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Part 8 – Sunshine then Rain
That evening, Don made a big show
of ordering his own dinner, after consulting earnestly with Will. The waiter had no idea why Don and Will were
laughing so hard.
They watched a movie, ‘Field of
Dreams’ this time, and then went out for their run. Afterwards, they lazed in the whirlpool and
looked up at the stars.
The next morning, Will woke before
Don but he didn’t get up. He lay in bed,
his arms around Don, and thought about the day.
The morning was theirs, but after lunch their vacation on the DEA was
officially over. It was time to get to
work.
For actually getting into the
Richland house, their best bet was their nightly run. They’d have to case the place while it was
light for possible approaches. Luckily,
some hiking trails went fairly close to the house.
Don stirred.
“Good morning, Sunshine,” Will said
with a smile.
“Sunshine?” Don mumbled. “I
must be in the wrong bed.”
Will laughed. “Just feeling optimistic this morning. Do you want breakfast?”
“Coffee,” Don responded.
“Coffee isn’t breakfast,” Will
said, “Coffee is life.”
Don mumbled in agreement.
“Shall I go pick us up some coffee
and maybe some pastries?”
Don nodded and stretched. “You’re always feeding me,” he teased.
“The way to a man’s heart—” Will
began.
“—Is through his ass,” Don
completed with a laugh.
“That too,” Will grinned. He climbed out of bed and pulled on some
clothes.
When he got back from the
restaurant with two tall coffees and some walnut-cranberry scones, Don was in
the shower. Will took off his clothes
and climbed into the shower with him.
Don welcomed him eagerly, and was soon fucking him against the tile
wall.
After riding Will to sweet orgasm,
Don laughed and said, “So, did I find your heart?”
Will felt compelled to throw the
soap at him and a water fight ensued.
They only stopped when the bathroom floor was covered with water and
threatening the carpet beyond. They
shampooed each other’s hair and got out of the shower, feeling clean,
waterlogged and at peace with the world.
The morning passed pleasantly. They ate their breakfast then went out and
played several games of tennis. They
were pretty evenly matched so they had a lot of fun. Afterwards, they were drenched with sweat,
and had to take a second shower in the flooded bathroom.
Don was beginning to get restless
with the lack of television, so they walked over to the Clubhouse to find
diversion. Hurrying quickly past a
therapy session in progress lest they be asked to join, they found the games
cabinet. They grabbed a Trivial Pursuit
game and hustled back to the safety of their room.
“Did I tell you what the guys said
when I told them we were going to a couples retreat?” Don asked while they set up the game.
“No, what?”
“Colby said that we’d come out of
here calling each other ‘my darling’ and Megan said that we’d stump a counselor
with our biggest couple’s issue being that you’re a better shot than me.”
“Well, ‘my darling,’” Will said
with a grin. “I am.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Don grumbled amiably.
“I think our biggest couple’s issue
is your inability to cook,” Will said, still grinning.
“I can cook,” Don protested. “I make great grilled cheese sandwiches. I cook better than you golf.”
“Golf is boring,” Will said with a
wave of his hand.
“If we put money on it, would it be
less boring?”
“Less boring,” Will laughed. “But
still too boring to waste time on.”
Smiling and shaking his head, Don
reached for the dice.
Lunch was a quiet meal as both
thought about the work to come. After
lunch, they stopped by their room to change shoes then were off to the hiking
trails. They quickly arrived at the spot
on the trail nearest the Richland house and looked around. No one was in sight, either on the trails or
at the house.
Will dropped to the ground and
began crawling through the underbrush, Don on his heels. Will reached the edge of the groundcover and
stopped. Don came up quietly at his side
and they studied the house.
“Wish I had my sniper’s sight,” Don
said.
“Not exactly normal vacation
luggage,” Will said.
“Even for a bounty hunter?”
“Even for a bounty hunter.”
They made do with their unaided
eyes and spotted a number of security cameras and motion detection sensors.
“Check out the basement windows,”
Will said, pointing.
Don squinted then said, “They’re bricked
over! Cinder blocks, it looks like.”
“Bet that’s the lab itself. Probably also fortified with steel doors and
metal bars.”
“Damn, these guys are serious.”
“Yeah,” Will said with rising excitement. “This is really looking like our smartlab.”
The breeze shifted and Will lifted
his head.
“Mm,” Will said with a grin. “Smell that?”
Don sniffed the air then wrinkled
his nose. “Smells like rotting oranges
or cat piss.”
“Yup,” Will said, “That’s the smell
of a lab in action.”
Don’s eyes went wide. “Do we need to find a phone?”
“Not yet,” Will said, shaking his
head. “Not nearly enough to call in a
raid. It could just be rotting oranges.”
Don looked disappointed.
Will patted his shoulder,
remembering his enthusiastic rookie days.
“We’ll need a lot more, but that’s the first real sign we’ve got that
we’re on the right track.”
“Other than the other four agents
having ‘accidents.’”
“Could have just been accidents,”
Will said with a shrug. “You know how ‘probable
cause’ works.”
Don nodded. “So, what’s next?”
“With that security, there’s no way
we’re getting in during the day. We’ll
have to break in tonight, on our ‘run.’”
Will rubbed his hands in anticipation.
“That smell means they’re in the middle of a production cycle. We could walk right in to find a whole row of
bubbling 22s.”
“22s,” Don said. “I know that one. They’re globe-shaped pieces of glassware used
for the main reaction.”
“Yep. They’ve got a batch of CTen
running right now. If we just knew what
precursor they were using, we might be able to intercept that supply before
they even get it.”
“Right, it could be anything from
photography developer to parsley oil.”
“We need to get into that lab.”
There was nothing else they could
do until nightfall, so Don headed back to the swimming pool. He’d gotten into swimming as conditioning for
baseball, and Will wasn’t surprised that he’d learned to do it well. Will could tell that he was enjoying the
unusual access to a swimming pool. Will
watched him for a few minutes then went to the meditation room. It was empty again and Will quickly hung the
‘occupied’ sign on the door. In the
fitness room, he found a light aluminum pole that would be an acceptable
substitute jo, the Japanese wooden
staff used in Aikido. He returned to the
meditation room and removed his shoes and shirt.
Will took a deep breath and
centered himself. When he felt ready, he
moved into tandoku renshu, formal
solo practice. An hour later, he came
back to awareness of the world around him, to find that he had an
audience. He’d forgotten to shut the
door and a woman was staring at him, positively drooling. A man came up to her and grabbed her arm, his
face red. As the man dragged her off,
the woman looked back at Will, smiling in a way she probably thought as
sexy. Will chuckled to himself. That couple had more problems than the woman
ogling a gay guy.
Will got back to the room to find
Don playing a racing car video game.
Will sat down next to him, picked up the other controller, and left Don
in his dust.
They had dinner and Don went over
to the clubhouse to pick out a movie. He
brought back ‘The Princess Bride.’
“What,” Will laughed, “They ran out
of baseball movies?”
“It’s got baseball in the beginning,”
Don said with a smile. “And it’s funny.”
“You are a closet romantic,” Will
teased.
“Well,” Don said, curling his
finger around Will’s belt and pulling him close. “You’ve been dragging me out of closets ever since
we met.”
Will grinned and kissed him with a
smack. They started the movie and
snuggled on the couch. Will practically
had the movie memorized, so he mostly enjoyed watching Don enjoy the
movie. Don was finally letting his hair
grow out some again, and Will loved running his fingers through the dark silky
spikes. He’d seen pictures of Don with
long hair and it could get as curly as Charlie’s. Will chuckled to himself. He couldn’t imagine
Don spending as much time on his hair as Charlie did.
“What are you laughing about?” Don
asked. “You’re not supposed to be
laughing at the Fire Swamp.”
“Just picturing you with long,
curly hair,” Will said, twirling a lock of Don’s hair around a finger.
“Well, you ain’t ever gonna see
it,” Don said, grimacing. “I hate it
when it gets curly.”
Will watched Don for another long
moment. “You know, babe,” he said
quietly. “I think this retreat has been
good for us.”
“Oh?” Don said, pausing the movie
and raising his eyebrows.
“Yeah,” Will said. “Glad to know we can work through tough
stuff.”
Don’s eyes twinkled. “Not sure we used a generally approved
method.”
“Who cares?” Will said. “All I care is what works for us.”
“Me too,” Don said and lifted his
face to kiss Will warmly.
“Romantic,” Will murmured.
“Look who’s talking,” Don
responded.
“Watch your movie,” Will said with
a grin. “And I’ll pinch you if it looks
like you’re gonna start crying like a baby.”
Smiling, Don shoved him with his
shoulder and returned to the movie.
By the time nine forty-five rolled
around, they were itching to go out for their run. Don’s face was serious and Will felt the
familiar buzz of anticipation. They
silently shut the door behind them and ran down the sidewalk and out toward the
driveway.
They had barely reached the
driveway when a white delivery truck passed them, heading away from the
Richland house. Don and Will stared at
each other in horror then began running up the driveway.
As they neared the curve where the
driveway turned to go up to the house, they moved quietly into the woods. Keeping low to the ground, their brightly colored
running clothes now a liability, they crept up to where they could see the
front of the house.
It was as Will feared – two men
were standing at the end of the driveway, one leaning on an empty
hand-truck. They were average-looking
white guys, with brown hair and slight paunches, but Will knew that drug
dealers came in all packages. He
recognized them as John and Jarvis Richland, and they looked tired but
satisfied. Another Cloud Ten production
cycle had just finished.
Will swore
helplessly. Another load of CTen was
making its way to LA and there was nothing he could do to stop it. He could only hope that Sanchez caught it
coming out of the hills and trailed it until they could stop the truck without
giving any suspicion that they’d trailed it from Clear Creek. He didn’t want Sanchez to have to make that
decision all agents dreaded – letting the drugs past or endangering the lives
of undercover agents.
“Missed it by minutes!” Don growled under his breath. “Should we move in anyway?”
“Way too much activity tonight,” Will said with an agonized sigh. “The mopes – the grunt laborers – will still
be around, cleaning things up. And I can
guarantee that the brothers are armed and the security system is at
maximum. Tomorrow night things should be
much quieter. They’ll take at least a
24-hour break to cleanup, sleep, air out the house, get a fresh team of mopes
in. Tomorrow will be a better chance to get
in and lay our eyes on the lab itself.”
Don ground his teeth in frustration. “Nothing we can do?”
“Not without seeing the lab or getting a hold of some of
that shipment. Damn, I wish I had my car keys,” Will snapped. “Or my safe-cracking tools.”
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