Let's see how this all turns out. Strange feelings, unknown situations, what more can you want from a good read.
THE LOOK IN HER EYES chap 3
Scene 1
"I need you to steal something for me." Chief repeated as silence fell onto the group.
Everyone was baffled by this request. The incident was so bizarre that they stopped all brain activity. Everyone had their mouths open, even Hugo, which was the only one listening to Carmen's transmission, was in shock.
"Waitz, what?" Sara was the first to break the silence.
"Chief, did you just asked a criminal for help?" Ivy couldn't believe this.
"Not just any criminal, I'm personally asking Carmen."
"That doesn't change the fact that you are asking a criminal to do a criminal activity." Zack was actually mad at this.
"I honestly never thought this could happen, what is going on here?" Kevin stepped back a bit with his hands on his neck.
Carmen still had her mouth open, unable to comprehend what had been asked. She just looked at Chief with uneasy eyes.
"The agency can't ask for this." Ivy started to argue.
"Chief, if this was your plan all along I wouldn't have helped you." Zack confessed.
"We have known each other for long old boss, but this is wrong." Kevin exhaled.
The detectives and Chief argued softly on their side of the alley. Chief tried to explain them but they repeatedly shunned him. They all felt a bit betrayed by what their lovable Chief just said.
"Whatz now, Carmen?" Sara whispered to Carmen. "It is not like we ever prepared for zhis."
"Um… eh… Chief," Carmen slowly came out of her state. Everyone stared at her, and it made her feel uneasy. "Could we talk, like over there… privately?"
"Sure."
Carmen passed the detectives and Chief joined her as they walked side by side to get away from the group. They acted as everything was normal, Carmen with her hands on her coat pockets and Chief floating along at head high. They even started conversing a little while they got away.
"Blue is really your color, why you choose red?"
"Ah well, it was Roy's gift that coat of mine." Carmen said taking off her ear piece giving a small signal with her pinky. Ivy caught that and wondered whom she was signaling to.
"Really? Has it been that long?"
"Yeah, he once came by and gave it to me said it'll make me seem more powerful."
"He was right." Chief said with sadness. Carmen noticed and just looked down. "So, how have you been?"
"Good, good. This and that going on, life becoming more complex and such." Carmen smiled a little; she really needed to talk with an old friend like this.
Once they were as far as they could get from the group, but still within reach they stopped and looked at each other.
"Want the cone of silence?" Chief asked, knowing Carmen was about to explode.
"Yeah, I don't think you want your kids to learn all the words I know."
The cone of silence was activated, but just before it reached the floor Carmen started yelling.
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT, CHIEF!..." the rest was only heard inside the cone by one scarred looking Chief.
"Woah, that won't end well." Kevin smirked.
"And it shouldn't." Zack was feeling a bit sorry for Chief.
"I still can't believe this," Ivy said, looking madly at the cone of silence where one pissed off Carmen was yelling at Chief. Carmen even unbuttoned her coat and started throwing her hands in the air.
"Look Carmen it's not what you think…."
"It is never what I think, but it sure as hell is what it means."
"Don't take that tone of voice with me, you are an adult now…"
"Fuck you, don't you dare stand up to me at this point in my life, when you're the one that came up to me with this shit. "
"Please, let me explain, you haven't the slightest clue as to why I'm asking this favor..."
"Favor, my ass. That wasn't a favor that was a request that was a job proposal. Don't tell me otherwise."
"Ok, ok. But I really need your help.'
"You can't come at me after all this years… no you can't…." Carmen eyes were watering. "I left ACME because there was no excitement in there; there was no more passion or love. You can't come to me after all that has happen, all that I have been through and tell me that there was something in there for me."
"I care shit about the reasons you left," Chief mustered courage and faced her. "I can hardly even care for your well being, I learned how to put the past behind me and it's because of that that I'm here tonight asking you this. Will you hear me out?"
"This is bullshit," Carmen faced away from him and remained silent.
"There has come to my attention that a matter of state security has leaked into the undergrounds, your world, and if in the wrong hands it could endanger millions of people. I'm going to give you as much detail as possible since you still haven't agreed to do the job, if you'd like to hear it now?"
"Chief, we used to know each other well, but life has happened to both of us. Tell me would the Carmen you knew let you tell her?"
"Yes, would you trust in the Chief that you knew?"
"Yes, I do." Carmen eased her shoulders and her arms became unfolded. "It's been so long since you briefed me on a case. Feels melancholic in a certain way. I've changed a lot Chief, I have become someone you can't imagine."
"You know me, I can look beyond human limitations and see deep inside your still the little Carmen I knew." Chief smiled.
"Don't charm me with your crappy smile," She laughed a bit. "It will not change the fact that you as a commander in office of ACME is asking a world renown criminal a favor. More so at the extent of understanding the risks involved, we may become real enemies when this all ends."
"I know that, but this item I need you to steal, is worth the risk of loosing our relationship for ever." Chief looked strongly at her.
"If you weren't a screen I'd say you had big balls old friend."
"Haha, you should see my hard drive banks."
The tension in the air eased a bit and Chief calmly started to explain things.
"This much I can tell you. There was an object stolen from a "certain" facility that contained "certain" information. This object was taken out of the facility by professionals in your area, The Tosca Brothers."
"Uff, bunch of real nasty shit guys."
"So you know them?"
"I've dealt with them as both clients and partners for "certain" jobs. All part of the new me."
"I'm starting not to like this at all. In any case, the TBs stole this object and introduced it in the black market masked with another object. However, due to certain strange circumstances this masking object proved valuable enough to be placed in a "certain" place where we can't access without arising suspicions to the content of the original object."
"So basically, you want me to steal this valuable object from that place and just give it to you?"
"Yes."
Carmen started to feel a bit ridiculous; she had worked her anger to much for just a simple job. Something didn't' felt right.
"Where is the catch?"
"You are not the only one that wants this object. There are some that have even killed for the chance of getting it, have you heard anything from your side?"
"Truthfully, this kinds of understreet fights are not that relevant to my standards, but I do hear from them a lot. Recently there has been some territorial fights for an object in London that supposedly has a street value of 5 bills. Sadly, there is no one I know that is really willing to pay that much for that object, it has been deemed unsellable."
"London… that is where my object is."
"Then it is a death trap. I was curious for this object but my research didn't favor my odds Chief. If this is the object you want me to steal, I'm sorry I'll have to decline. Not because I'm scarred of the understreet fights, but because it will not fulfill my standard, let alone my creed."
"I thought you might say no from the get go, so I planned a reunion with ACME's big shots to try and persuade you to do it."
"ACME trying to make a deal with me… unheard of."
"If your interested in helping me out, would you come to ACME Headquarters and discuss the circumstances with the higher-ups?"
"No."
"So definitive."
"It is a crazy stupid idea that I'm going to just walk into the headquarters and not me captured. I'm a very important person in the underworld and this business is just not going to happen like this."
"Please, it already is arranged for your free pass in HQ." Chief produced an entry card and Carmen took it. "I have been hours discussing this with the higher-ups and they all agree with me that we need you. You are safe to enter and leave HQ while the negotiations are going on. If you come all the information and specifications will be provided and it is then that I'd like you to decide. If you decide against, you are free to leave and we wont' give chase. Do you agree?"
Carmen was at a loss, she was not used to not being in control of the situation and it looked like she was being played. She pondered the consequences and ideas formulating in her head as she walked around in the cone.
"Looks like he is convincing her about this crazy thing." Zack said.
"Carmen likes things like this, thrills and crazy stupid things." Kevin sighted.
"This can't be happening." Ivy fumed.
'Hey, Sarah, what is going on?' Hugo whispered on Sarah's intercom device.
'Lookz, like we haz zome ztrange work.'
At the sound of Sarah's voice the detectives turned around and looked at her. She stiffened and just looked away.
"I won't be alone and I will enter the building without taking anything off." Carmen said in a serious tone.
"Sure, I don't understand what that means, but I'll see to it you do."
"Deal, I'll see you in 3 days at HQ."
"Wait, 3 days, why can't we go now on the C-5?"
"Like I said, I won't be alone and I will enter the building without taking anything off." Carmen smirked, this is the kind of control she liked to have.
"Ok, 3 days… is today day 1 or?"
"hehe, you always made me laugh Chief." She placed her hand on the holographic image of Chief and he blushed.
The cone of silence came of and they started to walk to the group with smiles on their faces.
"I didn't knew you and Kevin were engaged."
"It was a long story and I feel I still am."
"You really love him don't you?"
"You have no idea how madly in love I was with him; he is the only man I still think of late at night."
They approached the group in silence and Carmen stepped in between the detective giving a small look at Kevin, which he returned. Carmen walked back to Sarah and placed the ear transmitter and said something that Ivy couldn't catch. As soon as she said that, Ivy noted two figures on the bar's roof and one of them had a long sniper rifle, the other was a huge hunk of man. That hunk of man came to be Hugo as he rappelled the side of the bar and came close to his boss. She explained the situation to them in short code words and they both understood. She looked back at the detectives and strolled away with her group.
"What was that about?" Zack said scared. "Did she had us snipped all this time?"
"That was scary indeed." Kevin was also in shock.
"She will come in 3 days to HQ do discuss the matter. Better if you guys rest till then, there is much to be talked and this time you guys will be involved."
"Hum… can I come too?" Kevin said expectantly.
"You are already mixed up in this. You will have a Class 5 license, all of you in fact."
"Woah, a Class 5, that is like 'Top secret, die and never tell' kind of license."
"Yes, this is something that is bigger than what ACME is capable of undertaking."
"Was involving Carmen the right choice?" Ivy asked.
"You will see why." Chief said opening the C-5 and taking the detectives with them.
At the other side of the alley, Carmen and her henchmen walked in darkness only to disappear into the night.
The end of chapter 3
I might rewrite this chapter a bit, don't' know… didn't liked the feeling of it, but I'm putting it up so you guys know where it is headed and such.