Chapter 9

CHAPTER NINE

Mark was the one driving, every few minutes he’ll squeeze the steering and hit it. Jake was tensing up each time he did it.

“Are you okay?” Jake asked after much thought.

“How can I be? After everything that has happened” Mark muttered crossly. “We have only two options now, either strike a deal or go AWOL”

“What!!! It’s that bad” Jake mumbled slowly. “What do you mean when you said there was a time limit for the girls?” Jake asked remembering the conversation earlier.

“There was an agreement made, they are actually leaving for a better life and work.” Mark said duly

“I don’t understand.”

“You will later. But now if we plan to strike the deal, we’ll have to do a background check and get some details done, it won’t be a weapon and a person for blackmail. And … it can also be a trap”

“Those aren’t reasonable”

“Yeah… two, if we are going AWOL, we have three days to plan and travel, and constant change of location. Do you want to live like that; I know you have a girl you like already.”

“I haven’t seen her for awhile, I’m okay with it.” He dismissed the subject inquiring more about the trip “How long?”

“A year at most” Mark answered gruffly

“It’s alright, let’s go AWOL.”

“Yeah? Yeah” Mark said now ecstatic.

“So where are we going?”

“Let’s go to France / Japan”

“Nice, but no one is to know including Alice, she gives a weird vibe.” Jake said skeptically

“I was hoping she could follow”

“Not Miley anymore.” Teasing Mark

“No, it was never Miley”

“Okay okay, don’t bite me. Don’t tell her where or when, treat it like a holiday or trip”

“But...” “I understand, let’s just go on like a normal day.”

After awhile, “let’s meet up with Miley” Mark brought up suddenly.

“Why?”

“I want to check on something” Mark smirked with a renewed sense of vigor.

…

A week ago,

At the CIA, one of their top agent made a call using a one way link which is a radio based communication method used to communicate with agents in the field using short wave radio frequency to go undetected. The place was in frenzy, quickly working to get information, to make it untraceable, translates secret codes and portray as call as normal the IP address set to somewhere in Washington.

“Hello, please is this the birdwatchers? (The intelligence service) She asked referring to their code name.

“Yes, we are at camp swampy (A secret location, were spies goes to reform) the moment, any message you want to relay.”

“I’m in charge of house cleaning, and it’s too clean.” (Clean - means there are no evidence or proof to catch the perpetrator)

“Oh, the irony, yes, we can help.”

“That will be wonderful; it’s giving me a lot of headache. I’ll also need a dry clean for a few days too. That is, if you offer the services”

“Yes we do Ma, where is your address?”

“It’s can be a bit dead drop as it’s usually hard to locate, but I’ll send you the direction by map” (dead drop – a secret location where spies pass information to each other)

“Ok, we’ll be there in a moment.”

…

After a while, a knock was heard, Alice went to get the door, when she saw them she greeted the two agents disguised as fumigator giving them the go ahead to enter. “Ma,am, can you show us the place in need of fumigation?”

“Yes, right this way.” Alice said leading them from the front veranda toward the back to the newly built gazebo with a backyard of flowers. It was a very beautiful sight and place with a calming effect away from the hustle and bustle of city life.

“Be careful, not to spray close, the methyl bromide and phosphate in the duster could get the flowers infected and die.”

“Ok, Ma,am”

It had a trail leading to a tree house that was where the agents were to meet and dig up the information.

One of the guys was cleaning while the other went under the massive tree house, using a pick tool to open up the bark under to bring out a sealed stealth book. They took it and kept it inside the mouth of the duster, quickly spraying and using a scent changer to hide the after effect of the tree.

They signified when they were done and left with the information. At the CIA, using a stealth ink reader, they incubated the document for awhile with it, bringing it out. They saw three words. We fake order. (Meaning a fake order should be made to trap them)