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CHUCK - Day 11 part 1 Thursday
I left the house on my own before 0600 to go down to the patio for a quick breakfast this morning, because I needed to discuss the previous night's call with Sue. Well, she employed thousands of seamstresses, didn't she? Could she use twenty more?
She came over as soon as I arrived, and while drinking coffee and munching on a breakfast sandwich, I quickly told her all that I knew.
"Late last night, I had a call from an Atlanta Deputy named John Hanmer," I began. "He was obviously deeply distressed. He told me that both he and his wife are elders in a Lutheran Church in one of the poorer parts of the City.
"His wife is one of the managers of a project which employs twenty women who are all married to disabled vets. They use a church hall as a sewing room, but a developer has hired some gangsters to get them out. They got nowhere with the police, and the deadline is today. In addition, his wife was assaulted and received some serious threats last night. He'd heard that I was interested in helping disabled vets, and wanted to know if I could help."
Sue's reaction was immediate. "When do we leave?" She asked.
My cell rang while she was talking to Glenda. It was Steve out in Nevada. What's going on? It's the middle of the night there; this must be serious.
However, all he wanted was for me to send Mac and some of the men from our new Marine Guard Force out there ASAP.
I promised to do what I could, but I explained that 'as soon as possible' in this case was going to be lunchtime. I luckily managed to get hold of Buster, and he promised to try and get twelve of Hap's men who wanted to transfer to CS&S fully outfitted and ready to move out. He'd been impressed by a Sergeant Crossley who Colin had just hired, and would put him in charge. Mac was sitting beside Buster, so I was able to quickly tell him what I wanted. I told him to give me daily reports, and we arranged that he would call my cell at 1800 local time, every evening whenever possible.
Sue told Glenda that she was coming to Atlanta with me and would probably be away all day. While she went inside to get her purse, I called the airpark so that they could get my Citation out of its hangar, and start the preflight checks. I called John Hanmer next, and told him that we would meet him either out at the airfield at about 0730 or at the church hall a half an hour later. He said that he'd meet us at the airfield, because he needed to fully brief us before we got to the hall; anything could happen after that.
There was one further call I had to make. This was to the night man in the Atlanta Deputy Marshal's station so that they would know what we were doing.
We were airborne by 0700, and were being given landing clearance at the Atlanta general aviation field within 40 minutes. Deputy Hanmer was waiting by his car as we taxied to the parking spot we were being guided to.
"Everything seemed quiet when I dropped my wife off this morning," he reported. "But as she walked across to unlock the hall door, I thought I saw one of the BBBs across the street."
"I'm sorry to interrupt you, but who are these BBBs?" Sue asked.
"The local gang likes to call themselves the Big Bad Boys," he explained.
"Thank you, but shouldn't you tell us about why we're here?"
Deputy Hanmer started right at the beginning.
"Our Pastor and his wife lost a son in Iraq," he told us. "When the kid's best buddy was totally incapacitated in a later skirmish, the Pastor took the man and his wife in after his discharge from the VA hospital. Then, when they heard about another disabled vet, they took him and his family in too.
"They soon found themselves responsible for twenty-four families (twenty vets and four others) where only the wife was capable of earning a proper living. Only six of the husbands can even barely do part-time work. When it proved difficult to find jobs for all these women, the Church was lucky to be given some old sewing machines. Those were put into the Church hall, and the first wife, who was a skilled seamstress, trained all the others to use them. It's proved quite successful in a quiet way, because it gives each family enough money to live on, without them regarding it as charity.
"Everything was going great until a local developer bought up the land around the hall. When our Pastor flatly refused to sell it, the man hired the BBBs to force us out. The Pastor has appealed to the Police Captain at the local precinct, but he just flatly refused to do anything, and our poor Pastor had to listen to a lot of insults and bad language, as well. The city authorities have been no help either.
"Last night, two of the gang cornered my wife, and after slapping her around, they threatened to rape her and the other women if they were not out of the hall by noon today."
When our car pulled up outside the hall, one of the gang members was blocking the door, but he moved away after I produced my badge and stared him down. Deputy Hanmer took Sue inside to introduce her to his wife and the Pastor. Mrs. Hanmer had a vivid black eye as evidence of her meeting with the BBBs.
I stayed at the door, and quickly counted up to a dozen likely gang members in the neighborhood. One was talking on his cell, and a patrolman soon drove slowly up. While he was talking to the gang leader, I held my badge up, and waved to the policeman to come over, but he totally ignored me and just drove off.
Because it was obvious that things might start getting serious, I called Charles Wragg, the Atlanta Marshal's Station Chief, and requested some backup.
At that moment, there was a crash from within the hall and a series of shots. The Station Chief heard it too, and I heard him shouting to alert his men as the call was cut.
The gang members outside didn't seem to know what to do, so I went quickly inside to check. Deputy Hanmer was clutching his shoulder, while Sue had her gun out of her purse and was covering a BBB man who was begging her not to shoot him. His buddy who had also jumped through the window, was lying on the floor with the back of his head missing.
As Sue seemed to have the hall under control, I went back outside and found a number of cars skidding to a halt in front of the hall. Some Deputies leapt out and started rounding up the gang members, disarming them and making them lie down in the road to be cuffed and chained.
Chief Wragg, who had been in the lead car, looked round.
"Well, Chuck, what on earth is happening here?" He asked.
I took him inside so he could see what was going on inside.
After he'd called for an ambulance to take a cursing Deputy Hanmer to the hospital, Charles shouted for another of his men to cuff Sue's prisoner.
"I called the Chief of Police on the way here, and told him to get over here fast." Charles told us. "I contacted the Bureau as well; they probably have jurisdiction from what I've heard."
"When the two men busted in to the hall," Sue told us, "One man used his gun to shoot Deputy Hanmer here, and that gave me the time to get my own weapon out and put a couple of rounds into the man's head. That was the only target I could aim at. Seeing what had happened to his buddy, the other man just went to pieces."
Her story was confirmed, as the man was talking away, spilling the whole story as fast as he could to the Deputy who cuffed him.
Sue and the Pastor started to comfort and calm the women, some of whom were almost hysterical after Sue had shot right over their heads, killing the other gangster.
The Chief of Police, accompanied by the local Precinct Captain then arrived, with the Chief demanding to know what was happening in a loud voice.
Just as Sue and I accompanied Charles out the door, the Precinct Captain made the mistake of loudly remarking that he didn't understand what all the fuss was about; it was only a bunch of niggers, anyway.
This really set Sue off, and like a bristling terrier, she really laid into the two men, one of whom was a good 18 inches taller than she was.
She told them in a really carrying voice what she thought of them, their city, and the police force for which they were such sorry representatives. She castigated their appearance, their morals, and every failing that they might ever be capable of.
The two men just stood there frozen to the spot, and couldn't have gotten a word out even if they had wanted to.
Those who heard her, which now included both the city's Mayor and the Atlanta FBI Special Agent-in-Charge, who had just arrived, couldn't agree afterwards on how long Sue held the stage. Some said three minutes, while others said five, but they all agreed that she never once repeated herself, and she never used a single cuss word either. Afterwards, the Precinct Captain quietly disappeared, and all that anyone heard from him later, was his resignation.
I found out afterwards that Sue had made two calls on her cell before the gang members broke into the hall; one was to a large mansion on top of a hill just outside the city, and the other to our Lutz airpark to order an aircraft. The results of her first call now started to appear.
A column of ambulances first began arriving, followed in a little while by a series of moving vans. A rather tubby blonde woman seemed to be in the charge of all of them.
Just then, the police who had cordoned off the building, parted to allow an ancient white Rolls-Royce to drive up. A smart, gray-uniformed bodyguard jumped out from the front passenger door, and opened the rear door for a very tall, thin, lady in a black suit that had been created by the eminent Parisian couturier Balenciaga (but nobody here knew that). She also wore four inch heels, and had bright white pancake makeup and startling orange hair that stuck out from her head like a frizzy mop.
Her very presence was most impressive.
Sue paused in her diatribe, gulped, burst into tears, then rushed across into woman's arms.
Her Godmother had arrived.
Christina Ethelburga Calhoun Melville (Queen Ethel to all those in government or positions of authority across five states) had never, as far as was known, left her self imposed isolation in her mansion on the hill for over 25 years. Now aged 94, only her immediate family and numerous servants were allowed inside, but her influence was still powerful. Jim Melville, her husband, had 'gone west' only four years after their marriage, but this had never bothered her. She was supposed to have agents all over the region whose responsibility, rumor has it, was to gather information on everyone and everything.
She herself had been the state's Governor twice (filling in the shoes of a dead incumbent the second time), Lieutenant Governor three times, and she was said to have repeatedly turned down offers of a guaranteed Senate seat in Washington. Her family had ruled the area from the earliest colonial times, and her great grandfather, James M. Calhoun, was the Mayor of Atlanta who unsuccessfully tried to stop Sherman in 1864. Despite this, the carpetbaggers had been warned off the family estates and now they were richer than most everyone in the country.
The short woman in charge of the ambulances was her great-niece, Josie Calhoun Lyons, the city's Commissioner for Community Development. While the distinguished looking man quietly standing in back, who was accompanied by three uniformed men, was Wendell C. Calhoun III, the current Lieutenant Governor of the State of Georgia, and also her great-nephew.
Queen Ethel had been Sue's grandmother's best friend and roommate through both private school and Bryn Mawr. By her very arrival, all the onlookers were convinced that she had anointed "Queen Sue" as her successor. But Sue never took advantage of this; in fact, she never realized what had happened. In future years, if she ever called anyone in government, they immediately knew who she was, and what she wanted usually got done without delay.
But in Atlanta, and around the country, Sue's name lived on for many years. Nobody realized that she owned a business in the city, but what became known as 'Sue's Game' remained popular at the dinner parties of the rich and well to do, as well as in bars across the city. Someone would often be challenged to describe another person for as long as they possibly could, without once repeating themselves...
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Chuck Holy shit! There are babies everywhere. All of them are hollering/crying and they all need attention right now. Literally hundreds of babies were demanding diaper changes, demanding a breast to nurse, and looking for loving attention. All I could do is stand in the middle of the bedlam with my mouth open, too terrified to do anything. Someone was shaking me, "Wake up, Chuck, you're having a bad dream, wake up, Honey." I opened by eyes to find Brandy looking at me with a concerned...
Steve I was having coffee in my room at the resort. I had the patio doors open, looking out from the ninth floor toward the beautiful lagoon or small harbor in front of the hotel. It was still too early for beach people, but there were workers cleaning the beach. Two tractors were dragging the sand, smoothing it out to make it more appealing to the tourists. In the harbor and at the dock were several large yachts and sailboats. None, however, rivaled the Have Mercy, the Mercy Mercy, or...
Steve Mercy was shaking me, "Steve, Steve, wake up. Chuck may need you. I think Maria's in trouble." I sat straight up trying to think why Maria would be in trouble. Oh yeah, she's about to hatch. "What kind of trouble, Mercy, what is it?" Mercy just shook her head, "I don't know, but she just woke Chuck up. He may need us. Let's get over there to make sure they are alright." I began putting some clothes on. Sue, Kathy, Mickey, and Juanita woke, seeing Mercy and me dressing,...
Steve I had been told first by Mercy, then by Sue, that all of the women wanted to talk to me. That usually is almost instant death, or maybe it was going to be an execution, mine. At least they had waited for me to finish eating breakfast before the hanging. It was with great apprehension that I was following Sue, Kathy, and Mickey up the stairs, or more appropriately, the broad curved ladder that goes up to the salon. Mercy was at the helm, with Juanita sitting beside her . Juanita...
Chuck A speaker in the room was broadcasting reveille. It had the desired effect, as I swung my foot and stump out of bed. Across from me, Lisa was sitting up, rubbing her eyes. She looked up at me and said, "Old habits are hard to break, aren't they?" Wanda was trying to pull a pillow over her head, but Lisa gave her a shake and said, "You better get up, or you won't get a shower and breakfast." Lisa looked up at me, "Since you're fast, go do your thing, and I'll go next after I...
Chuck Lisa and I were having fun doing what we liked to do when we were relaxing. We were both sitting on a little raised stage at the bottom of what was like a theater in the round. The platform had a baby grand with a bench and two chairs, with Lisa and me sitting on them. An interesting part of this is that there was absolutely no sound system. If you were looking for un-plugged, this was the ultimate. The acoustics in the theater had been designed so that what was played on the little...
Steve I was up early, as usual, sitting in the parlor on one of the fixed stools at the bar in the suite. You know how it is; waiting for coffee to brew can seem like an eternity when you don't want to sit there and wait. There was no place else to go and nothing else to do. If I went out to the patio, I would just have to come back in. If I went back into the room, I would probably disturb someone. Wonder why I can never sleep late? Only on rare occasions can I sleep until seven or eight....
Steve As soon as I stepped out on the patio, Tiny came in the back door, waving some papers while grinning his conspiratorial grin. I asked, "What are up to, Tiny? What's got you wound up so early?" "I've just heard from another Saudi sheik who is buying a new 737. The man heard we were buyers and called our office. The night customer service people transferred the call to me and we will get the new or rather new/used bird today. The Sheik's agent said we would like the price. I...
Chuck When Sue and Don relieved me at midnight, I went down to the office to check the rings I was going to hand out later that night. I separated eight of the rings, along with the special one I had made up for Lisa. The only difference between the special one and the others was that it had two brilliant blue diamonds on each side of the big diamond while the other rings had two bright red rubies on each side of a big diamond. The bands were wide, much wider than what a normal engagement or...
Chuck I woke up in a sweat. Remembering the night before didn't help with the PTS, with maybe a D on the end. That was close. I wonder why the bomb detonated, did it have a timer? Was there another person with a remote detonator? I doubt I'll ever know. I do know I was grateful to have carried Lisa out of the way. A heavy-breasted person was at my back and it wasn't Frieda as the belly wasn't bulging. That's when I remembered Gina. My, oh my, what do I do after hearing Giovanni's...
Steve Chuck had come out for breakfast this morning to talk to me about something. When we had our coffee and were sitting at the bar away from people, Chuck said, "There's a bunch of things coming together all at once. Magellan called to say the boat's ready to be picked up. I've transferred funds and paid them, so we can bring it up any time." He took a sip of coffee and said, "You want to go to Hawaii for a few days, which at a minimum is a day going and a day returning. I can get...
Steve Amazing, one night the little ones don't wake you up, and the next they wake up a couple of times. It wasn't bad either time, as Mickey and Giovanna were quickly up to take care of them. I can't imagine what Chuck is doing with ten of them in his big suite. Chuck has made some very nice plans for us, considering I thought the resort was sold out to other customers. Chuck is sneaky that way. He'll have had this planned for months now, and was able to coordinate holding the Costa...
Chuck It seemed like just a few minutes ago I was totaled, dead tired, completely exhausted. So what the heck, what's the matter? I never have trouble sleeping. I can even sleep soundly on the hot sand snuggled up against a track, like an APC or an Abrams tank. The shade is always good unless it's too close to mid-day. What's in my head now that I'm having trouble sleeping? I looked at the clock to see it was only two o'clock, and I was wide awake, tired but definitely wide awake. Oh...
Chuck I heard a baby cry and the bed shifted a little. There was activity over by the small table that I was told was a changing table. I raised my head to see who was up and saw Nancy changing a diaper. Her little one was making noises, but not crying. I suppose since she was getting attention that was what she wanted. Wanting to watch what the process was, I turned on my back and propped my head up on a folded pillow. After she changed the diaper, she put the infant back into the...
Steve We had eaten a great supper and were all relaxing on the patio when Wanda came to get me. She asked if we could go somewhere to talk. Not knowing what was up, I took her to Sue's offices in the other end of the trailer from the bedrooms. Wanda and I sat down and she said, "Steve, I don't know what to do. I talked to Chuck this morning and he's been shot. Lisa, Nightfox, and him, were all shot. He says they're not too serious, but I'm not sure about that. When I called our base...
Steve I had just kissed Sue goodbye when she left the airpark to go to work and Chuck was inside the hangar going over evidence. This was going to be a busy day. Turning back to the charter office, I found a new person at the desk. "Hi, Charlotte, I thought Star was working this morning." "No Sir, Star is right seat on the G5 out there leaving in a few minutes. If you need to talk to her, she's probably on the aircraft now." "That's okay, I'm sure she's fine. Do we have the other...
Steve, Sunday mornings are always fun around home. Chuck showed up with his crew, dressed to stimulate as much as my ladies did. As breakfast was eaten, Chuck said, "I want play with the new boat. What do you think, Steve, could we take it out for a while?" People heard Chuck's request and were speaking up, "Yeah, take us out on the new boat." "Let's see if Chuck can captain his new boat." "Come on Steve and Mercy; let's help Chuck check out his boat." Sue rolled her eyes and...
Steve Now that Chuck was back from hiding out in the Gulf, life around home seemed to be getting back to normal. He was busy with a bunch of federal people and his prisoners were all transported to DC where they would be held or given an option to be bailed out. I told Chuck that I didn't care what happened, as long as they left me and my company alone. Tiny told me that a major military supplier was negotiating to have us produce bodies for their equipment. That is what we wanted in the...
Steve Three weeks later Wes was sitting on an overturned bucket, staring at the right wing of the parts that Jeff's team had molded before he had been hired. He had been determined to have this bunch of parts flying within a week or two. No such luck. He kept finding flaws in how the pieces fit together. He kept checking the blueprints that were downloaded from the internet with the finished product, and found the pre-made parts to be exact to the print. The problem was they didn't fit,...
Chuck This party is an amazing testament to all of the girls' ability to organize, plan, and carry through to their objective. There were many people who showed up that I would not have expected. John, the Marshal, and their families came followed shortly by Dewey and his family. I was honored to have him here, as that man has some "cool." I had to ask John and the Marshal, "I thought you two were staying down in Costa Rica?" John answered, "I wanted to surprise you. You know we had...
Chuck I was on my way to Cut Bank, Montana. Way up in northern Montana. My Aunt Etta-Mae had called saying she was in trouble. Lisa had just asked me to tell her what was really happening. The cabin satellite phone was ringing. Julie went to answer it and looked up at me. I told her I could transfer the call to my headset. "Johnson." "Is this Charles Johnson?" I told the voice, "It is. Most call me Chuck." "Chuck, you have an aunt named Etta-Mae Johnson, right?" Being wary I...
Chuck Waking up in a strange bed, or in this case, on a strange couch is disconcerting. I had to look around to find my leg before going to the bathroom. As I traversed to the toilet, I thought I smelled coffee brewing. When I left the bathroom, I went straight to the kitchen and found Julie and Missy sitting at the big kitchen table with fresh cups in front of them. In a chair across from them was a steaming cup of coffee. Julie smiled, pointed to it, and said, "Good morning,...
Steve Last night had been strange. Chuck was in a fight, no that wasn't right. He really didn't have a fight. That monster guy attacked him, and Chuck just tossed him. He did whack the guy in the nose, but it could have been the heel of the hand into the nose, a killing blow. We all learned that one. That wrist thing Chuck did was so quick that it was just something that happened as the big guy went over the top of him. I was sitting drinking that first cup of coffee contemplating what...
As soon as we all made it back to Mac's after the kidnapping, Sue, Mercy, and Kathy cornered me. Sue said, "You shouldn't have been involved in that. You are the father to a bunch of kids with another on the way. What in the world were you thinking?" Before I could answer, Mercy said, "I know you felt you had to help Chuck, and we all love him, but you have to be careful, Steve. We need you, we don't need you hurt." Kathy actually defended me, "Steve is a man. He has to defend his...
Steve I woke up several times during the night, hearing things that were normal sounds. Sure wish Chuck had stayed, I would have felt a lot more secure. Funny how a guy like that can make you feel safe. He's just a guy, a one- legged guy with a crooked smile, who is as friendly as a kitten. He can be vicious when he's on the job though. Drinking coffee at 5:55 in the morning is a good way to enjoy the day. I called down to the gate guard to see how everything was going and he said that...
Steve (Tuesday) Mercy and I were in the restaurant early, having coffee, when a couple of salt and pepper guys came in. I stood and both came toward me with their hands stuck out to shake. They sat with us and were brought coffee. Bud Anderson, said, "I've been working on this case for a year and thought we had most of it put to bed. There must be more to it, as you've turned up a significant group here in Nevada." Jim said, "Chuck split me off as his backup a while back to work with...
Chuck A few days later, we were passing Gibraltar. Everyone on board was out on deck to view the sight that was so familiar from the kids' geography books, the thick yellow National Geographic magazine pictorials, and advertising. The iconic view we all remember from the Prudential Insurance ads, though, is visible only from one angle, on the Mediterranean side of the Rock. Fortunately, our course kept that view in sight for quite a while. Gibraltar looks unrecognizably different from...
Steve As I passed through the galley, I was confronted by Glenda, still in her robe. I asked, "Are you going to stay in today?" Glenda said, "I think Martin and I have been overdoing it. The scooter thing we did yesterday helped, but we were both so tired last night that we thought we should stay home and rest a little. I can spend the day doing some dusting, and I need to wash some clothes for my man. The two of us could use the rest. I thought I might give home a call this afternoon to...
Chuck The last baby had been fed her middle of the night feeding, and I was really deep asleep. Lisa was shaking me. When I came out of my fog, I heard her say, "Your cell phone is ringing. Hope that isn't a problem." I got up from bed and hopped into my closet/dressing area to retrieve my phone from the tray I put pocket junk in. "Johnson," "You son of a gun, we did just like you've been doing and let it ride, all of it, we kept letting it ride. Brother Chuck, Tiny and I have hit...
Chuck I woke being hugged between Julie and Brandy. The two were really hanging on, but I needed to offload pretty soon. Sliding from the grasp of the two women, I saw that Lisa was sleeping with her head on Gina's cushions. I was going to go back to bed after using the head, but saw it was five fifty already and we were going to shove off early this morning. Instead of going back to bed, I hopped back to the head, showered, shaved, and quickly dressed to go see if anyone else was up. The...
Steve On Monday and Tuesday, Sue and I went through our local plants, visiting with the managers and workers, assuring them of what a great job they were doing. A highlight of the visits was my time spent in the recently expanded R&D building. The new guy, Sandy Flowers, had become an integral part of the team there. After setting up software to track testing and modifications, Sandy had begun helping Gerry on one of her quests to create a special polymer composite that would resist...
Chuck Life was settling down all around. I was just doing the usual office work with no flying everywhere on an almost daily basis for a change. John Scott seemed to have settled down in DC and was enjoying his job again. I had the flying lessons and was checked out in the new Citation X but had no reason to go anywhere. The charter company used it once for a quick trip to San Diego and back, but Lisa took that one. She said it was great to have an aircraft that could fly that far, that...
Steve Oh, what a night! My lovely ladies must have thought I needed the attention as they were absolutely on fire. I think they were trying to help me set a record as they all had some of my loving and started over again. The surprise among the players was a sneaky person, as all of a sudden, when Mercy fell to the side, two large bazooms were in my face and they did not belong to Sue. Sue's mother was sitting on my pride and joy, smiling down at me. She said, "Oh, Steve, this feels so...
Chuck How can that be? My cell phone is ringing. I don't remember leaving it on. Jesus, who could be calling at, I lifted my head to see it was six thirty? I was on the outside of the pile of female flesh, so I was able to get up and hop to the table where my pocket stuff and cell phone was. "Hello." A sort of familiar voice said, "Hey, Chuck, how're you and that sweet Lisa doing?" Trying to figure out who this was I said, "We're all fine, ah, who is this?" "Hey man, this is...
Chuck Sunday mornings are fun out at the park. The women wear near nothing, driving us men crazy. I anticipated a good time. When I woke and began my exercises, John joined me on a treadmill, followed by some weights. He said, "It sure would be nice to have you close by. We could workout together. It's a lot more fun to do this stuff when you have a buddy." About that time, Lisa, Brandy, and Tiani came in and began using the other treadmill and the stationary bikes. Little Tiani said,...
Chuck Sunday Waking up in a strange place is always weird, but this is too much. I'm hugging someone different, my hand is around a soft full breast, and if what I feel is real, I'm balls deep in a very juicy unfamiliar pussy that is sliding slowly back and forth. I can feel breath on my shoulder and hear Lisa breathing. She has a little catch to her breathing when she is sleeping and when she's excited. But her hand is holding and squeezing my balls so she is probably not...
Steve We picked up a nice wind the first day out. There was a low pressure area stalled to the northeast of us, providing us with an almost direct stiff wind from the south-southeast. If we can keep this up, we'll be home in four days easy. Chuck had the helm this morning and seemed to be contemplative about going home. I went up and handed him a fresh mug of coffee. "What's on your mind, Guy, anything to worry about?" Chuck smiled and said, "I love being out on the water, but I...