Jay
looked over at K with a knowing smirk on his face. Even when K was meeting with the superior
agents, he always laced his fingers and rested his chin on them. It was a telltale habit of his.
Jay
and Grasshopper were the only agents at this particular meeting, so they took
the chairs in front of K’s desk. A
moderate-sized envelope sat in the middle of the desk. K continued to stare at it intently.
“So
is this Chinese ice water torture, or are you going to start this meeting?” Jay
laughed.
Grasshopper
held up a knowing hand toward Jay.
“Patience is like the wind – it can sting you or embrace you.”
Jay shook
his head and fiddled with his sunglasses.
Stinging wind…
K
slowly opened the folder. “It seems our
enemy has a common thread.”
Jay
leaned forward. “Meaning?”
K
flipped through the pages. “Global Idol…
the Antarctic missile…”
“How
about the aliens?”
K
shook his head. “There’s nothing in here
about it, but of course we can’t be sure, since Nick retrieved this before we
encountered that dilemma.”
“We
are the Romans… FANS is our Caesar…” Grasshopper started.
K
shook his head. “Is it really necessary
for you to speak in riddles among the superior agents?”
Grasshopper
gave him a knowing smile.
Jay
removed his sunglasses. “So, what do we
know about FANS?”
K
continued flipping through the pages.
“Even if it’s a file from their own hands, there’s not a lot of
information in it. They seem to have
bases all over the world… just like us…” K stopped.
Jay
lowered the hand holding his sunglasses.
“K?”
“According
to this, their headquarters are located somewhere in
Jay
set his sunglasses on the desk and crossed his arms. “Why did you let the FBI take all the
evidence?”
A small
smirk crept across K’s face.
“It
was you!” Jay shook his head.
K
laced his fingers again. “Even if he had
the wrong reaction and reasoning, Nick had a point yesterday. We do focus a great deal of our attention on
Jay
shook his head. “It was a pretty quick
cover-up.”
K set
the remote down. “Too quick and smoothed
over for Himitsu Takana to process in that short of time, don’t you think?”
Jay
shook his head again. “I guess you’re
right.”
Grasshopper
closed the folder and slid it to Jay lightly.
“There seems to be some commotion at a Disney-themed park…”
Jay
and K turned toward the screen. K
increased the volume on the small device.
The
sound crackled a little. “…Reporting
live from Disney World, where there seem to be many odd phenomena…” The reporter quickly shielded herself from
what looked like rain.
“A
hurricane?” Jay asked.
K
studied the screen for a moment. “It
looks like there’s snow on the ground… and maybe hail?”
“Even
at the Christmas Day parade, the
K
tapped the screen with a pen and stared intently.
Grasshopper
leaned toward the screen. “I have heard
of it snowing in warmer climates, but the snow melts when it hits the ground…”
The
news report panned across the park, stopping at
Grasshopper
put his hand on K’s shoulder, giving him a brief smile.
Jay, who
had been perusing the file until that moment, stopped abruptly. He had come across the page of an almost
sinister character with a ferret on his shoulder. He smoothed his hand across the page and
stared at it intently.
K put
his hand on the page. “There’s no
name…” He turned back to Jay. “Do you recognize him?”
Jay
turned away.
K
pushed the paper back toward Jay. “Do
you know anything about FANS?”
Jay
shook his head as he set the paper back on the top of the stack. “No. I
just have a hunch that we should be careful…”
He sighed as he stared at the photograph once more, before sliding his
seat back and standing up. “K…”
K
grabbed the file again and slid it towards himself. He paused to look up at Jay for a brief
moment.
“With
this strange weather in
K
stared at the photo of the man with the ferret atop his shoulder again. “Yes.
I think this is why we let the FBI handle the messy end of the last mission.”
Jay
grabbed his sunglasses and smirked.
“Should I start calming Carter down now?”
K
shook his head and smiled. “No, get
Emerald… and
Jay
gave K a quick salute and left the office.
K
continued to stare at the photo.
Grasshopper
placed his hand on K’s shoulder again.
“A man’s hunch is like the bands of a snake. If man is not cautious, he is the one in
peril…”
K
gave Grasshopper another smile before turning back to the screen. The white world of the
Grasshopper
smiled. “Perhaps Agent Jay could use a
break this time. I hear 002 is quite
familiar with the restricted access trails in the theme park.” Grasshopper gave K a slight bow as he stood,
before exiting the room.
K
managed a small chuckle before closing the file on his desk and placing it
inside a drawer. He locked the drawer
quickly and returned the key to a pocket on his suit.
± ± ±
Diamond
leaned against the door of her office with a smirk on her face. “I never expected to return from my mission
and see the infamous 00Carter sitting on my desk…” Her face softened into a genuine smile. “… with flowers…”
Nick
picked up the vase and gave Diamond a quizzical look. “Do I really seem like the type of guy that
would give you pansies when you came back from a mission where you were dressed
as a Playboy Bunny?” He winked. “Be serious, Di.”
Diamond
crossed her arms. “So who are the roses
from then, Romeo?”
Nick
shook his head before pulling the card from the bouquet. “These are from Lancy… for your phone.”
Diamond
rushed at the flowers with a squeal. “I
want to read the card! Let me see!”
Nick
set the vase down as he grabbed Diamond’s hand and pulled her toward him.
“You
know what upsets me most about the last mission?” Nick gave her a smile.
“That
you know
Nick
ran his hand down the small of her back and gripped her butt lightly. “That I didn’t get to be there with you while
you were dressed as a Playboy Bunny.”
She
gave him a seductive smile as she leaned closer toward him. “Who says you won’t get to?”
A
wicked grin crossed his face. “You saved
it?”
She
ran her finger down his chest. “That was
my one chance to get a real outfit. Why
would I give it back?”
“Maybe
you want to change into it now?”
She
smiled as she slowly pulled the collar of his shirt down. “You know what upsets me most about the last
mission?”
He
leaned in to kiss her. “What’s that?”
She
let go of his collar and ran her hand back down his chest. “In such a sexual place, I didn’t have any
agents to share it with…”
Nick
leaned in to kiss her again. “Desiree…”
She
let out a seductive giggle as she unfastened the button at the top of his
pants. She then leaned closer to him.
There
was a small vibration. Nick let out a
short gasp as a small moan escaped Diamond’s lips.
Nick
pulled her closer to him and went to kiss her again, but the vibration changed
to a loud rendition of “Mambo No. 5.”
Diamond
pulled away and let out a laugh. “
Nick
rolled his eyes as he pulled it from his pocket. “She changed it a long time ago, and I don’t
know how to erase it.”
Diamond
giggled again. “That’s
Nick
shook his head as he went to put the phone on silent. “Damnit, it’s K.”
Diamond’s
face dropped a little. “Maybe you should
go?”
Nick silenced
the phone and pulled Diamond back toward him with his free hand. “Now, where were we?”
The
phone began vibrating again.
Diamond
giggled as she refastened the button on Nick’s pants. “You’re being paged by your boss. You better go.”
Nick’s
face formed a scowl as pocketed the phone again and stood up.
Diamond
grabbed him into a hug. “Smile for me,
okay?”
Nick
gave her a short kiss on the lips as he wrapped his arms around her. “I’m sure it’s a quick meeting… probably
about
Diamond
gave him a short kiss as well. “I’ll be
waiting.”
Nick
opened the door and gave her a wink.
“Why don’t you change into your Playboy outfit for me?”
Diamond
gave him her seductive smile again.
“Anything for you, 00Carter.”
Nick
shook his head as he left. “Damnit, K!”
Diamond
laughed as she sat down on top of her desk and pulled the card from the
flowers.
Di,
Sorry to hear about your
phone. Please accept these flowers and
my sympathies. Also, Steve Madden is
having a sale tomorrow, let’s go? I
miss my Diamond!
Fabulously yours,
Lancy
She
laughed again. “Oh Lancy, you know just
what to say!”
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The small
smile still playing in his lips, K left Grasshopper behind and strode out of
his office. He walked down the corridor
and stepped into the elevator, still pondering which agents to take with him
for the Disney World mission, under the name of a so-called vacation.
The
thing was, he quite agreed with Grasshopper on who should tag along. He was certain that 00Carter should be a part
of this mission, if you called it a mission, of course – he knew Nick was still
upset for not being a part of the previous one.
Agent K was sure there was something going on, but he couldn’t really
put his finger on what could be done once they arrived to
Much
to his amusement, K realized he had already made his way out of the elevator
and down the hall, almost reaching to
The
two agents being none other than 006 and 008.
Just
as he was about to knock on the door of
“Right
on time, 006,” he murmured, as the fellow agent nodded in response. Following a light knock on the door, JC and
his superior walked inside the magnificent laboratory.
Emerald
was leaning against the huge, metal desk where
“Hey
there, boss,” she said, straightening up and walking towards the pair. She placed her hands in her jeans’
pockets. “What’s the news?”
Agent
K’s green eyes wandered around the room.
“Isn’t 008 present yet?”
“When
is he ever at a place at the right time?
Why should now be any different?” JC replied promptly and grinned
stupidly when his point got approved by a chuckle from Emerald.
“Looks
like you’ve been working on that sentence for a couple of weeks now, 006,
haven’t you?” said a voice that belonged to none other than the blonde sitting
behind the computer screens.
Sending
a glare towards the two agents and a more meaningful one towards
“So
anyways, just start to fill us in about what we’re up to this time, K,” Emerald
continued impatiently. “008 can be
filled in later on. He needs special
tutoring because of his lack of comprehension anyway.”
K
threw another angry glare towards Emerald.
She sure was a beacon and a hell of an agent, but then again, he could
never understand why she was full of spite towards Nick. If there was any other rebel in the agency
besides Nick, it was her. For some
reason, Agent K saw a lot of similarities between the two agents, more
similarities than their so-called differences, but maybe that was what made
them conflict so much.
Shaking
his thoughts away and agreeing with Emerald at some point, Agent K decided to
blurt the news.
“Actually,
guys-” He was cut off by a loud cough
coming from
“We’re
going on a vacation.”
“On a
what??” Emerald and
Oh,
little did she know.
“Yeah,
we’re going on a vacation-” He was
interrupted once more, by Nick’s sudden burst inside the lab.
“A
vacation?” Nick replied. Late as always,
he had only heard the last words of K, who just looked at him and nodded as a
response before talking again.
“We
are going on a vacation, to Disney World.”
“To
where?!” came an outburst from Emerald.
She just wanted to make sure she had heard it right. Who could actually consider going to that
whole annoying fake world with stupid stuffed mascots everywhere, annoying the
hell out of everyone, as a vacation?
“To
Disney World,” K repeated. “I thought
this would be a great opportunity to just take our minds off of all the recent
stuff.”
“That
sounds pretty good, boss,” JC said and motioned towards the lab’s door. “I better go and let others know.” Before he could proceed, K took his arm and
stopped him.
“Nope,”
he said softly and placed a smile on his lips.
“The Disney World vacation is only for the five of us. We can’t leave the headquarters all empty, so
we’re taking vacations one group at a time.”
“Aww,
that’s too bad,”
“Yeah,
it wouldn’t hurt to tag along Jay in that damned fake world…” Emerald
grumbled. “What’s up with Disney World
anyway? Couldn’t we go somewhere like
Utterly
surprised and even more disappointed about the fact that his favorite agent
wasn’t included in the trip – and totally forgoing the fact that his least
favorite was present, as always – Nick looked at K like he’d just betrayed him.
“K,
come on, can’t we replace this sorry-ass Shazam with Di?” Nick almost
pleaded. He knew he sounded weak, but he
couldn’t care less. Considering the fact
that he had just enjoyed a few steamy moments with Diamond, he wasn’t thinking
with his brain anyway.
“Shut
up, Carter; I wouldn’t mind trading you with Di, either. I’d prefer her any time of the day to your
whiny little sorry ass!” JC spat back.
“In
your dreams, Chasez; in your fucking wet dreams.”
“Hey,
enough, both of you,” K growled. He
walked towards the door and out to the corridor, but his stern voice could
still be heard clearly inside the lab.
“The jet’s leaving in an hour.
Start packing.”
Rolling
his eyes, Nick followed his superior outside the lab. K was walking down the corridor on his
right. Sighing and knowing he just
couldn’t protest, Nick went in the opposite direction, only to come across
Diamond, leaned against the wall seductively.
“Hey,
big boy.” A small smiled played on her
lips as Nick got closer to her. “So
you’re on your way to Disney World for a vacation, huh?”
“Di,
you know…” Nick trailed off, as now she was standing right in front of him, her
face only inches away from his and her hands moving slowly but firmly on his
chest and, well, down his chest… “I’d
prefer staying with you here.” As
Diamond’s hands moved down to his belt and pulled him towards her body, he let
out a soft moan. “We can still finish
what we started, you know; I still got an hour.” He wiggled his eyebrows, companying his half
smile that he knew Diamond just couldn’t resist.
Diamond
pulled firmly on his belt one more time.
This time, her body was touching his fully. “Nah...” she said. “Go and pack up, big boy; there’s always
another day.” Letting go of him, she
placed a soft peck on his lips. “Just
don’t get too intimate with Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella.”
She
turned her back and started walking away from a totally disappointed Nick
before saying, “Too bad for you, Carter – I was just in the mood!”
Torn
between walking left or right, Nick looked at Diamond, who turned just in time
to give him a wink, and then glanced the other way to see K’s disappearing
silhouette.
Nick
shook his head as he turned to his right.
“Damnit, K!”
± ± ±
Just
as he was about to turn the corner down the hallway, Lancybassy heard K’s
orders.
“The jet’s leaving in an
hour. Start packing.”
He stopped
in his tracks and decided not to be seen, which, obviously, happened to be a
great decision, since soon he heard Diamond’s voice, possibly talking to his
boss. Lancy knew that Di didn’t call any
other guy “big,” unless it was that dreamy, yummy boss of his.
A
hand placed on his chest, Lancy sighed dreamily. He shook his head slowly; only he could be
the witness of his boss’s greatness.
“So you’re on your way to
Disney World for a vacation, huh?”
So
his boss was on going on a vacation to Disney World then. Clapping his hands happily, Lancy took
another second to hear Nick’s muffled voice.
“Di, you know…”
Having
proven for sure that it was 00Carter who was going to be leaving for sunny
He
only needed to find where he’d put his pink tutu. Then he was good to go.
± ± ±