Chapter 9 - Birthday Surprises.
A/N: hope you all enjoyed the little filler chapter for some laughs and bonding moments. The first chunk of this chapter is going to be a lot like the last chapter but then we get back into the main action.
Dutch and Benny were strolling up the road towards the office. They had been working on boat all day. Now it was a little past sunset and they were heading back to have a drink.
When they got closer the noticed the car was parked in front of the building.
"Looks like Rock and Revy got back from their errands" Benny said
Dutch nodded "and judging from the way the car is half park on the sidewalk the just came back from the Yellow Flag" he said lightly tapping the wheel with his boot.
Benny laughed "then I'm willing to bet they got here drunk and continued up stairs, and we'll find them passed out on the couch" he said.
Dutch decided maybe his luck from the last bet was still in play, "then I'm willing to bet their in bed right now" he said
They shook hands and headed upstairs. They found the door closed and locked which raised Dutch's hopes if they were drunk they would not have remembered to close it. Benny opened the door and grinned, Dutch raised an eyebrow and following him inside. They found an empty bottle of Bacardi and two glasses sitting on the table, one of them overturned. From the looks of things they had gotten back and continued drinking, and from the way the cushions were disturbed they had gotten to something else.
Dutch then swore and reach into his vest pocket to hand Benny a wad of cash who took it with a grin.
Just then down the hall to Revy's spare room in the office there came a loud moan.
"oooh Rock, Fuck oh shiitt" they heard Revy yelling in pleasure.
Dutch then held out his hand and Benny returned the wad of cash added with his own loss, "damn two won bets talk about a hell of a streak" he said chuckling.
"aaah Rock yes right there baby" Revy yelled.
It was then Dutch saw the flaw in his win, "If I didn't still have those other soundproof maintenance earmuff in my room right now I would be very pissed at them for fucking each other right now" Dutch deadpanned. Benny nodded he would just hook up his large woofer headphones and fall asleep to some tunes.
"You know I'm kinda surprised Rock has that in him Revy's never yelled before" Benny joked.
Ignoring the moans and Revy's yelling they made their way past her door down the hall to their own respective rooms. It was then the sounds coming from the room his a peak with a loud yell from Revy then stopped for minute, then it sounded like a large object, a body, thudded against a wall and the moans and gasps of pleasure resumed in time with some dull thumps coming through the wall.
Dutch and Benny sighed "fucking unbelievable are they gonna be at this all night?' Dutch asked expecting no answer
"They do have their own rooms, we should just tell them to go there" Benny said. He said going to bang on their door.
"I wouldn't advise that Benny Boy remembered that time she had that nasty hangover, well how mad she was then will pale in comparison to if you open Pandora's box right now, and don't forget Rock does have that evil side to him which I imagine would show itself under those circumstances" he said.
Benny froze "Right almost forgot that, I'll just go turn some tunes on I can sleep listening to those at least" he said quickly retreating into his room.
Dutch looked to the door, "I'll have to talk to them tomorrow, happy to see them getting along now but this is ridiculous no fucking in the office should be a rule" he said going into his own room and slamming the door. Despite certain complaints he was happy for them.
The following mourning Dutch and Benny were up around mid-mourning which was common on an off day. Neither Revy nor Rock came out of their room until a short while after noon.
Dutch of course waited until both of them were awake before getting ready to tell them not to do that in the office. However Rock came forward saying they were to drunk to realize they were still in the office, so Dutch let it slide this time. He did ask more politely then originally planed to at least keep that level of closeness out of the office.
1 week later
Revy woke up first for a change with not a seriously bad hangover, she must have actually remembered to drink water before bed, then she remembered the shower, then Rock, oh yeah that's probably what did it, she thought grinning hungrily at the memory. She then looked down to find her lover lying in bed with her. He looked damn handsome in the mourning light. They have been together for now almost a week and a half, now longer then anything she had been in before. She found herself changing little by little, but about him, she was still the same Two-hands they all loved, or feared it depended on who you were, but between them things were becoming different, the big thing was that she liked it. Rock had always been a pain in the ass at times but he was a good guy and she trusted and respected him. He stuck to his ideas, was fearless in his own way, and had stuck with them whenever the shit hit the fan. In the past she would have just thought it was the good, no great, sex but there was more too it then that. Rock did one thing that no one else in this shit hole of a town had done before, he's cared for me, made love to me not fucked me, he even fought with me and for me now, could he maybe love me?, were her thoughts.
She had long since abandoned the idea of love, her way of thinking was that love led to pain, sadness, loss, and a lot of other bad shit. Ever since those horrible last days on Mott Street she had abandoned love for others. She trust and respected her friends. She grew to care for Rock, now here they were in a relationship together. Could it be possible that for the first time since those days in New York City that her heart was opening up to someone? That was the question she was wondering about right now.
Revy for once could not say for certain what might be going through Rock's head. He had been to first to say that she was his girlfriend, but did he see love as well. She knew he was aware of her feelings on the matter. Despite all that, he was still here with her, he had not asked her about her past, and had not tried to change her in any significant way. The cynical part of her mind simply said that while he cared for her he could not love her that however was contradicted by pretty much everything that had happened up until now.
She decided to settle her mental debate for now, I still don't know if it's love on my end of this,, not yet at least. So for now I'll just wait and enjoy my time with him not a fucking thing wrong with that, she told herself. She then looked down when she heard him mumbling.
"Revy" he whispered in his sleep. He must have been dreaming about her.
She grinned and snuggled back next to him, he moved in his sleep his arm going around her waist and she settled against him with her back to his chest.
She was dozing off when her for no big reason her eyes looked at the calendar he had pinned up on his wall. When she saw the date she groaned. Today was September 7th she figured this day would be no different then any other. However maybe for once, this one might be different since she was with Rock now.
A loud knock came from the door. Revy sat up quickly, her first movement was to look for her guns which were sitting on the floor a few feet from the bed easy to get to should someone try to force through that door.
"What's wrong" She heard Rock say. Looking down she saw he was looking at her, the judging from her facial expression he looked for his own guns.
Their instincts however, useful, were off since it was Benny at the door who shouted through "Rock you up Dutch says we got a job, and if Revy's in there too then tell her as well, you got twenty minutes" he shouted through the door.
Rock sat up and groaned "ya thanks Benny we'll be right down" he yelled. Then got out of bed.
"Finally I hope this is gonna be a decent ass job at least" Revy said sitting up and stretching.
Rock nodded. For the most part of the last week they had not had much to do, he and Revy had mostly gone to the range a little more and he's gotten much better in accuracy and using both his gun's simultaneously, and aside from that either hanging out at the Yellow Flag or at the office.
They quickly both got cleaned up, both of them hoping into the shower but just for a shower this time to wake them both up. After they grabbed their clothes and guns they headed out the door. Revy was in her usual outfit but wearing a dark blue tank top instead of black. Rock wore his jeans, along with his favourite top a dark undershirt and a dark brown button up shirt.
They met Dutch and Benny outside waiting in the car. They got into the back and Benny pulled out at a fast speed and headed for the port. Revy put her boots up onto the corner of Dutch's seat and leaned into Rock's side "so what's the job today?" Rock asked he put his arm around Revy's shoulders so she would be more comfy instead of having his shoulder in her back.
"This job is coming right from Miss Balalaika, apparently some kind of data disc is being transported on a ship with some information that may lead to the identity of the sponsor in Japan, were going to intercept the ship and pick up the cargo" he said lighting up a smoke.
"If it's this fucking important why doesn't Fry Face have her own soldiers do it?" Revy asked.
"The cargo is on a merchant ship, not a military or a mercenary boat. Balalaika said they were trying to sneak it past us and only just caught it. Were going because Balalaika doesn't have any fast moving boat at the moment and we need to do this quickly, if they get wind of this they'll send out heavier reinforcements" he explained.
Rock light up a couple cigarettes and passed one to Revy "so what's the plan?" he asked. They just arrived at the dock at were heading for the boat.
"We'll intercept them and make the crew think were just a simple pirate raid, under the employ of Hotel Moscow sent to destroy that data. Rock, you can and Revy will go aboard to keep up the act while Benny hacks into their computers from the Lagoon, and we steal the data, when he's finished then you shoot up the computers. After that we leave and it will take them time to realise what really happened" he said laying out his plan.
A few minutes later they were leaving the gulf.
"We should reach the ship, the seahorse, in about 3 hours, its on route not to far from here" Dutch said. Rock and Revy were behind him, Benny had gone below to his station to get the necessary back ground information on the ship.
Revy then grabbed Rock by the arm, "come on Rocky baby we got some time to kill" she whispered into his ear. Resulting in a few shades of red surfacing on his face. They had already checked their weapons and did not have any immediate preparations.
"I know this is probably pointless but would it be too much of an issue for you two to not fuck on the boat" he complained.
Revy laughed "Sorry Dutch we'll try to keep it down" she said.
"Well then I hope you won't shoot me for this Revy but I need Rock to sit with Benny for a bit, he needs to explain the what part of the ship the computers well be located on, and where you both will be grouping up the crew when we get there" he said grinning in chair knowing she could not see it.
Revy made a face "Fuck are trying to put me in a bad mood Dutch" she complained.
Rock smiled "I'll catch up with you when I'm done" he said in a quite tone.
Revy looked up and saw the annoyance in his eyes as well, this mollified her, "alright, Dutch I'll be in my cabin" she said, then winked to Rock as she went below.
Revy was lying on her bed in her cabin. She had removed her guns and lay down, she had dozed off after a bit.
"Hey Revy wake up need you up top" a voice said.
Revy sat up. She looked over at the door hoping to see Rock but no such luck, "Fuck don't tell me I slept the whole way there" she said annoyed. She had hoped to have a little fun with Rock before the job started. She looked at the small clock in the room, only an hour had gone by.
"Better go see what the fuck they want" she said rubbing her eyes as she got up, grabbed her guns, and walked out the door.
She walked down the hall then passed through the main cabin to head up to the control room.
"Surprise!" she heard voices yell.
"What the Fuck!" she yelled in response staring around confused.
Rock and Benny were standing by a table with a large steaming pizza and a cake next to it. Dutch was still at the control but turned around and was grinning at her like the others were.
"Happy Birthday Revy" Rock said.
Revy's jaw hit the floor "how the fuck did you know?" she asked starting to catch up with what was going on.
"I mentioned this little day to Rock and he came up with the idea of doing a little something to celebrate, it was his suggestion we do it now before we arrive at our destination" Dutch explained.
"You would not believe how hard it was to get a hold of this cake" Benny said chuckling.
Revy meanwhile was looking at Rock, she could not believe he had done this. No one had thrown a birthday party for her before, dammit why is he always so good to me, she thought she was happy nonetheless.
She walked to Rock and put her arms around him. Benny and Dutch both suddenly seemed interesting with something out the front window.
"Thanks Rock this does mean a lot to me" Revy said sounding like she was having trouble talking. She was still bad at this.
"Come on Revy pizza's gonna get cold and your gonna love the cake" he said smiling down at her.
Revy grinned and grabbed the biggest slice. For the next hour they all enjoyed the party food, along with some laughs, and then Rock proved right again. Revy drooled when she was given a slice of cake, it was a chocolate rum cake.
"Fucking A I never had this kind before" she said. Dutch and Benny echoed her appreciation they had never tried it before.
"By the way Revy how old are you now anyway?" Rock asked,
Dutch and Benny also looked up at his question. That was one thing neither of them knew either.
Revy grinned before she answered "well since you've asked nicely I guess I can tell ya. This year I'm 23" she said.
Rock laughed "Well happy 23rd then Revy" he said,
Revy snorted "What about you Rock?" she asked taking the last bite of her slice.
Rock grinned "I'll be 24 in October" he said.
Revy laughed "so one year over me hah" she said.
Rock then disappeared for a minute and when he came back he had a long narrow brown box in his hands, "Here ya go Revy, the birthday girl does deserve at least one present" he said laying it down in front of her.
This was something no one saw coming. Even Dutch and Benny didn't know about this. Revy looked up at Rock unsure. He just smiled and nodded.
Revy took to top off of the box. Inside were some packing crate foam peanuts. She shifted them aside and her hands found something. It was heavy but she lifted it out easily. Revy let out a gasp of surprise.
"Holy shit. Rock you remembered" she yelled happily.
Dutch and Benny just grinned. They figured it would have been something like this.
In her hands Revy held a Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun. It was the same one that Roberta the maid used. Rock had remembered she was impressed with it and decided it would make a good present.
"I hope you like it Revy I got a few shells with it for free as well" he said.
Revy meanwhile lifted the shotgun up and smiled "Fucking A Rock I wanted one of these, I gotta say this is certainly the best birthday present I've ever gotten" she said cheerfully.
Dutch and Benny chuckled "like a kid in a candy store" Dutch muttered. He then turned back to the controls "we'll be arriving to intercept their sea route in less then an hour better get ready. When this is done we'll finish the celebrations at the Yellow Flag" he declared.
Benny left first to get to his spot at the computer Rock and Revy then went up to get their gun's ready and get any ammo they may need.
"Rock" Revy said once they were in the main cabin.
Rock turned. Then was knocked back as Revy slammed into him and put her arms around his neck and lock her lips on his. He got lost in the moment, which lasted for several, then she pulled back "I just wanted to say, well what you did it was," she was turning red. Rock smiled he knew she had difficulty with this, it was very appealing to see her try though.
"I know Revy and your welcome. I also assume there will be another kind of celebration later" he said winking.
Revy licker her lips "Fucking A" she said.
They then got their guns, and strapped their mag carriers onto their belts, they were going in heavy this time, they both had two of their three clip carriers along with the two in each of their guns. Even though it was just a merchant ship they may employ low level merc's to play guard dog. Revy told Rock she was confident this would be enough ammo. Revy considered taking her new shotgun along but she did not have any back up ammo or a sling to keep it in should she need more versatility with her cutlasses.
Half an hour later, Rock and Revy were sitting on the bow of the boat each having a smoke waiting for the job to get started. Rock held his megaphone to get them to stop, his success rate was still at zero, and Revy had her RPG launcher. They could now see the ship in the distance
"Rock, we'll be within range soon, get ready to try and talk them into stopping" Dutch said over the radio.
"Got it Dutch" Rock said into his mic.
About 20 minutes later they were now in front of the ship's path matching their speed to just stay ahead. The horn was now blaring to signal them to move aside.
Rock put the megaphone close to his mouth "Attention crew of The Seahorse, we ask that you cut your engines now or we will use force to come aboard" he said through the speaker.
For a moment nothing happened the sound of the large ship's engine's stopped.
"Damn for once they listened" Revy said still holding her launcher.
Rock meanwhile lifted the megaphone again "drop your emergency ladder and prepare to be boarded. Do not resist and you won't be harmed" he said.
Again after a minute or two the ladder was dropped.
Rock dropped the megaphone "Dutch either we got lucky or there waiting for us" he said.
"I know what you mean Rock, they won't have anything more then basic guards you and Revy can handle that, Benny's already working on his end we'll let you know when were done" Dutch said.
"Let's go partner, we got a job to do" Revy said starting to climb up the ladder.
Rock waited a few seconds then began climbing up the ladder as well. The look on his face said he was ready if there was going to be shooting
Revy reached the top quickly and jumped up over the railing onto the deck. In one skilled motion she pulled one of her cutlasses from its holster, and pulled back on the slide. She then lifted it up and pointed it at a large crowd of panicked crew members standing around on the wide open main deck.
At this point she would start barking orders, but Rock would handle that, instead her eyes were moving over the crowd she did not see any weapons on them and from their fearful expression she could say these were just a portion of the hired sailors. She also scanned locations where she would hide, nothing.
Rock soon appeared next to her. He did not draw just yet but took a couple steps forward knowing Revy had him covered "I apologize for the inconvenience but we are going to have to ask that you all remain together in the center of the deck. Our associates are waiting for us in out transport, should anyone try anything reckless they will fire and sink this ship. Are there any more members of the crew who are not present?" he asked. He spoke in a calm but commanding tone.
Revy looked at him, she could tell he was back in that mindset like on that night they rescued his parents, he was ready should the job get ugly.
One of the crew a man wearing jeans and a shirt who looked to be about in his late 40's stepped forward. Rock saw he would speak for them so he signalled him to come forward. He walked to stand a few feet in front of them both. His eyes went first to the woman holding a gun at them all but then shifted to the one who was talking.
"Names Rick, I'm the head Mechanic, everyone here is the main part of the crew. Then command bunch are up top on the control deck" he said. He looked afraid but was speaking for the safety of his co-workers.
Rock nodded "are there any hired guards on board?" he asked. The command deck was where the computers were that Benny was hacking into right now, he had checked the basic layout of the merchant ship.
Rick shrugged "can't say only the command crew would know" he said.
"How do I get up onto the command deck?" he asked testing him.
Rick pointed to his left, towards the tower where the command deck would be.
"You see that open stairwell just follow that up then take a left at then end follow those stairs for a short way, next left turn you come to goes straight into the place. You'll see a sign that says Command Deck with and arrow pointing when you get there" he explained.
Rock nodded "Is that the only entrance?" he asked.
Rick shook his head "no if you come in that door off to your right is the exit that leads further into the ship" he said.
Rock nodded then told him he could step back to join his crew.
Rock then turned to Revy "I'll go up and check the deck and I'll take care of the data disk when Benny is done" he said.
Revy thought for a moment "alright, watch your back and be careful" she said.
Rock grinned. He then turned and headed for the stairs. They were about 10 feet from where they had been standing.
Revy watched him go "you better be careful partner" she said quietly. She has a feeling that something about this was off.
When Rock reached the top of the first set of stairs he turned left as Rick had said, "Benny I'm on my way to the command deck right now, how's it going on your end?" he asked into the mic.
"I've hacked into the computer Rock and I'm reading the disk in it now, a few more minutes and we'll be done" Rock heard him say.
Rock continued walking down the hall he was in now. When he came to the first left turn he saw a sign that said, ß COMMAND DECK ß. He pulled out his guns one at a time and pulled the slide back on both of them to be ready for a quick draw. He slipped the left hand one back into its holster and kept out the right.
He only had to walk a short distance when he came to a door. Looking through the glass hole he saw about half a dozen men all looking out onto the main deck wondering what was going on. He saw at least two of them had handguns on their hips.
Rock then opened the door quickly and raised his gun. They command crew all turned at the sudden noise.
"Everyone I would like to ask you to remain where you are and you will not be harmed" he said calmly. Rock then spotted a row of computers he saw of them appeared to be doing something and that it had a download window open. That was the computer with the disk in it.
Just as his eyes were turned he heard movement and the sound of two hammers being pulled back. Rock turned his head back as two of them crew were raising theirs guns as the other four dived for cover.
Rock's other hand moved with surprising speed and he pulled his other gun out and jumped to his right just as they both fired repeatedly, their were both panicked and didn't aim properly. Two of their shots clipped him on grazed his neck leaving a shallow cut, while the other tore a deeper cut in his left arm. Rock winced at the flare of pain but did not take his eyes off of them he landed roughly on his knees and fired both his guns twice. Three of his shots connected and they both went down, the fourth shattered the window behind them.
"Rock,,, Rock! Fuck answer me are you alright?" he heard Revy say into her mic.
Rock firs pointed his guns at the other four but they hand their hands covering their heads. He looked at him arm before answering, "I'm fine two of them drew on me, a bullet grazed my arm it's bleeding but not much" he said. He then heard the sound of running footsteps coming from the door on the right side of the room, they sounded like they were about 30 seconds away.
"Benny how long I'm gonna have company" he said.
"I'm done get rid of then get out of there" Rock heard him say. He quickly pushed the CD tray button when the disk popped out he fired once to shatter it.
He then levelled both guns to the door on the right as he backed away. The door opened and he saw the barrel of an machine gun. Rock fired both his guns twice again right through the door, the two merc's in the lead went down. He then turned and ran out the door he had come in.
"Revy I'm on my way down their right behind me" he said into his mic reaching the first turn. As he made it he turned to fire four shots with his right gun and took down two more merc's at the front, the others did not return fire since their friends were in the way.
"Fuck, keep running then, I'll cover you when you get to the bottom of the stairs" she said.
"Rock, Revy soon as you can get the hell off that boat they just sent out their distress signal, we can't stay here long" they heard Dutch say.
Rock put his left gun away since he would need one hand to get over the rail when he hit the main deck. He turned the last corner and emptied his gun around the corner blindly to keep his pursuers back. He heard someone yell out in pain he may have hit another.
Rock ran down the steps and a dangerous pace. Soon enough he hit the main deck and saw Revy pointing both her guns towards him.
"Rock get down" she yelled after he ran a few feet.
Rock dived painfully. He then heard Revy fire her guns.
When they stopped he looked back. He saw four men lying dead on the deck.
"Lets go" Revy said. She holstered her guns then jumped over the railing.
Rock jumped to his feet, he holstered his right gun then was right behind Revy.
They practically slid down the ladder and hit the deck of the lagoon in seconds.
"Dutch were on" Revy said.
"Hold on" he replied. The boat then started moving away from the ship.
Revy then looked down at her partner and saw he was looking at the graze in his arm, she also noticed she shallow cut on his neck.
"Rock you alright?" she asked kneeling next to him to examine the wound. It would need to be cleaned then a few stitches.
"Ya I'm fine, guess that was the first time I been shot" he said chuckling slightly
Revy snorted "fuck your right all this time you've never been hit" she said. She then helped him up and they headed back inside. Once they were back in the control room Dutch turned to look at them.
"Well Rock you finally lost your 'been shot' virginity" he said jokingly.
"Very funny Dutch" Rock said pulling a face. Revy chuckled next to him and patted him on the shoulder.
"We'll get that taken care of Dutch then you better not fucking need us till we get back to port" Revy said leading Rock by arm down below.
"No we should be alright, Balalaika's gonna meet us there then we'll head off to the Yellow Flag for a drink" he called.
They passed by Benny on their way into the main cabin. He offered his condolences for to Rock for finally being shot, he was at his printer which was printing the data they had stolen.
Revy and Rock then got to her cabin, she then left to get some medical supplies. Rock removed his shirt and took off his holsters after quickly checking his gun's for any damage. He then sat on the edge of the bed and waited.
Revy soon arrived back with a small tray, "this may sting a bit" she said rubbing the cut with a cotton swab soaked in rubbing alcohol. It did sting but not that bad. Revy then grabbed a surgical needle and some sewing thread. She tied the thread to the end of the needle then began to stitch up the cut. It took only a few minutes and wasn't that bad compared to when the bullet grazed him. Once Revy finished with the stitches she swabbed the cut again and wrapped a thin bandage around Rock's arm. The whole time Revy had paid close attention to the cut on Rock's arm and he had kept his eyes on her he was touched by her concern despite it only being a minor injury.
"All done" Revy said setting the tray aside. She also removed her holsters and laid them down next to his
"Thanks Revy" he said. Then he smiled as she turned and pushed him down on to the bed. Rock put his arms around her and pulled her close to him as their lips crashed together.
Benny came up through the hatch into the control room. He was carrying a thick envelope.
"It that all of it?" Dutch asked looking over his shoulder.
"Yep, this was all there was on that disk, looks like a lot of shipment orders and stuff but I didn't really look" he said.
Dutch nodded then turned back "we'll let Balalaika look over those. She'll probably find something" he said.
Just then through the open hatch they heard a loud moan and Revy's slightly muffled yelling.
"Rock oh fuck yes!"
"They could not even wait till we got back to dry land" Benny groaned as he quickly shut the hatch door" it made Revy's yells to distorted to hear but the moaning they could still heard slightly.
"You at first I was hoping those two would just get it over with I saw it coming for a long time, but now that I see the kind of stamina Rock's got in him I regret that decision" he said sarcastically.
"You ever think it mind be a bad thing though?" Benny asked.
Dutch lit up a smoke, "at first but after all the arguing and fighting I realized those two are made for each other despite what you might think. I know the way Revy sees it is that we all got a bullet on our names, but you can still make it without it ever finding you, She's also got something to fight for besides money and power this is good for her" he said.
Benny then grabbed a beer "the way your making it sound Dutch is that their in love" he said.
"I think they already are they just need to realize it on their own" he said which surprised Benny.
It was then a loud yell came from the other end of the boat, then it was quite. About a minute later the moaning started up again.
"I'm gonna have to look into soundproofing that room" Dutch said.
Fortunately for them they only had to deal with the noise for about to more rounds. They just then assumed they both feel asleep. They were almost back in port when Revy and Rock came back up top, each with a smoke going.
"Perfect timing were almost there" Dutch said
"Fucking A" Revy said, she did sound like she was in a good mood. Rock was loading a fresh clip into his gun then slipped it back into his holster he also seemed quite cheerful as well.
They reach the dock soon enough. They all went up top and saw Balalaika and Boris waiting for them while they tied the boat to the dock.
"So how did the little pirate raid go" Balalaika asked casually.
Benny then handed her the envelope with the data inside it.
She opened it and skimmed over a couple pages before handing the rest to Boris "hmm interesting, we'll go over this information then our investigation teams will continue searching. Thank you Dutch, we'll contact you when we get our next lead, your pay will be wired to you as usual" She said. She nodded to the rest of them then left.
Dutch then turned to the others "well I say it's time we get back to our earlier celebration, time for a drink" he said. They all voiced there agreement and got into the car to head to their favourite bar.
A few hours later
The GTO drove a little crookedly up the road and eventually parked on the curb in front of the Lagoon office. They crew members all stumbled out and headed upstairs. Rock and Revy were walking and partially supporting each other. Benny was only slightly tipsy and Dutch was still coherent enough to make sure to tell Rock and Revy to make a right at the top of the stairs to go to their own place not the office.
Rock and Revy reached the top first and stumbled down the hall heading most likely for Rock's apartment. Dutch and Benny made it to their own rooms and could only barely hear the moans and yells coming from the building next door.
They all slept well that night after another day in the wonderful city of Roanapur.
A/N: this was a bit of a short chapter as I was saving some of the big action that's coming up for the next one. All your reviews and PM's have been highly appreciated and I hope you are enjoying the story. Stay Tuned : )