This was the big day. Most people couldn’t sleep, but at 5am everyone was wide awake. Getting coffee and waiting. The group was not suppose to arrive until after 10am. Scott and his 2 guys were in a hotel down the street. He was patched into the camera’s at the hotel on his laptop. Even though it was several hours to go he couldn’t take his eye’s off of his laptop. The group arrived at the hotel in three Ubers. When one of the men got out of the first uber he got a cart from in front of the hotel and when the other man got out he helped him load their luggage out of the uber onto the cart and it left. The second uber had two men who got out and added their luggage to the cart and then the same with the third uber. When everyone had their luggage on the cart, two of the guys took it inside following the other men. The men checked in at the desk and headed to their rooms. It was the room with the office area and three bedrooms. The same rooms Scott and his people had been in. When they went in their room they unloaded the cart putting somethings on the floor and some on the table. When finished they put the cart outside the door, shut the door and put the little lock guard on it so no one could come in. Two of the men went to the bathrooms. Scott yelled at Brake, “Hit them.” Brake was surprised and said, “Now?” Scott said, “Yes quickly before they have a chance to scan the room.” Brake clicked the gas switches praying they worked. No one made a sound. Everyone just stared at their screens. As if they were holding their breath. The odorless gas quietly seeped into the bathrooms and all the other rooms. Everyone was intensely watching on the edge of their seats worried it would not work. A pain was building in Scott’s head with worry that it wasn’t going to work. That they had missed something. Were they going to have an all out battle at the hotel to keep them from killing everyone there? Then there was a noise from the bathroom heard in the office area so one of the men went to check. He only made it through the bedroom to the bathroom door when he went down. One of the other men went and looked into the bedroom and saw the man on the floor so he headed for the door but didn’t make it. Scott checked with Blake asking if they were all down. Blake and Chloe agreed all six were down. Scott told Blake, send the clean-up crew. Scott and his men picked up somethings and headed to the hotel in a white deliver van. They parked in back and went up in the hotel service elevator. When they got to the hotel room door Scott called Blake and asked if it was ok to go in. If the gas had been cleared out. Blake and Chloe agreed it was safe and Blake opened the door. The three went in with guns drawn and closed the door behind them. Scott started with the man on the floor closest to the door. Checking his neck for a pulse. He then took out a syringe and gave the man a shot in the neck. Scott then took a picture with his cell phone of the man’s face. His man next to him asked, Why the shot? Scott said, so they don’t wake up ever again. He then told his man standing next to him to check all pockets and put everything in a bag labeling it. Scott moved to the guy at the table. He did the same thing. Checked for a pulse, gave a shot and took a picture. Then had his guy check all pockets and place them in a separate bag. In the bathroom he did the same thing with the last guy. He then stood staring at the man who had taken his shirt off before he dropped to the floor. Scott noticed his muscles and was thinking he must work out a lot. If I had to fight with him could I have won. Scott’s man said, Is there something wrong? Scott turned and said, I think I have seen him some where before. He just finished with the last guy when clean-up showed at the door. Scott went through some of the bags looking at the guns they had brought. One had a gun he had always wanted. He took one of the bags, told his two men he was going back home and would meet them there later. In the elevator on the way down one of the hotel employees asked him what was up. He said. Bed bugs, I am not suppose to tell anyone I will get fired so don’t say a word. The employee said, yes, I will not tell anyone. Scott said, we are almost done and I was hoping no one would notice we were here. Scott went back home and went in his room. He took off all the clothes he had been wearing and took a shower. After the shower he looked in the mirror at his body and decided he had to be better fit to protect Angel and her kids. Sitting around guarding everyone had made him weak. He got dressed and went to the kitchen to sign up for the body building meals. They gave him a strawberry protein drink to get him started. When he passed Paul’s room he noticed his brother was there. He asked Paul how is was doing and he said, good. Scott said, Could you take over my guard duties? They don’t think Matthew is coming back and Carlson has asked me to take over some of his duties. I can’t stay up all day and night so this would really help me out. Paul said, sure. Scott said, if anything happens you can always wake me or call me if you can’t find me. Paul said, Its not a problem. I haven’t been doing much anyway. Scott said, Thankyou. Your the best. Scott went back to Carlson’s office and the plastic bags were on his desk. Carlson said, how did it go? Scott said, well. Really well. They had no idea we knew they were here. Carlson said, I thought you were going to knock them out, not kill them. Scott replied, I was going down that road and then realized that if the situation got out of hand they would start by killing everyone in the hotel. Carlson agreed. Carlson got a message from Blade. He opened it and there was a picture of two of the men. They were from South Africa. Really bad and always completed their missions. Carlson turned the computer screen toward Scott and said, Blake has identified two of the men. From what I read here you made the right decision. Carlson and Scott went through the cell phones until they found one who had been talking with the pilot. Scott texted the pilot that they would be taking another job on Friday. We will be going to South America with another group. We may call you to pick us up there. The pilot texted back, not problem. I will return home and let me know when you need me. Scott said to Carlson, I think Matthew would have been happy with how we handled this if he knew about it. Carlson agreed. Carlson asked if he had thought about taking over for Matthew. Everyone works good with you and I believe Matthew would have wanted it. Scott said, I believe Matthew is not coming back. We have had some of our best men looking high and low for him. Carlson agreed and said, he will be greatly missed. Carlson’s man came in the open door of the office. He said, I checked the rooms really well and I believe it looks like no one has been there. Our clean-up crew did a great job. I checked with the computer group and they took care of all cameras so there is no record you guys were there before them or after them. Carlson said, thankyou. The man left. Scott said, I just asked Paul to take over my guard duties so I am free to move into Matthews slot. Carlson said, Great. I need help with the project next door. Maybe we could meet after breakfast tomorrow. Scott agreed. Scott went out to visit with Mom by the pool. Mom didn’t smile at him. She was sure he did something with Angel. Mom and everyone was fine. They were enjoying the last couple of days at the pool. Soon they will have to stay inside because the weather is going to turn cold. Scott told Mom that Paul would be taking over his duties because he was going to be doing more for Carlson. He told Mom not to worry she could always call him if she needed him. Mom said, that was fine. Paul was a good man and she was sure he would take good care of everyone. When Scott finished talking to Mom he went to his room. He had several bottles. He picked out the Jim Beam Bourbon and took a couple of swigs. He was wound so tight he thought he was going to explode. He laid down and was now able to sleep. It had been a day he didn’t want to repeat.
The nurse woke me at 7am. She said, sleeping in are you? I said, I guess so. She said, I came to weigh you, put cream on your stomach, change your sheets and collect dirty clothes. I said, great. I just need to pee first. She said, good chance to get a pee test. I went to the bathroom and got her a pee test. I changed into the lounging pajamas after she put cream on my stomach. She changed my sheets and got me back in bed. She took my blood pressure and said, Do you have any pains. I said, just my back. She said, that’s expected. I will take all these clothes to be cleaned and send someone back with them. She left. The rest of the day was eating, sleeping and watching TV. Didn’t do much at all today. The babies kicked several times. I didn’t mind because I felt this was telling me they were ok.