UNDERCOVER ⧗ BLACKHILL

Involvement Unknown - 5

(Maria's POV)

"I'm in," I confirm to the group, getting in with the Maximoff Crime Organization was a lot easier than I had thought. Maybe it was because of the Par 18's, which don't come around often, so when they're available, everyone jumps at them to get their hands on them before anyone else does.

"Marci Hills, now dealer to the Maximoff Crime Organization, close to Natasha Romanoff and Wanda Maximoff," Yelena says, liking the way it sounds.

Not gonna lie, it does sound badass.

"Yup, I guess it's time to go tomorrow," I look around at everyone, realizing that if I want to do the best job I can on my mission, that means moving into my temporary house sooner rather than later. 

"Pietro also might have more involvement than we previously thought," Tony points out. "He was at game night, which he probably wouldn't go to if he doesn't have much involvement."

"I'll get what I can," I reassure them, knowing that there's already a high level of trust. "And I'll place an order when I do."

We've all gone through the code as a group, and decided what means what.

Soup: Information, but need to find out more.

Chicken soup: A base, enough to start with

Beef soup: Piece of the puzzle we need to take them down.

Lo Mein: Deal in the works with a major buyer

Vegetable Lo Mein: Deal set, time and place

Beef Lo mein: Location confirmed

'That should be around _ dollars, right?' is more for the deals, the time. If I include cents, that means AM.

Then Fury will ask if I want it delivered right away, which I'll probably say 'yes'.

Right away: Meet at the park nearby my cover house, and there'll be a paper left on the bench with a crossword, and I'll write words in order of the boxes, doubling letters if I need to.
No: Snuck away for a minute, can't right now, but I'll call when I can meet

For example:

1 down: Wanda
2 across: deal
3 across: with
4 down: buyer
5 across: at

6 down: 7 PM
7 down: Saturday
8 across: warehouse
9 down: 8th

From there, a few members of the team will dress up as street thugs, and walk buy the place, getting a basic scope out of it, seeing where possible vantage points to it are, so they can get in place before hand to see what goes down, what's important enough Wanda goes herself.

The next chance I get after whatever time and date I communicate may be, I'll call and ask for any dish, and whether the half-size or full-size portion is better with the combo.

Half size: Couldn't see who the buyer is
Full-size: Able to get enough of the buyer to run through facial rec

While they are super careful in dealings, I'm not so sure they think a lot about vantage points from other places, seeing what car they came in, tracing it back to see if there's a better view on another camera somewhere.

I hope they don't, or we'll basically be wasting our time this entire mission.

***

Mentally, I go through my list of things that I'm going to bring to the cover house. I'm going to miss this place, but it won't last forever, I'll return here someday, to my people, to my room, and life will go back to normal.