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"Murdock, shut up!" Face growled, arms crossed as he followed the pilot, ears and cheeks burning with embarrassment. He felt like a teenager doing the walk of shame.
Murdock meanwhile was grinning to himself in his usual mad way, hopping and skipping with happiness and excitement, totally unaffected by the sour mood of the other two.
She snickered a little at the fact Face's cheeks were a bright red, and teased him a little, "Hey Murdock, do you happen to have a camera on hand?" She grinned evilly at Face, "I really want to save this moment." She laughed.
"Sorry, not today." Murdock pouted, "I normally carry one, but I think B.A. confiscated it when I started takin' pictures of him wearin' the bellboy uniform."
Hannibal was waiting for them back at crew quarters, "Good, everyone's together now."
"Darn." She said with a snap of her fingers, the smirk died on her face the moment they came into view of Hannibal and BA. She stood straighter and rested her hands behind her back, her movements noticeably slower than normal, "Murdock told us what was going on, about the Captain… do we know who these guys are?"
B.A. shook his head, "When they came out that room, they just looked like normal folks. I don't know if they're terrorists or just guys who don't know any better. But they said they weren't in charge - they're workin' for somebody else. Which means, we're gonna be expectin' company out here tonight."
Hannibal nodded, "Obviously someone intends to commandeer this ship."
She nodded slowly, "Pirates perhaps?" She questioned, "There has been an uprising of them lately." She was mentally going through wanted sea fairing criminals that she was aware of, "Did they drop any names, places, something that is searchable to get more information?" She was good at digging up info if she had something to go with.
B.A. gave her some names that he'd overheard, but they didn't ring a bell with Hannibal. Then again, Sosa probably knew more - she was still on the inside.
Murdock, meanwhile, had stolen back his camera and was taking pictures of Face's still-reddened cheeks.
She pulled out her cell, entered the info B.A. related to her onto a note app she had on it and nodded, "I'll see what I can dig up." She promised and failed to stop herself from laughing as she turned to see Murdock flashing pictures of Face's still flushed face up close and personal. She covered her mouth however as soon as she started and straightened, "They have a computer room here, I'll run the names through the DCIS database and see what comes up." She turned and headed off.
"Stop that - would you - would you put that away!" Face hissed, trying to knock the camera out of Murdock's gleeful hands.
"Facey an' Sosa are makin' babies! Hannibal Hannibal HANNIBAL. IS THAT WHERE BABIES COME FROM IS IT." Murdock asked with huge eyes.
She wasn't quite out of ear shot as Murdock went off with that one and she stumbled in the hall a little ramming her elbow into the wall swearing loudly before picking up her pace a little and high tailing it out of there. If Face called her a coward later she wouldn't deny it.
She kept an eye out for her gentleman caller as she slipped into the computer room and fooled with their settings until she was sure her actions would be untraceable and then proceeded to log into the DCIS database and run the names.
"...and that's where babies come from." Hannibal said, cool as a cucumber.
Murdock stared at him, wide-eyed and slack-jawed.
Face had stolen the camera and deleted the pictures by now.
B.A. just shook his head, "Ain't no way he didn't know that, Hannibal. He's just a crazy fool."
"Ah ha." She commented to herself as three of the names came up, "Got you." She said with a pleased grin as she printed off the information and then killed the computer, almost literally. She didn't need anything coming back to bite her.
She returned back down to the others and handed the papers over to Hannibal, "Three of them are wanted Somali Pirates. The other names didn't yield anything however." She was looking right pleased with her efforts, but something in both Face's and BA's expressions made her wonder what she had missed and if she really wanted to know.
"Captain Sosa!" Murdock was bouncing excitedly. "Are you gonna have a baby! Because Hannibal said mffffMFFFfmff!" he was cut off by Face's hand over his mouth.
Face smiled apologetically at her, glaring daggers at the pilot, who pouted and sat down on a chair.
"Looks good." Hannibal was pouring over the information.
Her head snapped towards Murdock, eyes wide and her own cheeks flushing now in embarrassment. For the record of it, she shook her head firmly no to Murdock's question. She was on the pill and the second she got close to Face she made sure she had a damn good supply of them… she almost laughed at herself for preparing for what she figured she thought she could've avoided. It was really rather amusing, well to her anyways, "We could radio the Coast Guard, and they could intercept the ships heading towards us at the moment and then all we have to worry about is the idiots aboard the ship." She suggested and wondered how the hell she was going to explain this one to her superiors let alone what went down in Wales.
"Yeah, but then when they come for the ship itself, we ain't never gonna make it off." B.A. said, worried.
"We have to catch them before they take over," Hannibal said, "but we can't let anyone know until we dock. We have to keep this of the utmost secrecy."
She nodded, "Alright, but how do we do that?" She really wanted to put Hannibal Smith's brain under a microscope and figured out how the hell it worked, the man was the perfect identification of an enigma. The way he came up with the crazy stuff he did and how fast he did it was a wonder in itself, "If it's at night when they chose to attack we could have cover that way… but how do you keep people from finding out and hearing what's going on." She faltered for a moment, "Unfortunately the walls of this ship aren't very thick…"
Murdock piped up, "We can use the kitchens. Only the cooks are allowed in there, and there's tons of cold storage that's empty now because they've used up the food. It's not frozen, but it's lined so it'll be soundproof."
And how do we lure them down there?" She questioned, "These guys cause a ruckus, they liked to be noticed and have recognition, they thrive on it." She folded her arms and leaned back against the wall, her eyes going from Hannibal, to Face and then Murdock and back again.
"Easy." Hannibal grinned, "We pretend we're undercover agents. If anybody asks, we just say it's classified and we can handle everything."
Murdock nodded, "The first thing they'll do is cut communication lines with the outside world."
She nodded and smirked, "I'm good at that." She got kicks actually out of doing that, of getting to tell people it's none of their business because it's classified, "And actually that might help me out of a… uh… little problem I have." Speaking of which she was surprised she wasn't being hunted down by her Gentleman Caller.
"Little problem?" Hannibal inquired.
"Oh, you mean that honey you were hanging around with?" Murdock blinked.
Face groaned, "Anything to get rid of him."
She gave Murdock a look and looked back at Hannibal, "Yeah… that…" She muttered and then narrowed her eyes at Face, if she had been closer she would've elbowed him, "I feel kind of bad really, I mean he is a nice guy."
"We can pass him off to somebody else." Face suggested, "Or you could just tell him who you REALLY came with."
"Literally!" Murdock exclaimed.
Hannibal coughed.
"Murdock, you're lucky I find you so damned amusing." She warned him and then looked at Face, "And this is why when I deal with him, you won't be anywhere nearby, Lieutenant." Her voice took on that haughty tone of authority she was so well known for. Behind her back she was aware it was referred to as the bitch tone.
"Yes, sir, Captain." Face gave her a stiff salute, "I'll try and make myself scarce, sir."
Murdock was not amused. He returned to pouting and playing with his camera again.
Hannibal sat and continued looking at the plans of the ship and its layout, looking at possible in- and out-routes.
She sauntered up to him, "You better, or you'll drop and give me twenty." She smirked at him, her eyes gleaming with something evil and ever so slightly carnal. She paused by Murdock as she backed away and placed a hand on his shoulder as if to say there was no hard feelings, he liked to have fun and she got it, she really did… just as long as he wasn't having it at her expense.
Face couldn't resist, "I'd love to drop and give you twenty, but I don't think you'd appeciate it in front of the guys."
Murdock giggled like a schoolgirl and even Hannibal had to cover his face to hide a grin.
She turned and walked back up to him with purpose and snaked an arm around his neck making like she was going to kiss him. Instead she grabbed a hold of his hair at the nape of his neck and pulled him forward, "Twenty push-ups. Now. With added weight." He wanted to play rough, she'd play.
She motioned to Murdock, "Sit on the Lieutenant's back please, Captain." She let Face go and stepped back so he had room, "On the double. Or I add a hundred." She folded her arms, a brow arching high as she lifted her chin in the air.
Face groaned as Murdock happily perched on his back, "Get goin'! I'll keep count." He said cheerfully as Face began his push-ups.
B.A. laughed this time, "That's what you get, sucker!"
She smirked and crouched down next to him and watched him go up and down, her eyes slowly moving over the muscles of his arms as they worked, "Mmm, good boy." She patted his head and stood smirking at BA, "Well I better make an appearance up top." She sighed and then looked to Murdock, "Make sure he goes all the way down each time. Or add that hundred." She instructed him and sauntered off, a little extra movement in her backside as she did so.
"Right!" He grinned at Sosa, then looked back down at Face,"Dash it all, Face old boy, you must do as she says!"
Face groaned and made sure he went all the way. First, he was gonna kill Murdock. Then, he was gonna kill Charissa.
Haha, Charissa got him good! Stay tuned for more coming soon! (Since you know we post two chapters per day lol)