Home 2 Chapter 084A
Copyright 2014 Banzai Ben and Amazing
Anastasia
Flashback - Ben - About a month later on
his Chechen mission
I've had a hell of a good
month so I suppose I should fill you in on most of it. Let's see where did I
leave off… Yes, I remember! Before I left on my mission, Oksana came into my
room at their house and once again offered me sex but because of my loyalty to
the liar Tatiana I refused. We then had a long discussion and I
shockingly discovered that she was working as a prostitute to pay for the
upkeep of the house. I didn't like this one bit! She was too wonderful a girl
to be forced to humiliate herself in that manner. So I fixed it. After I left I
called Yuri and had him create a 'new special retirement' annuity for Oleg that
would more than cover any repairs to the house - hell I even had Yuri configure
it so Oksana would continue to receive the money after Oleg's impending demise.
Yuri asked me why I was doing this so I pulled rank on him and told him
Captains don't have to tell Sergeants jack shit and hung up the phone.
Ah Oleg. He did a hell of a
great job on the PTRD trigger and even helped me sight it in. It was a hell of
a rifle and I never did push the maximum range of the 14.5 round. But I did
shoot rings around Oleg's sight in shots.
The information Yuri gave me
on location of the Chechen bastards was spot on, plus he kept updating the
locations when I would call him which was almost daily.
But most importantly my
mission was going great. I had successfully eliminated all the Chechen bastards
in this direction from Moscow with the PTRD being an integral part of the
mission - it was great to reach out and 'touch' them from a couple thousand
meters away. Now it was time to head back in the opposite direction and take
care of the Chechen bastards that were there. But first I decided to stop back
by the village and see how Oleg, Oksana and the rest of my friends were doing.
The real reason for the visit was that I was tired of eating the
excellent officer rations and had finished off the entire case of homemade
vodka Oleg gave me (hey, it was used medicinally so don't give me shit), so I
looked forward to a refill of the vodka and one of Oksana's great home cooked
meals. I pulled up in front of their house, stopped my козел, opened the door, began to step out when a very
excited Oksana ran out of the house. She flashed me a million dollar smile and
said, "Comrade Captain, you have returned!"
I stretched my sore as hell back, smiled back at
Oksana and answered, "Of course I did. I told you I would when I left. How
are you and Oleg?"
I saw a few tears in her eyes when she answered,
"Comrade Captain, I am sorry to report Прадед passed a week after you
left."
I shook my head and silently cursed myself for not
leaving them my mobile phone number and replied, "Damn, I wish I could
have been here for the funeral."
Oksana amazingly smiled, wiped away the tears and
answered, "But Comrade Captain, you gave my Прадед a better gift. You allowed
him to help you with the PTRD. He was so happy the whole week that all he
talked about was you and we prayed every night for you and your mission."
I replied, "Well your prayers were answered
because my mission so far has been picture perfect."
Oksana then asked, "Comrade Captain, was it you who
found the extra retirement money for Прадед?"
I gave her my best I don't know what the hell you're
talking about look and lied, "Oksana, I have no idea what you are talking
about."
She glared at me, defiantly put her hands on her hips
and declared, "Comrade Captain, you are a terrible liar!" Then she
blushed and continued, "Because of the extra money, which even continues
after my Прадед has passed, I no longer have to work at my previous occupation
as I had to before."
I held up both hands in submission and said,
"Oksana, you're right that I made some calls. So what are your plans now
that Oleg has passed, are you going to head back to Moscow?"
She blushed again and immediately answered, "No
Comrade Captain, Прадед was right. This is a wonderful place to live and thanks
to you I will never have to go back to that rat race in Moscow. In fact Comrade
Captain, I should scold you for not being more observant."
She held out her right hand (wedding and engagement
rings are worn on the right hand in Russia) and I observed a moderately sized
engagement ring. I smiled and confessed, "You are correct, I didn't notice
your engagement ring, congratulations! Who is the lucky man?"
She enthusiastically answered, "He is my old
childhood friend. I hadn't seen him since I came back until one day he showed
up after Прадед passed and told me he'd always wanted to work in the
quarry."
I continued my interrogation, "Well, what's his
name and can I meet him before I leave?"
Oksana giggled like a little girl and replied,
"His name is Ivan Gregoravich and if you will stay for dinner tonight, you
can meet him."
I rubbed my hands together in anticipation and said,
" I would love a home cooked meal tonight and to meet your fiancé. Now if
I could use your spare room and shower I would appreciate it."
She giggled and answered, "Of course Comrade
Captain, you very much need a shower and would you like for me to wash your
uniform while you shower?"
I sniffed my uniform and asked, "Is it that bad?"
She plugged her noise, giggled and answered, "Yes
very much so. Just leave it outside the bathroom and I will take care of
washing it."
I blushed a little as I
asked, "Oksana, I hate to impose but could you also wash my other
uniforms, socks and underwear?"
She faked embarrassment and
answered, "Comrade Captain, we hardly know each other! However you are
like the older brother I never had so I will do it just this one time."
She sure as hell didn't know
what she was getting herself into because I had almost a month worth of dirty
clothes to wash. I did my best to wash them in between killing the Chechens and
tried to dry them in the back of the козел,
but it sure as hell wasn't the 'clean' I liked.
I grabbed my huge dirty clothes bag, my necessary bag
and my dress uniform while Oksana took my arm as we headed into the house. She
looked at the huge dirty clothes bag, her eyes about bulged out of her head and
she asked, "Are those all your dirty clothes?"
I laughed and answered, "Nope, the clothes I have
on are dirty too."
I saw a twinkle in her eye which let me know her
complaint was really a tease and she said, "Comrade Captain, how long do
you plan on staying? It will take me all night to wash that many clothes!"
I laughed and answered, "Hey, you're the one who
offered to wash my dirty clothes. If it's too difficult for you, let me know
where your machine is and I will gladly wash them all at once."
I knew that would 'get her goat' and she seriously
complained, "There is no way I'm going to let you close to my washing
machine! You would probably try to wash everything at once and break it."
Being with her was different this time because she was
different. Gone was the sexual tension and constant worry about her wanting to rope
me into having sex. Yeah, it did feel more like she was my little sister not
a... Well, it's not nice to call little sisters those names even if that's what
they used to do.
I luxuriated in the hot shower, scrubbed the hell out
of myself when I heard a knock at the door and Oksana asked, "Comrade
Captain, perhaps you would like a баня1 after dinner?"
1 баня –
banya – Russian steam room
Hells bells - that would be great because I loved
баняs! I yelled back, “Do fish swim, do birds fly?"
Oksana questioned, "Comrade Captain, I do not understand
your sayings."
Shit, I forgot those sayings aren't Russian but I
fixed the mistake when I replied, "Oksana, that would be wonderful,
however if you are coming I don't have a swimsuit."
She giggled and answered, "Comrade Captain, of
course I will come and do not worry, we have extra swimming suits."
Because of the impending баня I cut my shower short (I
knew I would need another shower after I sweat my ass off in the баня), dressed
in my last pair of clean underwear and started to get into my dress uniform (it
was the only damn uniform I had which was still clean) and swore some when it
didn't fit me right. Hell, even though I had been eating most of the officer's
rations each day, I had lost some weight and this bothered the hell out of me…
Flashback – Tatiana – About a month
later in Moscow
I had hoped that during the week I had off work to
find Ben, we would easily find him. However that was not be. At first I was
depressed because we didn't find him, but now it is three weeks later and the team,
even with a different leader, still could not find him.
I was back at work, but work was not the same because
instead of being Ben's personal nurse I was back to being a normal floor nurse
– and it was worse than before because the other nurses resented me and I was
given the worst patients.
It made me realize two things: First how lucky I was
when I was Ben's personal nurse and second how much I loved and missed him.
I almost forgot to mention with my preoccupation about
Ben, Jack and Masha's wedding was next week…
Flashback – Masha – about a month later
at Masha's flat
What an exciting month this had been! So many things
have happened that it is hard to remember all of them. First, Tatiana finally
remembered the details about the car so my team was able to find one that was
for sale and arranged, with the aid of some extra rubles for the driver to ‘aid
his memory’, to purchase the vehicle. Jack and I went to his flat and I was
very impressed with Jack's negotiating skills. Even though he couldn't speak
Russian and the man selling us the car couldn't speak English – we were able to
purchase the car for five thousand dollars. Jack was so proud that he bragged
about his negotiating skills all the way back to the storage garage the team
had found for the car. Of course during the trip to the storage garage we had
to fight the typical Moscow traffic jam and Jack now understood why I didn't
drive 'my car'.
Jack still trained daily with the Spetsnaz but had
adapted well to the intense training and had lost all the weight he had gained
and even more! When he tried on his blue uniform for our wedding (he looked so
very handsome in it!) it was actually too large so we took it to a tailor for
alterations. I of course got up in the mornings to make him breakfast and kiss
him goodbye. And thank God he wasn't so tired anymore at night and we started
having fun again.
Ah the Major! Needless to say my plan was working
perfectly and he was in major trouble.
But the most important and incredible thing was: I was
marrying Jack next week! Even though I was angry at Ben for going AWOL,
unbeknownst to Jack or myself, he left an almost obscene amount of money with
Tatiana for our wedding. In secret she had planned the difficult parts like the
location and reception hall while she was off work for the one week she
searched for Ben. Then she finally included me and we had fine-tuned the plan
for the last three weeks. With Ben's lavish gift we would have one of the
finest weddings in Moscow – the only thing that spoiled it was Ben would not be
here to be Jack's best man.
Flashback – Jack – about a month later
training with the Spetsnaz
Hells Bells, for the first week of taking Banzai's
place on the Spetsnaz team, I didn't know if I would survive! And if I did
survive, I was going to figure out some way to kick Banzai's ass if I ever saw
him again. But now I actually looked forward to the days, other than all the
fucking running we did. The only thing that made running bearable were the
Moscow citizens: They still stopped, made a path for us through the crowds,
clapped and cheered and gave us gifts as we passed.
I could tell I had finally gained the respect of my
Spetsnaz team, however I still couldn't get any information about Banzai from
them - much to the dismay of Masha and especially Tatiana. Speaking of Ben and
Tatiana, Ben had left a shitload of money for Masha and my wedding and Tatiana
had taken care of all the hard parts of planning a wedding (according to my
Masha). Tatiana was interminably sad because Ben was missing and I felt guilty
for giving her the shit I did and for my bad feelings toward her. Shit! I was
getting married next week and looked forward to using the extra money Ben left
for the car (I was able to get the damn car back for the same price Masha sold
it to the man) to take us on a great honeymoon. With Yuri's help, we found this
nice resort in Sochi where it was supposed to be warm.
And thank God Masha's plan for the Major was working
perfectly and that I was too busy with the Spetsnaz training for him to give me
any shit…
Flashback – Major M – about a month
later at the hospital
Son of a bitch! Other than my nights with Victoria,
this month was almost as bad as my time in Thule with the boney bitch and I was
even beginning to have problems with the nights with Victoria. I arrived later
than hell at the hospital my second day in Moscow because Victoria and I had an
ungodly amount of sex and a fucking Russian Colonel had been waiting for me all
day. He reamed me up one side and down the other and directly blamed me for
Sergeant Blaine going AWOL. I began to complain then he pulled out several
reports from Sergeant Blaine's file. The papers from his psychologists attested
to the fact that he went AWOL primarily because of my return to Moscow. I tried
to defend myself to no avail and now the fucking shrinks were on my ass to
discover what I did to cause a former 'model soldier' and ‘fucking hero of
fucking Russia’ to go AWOL.
They subjected me to fucking batteries of tests to
determine if I was 'unsuitable for command'. And the fuckers wouldn't even tell
me how I was doing.
The only good thing that happened was the impending
wedding between Sergeant Reynolds and his bitch had distracted the Old Man and
I had been able to keep the news of Sergeant Blaine going AWOL from him.
Ah yes, I was shocked by another kind of reality! I
was having problems getting it up at night for Victoria. This had never
happened before and if I was in America I would have gone to a doctor for some
of the 'little blue pills' but there was no way in hell I was going to a doctor
here about that. I was sure somehow that would end up on my permanent medical
information.
Now I had another meeting with Sergeant Blaine's
fucking psychologists for more fucking tests. Things were not looking good for
me…
Flashback – Glen – About a month later
at the home
For a month that started out FUBAR, it had ended up to
be somewhere between okay and good. When we talked last time, Jennifer had been
committed to the psychiatric ward of the hospital for 'self-injuring' her back.
The JA and I got to the hospital, we went in to comfort Jennifer and she told
us exactly what happened. We then checked her chart and it told a completely
different story. The long and short of it: After the JA did some investigation
he discovered a group of nurses and several doctors (including the fucking
shrink who committed Jennifer) were addicted to pain medication and were
stealing doses from the patients. They would either change the times they were
supposed to give the medications or only give the patients half a dose and take
or save the other dose for themselves. The JA informed me that this was a
common problem in the medical community and instead of sending them all to
Thule or locking them up, they were relieved of duty and placed in a drug
rehabilitation program. Jennifer's chart was expunged and she was released back
to her original floor.
Jennifer healed enough to be released from the
hospital and went home with the bitch nurse Katie – a condition which Katie was
regretting each and every day. When Jennifer wasn't in school, she was either
practicing her ballet or making Katie's life a living hell. After one week
Katie called me and told me Jennifer could come home (I thought it sounded a
little like begging), but Jennifer was so stubborn she refused to come home and
continued to inflict hell upon Katie – Ha! The bitch deserved it as far as I
was concerned! Hell, I was trying to figure out a way to make people live with
the bitchy Jennifer instead of sending them to Thule.
I put the fear of me into Robert and his parents and
so far he had behaved himself. Of course the 'thing' I bought Jennifer helped
to make sure of that. I will let her tell you about what it was because with
all the women out of my house, it was time for a large pizza, several beers and
a couple of shots…
Flashback – Jennifer – about a month
later at the ballet school
I began to put on my tights for practice, almost got
them on and shoot! I forgot something again! I took them back off, put on the
athletic cup that Daddy got me, made sure it was in the right place so that
Ro-fricken-bear couldn't touch my privates (like Daddy explained to me) then
began to put my tights back on. My back began to hurt again from all the
movement so I looked at the bottle of pills in my ballet bag and decided that
one more today shouldn't be a problem. I took one with a sip of water from my
bottle.
I still remembered the first time Ro-fricken-bear
performed a bicycle lift on me, his hand encountered the cup and he was so
surprised he dropped me (the first of many times!) and then complained to Olga
about it. Olga came over, felt my crotch without asking (which I didn't care
for) and complained. But I held my ground and told her if she wanted a bicycle
lift in this Swan Lake, I was going to wear the athletic cup. Of course Olga
called in Katie and Katie tried, in her bovine excrement ways, to convince me
to give in so I retaliated by staging a hunger and no-ballet strike. It took a
whole week, in which I still practiced in the privacy of my own room, (I guess
I forgot to mention I made my room at Katie's house off limits to her by
putting hasps and locks on the inside and outside of the doors). OMG I also
forgot to mention I took all my meals to my room, ate them there and left the
plates. When I was finished with this room it was going to be a toxic waste
dump!
Katie tried to wiggle out of the agreement for me
staying at her house after one week, but I was having too much fun and I refused
to cancel the agreement!
Let's see what else had I done in Katie's house? Well,
I hacked into her computer and downloaded a bunch of really gross lesbian porn
to it; I got ahold of her credit card numbers and had been subscribing to all
the lezzy magazines that I could; I even ordered gross sex toys delivered to
her house. I then bought myself a great new laptop and had it delivered here. I
used torrent clients to download and serve as many files as I could until her
ISP threw a huge fit and threatened to shut down her connection. So I found a
neighbor's open WIFI connection and piggybacked her computer on that while it
still served the torrents. Now it gave me back all the bandwidth the torrents
had sucked so I had better access. Ah I almost forgot, I signed her up for
quite a few dating sites with profiles that stated she just wanted to have sex
with men so she was getting emails and phone calls at all hours of the day. And
when I wasn't in my room, I was in the bathroom running all the hot water faucets
so she never had hot water. There were bunches of other little things - Oh gee,
I got sidetracked and since I was telling you about Swan-fricken-Lake, let me
get back to that.
I kept my royal Prima Bitcherina attitude the whole
time, was insulting, condescending and a RPITR like I told Daddy I would be.
Because of the lost week of practice, Ro-fricken-bear did worse than ever. And
it didn't help that every time he tried to do a lift on me, I didn't help so he
had to do all the work. You do know that ballerinas help on the lifts didn't
you? Ro-fricken-bear tried to do a bicycle lift on me again and I moved a
little to throw off his balance. He couldn't hold the lift, I fell on top of
him making sure to elbow the heck out of his side and complained, "Olga,
how in the heck am I supposed to dance when he is so incompetent?"
Ro-fricken-bear couldn't talk because I knocked the
wind out of him and Olga came over and scolded him, "Robert, you need to
go to the gym more and lift weights. Jennifer is not a very large girl and yet
you still can't lift her correctly."
Katie added her uninvited opinion, "Olga, I feel
that Robert is having problems with the lift because of Jennifer's insistence
in wearing the athletic cup."
I glared at Katie, stood up and bitched, "That is
it! I am finished dancing for today!"
Olga complained, "But Jennifer, you need the
practice if we are going to have the performance."
I smiled at Olga, glared at Katie and answered,
"Olga, you know that I can dance my parts perfectly, I am not the problem!
Robert's continued incompetence is the problem. Until he can demonstrate a
successful bicycle lift with Peggy, I refuse to continue to let him try on me.
He drops me every time and one of these times when he drops me I will be
injured and then I won't be able to dance." I chose Peggy because she was
a huge, fat, dancer and even if she helped I doubted that Ro-fricken-bear could
hold her up on a bicycle lift.
Olga tried to reason with me but I sat down on the
floor and pretended to cry. Katie came over to comfort me, she hugged me and I
exploded, "Get your lesbian hands off of me or I will call the
police."
She jumped away from me, she and Olga exchanged
glances and Olga called, "Peggy, come over here and let Robert practice
the bicycle lift with you."
Peggy walked toward center stage; when she got close
to me she knelt down, hugged me and whispered, "Thank you Jennifer, I
can't wait for Robert to touch me there."
Her comment practically made me throw up…
Flashback – Alexi – about a month later at the
laboratory
This has been an exciting month for me. My 'parents'
took me into the laboratory the next day where I told the psychiatrist about my
mother hitting me with the rolled up magazine. 'Mother' tried to tell him I was
acting like a dog so she disciplined me like a dog. In response I gave him my
best I couldn't believe what she said look and denounced everything. He
believed me and pulled me out of my 'parents' house.
At first I was worried about how I would live, but
things worked out great. I had my own room, had excellent food, and had the run
of the laboratory all day and night.
My 'parents' stopped by every day to see how I was
doing, but since I was in the laboratory and had more than I could ever want I
stopped acting like a dog. So while the psychologist, allowed my parents to
visit, he made it certain that I would stay at the laboratory for the time
being.
My 'parents’ did bring in my clothes and the cryptex
which I was now free to work on unencumbered…
Flashback – Safia – about a month later
flying to Japan
I successfully destroyed the
old Mossad building like the twins wanted me to even though I didn't understand
it. I was thankful the building was empty so the destruction didn't kill
anyone. The twins weren't so lucky and didn't really care - they destroyed the
new Mossad headquarters which was filled with agents who died. I now had a
deeper understanding of the twins and I was not sure I liked what I discovered.
However with the deaths of
the Mossad agents, things got really hot in Israel so we were on a private
flight to Japan, thanks to Akhmed. I was looking forward to my new life however
I was still worried about the twins and how they so easily killed all those
agents…
Flashback – Todd – about a month later on the
island
I had argued with Liu until
I was blue in the face about leaving the island and having our baby someplace
safe. She would have nothing to do with it and the harder I argued, the harder
she fought against me. I even moved out of the cave and into one of the
buildings which I cleaned up.
Lin still stopped by every
day and we worked on my ASL and JSL plus she gave me updates on Liu.
After we made love, she held
my hand and said, "Todd, do not worry, I should be able to deliver Liu's
baby."
I signed, "What if
there are problems?"
She smiled at me and said,
"Todd, we will need to pray there are no problems."
This was not the answer I
wanted! There had to be a way to take Liu off the island and I needed to find
it…
Home 2 Chapter 084B
Copyright 2014 Banzai Ben and Amazing Anastasia
Flashback - Ben – About another two months
later, the end of his Chechen mission and the return to Moscow
I loved it when a mission went mostly right but
I wish like hell it would have gone totally right. I killed almost all the
fuckers other than the most important 'ringleaders'. As much as I hate to admit
it they were smart as hell and once they found out all the other fuckers that
helped with Beslan were dead, they headed back to their Godforsaken country and
went into hiding. Oh, I could have gone in after them, but I was running low on
supplies. Hell, it was my own fault since I knew I should have resupplied when
I was in Moscow but I needed to get the hell out of there as fast as possible.
Shit that reminded me. I told you how the
mission was going, but I didn't tell you about anything else that happened for
the past two months. Let's see, I left off on my trip to Oksana's house. Her
fiancé Ivan Gregoravich showed up close to dinner time. He was tall, easily
over 6 feet, and looked like a fucking body builder. I discretely remarked
about that during our time in the баня (I said discretely because I didn't want
him to get the idea I was a homo) and Oksana laughed like crazy and informed me
that he looked like a string bean until he started working at the quarry with
Sergei. I was concerned at first that Ivan Gregoravich might have been after
the annuity I had setup for Oksana, but he ended up being a great guy and
really loved Oksana. Hell, he even helped her with the dishes after dinner like
I had done on my earlier visit (this is almost unheard of for a Russian male).
She asked me what I thought of him and I told
her she had 'С милым рай и в шалаше' (love in a
cottage) and not to mess it up. After the баня, Ivan Gregoravich and I took a
walk: I put the fear of God (and perhaps even more the fear of Ben) in him
about ever hurting Oksana and he assured me he loved her with his whole heart
and felt lucky to have her as a fiancée. As I left I felt good about the whole
situation — no more than that, I wished someday to have a situation like this
of my own.
Ivan Gregoravich took over the still from Oleg
and continued to make vodka. He gave me a case of it and while it was good, it
wasn't as good as Oleg's.
Let's see what else did I forget? Ah, this one
will surprise the hell out of all of you because I know it surprised the hell
out of everyone else. Since I was headed the other direction from Moscow, it only
made sense for me to make a surprise appearance at Jack and Masha's wedding to
be the best man. Yeah, Yuri had the Spetsnaz team sneak me into the church. The
look on Tatiana's face was priceless when I walked up beside her in the back of
the church to escort her up to the front wearing my dress blues. She cried the
whole time and tried to talk to me but I shushed her and told her the wedding
was more important. And what a fucking wedding it was, I had never seen better!
Jack looked better than I remembered in a very long time. I guess Yuri and the
Spetsnaz training was good for him. I found out about the plan that Masha
devised to keep me (and Jack) out of trouble with the brass. Major M was there
and I made sure to glare at him every time I looked at him. As soon as the
wedding finished, the Spetsnaz team ran interference and I hightailed it out of
there before I was captured and unfortunately (as I mentioned earlier) didn't
resupply because I didn't have time.
I continued to lose weight, even though I ate
like a fucking horse. My strength was better than ever, my legs worked fine and
I could run, again albeit a little slower than before, but most of the time my
back hurt like a son of a bitch.
I killed all the fuckers in the other direction
from Moscow, other than the ringleaders who I mentioned earlier. Now it was
time to head back to Moscow and see how much trouble I was in. I set up a
meeting with Yuri and the Spetsnaz team so Yuri, the team and Jack met me on
the outskirts of Moscow in the early morning.
Jack grinned at me (and I knew something was
up), gave me a hell of a hug, stepped back and I couldn't believe it when the
old fart tried a leg sweep on me. I blocked it and demanded, "Jack, what
the hell was that for? And you're still too slow to catch me with my guard
down."
Jack continued with the grin and answered,
"Banzai, that was for you taking the hell off and not telling me about it.
I was trying to kick your ass."
I laughed and taunted, "Jack, you may have
trained with the Spetsnaz for the last three months but you're still no match
for me. However I'm your Huckleberry if you want to give it another try."
Yuri distracted me when he came up and ordered,
"Ben, we need all your uniforms and whatever equipment you have
left."
I glared at Yuri and replied, "Yuri,
thanks for everything but what the hell did you do to me? Everywhere I went all
the people thought I was a fucking hero."
Yuri laughed and answered, "Ben we gave
you the order of Zukov and first class order of St. George the highest and next
highest awards in Russia. So tell me, did anyone bother you when they saw the medals?"
I continued to glare at Yuri but had to admit,
"Hell no they were all polite. Even the officers I encountered treated me
with respect."
Yuri smiled, nodded his head and answered,
"Now Comrade, you know why we did that."
I countered, "I should still kick your ass
for it."
Jack tried to calm me down by changing the
subject, "Banzai, don't you want to know how much trouble you're in?"
I turned my attention back to Jack and stated,
"It can't be that bad because you're still here. And I know the gist of
the plan but yeah I would like to know how things went."
Jack laughed like crazy, then began to brag on
Masha's plan and the effect it was having on Major M...
Flashback – Major M – About another two months
later
I was thoroughly fucked! There was a slight
reprieve in the Old Man finding out about Sergeant Blaine going AWOL, which was
helped by the fact that the bastard showed up at Jack and his bitch's televised
wedding. I tried in vain to catch Sergeant Blaine after the wedding but the
slippery son of a bitch was helped by the Spetsnaz team. He escaped through
doors that went through all the icons in the front of the church. When I tried
to follow him, some old as fuck priest with a beard, which made him look like
Methuselah, stopped me and yammered at me in Russian. I didn't bring Victoria
with me so I couldn't understand what he was saying. I went to grab him and
move him aside when the Spetsnaz team came to his aid and stopped me. I
complained like hell for them to get their hands off me but they just laughed.
I knew I lived on borrowed time and then some
bastard (or bitch because I was sure it was Sergeant Reynolds' wife) sent the
Old Man all the information about Sergeant Blaine going AWOL, including the
date it happened and included all the fucking psychological tests they did on
me. The Old Man placed the blame squarely on my shoulders (in my opinion
incorrectly because I was sure it was some evil plot hatched by Sergeant
Reynolds' bitch).
Now I was headed back to the States to answer
to the Old Man and to undergo more fucking tests. I hated like hell leaving
Victoria. Shit, she even cried when I left, but in one way it was good because
lately I hadn't been able to 'get it up'. I blamed this latest problem on all
the stress the fucking Sergeant Blaine had caused me. Some day and someway I
was going to make him pay...
Flashback – Tatiana – About another two months
later in Moscow
As Ben would say, “Life for me sucked!” Yes
life was worse than ever - it was so bad I even contemplated suicide and for a
nurse suicide was easy. Only my Orthodox religion kept me from killing myself
because if I did kill myself I would go to hell forever.
First was the biggest surprise ever. Ben showed
up to the wedding to be Jack's best man. He looked incredible other than he had
lost some weight. I tried to talk to him to ask his forgiveness for being such
a сика (bitch), but he shushed me (yes, I couldn't believe that he shushed me)
and told me the wedding was more important. I cried during the whole wedding,
so much that I ruined my makeup. I knew that Ben was very angry at me and
possibly hated me because he wouldn't look at me. When he wasn't looking at
Jack and Masha, he was giving the stupid Major the evil eye.
I planned on talking to Ben after the wedding
and doing anything and everything to get him to forgive me and take me back as
his girlfriend, but I was distracted helping Masha (because I was the maid of
honor) with her beautiful wedding gown and when I finished he was gone!
Yes my whole life sucked! Ben was still gone,
my job was still terrible and I, unlike Ben, had gained weight, probably from
all the ice cream and chocolate I was eating…
Flashback – Masha – About another two months
later at Jack and Masha's flat
Life was so very wonderful for me. Married life
was so much better than living single and I now understood the happiness of my
many married friends. To know that I would never again be alone because now I
shared my life with my husband who was loving and caring and so very helpful.
The wedding was like a dream for me. Ben even
attended as Jack's best man which I thought was a mistake because I was sure
the Major would catch him. I wanted to thank him for the wonderful wedding but
when the time came for the reception line, he had already departed and Jack
didn't even know when or where he went. The only sad part of the wedding was
Tatiana's response to Ben being there: She cried and carried on like a little
girl which ruined her makeup. Her makeup was so bad another friend took her
into the bathroom (after Ben had left), cleaned her face and helped her apply
new makeup for the pictures after the wedding.
Jack and I had a wonderful honeymoon in Sochi
at a very exclusive resort. Jack used the rest of the money we didn't spend on
buying back 'my car' to pay for it. It seemed that we 'owed' Ben's generosity
for much of our happiness. I asked Jack how Ben was able to afford such lavish
gifts and Jack mumbled something about how Ben seemed to have more money than
Carter had Little Pills; which I understood to mean that Jack didn't know any
more than I did.
My team continued the search for Ben without
having any success. However it appeared that his mission to kill all the
Chechens associated with the Beslan incident was going well. Almost all of them
were dead.
With Victoria's excellent help, the Major was
no longer a problem. However, I did need to reprimand her slightly for one
incident with the Major. Sex with the Major was majorly revolting for her and
she reached a point where she could not stand it anymore. She therefore drugged
his food and drink with enough estrogen to prevent him from obtaining an erection.
My only continuing concern was Tatiana, she was
becoming irrational. She was certain that she was the reason Ben left even
after we gave her proof of the Chechens being killed. She would not listen and
had stopped taking care of herself. Most days she looked and acted like a
zombie, I was concerned she would do something stupid…
Flashback – Jack – About another two months
later meeting Ben
I began to tell Banzai how well Masha's plan
worked, "Shit Banzai, because of Masha's plan I don't think we will ever
have to worry about the Major again."
Banzai shook his head and taunted, "Jack,
we all know how you feel Masha is supposedly 'perfect', but you didn't give me
any information at all about the Major or her plan. Does she have anyway
figured out for me to come back?"
I was offended and slightly bothered by
Banzai's attitude toward Masha, but I knew retribution was coming. I glared at
him and answered, "She sure as hell does and your return right now is the
perfect time. You see the Old Man finally got wind of you going AWOL and
recalled the Major…"
Banzai interrupted me, "Great so with
Major pain in the ass leaving, if I show back up at the hospital they will
assume it's because he was recalled which further reinforces that he was the
reason I left."
I continued grinning at Banzai because I knew
what was coming (and I also knew he would extremely hate it) and answered,
"That's right Sherlock, now we just need to make it look like you lived on
the streets for the last three months."
Banzai looked surprised and asked, "What
in the hell do you mean?"
Yuri laughed and added, "Ben, we have to
give them a plausible excuse of where you've been for the last three months
that won't get the team or anyone else in trouble. So we have decided you were
homeless and lived on the streets. Now take off your clothes and put on
these."
Yuri handed him some nasty scrubs that looked
like hell and smelled like shit! Banzai gave him a look that said, are you
fucking kidding me and complained, "What the fuck are these and don't I
have any say in this?"
Yuri looked at him and ordered, "Sergeant
Blaine, do not make me pull rank on you! This is your new uniform until you
arrive at the hospital and are examined by the doctors. Now put them on and act
like you have been homeless for the past three months."
Banzai began to take off his clothes, I noticed
his weight loss and commented, "Well, you sure have the weight loss look
of a homeless person nailed to a T. What happened didn't you like the officer
rations the team gave you?"
I could tell that Banzai fought retching as he
put on the scrubs because he held his breath. He turned his head away from the
nasty scrubs, took a deep breath and answered, "Hell no, they were great
and I ate almost everything except for the nasty dried fish sticks and gelled
pork that seemed to be in most of the officer rations. Something must be wrong
with me because I still kept losing weight."
I smiled at Banzai and consoled, "Well
don't worry, the weight loss makes it look even more realistic." I glanced
at Yuri and asked, "Should we add the finishing touch?"
Yuri and the rest of the team laughed, dumped a
couple buckets of swill on Banzai and he swore…
Flashback - Ben - About another two months
later, the end of his Chechen mission and the return to Moscow
Son of a fucking bitch! It was bad enough
having to wear these nasty assed scrubs, now Yuri and the team covered me in
buckets filled with some sort of nasty slop that was some of the worst smelling
shit I had ever smelled! I complained, "What the fucking hell did you do
that for! The scrubs are bad enough! I'm going to kick your asses."
Then Yuri pulled rank on me, "Sergeant
Blaine, you will do no such thing. Now stop complaining like an officer, wait
for the ambulance to take you to the hospital and remember your story about
being homeless on the streets of Moscow."
The ambulance arrived and I gave them one last
barb as the EMTs loaded me, "Laugh all you want now fuckers, but when I
come back to training I'm going to kick your asses so hard you'll have to use a
dentist for a proctologist."
Jack climbed in the ambulance with me so I
asked, "Jack, what the hell are you doing?"
He answered, "I get to be the hero this
time for finding you."
The EMTs sure weren't happy about hauling me to
the hospital. I noticed they pulled out masks, put some liquid on them and
covered their faces. Jack motioned to them, they understood and made a mask for
him. Thank God the ride to the hospital didn't take long because it was still
early morning. We arrived at the hospital and I had a hell of a surprise…
Flashback – Tatiana – About another two months later in Moscow at the
hospital
I was sitting in the hospital during my morning
break, playing with some food from the cafeteria on my plate when an ER nurse
walked by and taunted me, "I guess you didn't hear, your American
boyfriend is back in the hospital."
I had been on the receiving end of taunts like
this before so I simply said, "Oh yeah! Prove it to me."
She grinned and answered, "No
problem." Then she pulled out her mobile phone, unlocked it and showed me
a picture of my Ben in the ER, he looked terrible.
She continued being evil as she said,
"With the way he looks and the way you look, you two will make a perfect
couple."
I looked down at myself and realized she was
correct, I looked terrible today! I didn't shower this morning and my uniform
was a huge mess from the patients I had been taking care of.
She laughed as I jumped up from the table, but
I thought, some day bitch you will get yours. I dashed to central laundry,
acquired some clean scrubs to replace my soiled uniform, ran to the nurse's
locker room, took a short but effective shower making sure to wash my hair, put
on the scrubs and ran to the emergency room.
I found the room that Ben was in, took a deep
breath and silently prayed that he would still love me. I went inside, pushed
the other nurses out of the way and stood beside his gurney.
He saw me, gave me his special smile and held
out his arms! Even though he smelled terrible I hugged him and gave him my
biggest and best kiss. The doctor interrupted, "Nurse restrain yourself, I
need to finish taking his medical history and then give him a physical."
I pulled away and impatiently waited for the
doctor to finish. Ben motioned with his head, I then noticed Jack in the corner
of the room so I moved over beside him and whispered, "So what is the
plan."
Jack replied in a whisper, "We are telling
everyone that Banzai lived on the streets of Moscow for the past three
months."
I nodded in affirmation and commented,
"Well he sure looks like the homeless men I've seen as they them bring
into the hospital.
Jack laughed, "Yeah, Yuri and the team did
a great job. By the way Banzai is madder than a wet hen."
I wasn't familiar with the saying but from
Ben's expression and Jack's laugh I figured out Ben was upset. I secretly hoped
he would be distracted by his condition and forget about his anger at me.
I continued watching as the doctor finished
taking Ben's medical history, then he started an very abbreviated physical
(probably because of the smell). I moved back to the side of the gurney, the
doctor finished the physical and ordered, "Take him to his room, get him
cleaned up and put him into some new scrubs."
I volunteered, "Doctor, I was his personal
nurse and would be more than happy to give him a sponge bath."
Ben looked at me and made me sad when he
answered, "Sorry, but I can walk now so I would prefer to take a
shower."
I
asked Ben the question I had been dying to ask him and held my breath as I
waited for the answer, "Ben, do you still want me for your personal
nurse?"
My heart did flip-flops when Ben smiled at me
and answered, "Tatiana I sure as hell wouldn't have it any other
way."
I smiled and said, "Ben, let me get you a
wheelchair."
He gave me a dirty look and I realized our
relationship was going to be very different when he answered, "Tatiana, I
can walk and I sure as hell don't need a fucking wheelchair. But I sure would
like some new scrubs and some food."
I took his arm, we walked out of the ER
together and I said, "First Ben, we will get you to your room and into the
shower. While you are showering I will get you some new scrubs and also new
blue booties for your feet." Then I questioned, "And are you sure you
want hospital food?"
Ben never got to answer because we were
interrupted…
Flashback - Ben - About another two months
later, the end of his Chechen mission and the return to the Moscow hospital
Tatiana and I needed to have a talk about what
she did right before I left. I found out from Jack (if the old fucker was
correct) that she blamed her lie to me for me leaving, even after Masha showed
her the results of my mission. I needed to set things straight with her and we
also needed to deal with the lie that she told me. I also realized she needed
to unload on me for leaving the way I did. But first I wanted to get cleaned
up. I was almost persuaded not to kick Yuri's ass, but after these scrubs and
then throwing the nasty shit on me, I was pissed and he was going to get the
ass kicking he deserved.
Tatiana asked me a question about the hospital
food which I prepared to answer but as we walked out into the hallway I was
shocked because it looked like all the press in Moscow blocked the hallway and
waited to talk to me. They all started shouting questions at once and I quickly
looked for an escape route when I saw the stairway wasn't blocked. The last
thing I wanted was to speak with the press so I looked at Tatiana and ordered,
"Make a run for it."
I hit the door for the stairs with her right
behind me. I started running up the stairs and Tatiana yelled, "Ben, you
do not know where your room is."
She was right - I didn't know which floor my
room was on. I stopped, she ran passed me on the stairs and teased, "See
if you can catch me."
I bounded after her, easily caught her, smacked
her on the ass and demanded, "I caught you! Now what is my reward?"
She continued to run and answered, "That
will have to wait until we get in your room."
But what she didn't know is 'that' was going to
wait until we had talked about our problems.
We hit a landing, Tatiana opened the door, I
zipped past her into the hallway and stopped as fast as I could to keep from
running over a fucking Russian Colonel. Tatiana didn't stop as fast so she ran
into me, which knocked me into the Colonel and we all ended up in a tangled
mess on the floor. I thought my ass was grass until the Colonel began to laugh
and said, "Welcome back to the hospital Sergeant Blaine. I am Colonel
Maxim Gorky and I am here to make sure your stay and continued rehabilitation
is not interrupted as before."
I jumped up, assisted the Colonel, stood at
attention, saluted and apologized, "Forgive me Colonel for knocking you
over, I was just... just... just (I couldn't think of an excuse)."
The Colonel surprised me when he interrupted,
"Sergeant calm yourself! I am not like your Major. I am here to be your
friend and to make sure that everything at the hospital meets your
standards."
I couldn't fucking believe it: An officer, a
Colonel no less, was concerned about how I was being treated at the hospital! I
decided to call his bluff and asked, "Sorry Sir, but I find it hard to
believe that an officer, especially a Colonel would be concerned with my
impression of the hospital."
He laughed and answered, "Well Sergeant
Blaine, the problems you had before you left reflected poorly on this hospital
and the entire Soviet medical system. I am here to make sure you do not have
any problems with your stay this time. Now if you wouldn't mind, why don't we
let Tatiana, your personal nurse, get you cleaned up and fed and then seeing as
you avoided the press below I would like you to hold a press conference."
I wasn't exactly sure what was going on, but I
figured I'd dodged a hell of a bullet. To run a Colonel over, knock him on his
ass and have him laugh about it. Things were strange and I needed to ask
Tatiana about it.
I saluted and answered, "Yes Sir! I would
be glad to talk to the press however I am not sure I would like to eat the
hospital food."
The Colonel gave me a smile and said,
"Sergeant Blaine, I am afraid I must insist that you eat only the hospital
food."
He turned to Tatiana and ordered, "Tatiana
your orders are to make sure that Sergeant Blaine does not receive any outside
food from anyone including yourself. I will talk with Sergeant Reynolds and the
Spetsnaz team to make sure they do not bring him any outside food."
Tatiana replied, "Yes Colonel."
I became brave and asked, "Excuse me Colonel,
permission to speak freely?"
He gave me his affirmation so I continued,
"Sir, I am puzzled by the sudden change in how I am being treated. Sir, it
doesn't make any sense to me so if possible could you please explain?"
The Colonel smiled at me and explained,
"There is a simple answer for this Sergeant Blaine: When you were in the
hospital before, it became obvious that we, that is the hospital, let you down.
Oh you had the best doctors and your personal nurse Tatiana is one of the best,
however there were several areas for which we failed to provide even adequate
care. The two areas we identified that were the greatest failures were the
quality of the food and adapting the physical therapy programs to your
individual needs. We are concerned that our failures in those areas, combined
with the arrival of your annoying Major, forced you, a hero of Russia, to
abandon the hospital. We want the world to see that our hospitals are on par
with any hospitals in the world so I have been tasked with making sure any and
all problems you experience in the hospital are rectified."
I nodded my head and continued, "Do I
still have permission to speak freely?"
He again gave me his assurance so I continued,
"Sir you make it sound as if the motivation behind this publicity?"
He laughed and answered, "Sergeant, I
would be lying if I said there wasn't some publicity involved. However you
being a guest in our hospital has given us a unique opportunity to evaluate our
level of care compared to the care you have received in American hospitals. We,
that is the Kremlin, feel this is an educational opportunity for us. Now
Sergeant, if you have no further questions I would suggest we both get cleaned
up."
I noticed for the first time that when I bumped
into the Major I got some of the slop that Yuri poured on me on his uniform so
I apologized, "Sorry again Sir for getting your uniform dirty."
He laughed and said, "Sergeant, do not
worry! You will find that Russian officers operate differently than the
American officers to which you've grown accustomed."
I saluted him, he returned the salute then
turned and walked away.
When he was out of earshot I asked Tatiana,
"Tatiana, what do you know about this?"
She took my arm and answered...
Flashback – Tatiana – About another two months
later in Moscow at the hospital
It was so good being with Ben again and thank
God he had not noticed my weight gain. He asked me about what the Colonel had
said so I took his arm, we walked toward his room and I answered, "Ben,
because you left I have not been my normal observant self. Even though I have
been working as a floor nurse in multiple rooms I therefore haven't noticed
many changes."
Ben gave me a funny look and got ready to say
something until we walked into his room. He stopped, looked around, grinned at
me and said, "Damn this is nicer than some of the hotel rooms I've stayed
in!"
I was also amazed by the changes as Ben
continued, "Tatiana, please tell me if this is representative of the rooms
you have been working in?"
I continued to observe the room then I realized
the truth of the matter, smiled at Ben and answered, "Yes Ben, now that
you are back I must say this room is similar to the rooms in which I've been
working. I am sorry again that I didn't notice it before."
I took Ben into the bathroom, thought for a few
more moments and gave additional information, "I vaguely remember some
news reports that inferred you left the hospital because it wasn't as good as
the American hospitals you had been in."
I was shocked as Ben began to close the
bathroom door before he took off his dirty scrubs and questioned, "Ben,
there is no need to close the door because I was looking forward to seeing you again."
Ben smiled at me and apologized, "Sorry
Tatiana, but our relationship isn't the same as before I left. In fact we need
to have a long talk about the 'meal' you brought me."
I... I... I... was shocked beyond belief! I did
not expect our relationship to be the same but I did expect more than this. I
bit my lip to keep from crying and replied, "Yes Ben, I understand that
you are still angry at me. Please understand I will do anything to ensure you
will forgive me. I will leave you alone and get your clean clothes."
I turned and left the room before I broke down
in tears in front of Ben...
Flashback – Glen – About another two months
later at the home
Jennifer's ordeal with Katie ended and mine had
just started. Jennifer took a look at me today and complained, "Daddy!
What in the fricken-fracken heck did you do to yourself while I was forced to
stay at Katie's?"
I glared at her and lied, "Young lady, I
have no idea what you are talking about."
Jennifer got on high horse and raced on with
her complaints, "Daddy, I don't know how much weight you gained for the
two months I was gone but I bet it's twenty pounds. Your uniforms look terrible
on you since they no longer fit."
I looked down and lamely countered,
"Jennifer they look fine and I sure as hell don't know what you're
complaining about. And now that you're home you need to cut out the bitchy
attitude."
Yeah
Jennifer was back and unfortunately had picked up some bad habits from staying
at the bitch nurse Katie's house.
Jennifer
continued, "Daddy I am not bitchy; I just worry about how much weight you
gained when I was gone."
I smiled at her and answered with something I
knew would piss her off (just to change the subject you understand),
"Don't you have ballet today?"
She gave me a dirty look and declared,
"Daddy, I thought with mother still being in the hospital I wouldn't have
to attend ballet."
I laughed and taunted, "Well Swan Lake is
over but you know how watching it affected her."
Jennifer looked down and answered...
Flashback – Jennifer – About another two months
later at the home
OMG what a two months I'd had! Let's see when I
last talked to all of you, I was still practicing for Swan Lake – now it was
over. But not before Ro-fricken-bear had a huge nervous breakdown and ended up
in the hospital because he couldn't dance his part correctly. Olga was going to
cancel it (yeah!) but then fricken Katie got the principal male ballet dancer
from the NYCB to come and dance! The good news was, unlike Ro-fricken-bear, he
was gay so I didn't have to worry about his hands. Even better news was that he
was a really good dancer and we had a fantastic performance that went on for
five nights. Mother was allowed to attend all the performances but had to
return to the hospital each night. And mother was different than she'd been
before: She praised me like crazy and never voiced even one complaint. The bad
news was she had decided, along with fricken Olga and fracken Katie that I
should be a ballerina full time. The more I thought about it, the more I knew
that I shouldn't have tried to dance my best. I should have just continued with
my normal intentional mess ups. However, I just couldn't do it with all those
people watching me.
I looked down and replied to Daddy,
"Daddy, I know it made her really happy to see how well I did, and I know
her doctor told both of us we shouldn’t do anything to stress her..."
Daddy interrupted, "So Jennifer tell me
what will happen if you don't go to ballet school?"
I shook my head and dejectedly answered,
"Fricken Olga and fracken Katie will tell Mother and then Mother will ask
me why I didn't go. I will be forced to lie to her which will then add to her
stress. So I guess I am forced again to go to ballet school."
Then I came up with an idea, smiled and
continued, "But I also know that Mother will be stressed when she sees the
weight you've gained so if I have to go to ballet school, you need to go on a
diet and start an exercise program."
Flashback – Alexi – About another two months
later at the laboratory
I had settled into a routine at the laboratory
that was very enjoyable because I received much more love and attention from
the staff than I did from my 'parents'. Both 'mother' and 'father' still
stopped by daily to visit and of course they still performed their tests on me,
but I had no interest in going back to their house. I call it their house
because it certainly had never been a home for me. We had started 'family'
counseling sessions with the psychologist, which I despised - but endured.
My newest game was to test the limits of the
psychologist's patience. It produced a battle of wills that I found most
exhilarating.
Flashback – Safia – About another two months
later in Japan
What an intense two months I had endured! We
made it safely to Japan but then all heck broke loose. The twins began to look
for a Sensei to train us and were rejected by so many of them they began to
take it personally. We went to a new dojo and they entered and obeyed all the
crazy customs. The Sensei walked toward them, approached closer than I would
have dared and hurled an insult, "What are you geishas doing in my
dojo?" He turned to his class and announced, "I think they are here
to service us."
Ira kept her head bowed as she answered,
"Excuse my corporeal self Sensei, but you are mistaken. We have come to
study under your leadership."
I knew Ira had chosen the incorrect words after
she said them since the Sensei laughed and replied, "The only studying
fitting for you to do under me is to spread your legs and feel my manhood
inside you!"
Ira looked at him and questioned, "Excuse
me Sensei, did you just insult me?"
He laughed and answered, "No! You three
street whores have insulted me by defiling my dojo with your entrance."
Ira slapped him across the face and the fight
was on! When it was all over, once again we had won the battle and lost the
war.
We walked outside of the dojo and Mira
lamented, "It is a conundrum of the highest priority since we cannot find
a dojo to accept us."
Ira added, "Yes, this culture appears to
be most backward in their treatment of women. I am at a loss for a method to
ensure our training at a suitable dojo."
Then I noticed a sign, pointed and answered,
"Girls, it is simple. We disguise ourselves as men, enter the tournament
and when we win it we will have our choice of dojos."
Mira and Ira discussed the merits of my idea
and finally decided they liked my plan...
Flashback – Todd – About another two months
later on the island
I knew that Liu must
have had a way to contact people off the island. I determined this because the
ships came for the women after we rescued them and they had to be notified.
Finally my perseverance paid off and I was able to follow Liu to a cave I had never
seen. Perched above the cave hidden in the tall trees I saw an antenna, this
had to be the place. I planned on contacting my people, telling them I was
alive and having them come and rescue all of us from this Godforsaken island. I
waited patiently until Liu left, then I waited an additional hour in case she
looped back to try to catch me. Finally I slowly and carefully slipped down to
the cave making sure to avoid the many traps which Liu had placed around the
cave for protection.
Yeah, since I had been
on my own I had really honed all my skills, not just in discovering Liu's many
traps which covered most of the island, but also with the bow, katana and
woodcraft. Shit, I had to get better otherwise I would have spent my whole time
tangled in one of Liu's traps.
I made it to the cave,
slowly slipped inside and found the radio and a bank of batteries. It was an
old as hell radio, the top was off and then I realized that it wouldn't work
since more than half the tubes (hey I did say it was an old radio) were
missing. Yeah, once again Liu had outfoxed me, however I still had another
plan.