"Well what did you want?" He asked, before taking a big gulp from his bottle. One of many, Jack assumed, judging by how red his face was.
"I want you!" She said before clinging her arms around him and kissing his passionately. The two finally finished and pulled away from each other. Hector went to ask Jack something, but they both saw that he was gone. Hector assumed he that he was giving them privacy of had other things to do, but Claudia instantly felt guilty. How could she be so stupid and do that in front of Jack? She scolded herself silently.
"Where has he gone?" Claudia asked playfully, but their was a hint of pain in her voice present.
"I don't know. He is supposed to be working now, he has probably gone to do so, instead of hand holding you." He said coldly.
Claudia looked at him hurt, she could see one of his moods was coming on. She couldn't understand what brought his swings on, he normally didn't have them when he was drunk, but when the rare occasion came and he lost his temper drunk, it was always much worse. She wouldn't want to be in his line of fire when he got this way.
"What's wrong now?" She asked, putting her hands on her hips, pretending she was annoyed, not letting him know she was nervous.
Hector scowled at her and shook his head, "Like you would understand." With that he stormed off to get yet another drink.
Jack had left as soon as Claudia had flew her arms around Hector. He was angry at Hector, but even more so at himself for letting him feel this way about someone. He grabbed another bottle to drink and began to walk the compound looking for trouble, he knew their would be none, but needed to distract himself from thinking about her, when she clearly wasn't thinking about him.
Ramon had seen Hector get angry with Claudia and decided to go over and see if she was okay, "You okay?" He said, the slurs in his voice were real, she noticed.
"Yes, he is in one of his moods." She said angrily.
"Yeah well he is a little stressed I think."
"Why?" She said with more emotion than she had intended.
"I just got a phone call. Something big is coming our way, something very big. It will make us more money than the drugs ever will, but it will also put us on the radar, big time." Their was confusion present in his voice too.
"And you don't know what to do?" She asked.
"Exactly...... Terrorism isn't really our field, you see." He said as though it was nothing.
"What!" She exclaimed.
"No, no, no... don't misunderstand me.... if we get this weapon we can sell it for more money you can imagine, but it will be used for terrorism... were just worried about the potential risk, you know, of it getting traced back to us..." He paused as he rubbed at his eyes. "We are going to discuss it properly tomorrow."
He looked around, and saw their weren't many people left outside. "The men have left a little early don't you think! What time is it?" He asked.
"Its almost three in the morning." She broke off as a large yawn emitted her. "Most of them have got to be up at six for work."
"Yeah." He said, sounding down. They both looked up as Hector and Jack approached them and sat down at the two remaining seats at the little square table. Claudia tried to hide her joy at seeing him, so she turned to Ramon and spoke, hoping she would remain calm, she already felt flustered at the sight of him.
"Don't let it get you down. If its going to cost your piece of mind then it isn't worth it."
"Since when are you in the decision making process?" Hector snorted angrily.
She looked at him hurt, and Jack was silently wondering how Hector couldn't not appreciate what he had. Yet he remained silent, he needed together as much information about this weapon that Hector had just told him of, as was possible.
"When did they contact you?" Jack asked, trying to break up the tension. Hector immediately saw what he was trying to do and stood up angrily.
"What has that got to do with anything? We are concerned with the risks of this Jack, were not concerned with the contacts."
Jack tried to hold back a laugh at how stupid Hector was, of course the contact was important, the contact was the risk they were taking. Ramon also noticed what Hector had said and stood up next to Jack, who was also on his feet and started to laugh in his face.
"My dear brother, it is a good job I love you so much, and its a good job we have Jack here, someone who knows what he is talking about."
Ramon found this funny and Jack realised he was only being this brutally honest because of how drunk he was.
"So Jack is better then I am?" He asked Ramon angrily. Their raised voices had caught the attention of the few other men who were still out, sat at the table nearby, watching the show as it unfolded.
Jack decided he needed to get the attention back to this virus they had briefly spoken of, and get himself out of the middle of this argument. "Come on guys, leave me out of this. I thought we were talking about this weapon, not arguing over nothing." He said laughing. Ramon was about to agree when he saw Hector angrily push Jack while shouting, "You had better keep your mouth shut Jack or you will end up with more than that on you." He threatened motioning to his cast arm.
This made Ramon slightly annoyed, as he knew that Jack could win Hector in a fair fight, but never would do so because of his respect for the Salazars. Jack said nothing but looked at him angrily. Claudia was furious now, because of his threat. She jumped up and yelled:
"Hector why are you doing this? You are like a little child with a tantrum, what is the matter with you? Ramon is also stressed about this new deal that has come along, but he isn't threatening people who could kick his ass anyway!" She stopped for a breath but continued, as all three men stared at her shocked. "You are such a spoilt little brat, you don't deserve you wealth because you haven't helped attain it, Ramon and Jack have the brains, your stupid and ignorant-"
Her rant stopped the second Hectors fist connected with her jaw.