A non-expendable asset
Chapter 4:
"Damn." Said Callie walking out of the door to her father's townhouse to Gunnar's awaiting truck "It's early."
"It's noon." Said Gunnar
"Exactly." Said Callie opening the door to the passenger side of the car "What are we even doing?"
"We are going to refurbish your room." Said Gunnar with a hint of disdain in his voice
"Where's bio-dad?" Asked Callie
"He is out of town for the next couple of days." Said Gunnar " He left about an hour ago."
"So now I have to go shopping with a big, burly, Germanic dude," Said Callie "Oh this should be fun,"
"Hey," Said Gunnar "I'm not jumping for joy either. I'm just glad that I don't have to take you clothes shopping."
"Oh," Said Callie "So I'm stuck with another big, burly, dude for that?"
"Nope," Said Gunnar putting the truck into gear "You are stuck with a big, burly, dude's girlfriend."
"Good." Said Callie "I was afraid you didn't let girls come to party, in whatever it is that you do."
"We don't let girls come to party in whatever it is that we do." Said Gunnar
"And what is that?" Asked Callie
"None of your business." Said Gunnar with finality
"Fine," Said Callie "Where are we going shopping?"
"Target." Said Gunnar "And any place else that we need to go too."
"Yay…" Said Callie
"What do you need for your room?" Asked Gunnar walking down an aisle of target with a cart, and a look of disdain on his face
"I don't know." Said Callie "How much am I allowed to spend?"
"A couple thousand," Said Gunnar "And there's a couple thousand for clothes tomorrow."
"Thousand?" Asked Callie "I've only ever bought stuff for a couple hundred at most, where did he get all of the money?"
"Work." Said Gunnar
"Of course." Said Callie "Well I pretty much need everything."
"What kind of everything?" Said Gunnar pulling up to a stop in the teenage looking aisle
"Well first I should pick a color or a theme." Said callie
"What color?" Asked Gunnar
"Well I don't like pink very much, and black is too dark." Said Callie considering the colors available
"Okay," Said Gunnar
"What about teal?" Asked Callie picking up a Teal colored throw pillow to show to Gunnar
"What the fuck is teal?" Asked Gunnar
"This is Teal." Said Callie showing him the almost blue, but still kind of green pillow.
"Okay so do you want to go Teal?" Asked Gunnar with Teal rolling off of his lips as if it was a foreign word
"I think so." Callie said dropping the pillow into the basket
"What else do you need?" Asked Gunnar
"Well I'm gonna need shelving, bed clothes, wall hangings, some electronics, curtains…" Said Callie "and a lot more stuff."
"Wow okay," Said Gunnar "go ahead and shop."
"Okay." Said Callie "Should I get black or blue shelving?"
"How the fuck would I know?" Asked Gunnar
"No." Said Callie "I'm gonna get white."
"Okay." Said Gunnar
"Here hold these." Said Callie handing Gunnar two different mirrors, one with a black border, and one with intricate designs along the border
"I want that one." Said Callie pointing to the one with the intricate border "You can put the other one back."
Callie went to look at more stuff for her room when Led zeppelin's Ramble on started to play from Gunnar's pocket
"Hey Barney." Said Gunnar into his phone watching Callie ponder which comforter set to get
"Hey Gunnar how is she?"
"She's good." Said Gunnar "She was a bitch to wake up, and she's got hell of a mouth on her."
"Sounds like my girl." Said barney
"What do you need?" Asked Gunnar into the phone
"We met the informant half-way, and talked with him." Said Barney "And it's not good."
"What happened?" Asked Gunnar
"The C.I.A isn't behind it." Said Barney
"Who is?"
"Do you remember the big mission about two years ago that we went up against some former KGB?" Asked Barney
"Of course," Said Gunnar "who could forget Viktor the Russian giant? That man put me too shame, on the size scale."
"Well they've been looking for a once over on us since we screwed them over." Said Barney "Most of us don't have family, and they didn't go after Lacy because Christmas lives so close. They found out about Linda, and with her living so far away from me, they went after her, they were, and possibly still are trying to go after Callie."
"Well what are we going to do?" Asked Gunnar
"I think that we should go pay Viktor Arlovski a visit." Said barney
"Sounds good to me." Said Gunnar