Part IV Chapter 38 ____________________________________ When Callahan returned from 'sighting' Stacy and Escobar he dropped to the floor, hitting his head on the side of the piano as he fell. Bullitt stumbled free of the effect and made it to his friend's side, found a thready pulse and went to the kitchen. He found a clean glass and filled it with tap wa...
Written by lilgirlsix and Archangel_M Edited by Doctime ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ lilgirlsix: Every chapter I fall more in love with Willi. Wish I was Zsálya. Oh wait, I am ;) Another thank you to Doctime for his help and suggestions. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Archangel_M: This chapter is one of those cases where I have these amazing images in my mind, and I hope that...
After Chip had cooked dinner and waited on Hans, and had his own meal in the kitchen, cleaning up quickly, he got busy polishing Hans's shoes and boots. But in the middle of polishing Master Hans's last set of boots, Hans interrupted Chip. "Chip. How many times I must tell you? You have not written down your Stuhlgang, your poo-poo!." Hans, who was a st...
Robert and Jess were two weeks into their idyllic Greek island holiday, luxuriating in both the hot summer sun and each other. The young couple had spent the first part alone, where Jess had admitted to inviting her sister Samantha to Greece to share not only their cottage for the third week, but her boyfriend Robert too. This was an idea cooked up by the si...
A Couple - Part 5 - The Merger Conspiracy Fails Suzanne and Madelyn arrived within minutes of each other on Monday morning after New Year's. Lisa did the airport pickup and by the time they arrived at the house, all three were smiling. I helped with luggage and inquired about the smiles, given the tension of the last ten days over the acquisition rumors in...
Part IV Chapter 25 ____________________________________ Bullitt's Israeli handlers, the 'Kildares,' showed up at the Hyatt a little after four in the morning, and they came to the hide-out room as the bearers of bad news. "Callahan, you really stirred up a shit-storm last night. Not only are Escobar's people out looking for you, the Threlkis mob is too....
Part IV Chapter 33 ____________________________________ "But I don't want to go back!" Lloyd Callahan bellowed. "Not to Israel, not to fuckin' Switzerland...not even across the goddam Golden Gate Bridge!" "I understand, Dad, but that bullet was meant for you. Like - for the back of your head. Does that compute?" "I don't give a damn, Harry! I've got wor...
Part IV Chapter 32 ____________________________________ Lloyd Callahan wasn't quite frantic, yet, but it had been five months since he'd last seen his son, and that had been just after the premiere of Imogen's concerto. Harry had changed. Sara's murder had done something he'd never expected would happen to his boy: Harry appeared to have simply given up....
Nights were hardest now. The dark uncertainty of morning -- and what might come, like shades of gray marching across her ceiling, because even Copenhagen's wharves lay quiet now -- whether by day or night. The constant stream of rumors from the south, of Germany and Austria on the march once again, had unsettled even her father -- and nothing ever unsettled...
Part IV Chapter 37 ____________________________________ When Callahan went into CID two days later, Frank was waiting for him. "Come in. Shut the door behind you." Callahan sensed something was up, but Bullitt looked strange. Very unsettled, really. "What's up?" Callahan said as he sat in Frank's tiny office. "Evelyn. She told me something. Something...