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
Mayor Mount walked around the room. He checked all the computers one after the other. It seemed there was nothing he was looking for in particular."Good morning, sir" Raymond came out to him from the room. He had been watching him before.He had come to visit them at their base. He came so early. Raymond was just waking up. Grace was still in bed.Maybe she was weak or feeling bad about how she couldn't catch Mr. Dallas last night."Good morning, sir" Mayor Mount replied politely. That was strange. He didn't use to greet Raymond this way. He might have elevated his position in his mind."I know you will be wondering why you see me very early. I was just intrigued by your early development. You have nearly had this devil twice under twenty four hours. Though he got away,I must applaud you" Mayor Mount turned around to face Raymond. He stood at ease joining both his hands behind his waist.Mayor Mount coming all the way here just to commend t
Grace rushed to the computer. It just pinged, a sound it always made when it picked up something strange or unfamiliar. Something that needed to be checked.Grace threw away the plate in her hand. The fries on it flew around the room."Poor fries!" Raymond moaned with a sad face. Grace seemed to have grown more interest in this, than before."No. You are caught" she hit the keyboard hard and stood up from the computer. It seemed she was preparing to go out."What happened?" Raymond blocked her way. At least, she should tell him something. Agreed he wouldn't be allowed to go with her."I'm sorry, Raymond. I need to be fast. This is urgent" she pointed at the monitor. She was breathing heavily."You know it is funny the way you handle this like you are the only one involved. Accepted,I won't be going out until I can take people out with a breath. I don't know if that is possible though which means I am forever grounded. You can still make me h
"Do you want to die? You could have just died" Grace was very upset with Raymond. She was just upset irrationally.He saved her life. She should be grateful for that. Raymond looked away from her. He might also get angry if he didn't.He moaned softly as he adjusted to a side on the bed. He was lying down on a hospital bed. His legs was raised higher than his body a bit. Heavy bandage was wound round it.Grace looked at the medical instruments in the box she just opened. She was clueless about which item to pick or what to do.She scurried to the computer. Something seemed to have just occurred to her. She opened some files that kept displaying people in some kind of some medical uniforms performing surgical operations on some patients.It was like a demonstration. She wouldn't be thinking she would treat him watching some videos. He wouldn't let that happen."Bingo" she yelled. It seemed she had found what she thought she needed.The
Raymond walked to the car. He opened the door and sat beside Mayor Mount calmly. He maintained an angry face. He should know he was upset with him. He remained quiet without saying anything."I'm sure you didn't call me here to show me attitude. You must have something to say. And you better start saying it now because I am a man of limited time" he raised up his wrist to check his wristwatch for time."Your eyes and ears" Raymond used the exact words Reyes used. Mayor Mount was supposed to understand that."My eyes and my ears?" he touched his ears. "Is anything wrong with them?" he asked cunningly. He must be lying and pretending. He must have known what Raymond was talking about."Reyes told us. That wasn't good" Raymond let out. It showed jlhis lack if trust in them or he had another hidden agenda."If you are talking about my microchips in your base. Then, you will need to explain to me what you mean by bad" Mayor Mount knew what he was talkin