Let's Sit Back and Watch the Bed Burn |Virgato|

Chapter 11

"I said left, you are going right."

Chris rolls his eyes as he continues his descent through the ventilation system of a building just a little ways outside of Miami, which Richard discovered to be the homebase of Conway. After a long debate as to who would actually go in and capture him, Chris decided he would take it upon himself to go in, despite Joel's protests of wanting to go in himself.

Chris was starting to regret putting Joel in charge of directions because currently, to his left was nothing but a fucking wall. "Baby, I believe I have told you this before, but you are fucking terrible at directions. Hand the laptop to Richard. He can do better than you."

He hears Joel huff and smirks. "I am not bad at directions; you are just terrible at following them. Now do what I told you and go left."

"I can't go left!" Chris protests once again, grabbing the camera from his headset and aiming it towards the wall. "You see this? This is what is there when I go to the left. I am not the Incredible Hulk. I cannot burst through the wall, alright?" He continues to crawl forward, stopping once he reaches one of the vents. He peers down into the room, noticing movement from a couple of men. "I think I found Conway's room. I'm setting off the stun grenade."

"We'll be out here in the truck," Joel tells him. "Good luck, baby."

Chris silently removes the vent cover, setting it beside him before tossing the grenade down into the room and lowering his mask down over his face. He hears various people choking and yelling, Conway definitely one of them. Chris quickly slides out of the vents and into the room, swiftly knocking the guards out while they coughed and rubbed their eyes.

He eventually finds Conway on his bed, rubbing his eyes and blinking furiously. "I heard you drop in! Where the fuck are you?"

Chris quiets his steps as he grabs the lamp off of the nightstand, swinging it into Conway's head and knocking the man out. "Right here, buddy," he whispers to himself before picking the man up and opening the balcony door, hooking the grapple from his bel onto the ledge and gliding both of them down.

"I feel like that was far too easy," Erick comments when Chris gets back to the truck, a knocked-out Conway in his grasp. "That should have been way harder. How on Earth did you manage to get him out that easily?"

Richard waves his hand at him, "Eh, focus on the victory here, Erick. We got the one thing that could save Joel and Chris. Let's head back to Maria's and get him in the basement. He should wake up pretty soon. We can talk to him then." They close the doors to the truck before tearing down the road, Chris keeping a watchful eye on Conway the entire drive.

"Do you think that was too easy?" he asks Joel as they turn onto the highway. "I did manage to get in there pretty easily, but I figured it was because I've been doing this for so long, I grew accustomed to it. Maybe I got lucky this time?"

Joel shakes his head, taking Christopher's hand in his and rubbing his thumb over his husband's knuckles. "You made it look easy, babe. You've been doing this for an incredibly long time, and you are right, you just grew accustomed to it. There is nothing wrong with being a good field agent, which is what you are." He pecks Christopher's cheek before turning his attention back towards the front, where Richard and Erick have their hands intertwined and resting on the center console. "Okay, explanation time. When the hell did this happen, and how come Chris and I were in the dark about the whole thing?"

Richard lets out a chuckle from the driver's seat, turning to Erick with a grin. "You want to tell them, or should I?"

Erick rolls his eyes before turning towards the back seat, facing them as he begins, "Well, I was at a bar one night after the servers crashed at the agency, stressed out of my mind. I was hoping to unwind, maybe have a one-night stand to take my mind off of things, when I ran into this guy here." He smiles fondly at his boyfriend before turning back to Joel and Chris. "We basically fucked in the bathroom of the bar, and then again back at my place. The next morning, I actually wanted to see him again and invited him out on a date, and well, that's it."