, his jaw clenching
and unclenching so that the muscle bunched and relaxed.
He hated not knowing if it was Bobby or Eberts who was dead.
He hated not having been there with Bobby, they were a team he should have
been there. He slammed his fist into the dash board.
"Can't you drive any faster? How long is it going to take to get to El Cendo?"
Alex was doing eighty, she didn't expect any police on this stretch of road.
"We should be there in fifteen more minutes. Then we can check in."
Darien knew he was lashing out at Alex just because she was there. He was
taking his anger out on her, because he had to vent some way.
Darien was only the second man she cared enough about, to allow him to
vent this way. It surprised her, she hurt because he did. Not that she
wasn't upset about the lose of a fellow agent. She was, she had respect for
both Hobbes and Eberts.
But, her emotions were tied with his now. When she'd told Darien that she
wanted to be with him, she'd not told him that she was in love with him.
She was playing it like they both needed someone, someone that understood
the difficulties of their profession. But they were friends, love hadn't been mentioned.
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"I understand that but if you could just give me a more detailed description
of the man that was just brought in. We are trying to determine if he is one
of our agents." The Official was speaking with the Yuma Co coroners office.
"He's in his forties I'd say, dark hair, receding hair line. He appears to be
in good shape. About five ten maybe, he has a tattoo on his arm of a knife
and scull."
"Wait did you say a tatoo?" The Official smiled, he knew it wasn't either of
his men.
"Yes, a tatoo."
"Thank you for your help, it's not the man we are looking for." He smiled and
hung up. " It seems you were correct," he looked over his desk at Claire.
"Thank God, Now we need to tell Darien and Alex. I'll try their cell phone
again."
Claire dialed Alex's cell phone and crossed her fingers. She knew Darien had
to be going crazy not knowing.
"Come on... " But there was just the recording that said the number she was
calling was not in the calling area. "No I'll try again in a few minutes."
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Eberts was thinking as they drove east. They might still be able to ruin the
gun runners plans. They had at least some of the weapons, but he wanted
to figure a way for them to prevent all of the shipment from reaching the terrorists.
"Robert I believe with the information you retrieved from the gun runner, we may
be able to thwart their plan to deliver the weapons to Mexico."
"You got a plan Eberts?" Bobby smiled, as he drove. He was beginning to have more
faith in Eberts since he'd been pulling his weight all through the mission.
"Yes I do. We'll need to advise the Official and arrange for some back up from the
local police since there isn't enough time for other agents to join us."
"Alex will be sorry she missed this one. She hates gunner runners almost as much
as she hates Chrysalis."
They continued driving for another half hour before they reached a gas station
that had a phone. Eberts made the call to the Official.
" Yes?" The Official picked up his phone expecting Agent Monroe.
"Sir, it's Eberts. Agent Hobbes and I are in Arizona we were taken into custody
of the terrorist group but we are free again."
"Eberts! Where are you? What happened?" The Official yelled into the phone.
"As I said Sir we were captured, but we are free again. We have a plan for
thwarting the transfer of the weapons but we will require back up, if you could
contact the Sherif department to open the way for our request for assistance."
"Eberts, Agent Monroe is on the way to Arizona now with Fawkes. We thought
you and Hobbes were dead. Her cell phone should be with in range of your
location."
"Yes Sir I will attempt to contact Agent Monroe."
"Put Hobbes on."
"Yes Sir." Eberts waved Bobby over from his place leaning on the truck. He'd added
gas just in case while Eberts was calling in.
"Yeah Boss sorry we lost contact like that but everything is working out."
"Hobbes you are the senior man, I expect you to lead this mission and get my people
back here safe."
"Yes Sir, I will Sir."
"Now talk to Claire, she'd been worried about you." He passed the phone to her a
half way grin on his face.
"Bobby are you hurt? We had a report of two men found on the highway, one was dead
one badly hurt. We thought it was both you." Claire's voice cracked with emotion as
she spoke to him.
"No, it was the guys we escaped from. I'm fine. Eberts is fine he's been doing real good
on this mission."
"Darien is with Alex she's on the way to the area. Please be careful won't you?"
" I love you Keepy, I'll be careful don't worry, Bobby Hobbes has things under control."
"I love you too. Goodbye." Claire handed the phone back to the Official who hung it
up. "How did you know?"
"How could I help but know. He's calmer now, more focused than before. You're good
for him, but it's going to very hard on you."
"Yes, I'm just starting to realize that." she nodded.
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"Monroe."
"Miss Monroe, Eberts here I understand you are even as we speak driving towards
Arizona."
"Eberts! You're alright is Hobbes with you is he OK?"
Darien turned sideways in the seat, he wanted to grab the phone from her hand and
scream into it at Eberts to explain.
"Yes Hobbes is with me he is fine. I wanted to make arrangement for you to meet
us...."
"Eberts hold on a second you're not hurt, Hobbes isn't hurt?"
"No, we are fine. I just spoke with the Official and he did mention that you all believed
that we might have been killed."
"Put Hobbes on Darien wants to talk to him."
Eberts moved out of the small phone both and handed the phone to Bobby again.
"Darien wants to talk with you." he shrugged.
Claire passed her cell phone to Darien smiling from ear to ear. " He's OK, they both are."
"Hey buddy you really had me going there. What happened?"
"Fawkes are you well enough to be out on a case?"
"Yeah, I'm good are you OK?"
"Fine, Eberts is handling himself well. We had a little set back but we're in control
again."
Darien blew out a breath of air he'd not realized he'd been holding.
" Claire was going out of her mind have you talked with her?"
"Yeah, yeah we checked in and I spoke with the Keeper. You hadn't really given
up on me had you Partner?"
"I was scared Bobby I can handle it when I'm there with you. But this not knowing
crap is rough."
"Don't ever believe I'm down and ready for the grave yard unless you personally
see the body my friend. I don't kill easy."
"I know. Where do you want us to meet you?"
Bobby arranged to meet Alex and Darien at a truck stop a few more miles up the road.
They were waiting when the pair arrived in an Agency van.
"Hey, Partner you look rested." Bobby was teasing him. But he hugged Darien in welcome
pounding him on the back.
Darien was smiling he'd not seen Bobby in weeks. He hugged his partner hard, relieved
that he was safe. " I'm not letting you work with out me from now on I can't take the
strain."
"Agent Monroe." Eberts nodded, he was feeling a little out of place all of the sudden.
"Eberts, I'm glad to see you are all in one piece." Alex actually smiled.
"Yes, thank you." He was surprised by her friendly demeanor.
"Monroe, it's been a while. Glad to have you on this one. We need to work out
the details and stop Jennings and his group from suppling guns to terrorists."
Bobby acknowledged her.
" I'm glad to see you Hobbes, and I'm always glad help put the bad guys behind
bars." She nodded.
"Hey, Eberts it's about time the Official let you in on some field work."
Darien greeted his friend.
"Darien it's good to see you after your ordeal over seas."
"Alright let's get down to the plan." Bobby held a map up for everyone to
see and explained the plan Eberts had come up with.
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Bobby was driving the truck, with Eberts riding shotgun literally. Alex was in the back
of the truck and Darien was balancing on the back step invisible and ready to jump
anyone that attempted to open the truck for inspection.
"OK guys get ready they are stopping me at the warehouse." Bobby warned everyone.
"It took you long enough, pull into the second hanger and start unloading."
The guard yelled up to Bobby.
"You got it, second hanger." Bobby yelled back, and put the truck in gear.
"That was to easy, I'm getting a bad feeling about this. Alex be ready for anything."
Eberts was leaning forward trying to get a look inside the hanger they were about to
enter. But the sunlight outside cast to much of a shadow inside he couldn't make out
anything.
Bobby pulled into the hanger slowly, expecting the worse. But it appeared empty
which put him even more on guard.
Darien un-quick silvered and jumped off the back of the truck.
Alex moved up between the seats and looked out the windshield.
"It looks like we may have missed the plane."
Darien moved towards the other hanger, he saw no one near either hanger so he
stayed visible until he was at the entrance to the first hanger. He moved inside
after going invisible again. There were several men inside arguing about payment.
He checked the hanger out and found a small office in the corner of the building.
But no other goons where around.
"Hey guys, I think we can get the drop on Jennings. They are preoccupied at
the moment come on." Darien waved his team towards the other hanger.
"Darien don't get between us and them if your invisible I have a feeling
they won't just throw up their hands and surrender." Alex warned.
"Don't worry I'm going to stay out of the line of fire."
Alex, Hobbes, Eberts and Darien surrounded the men.
"All right hold it right there Federal Agents!" Bobby yelled in his best marine
corps bark.
Eberts was holding his shoot gun level at the group of men, while Alex and Bobby
were aiming their hand guns at them.
"Hands up! Don't make any moves to escape." Alex added.
One man complied with the shouted instructions, but the rest all grabbed for weapons.
The gunfire that followed was louder than usual, it echoed in the hanger. Darien ducked
for cover behind the far side of the plane. Bobby winged his target, then aimed at
another man but missed when Alex's round spun him around when it impacted.
Eberts fired over the heads of the other two men, who had the sense to drop to
the ground and give up.
It was during the gunfire that Darien realized there was a guard outside. He
went invisible and raced towards the door at the front of the hanger. He saw the guard
running towards the gunfire with his weapon drawn. Eberts was the man with his back
to the front of the building and he was the closest target. Darien jumped to knock the
gun from the upraised hands of the guard. But didn't impact with him until after he
fired.
"Ah, Crap." Darien knocked the man to the ground and followed up with a punch
to his jaw hard enough to knock him out cold. He looked back towards his team,
and saw Eberts swaying.
Hobbes and Monroe were cuffing and disarming the men when the gunshot came
from the other side of the hanger. Bobby leveled his weapon in that direction then
saw Darien already taking the man down.
"I think I've been wounded." Eberts said leaning to one side but maintaining his
hold of the shot gun on the terrorists.
end part four
part four
by mardel
I just borrowed them for the story.
Alex was driving and trying to think of what she could say to Darien.
She knew sometimes there were no words, especially when it involved the
loss of a loved one. She knew Darien and Bobby were close. Partners were
almost always close.
Darien was staring out the window, one leg bouncing, his jaw clenching
and unclenching so that the muscle bunched and relaxed.
He hated not knowing if it was Bobby or Eberts who was dead.
He hated not having been there with Bobby, they were a team he should have
been there. He slammed his fist into the dash board.
"Can't you drive any faster? How long is it going to take to get to El Cendo?"
Alex was doing eighty, she didn't expect any police on this stretch of road.
"We should be there in fifteen more minutes. Then we can check in."
Darien knew he was lashing out at Alex just because she was there. He was
taking his anger out on her, because he had to vent some way.
Darien was only the second man she cared enough about, to allow him to
vent this way. It surprised her, she hurt because he did. Not that she
wasn't upset about the lose of a fellow agent. She was, she had respect for
both Hobbes and Eberts.
But, her emotions were tied with his now. When she'd told Darien that she
wanted to be with him, she'd not told him that she was in love with him.
She was playing it like they both needed someone, someone that understood
the difficulties of their profession. But they were friends, love hadn't been mentioned.
::::::::::::::::::::::
"I understand that but if you could just give me a more detailed description
of the man that was just brought in. We are trying to determine if he is one
of our agents." The Official was speaking with the Yuma Co coroners office.
"He's in his forties I'd say, dark hair, receding hair line. He appears to be
in good shape. About five ten maybe, he has a tattoo on his arm of a knife
and scull."
"Wait did you say a tatoo?" The Official smiled, he knew it wasn't either of
his men.
"Yes, a tatoo."
"Thank you for your help, it's not the man we are looking for." He smiled and
hung up. " It seems you were correct," he looked over his desk at Claire.
"Thank God, Now we need to tell Darien and Alex. I'll try their cell phone
again."
Claire dialed Alex's cell phone and crossed her fingers. She knew Darien had
to be going crazy not knowing.
"Come on... " But there was just the recording that said the number she was
calling was not in the calling area. "No I'll try again in a few minutes."
:::::::::::::::
Eberts was thinking as they drove east. They might still be able to ruin the
gun runners plans. They had at least some of the weapons, but he wanted
to figure a way for them to prevent all of the shipment from reaching the terrorists.
"Robert I believe with the information you retrieved from the gun runner, we may
be able to thwart their plan to deliver the weapons to Mexico."
"You got a plan Eberts?" Bobby smiled, as he drove. He was beginning to have more
faith in Eberts since he'd been pulling his weight all through the mission.
"Yes I do. We'll need to advise the Official and arrange for some back up from the
local police since there isn't enough time for other agents to join us."
"Alex will be sorry she missed this one. She hates gunner runners almost as much
as she hates Chrysalis."
They continued driving for another half hour before they reached a gas station
that had a phone. Eberts made the call to the Official.
" Yes?" The Official picked up his phone expecting Agent Monroe.
"Sir, it's Eberts. Agent Hobbes and I are in Arizona we were taken into custody
of the terrorist group but we are free again."
"Eberts! Where are you? What happened?" The Official yelled into the phone.
"As I said Sir we were captured, but we are free again. We have a plan for
thwarting the transfer of the weapons but we will require back up, if you could
contact the Sherif department to open the way for our request for assistance."
"Eberts, Agent Monroe is on the way to Arizona now with Fawkes. We thought
you and Hobbes were dead. Her cell phone should be with in range of your
location."
"Yes Sir I will attempt to contact Agent Monroe."
"Put Hobbes on."
"Yes Sir." Eberts waved Bobby over from his place leaning on the truck. He'd added
gas just in case while Eberts was calling in.
"Yeah Boss sorry we lost contact like that but everything is working out."
"Hobbes you are the senior man, I expect you to lead this mission and get my people
back here safe."
"Yes Sir, I will Sir."
"Now talk to Claire, she'd been worried about you." He passed the phone to her a
half way grin on his face.
"Bobby are you hurt? We had a report of two men found on the highway, one was dead
one badly hurt. We thought it was both you." Claire's voice cracked with emotion as
she spoke to him.
"No, it was the guys we escaped from. I'm fine. Eberts is fine he's been doing real good
on this mission."
"Darien is with Alex she's on the way to the area. Please be careful won't you?"
" I love you Keepy, I'll be careful don't worry, Bobby Hobbes has things under control."
"I love you too. Goodbye." Claire handed the phone back to the Official who hung it
up. "How did you know?"
"How could I help but know. He's calmer now, more focused than before. You're good
for him, but it's going to very hard on you."
"Yes, I'm just starting to realize that." she nodded.
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"Monroe."
"Miss Monroe, Eberts here I understand you are even as we speak driving towards
Arizona."
"Eberts! You're alright is Hobbes with you is he OK?"
Darien turned sideways in the seat, he wanted to grab the phone from her hand and
scream into it at Eberts to explain.
"Yes Hobbes is with me he is fine. I wanted to make arrangement for you to meet
us...."
"Eberts hold on a second you're not hurt, Hobbes isn't hurt?"
"No, we are fine. I just spoke with the Official and he did mention that you all believed
that we might have been killed."
"Put Hobbes on Darien wants to talk to him."
Eberts moved out of the small phone both and handed the phone to Bobby again.
"Darien wants to talk with you." he shrugged.
Claire passed her cell phone to Darien smiling from ear to ear. " He's OK, they both are."
"Hey buddy you really had me going there. What happened?"
"Fawkes are you well enough to be out on a case?"
"Yeah, I'm good are you OK?"
"Fine, Eberts is handling himself well. We had a little set back but we're in control
again."
Darien blew out a breath of air he'd not realized he'd been holding.
" Claire was going out of her mind have you talked with her?"
"Yeah, yeah we checked in and I spoke with the Keeper. You hadn't really given
up on me had you Partner?"
"I was scared Bobby I can handle it when I'm there with you. But this not knowing
crap is rough."
"Don't ever believe I'm down and ready for the grave yard unless you personally
see the body my friend. I don't kill easy."
"I know. Where do you want us to meet you?"
Bobby arranged to meet Alex and Darien at a truck stop a few more miles up the road.
They were waiting when the pair arrived in an Agency van.
"Hey, Partner you look rested." Bobby was teasing him. But he hugged Darien in welcome
pounding him on the back.
Darien was smiling he'd not seen Bobby in weeks. He hugged his partner hard, relieved
that he was safe. " I'm not letting you work with out me from now on I can't take the
strain."
"Agent Monroe." Eberts nodded, he was feeling a little out of place all of the sudden.
"Eberts, I'm glad to see you are all in one piece." Alex actually smiled.
"Yes, thank you." He was surprised by her friendly demeanor.
"Monroe, it's been a while. Glad to have you on this one. We need to work out
the details and stop Jennings and his group from suppling guns to terrorists."
Bobby acknowledged her.
" I'm glad to see you Hobbes, and I'm always glad help put the bad guys behind
bars." She nodded.
"Hey, Eberts it's about time the Official let you in on some field work."
Darien greeted his friend.
"Darien it's good to see you after your ordeal over seas."
"Alright let's get down to the plan." Bobby held a map up for everyone to
see and explained the plan Eberts had come up with.
:::::::::::::::::::::
Bobby was driving the truck, with Eberts riding shotgun literally. Alex was in the back
of the truck and Darien was balancing on the back step invisible and ready to jump
anyone that attempted to open the truck for inspection.
"OK guys get ready they are stopping me at the warehouse." Bobby warned everyone.
"It took you long enough, pull into the second hanger and start unloading."
The guard yelled up to Bobby.
"You got it, second hanger." Bobby yelled back, and put the truck in gear.
"That was to easy, I'm getting a bad feeling about this. Alex be ready for anything."
Eberts was leaning forward trying to get a look inside the hanger they were about to
enter. But the sunlight outside cast to much of a shadow inside he couldn't make out
anything.
Bobby pulled into the hanger slowly, expecting the worse. But it appeared empty
which put him even more on guard.
Darien un-quick silvered and jumped off the back of the truck.
Alex moved up between the seats and looked out the windshield.
"It looks like we may have missed the plane."
Darien moved towards the other hanger, he saw no one near either hanger so he
stayed visible until he was at the entrance to the first hanger. He moved inside
after going invisible again. There were several men inside arguing about payment.
He checked the hanger out and found a small office in the corner of the building.
But no other goons where around.
"Hey guys, I think we can get the drop on Jennings. They are preoccupied at
the moment come on." Darien waved his team towards the other hanger.
"Darien don't get between us and them if your invisible I have a feeling
they won't just throw up their hands and surrender." Alex warned.
"Don't worry I'm going to stay out of the line of fire."
Alex, Hobbes, Eberts and Darien surrounded the men.
"All right hold it right there Federal Agents!" Bobby yelled in his best marine
corps bark.
Eberts was holding his shoot gun level at the group of men, while Alex and Bobby
were aiming their hand guns at them.
"Hands up! Don't make any moves to escape." Alex added.
One man complied with the shouted instructions, but the rest all grabbed for weapons.
The gunfire that followed was louder than usual, it echoed in the hanger. Darien ducked
for cover behind the far side of the plane. Bobby winged his target, then aimed at
another man but missed when Alex's round spun him around when it impacted.
Eberts fired over the heads of the other two men, who had the sense to drop to
the ground and give up.
It was during the gunfire that Darien realized there was a guard outside. He
went invisible and raced towards the door at the front of the hanger. He saw the guard
running towards the gunfire with his weapon drawn. Eberts was the man with his back
to the front of the building and he was the closest target. Darien jumped to knock the
gun from the upraised hands of the guard. But didn't impact with him until after he
fired.
"Ah, Crap." Darien knocked the man to the ground and followed up with a punch
to his jaw hard enough to knock him out cold. He looked back towards his team,
and saw Eberts swaying.
Hobbes and Monroe were cuffing and disarming the men when the gunshot came
from the other side of the hanger. Bobby leveled his weapon in that direction then
saw Darien already taking the man down.
"I think I've been wounded." Eberts said leaning to one side but maintaining his
hold of the shot gun on the terrorists.
end part four
