part 59
Sorry for the wait!
this part is around a month and a half after the last one, just wanted to apologize for taking so long, i had a lot of shit on my plate, i hope you understand 🙂↕️🙂↕️.
Lauren: (“Still, it just strikes me, I haven’t met anyone in a while who isn’t super hooked to coffee.”)
iku: (“Ah well you know, different kinds of work and all that.“)
Lauren: (“Right..“)
Lauren: (“So Adam, you still workin’ that waiter job?“)
Adam: (“Yeah I do.“)
Lauren: (“Don’t you wanna start doing some actual jobs? Yknow? Since you’ve got a girl by your side now.”)
iku: (“Why?“)
Lauren: (“I mean if you’re fine with him working such a dead end job…”)
iku: (“Ah come on. He’s really good! Like he is hands down the best waiter I have, he’s good lookin’, polite, and firm! I watched him have a whole conversation with some dude who he clearly didn’t like, but he managed to talk him up so good - the dude left him a huge ass tip.”)
iku: (“Like, give him some slack, he’s great!“)
Lauren: (“Wait, hold on..“)
Lauren: (“Best waiter -YOU- have?”)
iku: (“Well yea, it’s my hotel.”)
iku: (“And I’m telling you, he does a great job, seriously.“)
Lauren: (“Okay.. So… Ignoring the fact that you’re dating an employee.. It’s your hotel?”)
iku: (“Yeah, I manage the place.“)
Lauren: (“If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you?”)
iku: (“I’m 23.“)
Lauren: (“Wow.. So successful at such a young age, tell me, you make all that money from the hotel? Or do you have something on the side?”)
iku: (“The hotel is quite successful, it brings in a lot of revenue, but it’s only half of my money. I do have something on the side.“)
Lauren: (“What is it?”)
iku: (“Settle down, you’ll see.“)
The waitress comes back with their order, they thank her and she leaves.
iku: (“Oh fuck yea, this looks delicious, good choice babe!”)
iku smooches Adam on his cheek.
As iku is reaching to grab a bite of her cheesecake her phone starts buzzing.
iku: (“Ah… damn it.“)
She pick up.
iku: (“Hello?“)
Anna: “hungarian” (“Are you home?”)
iku: (“Uh no, not yet.“)
Anna: “hungarian” (“Are you gonna be home soon?”)
iku: (“I dunno, maybe, I’m at a cafe right now. Why?“)
Anna: “hungarian” (“Something big came up, need money stat.”)
iku: “hungarian, quiet voice” (“I have money. What do you need?“)
Anna: “hungarian” (“We’re gonna get fresh money and info, two birds with one stone. Anyways, hurry, I’ll come over to your place.”)
iku: “hungarian, quiet voice” (“Alright, see ya!”)
click!
iku puts her phone down, Lauren is suspicious of her and Adam just nudges her.
Adam: (“Was it Ms. A?”)
iku: (“Yup. Looks like she lined something up.“)
Lauren: (“.. That was your other business, right?”)
iku: (“Mhm.”)
iku: (“After we finish up here, we’re going back to my place, the hotel. I have something urgent to take care of. After that we can continue our little cat fight about who’s more successful.“)
They continue to chat as they finish up. iku takes the lead on the road and Lauren is following them, they park down in the private parking space. They group back up at the main entrance.
iku: (“Alright let’s go, I don’t wanna make her wait too long.“)
As they enter Lauren marvels at the beauty of the place, the outside pools, the terrace & the indoor restaurant, the bar.
Lauren: (“Holy shit… I gotta give it you; You run a nice lookin’ place.”)
iku: (“Thanks, I’ll show you around after we’re done in my room.“)
The receptionist notices iku
Receptionist: (“Oh! Hey boss! Hi Adam, uh and welcome ma’am!”)
iku: (“What’s up?“)
Receptionist: (“It’s just that Ms. A is waiting for you in your room.”)
iku: (“Thank you.“)
They make their way up to iku’s room, they enter to see Anna putting stuff on a pinboard. iku takes her jacket off, and puts it on a chair in the kitchen, Lauren looks at her with a slight tinge of jealousy.
iku walks up to Anna giving her a fist bump.
Anna: “hungarian” (“Who is she?”)
iku: “hungarian” (“His sister.“)
Anna: “hungarian” (“Is she going to be a problem?”)
iku: “hungarian” (“Nah, I don’t think so.“)
Anna turns around.
Anna: (“Hey you, whoever you are, I’m not gonna have to take care of you, right?“)
Lauren is shocked, Anna’s appearance and mean attitude got her down from her high horse.
Lauren: (“Uh.. Uh, no, no, I’ll be quiet.“)
Anna: (“Great, thanks. Siddown.“)
Lauren sits down on the couch, next to Adam.
Anna: (“Alright, iku, Adam, listen up; You’re both in on this one. No choice.“)
Anna: (“You’re both going to Texas for me, because silly ol’ me left some unattained money there. Oh and a very important hard drive, but it doesn’t belong to me… Yet.”)
iku: (“Why the Texan detour? Nothing more local?“)
Anna: (“This isn’t about proximity, it’s about this guy.“)
Anna points at a printed out picture of a man, and with a sharpie writes the name “Martin Miller”.
iku: (“Heh, M. M.”)
iku puts her hands up next to her head and shakes them a little. Anna just has a disappointed expression and exhales.
Anna: (“*Right, so. Our dear Martin thinks he’s some kind of justice minister, spending cash like the rapture’s coming. He’s not really someone important - in the eyes of the government at least, and he’s a somewhat known investor in the Texan Republic. Not really loved tough, locals despise him - they see him as an idiot.“)
Anna: (“Actually this whole “i’m going to get justice by spending money” thing came to him after someone mugged his ex-wife, and now besides being a slimy investor he’s actually taken an interesting in bringing criminals to justice, got a couple successful arrests too.“)
Anna: (“So.. That’s our problem.”)
iku: (“Where did he get the arrests done? In country?“)
Anna: (“Some, it’s not consistent, he’s not a registered citizen of the RE.U.S nor the Texan Republic, the guy is actually from Washington state, or what’s left of it anyways, lives in Seattle.“)
Anna: (“But despite being from the other side of the continent he’s buttered up some Texan Republic and RE.U.S. people to give him a “temporary” visa… As long as he pays them every month, he can roam around.“)
Anna: (“And here’s where you come in, We’re gonna hit one of his stashes, significantly hurting him, he won’t be able to afford coming after us, and to top it off -”)
Anna points to a town in Texas, to a bank.
Anna: (“He’s stupid enough to keep data and money at the same place.“)
Anna: (“This bank is one of the larger one’s here, but this town… it’s… it’s incredibly mediocre, just a couple hours to the west from Dallas.“)
Anna: (“I’ll get you two a room in a nearby motel, you’ll have 2 days to roam around - relax, and on the 1st you strike. iku, you will take this floppy with you. The computer there is ancient, but the hard drive still has some encryption that’s best if you break there instead of here. It’s gonna take around 20 minutes, only the headers are encrypted. Meanwhile you rob this specific section and nothing else. That’s all of his money, we’re not touching average people’s money.“)
Adam: (“What about resistance?“)
Anna: (“Oh sure, there will be some, but both of you are going to be kitted out, protective clothing and helmets, it’s best if you two aren’t identified.“)
Anna: (“Speaking of being kitted out, iku, I’ve got you something.“)
Anna grabs a silver case, setting it on the coffee table.
iku goes and opens it. It’s a TTI Viper.
Anna: (“Time you replace that secondary.”)
iku: (“Holy shit… This is insane for a secondary!”)
iku looks trough the gun, loading it, checking the slide, and taking aim. After she’s done she puts the gun back in it’s case.
iku: (“So.. When are we going?“)
Anna: (“You’ll be going on the 30th. I’m planning the best April fools prank. Except there’s no prank, just fools.“)
(to 🐝 continued :> )