Warnings: none
Disclaimer: read first chapter
Notes: sorry for delay, also I have major writers block for berkinshire, so I don't know when I'll get back to it. If any of you have any ideas of what you might like to see happen in it just let me know, because it has gone on a completely different path from what I originally intended so I'm game for anything to happen in it. Anyway, lets get on to the story!
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Chapter 8: The Mission Begins
I walked briskly back to the car, the night air had chilled even more since I had been in the club, causing me to wrap my arms around myself in hopes of keeping myself somewhat warm. There was still a line of anxious people outside of the club waiting for their turn in the club. But the club did not operate using lines. That's what the walking bouncer is for. People who meet the clubs standard are picked out of the line and allowed to "cut" the line to get in. If anyone falls below the standard it doesn't matter how long they stand outside or how often they are seen standing outside they will never be allowed in.
I walked down the dark streets with my head down, thinking about what had happened that night. If Duo's club was anything like this one I might not have a hard time getting noticed once I'm in. However, knowing Quatre was on his way to the club, I had to worry about the chance of running into him again there.
When I got to the car I found Commander Blake, Tyler and the woman driver in deep concentration over their poker hands. The only person I seemed to disturb by climbing into the car was Samuel who apparently had been trying to catch a few Z's. I climbed in and sat next to Tyler and watched the remainder of the hand. Blake was currently winning with most of the chips in front of him, Tyler and the woman driver had gone all in on this hand. When the last card was laid down everyone showed their hands since no more bidding was possible. Tyler had a pretty good hand with a flush Ace high. The driver only had 2 pair but Blake killed them all with his full house of Aces and 10's.
"Good game you guys!" said Commander Blake with a chuckle.
"That's cause you won it" commented Tyler, "You always win it, why is that?"
"Are you questioning your superior?" asked Blake while turning to look at Tyler and raising one of his eyebrows.
Without batting an eyelash Tyler answered, "Yes I am"
"Ah, well, in that case, I just have good luck!" then turning to me he added, "Heero, glad to see your back. How was it?"
"Ok" I answered. I didn't really feel like recapping everything that had happened in the club.
"Well let's be on our way." Blake and the driver turned their seats back around to face forward and the woman started the car.
During the drive back to the hotel I could feel my body become lethargic and my leg was killing me. I had pushed the pain from my leg to the back of my mind and hadn't noticed how much it was bothering me until I started to relax. By the time we got back to the hotel all I wanted to do was sleep. But Commander Blake had other ideas.
"Heero, I need you to write out as much as what happened tonight into a report right now. This will be good practice for later on when you're at Duo's. I think you should go there tomorrow night just to get a feel for the place and a general outline of its set up. And then go for real in two nights."
I shook my head to agree. It took to much effort to speak. Blake handed me a laptop to write the report on and pain killers for my leg. He must have seen me limp back into the room. After thanking him and taking the pills I sat at the table by the window and set the computer up. Blake turned the TV on and sat in the chair across from me. Samuel crawled into his bed and went to sleep while Tyler sat on his side of the bed and watched TV.
I made the report as brief and information filled as possible. I mentioned spending most of the night with a man I had met there, but I left out his name, and most of what we had done. When I had finished I turned the computer around so Blake could look it over.
"You surly get to the point quick!" he commented after reading it. "It's good. Tomorrow night when we drop you off at the hotel you will be staying at I will give you the laptop to write your reports on. E-mail them to me using our system. I want you to write at least one report a night. Don't leave anything out like you did on this one." I looked up at Blake when he said this and he gave me a knowing stare.
"Ok"
"I think I've kept you up long enough. Get some sleep."
I stood from the table and walked over to my bed looking at the clock on the night table as I walked past. It read 4:17am. I laid down on the bed and before I could take anything off I was asleep.
I woke up to find I was securely under the covers and had my shoes off. Samuel was sitting at the table reading the paper and Tyler was asleep in the bed. Blake was no where to be seen. I looked to the clock and found that I had slept into the afternoon. It read 2:44. Just then I got the sudden urge of having to go to the bathroom. When Samuel heard me moving around he looked up from his reading. When he saw I was awake he said, "Good morning sleepy head"
"Morning" I replied in a groggy voice, while making my way to the bathroom. When I reached the bathroom and had shut the door I realized that getting the pants off was probably not going to be easy. To my surprise it was no where near as hard as it had been to get them on. After unbuttoning and unzipping them it was just a matter of peeling them off my skin. I felt like I was molting. After relieving myself I didn't want to have to go threw the whole process of putting them back on so I took them completely off and walked back into the bedroom in search of my regular pants. I found them next to the bed on the floor and wasted no time in putting them on.
I still had a slight pain in my leg which caused me to limp a little. While I had gone to the bathroom Samuel had gone to get some ice for my legs. After I had finished putting my pants on he walked through a door with a few small bags filled with ice. I sat on the bed without being told and he placed the ice around my sore leg and handed me two pain killers with some water. I thanked him, took the pills and then handed him back the glass of water.
"You hungry? I'm bought to go get some food, is there anything you want?"
"Bagel and cream cheese would be fine"
"Ok, I'll be right back then" Before leaving the room Samuel tossed me the remote control for the TV. Since I had nothing else better to do I turned it on and flipped though the cable stations until I came to something interesting to watch. Turns out there was nothing good on and I ended up watching the food channel and learned how to make a "perfect moist chocolate cake" this did nothing for me except make me crave a perfect moist chocolate cake.
Samuel was gone four about 20 minutes. When he came back he had two bags in his hand and 3 coffee cups in a holder in his other hand. At the smell of coffee Tyler started to stir in bed. Samuel set everything on the table by the window before searching for my bagel and coffee and making his way over to me with them. Tyler finally awoke when Samuel passed by him with my coffee.
"Where's the coffee?" he asked as he started to sit up.
"You are way too addicted to coffee Ty." Samuel said before answering, "Its on the table, I also got you a blueberry muffin which is in one of the two bags on the table as well."
"Thanks" said Tyler while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and trying to sit up on the bed.
Once Samuel handed me my breakfast I thanked him and set the coffee on the night table next to me as he made his way back to the table to consume his own breakfast. We all sat in relative silence as we ate and watched the food channel.
"Why exactly are we watching the food channel? I just ate and now I'm going to be hungry in no time again!" complained Tyler.
"It's the only thing on" I answered simply, "What's happening today?"
Surprisingly Samuel was the one who answered. "Commander Blake will be arriving sometime after 4 o'clock. We will check out of here and head to the hotel you will be staying at. He will have the things you will need with him when he comes."
Except for Tyler spilling half of his second cup of coffee all over himself, not much exciting happened. Commander Blake arrived around 4:30 so we gathered all our belongings, cleaned up the room a bit and then checked out of the hotel. The new hotel I would be staying at was about an hour away from our current location and a 15 minute walk from Duo's club.
Once we reached the hotel I checked in, went to my room, did a sweep and then went back down and let everyone else up. Commander Blake had a few bags with him full of different clubbing clothes, as well as a few for casual walking around town. He also had the laptop in a case.
I had been surprised to find out I would be getting an executive suite for my room. Blake said it was in case I needed or wanted to bring anyone 'home' with me from the club. I had very strong doubts that anything like that would be happening but I didn't argue with him.
"OK, so let's run through tonight one more time. Tonight is reconnaissance. All you are to do is know the set up of this place. Make a map of the inside of the building, as well as the outside. Know where all the doors are and where they go. This job might take a few nights. This place is quite large. However, after tonight I want you to start mingling with other people as you are checking the club out. Tonight I want you to stay to yourself for the most part. If there are people who want to dance with you or buy you a drink, but tell them you can't stay long or something like that. Stay as long as you want, but once you get back start working on the maps. I want what you have so far tomorrow morning in my mail. Is that understood?"
"Yes sir."
"Good. Well, you might want to start on the outside of the building now while its still light out. And we need to get back. Good luck, son."
After everyone had left my room I went through the bags and unpacked everything. I put the clubbing clothes on one side of the closet and street clothes on the other side. After all the clothes, shoes and accessories were unpacked I went to the laptop and set it up in the bedroom on the dresser. Once everything was how I wanted it I looked through the street clothes to find something to wear until I went to the club later that night. I found some faded jeans, a green T-shirt and some sneakers. Once I was dressed I left my room to learn my way around the town and start my study of the club.
This was it. I was finally on my own; it felt like the old days when it was just me and Wing, except now I was more vulnerable.
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and that's a wrap! I hope you liked it. I know not much happened but he's finally at Duo's club! Not to much longer until Duo himself actually enters the story, yeay!!!!!! R&R please!
