CHUCK VERSUS AGENT INSANITY

Chapter XI

The Operation

Chuck didn't think twice. 'Couch is mine.'

'Here is a blanket and a pillow for you,' she said and started taking Sarah's clothes off. 'Don't look soldier, don't look. That's not what a gentleman is supposed to do, you know.'

Chuck was already heading to the couch when she added, 'One more thing. I'm going out for about 2 hours. Or maybe even more. You are in charge here now and I hope Sarah will be in safe hands.'

'Why, where are you going? Are you crazy? It's midnight, already', he was so worried again.

'I need to go to Casey's apartment. All that happened here, how I drugged Casey, is now recorded on his computers. I don't like that. I'll delete it and infect his systems with some trojans. Casey went too far, invaded our privacy too much, don't you think? The bugs in the bathroom, you know, are against the rules. With these Trojans we'll be able to switch on and off his prying.'

'Yeah,', he agreed. At least on the privacy issue they were on the same page.

Actually, the bugs in the bathroom were installed by her, not Casey. Well, she wasn't going to end up in heaven anyway, she knew that already.

'I'll be out for about two hours. It'll take me a bit over 1 hour to infect those. It's NSA level of security."

'Carina, how would you be able to penetrate and infect NSA systems without being detected? They are the best in the world, you must know that!'

'I had several boyfriends that happened to be NSA nerds but don't tell that to anybody if you want me to teach you some of their stuff. They taught me about things. By the way, once Sarah is back to DC I'll have to teach you something about computers.'

He grimaced.

She saw that and asked: 'What's the matter, Chuck?'

'A terrible headache', he replied, 'Maybe it's from the flash.' He was rubbing his temples, forehead.

"Let me give you some aspirin. I promise, I won't drug you."

She went into the bathroom and put a water soluble tablet into a glass and then some water. She added some drops. 'Just to sleep better, Carmichael, nothing sinister,' she said to herself.

Once Chuck took the aspirin Carina left the hotel.

'Our official operation is over, general Beckman, asset evaluated', she said to herself.

'Time for my little rogue one to commence.' She smiled.

20 minutes later she entered the Casey's apartment, copied the video-feed on a flash-stick, deleted it from the PC and started probing into the defenses that the NSA people had built in.

It took her more than an hour. Her NSA nerds were right as usual. There were four different layers of defense on standard NSA systems. She would have never been able to do that on her own.

She installed 3 different Trojans, each especially written for her. None of them were known to any computer software company producing antiviral software yet. Neither to the NSA itself. It was a temporary measure. By the time NSA technicians come for regular maintenance, she would have removed them herself.

An hour and a half later she was back at the hotel. Chuck and Sarah were sleeping, Sarah in the bed, Chuck in the couch. Nothing had happened between those two, of course. 'Too bad I had to sedate Sarah.' She thought.

She went to check on Casey first. He was still there under the table, sleeping like a baby.

"Time for my little rogue operation now.' She said to herself going back into the bedroom.

She looked at Sarah. Carina had carefully taken off her clothes. She was in her underwear, sleeping.

Now she undressed her completely naked. Then she went to see Chuck. He was sleeping. She calculated something in her mind and then put the spray bottle she drugged Casey with in front of his nose and pressed slightly, only for tenth of a second. It contained one of those anesthetics they used in surgeries. This particular one was known to have a particular side effect on male patients.

Then she lifted and dragged him to the bed. She laid him down there, next to Sarah, on his back and started undressing the Intersect. She had already seen him naked, there was nothing more for her to see now.

Then she turned Sarah over him as she was sleeping, her head lying on his shoulder, her arm on his chest. Carina covered him down there with Sarah's leg and then covered them both with the silk, light blue sheet.

Carina was behaving now like a small girl. She pinched her nose, took out her mobile and pronounced like a robot:

'Operation Lovebirds almost over. Out.'

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