Raymond woke up, he tried separating his eyelids from each other. He wondered why that seemed so hard. He couldn't remember how long he had slept that made them stuck to each other so tight.
He couldn't move his hand and his body. He was tied to a chair. The ropes used were robust. It seemed unbreakable and whoever had tied him was angry when he tied him. It was too tight to allow shrugging.
The place was very dark. It was like hell. It reeked like a waste site. Nothing was visible. The darkness could affect one's sense of reasoning.
He groaned hard and tried to get off the chair. If he kept groaning that hard all day, only one thing was obvious. His throat would hurt while the ropes would still remain so tight.
The door of the place cracked open. It yanked to a side. It creaked like it has seen many days more than it should.
Lights flooded in through the doorway. It didn't get to the side but it ended right at his feet.
Palmer walked in. He
Grace came into the house. Something was wrong. The door was opened ajar. It seemed Raymond left for somewhere in a hurry. And that was not very Raymond-like. She checked all over the house to detect any suspicious happenings. She couldn't find any.Raymond had gone out. There seemed to be no problem. But her mind was not at ease. The feeling of something was wrong loomed badly on her mind. She called his phone.The phone rang behind her,on the sofa. She became more confused. That confirmed her impression of something being wrong.She rushed outside and looked around. She found something like graffiti on the wall. It read 'Palmer'."No, no" she screamed aloud. She closed her eyes and opened it again. The writing on the wall was still there. It was real. Palmer had taken Raymond away. He had done that to poke her. He must have wanted her to come.He already vowed he wanted to kill her. That was what he wanted to do now. Grace also wanted him o
Mayor Mount was looking at Reyes once in a while as he opened through the file he brought for him. Reyes seemed to have known he was displeased as he kept avoiding his eyes.Mayor Mount started opening the rest of the pages faster than before. The files made noise as he was doing that."What the hell is this?" he threw the file right into Reyes face. It hit him on the nose and the file scattered all over the floor."I'm sorry sir" Reyes bent down quickly and was picking the scattered files,arranging them back together."I said I want a file on them. Not a list of silhouettes' pictures with giant question mark" he retorted breathing heavily.He had been looking at the files for some time and there was no single picture of someone. The names mentioned were even nicknames not real ones. This didn't look like a file from an intelligence office. An intern shouldn't do something to worse like this.He had requested a file on a group he just discov
Raymond removed his hat and scratched his head wildly. It had been hitching him for a while and he had been resisting to scratch it. But he couldn't hold it any longer.He checked the hat out again. It was very big. If not for what they had planned. Nothing would have made him chose this kind of hat as an outfit."He's coming" Grace whispered quickly. Raymond looked at his side. A waiter was coming with the food they ordered."Put on your hat" Grace whispered again. That was obviously what he wanted him to do earlier which he didn't concur."No. You still don't understand what we are doing. I can take it off. All we wanted is to......" Raymond held the hat in his hands. He wasn't going to put it on."I understand everything very well" Grace cut in. "Just put the damn hat on" she implored. She shook her head often. She was angry Raymond was not complying with her."The hat looks good on you. You should put it on" the waiter put their food on
Raymond and Grace were on queue at the airport. Raymond clutched her to his body weirdly. Almost everyone who passed by were looking at them.Grace was uncomfortable. She groaned everytime. Raymond didn't care about her groans."You know I don't see how putting me in pain is a part of this plan. Can you just release me for a second?" she complained after she must have discovered Raymond wouldn't leave her no matter how she groaned."Actually, your questions only make me think you don't understand what we are doing here" Raymond said without releasing his grip. He smiled at people who stared at them."If you can just smile at them the way I am doing. I think you will reduce the levels at which they stare us down by eighty per cent" he suggested she copied him. He did not also like the way they were getting attention but that was the main theme of everything they had been doing."You want me to smile while suffering. I'm in pain. You understand that,
The plane took off. There were some uneasiness as the plane banked before finally balancing in the air. The passengers heaved sighs of relief as they became settled in their various seats."We should be saying our last prayers. And this is unnecessary" he removed his seatbelts and attempted to do the same with Grace. Grace blocked his hand."Why, last prayers. What are you thinking?" Grace looked at him. She looked disappointed. Raymond was confused."You are the one talking about a soldier with a grenade launcher on his shoulder" he winced angrily."And you said something about being optimistic" she retorted quickly. She was just being very confusing."Then what do you suggest we do now?" he asked. He had surrendered to her. He wouldn't be arguing over that with her."We are on a plane. We are going to land for sure" she repeated his previous words. Raymond gasped. That was all he would listen to. He didn't want anymore of it."Could
"I can't get off this thing!" Raymond struggled with his parachute. He couldn't get out of it."Somebody get me of this thing or get this thing off me right now" he yelled.He heard someone laughhhhhing at him. It was definitely Grace. He couldn't see her but it seemed she was out of her own parachute. He wondered how she quickly figured it out.A hand assisted in getting the chute off his head. He looked up as the chute had completely fallen off his body."Mayor!" he was very surprised. It was Mayor Mount that had been helping him with the chute."I got that" he said awkwardly. "Thanks" he murmured.He moved closer to Grace. Grace was still amused and full of smiles probably from his struggles with the parachute."How did you get that damn thing off easily?" he whispered to her."Just ran a few steps after landing" she shook her head.That was even harder than getting off it. It was almost impossible to run with that bi
"To be honest with you, I love the way this thing pinged in my ear. It is soothing and great" Grace voice said on Raymond comms. He put a hand on it to press it further into his ear."I thought I was the only one enjoying it" Raymond smiled. He also loved it too. These were high end devices obviously very expensive."Enjoy while it last Grace. I am afraid we won't be using it for long" he said regretfully."You know I don't know if I should be happy or be the opposite for what is happening right now. It was unbelievable. All the preparation and resources, we nailed our target on our first day. The funniest thing is that, I am only upset I will be missing this underground apartment" she hissed."We can talk with Mayor Mount to let us stay for some little time in it, you know like have our vacation there" Raymond said to console her.Raymond was on site at the house of one Mr. Dallas. Their computers had just discovered a heavy log of weapons stored
"Am I in the right place?" Grace put a finger in her ear over the comm device in her ear. She was expecting to get a reply from Raymond.There was no response. It seemed Raymond had removed his device from his ear. She waited for a couple of seconds more but there was no response yet."Oh yeah! The best time for you to disconnect is the time I was wandering on a roof not knowing which way to go" she complained.She was standing on a roof at the address where their excellent computer had given them. Streets were really hard to differentiate standing on a roof."I didn't disconnect you. I was lying down on the bed. I had a piece of cheese in my mouth" Raymond said in a not so serious way.Grace heaved a sigh of relief. She had thought she was going to abort."What are you doing on the bed. You should be watching my back seated at the front of those computers" Grace scolded him.There was no way he would guide her if he couldn't see the