The Children found Eddie sitting on the bench an hour later, "My sisters and I would like to say thank-you for supplying us with the money to buy what we needed." Klaus said. "Think nothing of it," Eddie replied "now let's go back to the hotel." After saying that Eddie gathered the children together and drove to the hotel. Unknowingly to Eddie or the children, a car with distinctive bullet holes was yet again following them.
After reaching the motel Kolkov and Susanna greeted them warmly at the door. "Ah! My favorite guests have returned. I hope Eddie did not put you in any danger or tried to sell you eh? Ha!" Kolkov said. "Umm…. " Violet responded.
"Eddie! What did you do to these poor children?" Susanna said sternly. "I cannot lie. I took them to a business meeting." Eddie said unabashedly. "And what business meeting didn't have anything to do with certain 'jobs'?"
"Well… umm…"
"Eddie D. Krausnick! I will not let you do that to these poor children.!" Susanna exclaimed. "I promise I won't taking them to any place else that involves business, but I figured they needed new clothes and other such commodities. So I took them with me."
"You know I could've done that too…"
"Could've taken them to a mob warehouse for payment?" Eddie asked playfully.
"No! Taken them to get whatever they needed."
"I'm sorry. But I have one request. Can you watch over them? I still have business that needs me to attend to it. But don't worry kids. I'll be back and tomorrow I'll spend more time with you. Doing whatever you want." Eddie said to the Baudelaire children. "But I must get some things from the room. I'm sorry to leave you with this drunk Russian but time is of the essence."
"Okay…" Klaus said nervously. Kolkov smiled at him. "Oh what fun you will have here while that ChaCha over there does whatever he wants on his death list."
"Death?" Sunny asked nervously.
"Kolkov," Susanna said, "I don't think you should not speak for a while."
"Yes dear," Kolkov said glumly while winking at Klaus.
"Thank-you for all you have done so far." Violet said in the silence that followed.
"No problem hun." Susanna said. "Now how about you follow me into the kitchen so that we can talk. Bring your little sister too. She can have a cookie or two."
After saying that Susanna grabbed Sunny and Violet and led them into the kitchen. Kolkov watched them go and then said to Klaus. "Wait here at the desk. I must talk to Eddie quickly."
Kolkov then walked to where Eddie was waiting for the elevator.
"Friend, before you go I must speak to you on some issues."
"Such as?"
"Whatever it is you are going, if it is dangerous, you must bring help. You have people depending on you right now. You cannot just not show up. Susanna and myself know some good people. But I have this feeling that whatever it is those kids are into or part of they will need someone who is an old SOB who knows everyone."
"You're just a charmer now aren't you?"
"I am serious…. Which I don't like. Where is my vodka?" Kolkov said smiling. "But you need to stay alive as long as those children are under your care."
"I promise you Kolkov, where I am going is safe. I'm just going to the docks to see some people."
The elevator then reached the lobby and they stepped aside as some people got off.
"Alright," Kolkov said walking off, "but anyone who calls the docks safe is a lunatic according to old Kolkov."
"Ah but we should not let ourselves be stopped by terror for if we do then we shall become nothing more than those we hold beneath us and we shall become servants of those whom we hate and despise. For if a man does not fight and stand proudly before all that comes before him he is nothing." Eddie replied.
"Ah so our Eddie is a philosopher." Kolkov said before he finished walking away.
After that Eddie went into the room and grabbed a few stacks of 20 dollar bills, some ammo, a switch blade he kept in his bags when he didn't think he would need it and three sticks of dynamite. "Just in case." He thought to himself. He then walked down stairs, avoiding a cramped elevator, to his car. He checked to make sure no one was watching what he was doing, then he opened his trunk and checked his weapons. Inside he had a Thompson sub machine gun with a drum clip, a Swedish made Agm 42B and a 12 gauge pump action shotgun. After making sure everything was well oiled and clean he got into his car and began driving to the Boston harbor where he used to work before the war. He was a longshoreman responsible for the safe unloading and storage of crates. He himself never stole anything from any of the crates but whenever someone he knew did he turned a blind eye. He wasn't fond of it but he figured he might as well keep the other workers around so that his job didn't get any harder.
He stopped at an intersection and waited for the traffic cop to allow him to go. As he waited he looked at the city, his city. Soon he continued on his way to the harbor. Soon after driving through the narrow streets of the original city he reached a dock where a tramp steamer was offloading cargo. He checked his pistols to make sure they were cocked and fully loaded then got out and walked towards a man directing a crane.
"Good to se you Garry." Eddie said.
The man turned around and stared at Eddie for a few moments until recognition dawned on his face. "Eddie, what brings you here? I haven't seen you in years."
"I'm here on business. Can we talk for a moment?"
"Yeah, but not until I get all these Lebanon firs unloaded. The rich folks have gotten it in their heads to build new bigger houses with these tree's and I heard one shipment got jacked by some low caliber mob so they could get a bigger status. So I hired some guys to help with security. Two Russians right off the boat. One of them a small guy who speaks good English and the other a big Cossack with a drinking problem. Then I also have a krout who I know pretty well."
After saying that Garry turned back to the crane and twirled his fingers in the motion to bring the cargo down. But the crane started to turn away from the assigned unloading spot and was headed for a blind zone.
"FUCK!" Garry yelled. He then got onto a walkie talkie he got from an army surplus store and called someone onto it.
"I'm gonna get that stuff back, you're welcome to join. But no talking until we get that shipment back."
Then a car rolled up with a man Eddie kind of knew named Hans from Pennsylvania Garry and Eddie got into the back with a foul smelling Russian who had a red eye that looked infected. After they got in they drove to where the crane looked to be dropping the cargo. They got there 10 minutes later to see a large unmarked truck start to carry off the cargo.
"Ivan, you go up into that crane and kill that son of a bitch who is operating it. The rest of us will follow the truck." Garry said to the Russian next to them. The on in the seat in front of them translated and the bigger Russian mumbled "Da" and got out with a British made sten.
They then pulled away and drove off as he made his way up to the crane. Once he got to the top he yanked open the door and slightly lost his footing on a rung which caused him to drop some and saved his life, as the operator opened up with a single barreled break action shotgun.
Ivan shot the man in the legs with the sten, grabbed him and pulled him out of the crane and dropped him to the ground 100 feet below.