He kissed her......
 
   It wasn't forceful, or possessive.....It was almost as if he was letting her do something she had already asked. Although Rose was more than surprised.  She was shocked at first, then she returned the kiss, slowly.  
 
They parted and Hondo's grey eyes met hers. They held each other for a few minutes, before Rose's eyes straed out the window.  
 
   "Oh! Look!" she gasped and ran to the door.  Hondo followed, puzzled.  "Rosie! What....?"
 
    "It's snowing!" Rose exclaimed as she ran outside.  "I thought it never snowed in Italy! Hondo! come outside it's beautiful!"  
 
    Hondo stepped out into the white flakes falling like lace from the heavens.  Rose was standing in the middle of the yard with her pale face upturned to the sky.  
 
  "Oh...it has been so long since I felt snow on my face. I always imagined it was what being kissed felt like!" She exulted. Hondo was about to moved toward her when he remembered Fernando's stipulations.  He stood watching Rose as she smiled into the snow.  
 
  "Come on back inside before you freeze, Rosie." He said after a while.  She smiled and came in.  
 
  "Is it like being kissed?" He said, once they were inside.
 
  Rose just grinned at him "Aye."  She said.  Then descended into a jaw splitting yawn.  It was Hondo's turn to smile.
 
  "Come on. We should both get to bed.  You worked hard enough."  
 
  He walked her to her room and kissed her forehead before she disappeared inside.

(At the SWA Emergency Morning Meeting)
Tammy showed little interest in of the details at the meeting. Her mind was more into what was waiting for her at the hideout/home. Or more like who.
 
Jean: Thanks to 'our friend', we now have more definitive proof of Mr. Christiano's involvement with the terrorists. Further more with the information from the his former bookkeeper, this information is more then enough to cement the evidence for his arrest.
Marco: You know that we have a slight problem.
Jean: What problem is this?
Marco: There is a 2 million Euro reward for the capture of Tammy and 'our friend' by Mr. Christiano himself.
Chief Lorenzo: When was this- and why?!!
Hillshire: Tammy was receiving some more training by 'our friend', where she was successful in defending herself...
Jean (interrupting him- quietly, but everyone heard him): Its about time!
Hillshire: *Ahem* It seems that they ran into Mr. Christiano's niece- the Bomb maker Anne, and there was a confrontation and Anne was killed along with her boyfriend Franco.
Marco: Word on the street is that there was enough witnesses to describe Anne and Franco's killers- a red head squirrel- Tammy, and an older male squirrel -'our friend'.
Hillshire: Marco and I have been doing an independent investigation on gathering intell on would be collectors of this reward. Word on the streets has it that the 'Big Boys in the park are telling the little boys to stay away from the toys.'
Chief Lorenzo: I see. What's your recommendations?
 
Marco and Hillshire look at each other for the moment.
 
Marco: Leave it alone and see where it leads. Since the big fish are hungry for this opportunity, looks like we can use it for bait.
Hillshire: Besides- 'our friend' is more than capable of protecting the both of them, and Bink is an added level of protection.
Jean (again to himself, with everyone hearing it): If she is used in that fashion...
Chief: OK everyone. Back to the field. Lets see how this goes and bring back some big fish to fry.
 
The group breaks up to leave the room, but Tammy remains sitting. The girls of the SWA (Ferro, Olga, and Pricilla) takes seats around her.
 
Ferro: Welcome back Tammy.
Pricilla: Yeah- welcome back!
Olga: Hope you're feeling better.
 
Tammy could only sigh.
 
Pricilla: What's wrong?
 
Pricilla reaches to take Tammy's hands, and feels something on the inside. She turns her hands Palm up to see what it could be, and finds the diamond of the ring turned to the palm side.
 
Pricilla: Tammy! What is this and who gave it to you?!!
 
Tammy does not want to answer, as the other girls look at her disapprovingly. Marco walks back into the room after hearing Pricilla's almost yelling out her words.
 
Marco: Well ladies- as you just found out, we have one of those situations going on in the mission. Bink is not too happy about it either- but its for her own personal selfish reasons as you all know.
Pricilla: who is he?
Marco: 'Our friend'.
Ferro: Who?
Marco: He would took us on and succeeded in destroying us and put us back together, the one who we offered a high ranking position within our midst and he refused... you know- Him, who's name will never be said in these halls unless he is here.
Ferro: Oh, I know who he is...
Olga: Its kind of small, a guy in his position would be able to give his lady friend something much more larger.
Tammy: It's a promise...
Pricilla: What kind of promise?
Ferro: What makes you think that he can hold up such a promise?
Tammy: He can, for he has not failed me yet.
Ferro: There is a first time for everything.
Pricilla: Your heart is going to break when he does.
Marco: Lets not deal with that and get on with the mission at hand. Pricilla- you need to talk to our friend about upping your Intell gathering skills. Ferro- see if you can organize something for the Fratello/Sorello teams to go by. Tammy- you are with me and Hillshire. Go to your room and get your personals to take to the hide out and have Bink do the same thing.
 
Tammy was only able to nod back at him before her and the others leave the room.

Tammy was in her SWA Dorm room where she was packing several extra items for the long haul of the mission. She did not seem too happy with how the others who she grew into as friends, did not like the fact that she was undergoing  through a mission crush and managed to take it to an engagement. She stuffs a gym bag that she had with the needed items of clothing and personal items. As she holds onto some of her more personal items, she begins to wonder why she ever got them; all that frills and lace does not add to comfort nor function, and except for personal decoration and preference, she wonders for whom were they really for. It is more than obvious that such items were intended for display to somebody else than for anyone else. The ones that Fernando got her (and Bink) were more than enough in many ways. She packs them anyway, but on the way back she will get a couple of packets more of the kind Fernando got her.
 
Priscilla knocks on the open door frame as Tammy continues packing. Tammy looks at the doorway to see who it was and signals her to some in. Priscilla walks in with Ferro behind her. They stop by the bed, looking over to her as she packs.
 
Tammy: Oh, I thought it was just you alone.
Ferro: I can leave if you want, but that would not stop me from expressing my concerns.
Tammy: Oh no… its that I did not see you with her, that's all. But as far as these concerns- I really do not want to hear them.
Priscilla: I think you have to listen to what we have to say before coming up with your own decisions.
Tammy: I have already decided.
Priscilla: Have you, or have you let your hormones decide for you. You and I are both are squirrels, and I know what you are going through because I'm going through it myself.
Tammy: Oh, pray tell, what would that be?
Priscilla: Its Winter Time, and for us squirrels- Mating season- and both you and I are both under going Estrous- the hormonal imbalance within us that drives our desires more so to have squirrel puppies.
Tammy: Oh come off it- I can have sex anytime during the year, its just I haven't… yet.
Priscilla: We all can, but for us- you can only get pregnant during this time of year. And because this is your only chance to get pregnant now, your feeling, emotions and desires are going to be fitted for one thing and one thing only- if you so allow it to happen.
Tammy: So you're saying that I'm in love with him because I want to get pregnant by him because of some seasonal time of the year...  
Ferro: If it were during another time of year, then I would not question it.
Tammy: What you know about being a squirrel.
Ferro: I know enough because I'm a woman just like you, even though I have a different mating season than you squirrels do, I do go through that uncomfortable time of denying myself of getting pregnant because this job is demanding enough without having kids on top of it.
Priscilla: So have you done the nasty with him yet?
Tammy: NO!
Ferro: She might be lying.
Priscilla: Hold on.
 
Priscilla walks right up to Tammy and sniffs around the front of her neck, making Tammy uncomfortable enough to push her away after a while.
 
Tammy: Do you mind!
 
Priscilla turns to Ferro.
 
Priscilla: No she hasn't.
Ferro: How can you tell?
Priscilla: It's a squirrel thing.
Ferro: Hmph… And they say we ‘munks are the nutty ones.
Tammy: You don't believe me? None of you do…Ferro: Its for your own good, I should have you locked up until Spring Time comes, but we don't have much of a choice in this mission. And since you're the only red-headed squirrel in the staff…
Tammy (interrupting her and points to Priscilla): Why don't you dye her hair red…
Priscilla: We tried that once before, and, well, it did not work out as intended.
Ferro: Especially after much of it fell out a few days after dying it.
 
Stunned silence.
 
Tammy: Look- whether you believe me or not that it I have my hormones under control is on you. Only person I need to prove myself is… him.
Ferro: Why not yourself.
Tammy: Because I wont do it for myself. I will for him.
Ferro: So he your crutch.
Tammy: He's not a crutch.
Priscilla: Then what is he? If you would said that you would not do it for yourself but you would for him. If that not saying he's a crutch, then I don't know what is.
 
Tammy puts away the last of her things into the bag and zips it closed.
 
Tammy: We all do it for somebody, don't come off on me that you would not, because I know you would. You would all, for some stupid guy out there you gave your heart and your selves too.
 
Tammy takes the gym bag by the handle and threads her arm through it towards her shoulders, before walking out to the door to get Bink. Trying to keep her anger to herself, Tammy tells Bink to go with her, for them to meet up with Hillshire and Marco at the parking lot. But her tone of voice was not easy to hide, forcing Bink to think if it was something that she did. Hillshire drives them back to the hide out.
 
They arrive back to the hide out in under 90 minutes. Fernando was still asleep, even though it was approaching the 10:30am hour. Hondo and Rose were downstairs cleaning up after their meal. Tammy and Bink put their bags on the floor of the living room, and Bink sits on the corner chair. Marco and Hillshire continue in with their charges, each carrying their own gym bags with various clothing and personal items.
 
Tammy: Hondo, are there any cars downstairs in the sub basement garage?
Hondo: I don't know Miss, I have not been down there.
Tammy: OK… (she pauses for a second) Would you mind checking for me later in the day and let me know what's available?
Hondo: I'll see what I can do later on.
Tammy: Has Fernando awaken?
Hondo: Has not seen or heard from him all day.
 
Tammy starts to walk to the stairs and then stops for a moment.
 
Tammy: Bink, bring up the bags to the room, and then you're with Marco and Angie until I get back. Marco- hope you don't mind.
 
Tammy then runs up the stairs.
 
Marco: Uhm… sure, yeah…
 
Tammy walks over to Fernando's room, and though the door is closed, it is unlocked. She allows herself into the room, and walks over to the bed where he laid sleeping. She gingerly sat on it, leaning over to him, and brushes his hair off his eyes. She then puts her hand on her shoulder and nudges him slightly, calling to him to wake up.
 
Tammy: Fernando, wake up…. Please.
 
After a few moments, he does, and not in the best of moods either.
 
Fernando (while searching under the pillow for his gun which is not there): What is it? What do you want? I swear- cant a fluffy tail get some sleep?
Tammy: Its almost 11 o'clock, Fernando.
Fernando: So?
Tammy: Almost 1/2 the day is gone, and you're still sleeping.
Fernando: It is cold outside?
Tammy: Yes…
Fernando: Did it snow last night?
Tammy: Yes, but…
Fernando: Then let me hibernate for a while- I swear!
Tammy: Fernando, we don't need to hibernate…
Fernando: I'm tired, Tammy. My head hurts and you're not helping any.
 
Tammy gives a few seconds of silence before asking a question.
 
Tammy: Fernando?
Fernando (throwing a pillow over his head): What is it, girl?!!
Tammy: You know what time of year it is?
Fernando: Its winter time, and hibernation time when there is snow on the ground.
Tammy: Besides that. And its just a little bit of snow covering the ground.
Fernando: No, tell me what time of year is it.
Tammy: Come on- you're a squirrel too, you should know this.
Fernando: I'm a flying squirrel, and there are differences between us. Besides- what are you trying to get at?
Tammy: Isn't it mating season for you too?
Fernando: Its mating season all year long. (Fernando takes the pillow off his head and sits up) What's going on in that head of yours?
Tammy: OK, its mating season all year long, but for me, for my squirrel-type that I am, I can only have squirrel pups if I mate within this time of year. And I want to know if…
Fernando (interrupting her): NO! NO Way We Are Going To Do That! How Could You Even Think Of That Even After What We Had Discussed?!!
 
Tammy slides away him to the end of the bed and puts her face to her hands and cries.
 
Tammy (crying): You don't like me! I just wanted to know if…
Fernando (interrupting her and leaning over to her): Look Tammy. Of course I do, I made a promise to you, didn't I? Look Tammy, Its not because your mating pheromones are running high nor because you are in need to have pups this time of year that I know you are in heat… look, us males are in heat everyday, all the time, its that we are in control of our drives and desires. Billion of female squirrels have been in your shoes before and billions now will in it long after you have left, so what makes you any different?
 
Somewhere between his words, she stops crying, if maybe just to listen to what he has to say. What's throwing her is that he has not said those 3 little words. Fernando continues.
 
Fernando: Look Tammy, what I'm trying to say is that, there is no excuse for love. I don't care if its mating season or if the pheromones are running high or if the blood within you flows with a fever of making puppies or what have you. All I care about is you, completing this mission and bringing you home someday after that. If along the way at that point you were to become the next Mrs. Squirrel-G., than I will forhold and fulfill the words of Love, Honor & Cherish until Death Do Us Apart. What others have to say about what we have, I don't care what they have to say for they do not share the time we have together, and though I prefer to wait- they are not there in the beds that we had slept in together. They are not part of Us. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
Tammy: I think so.
Fernando: Just one more thing…
Tammy: What is it?
Fernando: Go take a long cold shower- you're pheromones are kicking, and every squirrel around us will be able to pick up on it.
 
Tammy leans against him, putting an arm around him, and wipes her sniffling nose with the sleeve of her shirt.
 
Tammy: Maybe later. Right now there is a lot to do, little time to do it in and I don't want to do none of them, except to be here alone with you.
Fernando: Tammy- you have to do those things you must do. You have to be Bink's mother as well as her older sister. As a SWA Sorello team, you have to be her handler… Question, have you given Bink her conditioning medication?
 
Tammy springs up out of her hold from Fernando and runs out the room, slamming the door behind her. Fernando decides to take advantage of situation and buries himself under the blankets again. But being left alone will not be an option that he will have. Hondo and Marco enter his room immediately after Tammy leaves it. One of them turns on the lights, making Fernando bury himself under the pillows.
 
Fernando (out loud): Oh, this better be good!
Marco: Oh, it is good. So how about showing yourself as we can talk.
Hondo: I told him that you did not wanted to be disturbed.
Fernando: And that included Tammy.
Hondo: I do not get between women and their issues.
Marco: Are you going to show yourself or what?
 
Fernando sticks an arm out from the blankets.
 
Fernando: Just hand me my glasses. They should be on the edge of the nightstand.
Marco: How about you go getting them.
Fernando: I will lose my eyesight if I expose my eyes to the lights I the room.
Marco: You must be joking…
 
Hondo picks up the glasses and hands them to Fernando. The glasses goes under the blankets and after a few seconds, Fernando pops his head from under the blanket and sits up to speak with them.
 
Fernando: Consider yourself lucky that I cant find my gun…
Hondo: Its on the nightstand, next to the glasses.
Fernando: Hand it over.
 
Hondo picks up the gun, its separated magazine, and hands them to Fernando. Receiving the pieces, Fernando shakes his head in disbelief. He speaks as he reassembles his gun.
 
Fernando: OK Marco- start talking or leave.
Marco: Frankly, I don't care what you and Tammy are doing in your personal lives…
Fernando (interrupting him): Oh, so you're going to give me the same speech I gave the others and to Tammy as well?
Marco: I don't know what that speech was, but since you two are acting like a pair of love birds, I have to tell you this; the SWA is extending this mission and Tammy is going to be used as bait to lure out those who want to collect the reward against you and her. You know that there is a good chance that she will get hurt in the process, if not killed.
Fernando: Have you told her of this?
Marco: She was at this morning's meeting, so yes- she is aware of it. Now, I have to ask you this- you think she is ready to work on her own?
Fernando: No.
Marco: No?
Fernando: Her training is incomplete. So she managed to defend herself once in the park, and almost twice in the incident where I killed Anne. But I killed Anne because she was able to overpower Tammy in trying to take her gun. The want and desire to act is there, but she hesitated. The speed in thinking out what need to be done is not yet perfect.
Marco: You think she will defend herself as needed?
Fernando: If pushed to that point, she will. But she will hesitate, and that is where the problem lies.
Marco: Another test is in order?
Fernando: No more tests for her.
Marco: Then, is she field ready yet?
Fernando: You tell me, you had her in the field for months as is. All I added is the ability to act in defense of herself, though slow she may be in thinking it through before acting, she will act as needed.
Marco: Well then, as the Senior Fratello, I need to have her in the field with Bink.
Fernando: So why are you telling me.
Marco: You know what it entails- she may get hurt in the field. She may get killed. I just thought that it was only fair to let you know of what might or can happen, as per her orders.
Fernando: When does it start?
Marco: it is already underway.
Fernando: So you are going to pull her out of here?
Marco: Far from it. But since this is your agency's residence and not mine, I would like to obtain permission to use the place.
Fernando: As long as I am part of the mission, you can stay here as long as you need to be. Just restock the kitchen and food pantries, is all I ask.
Marco: We can do that for you. Uhm, I see there are a couple of spare rooms, can I request for them?
Fernando: Just keep them clean.
Marco: OK, I'll get our logistics and support team in there by tonight.
Fernando: Anything else?
Marco: You want to be part of the mission?
Fernando: I thought I was. I'm the one they should be after, not Tammy. I killed Anne, not her.
Marco: Get out of bed and get dressed. I'll fill you in while you eat your morning meal.
Fernando: Just give me sometime. Hondo…
Hondo: Yes?
Fernando: Get Rose ready. This is getting more and more serious as each day passes. We'll need access to the navy's firepower once we find the source of the LSD trafficking and their leader's hideouts.
Hondo: Will do.

Mating season for squirrels has never been an easy thing. Instincts tell them to group together during the winter for warmth, and biological drives forces the females into an uncontrollable emotional dive where the assertive and aggressive males must inject control somehow. Though squirrels (like everyone else in modern day) can couple anytime during the year for love and pleasure, it is only this time of year where the females become fertile to bear life. For this is a huge hormonal difference and some girls have trouble dealing with, and many had to learn ways on their own in dealing with it. Since the evolution of intelligence and civilization, squirrels still have to deal with this, but now have more options than they did in the wild. To this end, Fernando tries to talk Tammy out of her dilemma than to take part in it. Not that he is trying to honor her virtue by denying a premarital relationship, but because his first orders stand: Mission Goals and Objectives are first and above all the basic and personal needs, for emotions do get in the way and are responsible for more on-the-field accidents and deaths than anything else.
 
After showing up and getting dressed, Fernando goes downstairs to the kitchen and dining areas, preparing himself some breakfast. Tammy was in her room dealing with Bink, pulling out her medical supply pouch and reading off the dosage manual. It seems that during their stay at the hospital, Dr. Bianchi has kept up with Bink's conditioning doses, and kept the records up to date. The only missing dose was for yesterday, and Bink was beginning to show signs of minimal withdrawal symptoms. Tammy take the syringe and puts into the bottle of medication and fills it to the prescribed level. With some coaching, Tammy ties off the elastic band on Bink's arm, and give her the injection of medication into the vein inside elbow. Like any addict to a drug, Bink become more relaxed and manageable. Bink looks up at her sister as she undoes the elastic band, cleans up and puts away the medical kit.
 
Bink: Tammy... are you in love with Fernando.
 
Tammy just freezes in place, staring back at her sister without an answer.
 
Bink: Well, are you?
Tammy (hesitantly): I might be.
Bink: You two going to get married?
Tammy: Maybe. Why?
Bink: He gave you that ring, right?
Tammy: He did... but that does not mean that we will get married. It's a promise that one day we may.
Bink: What's the difference?
Tammy: A major one.
Bink: Explain.
Tammy: He promised me, that if we manage to get out of this mission alive, if we complete this mission without either one of us getting hurt, and if we still have feeling for each other, that we would continue to date for a while before making such a decision.
Bink: But, that's an engagement ring. And Engagement rings mean that you two are going to get married.
Tammy: You would be right in that, sis. But we work in very dangerous jobs, and either one of us could get hurt or killed during missions. And things happen during missions. So it is an engagement ring, but its  conditional engagement ring- with a lot of if's involved and only Time can give the answer.
Bink: What about mating season, don't you want to have puppies?
Tammy: You know about mating season?
Bink: I remember it being explained to me by some older lady squirrel.
Tammy: With short red hair?
Bink: Yes.
 
Tammy bites down on her lower lip before answering.
 
Tammy: That would be mom.
Bink: Mom?
Tammy: Our mother.
Bink: I barely remember her. What about you- don't you want to be a mother too?
Tammy: One day.
Bink: Well, you only have a few weeks...
Tammy (interrupting her): There is always next year, and the year after that, and the years after that. Lets not rush into having babies, especially when now is not the right time for them.
Bink: Can I ask why?
Tammy: We all have to make choices, many of them more personal than others. Now- for you, you cant become a mother while you are a teenager, you are too young for one and not grown up for another, so mating season if off limits for you, girl. But many young girls don't think that it applies to them and they end up pregnant. Do you want to be pregnant?
Bink: I don't think I can get pregnant.
Tammy: Why not?
Bink: They took out my uterus for some reason I do not know why.
Tammy: They did? I'm going to have to talk to Marco to get me some answers about this...
Bink (continuing and interrupting Tammy): But if I had my uterus, and could get pregnant, I would not want too.
Tammy: Why not?
Bink: Like you said- I'm too young and not grown up. Having puppies are a grown up thing- and you are the grown up, not me. You have that option, I don't. So what are you going to do?
Tammy: I don't know, but I'm not going to get pregnant, therefore I'm not going to go in that direction with him even though I want too.
Bink: Are you a virgin?
Tammy: BINK! How could You Say Such A Thing?!!
Bink: I was just asking. Didn't you have other boyfriends and relationships.
Tammy (not wanting to answer but does): No.
Bink: So, you're still a virgin...
Tammy: Yeah, I still am.
Bink: Do you still want to be?
Tammy: You're getting a bit personal with these questions, Missy.
Bink: I'm just asking, that's all.
Tammy: Certain questions are not meant to be asked.
Bink: Then how do I get the answer to them?
Tammy: You observe. In observing, you will find the answer.
Bink: Will you sleep with Fernando again?
Tammy: That's my personal decision if I do.
Bink: Will you and him, you know...
Tammy: What?
Bink: Couple up?
Tammy: We wont...
Bink: Even though you may want too.
Tammy: Yes.
Bink: Why?
Tammy: Because I do not want to get pregnant.
Bink: So I can trust you with him then?
Tammy: What do you mean by that?
Bink: I can trust him to some extent, but relationships goes both ways and I figure that if you keep pushing yourself on him, that he will one day take you.
Tammy: What do you mean by that?
Bink: Its obvious, Tammy. I don't want to say bad things about you because you're my sister and handler, but you're all over Fernando. Like that kiss in the park- I noticed that you did not fight back.
Tammy: I... am... that... obvious?
Bink: Everyone is talking about it.
Tammy: Who's everybody?
Bink: I'll just say that if I get the gossip from the other cyborgs, they get it from their handlers, to take it to the others... they all see it, Tammy, and it sorta embarrassing.
Tammy: Oh... I'm sorry. I'll put an end to it then.
Bink: No, don't break up with Fernando.
Tammy: Why you say that?
Bink: You said that you would put an end to it, right?
Tammy: I meant- I will have a talk with the other handlers and put an end to their gossip.
Bink: Oh.
Tammy: But... You said not to break up with him, why?
Bink: I can trust him to be nice to you for one.
Tammy: Anything else?
Bink: His actions speak loudly for themselves. He got us back together, even though he took down the SWA, he built it back on a much stronger foundation. He gave his blood for Angie to get better on, there are a lot of things he did for us. He built up a lot of trust that I could go break from you and become a fratello with him.
Tammy: Don't ever say that.
Bink: Why not, it's the truth.
Tammy: Look, you may feel that way, but he might not.
Bink: Then why is it that what he says is different from what he does?
Tammy: Because it's a guy thing.
Bink: A guy thing?
Tammy: Men will often say one thing and then go do something different, often the opposite.
Bink: Why are they like that?
Tammy: Because they are men, and besides the obvious physical differences between men and women, there are mental ones too.
Bink: There are?
Tammy: Yes. You are going to have to take my word on that.
 
Bink thinks on the words given to her.
 
Bink: What's on today's schedule?
Tammy: I don't know. Until then, I need to you to be Angie and Marco while I take care of a few personal things and if there is anytime left, maybe we can go shopping.
Bink: Personal things?
Tammy: I need a new car for one.
Bink: Like that little red you had? I liked that one a lot.
Tammy: I have to see what is available.
Bink: Anything else?
Tammy: Well, I have to talk to the handlers about the gossip and put an end to it.
Bink: OK... its not easy being a grown up, isn't it?
Tammy: No its not.
 
Bink thinks for a while.
 
Bink: OK Let me go find Angie so I can stay with her and Marco.
 
Bink gives her sister a  slight hug before leaving their room. Tammy continues to sit on the bed where they were on, thinking about what has transpired between the two of them. After a passing moment, she writes down a not on the dosage log and then puts away the medical pouch, counting on her fingers when the next dose should be for her. When done, she heads downstairs.
 
Fernando was eating an western style omelet with a cooked hamburger patty- a Texas style breakfast with coffee. Hondo was seated near by with Marco and Hillshire seated across, discussing details of the mission. Bink was the other girls watching TV in the living room. From what she knew, Alex II or his friend Agent 47 was not in the house, if they were, they were in their beds asleep.
 
Fernando (as he took a bite of his meal): What makes anyone think that this is going to work?
Marco: You don't know these Mafioso types like we do, especially their leaders. They do not want to die by a gun, knife or jail cell. They prefer to die an old age as free men and rulers of their kingdoms.
Fernando: All men want that for their deaths. I don't see any difference in that.
 
There was a knock on the door.
 
Hillshire: I'll get that.
 
Hillshire gets up and answers the door. It was the rest of the support teams coming in and unloading equipment. Ferro and Priscilla walk to the dining table.
 
Priscilla: We're here!
Ferro: Where should we put the equipment at?
Priscilla: Where can we freshen up?
Marco: Put it up in the attic and set it there. Each floor as 2 bathrooms (as he point out their directions).
 
Priscilla leaves, and Ferro tells the support team where to go set up the equipment. She returns to ask about the sleeping arrangements.
 
Ferro: OK, where do we sleep at?
 
Marco looks at Hondo and Fernando blankly.
 
Hondo: I think there is one room left.
Fernando: Damn, we are going to double up then.
Tammy: Double up?
Hondo: What do you propose?
Fernando: We can do this by sex or...
Tammy: Bink and I can double up with you.
Fernando: Then you two take the other bed...no. Hondo- you're in charge of the furniture moving- Ferro, when the support team has put away the equipment, have them help Hondo out in rearranging the beds. Hondo- start with my room first, take out other bed from it and put it onto Bink and Tammy's room, and take the bunk beds from their room and put it into my room so Tammy and Bink can sleep there.
Marco: Hillshire and I can double up with the girls.
Hondo: I would have to speak to Rose about doubling up.
Ferro: Are there enough beds?
Fernando: Some of the room have bunk beds, other singles, mix and match as needed. Then there are foldable beds in the basement, you can bring them up what you need more. When you run out of beds- you can get the sleeping bags from the camping kits. Hondo will show you where to go.
Hondo: Do I have to do everything?
Fernando: No, just supervise. And if no one is complaining, double up with Rose. We're all grown ups here.
Marco: And what will you be doing?
Fernando: Thinking.
 
Fernando tries to finish his meal.
 
Tammy: I'll get Bink and the girls to move the beds to our rooms.
 
Tammy walks over to the girls and explains to them what is to be done. They all leave for upstairs to help out. After a couple of minute, the sounds of moving furniture can be heard.
 
Fernando: GO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE NOT SCRATCHING UP THE FLOORS!
Marco: Relax, don't worry. The agency will send up a cleaning and repair crew to fix the place up when we leave.
 
Fernando just grumbles under his breathe.
 
Hondo: Considering how ‘our' agency members leave these safe houses in such a mess, they should consider themselves lucky that this one we use will be cleaned up when we leave. I say we should take what we can when we leave.
Hillshire: Come now, it would not be fair to the others who would use this place when you leave if you take everything.
Hondo: The others do. You should see the safe-house in Milan. The shelves there are almost bare and the place was a mess when we used it. We had to clean it up.
Marco: Lets not worry about this. As Senior SWA Operative- I made a deal with your senior operative-Fernando, and anything we break, we will fix or replace.
 
Fernando take his last sip from the coffee mug, getting up to take his empties to the kitchen dishwasher. Putting in he prescribed amount of soup and settings, he walks away to leave the machine to take care of things later on. He sits back down to where he was.
 
Fernando: I think you all should checkup on what's going on upstairs.
 
Tammy walks down with the girls behind her and hugs Fernando from behind.
 
Tammy: All done. The bunk bed from my room is now in your room so Bink and I can sleep in your room, and the other bed from your room is in our old room, leaving 1 bunk bed and 1 regular bed there.
Hillshire: 3 beds? All the other rooms have 4 beds- 2 bunk sets in each.
Fernando: I did not design this place. My room had 2 regular beds.
Hondo: I'll go check on the other rooms.  
Marco: I'll go with you, and help move things around. Angie, come help out.
Hillshire: I think I better go too.
Tammy: Bink- Help them, will ya?
 
The 6 of them walk upstairs, and after a couple of minutes, can be heard moving things (presumably beds) around. After a while, the sound of moving furniture gets more involved as the support team joins in. Hondo takes a couple of them to the basement to carry a couple of folding beds upstairs. Priscilla finds some pillows and blankets in the basement sealed in airtight vacuumed packages, and takes several of them upstairs. As this is going on, Tammy takes the immediate seat to Fernando's left.
 
Tammy: So, we are finally going to sleep together...
Fernando: In the same room, not the same bed. Besides, Bink will be there too. You don't want her to catch us doing anything, don't you?
Tammy: We already had one of those long girl talks, and in short, she accepts you into our little family.
Fernando: I see. Look... When I got one of my headaches- I Do Not Want To be Disturbed! That counts for her and double for you. Understand that?
Tammy: Understood.
 
Tammy pauses for a second.
 
Tammy: Why are you such a grouch at times?
Fernando: Its because I am. I need my space, and my time even though I would share them with you or any other- I do want to be left alone every once in a while, especially when I don't feel well.
Tammy: Even after we get married?
Fernando: Especially after we get married.
Tammy: I see.
Fernando: I hope you do.
Tammy (ignoring his comment): Would you mind if I took the Porsche out?
Fernando: Where are you going with it?
Tammy: Just taking Bink out for some shopping. That's all.
Fernando: Don't tell me- girls' stuff?
Tammy: How did you guessed?
Fernando: I would not think of anything else that it would be.
 
Tammy thinks for a while before asking.
 
Tammy: Fernando, dear... is there another car in the garage that I can use as my own? This way I would not have to barrow yours?
Fernando: Consider what happened to your last car...
Tammy: Fernando... please?
Fernando: I think the Aisapi Jaguar is down there. You can have that.
Tammy: The dark blue one from the last mission?
Fernando: The very same one.
 
Tammy thinks for a second before answering.
 
Tammy: I'll take it.
Fernando: Drive it under assisted controls, this way if you get attacked in the car again, it can take over and drive you to safety.
Tammy: I promise.
Fernando: Hmmm... wait for me outside by the Porsche, I'll get out of the garage for you.
Tammy: Why cant I do it?
Fernando: Its boxed in by the other vehicles, and I need to verbally program them to get out of the way.
Tammy: But I can help get the Jaguar out.
Fernando (getting up and starts walking to the basement staircase): Just wait for me by the Porsche.
Tammy wants to follow, but decides not to test him or his patience any further than necessary. She walks to the back of the house and walks out the door, and is soon waiting by Fernando's Porsche.
 
In the subbasement garage, Fernando turns on all the vehicles electronics, and programs them to clear a path for the Jaguar XJS-V12 to roll out from. Once the Jaguar is on the exit ramp, the other vehicles return to their positions and shut themselves down. Fernando sits back in the driver's seat, letting the onboard intelligence do all the work, as he does a little programming.
 
Fernando: Aisapi, program modification, Super user Mode.
Aisapi: Voice print identity confirmed. Enter Program Parameters.
Fernando: Temporary own/driver: Tammy Squirrel.
Aisapi: Temporary Owner/Parameter Entered.
Fernando: Override Tammy Squirrel's password to wild card voice print only.
Aisapi: Building Voice Print Profile. (a few seconds passes) Done.
Fernando: Enter Driving Mode for Tammy Squirrel: Assisted & Surveillance Mode; No Override, Stressed Voice Verification Only.
Aisapi: Driving Mode for Tammy Squirrel Entered.
Fernando: Good. Now, Aisapi, Add user: Bink Squirrel. Voice Print Verification to be done in another time.
Aisapi: User Bink Squirrel added. Voice Print Verification to be added later.
Fernando: Thank you Aisapi.
Aisapi: You're welcomed.
Fernando: Now Aisapi, I want to you take care of her, but at the same time make sure that she takes responsibility for your maintenance.
Aisapi: I will.
Fernando: Speaking of maintenance, what do you require?
Aisapi: Nothing serious a the moment. Just top off fuel tank.
Fernando: Tammy will take care of that. That is all.
 
The garage door opens and the Jaguar slowly drives out onto the driver way and turns to the parking area, putting itself next to the Porsche. Fernando steps out of the vehicle and Tosses the keys to Tammy.
 
Fernando: Before you go anywhere- she needs her gas take topped off with Premium Fuel only. She will let you know if you put in the cheap stuff.
Tammy: But that stuff is expensive.
Fernando: Expensive or not, it will save you. So don't cut shortcuts on her maintenance. She will let you know if you're screwing up.
Tammy: Alright.
 
Tammy starts to go to the car door to enter it. Fernando blocks her from going in.
 
Fernando: Where are you going?
 
Tammy turns around.
 
Tammy: I do have to get carry all pouch, with my money and stuff.
Fernando: Alone?
Tammy: Well...
Fernando: Go get Bink and Ferro or Priscilla to go with you.
Tammy: Must I?
Fernando: Yes.
 
Fernando points to the door, Tammy turns around and walks back home. He waits by the car for her to return, to make sure that she does not sneak out on her own. She returns with Bink and Priscilla 5 minutes later. They get into the car, and slowly pulls out of the parking slot, and down the driveway. Fernando leans against his Porsche 928 an watches them as they leave.

Alex II and Agent 47 was training since they were at the NSA Shooting Range about 50 Miles form Naim and Rome as they keep training Alex II was doing his Martial Arts Movies making sure he getting better at it too