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Chief Crowley called the meeting to an end. He told Captain Abernathy to light a fire under the detectives and see if anybody had seen any African-American strangers recently. At best we had maybe a day or two before something might happen. Captain Bullfinch and Lieutenant Roscoe were told to give whatever support possible, including moving watch schedules around. Hank was told to assist me and dial up TRT.

As far as I was concerned, Priority One was taking care of my family. What was even before Priority One? Priority Zero? Could my mathematician wife tell me? That was too metaphysical for me. I looked at my lieutenant. “Hank, we need to get Kelly and the kids. Send somebody in an unmarked to get her and the kids.”

“Where do you want them?”

“Bring them to the house. I’ll figure out how to hide them. Please, now.”

He nodded and left. I needed to find a place to hide Kelly, Riley, and Seamus. The one thing I wanted to do was get them away from Matucket. I didn’t want them at the apartment, or my parents’, or her parents’, or any other places around town that somebody might be able to find. Still, one place came to mind.

I had known Tolley Hunter since 2006, when Bravo Three had rescued her USO tour in Iraq. She had sworn at the time that she would do anything for any of us at any time. Since then, Kelly and I had seen her several times, and she had always repeated that to us. There had been the time back when I got the Medal and met her in LA. Then, a few years later, she had given a concert in Atlanta and had invited us to attend, with free backstage passes and an invite onto the stage when she sang ‘A Song for Bravo Three.’

Just a few years ago she had done a police mystery movie in Atlanta, with her as a lady cop, and had me come over as a technical consultant. I had told her that I would be happy to help, but that I had a regular job. Her agent spoke up at that point and informed me what they paid for technical consultants; I promptly put in for vacation time and a brief leave of absence. The money involved might not be great in Hollywood, but in West Georgia it was some truly serious coin!

Being a technical consultant was hilarious. I made no friends with the wardrobe people when I informed them that lady cops didn’t wear spandex and spike heels. They wore body armor, showed no cleavage, wore flats, and took pains to not look sexy. It wasn’t just because the sleazeballs they were arresting were assholes. The sleaziest people they had to deal with were their fellow police officers! At one point I had Tolley arrange for a limo, and she took Kelly and some of the female police officers out for a girl’s night out. She got an Oscar nomination out of it, although the movie only made $200 million at the box office.

While doing the movie, she managed to come out to Matucket and stay with us several days. I remember one afternoon, when she was sitting on the dock while Riley and I fished for dinner, and Tolley said, “You have no idea what this means to me, Grim.”

“Hmmm?”

“This is normal life. This is how normal people live. I grew up normal, just like you did. My parents were normal people, ex-soldiers like you and Kelly – oh, face it, military spouses are military as much as their husbands.”

I had snorted out a laugh and agreed. “Okay, we hadn’t done the vows yet, but I’ll go along with that. Still, this isn’t normal.” I waved a hand around at the lakefront property. “Kelly as a professor and me as a police sergeant with an Army pension make a well-above average family income.”

“Yeah, but at least you know that. You have no idea how many people in Hollywood think that normal people live in Malibu and Beverly Hills, or maybe mid-town Manhattan overlooking Central Park. Being around you and Kelly reminds me all the time that normal isn’t normal.”

We were interrupted at that point when Riley got a tug on her rod and yelled out. I gave her a little assistance and we helped her reel in a mid-sized yellow perch. She was extremely proud, and we promised it would be dinner that night. Tolley commented later, “Like I said, Grim, normal.”

That same weekend she said, “You’ve been very good for my career, you know.”

Kelly and I looked at her in confusion. “Excuse me?” I said.

She laughed. “I’m halfway to an EGOT with you!”

“An EGOT?” I asked.

Kelly answered, “You mean an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony?” Tolley nodded and Kelly explained what that meant to me.

Tolley said, “I got another Grammy for Best Song for A Song For Bravo Three and an Emmy for the Fourth of July special we did in Baghdad. Too bad we couldn’t figure out how to do a movie or play about it.”

“Ye Gods!” I replied.

She laughed. “Don’t worry. I’ll get an Oscar in the near future. Disney is doing another one of their princess animated movies and I got tagged to do the voice and singing for the princess, as well as to write the songs. That’s pretty much a lock for Best Song. If they ever turn it into a Broadway play, I might even be able to write something for that.”

“Huh.”

If there was one person who could help, and who would mean it and have no ulterior motives, it was Tolley Hunter. I found an empty office and pulled out my phone. I dialed her number and ended up with an assistant. “Tolley Hunter’s phone. This is her assistant, Devin Reynolds. How can I help you?”

“This is Graham Reaper. I need to speak to Tolley as soon as possible.”

“I’m sorry, but Miss Hunter is not available. Can I take a message?”

I glanced at my watch. It was eleven in the morning Georgia time, which made it eight in California. “Miss Reynolds, is she anywhere near? I need to speak to Tolley as soon as humanly possible. That means I need you to interrupt her shoot or song or whatever. If she’s at home, find her. I promise you, she will be happy you did, and unhappy if you don’t. Tell her the Grim Reaper says it is a matter of life and death, and he is not using a figure of speech.”

A couple of minutes passed before Tolley said, “Grim? Is that you? What’s up? You really got Devin flipping out! How can I help?”

“Tolley, remember when you told me you’d do anything for me, for saving you in Iraq?”

“Grim?”

“Do you remember, Tolley? Please! I’m calling it in. I need some help.”

The line was quiet for a few seconds. “Grim, what’s wrong? What’s going on?”

“Tolley, I can’t explain much, but there’s a threat. I need to get Kelly and the kids out of Matucket for a few days. I can’t explain this, and you can’t ask or tell anyone, but I need them out of here, right away.”

“Grim, you’re serious?”

“Yes.”

There was another delay of a few seconds. “When do you need to get them away?” she asked.

“Yesterday. I have an unmarked unit grabbing them up right now.”

“Okay. Give me a few minutes and somebody will contact you at this number. You can’t tell me anything?”

I replied, “Sorry, no. I might be able to explain soon, but I can’t even promise that. I simply need to get them out of here immediately.”

“Okay. Somebody will contact you soon. Do what you need and tell Kelly I’m here for you both.” With that she hung up and I put my phone back in my pocket.

I went to Hank’s office and said, “I’m heading home. Figure I’m off the schedule for the next few days.”

He nodded. “Kelly and the kids?”

“Working on it.”

“Abernathy sent an unmarked with another unmarked as an escort to Matucket State. From there they are heading to Riley’s school.”

I nodded. “Thanks. I’ll call you as soon as I get things sorted.”

Hank sent me on my way, and I drove home. On the way home, my phone rang through the Bluetooth to the speaker in the car. It was a man who was calling. “Sergeant Reaper?”

“Yes.”

“My name is John Belden and I handle security for Tolley Hunter. Miss Hunter asked me to call you. I gather there is a security threat to you and your family.”

Tolley must have believed me. “Yeah, there’s a problem. I asked Tolley to help.”

“Can you explain the nature of the threat, Sergeant?”

“Not at this time, but it is serious. There is a potential for multiple hostiles. That is all I can say, and you can’t tell her or anybody else.”

“How many individuals need to be evacuated.” I hesitated, and he said, “I need to know for transportation purposes, Sergeant.”

“Three. My wife and two children. Oh, and the dog,” I answered.

“Size and breed of the dog, please?” I blinked at that. This guy was one cool customer. He just asked technical questions with no change in tone. I answered a few more questions and he said, “I can have a plane at the Matucket County Airport by five this afternoon. Will that be satisfactory?”

“Yeah, that will be fine.”

“We’ll contact you half an hour before we land. Can you meet us securely?”

“Yeah, not a problem.”

“See you then, Sergeant Reaper.” He hung up.

I wondered if I had ever met Belden before. Tolley had security around her, but she kept it very low key. Still, she was a major Hollywood personality. She didn’t go to the bathroom without somebody doing a ten-point security check.

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Monday, May 26, 2008 Certain things worked out for me. The bullshit out of the CORB had gotten pretty extreme, and the Justice Department planned to investigate them and not me. The Review Board wasn’t helped when Pendergast was caught saying that he was hoping for the dissolution of the entire Matucket Police Department and its replacement by a federally supervised police force. That was considered more than a bit nutty, even for hard-core Democrats. In any case, it got me off the hook with...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 27 Returning Home

June 2004 - August 2004 Word came down from Battalion that the rest of Second Brigade would be deploying to Iraq soon. It was expected that they would show up sometime in July, but no dates were available. What they would do then was not known, or at least not known to us down at Camp Custer. Where exactly they would be positioned wasn’t known or might change before they got here. However, one interesting tidbit came out. Fourth of the Fourth was going to get some leave. Over the next few...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 22 Leave

I told my family to stay there, and I would get my gear and catch up to them. Kelly offered to follow me, but I had to explain that women were not allowed in the barracks, no way, no how! Luckily there was a parking lot near the barracks that would allow me to load my gear up. Dad had driven down in the F-150, so we could toss my stuff in the back and then ride home. The ride home was mostly taken up with my parents and Kelly asking me about the Army and my training. What did I do, what did...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 21 Bank Robbery

Fall 2023 The summer progressed nicely. I spent a fair bit of time down in Sullivan County and the nearby environs, first analyzing what they had and then developing the options everybody needed to consider. One thing I stressed with them was that by standardizing on similar doctrine, training, and hardware, the SWAT teams created would be suitable for any eventual regional coordination. How the politics would work out was questionable, but it would be easier if the local units had similar...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 41 Abu Dhabi

January 2007 Mom was very upset that I wasn’t going to come home on my leave. She just wasn’t buying my explanation about losing my squad. She wanted me to come home, squad or no squad. I think Dad understood, and he told me that his father understood, but Mom was very unhappy. I had been in the Army now for four Christmases, and three had been spent in Iraq. I didn’t even bother telling her about the incident at Yankee North. One of her latest kicks was, “Are you the only soldier in Iraq?...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 28 Remodeling

2026 Riley’s incarceration proved to be as much of a pain in the ass for us as it was for her. One of us had to be her jailer at all times. I told Kelly that I should have taken the Basic Jail Officer course at Athens back when I was taking the Basic Law Enforcement Officer course. On the days I was home I drove her to school and back home. Sometimes it was Kelly who did the duty. When I was away teaching or consulting, and Kelly had classes, either her mother or mine had to take the detail....

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The Grim ReaperChapter 56 End of a Career

I stared at Jerry for a second, and then ran over and knelt next to him. His upper right arm was mangled and bloody, and his face was covered in blood. “Oh, Jesus, Jerry!” I wailed, and then I grabbed the mike on my shoulder. ‘OFFICER DOWN! OFFICER DOWN! OH JESUS! OFFICER DOWN AT MATUCKET AND ELM! ONE-SIX-THREE TO DISPATCH! I NEED BACKUP AND AN AMBULANCE ... ROLL EVERYTHING! OFFICER DOWN!” Dispatch was saying something, but I didn’t pay any attention. “Oh, shit, Jerry, don’t you die on me!”...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 12 The Perfect Game

I couldn’t take any more days off that summer. My time with Kelly was restricted to evenings and weekends, which was probably a good thing, at least as regards to my health. Keeping up with her appetite for sin was tiring! She might kill me, but I’d die with a smile on my face. I did speak to Dad about a temporary dock, and he nixed it, at least for this year. “One, it’s not as easy as you think, or as cheap, or as quick. You won’t get it done, at least not done right, until the end of the...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 4 Matucket Middle School

1996 to 1999 In August, football started up again. Matucket Middle School didn’t have a real football team, only flag football, so I was still playing Pop Warner football. I turned twelve on March 1, so I changed to the Midget League team, the Spartans. At twelve I had jumped over the Junior Midget team, which was ages ten, eleven, and twelve. The Midget team was ages twelve, thirteen, and fourteen, so I could probably play there until I got to high school. I knew Matucket High played real...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 14 in Sickness and in Health

September 2022 “How was your trip?” asked Kelly once I sorted out Seamus and Riley bickering about something. “Pretty good. Straightforward, anyway. Just not successful, so to speak.” Kelly gave me an odd look, but before I could answer, the kids started up again. Seamus was teasing his older sister about something. I reached out and grabbed him by the back of the neck and asked, “Do I need to give you a lesson in barnacle clearance?” He grinned at me. “Think you can catch me? I’m not the...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 23 Fourth of the Fourth

September 2003 - December 2003 Dad drove me over to Hartsfield International in Atlanta Thursday morning, sometime around the crack of dawn. Mom stayed at home, which was a good thing, because she spent most of Wednesday night and Thursday morning crying. She was a total basket case, even though I was only going to New York. I didn’t want to be around her when I ended up going overseas. I had to be there early, because I was on a very cheap Delta flight, and you had to be there two hours...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 27 Children

Summer 2025 Kelly’s desire that I limit my time with travel and consulting led me to review my finances and priorities. I was doing a week every month in downstate Georgia and the equivalent amount of time teaching at various police academies. I was currently making between $1,000 and $2,000 a month from each of five different police and sheriff’s departments for consulting services and as a retainer. Special projects cost extra. In effect, that worked out to about $85,000 to $90,000 a year...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 22 Slave Patrols

Fall 2023 to Spring 2024 After the press conference I had a chance to call home and say hello to the kids. They already had heard I was a supercriminal and in prison for the rest of my life, so I had to tell them I had broken out and would be home later that night. They both promised to stay up to see me, which seemed unlikely to me. We didn’t leave Conover until almost eight. Both Delahoye and Ruskin had run out of things to ask me and agreed that they knew how to find me if they had any...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 26 Public Television

2025 There was a nice lounge in the hotel, and we ran an open bar for an hour where quite a few people stopped for a drink or two, swapping stories about Jack, and then heading home. We were flying to Matucket on Saturday, and Teresa chartered a private jet to fly us direct. Saturday morning the funeral director brought back the photos and the video remembrance they had created, all boxed up so that we could load them on the plane. I had suggested to her that Holliman’s was a good place to...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 8 Scholar

Tuesday, January 7, 2019 The rest of the semester was a bitch, a stone-cold cast-iron bitch. I don’t know what I had been expecting, but it was just unrelenting work. Maybe it was because I had taken a lot of time on the two consulting jobs or maybe it was because of the time taken up with Tolley’s book project. More likely it was because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing trying to get a doctorate in history. I mean, I knew there was a lot of reading that was going to be involved....

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 15 Recuperation

Monday, September 26, 2022 Monday was a busy day. I bundled the kids off to school and then called Matucket State. While I didn’t go into details, I had to let her Department Vice-Chair know she was going to be away from work for a week or two. I didn’t know who to call at DARPA or the NSA, but Kelly didn’t talk to them daily anyway; she could handle that chore. Then I drove over to the hospital. By all accounts, I would be able to bring her home that day. First, though, she needed to be...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 2 Reunion

It seemed late when we finished dinner. There was a Welcome Aboard talk in the ship’s theater and after that we did a bit more exploring. There were all sorts of stuff on the boat, including a shopping center with incredibly overpriced stuff, a casino, and a bunch more bars, restaurants, and lounges. We walked around the deck and then went back to our cabin, where we discovered it had been made up, the bed turned down, and an odd animal formed out of some folded towels. Kelly decided she...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 48 Administrative Assistant

I was able to get in to see Captain Crowley on Thursday morning. Another young officer, African-American this time, was the one who escorted me in, and this time Crowley had some paperwork on his desk. I got the impression that after this meeting it would be time to shit or get off the pot. Crowley outlined the procedure to apply, and then reviewed the pay and benefits. “Grim, as an Administrative Assistant you make a bit more than minimum wage, but it’s a full-time job and it qualifies you...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 38 Coming Together

Things moved along through the summer. At times it seemed as if for every step we took forward we were taking two steps back. Still, some good things happened. Our new Auto Theft Division made a major arrest mid-June. They grabbed a few cars out of the impound yard and fitted them with GPS trackers and allowed them to be stolen. That generated enough information to get warrants on a pair of ‘chop shops’, garages where stolen cars could be taken and stripped for parts. Lieutenant Dupree of...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 7 Hold The Line

Saturday, October 20, 2018 There were a number of interesting results from the show. The Matucket County Council protested that nobody was forced out and then began threatening to sue anybody who said so. Nobody listened to them, and they didn’t sue anybody. The FBI issued another statement that Matucket had been an essential part of the elimination of the terrorist threat and that they had never really lost track of anybody. Bo got a couple of interviews where he pushed the law-and-order...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 9 Professor Reaper

Fall 2018 to Spring 2019 Thanksgiving was at my parents’ house. Last year it was supposed to be there, but Kelly had inherited it when Dad had his heart attack that week. Another way of looking at it was that Mom gave him a heart attack, considering what the two of them were up to when the event occurred. With all the mayhem I’d been around in my life I’d prefer to check out the way he almost did. Regardless, this year it was at Mom and Dad’s, and it would give us a chance to tease them some...

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