Dead Straight (Lee Christmas Romance)

Part 6

That next morning I woke up at 5:15 bright and early so I could get ready for the recon mission. This mission wouldn't require a whole bunch of weapons so I decided to only bring my Walthers, throwing knifes, and classic Bowie knife. Each of the weapons had the same Grim Reaper emblem on it. I contemplated on bringing more but decided against it. Too much would bring attention. But I made sure to make them unseeable to the naked eye and hid them with my outfit.

I ate a simple breakfast that mostly consisted of eggs and different fruits. Then I got dressed in black cargo pants and a simple dark grey shirt that hugged my sides. I had my signature pair of God tags on as well as black ray-ban sunglasses. On my feet were jet black combat boots. A bit monochromatic but I didn't really like wearing bright colors. It makes you stand out. The last thing I did was pull up my dark brown hair up into a tight pony tail.

I left to the plane hangar in my red pantera where Barney instructed me to meet them. I arrived to Lee and Barney were both already there. We talked briefly about our false identities and how we would be acting as bird photographers or something like that. Lee gave me a baseball cap that said " Bird Conserved" in red letters so we would look more real as well as a false passport. We soon enough took off on our 3 hour flight to Vilena.

I sat in the body of the plane with my back leaned up against the wall. Lee and Barney were both in the cockpit leaving me comply alone. I was partially reading over the files of the contact and Vilena again but was really just bored out of my mind. I resorted to cleaning my already polished knives then decided to go ahead and eavesdrop on whatever it was Barney and Lee were talking about. It was kind of hard since the sound of the engines was pretty loud but I managed.

" You know Lacey was never your type. It's her loss right?" The stoic voice of Barney asked. " I should have broken that bastards jaw" Lee replied with malice laced into his words.I rose a brow, of course they were talking about girls. But they were talking about a girl that had been with Lee from the sounds of it. It seemed odd for a girl to leave Lee. He was a good looking, decent guy from my viewpoint and seemed kind enough. This chick "Lacey" probably didn't like him being a Mercenary or something. Her loss.

"He might have broken yours" Barney replied.

" Impossible"

" You know Christmas, I understand but let's just say you were with her for a couple hours and it's nice, hot, and heavy but after that think about it? What do you do for the rest of the day?" Barney asked. Were they really talking about that? Men.

Lee didn't reply immediately. " Now you got more time to feel sorry about yourself" Barney teased but I figured Lee probably wasn't smiling. " Your a bleak bastard" Lee said back, his English accent thick.

"Yeah I know, but what about yesterday? I saw you driving Ferris home. What was that all about?" Barney asked. Lee took a moment to reply and for some reason I really wanted to hear his response. I mean I did care some what about what people thought of me. " I was being a gentleman, something you know nothing about. Bedsides it was dark and cold out" Lee responded.

" Excuses. But I'm serious I still don't think bringing her was such a good idea" Barney continued. I hated how they talked about me like I wasn't even there but the again. They most likely did not know I was listening to them. " Come on Ross, Ferris was one of the Grimms, I have only ever met one other Grim aside from her and they're were pretty amazing" Lee said back. I sort of wondered who it was he had met. It could have been a number of people. The Grimms started off with about 7 men and would add more people when others passed on. I joined with them the fourth year they were around. We had only been a four man team on on our last mission. After that I decided to not continue the team. It felt wrong to try and continue without them.

" I know they were good. Maybe I'm just too old fashioned. A part of me still thinks this job is still a man's" Barney admitted as the plane took a small gradual turn. He had a point, I mean initially I wasn't really welcome with the Grimms but our leader saw something in me. Needless to say I earned my keep.

" More like just old in general" Lee said back sarcastically and I could practically see Barney glaring at him. " You're annoying you know that?" Barney retorted back causing Lee to chuckle. " Yeah? And you're a demented Italian" Lee replied. I snorted and laid down, closing my eyes. They were certainly both interesting characters.