THE VENICE JOB

Tracy : I went to Venice , 7 months ago for a job... You know actually, I offered my services on the black market like I always do .. I got an invite , with a flight ticket to Venice , in Italy , I got an address , of a place where an auction Of three Swiss paintings , was scheduled to take place at 8 pm ... The job was very simple ... you and your team , get inside the building undetected , move to the safe room where the paintings are kept and get them out ... without anyone even knowing you were there .

Vanessa : whoa ! So how did you pull it off...

Tracy : Well not so much ... we , of course when I saw we , I mean I , Fabian , Johnny , and Jim ... a four man mecernary team ... I and Fabian got in .

Vanessa : With combat uniforms with M4s ?

Tracy : of course not .... we had to blend in... we dressed like couples who came for the auction .. while Johnny and Jim got in ... they observed the security clearance window ... and bridged... and of course , our tech guy made some kind of thing , it's more like a hard wired mini computer ... it can decode a passcode for any system .... well in this case , a door , in less than 3 minutes ... So they went in ... got to the door ... and then they used the system ... it decoded the passcode and they were in .

While Tracy was speaking to Vanessa , she then stood up , walked for the mini fridge in her motel room, opened it, and brought out a wine , opened it and poured in two glasses.. one was handed to Vanessa and the conversation continued ...

Tracy : So like I was saying .... We thought everything through , but we never thought about the fact that the paintings might have trackers on them . The three Swiss paintings had trackers on them , so yeah , even if we were able to pull it off, got out of the event unnoticed before they even started the auction , which clearly , there was nothing to be auctioned , because we had stolen the paintings .

Vanessa : How do they put trackers on paintings ?

Tracy : I never thought that it was possible to do that , not until Venice ... so we took them and hit the road ... we got home ... the IT guy insisted on the paintings getting scanned , I opted at first , but then just gave the guy this way to do his thing ...

Brad (IT guy ) : Tracy ! You might wanna see this ..

Tracy : What is that ?

Brad : our wise dudes put pretty nice trackers on the paintings ...

Tracy : Holy shit .. which means we have less than hour to get this sorted out . The auction starts in an hour and thirty minutes time .. Brad I think we have to duplicate these paintings , take the originals to our contractor ..

Brad : No ... I don't think you know how this works ... the tracker is built with the paintings ... so I can't take it out without destroying the paintings ...

Tracy : Fuck ! This is some messed up fucking shit job ... I knew this was a mistake , my guts kept telling me ...

Fabian : but I may have an idea ... how about we duplicate the paintings , then we give the counterfeits to our contractor , then we go away and leave the originals here ... which in ..

Brad : 42 minutes !

Fabian : Yeah ... 42 minutes time , the cops will show up at this place , ready to catch anyone on sight ....

Tracy : that sounds like a good plan.. Brad we need to duplicate these paintings .. and very fast .. we've got limited time here ...

Brad : Understood.. but I am not an artist actually... but I may know a guy ...

Tracy : and who the hell is that ?

Brad : Brad 2

Tracy : What ?

Brad : My other self ... the one that knows how to draw and paint stuffs ...

Tracy : is he crazy ?

Johnny : I think he is ...

Fabian : dude .. you gotta stop skipping sleeps ... I am pretty sure it's the reason why he is acting weird ... this Brad 2 thing ....

Tracy : well ... who cares ... Brad or Brad 2 ? I don't fucking care ... just get this done..

Tracy : So that's how we did it... we left the originals at the building , took the counterfeits to the contractor , which of course , he didn't notice that it was fake . He took it and our money was transferred ...

Vanessa : I never knew you also steal things ... more like .. expensive valuables , not just extractions and protecting assets ... you have really taken this job of yours too far , don't you think ?

Tracy : What I think , is that , I would do anything to see my kids happy , that they go to school , get what they want , live a good life ... that's all that matters ..

So then after some minutes of discussion...

Tracy : you should go sleep .... we have a busy day tomorrow ... maybe one of the busiest days of your life .. who knows ?

Vanessa : Alright ... it's all good .

Vanessa left Tracy's room and headed for her room .

Moments later , she was in her room...

Frank layed on the bed , but wasn't too deep into sleep ....

Frank : where have you been honey ?

Vanessa : doing what you said I should do

Frank : which is ?

Vanessa : apologising to Tracy .

Frank : So how did it go ?

Vanessa : I think we're good now .

Frank : that's all that matters honey ... Now come to bed .

Vanessa : obviously , it seems you have planned to fuck me .

Frank : I had no intentions to do that . Well since you said it ... it seems you had it in mind .... Just be honest Vanessa , you want me ...

Vanessa : Then fuck me ..

Frank : My pleasure ..

With that , frank jacked her up on his arms threw her on the bed , ripped her clothes off, took of her bra , and carressed her body so widely , kissing her sexy lips so deeply , that she whispered in his ear, " Please ... give me more"... so they made love that night , before they both slept off ...

It was 7 am in the morning , they were woken up by Tracy ....

Tracy : wake up guys .. I will gather the team together ... so we can move ... Egypt is not safe anymore ... we've been here long enough... for us to stay off the radar of the Interpol , we need to keep a very low detailed address ....

Frank : What does that even mean ?

Tracy : it means , each country we get into ... we have just 5 days window .... before we could be tracked .... So I will suggest we start packing now , before our location is discovered ...

Vanessa : And where do you have in mind ?

Tracy : I was thinking .... Sydney ...