"Come on Bertha," Ma yelled over MTV blasting in the living room. "Ya might as well toss yer hand in; ya ain't got no three aces." Bertha squinted behind her thick glasses, looked at her cards and then up at ma.
"Bullshit Stella, I gots three aces right here!" She showed her cards and then cussed. "Damn it, I fell fer it again!" She tossed them in the center of the table and looked to Raith when she stepped through the back door. "Ohh baby come sit on my lap!" She wiggled her fingers and winked at her. The other women at the table all mimicked her and busted out laughing when Raith turned bright red. When Goran came in behind her and placed a hand on her waist, the old women yelled louder. "Raith's got a girlfriend!"
"Do not…ma…damn." She mumbled the last part on her way out of the smoky kitchen. Goran looked at the table full of drunken women and then to Raith's retreating form, she looked to ma with her huge cigar clamped between her teeth and knew it would be senseless to say anything.
"Come back here Squirrel, we need to…fuck!" She went running after her and ran right into her when she stepped back out into the hallway.
"I thought you would never say that." She picked Goran up, carried her into their bedroom and kicked the door closed. "Are ya a missionary woman," She fell back on the bed with Goran still in her arms. "Or are ya double jointed and a kinky lover?" She licked the side of a struggling Goran's neck and yelped from her twisted nipple. "Ohh yes you're kinky!"
"I'm not kinky and I'm not giving you any," She struggled free and slapped at Raith's groping hands. "Even if I was in the mood, there's six old women in the kitchen!" Raith got to her knees, flipped her hair over her back and crawled to the end of the bed. She pinned Goran with a hungry look and growled deep in her chest.
"One kiss and I'll leave ya alone." She licked her lips, closed her eyes and puckered, when nothing happened, she opened her eyes. "Ohh come on Gory, one kiss."
"Ya know Raith, you're a giant dork." She stepped closer to the bed and Raith, raising an eyebrow she looked down into deep blue eyes. "One kiss huh?"
"Yep, just one and I'll behave the rest of the night." Goran tipped her chin up, brought their lips together in a soft kiss and then pulled back. She looked down into Raith's face and moaned.
"I can't believe I'm gonna do this with Britney Spears wailing in the back ground." She pushed Raith back on the bed, crawled on top of her and straddled her hips. "You have no idea what you do to me." She trailed a fingertip down Raith's cheek to her moist lips. "I'll kiss you all night but I'm not giving you my body." She dropped her head and kissed Raith until they both saw stars from lack of air, when they parted; Goran dropped her head down on Raith's chest. "Fucking amazing…no one's ever kissed me like that before." She lifted her head and held Raith's eyes. "Why you?"
"Cuz I care." She rolled them over and came up to hover over Goran. "More then you'll ever know." She dropped her head, placed soft kisses to the corners of her mouth, and then down to the hollow of her throat. "More then I can ever put in words." She rose to her knees and ran her hands under Goran's t-shirt; she traced the edge of her bra with her fingers and nipped at the side of her neck. "Let me love you." She ran her thumbs over her nipples and moaned when they became hard. Goran whimpered and arched her back to press into Raith's hands, she brought her hands up to bury them into Raith's hair and then pull her face up to hers. Bringing their lips together, she kissed her with total abandon. Soft moans and groans came from them both, hands caressed and explored over writhing bodies. They ground into each other's thighs with deep groans. Raith raised her head and gazed into turbulent sea green eyes, moving her hands downward to Goran's waistband; she slid a fingertip beneath and watched her eyes flutter close. Just as she was unfastening her Levis, her name echoed throughout the small house and then hard pounds hit the bedroom door.
"Get out here ya got a big problem!" Ma yelled and pounded on the door again. "Get your hands outta Gory's drawers and get out here!" Raith cussed and dropped her head down on Goran's chest.
"All right already, gimme a minute!" She whimpered from the fullness of her arousal and apologized to Goran. "I'm sorry Gory…I'll make it up ta ya, I promise." She gave her a soft kiss and brushed her damp hair from her face. "Really sorry." Rolling from the bed, she looked over her shoulder at Goran before pulling the door open. "Ma this had better be good or I'm hiding all your cigars!" Ma took her hand, pulled her from the bedroom and then out to the kitchen where a sheriff's deputy was waiting. "Ohhh Hell what did I do this time?"
"Nothing Raith, we found your agent down by the old bridge." He spun his hat between his fingers and looked to the old women and then to his feet. "Got himself hung and a beer bottle stuck on his…" He refused to look up even when she stepped up to him and led him out the door.
"How do ya know he's my agent?" She said once they were outside and she closed the door.
"He had this in his pocket," He handed her the agent's badge and drivers license. "His wallet was gone but who ever hung him left his car up on the road, you want it, ya know ta take back ta DC?"
"It's a government car?"
"Yep, dark sedan, we ran the plates 'cuz we thought it was stolen at first. Then my partner saw the rope going over the bridge hand railing." She stuffed the badge and license in her pocket.
"Are ya sure this isn't a suicide, ya know maybe he hung himself after getting his dick stuck in the bottle…I mean if I was a guy and did somethin that stupid…" She rubbed her jaw and gave the sheriff a smirk. "Can ya imagine goin ta the hospital?" He chuckled and ran his fingers through his sandy blonde hair.
"Ain't we awful, the guys dead and we're makin fun of him? But ta answer your question, his hands were handcuffed behind his back and the cuffs went through his belt. Ya know so he couldn't draw his legs up and get loose, not like he could do that while hanging or anything…"
"Where's the body right now?"
"The medical examiner has it and the cars in at the station; I can take ya so ya can get it." She nodded her head and followed him out to his 4x4 Blazer, it would take them an hour to get in to the station, she hoped that Goran wouldn't be too mad at her for running off without telling her what was going on.
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Goran rolled to her side, pulled Raith's pillow to her face and inhaled her scent. Her body ached from what she and Raith had been doing and it wasn't diminishing one bit. She pulled her knees up to her chest and tried to lay in a fetal position, the pounding between her legs grew. "Damn you Raith," She got out of bed, grabbed the t-shirt that Raith slept in and headed out to the bathroom, she looked out in the kitchen and saw that only ma was there. "Where's Squirrel?" Ma looked up from where she was cleaning off the kitchen table.
"She's with the sheriff; her escapee was found swingin at the end of a rope. Looks like she won't be getting the yearly vacation anymore," She looked out the window and saw that the Blazer was gone. "She must've went with him, his trucks gone. Are ya hungry, I can make ya something to eat?"
"No, I think I'm just going to take a shower and turn in, will she be back tonight?"
"Should be, I can't see her staying out all night after what you two were doin." She gave Goran a huge grin and went back to cleaning up the kitchen. "Just want ya ta know that you're the only woman that my kids had in her bedroom here, and the only woman that I've seen her show an interest in." She watched Goran blush to a deep red and smiled wider. "So don't go blowin the roof off the house tonight with ya'll screaming."
"You won't have to worry about that, I told her she ain't getting any." She gave ma a quick smile and shrugged her shoulders. "We shouldn't have been doing anything, she can't be healed already and I'm worried that she might be rushing it."
"Don't worry about Raith, she won't risk hurting herself and having to go back ta the hospital or suffer our wraith. You're the one that I'm worried about, that is if she's anything like her daddy." She laughed at the pale shade that came over Goran's face. "I hope she knows CPR."
"I'm so screwed." She mumbled on her way to the bathroom. "I'm dying now from just fooling around with her a little, what's gonna happen if I let her go further?" She moaned when her center clenched with her thoughts of Raith's body pressing into hers and the feel of her tongue caressing her own. She hurried into the bathroom, locked the door and then turned the water on. Seconds later, she was under the tepid water and praying for relief from her arousal. "I can't believe I'm going to do this," She slipped a hand down between her thighs and moaned when she felt the liquid heat cover her fingers. "Haven't done this in a while." She leaned her forehead against the shower wall, thrust her hips and ground her clit into her hand, minutes later; she was biting down on her lip and shuddering with her release. With some of her sexual pressure released, she finished with her shower, brushed her teeth, dressed and went right to bed.
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Raith made sure that the Crimes scene unit had finished with the govt. sedan before she got in, it would be just her luck that they would need it back for something or that by getting into the car, she would screw up evidence. As it was, she wouldn't be the one investigating his death but would have to report it back to her superiors and see what they wanted done. She always knew that there was something going on with the agent but could never figure out what it was. When she had mentioned it to other agents, they told her that she was paranoid and to go play with her toys. "I guess I better let Tonya know about this," She started the car and headed out of the parking lot with thoughts of how to solve the murder of the agent flying around her mind. For one thing, it was highly unusual for anyone in the area to hang someone from a bridge. If they wanted someone hung, they did it where everyone could see the body. "Always in that big walnut tree at the cross roads, been quite a few years but." She thought aloud. "Maybe he has been selling secrets all this time and screwed someone over." She ran everything she knew about him over in her head and couldn't think of anything that anyone would pay for. "Hell any spy shop on the internet has the stuff we make, may not be as good but it's cheaper. We don't handle files so it's gotta be something else…something that I haven't been able ta find on you so that means it's someone else in our section But why send you down here…unless it's ta throw me off, nope that's what ya want me ta think."
She hit the brakes, pulled the car over to the side of the road and stopped. Reaching over to the glove box, she opened it and pulled out everything. She unfolded a map and searched the area where she was now; in black marker were circles at certain points. "What the Hell were ya doing there, no one lives in those areas?" All but one of the areas were abandoned coal mines that were closed down in the late 50's, they were out in the open so not even the moon shiners used them for anything. She let her mind run loose and it came to a screeching halt when a pair of sea green eyes flashed in her minds eye. Her blood shot through her veins like lava, her center throbbed with thoughts of running her hands over the small doctor's body and her heart beat frantically with longing. "Why in the Hell did I take off with the sheriff and leave you in our bed?" She moaned and whipped the car back out onto the road, she had another fifteen minutes before she was home. Looking at the dashboard clock, she cussed. It was already after eleven o'clock, Goran would be asleep and she would be suffering for the rest of the night.
When she pulled in behind her ma's truck, she noticed that the front porch light was on. Her ma had left it on so that she wouldn't do her usual and fall over the garbage cans. Taking the steps as fast as she could without falling on her face, she opened the back door and crept through the house to her bedroom. She opened the door and stood waiting for her eyes to adjust to the complete darkness; spread all across her bed was Goran snoring lightly. Slipping her boots off, she slid them across the floor to stop beside the door. Next were her Levis, she unfastened them and let them drop around her ankles. Shuffling across the floor, she tripped, fell and landed beside the bed. "Ooowwww…that was romantic…sexy and Ohhh so graceful, I'm so glad she missed it." She rolled to her back and looked up to the ceiling.
"I didn't and you forgot quiet," Goran said in a rough voice and rolled over to look over the edge of the bed. "Why are you still down there, come to bed." Raith lifted her feet up and pointed.
"Would ya help me, I'm a little tangled and I need a doctor." She shook her hand and tried to examine her wrist. "I landed funny on my wrist…fingers hurt."
"Have you ever thought of wrapping yourself in rubber padding," She yanked Raith's Levis off her feet and dropped them on the floor. "And take off your socks, I hate it and it's gross and disgusting when you wear 'em ta bed."
"And your ice cold feet are what?" She slid into bed beside Goran and then jumped when she stuck her cold feet on hers.
"Just that, cold and ready to fall off because of it." She rolled over and snuggled into Raith's chest. "Where were you?"
"Went with a deputy to get one of our government cars," She wrapped her arms around her and held her tight. "The agent I came down to get is dead, guess I don't have anything ta do down here now." Goran placed her face against her neck and hugged her tighter; she didn't want to think of Raith going back to Washington DC or herself having to go back eventually to New York. "Still think it's a conspiracy but no ones ever believed me," She yawned and draped a leg over Goran. "Gotta be a spy thing…" She drifted off to sleep and Goran soon followed.
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Goran wiped tears from her cheeks, she knew this was coming but she had hoped that she would at least have a few more days with Raith. She had called her office, informed them of the agent's demise, and ordered to return that day to be debriefed. Goran had heard her argue over the phone to get a few more days with her ma and even offered to go without pay, when she smashed her cell phone into bits she knew she had failed. Now she was putting her bag in the car and getting ready to make the seven hour drive up to DC. She turned and saw Goran wiping her face and took a deep shaky breath. "Will you call me when you get up there?" Goran asked and started to sob. "So I don't worry about you." Raith walked up to her an enfolded her into her arms, she dropped her face down to her neck to inhale her soft scent.
"I'll call as soon as I get home; hopefully I can beat all the traffic and not get stuck for hours." She pulled her head back, wiped Goran's tears and placed a soft kiss to her lips. "I'll call you every night ta make sure ma ain't driven ya nuts," She kissed her again and then moaned when Goran slipped her tongue between her lips and kissed her until she was falling backwards against the car. They came apart panting and holding onto each other.
"I thought I'd never say this but I'll miss you," Goran whispered. "And I wish we had more time together."
"Me to Doc Gory, you'll let me know when you're heading back ta New York…maybe I can get away for a weekend." Goran nodded her head and pulled Raith back down to her.
"You come to New York, don't expect to see anything but the inside of my apartment."
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Goran placed her blood pressure cuff back in her bag and grabbed her prescription bag; she was back at Dairy Queen the day after Raith left and trying to forget that she was alone. Ma had come with her but she was over at the church helping to organize the free clinic better. They had arranged with one of the local junkyards to fix up an old bread truck for immunizations and check-ups for his family. Goran tried to explain that what she provided was free but the man refused and said that he would pay for her services by giving her a way to get to other families. With the last of the patients gone, she took a seat on the trucks tailgate and striped off her gloves. Wiping a tear from her cheek, she pulled a note from her shirt pocket and opened it.
Dr. Who
Don't let ma go ta the strip joints in Charleston, last time it took me a Queens ransom ta get her out on bail. And beware of her Rum cake, you'll wake up days later and wonder what happened. And most of all, know that I'll be missing you more than I can put into words. Be careful and I hope ta see ya soon.
Love ya
Secret Squirrel
She had found the note after she went back in the house. Raith had slipped it in her black bag along with a jumbo size bag of Cracker Jacks. She closed the note back up, put it back in her pocket and wiped her cheeks again. It wasn't a note professing undying love or anything but coming from someone like Raith, it was better than anything Shakespeare ever wrote. She got down from the tailgate, looked across the road to the old stone church and decided to go see what ma was doing. The more time she spent with the older woman, the more she saw where Raith got her craziness. It wasn't crazy in the way of needing to be locked up, but in how they saw things. Ma said that all politicians were bad, that all of them should be put on a leaky ship in the middle of a hurricane, and that they only made laws that would benefit them in some ways. The more Goran thought about it the more she was seeing that they were right, all the politicians were crooked in some way. How many times did they change the tax laws so that big business got breaks and the little person paid out the nose and wasn't it the big business men that gave millions of dollars to the politicians for campaign purposes? She was beginning to see conspiracy's at every turn herself. Pulling out a bag of Cracker Jacks, she filled her mouth and opened the door to the church.
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"Ohh come on, how hard will it be ta call your other buddies and have 'em pass the word?" Ma said to the preacher and wiggled a finger at him. "We all know ya all get together and talk about us heathens, so knows your chance ta help. Pass the plate and help get the people around here the medical care they need, get donations so that we can get a clinic built. If the residents build it, then they won't be stealing it in the middle of the night. We got the plywood plant nearby, plenty of men around here with hammers…" She would have kept on going but the preacher raised his hands.
"OK Stella, I'll tell them at our next meeting and I'm sure with you and your poker players you'll be way ahead of me. But I will let everyone know and maybe you can get some qualified volunteers to help out in the clinic."
"I'd be happy to have my original people back; they're all trained for this." Goran stopped beside ma and looked to the other people present. "Anyone know where they are?"
"In North Carolina the last anyone heard," Ma said. "They got caught trying to sell moonshine to an undercover agent, wouldn't have been bad but the shine that they were trying ta sell was in your tractor trailer." She grabbed Goran's arm when she weaved to the side. "They're lucky they're in jail cuz if they were back up here, they'd be hung."
"And when I need the Squirrel, she's in DC, I guess I better call my boss and let him know." She ran a hand through her hair and then covered her mouth. "They are gonna be pissed beyond belief, I might be looking for a job after this. Wonder if she needs help in the UN basement…with her specialty toys?" She pictured the tall dark agent and felt her insides turn to Jell-o, the way her clear blue eyes sparkled and a hint of a grin would come to her lips always made her feel lightheaded.
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Raith looked around her lab, grabbed the bad extension cord in one hand and popped her rubber mouth guard in. "This is gonna really hurt like a bitch, damn way ta get outta here." She flipped a switch that would overload the buildings circuits and then grabbed the bared spots of the wire in her hand. When the lights went out and the emergency lighting came on, Raith was sprawled on the floor by her worktable. Agents from other floors and rooms ran around with their weapons drawn and yelling, the ones from the basement area ran right to Raith's workshop. "I knew it had to be Bullshanks!" A man yelled and flipped the circuits back on. "Someone call 911 and get her outta here." He walked back across the hallway to his office and made a phone call.
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Raith shook her body like a big dog; rolled her head on her shoulders and then slid off the gurney. "So I'm outta here and you'll take care of everything at the UN?" Tonya pointed a finger at her and then the door.
"I told you it's all covered, I got Benson on tape making the phone calls confirming that you're dead and all you have to do is get to our contact and let them know. Now get your paranoid ass outta here and don't get caught!"
"I've never gotten caught; you're the one that got our car towed that time." She pulled her boots on and cussed when she hit the burn on her hand. "Dr. Gory would kick my ass if she knew what I did." Tonya rolled her eyes and handed Raith her suit jacket.
"You're gone for a little while and ya fall for a doctor, does she know you're insane?"
"Yep and she even saved my life knowing that, now she'll make my life Hell if she finds out about this." She waved her bandaged hand. "I thought the surgery was bad but this is my talented hand and it hurts like a bitch."
"Hold on there Raith, what surgery and if it was serious should you be back to work?"
"Ohh they took out my useless plumbing; told me I can't have sex fer a while and that was it." She pulled her dark blue suit jacket on and went to the door. "I'll give ya a call at home once I get everything settled and be careful, this ain't over yet." She pulled her dark sunglasses from her pocket, slipped them on and walked down the hallway. "Gonna go get the bad guys!" Tonya stood in the hospital examination room with her jaw hanging open, her partner could come back from the brink of death and walk out the door on top of having major surgery.
"She ain't human…can't be."
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Raith opened her bedroom closet, pulled out her now seldom-used black fatigue pants, Ranger boots and then pulled open a hidden panel. Inside the small room, she pulled a string and blinked when the room lite up. "Let me see what kinda toys I wanna take with me?" She pulled down from a wooden peg her old black well-worn double shoulder harness with attached knife sheath and slipped it over her shoulders. Her next choice was her pearl handled chrome .357 pistols. "How's mama's baby's been," She flipped them and spun them on her fingers before slipping them into her holsters. "Maybe I'll get ta shoot some asshole this time?" An hour later, she had her duffel bag packed; house locked up and was out the door to her black jeep. Tying her hair back, she started the engine and took off across the open field that intersected with Rt. 95 South. Cutting down across an embankment, she shot through a hole in the fence and pulled out on to 95. Tonya had questioned her living in Aqua Harbor so many times that she had lost count, she told her that she didn't mind the commute to work and had plenty of shortcuts that she could use. This was one of them. Shifting gears, she floored the jeep until she hit 80mph and set the cruise control. If a cop pulled her over, she would flash her badge and be off again. "Life is great when no one controls ya." She flipped on her CD player and cranked up Bonnie Rait.
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Two days after Raith had promised to call, Goran waited on the phone until, after she was transferred from person to person for fifteen minutes, someone finally answered. One more transfer and she would walk to DC to kick ass. "This is Superintendent Bigsly how can I help you?"
"I'm trying to get in contact with Agent Raith Bullshanks; she works in the lower level."
"I'm aware of where she worked, are you a family member?"
"No I'm not and what do you mean worked, did she quit?"
"I can not discuss this further; I need to contact her family…"
Goran sunk to the floor and felt her hand holding the phone start to shake; she stuttered and finally got her words out. "I'm Dr. Goran Pickens, I'm a family friend and the family doctor, tell me what's going on."
"Agent Bullshanks died after sustaining an electrical shock while in her work area, she was pronounced dead at the scene and her remains were taken to Bethesda Medical Center. It would be greatly appreciated if you could pass on the information." He hung up leaving a slack-jawed Goran holding the phone; it fell from her hand to clunk on the floor.
"Hey Gory ya want coffee or tea," Ma yelled and then noticed that Goran was slouched on the floor. "What are ya doing down there and whys…"
"She's dead…Raith's dead…" She broke down and fell into ma's arms when she kneeled down in front of her. "She's dead…and I never told her."
"Who said she's dead, there's no way in Hell that my kids dead." She grabbed the phone and dialed it with one hand, lifting it to her ear; she waited for it to be answered. "What the Hell is going on and why are we hearing this days later and only because Gory called?" Gory got up from the floor and stumbled all the way to Raith's bedroom. "Ohh just wait, someone's head is gonna roll with this one!" She hung up on Raith's boss and went after Gory; she would take on the entire United Nations building as soon as she checked on the small doctor.
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Raith pulled her jeep up the dirt road and flipped the high beams and fog lights on, she was coming in a different way and the vegetation had grown up over months. Cutting the wheel hard to the right, she cut down through the brush and stopped right beside her ma's truck. She shut down the engine, got out and groaned when the outside light went off. "My ass is grass." She mumbled before picking her way to the steps, she thought that she was clear of her ma's booby traps when she tripped over one of the metal garbage cans. After rolling around on the ground, hitting her face on the trucks bumper and falling up the first two steps, the light came on. "Thanks ma, ya did that on purpose, why?"
"Ohh for the simple fact that you're dead and I wasn't expecting a ghost to be driving your jeep," She reached out, punched her daughter in her arm, and then grabbed the front of her black t-shirt to pull her into the house. "It took two hours ta calm Gory down after she was told ya were dead." She pushed her down into a kitchen chair and grabbed her glass of Johnny Walker. "Why the hell didn't you call?"
"I did but you guys were never here and as my back up, Tonya was supposed ta call until she reached ya…" At that second, the phone rang. "Wanna bet that's Tonya?" She reached across, grabbed the phone and growled into it. "I'm dead you talk ta ma." She handed it to her ma and got up. "My will is at my house in my safe just so ya know fer when Gory kills me." She stopped outside of her bedroom door and looked in; curled around her pillow and sound asleep was Goran. As quietly as she could, she went in and sat on the edge of the bed, brushing back messy blonde hair, she leaned down, kissed her neck and snuggled her face against her warm skin. Before she knew what happened, she was on her back fending off punches. "Wait…damn…Gory…stop…MAAA!" She yelled and covered her head to protect her face from Goran's hard punches. She peeked from behind her arm when Goran stopped punching her to see the barrel of one of her .357's only an inch away. "Ohh fuck…don't shoot! Please don't shoot me Who…it'll…it'll hurt really bad and put a hole in ma's floor."
"Tell me why I shouldn't shoot you! I cried all day over you," She yanked Raith's arms down from her head and tapped her on the chest. "And you're not dead, so that means I wasted a lot of tears over you!"
"She's gotcha there Raith," Ma said with a chuckle. "If ya shoot her Gory, I got the perfect place ta hide her body and I'll split all her worldly possessions with ya."
"Ya can have everything just don't shoot me…It was the only way outta the UN."
"What your boss is a tyrant and only death will get you out of there at quitting time?"
"Dying is the only way ta live once ya do get out," She took her gun from Goran's hands and slipped it back into its holster. "Agents don't quit or retire when they work with the stuff I do, they die mysterious deaths." Goran shook her head and got up off Raith to sit on the edge of the bed next ta ma. "I know ya think I make all kinds of spy toys that are useless but what I actually do is make and sometimes plant bugs. Some of these devices are the size of a pencils eraser." She sat up and placed her hand on Goran's shin. "Those devices are used in the UN buildings, embassies, homes of diplomats, Government officials and anywhere we might learn secrets. The problem is that everyone is doing it at the same places. It's like when ya look under a desk and see different flavors of gum stuck under there, that's what the spy business is like. Everyone's bugs all lined up under some officials desk, the problem is, who's knocking who off and fer what reason."
"That's a reassuring thought; everyone in the Government is on the same page with everyone else including terrorists!" She pointed a finger at Raith. "That still doesn't explain why you played dead and didn't call us and how the other agencies won't tell them that you're not dead!"
"I tried…ma needs an answering machine and I wasn't playing dead, I was dead fer a few minutes and no one will say that I'm not dead because I'm too valuable dead." She confused her self with what she had just said and wondered if Goran was the same. She held out her bandaged hand and offered a small smile to the small doctor. "Got a bad electrical burn from the wire someone tried ta fry me with, they bared the wire and put it under my desk where my feet would hit it." She wiggled her brows and winked at her ma. "But I found it, rerouted half the power ta a switch and grabbed the wire. Knocked me on the floor and stopped my heart, after our suspect said I was toast, Tonya zapped me and had the phony paramedics haul me out." Ma fell back on the bed with a groan, she had lived through some weird things with Raith but this beat them all.
"Is it too late ta run her back ta the maternity ward, I think they gave me the wrong kid?"
"We could drop her off and leave for another country, Sweden's nice." Goran said and then grabbed Raith's hand. "Let me see how bad this is and you told me you weren't allowed to have a gun and there you are with two of them."
"The UN wouldn't let me but the CIA says I can drive a tank if I want," She flinched when Goran pulled the hair out on the back of her hand. "That hurts and why ya yanking on my fingers?"
"Because they're purple, who put this bandage on anyway?"
"Some nurse I think," She looked at the burn and looked away. "It's bad ain't it…will I loose my fingers?"
"No and only if I cut 'em off now go get my black bag and take those guns off, children shouldn't play with dangerous toys."
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Goran watched Raith drive off in her jeep the next morning on a secret squirrel mission and turned to ma with a raised eyebrow. "Did you know she was a double agent?"
"I had suspicions for years," She poured them coffee and sat down at the kitchen table. "She was always doing weird shit and a couple times her partner Tonya would end up hiding down here for one reason or another. And could never tell me what was going on, not that I wanted ta know or anything."
"Why here I mean why put you in danger…for fuck sakes," She slapped her hand down on the table. "She was sent to protect me and here's all this bullshit with the dead agent, someone trying to fry her at work, her faking her death and showing up armed to the teeth and going to investigate abandoned coal mines." She gasped and then dragged in a ragged breath. "I'm as good as dead ain't I," She let out a deep laugh. "What's worse is my boss OK'd all of this!" She slapped both hands on the table. "That's it I quit, I'll fry scrapple at some truck stop before I go back there and let them try and get me killed."
"Don't worry about it, the UN people think she's deranged and won't send anyone down here to 'clean up' the witnesses. Not like they could find their asses with both hands and us in the middle of the wilderness. From what Tonya told me the last time I saw her, Raith was in the nut ward at Bethesda. She tore down her boss's wall looking for the spy who was hiding there. It took six huge men to capture her and haul her to the hospital, so from there on out." She shrugged her shoulders.
"So she is nuts and she could just be down here trying to find Waldo?" Ma gave her a huge smile and shrugged her shoulders.
"She could be or not, guess none of us will ever know fer sure. I mean anyone who's a double agent can't be too sane."
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Raith walked up from the abandoned coal mine, she had walked the entire striped out area and not even found a footprint. She stopped part way up and looked out over the area with her binoculars again; she was hoping that with the direction the sun was now in, it would give her a different view. "Ain't fuck here, why'd ya mark it on the map?" She lowered her binoculars and climbed back up to her jeep. "Maybe ya didn't make it here yet and it was just a possibility," She sat down on her bumper and pulled out her palm pilot to check for messages from Tonya.
SS
Checked deal, Benson sandwich, Taco Bell order triangled.
Morocco Mole.
"What the Hell Tonya, how the Hell did the Columbian's get in this and how did you find out?" She pulled out the map and looked at the three marked areas. "Triangle it and then what…" She pulled out a pencil and connected the areas so they formed a triangle, what she saw brought a grin to her face. "I gotcha, it's in the middle and what a horrible place to be if you're getting hung out ta dry." She tossed the map in her jeep and then crawled in. "Back ta square one, wonder what the CS crews found from the scene?" She went back out the way she came and headed out in the direction where someone hung the agent from the bridge. "Now I gotta figure out where the Columbian's are, what if anything they got from the agent and why the Hell I'm down here all alone and basically in the FUCKING DARK!" She tapped her fingers on the steering wheel with each thought that traveled through her mind, they had intercepted transmissions and other Intel leaving from Benson's office by phone, FAX, PC and radio signal for over a year now. Most of the time it sounded like a shopping list but that didn't explain why the agent from Raith's work area made numerous trips all over the world and one to southern West Virginia. He told every one that he came down for Ramp Festival, which was in April and it was now September. Raith had always known ahead of time when he was coming down and was able to take her vacation at the same time. This year, her boss sent her down to find the agent. "I think they found out what we were doing…FUCK!"
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"Ohh what the Hell, I might as well open up an orphanage for lost agents." Ma closed the back door behind Tonya and then sat down at the kitchen table. "So what did ya do this time and who'd ya do it to?" She waved a hand at Goran. "This is Doc Gory and that's Tonya the trouble maker."
"Hey it wasn't my fault," She brushed her long tawny hair over her shoulders and the pulled a cigar box out of her backpack. "They suspended me for stealing a case of imported cigars, damn guy at the dock got greedy when I offered him a quarter of the case." She pulled five more boxes from her backpack and placed them on the table. "He narked on me and got fired and I got a case of cigars that they don't know about." Goran grabbed one of the boxes and inspected the label.
"Hand rolled Cuban cigars from Havana, surprised they didn't shoot you." She looked into twinkling hazel eyes and grinned. "They can't do anything because these aren't supposed to be in the US?"
"Bingo!" She looked Goran over and grinned, she always knew Raith had a weakness for blondes but she never envisioned one who looked like the small doctor. She always expected the bimbo type not the self-assured doctor who had almost the same expressions and mannerisms as Raith. "How long have you known Raith?"
"A few weeks at the most, why has her insanity worn off on me or something cuz that's the only reason I can think that you would be starring at me?" Ma laughed and slapped hands with Goran.
"No nothing like that, you just act like her a little. The eyebrow thing, Raith's has a life of its own it dances all the time." She pointed to Goran and wiggled her finger. "Yours is doing it now and that shit eating grin, too damn spooky." She leaned back in her chair and looked right at Goran. "Did she do the bug thing where she jumps ya and leaves ya in your underwear?"
"Hell, that's what she took was my underwear. She killed all my bras and left me swinging free." She mumbled under her breath. "Damn perv and her grabby hands."
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After talking to Tonya and finding out that she was at mas, Raith felt better and continued on her way to the murder scene. Now she stood beneath the bridge where the agent had dangled from his rope, she couldn't really see much because of the traffic that had came after his body was found. She looked off into each direction and tried to envision which direction the murderers had come from, if she could figure that out, then she could ask around about strangers. "Where did you stay while down here, was it closer to Charleston or this area. Easy to find out, I'll have Tonya call tomorrow while I guard Gory at Dairy Queen." She grinned and rubbed her hands together. "More like watch her ass and drool over her then guard her." She jogged up the embankment and brushed her hair out of her eyes, at the edge of the road was where a car peeled out and in the gravel was the butt of a cigar. Using her thumb and forefinger, she picked it up from the burned area and brought it up for a closer look. "Well looky here, one hand rolled Cuban cigar. Only person around here to have those are ma and she wasn't here." She went back to her jeep and pulled out an evidence bag from her backpack. "Off to the crime lab for a DNA test and we'll see if we get any hits on who smoked you." She hopped into her jeep and headed home, she hoped that she made it there before dark and before Goran went to sleep. The woman could sleep through a sonic boom an earthquake and anything else Mother Nature or mankind could throw at her. Raith had even done the starring thing like she did with her ma and Goran hadn't even rolled over. "I miss her even if we're in the same bed."
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Tonya was on the couch with ma watching TV when Raith came in; she looked at both of them and shook her head. "Couch potatoes, bet ya been there for the last three hours."
"Nope, four hours three minutes and you make a better wall then a window, move your skinny ass!" Ma threw a pillow at her and yelled for Gory. "Come get the squirrel before we kick her ass! Better yet, get your ass in your room, you're grounded!" Raith gave them both a wide grin before running to her bedroom.
"Think that was a smart thing to do," Tonya asked and looked over the back of the couch to Raith's bedroom door. "What if they start playing around in there?"
"We'll throw a party; damn kids need ta do something besides make those googly eyes at each other."
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Goran looked up from the book she was reading and snorted at Raith's attempt to sneak into the room. "Does the CIA know that you suck at sneaking around undetected?"
"Nope, no ones ever narked on me cuz I always get the bad guy." She stepped full way around the door jam, ran across the room and dove onto the bed. "So are ya reading smutty stuff?"
"If you consider bowel resection smutty then ya," She closed the book, dropped it on the floor and rolled to her side. "So secret squirrel did ya solve the crime?" Raith rolled to her side and put her head on Goran's upper arm.
"Nope but I did find some evidence that the crime lab didn't, the sheriff will be out in the mornin fer it." She ran her hand up Goran's back to stop at her neck where she played with the hair at her nape. "Did Tonya tell ya all kinds of nasty stuff about me?"
"Ohh she did mention that you took all your sex toys from your office," She put her into a loose half Nelson and growled in her ear. "You don't make all those things do you, someone else does huh?" Raith wrapped around her and sighed from the feeling of being as close as she could physically get with Goran.
"Nope, I make all that stuff." She mumbled against her chest and hugged her tighter. "I can do lots of stuff."
"Well ya can't prove that by me, fooling around a little bit don't mean nothin in that area squirrel." Raith raised her head up and shook it.
"We can't do anything here…its ma's house!"
"What, will she wanna come in and watch or something, come on Squirrel," She ran her hand across the side of Raith's breast. "I've been dying since you went back to DC," She rolled them over until she had Raith pinned. "If we hadn't been interrupted the last time, I know what would have happened, so what changed…" She looked down into pale blue eyes, rolled off Raith and strode to the door when she figured out the problem. "Ohh I get it, Tonya's your girlfriend!"
"What…no she's not," She struggled from the bed, fell on her face and tripped her way after Goran. "Wait Gory…she's not…she's…MAAA!" She went running through the house after Goran and caught up to her just as she was going out the back door. Before she could make it through, Goran yanked the door closed causing her to run right into it.
"What the Hell…" Goran asked herself out loud and was about to go off for a long walk to cool down, when she then heard a loud thump come from behind the closed door. "No…I didn't just smack her with the door." She rubbed her face with both hands, threw her head back to release a long breath and then pulled the door open to find Raith sprawled out on the kitchen floor. "Ohh fuck squirrel," She dropped down at her head and lifted it to cradle on her lap. "I swear we'll end up killing each other," She placed a soft kiss to the lump forming on Raith's forehead. "Or your entire body will be black and blue."
"Havin a lover's spat and ya ain't even lovers," Ma looked down at her daughters slack face and clucked her tongue. "She's an endangerment to herself; I'll get some ice fer her head. Damn klutzy ass kid I have must take after the other side of the family." She handed her a bag of ice and took a seat at the table. "So what are ya two fighting about?"
"It's asinine, is Tonya and Raith ya know?"
"Hell no!" Tonya said as she came into the kitchen and got a beer from the refrigerator. "She's too much of a dweeb for me; ya know too brainy an shit. Damn genus IQ or something but dumb at the same time." She grabbed another beer and tossed it to ma. "Come on ma lets go check out that strip club in Charleston."
"Wait you guys can't leave me with squirrel, she's hurt and…"
"You're a doctor," Ma sad and clapped her on the shoulder. "Maybe ya knocked some sense in ta her, have fun."
"Are they gone?" Goran looked down to see one blue eye open and scanning the kitchen. "How bad's my head, feels like I got hit with a hammer?" She yelped when Goran got up and let her head hit the kitchen floor. "Dr. Who wait…Oww…damn I may not survive the night." She crawled on all fours to the living room and then over the back of the couch to fall in Goran's lap. "Are ya mad at me again…I just felt funny cuz ma and Tonya were sitting right out here?"
"Not mad…just frustrated, irritated and…oohh fuck." She groaned when Raith lifted her shirt and ran her tongue across her stomach. "Now you wanna make out after busting your head…"
"Ohhh more than make out, I want everything. We got the house ta ourselves and I got some of my toys." She pulled down the zipper on Goran's faded Levis with her teeth and then nuzzled her stomach. "Want everything forever." She raised her head and looked into dark green eyes before climbing off the couch to kneel before Goran. "Every single day for eternity, marry me Dr. Who." Goran's eyebrow rose to hang over her unbelieving eye and she would have snorted if not for the serious look on Raith's face.
"You're serious about this…Raith…"
"Never been more serious about anything in my life…"
"Hold on there a minute Squirrel; we don't have to be married to have sex." Raith took both of her hands in hers and pressed kisses to her knuckles.
"I know that I just want you to know that I'm not taking our relationship lightly."
"Ohh for fuck sakes squirrel," She got up from the couch, took her hand and dragged her to her feet. "You're insane and you had me from our first kiss." She pulled her all the way to their bedroom until they were by the bed, in one fluid motion; she had Raith's shirt off and was then unfastening her Levis. "No more waiting, no more cold showers for me," She pushed a now naked Raith back on the bed and pulled her own shirt up over her head. "You're not getting out of this and no more denying what I feel," She kicked off her pants, crawled up Raith's body, and hovered over her. "I'm in love with you and you're never getting rid of me." She brought their lips together in a heated kiss and then pressed their breasts together with a deep moan. Raith never had a chance; Goran took control and never gave it back. They kissed for what seemed hours, slow exploring kisses that brought their blood to a boil. Goran moved to kneel between her lover's thighs; she ran her fingers from Raith's high cheekbones all the way to her firm breasts. Splaying her fingers out, she felt the muscles flex beneath her hands. With all the lovers, she had in the past, none of them aroused her like Raith did or as quick. She leaned down, pressed a kiss between Raith's breasts, and then worked her way over to one of her nipples. Teasing her until it grew hard, she grinned when she moaned and arched her back.
"Are ya gonna tease me until I beg?"
"Squirrel I just started and I'll warn ya now; I like to take my time."
"I'll die from heart failure before long," She whimpered when Goran sucked and gently bit her nipple with sharp teeth. "No stamina…been a while…" When Goran poured attention on her other breast, she brought her knees up and raised her hips against her stomach. Deep moans rumbled in her chest, she fought to keep her hands from pushing her lover downward. Grabbing the quilt, she squeezed her fingers into it when warm moist lips covered her stomach in kisses.
"God you're beautiful," She ran her fingers down across Raith's defined stomach and stopped at her hips. Picking up the scent of their combined arousal, she groaned. "So wet and so ready." She traced the squirrel tattoo with her tongue and felt her muscles ripple. "What do you want me to do Raith?"
"Come up here," She reached down and pulled her up to her waiting lips, the kiss was deep and sensual and stole their breath away. Slipping her thigh between Goran's, she moaned against her lips. "Come with me." Goran rose up onto her hands on either side of Raith's head and rolled her hips downward, she moaned deeply from the contact and felt her juices spread against her lover's thigh. When Raith rolled her nipples between her finger's she growled deep in her chest and pushed her breasts into her hands. Then pressing her thigh upward into Raith, she became even more aroused from the feel of her lover's wetness painting her heated skin. She knew it wouldn't take much for herself to fall over the edge and that Raith was even closer, she had wanted to take her time with Raith but their bodies had other ideas. They moved slowly against each other and kept eye contact until Raith closed her eyes and arched her back. Her breathing became ragged; she gripped Goran's hips with her hands and bucked against her thigh. Her center exploded and sent colors flashing behind her eyes; she gasped out her lover's name and came again when Goran's hot juices poured out against her skin. They bucked and shuddered with each wave that traveled through them until Goran collapsed on top of Raith and buried her face against her sweat-dampened neck. For long moments, they just lay there gasping for air. Raith ran her hands down her back and hugged her tight to her body; she rolled them to their sides and whispered in her lover's ear. "Knew ya'd give in an gimme some."
"Ya did huh." Raith nuzzled her neck and placed a soft kiss to her jaw.
"I love you and I still wanna marry you." She ran her nails across Raith's scalp and grinned when she shivered.
"I love you too and we'll talk about the marriage thing tomorrow, right now we got a lot of positions to experience and not just the missionary one."
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Hours later, Raith and Goran are in the kitchen eating strawberry ice cream. Goran is sitting on the table with her weight balanced on one hand, her other hand is at the back of her kneeling lover's head. With her one foot on the tables edge, her other leg is over Raith's shoulder. She thrusts her hips and moans out her lover's name. Using her hand, Raith scoops more ice cream from the container, letting it melt in her fist, she lets it drip and run down her lover's cleft. With the tip of her tongue, she licks the ice cream from her swollen clit. The more she licks the harder Goran thrusts against her mouth and the louder her moans become. She knows her lover is close; her own center clenches around two of her fingers each time Goran moans. When Goran stops moving, yells out and bucks one last time, the floodgate opens. Raith bucks against her own hand and climaxes while licking at her lover's spurting juices. She moans with the last quiver that runs through her body and rests her face on Goran's inner thigh.
"Squirrel are you OK?" She pants from where she is sprawled on her back across the table.
"My legs don't wanna work." She pulls herself up to lay with her upper body on Goran and her face resting against her chest. "Think we need ta shower, we're all sticky." She snorted when her face became stuck to Goran's chest. "We better hurry before I can't get you off the table."
"Ohh you can get me off on the table alright," She ran her hands down Raith's back and stopped at her hips. "I just can't wait until you have to explain the mess in here to ma." Raith looked around at the empty candy wrappers, melting ice cream and other stuff that they had gotten into and grinned.
"I'll tell her that you sleep walk and always raid the refrigerator."
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Ma walked into the kitchen, slipped on the floor and fell back into Tonya. She reached out to the counter, pulled herself up, and placed a hand on Tonya's arm to keep her from falling. "Look at this mess, what the fuck were they doing in here?"
"I have no idea but I know two kids that are gonna clean this mess up." She slid across the floor and into the living room, slipping her shoes off; she left them in the kitchen and headed down the hall to the bathroom. Pushing the door open, she went to the bathtub and yanked the curtain back. "You two are in deep shit, so get your ass's outta there and clean up my kitchen!" She turned the hot water off before she left the two started women and grinned evilly when they both screamed. "Serve ya right since ya messed up my kitchen doing only who knows…" She slapped her forehead and groaned with enlightment. "Ooohh they didn't!" She went back to the kitchen and looked at the kitchen table. "Ohh that's it they're both grounded until they're 80!"
"What's the matter ma?" Tonya saw how red her face was getting and then followed her eyes to the table. "EWWWW! I'm not eating on that table ever again!" She shuddered, stomped her feet and wiped her hands on her thighs. "That's just…icky!"
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Goran wiped at her eyes and her runny nose, ma was making them clean her kitchen with bleach water and scrub brushes. She looked up at the wall clock and whimpered, it was past two am and she was exhausted. "Squirrel I'm dying here, I can't see and I think my lungs are gonna fall out if I cough again." Raith sneezed and wiped at her runny eyes.
"Remind me ta kill Tonya for pouring all that damn bleach on the table." She dropped her sponge, scrub brush and rag in her bucket and put it out on the back porch. "I had my puppy shots so I know I ain't got no diseases." Goran put her cleaning stuff out on the porch, grabbed her lover's hand and pulled her out into the crisp early morning air.
"Guess we learned our lesson huh, never leave ma's kitchen a mess or…"
"Use real strawberry ice cream, I didn't think I was gonna get those stains outta the tile." She pulled Goran back into her chest and rested her chin on her shoulder. "I'm going with ya in the morning and what's this about building a clinic?"
"Did ma tell ya about that, when I'm treating patients, she's at the church picking its pocket."
"Yep and I have a hammer somewhere around here and I can actually pound nails in without hitting my fingers…other peoples fingers don't count." She kissed the side of her neck and hugged her tighter. "Ya know ma and Tonya are gonna give us a hard time when they get up."
"Yeah all the more reason for us to go to bed now," She turned in her lover's arms and looked up into her pale blue eyes. "I'm exhausted and my back is killing me."
"OK, I'm startin ta feel it to and I'm glad we can sleep in."
"You mean until ma drags us outta bed and when will you have time to help build a clinic?"
"I'll have plenty of time since I don't hafta go looking for Columbians or missing agents." Goran grabbed her chin and pulled her head down.
"Columbians…as in drug cartel Columbians as in they kill you for fun and smoke big cigars afterward?"
"That would be them but we don't hafta worry about them, Tonya does, she gets ta track down where the agent was staying. Now let's go ta bed, me and the Squirrel are tired."
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Tonya searched the motel room that the dead agent had been using while in West Virginia. She was down to the last square inch when she saw a section of the carpet that just didn't look right. "Hey Raith do you have a sharp blade on ya, I need one to cut the carpet in here?" Raith and Goran came out of the bathroom and looked down to where Tonya was on her knees. Goran told Raith that they would help Tonya with her investigation because it would be safer for the agent and she wouldn't be worrying about her. Raith went to argue but found that to be a very dangerous move when fiery green eyes locked with hers. She nodded her head, grabbed her utility belt and followed both smaller women out to Tonya's Explorer. With the three of them doing a thorough search, it was being done quicker and Raith her self wasn't worried about her partner like she would have been.
"Isn't there a spot already cut?" She asked and leaned down to examine the area. "Ohh wait, he glued it back down."
"Yep and what ever he used still reeks, that's how I found it, plus that it's a little higher then the rest of the floor." She took the penknife from Raith, slit the carpet and pulled it back with Goran's help. "What the fuck Squirrel, why the fuck did he stick a file folder under the carpet?" She handed it to Raith and sat back against the wall.
"Do you think he knew that he was gonna be killed?" Goran asked and took a seat next to Tonya. "Or is it a common practice to hide stuff in motel rooms?" Raith shook her head, opened the folder and groaned.
"Son of a bitch, this is a list of all the double agents." She flipped the pages and looked to Tonya when she was done. "Everywhere and in all the initial organizations, this could have blown up everything if it had gotten into the wrong hands. What worries me is did he give it to the Columbian's or did they kill him because he didn't?"
"Or did he put it on CD and give it to someone else," Goran snapped her fingers for a few seconds and then looked to Tonya. "The asshole that told me Raith was dead, I think it was your boss?"
"Benson?" Tonya asked and groaned when Goran shook her head.
"No it was…Superintendent Bigsly; he answered when I called the number you gave me." Both Tonya and Raith said together.
"Who the Hell is Bigsly?" Goran looked between them with wide eyes.
"You guys don't know him then what was he doing answering Raith's office phone?" Raith looked through the pages in the folder for Bigsly's name but didn't find it, she handed it to Tonya and then gave her a small camera.
"Get pictures of every page and then put the folder back where it was," She handed her a tube of glue from a pouch on her belt and then pulled Goran to her feet. "Let's get the bathroom back the way it was and then you can help me put up the surveillance stuff, I have a bad feeling that someone knows about the folder and they'll be coming for it." Goran planted her hands on her hips, tilted her head to the side and growled.
"Tell me we're not gonna get shot or anything?"
"We're not even gonna be in the area when and if they come for that folder, but I'll be transmitting everything to my bosses office and they'll be agents around here waiting." She handed Goran some thin off white colored wires and then a tube of super glue. Start by the door and glue the wire along the edge of the baseboard," She leaned down and showed her lover where she wanted her to start and how to do it. "I gotta get some stuff from Tonya's truck," She gave her a soft kiss and then went to the door. "Don't worry everything's gonna be alright, I promise." Goran blew out a breath and watched her lover's wide shoulders disappear behind the door.
"Tonya are your names in that folder?" She started gluing the wire down and looked up when Tonya came up to her.
"From just scanning over it, yeah we're both in there. But they think Raith is dead so she's safe, it's me that's gonna have to look over my shoulder for the rest of my life." She scrubbed her face and looked to the door when Raith came back in. "Hey Squirrel, when we're done here we have to kill me off." Raith nodded her head and grinned.
"Sure thing, how do ya want me ta knock your ass off?" Goran got up from the floor, slapped the wires into Raith's hand and rushed out the door before she could do anything. "Ohh boy, I think I better arrange both our deaths." She ran out after her lover and began to worry when she didn't see her, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a flash of blonde hair as Goran went around the corner of the motel. "Ohh fuck how am I gonna fix this?" She took off running and caught up with her right before she would have slipped around the next corner of the building. "Gory wait let me explain!"
"Go to Hell Raith," She slapped at Raith's hands and held up a fist to slug her. "You act like dying is nothing, well it's everything!" She turned and yelled out Raith's name when she wrapped her arms around her and pulled her back against the length of her body.
"I have to fake her death so that she'll be free from other agents trying ta kill her."
"You just don't get it do you, you two act like death is a big joke!" She turned so that she was facing Raith. "I saw death every single day at the hospital and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it, I tried to save all my patients but some were beyond what I could do." Raith now knew that it wasn't anything that she or Tonya had done or said but what Goran had lived through. She loosened her grip on her lover but kept contact with her in some way. "Every day I saw broken bodies, I tried to put them back together but nothing I did could help all of them. I can't handle death anymore!" She sobbed and buried her face against Raith's chest. "I can't save people anymore; I don't have it left in me to be a hero." Raith held her tight and whispered in her ear.
"Let's go home Gory, Tonya can finish up here. I'll call ma and she can come get us."
"No we have to help her," she pulled back and wiped her face. "Sorry Raith, it's just the way you two joke about death…"
"It's the only way that we can handle it; we've seen some horrible stuff in the years that we've worked for the CIA. This is the only way that I can save Tonya from really being killed, its part of our survival."
"How many times have you two killed each other off?"
"Ohh about a dozen times all together, we always get into the bad stuff and dying is the only way out. This is the last time; we're retiring after this job is done."
"But you said that agents don't retire…they…"
"That's other agents not us, we're protected from all of that stuff. We've been planning for our retirement for years, where most people save money, we saved information. It's with a trusted person and if anything funny happens to either one of us, the newspapers and stations will be getting copies of everything we saved. The free world will be tilted on its ear with what we have hidden away."
"You're not as nuts as you want people to believe are you?"
"Ohh I'm insane alright just not the type that they lock up in a rubber room." She gave her a soft kiss, hugged her tightly to her body and then released her. "We have little spiders to put in the corners and other little bugs to capture all of the takedown on tape."
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On the ride back to ma's, Goran played with one of the bugs that Raith had left over from their surveillance setup. She turned it over in her hand and then looked at her lover's profile. "From now on if I see a bug of any kind I'm smashing the shit out of it and never looking back ya got me Squirrel?" She held the two-inch long rubber grasshopper out in front of her nose and wiggled it. "I would never have known that there's a little tiny camera in this thing, you two are sick bitches. So how many of those sneak peek websites do you two own?"
"WE don't own any of them…do we Secret Squirrel?" Tonya elbowed her and then pointed at her. "She's got a web site called Public Nuisance or something, she won't let me look at it or anything so who knows what's on there." She looked around Raith at Goran. "Could be pictures of me on it and I'd never know!"
"I got all kinds of pictures on there and I can guarantee that yours ain't one of 'em," She sighed and looked to Tonya. "I'll show ya once we get home, Gory's got her laptop with her and I book marked it on there." She grinned when her lover shoved her against the trucks door.
"You book marked your website on my laptop and I didn't see it, what else have ya slid past me?"
"Not much believe me, not much."
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Ma held out a notepad to Goran and leaned back in her chair to puff on her cigar and sip bourbon. While they were gone that day, she had called in some markers and got the ball rolling for the free clinic building. "So whatcha think on that Gory, will it work for a clinic?" Green eyes lifted from the notepad and narrowed.
"And how is it that you came upon half of a modular house?"
"Ohh that's easy, ya see I just happen to have 300lb of copper tubing and a roll of copper out in one of my sheds. Leroy Collers down on the other side of the river by Billy wants it and will trade the modular that's sittin in his yard."
"And why does he only have half a house in his yard?"
"Ohh that's easy, he couldn't afford the other half. So I was thinking that we could cut it in two and join those two halves together for a clinic." She wiggled her brows and winked a pale blue eye. "So all we gotta do is find a piece of land, have it hauled over there, cut in two…"
"And bolt it back together," She leaned back in her chair and knew that it couldn't get any better than this, a full smile blossomed on her lips and went all the way to her emerald green eyes. "It'll be perfect, now where can I rent some land?" Raith leaned over her back and looked at the notepad.
"How about that lot right next ta the church, I think they want like four grand fer it or something?"
"Four grand," Goran ran a hand down her face and groaned. "I'll have to try and get the funds from my tight ass boss and that could take months."
"Forget the Government, I'll buy the land and give it ta ya as a present." She said and then placed a kiss on Goran's head. "Ma make the arrangements and take the money outta my internet account." She walked from the kitchen with a grinning Tonya right on her heels.
"Wait a minute here you can't do that…BULLSHANKS!"
"Forget it Gory, once her mind is set there ain't anyone in this world that can change it. Besides the money in her Internet Account just sits there and collects interest."
"That reminds me, she was gonna show me that web page." She went to the bedroom, got her laptop and set it up on the kitchen table. "Any idea what this page is before I pull it up?"
"Ohh it's nothing bad in fact it's a good page, she keeps up a couple of them fer the Government." She waved a hand at Goran. "Go ahead and pull it up, she does a good job designing the pages."
"Why doesn't Tonya know about this?"
"Because Raith is enough of a dork without people knowing she's a computer geek on top of everything else." Goran pulled up the page and let out a low whistle, the background was royal blue with gold badges. The rest of the page was done in easy to read tool bars with the sections contained on the web page.
"So this can tell you all the known sex offenders for any area that you want just by typing in your zip code?"
"Yep and any other kinda criminal ya can think of, with just a monthly fee of 19.99 you to can keep track of your bastard of a neighbor the pedophile."
"She charges twenty bucks a month for information?" She typed in her zip code and was surprised at the number of sexual offender's just blocks from her apartment in New York. "OK now I see what she's doing, you can numbers of sick fucks in your area and for the monthly charge you get their names and full rap sheet with their address and everything else." She looked to ma with a crooked grin. "Bet those fuckers get harassed continuously, they should have their dicks cut off and shoved up their asses for what they've done."
"Ohh I agree with ya, but they let 'em out and then expect us ta just act like they never did anything wrong." She tapped at the screen and gave Gory her zip code, when nothing came up, she gave her a wink. "The first one that came around here found out what it was like fer his victims; he's in a mental ward now and doesn't even know who he is."
"Did vigilantes get a hold of him and rape him like he did to his victims?"
"Nope, he's own family got a hold of him. We don't put up with that kinda stuff around here and it shouldn't be put up with anywhere, ya can't fix those sick bastards." Goran agreed with her, she didn't think that sexual predators could be reformed. They should be kept in prison where they couldn't hurt anyone ever again and if they perished behind bars then so be it.
"So how long has she had this web page thing going on?" She shut down her laptop and took the offered cup of coffee from ma.
"Ohh it's been years, I think she started doing it around the time that America's Most Wanted came out."
"That's a long time; she must have quite a bit of money sitting in the bank now."
"Ohh I guess I gots lots of money, ma takes care of it fer me." She dropped down at the table with a long object wrapped in butchers paper and plastic. "That money's gonna build ma a mansion up in Aqua Harbor, thing is getting her up there."
"And leave my poker buddies, not a chance." Raith grinned and waited until Tonya came into the kitchen.
"Hey ya want my house in Aqua Harbor, I'm moving back in with ma." Ma dropped her head on the table and whimpered.
"It just ain't fair, I can't get rid of my damn kid fer nothin!"
"Just think ma, you'll be stuck with me and Gory until our house is built." She gave Goran a quick kiss, handed the package to Tonya and tried to get up from her chair.
"Hold on there Squirrel I never said I'd marry you." Raith gave her a wink and a crooked smile.
"I know but you will because I'm irresistible and a good catch, plus I still got all my teeth."
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Raith and Tonya sat in the back of her explorer watching the small TV that picked up the feed from the bugs in the dead agents motel room. Nearby were FBI and CIA agents waiting for anyone who broke into the room and went for the file folder that they had replaced. It wasn't the first time that the two agencies worked together on a case, they would work together to get a big criminal behind bars. The one they were hoping to get was one of the Columbian drug cartels junior officers; he was in charge of the Richmond drug distribution and a big problem in the surrounding states. With him and his men put away, the agencies were another step closer to getting the main boss. Tonya tapped the screen and then grabbed her radio. "We got movement at the door, move on my go." She gave Raith a wink and turned her attention back to the TV. "Come on open the fucking door already ya cock suckers." She leaned in closer and raised the radio closer to her lips. "Come on ya greasy bastard, we know ya want that folder…" A few seconds later the door opened, three Columbian's rushed into the room and then started tearing it apart. "GO!" They watched the FEDS rush into the room with drawn weapons; gunshots rang out from both parties. Raith pulled her .357's and jumped out the back of the explorer even though Tonya yelled at her to stop. She took of at a sprint towards the room's window and ducked down below it, raising one arm; she smashed the glass and then peeked inside. One agent was down; two of the Columbians were to her left and out of the other agent's path. She checked both of her magnums before raising up and firing through the window, one Columbian went down from a head shot, she dropped back down, reloaded and counted to six before raising back up to fire again. She got two rounds off and watched the man drop in a heap.
"Take that mother fucker!" She yelled and jogged to the room's door and stopped to kneel beside an agent holding his stomach. "Hold on I'm calling for an ambulance now." She pulled her cell phone, called 911 and then went into the room to help any way she could. A wide grin came to her face when she saw who she recognized as the junior officer Carlos Vega. "Got your ass now Carlos, your lawyer ain't gonna get ya off on this one."
"Fuck you, I'll be out on bail before you can take another breath!" He spit at her feet from where he lay on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back.
"Ohh I don't think so because we have DNA evidence linking you to the murder of a federal agent, ya know smoking is bad fer ya." She jumped when someone kicked her in her ass and turned to see a pissed off Tonya standing behind her. "What?"
"You're gonna get kicked harder once I tell what you pulled a few minutes ago."
"Hey I saved their asses," She pointed to the four agents taking control of the room. "I got two of the three bad guys, shows I'm a better shot then they are now let's go home."
"Hold on there you two, you have to be de-briefed before you go anywhere and then there's you and your twins there." The CIA agent pointed to Raith's magnums.
"We don't need de-briefed, we called this in and my magnums are in the registry at headquarters. Ya want the slugs, check there and we're now officially retired!"
"Retired, Hell we don't even know who you two work for?" Raith gave the agent a wink and a wave.
"And ya never will either, c-ya guys and don't fight over the collar just get the bad guys off the streets." She looked down at her hand and groaned. "Hey Tonya will ya shot me in the head before we get ta Gory?" Tonya stopped and rolled her eyes at her partner.
"What did ya do this time?"
"Ohh either I cut myself breaking out that window or I got shot."
"Just great now I'll get my ass kicked by both Gory and ma." She opened the passenger door to her truck and shoved Raith in before running around to the other side and getting in. "You better not bled to death before we get home."
"Ohh it ain't that bad, a little scratch at the most."
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Raith sat out side on the porch with a blanket wrapped around her shoulders and Tonya sitting on the rail snickering at her. "It might be safer if ya sleep out in your jeep, I've never seen a woman so pissed in my life."
"Safer if I leave the country," She looked up to her partner and gave her a small smile. "Ya know I've lied ta her from the very beginning, I don't know how much more she can take before she says the Hell with me and goes back ta New York." She dropped her face down on top of her knees and looked out into the backyard. "I never told ma every thing either; my whole life has been nothing but a giant lie."
"Hey buddy that makes two of us except that I don't have a family that will complain about it." She dropped her eyes down to where she was peeling the label from her beer bottle. "Just go tell her everything, at least that way all your secrets are out in the open and if she can't handle it then ya know now and not a few years down the road." Raith nodded her head and wiped the tears from her cheeks, she knew that what Tonya said was true. In the last ten years, she and Tonya had seen and done a lot. Most of it was violent and down right morbid at times, she didn't know how ether one of them was able to keep doing the job with out losing their sanity.
"Guess I better go face the grim reaper," She got up from where she was sitting and shook her head. "If ya hear screaming will ya come save me?"
"Sure Squirrel and get my ass kicked too? Good luck buddy, I'll pray for ya."
Raith walked into the dark and quiet house, she wrapped the blanket tighter around her shoulders and winced when it hit where Gory had bandaged her firearm. She still didn't know whether it was a glass cut or a bullet graze, the cut was clean and started at her wrist to end 6 inches up her arm . What Goran had figured out was that if it had been a bullet that hit her, she was lucky that it hadn't struck her in the chest or face. And that's what sent her off on a tantrum and slamming the bedroom door on Raith, that was after she threw her out of the room with only the blanket from the bed. Stopping outside her bedroom door, she rested her forehead on it and stood there for a few minutes just thinking. Finally finding some courage, she opened the door and stood looking through the crack. What she saw made her chest hurt and brought fresh tears down across her high cheeks. Goran was sitting in the corner of the room with her forehead resting on her knees; she shook with her silent sobs but never looked up when Raith came in. Moving over to kneel in front of her, Raith ran her fingers through her short hair and dropped her head to rest beside her lover's.
"I'm sorry Gory, it'll never happen again." She knew it wasn't going to work unless she spilled her guts. "I'm retired, this was our last job. We're not CIA Agents or UN Special Security either; we worked for the International Security Agency. We're trying to get the bad guys inside the United Nations." She moved so that she was sitting across from her lover and waited for her to look up. "Every thing that we found out on this last case over the last five years went to the FBI and the CIA today, they'll close it from there and Tonya and I are done."
"So what exactly are you two if you're not spies?"
"Body guards with surveillance expertise and now retired and I'm very sorry that I had to lie to you and my ma about every thing." She wiped her eyes and got to her feet. "I'll understand if you can't forgive me but I want you to know that I do love you Goran." She walked to the door and stopped when Goran whispered her name.
"Why did you have to lie to us, why lie for thirteen years?"
"There were people we had to protect and family always comes first, not even the CIA and FBI knew who we worked for, they're just glad that they can go into the UN and clean house. With the added bonus of one junior Columbian drug cartel asshole in prison, but there's still a lot of them out there bringing that shit into the US." She went to go out the door when she felt Goran's arms wrap around her from behind. "I'm sorry Goran…"
"Never lie to me again, I need to trust you and I can't if you lie." Raith turned in her arms and tried to make out her features in the darkening room.
"I'll never lie to you again, it was part of the job and I'll never do it again. I love you Goran please forgive me." What they did for the rest of the night was like nothing either had ever experienced, they worshiped each other with slow touches, kisses and loving words. They became intimate on a far deeper level than they had thought possible, it came from baring their souls.
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The next morning Raith and Goran were dragged from bed by Tonya, ma had already left to go to the church and told Tonya to make sure that they were all there by no later than ten o'clock. Tonya had no idea what ma was up to but didn't want to face her if they weren't there on time. She snickered at the tired expressions on her friends faces and didn't spare them the bouncing around inside her truck. "So why haven't you killed Tonya off yet," Goran asked and grabbed a hold of the dashboard to keep from falling off the seat. "One more pothole like that last one and I'll kill her off, hide the body and forget I ever met her!" Raith wrapped an arm around her and pulled her tight against her body.
"With the bad guys from the UN hopefully in custody, we really don't need to kill her off now. Plus I know that when she took the pictures of the double agent list, she took our names off it."
"Ohh I did one better, I put that Bigsly guys name on there and circled it in red pen. I figured since we didn't know who he was it was a good chance that he was a bad guy." She pulled up at the church and whistled at the half a modular home sitting in the parking lot. "There's your clinic Doc, now how are we gonna move the thing or cut it in half?"
"Ohh that's easy," Raith pointed out the windshield. "Looks like Gory's buddy from the junk yard brought his crane down." She placed a quick kiss to her lover's cheek and then got down from the truck. "Let's go find ma before she thinks of a torture plan worse than anything we've ever experienced…I'll tell ya tonight." She added when she saw the look on her lover's face. They went over to the modular and inspected it; Gory looked to her lover and gave her a crooked grin.
"So what do ya think did ma do good or what?"
"I did excellent and I got my girls putting down the footer right now, ya owe them each a bottle of Johnny Walker red. We been out here since five o'clock this morning and ain't had breakfast yet and ya know what that means Squirrel?" Raith nodded her head, pulled out her wallet and handed ma all the bills she had.
"Go take them for breakfast and we'll finish up the footer and then figure out how we're gonna cut the house in half." She scratched her head and looked to Tonya. "What have ya got hidden in your truck that we can use?" Tonya ran a hand down across her cheek and then shrugged her shoulders.
"No idea, I'll hafta look and see what's in there besides a couple pounds of C-4." Raith and Goran went over to the empty lot and looked around at what the poker players had been doing. A Bobcat sat off to the side of a pile of cinder blocks and a portable cement mixer.
"Where did they get all this stuff?" Goran asked and walked over to where the footer was almost complete.
"Ohh everyone pitching in with what they have and we could build just about anything ya can think of." She picked up a five-gallon bucket and walked over to the cement mixer. "I'll start more cement if ya go and get our tools from the truck." Goran gave her a quick nod and took off at a jog to the truck. "You'd be surprised at what he have hidden in these hills Gory." She started up the mixer and added what she needed for cement, once they finished the footer, it would be a couple days before they would be able to put the house on it. The cement would have to cure and then they could place each half of the modular on it, the hard part would be bolting it back together and running the wiring. She and Tonya could do the wiring and the others could bolt it down to the foundation. She went over to a box that held long bolts; she picked it up and carried it closer to the footer. "Now how far apart are we putting these?" She asked herself and then saw a couple of the old moon shiners and her Uncle Billy coming towards her. "How far apart should we put the bolts?" She waved one at them and then tossed it to her Uncle.
"I'd say about every four foot, it's not regulation but who the Hell cares. It'll hold better with the winds we get here, do we have enough of 'em to do that?"
"We got a whole box of 'em here and I'm sure ma can find more if we need 'em." When Goran got back over to the worksite, Raith was carrying a bucket in each hand and then handing them off to the men working with the cinder blocks. Placing their tools down on top of a wooden bench, she grabbed two buckets and went over to the cement mixer. She knew that in a few hours, she would be paying for it but when they were finished, it would be worth the little bit of muscle pain.
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Tonya looked up from where she was putting a new blade on the saw and snorted, she didn't know who the men were but they certainly didn't belong in West Virginia. The Italian suits and shoes were New York and the fancy car screamed too much money. She stood up, adjusted her shoulder harness and walked towards them. "Can I help you, like maybe give you directions?"
"We're here to find Dr. Goran Pickens, she's with…"
"I know who she is," She turned and pointed to the worksite. "She's over there and ya better be nice ta her or you'll never make it outta these mountains." She rested her hand on the butt of her .9mm and ran a finger across the badge on her belt. "Ya know all those nasty stories about southern jailhouses and chain gangs?" She left the rest unsaid when their faces paled and they hurried off in the direction that she indicated.
"Hell Jake Bogotá isn't as dangerous as it is down here!" Bill whispered hoarsely and stepped away from an old man with no teeth and a scraggly beard. "Maybe these rednecks killed off the first crew and they're holding Goran against her will?"
"On the way back, you stay away from the mini bar." He stopped and scanned all the people working on the foundation and then spotted her. "There she is and she doesn't look any worse then any other time." They walked over to her and stopped when she pulled a bag of Cracker Jacks from her pocket and dumped them in her mouth. "As long as she has those damn things, everyone's safe." He tapped her on the shoulder and smiled when she spun around. "I sent you down here to treat people for diseases not build them houses."
"You sent me down here to help people and that's what I've been doing and since I don't have a trailer and you won't provide one, we're building a clinic." The men looked to the modular and shook there heads.
"You're wasting your time; we're pulling out of here. The people in this area don't need medical help, there's a small village in South Africa that needs a doctor and you're it." She shook her head and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Ohh I don't believe you said that, have you looked around at these people?" She waved one hand at the old men working. "These people fought for our freedom and they can't get medical attention unless they drive all the way to Richmond Virginia, their family's can't get medical attention because Medicare won't cover their ailments. Why the Hell should I go treat people in a foreign country when our own people are suffering?"
"Because that's your job and it's not feasible to keep you down here."
"Jake, you can take your fucking job and shove it up your ass. I QUIT!" She pulled her ID from her wallet and threw it at his feet. "I'll send my resignation in to the office when I get a chance to, now get the fuck off my property!" If not for the strong arms wrapping around her from behind, Jake and Bill would have paid dearly. Raith dropped her lips down to her ear and whispered. "Ohh these political airbags wanted to shut me down and send me off to treat some damn village in Africa, so I quit! Squirrel if you love me you'll toss their asses in an abandoned mineshaft!" Bill stepped closer and looked into pale blue eyes.
"Who are you and if you know what's good for you you'll leave this in our hands?"
"I'm the one whose gonna kick your ass and ruin your career buddy, hey Tonya what have we got on these two assholes, I think it's Bill Fallows and Jake Abrams from WHO?" Tonya held out her palm pilot and grinned evilly at the two men.
"Ohh we got all kinds of stuff on Jake here, I'm sure the IRS and the WHO organization in Paris would be interested in where funds go." Jake held out her palm pilot to Raith and smiled.
"Ohh please you don't have anything on us and bluffing won't work, Goran just come back to New York and I'm sure we ca work everything out so that we are all happy."
"I told you I quit; I don't need you to get funding for a clinic. I have plenty of connections within the Government and I have two people right here that have even more, so don't fuck with the CIA, they're always watching!"
"Everyone has skeletons," Tonya said in a deep voice. "Yours are walking around and I'm sure they're still pissed over what happened to them, with the right incentive I'm positive that we could get them to divulge vital information."
"That's blackmail!" Jake yelled and pointed a finger at a grinning Goran. "Don't do this Goran; I'm sure that we can work something out…"
"I don't want your help; the only thing that I want from New York is my last measly paycheck. Now ya better run on back before the moon shiners take your fancy ass limousine, I know they'd just love to run shine with it."
"You're making a big mistake Goran; the Government will never help you with a clinic down here. I'll make sure of it you can count on that!" He walked away and turned back when Raith's deep voice growled out his name.
"Big mistake Jake, I just hit the little enter button and your financial history just went to the white collar crimes unit that the FBI has. Better hurry up and clean out your desk and don't bother trying to sail away on your yacht, I just sent a message to the DEA saying it's used to run drugs." Both men took off running towards their car, climbed in the backseat, pulled away with spinning wheels and flying gravel.
"You two didn't have to do all of that I could have handled anything they threw at me." Goran said and leaned back into her lover's body. "So did you really send all that stuff off on Jake?"
"Of course I did, he sent you down here by way of bus and train instead of flying you down here." She hit a few buttons on her palm pilot and showed it to her. "He put down in the records that you had a first class ticket from New York, connecting at Richmond and then an express plane to Charleston WV. From there you got a rental car for the entire length of your stay down here. And we can't forget your return tickets, they were all first class."
"And when did you decide to pull this up, I know you just didn't do it?"
"Ohh I did that," Tonya said. "I was curious as to why they would send you all the way down here by train, we fly everywhere and this was a first for the Secret Squirrel. I wanted to know why your boss was so God damn cheap."
"Wait a minute; I thought this was arranged by the UN or whoever?" She sighed and dropped her head. "Never mind, I know who arranged all of this travel mess. It's not as if it's the first time or anything, I always had to walk through a damn swamp or across the desert to get somewhere."
"No more swamps just the hills of West by God Virginia." Tonya said and headed back to her truck.
"Does this mean that you'll stay down here with us hillbillies, tie me down and make me a housewife?" Goran busted up laughing and turned in her lover's arms.
"You a housewife, you are nowhere near housewife material. Maybe sex slave or moonshine runner but I can't see you cooking a pot roast or wearing an apron."
"OK so I'm not housewife material but I can cook and fix things when they break down," She nuzzled her neck and nipped at her ear. "What kinda house do ya want, I can get the builders ta build anything ya want."
"You're so sure that I'm gonna stay down here and with you, why is that?"
"Because it's what I wished fer and I always get my wishes," She dropped her head and gave her a kiss that left her clinging to her shoulders and panting for breath. "Right now I'm wishing we weren't here with all these people." She took her hand and pulled her off towards the trees. "I got a place that I wanna show ya, I think you'll like it." They walked for 30 minutes before Raith stopped and waved a hand out in front of them. "So whatcha think; I bought this land around nine years ago? I was gonna have a house put on it way back then but decided ta wait until I had someone ta share it with." She pulled Goran towards an area that dropped off into space. "I bought it cuz we can look out over the river and see the mountains from the big ole porch that's gonna wrap around the house." Goran walked to the edge, looked down the sloping grassy field to the rivers edge, and then up to where the mountains rose off in the distance.
"It's beautiful here Squirrel, how far is ma from here?"
"Ohh about ten minutes by car, we're not that far from the main road."
"You know what kind of house I've always wanted," She turned to wrap her arms around her lover. "One of those two story log cabins with the master bedroom upstairs, you know like the loft type thing and French doors leading out onto a small balcony. Can we have one like that and a wood burning stove with a glass door, I want to watch the flames on a cold night."
"Anything ya want Gory, I'll call the builders this week and have them get started. I wanna do more than sit by the fire and watch flames; I wanna have you naked in front of it." She dropped her head down and gave her a heated kiss that left her panting when they parted and then pulled her down into the soft grass. "The Hell with the fire, right now is good for me."
"You are such a romantic Squirrel, and there's no way in Hell we're making love out here in the open…the animals might get us!" Raith sucked on her earlobe and then nipped it with her teeth before growling in her ear.
"Only animal that's gonna get you is the Squirrel…why ya stabbing me in my ass?"
"I'm not but something just stabbed me in the back of my…fuck!" They struggled to get up and then ran from the ground bees that swarmed around them. "You're a dead Squirrel when I catch you!" They ran all the way back to the church and didn't stop until they were inside Dairy Queen. "Leave it up to you to drop us right over a damn bee nest, good thing neither one of us is allergic or we'd be dead already!" She pushed the bathroom door open, went to the handicap stall and waited for Raith to follow. "Get in here so I can check your ass."
"I never thought ya were into public sex…" She yelped and shivered from the draft when her pants fell around her ankles. "Hey this is really kinky and my ass really hurts!" She tried to look back over her shoulder to see what Goran was doing and gave up when she felt dizzy. "What were ya saying about being allergic…the rooms spinning…don't feel so good…is it hot in here?" She wiped sweat from her face and felt the floor coming up on her.
"Just stay right here and I'll be back in a minute, don't move." Goran pulled her pants back up around her hips, eased her to the floor and ran from the bathroom; she hit the glass doors and sprinted all the way to where ma was. "Raith is in the bathroom, anaphylactic shock…my bag?"
"It's in my truck; you want an ambulance out here?" She jogged behind Goran and waited for her answer while she searched through her medical bag.
"No this should do it, has this ever happened before?"
"No, she's never been allergic to anything before." They took off running back to Dairy Queen and received strange looks from the employees. Goran went into the bathroom, all she could see was Raith's hand sticking out from under the stall door.
"Raith…shit!" Goran dropped to her knees beside her and checked her pulse before pushing up her sleeve so that she could give her the shot she had brought with her. "Don't you dare flat line on me…ma...," She looked up when ma came into the stall and handed her ice wrapped in a towel.
"Use that on her, ice always brings her around." She dropped down to her knees beside her daughter and placed her head in her lap. "What the Hell happened to you two anyway and what did ya just give her?"
"We went to look at her property and found ground bees instead, Squirrel here got stung in her ass and I got it in my thigh." She rolled her to her side, pulled her pants down and pulled four stingers from her ass and two from her thigh. "Good thing it wasn't wasps or hornets or we'd be in serious trouble." She rolled her back over and checked her pulse again. "OK her pulse is normal again so that means the ephedrine worked," She slipped the other shot into her pocket and then wiped her lover's face with the towel. "Life with her is gonna be a rollercoaster isn't it?"
"If you two survive the first year I'll be surprised," She watched blue eyes blink and then open to look up at her. "Hey there Squirrel, you're paying for my bottle of hair dye. It's Clairol amber sunrise and don't you dare buy me that cheap shit, the last time my hair turned hot pink."
"OK ma what ever ya want, can we go home I don't feel so good?"
"I'm going to put a bundle down on life insurance for us," Goran said and helped her up. "We barely survived a walk; I can imagine what will happen on our honeymoon." She refastened her lover's pants and took her by her elbow. "Let's go home, we can come back tomorrow and help with the clinic."
"Where are we anyway?" She looked around the bathroom and grinned. "This is kinky, where's Morocco, she's gonna be pissed that she missed this…what ever it was that we were doing in here." She weaved and started laughing when her ma and Goran struggled to keep her on her feet. "This is fun; can I have some more drugs?"
"Just great, no matter what kind of medication I give her she gets loopy."
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"How is it that I'm still sore and you're not," Raith asked from where she was lying on her stomach on the floor. "My ass feels like I got spears sticking outta it."
"Because you got stung more times then I did and the venom stays in your system for a couple days," She winked and ran a hand across her ass. "You have more meat back there for the venom to sink into." Pale blue eyes latched onto green.
"So are you saying that I have a fat ass?"
"Ohh not at all, in fact you've got the nicest ass that I've ever seen." She rolled Raith on to her back and draped across her chest. "I want to keep it for a few years so no more stupid stuff and we are getting rid of those damn bees." She gave her a soft kiss and then rested her chin on her chest. "So are ya really going to build a two story log cabin for us?"
"Yep, that's what you want and that's what the builders are gonna put up there. The only thing I need to do now is go back to Culpepper and get some of the stuff I wanna keep and bring the stuff back down here. Tonya's gonna move in my house and keep all the furniture, so that means we need some." She wrapped her arms around Goran and rolled them to their sides. "What about you, when are ya going back to New York and when will ya be back?"
"I was thinking that you could go with me, we could take in the sites and then stop off at your house, get your stuff and come back down here. That would give the builders time to work on our cabin, me to find nurses for the clinic and time to ravage you from head to toe for days on end."
"And why can't you do that here?" Goran nipped her chin and ran a fingertip over her nipple.
"Because we're never alone here and I wanna keep you naked for a few days."
"You wanna see the squirrel," She rolled onto her back, untied the string on her sweat pants and pulled the waistband down to show the squirrel's head. "Play with the squirrel's tail," She pulled her waistband down further to show the dark curls that made up the squirrel's tail. "Make the Squirrel wiggle?" She flexed her stomach muscles and grinned when Goran rolled her eyes.
"I still don't know why you would have a tattoo of a dead squirrel."
"It's not dead, it's in the 'I'm available pose." Goran looked at the tattoo and snorted, it still looked like a dead squirrel to her. It was on its back with its little legs out to its sides like it had been run over.
"Put that thing away before I call animal control," Ma yelled at her and wiggled a finger at them. "I thought I'd never say that to my daughter, every one I know tells there sons ta put their dicks away…" She slapped a hand over her eyes and went back out into the kitchen. "Forget I said that!" Goran ran a finger across the tattoo and snickered.
"Good thing she's never seen you in a strap-on, Squirrel with a gigantic dick." She got up and dragged Raith to her feet. "Come on Squirrel; let's go do some more work on the clinic. I heard that Tonya found us some exam tables and they need some work done on them." She dropped her voice a few octaves, pulled Raith's head down and spoke close to her lips. "I need some work done on me." She attacked her lips and wrapped her arms and legs around her, Raith carried her out the front door and then to her jeep. The entire way over to the clinic, Goran was on top of Raith making it hard for her to drive. As soon as she turned the motor off, she was out of the jeep and had her arms full of Goran. "Grab your bag, we need something from it." She said and latched onto the side of her neck to bite her hard enough to pull a deep whimper from her. Raith grabbed her bag from the back of the jeep, took her lover's hand and pulled her to the clinic's door. Without Goran's help and struggling with her keys, she finally got the door unlocked.
"Gory, you're gonna be the death of me." She dropped the bag and put a hand out to keep from falling on the floor. "What has gotten into you, you're,"
"Horney," She yanked her lover's sweats down to her ankles, dropped to her knees before her and pulled her sweats over her feet. "I want you right here," She nipped the inside of her thigh and licked all the way up to her nether lips. "Right now." Raith put a hand back and found a counter behind her, she put her other hand back and spread her feet apart to give her lover room. Yelling out when sharp teeth nipped her nether lip and then soothed it with a warm tongue made her center spasm. She gripped the edge of the table and thrust her hips when her lover flicked her clit with her tongue and then used the flat of her tongue from back to front. She whimpered and cried out when two fingers slipped inside her center and pumped slowly. Opening her eyes, she looked down to see emerald green looking back up at her. "So wet…so ready, come for me Raith." Goran pulled her fingers forward, searched for the pulse point she knew to be there, and massaged it. Pulling her engorged clit between her lips, she sucked greedily.
"Ohh fuck Gory…," She closed her eyes, tilted her head back and thrust her hips. "Faster…Ohh God…I'm…" What came from her was a sound so animalistic that the hair on the back of Goran's neck rose on end. Her climax tore through her so hard that she saw stars before her eyes, heard bells in her ears and her hips continued to pump against her lover's mouth. She yelled out again with a stronger climax and heard Goran moan and felt her wrap her arms around her thighs. Seconds later, she was on the floor gulping for air. "Gory…"
"It's alright Squirrel, just keep breathing deeply." She cradled her head on her lap and brushed her hair back from her sweaty forehead. "Sorry I got a little rough with you but you've never come like that before." She placed a soft kiss to her forehead and then watched as pale blue eyes blinked open and held her.
"What are ya talking about, I've…" Goran placed a finger over her lips and shook her head.
"No Squirrel you haven't," She moved so that she was lying beside her on the blanket they kept there and looked deeply into her eyes. "I almost drown with the first one and then when you came again." She moaned and shuddered against her. "I need you now," She moved her finger and brought their lips together in a long deep kiss that took their pulses back up. "Use your toy baby, strap it on and take me." She grinned when Raith moaned and rolled away from her to get her bag. A few minutes later, she had her strap-on fastened around her hips and their clothes strewn across the tiled floor..
"How do ya wanna do this baby?" She ran her hands down her lover's body to her thighs and whimpered when her fingers came away wet. "Ohh God baby you're dripping." She licked her fingers clean and moaned when Goran got to her knees and pulled her head down to her for a deep hungry kiss. When they came apart, she groaned and closed her eyes when Goran turned her back. She dropped to all fours and looked over her shoulder. "You're killin me Gory…killin me." She said softly before running her hands across her ass and up her back to tangle in her hair. She leaned forward and placed kisses all the way up her back until she was leaning over her. "I love you Goran." She used one hand to guide the dildo into her lover's center and then pushed her hips forward to push it all the way in. She waited until Goran moved her hips and then slowly pumped into her. The sound of the dildo sliding into Goran drove her crazy; she felt her center start to quiver around the smaller end of the two-headed dildo and pumped harder into her. The moans that came from her lover and the feel of her body slamming back into her was pushing her closer to the edge. "God baby…I don't know how long I can…" She stopped moving when Goran moved from in front of her, turned and straddled her hips.
"Three seconds Squirrel, that's all it's gonna take." She wrapped her arms around her neck and slid down on the dildo. She held Raith's eyes and bucked against her, yelled out with her climax and fell against her quivering. From her lover's juices splashing down onto her stomach, Raith grunted and climaxed again. They continued to move against each other with their tremors. Staying connected; Raith laid Goran back on the floor and moved slowly inside of her. She grunted and leaned down to capture her lover's lips in a lingering kiss, when Goran wrapped her legs around her hips and pulled her down tighter to her, she knew she was close. "Ohhh yes Raith…" She arched her back and thrust upwards into Raith; she yelled out her climax and shuddered when Raith bucked into her. Once Raith pulled out of her, they collapsed gasping for air and lying side by side. For long moments, they lay wrapped in each other's arms. "I love you Squirrel." Goran whispered right before she fell asleep, Raith followed a few minutes later with her head resting on her lover's chest.
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Tonya looked over to ma and chuckled. "Ya know no ones gonna wanna be treated in the clinic if they find out what they've been doing in there." She handed ma another cigar and cut the end off the one she had.
"At least we don't hafta hear them no more, I almost fell outta bed one night. Damn Gory and that wild jungle noise she makes," She ran a hand through her hair at the front. "See this grey streak, that's what caused it." Tonya slapped a hand to her chest and sighed with relief.
"I thought that was from me missing a spot when I dyed your hair, so does this mean I get their bed tonight?"
"Can't see why not, they won't be home until sometime tomorrow morning," She shivered and rubbed her upper arms. "They need ta put a shower in the clinic, come home smelling so bad that bugs leave the state." Tonya choked on her beer and covered her mouth to keep from spewing it across the table, when she could breath; she wiped the tears from her eyes.
"You're awful ma, awful but every word you said was true. Maybe if we spray 'em down with Lysol when they come home they'll get the hint?"
"Haaa, the way they act now that they've gotten some, the world could come to an end and they wouldn't know it for months! Hell ya would think they were teenagers and having sex fer the first time."
"Well you're not too far off on that idea as far as Raith goes, she may have done a lot of things but sex and dating sure ain't one of them. Using little spy cameras doesn't count for experience and the little bit she did doesn't count either."
"If she's that inexperienced then what the Hell is she doing that gets Gory yelling like she does?" Tonya shook her head and mouthed the word 'No'.
"I really don't wanna know that, it's too creepy and has ta be gross and disgusting if Raith is doing it." Ma gave her a look very similar to Raith's and even tossed in the deep laugh.
"So my kids more like her daddy than I thought, poor Gory has no idea what she's dealing with!"
"Ohh great, she'll be thrilled ta death about that."
"Now that I got one of you alone, tell me about all that you two did at your job. I wanna know what my kid was and don't you give me the run around, I wanna know if you two are in any danger now that you're retired?" Tonya lowered her eyes to the table and nodded her head, Raith should really be the one telling her but knew that she would chicken out and run off.
"We both worked for the ISA as basically glorified security guards, ya know we protected Congressman, the President when needed and other dignitaries that were in town. We started out with the agency as just the low-level peons but after about a year, a senior member approached us. Little did we know that we would then be working for a small branch of the ISA, then become double, and sometimes triple agents within other organizations. Most of the time we were just little computer geeks or technicians hidden away in basements. But by being able to blend in so well and Raith being a true geeky nerd, we were able to place surveillance devices and collect information for our boss." She took a drink of her beer and then looked up into ma's clear blue eyes. "Some of the time we'd get into trouble and have to shot our way out or fake our deaths," She saw the questions in ma's eyes and tried to explain as best she could. "Our Government officials are crooked as Hell; they are backed financially by big businesses. We would go in and set cameras and microphones in offices so that we could monitor certain business men and officials."
"OK so you're telling me something that I've known for years, what I wanna know is did you two stop those assholes?" Tonya gave her a wicked grin and a nod of her head.
"Ohh we did our share of putting away corrupt business men and government officials, too bad we couldn't get rid of some of our presidents. Damn stupid ass men shouldn't be allowed to run a car let alone the country."
"And where does the UN fall into this picture?"
"Where else can ya find diplomats and other people from all over the world that can offer different business opportunities that can make someone billions of tax free dollars?" Ma nodded her head and gave her a small grin.
"Damn crooks, I'm glad ya guys took some of 'em out. And I'm glad I don't hafta worry about ya two any more, hair dye gets expensive."
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Raith fit the last box in the moving van and then turned to the driver. "When will you guys get there?" The older man pulled out his pad of paper and handed her a receipt.
"At the latest three days, four if we run into bad weather but I'll call you if that happens." He gave her a short nod, went around, and got into the semis cab.
"How long is it going to take them?" Goran asked when she came out of her apartment building and took her lovers hand.
"Three days four if they have trouble," She wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her into her side. "Ma and Tonya will be around to help them put the stuff in the garage if we're not there yet. So whatcha wanna do now, maybe go get one of those huge steaks at the fancy restaurant we passed?"
"Fancy restaurant is it; I think we can do that." She leaned into Raith's body and dropped her voice a few octaves. "I'm thinking maybe have that nice dinner in a very expensive hotel room and put it all on my company credit card. That is before Jake or Bill cancels the thing on me."
"Are we talking more than the $39.99 a night room that I always got stuck in?" Goran laughed and nodded her head.
"Squirrel, I can find a place that'll charge ya that much for a cup of coffee." She ran a hand across her jaw and shook her head. "I'm starting to sound like you and ma, another month down there and I'll be chewing Beechnut and smoking cigars."
"You chew that nasty stuff and I'll never kiss ya again, nasty stuff grosses me out. Uncle Billy spits all over the place and ya gotta watch him when he's in the truck, that damn boomerang effect when he spits out the window." She ran a hand through her bangs, pushed them back from her eyes and then moved her long hair off her shoulders. "I finally got ma to stop chewing that nasty stuff and then she starts smoking cigars, damn Tonya had ta get her hooked on illegal ones at that." Goran bumped hips with her and looked up at her profile before leading her into the Regency Hotel.
"And my Squirrel has no vices what's so ever?"
"Not a one…OK one but you enjoy that one." She stuck her tongue out and wiggled it at her. "One that I haven't divulged in today yet."
"And you won't until we've had supper…oohh wait, I don't have to worry about you crawling under the table in a crowded restaurant now do I?" Raith winked and gave her a cocky grin.
"Nope ya sure don't, but I'm still checking the room for bugs before we do anything." Goran rolled her eyes and mumbled under her breath.
"You'll never change, we'll be in our 80's and you'll be checking our dentures for microscopic hearing devices."
"That's an idea, I never thought of that! I could put them…" Goran clamped a hand over her mouth when they got to the front desk and gave her a warning stomp on her foot.
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A week and a half later, Raith and Goran were back at ma's house, Goran and Tonya had searched through boxes looking for their clothes so that they would have more than what they had originally come down with. Tonya tossed the empty box out the window and dropped down on the bed to watch Goran put her clothes away. "God your underwear suck, I was expecting fancy silky things and all ya got is cotton briefs and boxers." Goran snorted and threw a pair of Raith's old boxers at her.
"Ohh that would've looked cute in the jungle, me in silky Victoria Secret lingerie killing giant mosquito's with a stiletto heel." She dropped down on the bed beside her and played with Raith's warn out boxers. "I'm more of the down to earth kinda person; my parents are the sorts to buy clothes from Sacs and Bloomindales. I got mine from Kmart or Wal-Mart when I got the chance to get to one, what about you, I can't see you spending fifty bucks on a pair of underwear?"
"Hell no, I get those packs of Hanes boxers for six bucks. I'm a cheap skate and ain't afraid to admit it, Raith's one that'll spend a fortune on something like that just because ya like it." She leaned closer to Goran and looked down at her hands. "She ain't got you a huge ass diamond ring yet, what's she waiting for?" She shook her head and looked to Goran. "Do we talk like hillbillies now or what?"
"Guess so, oohh well at lest we don't talk like we're from Jersey or Boston. That would be irritating having to listen to each other pronounce everything like we had bad sinus colds." She looked down at her hands and up into hazel eyes. "She hasn't gotten me a ring because I haven't said I'd marry her."
"Why not, I mean I know you love her so what are ya waiting for?"
"I guess it's just all happened so fast and now I've left New York to start a new life down here and it's not all sunk in yet. Maybe it'll all hit once we have our own house and living together like a couple?"
"That won't be too long off; Raith's been down at your house practically holding her Magnums on the workers ta get them to move faster. At the rate they're going the house will be done in a week!"
"From the tree sap that she comes home covered in, I think she's carrying the logs on her back to get them notched faster. It took me three hours to get the sap off her arms and shoulders, I thought they had log cabin house kits and that's how our house was going to be built. Not like they're doing, every log cut and notched one at a time."
"She's paying extra for the authentic log cabin, no prefab for a Bullshanks." Tonya said and got up from the bed when she heard ma come into the house. "Wonder what ma's making for supper, I'm starving ta death!" She took off running and left Goran to put away the rest of her and Raith's clothes.
"Paying extra for authenticity, sounds like Raith alright, she opened another box and groaned. "One thing that's gonna change with my Squirrel is the dorky clothes she has." She dumped the box and went through the t-shirts, the ones that were antiques; she tossed back in the box. "There is no way in Hell I'll be seen with her wearing a Led Zeppelin jersey…oohh E-Bay here I come!" A wide evil grin covered her face; her eyebrow shot up into her bangs and danced there when she thought of the idiots that would buy Raith's old t-shirts. She stopped what she was doing when she heard ma yelling, there was only one person she knew that could set the older woman off and that was Raith. She dropped the t-shirts from her hand and went rushing out into the living room and stopped dead in her tracks. Raith stood there covered from head to toe in dirt, leaves and anything else that could stick to tree sap.
"Hi ya Dr. Who, got a cure for a pissed off ma? She's yellin cuz I'm tracking dirt through the house…"
"Get your ass in the bathroom; you're dropping leaves all over the floor!" She grabbed the front of her lover's shirt and dragged her towards the front door. Better yet, you're going back outside and you're stripping out there."
"But Gory someone might see the Squirrel!" Goran rolled her eyes and snorted.
"Who would be out here that hasn't already seen the Squirrel at one time or another?" Raith shrugged her shoulders and stopped once she was standing on the deck.
"Ohh I don't know maybe some lost city slicker or something." She gave Goran a rakish grin and slowly pulled her t-shirt up over her head, stumbled around the deck and fell into the side of the house. "So much for my striptease…help me Gory before I…"
"Trip and fall off the deck and land on your head?" Goran grabbed her by the back of her torn up Levis, freed her arms from her sticky shirt and then dropped it on the deck. Next were her work boots and then her filthy Levis, she had been wearing the same clothes for three days and Goran was ready to burn them instead of wash them. "These clothes have had it and I'm not washing them, they're going in the trash right now." She tossed them over the railing and right into the garbage can below. "Now get your ass in the house…" She took a ragged breath when her lover wiggled her dark eyebrow and flexed her muscles. "Don't do that unless you want to suffer for hours on end."
"And what if that's what I want huh? A little of that kinda suffering ta go along with the suffering I'm gonna have when you use brillo pads on me ta get this sap off." She scratched at her shoulders and pulled leaves from her hair. "This is the last time I'll look like this, we got all the logs done and tomorrow we'll be using the crane ta set them up." She walked into the house and then ran to the bathroom when her ma came into the living room.
"What the Hell was that?" She asked Goran when her daughter ran past her. "I saw something like that in a movie…I think it was X-Files and the kid was raised by wolves or something."
"Reminds me of Swamp Thing," She blew a breath out and rubbed her eyes. "Wonder how long it's gonna take this time to get the sap off her, I'm beginning to hate the thought of trees."
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Goran was at her new clinic doing an inventory on the new equipment that she had gotten in, she had stolen some of the financial supporters away from her boss but it paid off in the end. She had enough pharmaceuticals and other supplies to last a while and even managed to get one of the old blood pressure machines from the hospital. She placed the last of the sterile packs of bandages away and closed the cabinet door. The men who had helped get the clinic going had built cabinets all along the one wall for supplies and built in a desk area below one section of it. That's where she had her laptop set up with a printer and used FAX machine. Behind two five foot dividers were the two exam rooms, they had storage cabinets above small vanity sinks and curtains that closed them off from the rest of the area. It wasn't anything fancy but it was better than anything she had worked in since leaving the hospital. Any serious medical problems that she couldn't handle would be taken by helicopter to the nearest hospital. The church parking lot was an excellent landing zone for a helicopter if they needed it. She was about to close up for the night when she heard a hard knock on the door and then heard a familiar voice, she turned and felt her face break in a smile. "What are you doing down here Kerry?" She said and then walked quickly towards the door to envelope her friend in a hug.
"I got fired from my job so I thought I'd come down here to visit the biggest trouble maker I could find." She let go of Goran and looked her over. "Damn girl but you look good, the country life agrees with you more than nasty New York smog."
"You're looking good yourself," She took in her friends dark tan and unruly brown hair. "Where did you go before coming to look me up?"
"Aruba, I had to go kick some bitch's ass for taking off with my credit cards. When I was done I told her that if I ever saw her face in New York, they'd find her floating in the Hudson." Goran chuckled and waved a hand for Kerry to follow.
"So paradise turned into Hell on Earth did it?"
"It was never a paradise, after out third date it became Hell. Now I'm free to do what ever I want and that includes leaving that filthy city forever," She dropped down at the small breakfast nook table and looked across at Goran. "Do you need any help here; I'll work for minimum wage if you can afford it."
"I can do better than minimum wage; I can pay you what we got from asshole Jake and Bill. What's better than anything they ever gave us is we don't have to travel to God forsaken countries and its beautiful here." Kerry gave her a narrowed look and leaned over the table.
"Who is she?" Goran narrowed an eye and leaned closer.
"Whose who?"
"Who ever it is that's got you so relaxed and smiling so much, that's who."
"GORY!" Came from outside the door and then a loud thump when it opened and Raith crawled in on her hands and knees. "Gory…they shot me!" She looked up to see a pair of golden eyes looking down at her with interest and then fiery green. "That asshole shot me with the nail gun!"
"I told you Raith it was an accident, it fell off the roof and fired." The culprit pulled his baseball hat off and dropped his eyes. "Sorry doc but she wouldn't let none of us pull it out," He showed her his pliers and grinned. "Had these but she threatened ta use 'em ta tear my nuts off…sorry…I'll be going now." He turned and quickly left the clinic. Goran leaned down and went nose to nose with her lover.
"I'm going to wrap you in foam rubber and chain you in the back yard." She got up and stepped over her to go over to the closet exam room. "Crawl your ass on in here, Kerry ya wanna search through that cabinet by your head, there's gloves that'll fit you in there." She reached down, helped Raith crawl up on to the table, and snorted when she saw how many nails were sticking out of her ass. "Squirrel, you're not going to be able to sit for a while and you are so lucky that you got hit in your ass and it didn't go higher."
"Ben's lucky that I got hit in the ass and it didn't shoot out the stained glass window I was standing in front of…"
"My stained glass window in the loft!?"
"That would be the OOWW! Damn baby that hurt like a bitch!" She looked over her shoulder when she heard a snicker and then the ting of the nail hitting the steel pan.
"Kerry this is my accident prone half Raith Bullshanks, Squirrel this is my surgical nurse Kerry Havens. She's gonna be working here and with you and Tonya around I'll need all the help I can get."
"I'd shake your hand but seeing Gory pull nails outta my ass is more personal. OWWW baby easy with those things, they got little burs on the sides."
"You're lucky you only got four stuck in you and that I just gave you a Tetanus shot last week, now un do your pants so I can clean the holes up." She wiggled her brows at her blushing face and ran her tongue over her upper lip.
"Pervert, ya just wanna look at my ass and before ya ask no I ain't got no drawers on." She raised herself up on her hands so that Kerry and Goran could pull her Levis down. "Ma wouldn't let me in the laundry room this morning cuz she said I reeked and then I found out that she didn't wash white clothes." She looked over her shoulder and snarled from the stinging spots on her ass.
"And I got the last pair of boxers; see if ya would have gotten your ass outta bed before me ya wouldn't be going commando." Kerry shook her head and chuckled.
"You two sound like you're an old married couple and I know damn well that you can only have known each other at the most a couple months." Goran ran her hand across her lover's lower back and winked at her.
"Spend days on a train in one of those tiny rooms with someone and then on a bus and see how close you become, huh Squirrel?"
"And then kidnap her and make her live with you and your ma and see how really close ya become." Raith said, rolled over, got off the table and then pulled her Levis up all the way. "I'd shake hands with ya but they're dirty from doing the roof on our house." She leaned down gave Goran a lingering kiss and limped to the door. "Thanks Gory I'll be home early." She gave her lover a bright smile and limped all the way back to where they were building their house. Kerry closed her mouth and looked to Goran with a wide eye expression.
"Holy God damn Gory, where the Hell did you find her?"
"She was the UN Security Specialist that was sent down here with me, ya know it's true what they say about love, you never know when it will hit you." She tossed all the used supplies in the biohazard can and then grabbed her keys and laptop from the desk. "So where are you staying?"
"In my Winnebago, I drove it down from my parent's house. I didn't know what was around here and it saved me having to find a place to stay every night. All I really need is a place to plug it in and I'm all set." She pointed to her silver and blue Winnebago and then walked towards it. "The gas mileage sucks big time on it but I can park it anywhere and live for the rest of my life in it, I've got everything imaginable inside." She pulled the door open and waved Goran in. "All these years I've been making two or three payments on it a month and now it's finally free and clear." Goran looked around and nodded her head; she had to admit that the thing reminded her of a regular house. It had everything you would need and if you got bored of your surroundings, you just pulled away and found somewhere else.
"Squirrel's building us a two story log cabin about a mile from here, her ma lives ten minutes away and most of the people in this area are her kin." She sat down at the table across from Kerry and accepted the can of Coke she handed her. "You know I originally came down here to investigate missing people, supplies and the tractor trailer?"
"Yeah I wondered why the assholes sent you down here and then when they came back from trying to get you back to New York all Hell broke loose in the office. The IRS and DEA came storming in the place and dragged Jake off and then Bill thought he was the new God of WHO/MSF, he tried to send me off to some shit hole village in Guam, with no crew. I told him to shove the job up his ass and I left…after he fired me that is. You leaving was the best thing for you, they were getting all weird before they came down here. And the people that were sent down here to start this up all ended up in a Federal prison for drug trafficking." She raised a hand when Goran's mouth moved. "All I know is it had something to do with the CIA/FBI and the ISA, some big bust that happened not too far from here, Jake was involved with all kinds of illegal activities."
"I thought they went to jail for running moonshine?'' She growled when Kerry shook her head. "Ohh is some Squirrel and her partner going to pay when I get home!"
"Why do you call her Squirrel and what do you mean her partner, I thought you two were, you know?"
"It's her damn tattoo, it's a dead Squirrel. And her and her work partner Tonya had something to do with that bust and Jake being arrested. Rotten fucker deserves to be fresh meat in prison, all the damn places he sent me without transportation."
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Ma looked up when Goran came in the back door and then over her shoulder to see that it wasn't Raith with her, she waved a hand, went back to reading the newspaper, and snorted when Goran gave her a quick kiss on her cheek. "Hi ma when's supper?"
"When ever you and your misfits start making it, I'm off duty tonight so it's your turn ta cook. Just keep Tonya away from the stove; she sets my oven mitts on fire all the damn time." She put her paper down and gave Kerry a crooked grin.
"Ma this is my surgical nurse Kerry, she's gonna be working at the clinic with me and let everyone know that it's her Winnebago parked beside the clinic and not to strip it down for parts."
"OK, I'll tell Billy and then he can put it out on the radio. Did Raith say when they were gonna be back tonight, I need one of my trucks, Bertha needs it to run into Charleston in the morning."
"Squirrel said she would be early so that means that Tonya should be following her back with your other truck." She went over to the refrigerator, pulled out a package of pork chops, and then pointed to a chair. "Have a seat Kerry, ma don't bite."
"I don't but Tonya does so beware of her, especially tonight, it's gonna be a full moon." Just then the back door opened and Raith came in dragging Tonya behind her.
"Gory will ya look at Morocco's head, one of the guys dropped his hammer off the roof and it hit her on her head. Damn head of her's broke the handle off his hammer and then the head flew over and took out the headlight on ma's truck." She flinched when Ma gave her a narrowed look. "It was your junky truck with the little wheel on the front, remind me in the morning and I'll change it back to the regular one."
"Why so someone can steal it again?" She looked up and saw that Tonya was weaving where she stood up against Raith. "Better go sit her down before she falls over, Kerry why don't you take a look at Tonya?"
"I can do that, Gory do you have any medical supplies here, like your bag or something?"
"Down the hallway and the last door at the end is our bedroom, it's on the floor by the door." She looked to her lover and rolled her eyes. "Squirrel, I'm wrapping you both in foam rubber, carry Tonya into the living room before she breaks her face on the floor." Raith and Goran watched Tonya treat her very first patient in West Virginia, they both thought it was strange that she was taking so much time with Tonya; after all, it was just a bang on the head. "This is interesting; you would think that she was sewing her head back on."
"Ya might have ta do that in a couple days," Raith whispered close to her ear and pulled her into the kitchen. "Looks like Morocco Mole will be getting a full physical and when her head blows off we'll have ta go to North Carolina ta get it." Goran yanked on her hand and looked up into her twinkling eyes. "I'm not the only one who stayed in the basement ya know; we were chaster than nuns…"
"Squirrel, now a days it doesn't take much to be that and is chaster a word?" She watched Raith shrug her shoulders and go over to the sink to wash her hands and face. "When you're done over there you can peel the potatoes for me."
"What's Tonya getting brain surgery in there?" Ma asked and lit up a cigar even though Goran wiggled a finger at her. "Ohh I just got a chill up my spine, I'll have my couch back!" Since Tonya had been there, she had been sleeping on ma's couch. "I get ta sprawl out on my couch in my underwear and watch basketball!" She laughed when Raith and Goran shivered at the picture forming in their minds. "Gotcha, so what else are we havin for supper, I can make some biscuits?"
"I thought it was your night off?" Goran said and grabbed Raith's ass with her flour covered hands.
"It is but I make better biscuits than any of you guys." Supper was an interesting affair; Tonya missed her mouth continuously because she was watching Kerry. Ma kept throwing green beans at her daughter because she was using one of her spy devices to listen in on Kerry and Tonya's whispers and Goran kept jumping in her chair because Raith was playing with her thigh. Finally, Tonya got up from the table, grabbed ma's truck keys with one hand and Kerry with the other.
"I'll drop your truck off at Bertha's after I drop Kerry off at her Winnebago." The other three rolled there eyes at her and went back to eating; they knew that they wouldn't be seeing her anymore that night.
"At least we know she ain't got brain damage." Ma snorted.
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Raith tried to ignore the fact that Goran was pulling the hair that ran down her back with each hair that she pulled she clenched her teeth. "Come on Squirrel you had to know that my boss was crooked and was doing more than stealing funds from the Who/MSF accounts?"
"We had no idea Doc Who, reporting his yacht was just a way of being mean and rotten." She flinched and rolled over to keep Goran from pulling any more hair from her body. "It's good though that he's busted and locked up,"
"Yeah it is," She crawled up to lay across Raith's body. "At least now he'll not be able to drag the organizations name through the mud anymore than he already has and there's more bad guys locked up with him." Raith pulled her up for a soft kiss and rested their foreheads together.
"And you get to pick up more of the supporters for the clinic, I heard that there's another half a modular sitting out in a field. All I have ta do is have it dragged out and it's yours, you could have space for an x-ray machine."
"X-ray machine and where am I getting the money for one of those?" Raith gave her a bright smile and winked.
"You'll have ta ask Tonya about that, she's good at getting stuff. In fact, she's gotten quite a few things fer our house that I woulda paid for." She wrapped her arms around Goran and hugged her close. "We can move in by the end of the week, the carpet for the loft will be laid in the morning and the downstairs floors will all be sealed and finished."
"You mean that I'll actually be able to see the inside of the place without having to sneak a peek through a window?" For the weeks that Raith had been helping the workers build their house, she had kept Goran from seeing what the inside would actually look like. She told her that it was a surprise and that she would see it when it was finished.
"Yep but first I wanna carry you across the threshold and do all that icky romantic stuff, will ya let me?"
"You're bigger than me; do ya think I can stop you from carrying me anywhere?" Raith chuckled and nodded her head.
"Size has nothing ta do with the fact that you can give me a shot of tranquilizer and drop my ass in two seconds." Goran wiggled her brows and placed kisses to her lover's eyebrows and then to her lips.
"That's true but I know we'd have more fun if you were conscious." She nipped at her lover's bottom lip and growled. "Wanna practice?"
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Raith checked every thing one last time before she ran out the door to the house and down the path that would take her to the clinic. She jumped over the extension cord that ran from Kerry's Winnebago to the clinic and then jogged up the steps to the front door. She stepped in, gave Tonya a raised eyebrow, and dropped down into a chair beside her. "What are ya doing?"
"Arranging for delivery of that x-ray machine, the Reverend said we can store it in the church basement until we get the addition attached. What about you, I thought you'd be getting the house ready for tonight?"
"All done," She dropped her voice and pointed a finger at the desk drawer in front of Tonya. "I hid something in there that I need and then I'm kidnapping Gory for the rest of the night." Tonya raised an eyebrow and pulled the drawer all the way out. "That's it!" She pointed to a small blue box and wiggled her fingers.
"You hid her ring in her desk?"
"Yep," Raith grinned. "I knew she'd never look in her own drawers for it," She opened the box and showed the rings to Tonya. "Is the diamond big enough?" Tonya tapped her on her head and snapped the box closed.
"Any bigger Squirrel and she'd have to put her hand in a wheel barrow, a full carrot diamond ring?"
"I want people ta be able ta see her diamond miles before they see her."
"You sound a little…I don't know…insecure?"
"Nope not at all, just want everyone ta know how much I love her." She squeezed Tonya's leg and then went to the back of the clinic to look for her lover.
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"You're sure she's got all kinds of stuff planed for tonight?" Kerry asked Goran in a low tone.
"Yep, she was out of bed at four o'clock this morning and out the door without her coffee."
"Well Tonya was out of bed…shit; guess I just gave that one away huh?"
"Haaa, we knew the first night you two met. Tonya didn't come home and the stupid look she had on her face the next day just about killed me."
"All we did was talk that night and drink lots of coffee," She rolled the pinky ring on her finger and looked up at her long time friend. "It's the first time that I've ever just sat and talked to someone like that…other than you that is. Ya know we've slept together but we've not been intimate yet."
"Let me guess, you have to tackle her for a kiss and anything more she runs and hides?" Kerry raised an eyebrow and nodded her head. "Her and Squirrel are about the same, except the Squirrel kept teasing me but when it came right down to it, I had to make the first move." She looked up when she heard the unmistakable sound of her lover's work boots hitting the tiled floor. "Speaking of the Squirrel…"
"Ask her about Morocco Mole." Kerry said before Raith came within earshot. "I saw Tonya's tattoo and it has just got to be in the same place Raith's is." Goran leaned in and whispered in her ear, she chuckled when Kerry's face turned a deep red.
"I guess it is since you look like a giant tomato."
"Dr. Who we have a date and we're running late…at least we will be if we don't run all the way home."
"You want me to run, where's your jeep?"
"At home…I forgot I drove there." She scuffed a toe across the tip of her other boot and looked up from under her bangs. "Are ya done, I wanna get this all right." Goran handed Kerry her stethoscope and got up from the table.
"All right Squirrel let's go before you have a panic attack and I have to use the jumper cables on you. Then again you've been hit by more electrical volts than a truck battery gives out." She took her lover's larger hand and let her pull her from the clinic, on the way over to their house; she kept looking at her profile. "Calm down Raith, you chew on your lip anymore and I'll have to sew it back on."
"I'll be OK as soon as we get in the front door, I hope you like how I designed the place. I know I should've asked you before I did anything but I wanted it to be a surprise."
"Raith, I left everything up to you, so what ever you did inside is fine with me. Remember, I'm used to an apartment smaller than the clinic with a view of the alley way and a dumpster." Raith nodded her head, took a deep breath and stopped at the front door.
"Goran, I ahhh…Hell I'm gonna screw this up." She reached into her front pocket, dropped to her knees in front of her and held the blue box. "I know I've asked you this a lot of times before and you've turned me down just as many times," She took a deep breath and looked into emerald green eyes. "I love you Goran, marry me?" She opened the box and watched as Goran raised her hands to her mouth, seconds later, with tear filled eyes she was taking the diamond ring from the box.
"Raith this ring it's…too much."
"No it's not," She took it from her hand and slipped it on her finger. "I would have bought a bigger one if I thought you could still lift your hand." She slipped the other ring onto her finger and placed a kiss to her palm. "This is forever Goran; you have my heart and soul."
"I never expected any of this; I always thought that love was something other people had. Until you knocked me down, cut my bra off and drove me nuts with spy toys." She smiled and wiped her tears from her eyes. "I'd have to be completely insane not to be hopelessly in love with you." She slipped the solid gold band on Raith's finger and then pulled her to her feet. "Ma will never believe that you were on your knees."
"Yeah she will, she told me that I had better be on my knees when I asked you." She placed a soft kiss to Goran's lips, swept her up in her arms and carried her into their new house. Placing her down on her feet, she hit the wall switch and watched Goran's mouth drop open. "Is it OK, I can change anything you don't like." Goran took in the fieldstone and quartz wall behind her as she spun in a slow circle; she reached out and touched a large piece of pink quartz. "Me and Tonya went down to the minds and got the stones, I always wanted a stone wall." She shrugged her shoulders and watched her lover walk slowly through their home. Goran stopped in the sunken living room and looked to where more fieldstone and quartz made up one wall. She looked over her shoulder at Raith and smiled brightly.
"I have my fire and a nice leather couch to lay on with you and watch it." She held out her hand and waited for Raith to take it. "How did you guys carry that huge insert in here?" She remembered when she came home and couldn't even bend over to take her boots off.
"We used wooden dollies on the floor and rolled it to the wall, it was lifting it up on the hearth that about killed us." She pulled Goran towards the staircase and waited for her to go first. Once at the top, she could feel the mental slap come from her.
"Ohhh and don't tell me you used wooden dollies and rolled that all the way up the stairs!" She pointed to a matching wood burning insert set in fieldstone and quartz. "And I know you had to have hauled all those rocks up one at a time."
"Remember baby, there were men here to. Some of them had to pick their nuts up off the floor after we got the insert up there but it was worth every ache and pain to see you smile." She pulled her across the large loft and over to the huge bed, she ran a hand across the cherry wood footboard and then sat down on the edge. "Uncle Billy made this fer us in his workshop; he said every couple should have a marriage bed." She got up and took Goran's hand. "The one thing that I want ya ta see is down stairs, I thought of you the entire time we were working on it."
"Squirrel, you guys set a new record getting this house done, so don't tell me…" She froze in her steps when Raith opened the door to their bathroom. The room glowed from all the candles that sat along every edge, counter top and the glass shelves along the back of the Jacuzzi. Goran stepped in, turned in a slow circle and inhaled the scent of vanilla coming from the many candles. A slow smile came to her lips; she unbuttoned her shirt and let it drop to the floor. "Come on Squirrel, we're gonna baptize every room in our home, starting with this one." She stepped forward, grabbed the bottom of Raith's shirt and pulled it up over her head. "We're gonna see just how many ways we can use those water jets," She moaned when large hands slipped her bra straps down over her shoulders, "For hours on end." And whimpered when Raith bent forward and pulled a nipple between her lips. "Ohh Gods so maybe it won't be that long." She tangled her fingers in Raith's long hair and pulled her to her breast. Raith unfastened her Levis, slipped them as far down her hips as she could without letting go of her nipple. With a low whimper from her lover, she released it and finished undressing her. Once they were both naked, Raith cupped her lover's breasts in her hands and ran her thumbs across her taut nipples. She leaned forward, captured her lips in a sultry kiss and then whispered against them.
"You're absolutely perfect, every single inch of you." Raith had no idea how saying that made her feel, after the surgery, she never thought of her breasts in the same way. Raith made her feel like she never felt before, flawless. When Raith dropped down to her knees in front of her and pressed her face against her stomach, Goran laced her fingers in her hair and held her there.
"You make me feel perfect, I love you Raith." She looked down when Raith pulled her head back and saw the tears trailing down her cheeks. "What's wrong Squirrel?"
"I never thought this would ever happen, I always thought I'd grow old alone."
"Now you don't have that to worry about, the only thing now is will you be able to move in the morning?" She grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet. "I wanna try out our Jacuzzi and see if I can get you to do Tarzan's yell again."
"That's not me who does that yell; it's that little blonde I have in bed with me."
"Ohh don't blame that one on me…OK so it is me that does it, who cares." She pulled Raith into the Jacuzzi and then let out a yell when a jet of water hit her in a certain area.
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Raith had just stepped out of the shower when she heard her ma's voice coming from the living room; she walked to the loft balcony and looked over. "What's fer breakfast Squirrel?"
"Depends on what you brought."
"Ha funny thing, since I did bring food. I knew you didn't go shopping and would starve unless I brought food." She walked into the kitchen and let out a low whistle; she had been over to the house a couple times but hadn't seen it since the kitchen had been finished. In the middle of the large room was an island that held the smooth top stove, a sink and a butcher block cutting board. Above the island was where all the copper pots and pans hung from a copper rack. She used the wooden small stepladder to reach what she needed and then went over to the Bunn coffee maker like her own. She had to give her daughter a pat on the back for her house designs, the kitchen was done in lightwoods but had an airy feel to it. Most rooms done in wood felt dark and foreboding to her, which was one of the reasons her house was in all light colors and pure white. After getting the coffee going, she started on their breakfast. She smiled when she heard Raith let out a yell and knew that she had done something wrong. "Ohh get down here and leave her alone for two seconds!"
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Raith rubbed her ass and looked down at her lover sitting on the toilet. "You bit my ass."
"You put it near me what did you expect, now go help ma." She pinched her on the ass to get her to move from the toilet paper. "Two seconds Squirrel and I yell for ma." Raith grinned and left the bathroom, she knew it irritated Goran when she came in the bathroom while she was in there. She would have her broken in with in a weeks time, she never closed the bathroom door when she lived in Culpepper and she wasn't about to start now. She grabbed a t-shirt, pulled it on and then pulled her boxers on. Taking a deep breath, she smelled bacon cooking. As she passed their bed, she grinned and felt her face heat up. If her Uncle only knew what the headboard was used for the night before, he would fall over. She hid her handcuffs under a pillow and jogged down the steps into the living room.
"Love you ma," She grabbed a piece of bread from the table and dropped it in the toaster. "So whatcha think of the kitchen?' She took a seat at the kitchen table and waited for her toast.
"When ya gonna build me a kitchen like this?"
"When ya want it, I got some left over wood and other stuff?"
"Ohh as soon as you two get back from your honeymoon," She handed her an envelope and waved a hand at Goran. "Ya ever been to Maui?"
"Nope why?" She took the toast from Raith's hand, took a bite and gave it back to her.
"Good cuz you two are going for a week, give me time ta work on that numbskull Tonya. She's gotta give poor Kerry some before she implodes and I want some of that Kona coffee they got over there. It's gotta be cheaper than six bucks fer a little bag at Wal-Mart."
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"Squirrel that had better not be what I think it is." Goran opened on eye, slapped a hand at what ever it was sliding up her leg and groaned when Raith grabbed her hand.
"Ya almost squashed my bug!"
"Good and you're lucky I don't squash your head." She opened both eyes and jumped away from her lover. "What the Hell is that?!"
"It's a great big…sand crab, there's lots of 'em around here." She pointed to the holes where all the little crabs were crawling out. "It did give some ideas for spy bugs; I can sell them to spy shops like I do with the other stuff."
"Squirrel, we're in Maui lying on this beautiful beach and you're thinking of spy stuff." She moved closer to her, slipped a finger between her breasts and tugged on her bikini top. "How about thinking of a way to get sand out of certain areas after we roll around in it completely naked?"
"And here I thought you were gonna yell at me for using all the little tattoo books from your Cracker Jacks, ya look like a demented sailor." She ran a finger across her lover's arm and snickered when she looked down at all the different tattoos covering her body. "Guess I can come up with something ta clean them all off…" She looked into dark green eyes and knew that either way she was going to pay. "Race ya back to the bungalow?" She got up and took off at a sprint down the beach.
"She's so easy; just wait until she looks in the mirror." She opened the used tattoo paper and chuckled at the word 'sucker' in red letters. She opened the bag at her side, pulled out a bag of Cracker Jacks and filled her mouth. Life couldn't get much better than this, she got up, grabbed their things and headed back to the bungalow. Yes, it could and she was going to start by making Raith forget all about spy stuff.
The End.
Hill Jack Conspiracy
By Larisa
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