Then Marco Took his Phone as he receve the call  
 
Marco: Hello  
 
Alex II: MARCO this is Alex II 13 Cars from Solvina are chasing us and firing too we on the Main roade Heading to Nimi come  
 
Marco: Right *Then he hang up* Tammy and BInk I need you to come with me and Angie now  
 
Tammy: Why?
 
Marco: Alex II in trouble  
 
Tammy: WHAT  
 
Marco: LET GO  
 
Then Tammy get her gun Bink get her Gun too as they got into the Car and Drove off  
 
*
On the Main Road Agent 47 Fireing on the Solivarans cars as they firing back Then MArco Car came as Tammy and Bink with Angie Firing on the cars and blasting them too as they crash then Alex II Car stop  
 
Alex II: Thanks  
 
Marco: Your Welcome  
 
Agent 47: Hay One of them alive  
 
Agent 47 Geting One of the male Mouse and Handcuffing him  
 
Alex II: Good  
 
Then they took the male mouse and got into there cars and head off to the base*

Charles: Widget my love *Rubbing her hair* HOw you doing my sweet  
 
Widget: I Am doing fine love  
 
CHarles: Well I Still Need talk to Alex II but right now let watch Italy/American TV  
 
Then CHarles turn on the TV a News Buttian cmae on as a Male Italy Mouse was tere with his papers
 
Marcus: Hello I am Marcus Davion in New York City, USA Two Famious Doctors Sparky and Buzz were Kidnaped at there Sincese Bulding in Downtown Manhattan by the LSD Trafficers Croatia after that they dissaperd in Croatia So if anyone have info in Croatia called NSA, Section 2 Italy Division, Italy Police, Croatia Police and US NAVY too  
 
then Phone Ring as Charles Took it  
 
Foxglove (On a Scured Phone): Charles Did you heard the news Sparky and Buzz were taken by LSD Trafficers  
 
Charles: I Know and I think they not going to be near Slovenija I Have a Hunch they going to be in Bosna and Hercegovina area I will let the others know about this inculding Alex II and Agent 47  
 
Foxglove: Thanks and Dale say hi he Recurpating and well Chip Still Mad at Feranando  
 
Charles: WHY?  
 
Foxglove; For Not Calling him but he say Tell Gadget He say hi too
 
Charles: I Will do that well See you later  
 
Foxglove; Bye  
 
Then she hang up as CHalres Hang up and Thinks  
 
Charles: LSD I think they going to make there Strike agents us probley oneday but when?  
 
Widget: Well we have to tell them of this  
 
Charles: I Know love I know

Fernando and Hondo were gone for several hours, as they spent the time around Rome. Tammy on the other hand went down to the laundry room, and was followed by Gadget, who was followed by Widget who kept her distance and hid to listen in on their conversation.
 
Gadget: Things not working out between you and Fernando?
Tammy: Things could not be any better between us. It's the other people who are causing problems.
Gadget: Well, don't let it worry you. People have been against Chip and I since we got married. It seems that people get jealous for the stupidest of reasons. And gosh- if anyone else have asked to have married me a long time ago, I might have taken the chance depending on who it may have been in asking.
Tammy: Well, Fernando was the first to seriously ask me and I said yes. Everyone else was playing around to be serious.
Gadget: Like who, if I can ask.
Tammy: Alex for one... when we were younger, and I told him that I was too young to marry. Then after that, he started to act all stupid and mean towards me so when he left to work for the government, it was no great loss.
Gadget: Really?
Tammy: Charles too. He thought he can ask me to marry him not too long after Alex left and I told him no. Who he think he is, coming onto me like that! Then there was Dale, and Chip- before he married you. I swear- men should not be making promises that they can not keep!
Gadget: My Chip?
Tammy: Yes- Your Chip Maplewood. He told me that if I married him that I could be the leader of the Rangers when he retired. But he had no intentions of retiring, nor that I wanted the position in the first place- but there he was, dangling it like some prize for me to get up on my hind legs and jump for it.
Gadget: Maybe be he was testing you or something?
Tammy: Like Fernando says, I don't like being...
 
Bink enters the staircase, drawing her gun on Widget who was hiding.
 
Bink: Freeze! Who are you and what are you doing here?!!
 
Gadget and Tammy run to the staircase.
 
Gadget: Widget! What are you doing here?!!
Widget: Oh nothing...
Tammy: Oh, I bet. Start talking or Bink will start shooting...
Widget: Tammy, Tammy, Tammy... you have changed so much! You have grown!
Tammy: Oh spare my the act- you aint getting an Oscar for it! Now explain what you are doing here.
Widget: I saw you and my sister come down and I thought I could join in.
Tammy: I bet. How much have you heard eavesdropping on us?
Widget: I wasn't eavesdropping, dear.
Gadget: With those cyborg ears of your, I know you could.
Widget: But really, I did not hear about what you said about marrying Alex or Charles... (covering her mouth) OOPS!
 
Tammy grabs Widget by the arm and pulls her into the laundry room.
 
Tammy: Get in here before Bink starts filling your cyborg rear end with 9mm rounds! Bink, put away the gun!
 
Bink does as she is told.
 
Gadget: What were you doing out there?
Widget: Oh come on, Gadg... you would think that we were still feuding. No those days are over, I swear.
Gadget: What were you doing out there, Widg...
Widget: OK, I cant lie, not to you. (then she looks at both of them momentarily) I just want to know what's going on. You know- the secrecy, the weapons,... the people... You know, if I did not know any better, I would swear that this is some secret society planning out some world domination quest, with Fernando as the ring leader!
 
Tammy tries hard to keep herself from laughing. Then she gives Widget an answer.
 
Tammy: If you really want to know, it's the opposite. We- Fernando, his agency, and I with my agency, are trying to stop a terrorist group from selling dope and drugs to the Italian communities.
Widget: Your Agency? You mean the Rangers, right?
Gadget: The Rangers are not involved. This is way over our heads to handle.
Widget: Then, by 'Your Agency', who are you talking about?
Tammy: Italy's Social Work Agency.
Widget: How did you join them?
Tammy: It's a long story, but lets say that it was prearranged.
Widget: Prearranged? Honey- I got plenty of time to listen...
 
Tammy walks away to the dryer and checks the clothes inside. She then closes the door to let it continue for a few more minutes and turns to Widget.
 
Tammy: Frankly Widget, its not my business to say. Its not that I don't trust you, but this is something for you not to get involved in. Bad enough I have you sister here!
Gadget: I'm just overseeing for the Rangers, and helping you out with the wedding.
Tammy: Another JAFO, I swear.
Gadget: A what?
Widget: 'Just Another Freaking Observer...'
Gadget: And how would you know?
Widget: Been called it more often than I wanted too.
Gadget: Well, that's not nice Tammy.
Widget: Wait a minute- what is Bink doing with a gun?
Tammy: Its hers.
Widget: HERS!??!
 
Tammy sighs. Then she pulls out hers from behind in a hidden holster, shows it and puts it back.
 
Tammy: We are all armed. We have to be, since the people we are going after are not nice. They almost killed Bink and I almost a month ago. We spent something like 2 weeks in the hospital in a coma. So, we need to be able to fight back on the same level they try to attack us with.
Widget: That may explain why you have a gun but it does not explain why Bink has a gun.
Tammy: You don't get it- we were both targeted. So both our lives are in danger of attack, so it would be best if we were both armed.
Widget: But Bink is just a little girl.
Tammy: She's almost 14, which is far from little.
Widget: Is that how you are going to allow things to be? You know that there are laws against this sort of thing.
Tammy: Blackmailing me?
Widget: I don't think Bink should be in such situation.
Tammy: There is a lot that you do not know, and should be left in not knowing. Lets leave it at that.
 
Tammy takes a laundry basket and takes it with her to the dryer, stuffing the clothes from within the dryer and into the basket. She then takes the basket upstairs. Gadget, Widget and Bink follow her up to her room. Once upstairs, Tammy puts away the clean clothes that she folded up and then starts to gather the other clothes from the clothes hamper to take downstairs. She notices Bink hanging around and tells her to be with Angie as to not get her involved in the adult chatter. Bink leaves to find Angie to be with.
 
Widget: Why are you ordering her around like that?
Tammy: She is still a child, and she should not be listening to this conversation.
Widget: I think you should give her some more freedom. She is growing up you know.
Tammy: She has a lot to learn before I can do that.
Widget: But you allow her to walk around with a gun.
Tammy: Yes. She got a higher score on gun safety, usage and marksmanship than I did.
 
Gadget tries not to laugh.
 
Widget: I'm going to have to call the authorities on this.
 
Tammy takes her wallet from her purse as she searches for other items to wash. Widget manages to catch it, opens it and look at the identification card with her picture on it and badge inside.
 
Widget: Social Work Agency Section II?
Tammy: I am the authority... (Tammy walks up to her and takes the wallet from her) So if you were to take it to the authorities, you will have to deal with me.
Widget: You got a boss to go to, I'll complain to him.
Tammy: Widget- Section 2 is where children, little girls, like Bink are used to help enforce the law, and therefore are armed.
 
Widget does not believe what she is hearing, and finding it hard to accept.
 
Tammy: All of the girls have no parents or family to go to, so the SWA took them in, trained them and continue to educate them so that they don't become dregs of society. But in Bink's case, when our mother and her husband's family was slaughtered, they thought Bink had no family until I tried to recover her. It was in that recovery that was when I joined the SWA. So, I must say, she has done well despite what has happened to her.
Widget: And the government allows this?
Tammy: The government allows this because the mafia and the terrorists also use children for their illegal activities. Only way to catch a child criminal terrorist is with another child. This is not the United States, Widget. This is Italy, and the laws and situations are different here. It is better for Bink to be on the side of good, than to be a victim of bad or one of its pawns.
Widget: But she is still a pawn, for the government.
Tammy: Not while I have some say on it. Look, any little girl you see around here, around us adults, is part of the program, and they are all armed. So, if I were you, I would not try any funny business, because I only control Bink. The other girls have their own handlers to restrain them, and some of them tend to shoot first and ask questions later.
 
Widget can only stare back in disbelief, as Tammy takes the basket of dirty clothes down stairs to the laundry room. Once in the laundry room, she dumps the clothes into the washing machine, gives its measured amounts of detergents and liquid softeners before turning it on. She then leans against the machine, looking back at Widget.
 
Tammy: So what do you want?
Widget: Nothing. Nothing at all.
Tammy: Somehow I don't believe that. So why were you eavesdropping on us?
Widget: Anything else I should know about the children here?
Tammy: Not really.
Widget: Do they go to school?
Tammy: If you can call it that- yes.
Widget: Call it that?
Tammy: We handlers provide schooling for them.
Widget: Is that enough?
Tammy: Through the government, the handlers created a school for them and we handlers are the teachers. They learn science, math, language arts, physical education, music and much more. She gets a far better education here than what she would have gotten back at the cafe.
Widget: You're just saying that.
Tammy: Bink knows 3 languages besides English, she can play the violin like a concert master, and she's well versed in her literature and sciences. She managed to learn all that in the past 2 or so years she was here in the SWA. I don't see the cafe supplying that kind of service in educational opportunities.
 
Widget stands there in awe for the moment, then says something in German.
 
Widget: (Then if so, prove it to me)
Tammy: (My German is not as good as hers, but I managed to learn enough to work with it.)
Widget: Well, if that don't beat all?
Tammy: Oh stop it, Widget. Why are you here? To harass us?
Widget: IT has been a learning experience, that's for sure.
Gadget: Widg....
Widget: Alright, alright... I wanted to know more about this marriage thing you are going to have. Who's the guy? Not Fernando I hope.
Tammy: You too?
Widget: Don't waste you life on him. He's old, wont be able to provide for you and you see how he treats everyone, he's probably an abuser on top of everything.
(Both Tammy and Gadget): He Is Not An Abuser!!*....
 
Then they turn to face each other.
 
Widget: My... this is unexpected. Is my sister having an affair?
Gadget: I am not. I just know him better than most.
Widget: Sounds to me that you two are more involved than you dare to admit.
Tammy: Fernando told me about it, and there is nothing going on between them. And I can trust him for telling me the truth... unlike you.
Widget: Me?
Tammy: Face it Widget- you have tried to kill Gadget and any of her friends that were in the way, destroy the Rangers, destroy the cafe, and for what? Some thing that was supposed to be an accident? You have a lot to prove to me more than Fernando ever did when we first met.
Widget: But he's old... double your age at least.
Tammy: So?
Gadget: Love knows no age, no face or no race.
Widget: Easy for you to say- you married a Chipmunk.
Gadget: And you married a dragon who's probably been around since the building of the pyramids.
Widget: He's only 1200 years old.
Tammy: He's probably older. Besides, look whose talking! Your husband saw history unfold in front of him! Technology evolved, ideas that were hundreds of years old into reality. And you're calling Fernando old? You're such a hypocrite.
Widget: He has you brained washed, doesn't he.
Tammy: He does not. I love him and he loves me back. That is more than what I can say about the guys I have dated in the past.
Widget: He definitely has you brain washed.
Gadget: You should leave it alone. (Widget turns to face her with a mean look) I mean, it is none of anybody's business on who marries who, right? We are not our sister's keeper, and as such, we cant tell her not to do anything if she refuses to listen.
Widget: So you have tried...
Gadget: Well...
Tammy: Yes she did, and it was high time that she turned herself around from it too.
Widget: So, explain to me that he's not an abuser, Gadget...
Gadget: Uhm...
Widget: Sounds to me that you two may have gone out or something... But as far as I know you met him some 2 years after getting married to Chip, so if you had dated him... you had to have cheated against your husband...
Gadget: I did not cheat on my husband!
Widget: My, defensive, aren't we?
Tammy: If Fernando and Gadget had dated, it was so as friends and not as lovers!
Widget: Hmmm... Cover up too. I'm going to have to talk to Chip about this.
Gadget: No!
Widget: What was that?
Gadget: No, you don't need too. He already knows about our past, and well, no use in beating a dead horse...
Widget: Oh, but in beating a dead horse, it shows the other horses what's to happen to them if they are to fail in their tasks... Besides, if Chip already knows...
Tammy: You daft or something, Widget?!! Gadget said to leave it alone!
Widget: So why are you two covering up for him? On second thought, why rush into a marriage? Tammy- are you?
Tammy: Oh, that's it! You want to know Widget- then I will tell you- I AM PREGNANT WITH FERNANDO'S PUPPIES!  WE FOOLED AROUND DURING SQUIRREL MATING SEASON, AND THINGS WENT TOO FAR, AND NOW I'M PREGNANT BECAUSE OF IT! There, I said it!  What else do you want to know? Want pictures or videos? I'm sure I can get them off security cams for you!
Gadget: Tammy, Tell Me You Two Didn't!
Widget: My...
Tammy: Now, Widget- I cant throw you out of this house for its Fernando's house and only he can do that- but I want you away from me! The sooner the better!
Widget: Well, I don't know how long we are going to stay but I'll oblige your wish... ta-ta for now...
 
Widget starts to walk up the stairs, and back to the main floor. Tammy continues to lean against the washer, with her arms crossed across her chest and looking down at the floor. Gadget checks in Widget to see if she really left the staircase, and then returns to Tammy.
 
Gadget: Tammy? Are you? Really? Pregnant?
Tammy: I'm not. I'm still a virgin.
Gadget: Then why did you say all that?
Tammy: Widget wanted dirt, so I gave her a whole shit load of it. I don't know why, but people like her seem to get their kicks from other people's down falls. And even if I were pregnant by Fernando- I would consider it a good thing, and not a bad thing like Widget thinks.
Gadget: So you only said that...
Tammy: To get her out of here, yes. She got her crap load of gossip to last her a year or more.
Gadget: So you're...
Tammy: Still a virgin, and not pregnant.
Gadget: Can I be honest with you on something?
Tammy: What?
Gadget: I'm sorry.
Tammy: For?
Gadget: I tried to end your relationship with him by trying to seduce him. But he refused to have me. I even tried to sleep with him, and still nothing.
Tammy: Wait- Sleep?
Gadget: I snuck into his room and bed while he slept, and tried to wake him up. But even when he woke up, he was not interested in me in that way- you know. He told me that he cares about you. Understand that I tried to test him so that he could fail, and he did not fail. That says a lot about him.
Tammy: I knew he was hiding something from me that involved you.
Gadget: Look, it was my fault, not his. I was testing him, pushing him to fail.
Tammy: I'll forgive you on one thing.
Gadget: What would that be?
Tammy: Answer me what would you have done if he did failed and you got pregnant by him?
 
Gadget gulps before giving an answer.
 
Gadget: I never thought about that until Fernando asked me the same question. And the answer I gave him was that I would  keep the baby because I think abortions are wrong. Then I would have to tell my husband about it as well, you know, be honest with him since I owe him that.
Tammy: And what if Chip leaves you?
Gadget: Fernando said that he would support me and the child, whether Chip leaves or not. Can you forgive me?
Tammy: So nothing happened between you two?
Gadget: Yes, nothing happened. And believe me, I tried my best throwing myself at him. He just would not take me. He said that if he did it would hurt you and he does not want that to happen.
Tammy: Are you ever going to do that again to him?
Gadget: No, never!
Tammy: Even if I tell you too?
Gadget: Huh?
Tammy: If I told you to do so, would you do it?
Gadget: Why would you tell me too?
Tammy: I don't know... to test him, like if he's drunk, or we can not do it because of health issues with me like being pregnant.
Gadget: But squirrels and mice are pregnant for 6 months. That's a short time, compared to an elephant who is pregnant for 2 years!
Tammy: Yeeesh! Pregnant for 2 years... But seriously, if something were to happen to me, an accident or if I got sick, perhaps deathly ill, would you do that to him for me?
Gadget: What do you mean by all that?
Tammy: Well (she lets out a sigh), its an old squirrelly tradition that hardly anyone follows anymore. But it goes like this- if something happens to me, that I would arrange a friend like you to be there to take care of him during that time of need, especially in those personal and private needs.
Gadget: I would have to think about it.
Tammy: What is there to think about?
Gadget: A lot!
Tammy: Like?
Gadget: What if I'm still married to Chip by then?
Tammy: What if something happens to me in this crazy job I have? I already had a couple of close calls!
Gadget: I would have to think about it.
Tammy: Well... if something were to happen to Chip, I would want Fernando there for you.
Gadget: That is so...
Tammy: What?
Gadget: Ewww!
Tammy: Wait a minute- weren't you the one trying to seduce him?
Gadget: I was only testing him.
Tammy: And what if that test went all the way and you end up pregnant with his puppies?
Gadget: I would have stopped it before it went that far.
Tammy: That's a dangerous game to be playing, Gadget!
Gadget: Dangerous? How so?
Tammy: What if you and he were drunk? Hmmm? Can you sit there and tell me that you are in full control of yourself while being drunk?
 
Gadget does not answer.
 
Tammy: You're not, nobody is!
Gadget: But he has these pills...
Tammy: I know all about the RU-22 pills. I'm just saying what if you and/or him were drunk. Or what if he was drunk and you weren't? Teasing a man like that is not a safe thing to do! In fact, he could get into a drunken rage and rape you...
 
Gadget just gulps.
 
Tammy: You don't think about those things, now do you?
Gadget: What is there to think?
Tammy: When you get a man all hyped up with promise of a good time and you and/or he are drunk or worse, you can not push him away because he'll go ape shit on you! You would think you are in control, but you are not!
Gadget: Then, Tammy- I'm sorry, 'No' means 'No' and if he forces me to do something I don't want to do, he would have to go to jail or worse.
Tammy: And I would bail him out and tell the police that it's a fabrication on your part.
Gadget: You would not dare.
Tammy: Before you and Chip married, he and I dated for a short while... and I swear- that 'munk does not know the meaning of the word 'No' until I had to knee his in the acorns on more than one occasion.  
Gadget: You're just saying that to make Chip look bad.
Tammy: I'm telling you the truth. We only dated for that 1 summer, and boy, he was unbearable! It was open mating season all the time with him!
Gadget: I don't believe you...
Tammy: Next time you and he get busy practicing making puppies, I want you to look at the inside of his right leg near the groin, move the fur around...
Gadget: What for?
 
Tammy holds up her paw at Gadget, showing off her claws.
 
Tammy: You'll find my defense mark on him there... 5 little scars from my claws cutting him... he would not take 'No' as an answer so I had to draw blood from him to make him stop.
Gadget: So if this is true, what does this have to do with Fernando?
Tammy: Fernando is twice as strong as Chip, and he does not feel pain. So if you had to fight him off you, you would lose. That is why I'm asking what if your test went to far- you would not be able to fight him off.
Gadget: Is this experience talking?
Tammy: Experience?
Gadget: You can tell me the truth- did you had to fight him off you? Have he tried to force it on you?
Tammy: No.
Gadget: Why do I sense you're lying.
Tammy: He fought me off a couple of times,  in fact this morning was one of them, but...
Gadget: But what?
Tammy: He picked me up like a twig and tossed me to the other side of the bed!
 
Gadget stares at Tammy, unsure how to take this. To whether laugh or make a sarcastic remark about it, she did not know.
 
Tammy: Gadget?
 
Gadget remains silent for the moment.
 
Tammy: Earth calling Gadget... Come in Gadget...
 
Gadget snaps out of it.
 
Gadget: Huh?
Tammy: You OK?
Gadget: Yeah...
Tammy: What happened?
Gadget: Nothing. No, really...Golly... I was thinking, if he picked you up and tossed you like a twig, and you and me are about the same size, except for that tail of yours adds more weight, and like you say he feels no pain but how is that possible, maybe it's a flying squirrel thing from crashing into too many trees or something else, but if it were me instead of you, he might have done something to me, right? But he hasn't even though I gave him the opportunity to have done so several times already and he didn't take it, so that says more about him than I can ever say, gee... Tammy... you do not know what you have in him.
Tammy: Don't you think I know that?
Gadget: Would it be stupid if we broke out song right about now?
Tammy: Yeah. Lets not and say that we did.
Gadget: Uhm...
Tammy: You have to stop thinking. It gets you into trouble.
Gadget: I know. I just cant help it.
Tammy: Look, I forgive you for trying to seduce my fiancee. I'm not happy about it, but since nothing happened, then I can easily forgive you for trying. And thanks.
Gadget: Thanks?
Tammy: Thanks for trying, and you failing, which means that I can trust him around other women. So, you slept with him...
Gadget: That is as far as it went, we slept. You know he talks in his sleep?
Tammy: No he doesn't, I slept with him every night I can, even with Bink in the room with us in the other bed, I know he does not talk in his sleep.
Gadget: Well, he did when I was with him. And all he said was your name. He thought you were there instead of me.
Tammy: Well... I don't believe it. But if that's true, then I can only be that much more reassured of him.
Gadget: But he  did with me.
Tammy: If he did with you, then he must have thought you were me, so what do I have to worry about.
Gadget: But...
Tammy: But nothing, Gadget. I'm not going to explain what or why the way Fernando is, so lets drop it. OK?
Gadget: OK, I guess.
 
For a moment there was silence between the two.
 
Gadget: So things between you and Fernando OK?
Tammy: Never better.
Gadget: So he's not forcing you into things, like... you know...
Tammy: Sometimes I wished he did. I mean, it gets frustrating having to wait and all.
Gadget: But getting married is the right thing to do, right?
Tammy: Well, yes, but I wish we were married now and get it over with it.
Gadget: But, what if...
Tammy: What?
Gadget: What if, well, for some reason, the both of you were incompatible? Or what you thought was love is no longer there after you get married?
Tammy: Its not going to happen.
Gadget: How can you be so sure? Things like that happen all the time. That's why there is divorce court.
Tammy: You know Fernando is Roman Catholic, right?
Gadget: What does that have to do with anything?
Tammy: Roman Catholics don't believe in divorces. Its against their religion, and if they do they get kicked out of the church. Furthermore, this is Italy- Everyone is Roman Catholic here.
Gadget: Then if the marriage goes bad, how do they separate?
Tammy: They have their own annulment process, but its only for dire circumstances like infidelity and abuse.
Gadget: What if he starts to abuse you when you two are married?
Tammy: He would have started to abuse me by now, don't you think?
Gadget: Marriage change men. Did you know that about 20 years ago, a marriage made a woman into a man's personal property? And that if the man forces his wife to have sex, if he rapes her, that back then because she was his property, there was nothing she could do about it?
Tammy: Things have changed since then, and Fernando is not that type of guy.
Gadget: How can you be sure?
Tammy: How can you be sure that Chip was that guy to you? Or is he abusing you to keep quiet and forcing you to do things you don't want to do? Hmmm?
Gadget: Chip has been a loving and caring husband!
Tammy: How do you know he wont turn on you?
Gadget: Because he hasn't.
Tammy: Well then, Fernando has not done so with me neither. And I know that in my heart that he wont ever betray me. So therefore, I can trust him.
 
For a while Gadget does not answer. Tammy turns around and adds more detergent soap to the washing machine. She then puts away the box of soap and turns to Gadget.
 
Gadget: I think you put too much in there.
Tammy: I know what I'm doing, I do it this way all the time.
Gadget: OK, if you insist.
 
After a couple of seconds of silence.
 
Gadget: Where do you think the guys went off to?
Tammy: Far away from here. Do you blame them?
Gadget: They could have at least taken us with them.
Tammy: Could, should, would... all the same difference to me. Besides, later on when all this laundry is done, we gals have to go back to the bridal shop and check out the progress of the fittings.
Gadget: Already?
Tammy: The wedding in a week from tomorrow!
Gadget: Oh, that's right!
Tammy: When I put the clothes in the dryer, I want you to gather the ladies upstairs so we can leave within a 1/2 hour from then. Until then, I got things to do and clean up.
 
Tammy glances over the timer on the washing machine, then starts to leave the basement, with Gadget behind her. She then locks the door to the basement when they leave before continuing upstairs to the bedroom. Tammy leaves the door open as she walks in, starting to clean up the place. Gadget stands by the doorway. Tammy stares at Gadget as she grabs the blankets on the bed.
 
Tammy: Aren't you going to clean up your room?
Gadget: All I got is a tiny corner and its already clean.
Tammy: Hmmm... I bet.
Gadget: It is.
Tammy (grabbing the blankets and sheets off the bed): It better be. I don't want Fernando to find the place a mess while we have our honeymoon here.
Gadget: Honeymoon, here? Why?
Tammy: Its free, and with everyone gone, very quiet and private. You can add intimate too.
Gadget: But, it would be like having your Honeymoon at one of the cafe rooms! That's not quite romantic you know.
Tammy: This is where we decided we are to have it. Phones will be disconnected so we can chase ourselves all day like the squirrels we are. Besides, its only for the weekend. After that, its back to work and see what happens from there.
Gadget: Weekend Honeymoon? That's not enough...
Tammy: We don't have many options right now. The SWA wanted to give us a place in Sicily, but I refused.
Gadget: Sicily? Sicily is gorgeous this time of year, why not?!!
Tammy: Hello! SWA giving us a place? Its probably rigged with microphones and cameras, recording our ever intimate moment that we have and then study it for future reference. That's why I refused. So it will be just us two here- with the recording devices off and security set on high as we wont be intruded upon.
Gadget: Why not a hotel? Or a bed and breakfast?
Tammy: No...
 
Tammy cleans off the bed, gives it a spray of freshener on the mattress, and then puts the sheets and blankets on it. She then tosses a pillow at Gadget.
 
Tammy: Smell that.
 
Gadget catches it and gives it a sniff.
 
Gadget: Uhm... smells like... (sniffs again) ...Fernando?
Tammy (with a smile): Yeah, it does, don't it?
 
Tammy places the other pillows on the bed before going to Gadget and taking the pillow from her and puts it on a particular spot on the bed.
 
Tammy: That's his pillow... and he's territorial about it, like all male squirrels are.
Gadget: What about you?
Tammy: I take any pillow but prefer to have my head on his chest to listen to his heart beating...
Gadget: TMI- TAMMY! TMI!!!
Tammy: What? Don't you do the same with Chip?
Gadget: We tend to sleep apart from each other even though we are on the same bed.
Tammy: And what about you and my fiancee? Hmmmm?
Gadget: That's different! I was trying to seduce him...
Tammy (smiling): Yeah, I bet.
Gadget: You're not going to live it down?
Tammy: Of course not! How else am I going to find out the truth of what happened if I didn't?
Gadget: But nothing happened...
Tammy: As long as you keep saying that, I believe you. But if you break from your story, even years from now, then it will be something I will have to deal with when it happens.
Gadget: But...
 
Tammy sits on the bed and then lays down, putting her head on his pillow, holding it tightly against her face, and taking in a deep whiff of his scent from the material from which his head lays on. She close her eyes while facing Gadget.
 
Tammy: Tell me Gadget, was it good for you?
Gadget: Huh?
Tammy: You know, seducing him...
Gadget: No.
Tammy: Did you just laid there for him? (Gadget: No.) Was he on top of you? (Gadget: No.) Did he pinned you down on the bed? (Gadget: No...) Was he as rough on you has you wanted him to be? (Gadget: No!) Did you enjoyed having him in you? (Gadget: No!) Did You Wrap Your Legs Around Him, Trying To Force Yourself Harder Against Him? (Gadget: No!!) Did You Grabbed His Hair And Yelled "HARDER!" (Gadget: No!!!) "HARDER!" (Gadget: No!!!) "HARDER!" (Gadget: No!!!) "OH MY GOD!!! YES!!!!"
Gadget: No! NO! NO!!! (she begins to cry) Stop it Tammy! Please Stop It!
 
Tammy throws one of the other pillows at Gadget as she had her face covered with her hands. As it bounces off her, Gadget looks at Tammy, who was still laying on her side on the bed, but with her arm and hand holding up her head. She sits up as they continued their conversation.
 
Tammy: Then what exactly happened...
Gadget: I told you already, I tried and he refused. I failed in my own test to test him.
Tammy: Details?
Gadget: What details?
Tammy: Did you shows him your goods?
Gadget: I showed him what I had to offer him under my purple robe and in my purple underwear while pretending to be drunk and wanting of him.
Tammy: And then?
Gadget: He just looked me over and gave me a score lower than the Russian judge would the United States Gymnastics team.
Tammy: Wha...?
Gadget: He told me that though what I offered may look good, he was not interested in it. Furthermore as we talked, he said and showed me things  to prove that we can never have such a relationship.
Tammy: Why not? Many guys want you, Gadget.
Gadget: Yeah, and he explained to me why they do.
Tammy: Really? Why is that then?
Gadget: Because I made myself inaccessible to them, men have a want to being able to access the inaccessible.
Tammy: So if you make yourself inaccessible, then guys would want you? Kind of strange, don't you think?
Gadget: Yes, but it makes sense.
Tammy: Anything else he said? Wait, where did this happened?
Gadget: Well, it started in the living room, then moved to the dining area and then upstairs to the bedroom.
Tammy: OK. Now, what did he say?
Gadget: He said a lot of things, but most importantly, he sees me as a sister than a possible girl friend, and we would not do that sort of thing unless I pushed it really hard enough. He said that as a man- he can deny temptation but so far.
Tammy: You know, the more you talk the more I would find you in contempt of us having a relationship, and if something did happened, I hope he enjoyed himself at your expense. Damn it Gadget, I swear. I thought we were friends.
Gadget: I was doing it for you...
Tammy: How so? Have a 1 night fling with him and then come report it to me? I swear Gadget- that is not right!
Gadget: I thought you would have...*
 
Tammy smacks Gadget across the face, though not as hard as she would have liked.
 
Tammy: That's entrapment! Do you understand what that mean?
Gadget: Not really.
Tammy: You forced him into a corner to the point where he had no other options to take but get seduced by you! Thank god that somehow he was smart enough to find another way to get out with!
Gadget: But...
Tammy: You're sick!
Gadget: But...
Tammy: How were you going to tell me? 'Oh, by the way, Tammy. Fernando and I had sex while you were gone...' How you would have wanted me to react? Get mad at him? End our engagement? Was that it?
Gadget: But...
Tammy: BUT WHAT?!!
Gadget: But... we girls have to stick together...
Tammy: As friends- yes. Not as man-stealing bimboes like you tried to do. Don't you dare think that this would not have gone all the way because it would have. Then what are you going to tell Chip when you find out you're pregnant with Fernando's puppies? Nothing- you don't have an answer for it, don't you! I swear Gadget- you got lucky this time... There might not be a next time after this.
 
Gadget could only stare at her, wondering what to do or say but not finding the words to do so.
 
Tammy: Furthermore, Ms Hackwrench, you did this without telling or discussing it with me first before doing it in order to protect you in case it did went too far! Besides, I would have agreed with you if I did not trust him... the problem is- I do, more than you right now!
 
Tammy waits for a second for Gadget to respond to. Again, nothing; except a tear that started to run down on her face.
 
Tammy: Go to your room and stay in there until I want to see you again. As it you are to stay away from Fernando. Do I make myself clear?
 
Gadget just nods before turning around and stepping out of the room, heading towards her. Tammy gets off the bed she was sitting on and picks up the pillow off the floor, placing it back on the pile.
 
Tammy (to herself): Damn that blonde mouse. How dare she try to man-trap my Fernando.
 
She then continues to walk about the room, cleaning it up, rearranging things here and there. She then goes down stairs to the basement to deal with the laundry, putting the washed clothes into the dryer when they are done.
 
Rose goes downstairs to the basement, looking for Tammy.
 
Rose: Why is Gadget in the room crying?
Tammy: She's crying? Good... Maybe she can cry it out of her system.
Rose: What happened between you two?
Tammy: Nothing.
Rose: Well, unfortunately for you- I heard most of the discussion you and her had in your room, mostly because of you yelling at her. I just have one thing to say about that.
Tammy: And what would that be?
Rose: Fernando is not innocent in this either. It was not like he tried to fight her off from what I have seen.
Tammy: You saw what happened between them?
Rose: Just part of it, and from what I saw, he was a willing participant.
Tammy: I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt in that with Gadget telling me that she tried to force herself on him for some test that most guys would have failed in which would have resulted in her possibly getting pregnant.
Rose: But he does have a lot of explaining to do.
Tammy: I would agree in that he does. But I have to ask you this- what if she had done the same with Hondo?
Rose: I would be very angry at him for allowing himself to fall into her trap.
Tammy: You're not going to give him the benefit of the doubt?
Rose: Why should I?
Tammy: Because you're friends for one. (Tammy looks at her hands) You're eng... wait- what happened to the ring?
Rose: We broke up.
Tammy: Why? Weren't you two happy?
Rose: I thought I was. Then I realized something and then I sat down and started thinking. What if Hondo is not the man of my love and life? What if I was blinded by the stresses of this mission? I would not want to fall into a trap which I would later regret for the rest of my life. I suggest that you do the same thing, because once you're married, that's it.
Tammy: Its not like its an undoable mistake. People get divorced and remarry later on.
Rose: That might be true, but I would prefer to be right the first time.
Tammy: That's a 50/50 chance you have to take. But that's your life, and I'm sorry to see two seemingly good friends break up like that.
Rose: You should reevaluate your relationship. In the very least, when the priest says 'do you take this man...', you can say 'I don't'
Tammy: I'll take it into advisement. But until then, the wedding still goes on, and I want you there as one of my maids of honor.
Rose: I cant promise anything, it depends on whether or not the Navy can release me from my duties on that day.
 
Tammy opens the door to the dryer and test-feels the items inside and then closes the door to let the cycle continue.
 
Tammy: Alright. But that does not excuse you from going with the rest of us to check our fittings later today.
Rose: Today?
Tammy: Right after I finish a few chore items around the house. I say, get ready in about an hour.
Rose: But...
Tammy: But what?
Rose: I have things to do!...
Tammy: Last I checked, you sent the data stream days ago and your captain sent back a reply. So right now its all a wait and see mission before tomorrow morning's bombing raid on the LSD Traffickers. Any email or communiques that arrive will be on the server waiting for you to return. So there is nothing to do.
 
Rose just stands there, wanting to say no but for the moment doesn't. Tammy open the door to the dryer and checks the clothes again. They were still damp to the touch, so she closes the door and lets the dryer continue on for a longer cycle.
 
Tammy: This is taking longer than I thought.
 
Rose starts to walk out of the room. Tammy almost yells back at her.
 
Tammy: That's it? You are not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt?
 
Rose freezes by the door, then she turns around.
 
Rose: You were not there to have witness the fooling around those two were doing.
Tammy: Fooling around, as in?
Rose: Kissing and making out in the living room. Then there was the time she spent in his- your bedroom. God knows what happened in there.
Tammy: And you would slight him for being a man?
Rose: If a man promises you for marriage then he should not be gallivanting about with other women, he has you for that!
Tammy: Men are dogs, so if you throw them a steak, they will go for it. But thus far, Fernando has been honest enough to tell me what's going on and say that he will deal with it. In being honest with me, I can forgive him.
Rose: So you know about Gadget being in her robe showing off her goods to him, and of the make out session we caught them in?
Tammy: Yes.
Rose: You know, if we did not catch them, Gadget might be pregnant by now.
Tammy: I warned Gadget about that.
Rose: I don't think Gadget was the right person to talk too about this.
Tammy: She was the one who tried to seduce him.
Rose: He took the bait she offered.
Tammy: Tell me, you caught them actually having sex?
Rose: No. Just passionately kissing each other with her on his lap.
Tammy: That was all?
Rose: From what Hondo and I saw, yes.
Tammy: So his hands were not up on her breasts or stuffed under her skirt, or her in his pants.
Rose: Nothing like that.
Tammy: Then explain how you found them like that.
Rose: Well, we were getting ready for  dinner date when Hondo and I heard them arguing downstairs in the living room. They were at it, yelling at each other, and then silence. We decided to check up on them to make sure one had not killed the other, and that was when we found them- she sitting on his lap, in a tight embrace and lip locked.
Tammy: And neither one's hands inside the other's clothing.
Rose: No.
Tammy: I see.
Rose: If I were you...
Tammy: You're not. So lets leave it at that. For now we cant be hating each other for a slight indescression on both their part. Nor can I slight him for being a man, I can for her being a woman because she is a married woman and married women should not be going after and testing men.
Rose: Regardless, those two were committing adultery.
Tammy: Gadget was committing adultery, she is the married one, not Fernando.
Rose: He was the participating player in the affair.
Tammy: Enough of this. I swear, if none of us cant go beyond a slight indescression, then its not worth having relationships and marriages, and friendships. I might as well just go up to Fernando and give him what I have to offer for bringing me back together with Bink and saving our lives.
Rose: What would you have to offer him in those terms?
Tammy: My body, and anything he wants to do with it that does not mean me getting hurt.
Rose: You mean....
Tammy: Sex? Yes. It's the only thing I have that can satisfy the cost of the reward of the things I have done.
Rose: You're selling yourself low.
Tammy: What is your life worth?
Rose: It not worth me giving up parts of my private self to some as a price.
Tammy: You can say that because you have not been there.
Rose: Oh, I know, we all know that you are undergoing Florence Nightingale Syndrome in a big way, and that Fernando is the recipient of your syndrome.
Tammy: I AM NOT!!!
Rose: You sure about that? I don't think you can be. You can not step out of yourself and look as to what is going on and honestly see what is going on or do something about it. Face it Tammy- you are in love and you are letting that love blind you and guide you into all the of your everyday decisions. In your eyes, Fernando can do no wrong, even if you personally caught him deep in the throws of puppy-making sex/love match with Gadget, for you would blame her for the indescression and not him. It takes two to tango, Tammy. And those two can be either you and him or him and Gadget...
 
Rose turns away and starts to walk away to the staircase. Tammy answers loudly for her to hear.
 
Tammy: I'm willing to forgive Fernando for his mistakes!
 
Rose stops and then turns to Tammy by the stairway.
 
Rose: Are you willing to forgive Gadget too?
 
Tammy does not answer for the moment, a moment that Rose takes to start walking up the stairs.

Angie returns with Priscilla in tow who was unsure of what was going on despite the explanation Angie gave her. 'Barbeque, why a barbeque' what was she had to respond with. After the long walk through the parking lot and around the empty pool, Angelica and Priscilla stop by Marco and Charles who were tending to the meats and the grill.
 
Priscilla: What is this all about?
Marco: It has been a while that we have had a group BBQ.
Priscilla: Who's idea was this? Dont tell me it was Fernando!
Marco: Then I wont tell you. But he is right on one thing though.
Priscilla: And what is that?
Marco: You have to stop and enjoy life every once in a while. Now, if you don't mind getting some plates, utensils, refreshments and everybody inside the house out here.
 
Priscilla gives him a mean look. Tammy arrives to the grill area with Bink who was dragging her along.
 
Marco: Oh come on. Its not like we were doing any serious work there!
Tammy: What's going on here?
Marco: Oh nothing. Just having a BBQ for everyone.
Tammy: But... we girls have to go check on our wedding dress fittings!
Marco: That can wait.
Tammy: No it cant!
Marco: Just call them up and make an appointment for late this afternoon.
 
Priscilla grabs Tammy by the arm and hauls her back to the house, saying loudly, "MEN!" with Tammy responding just as loudly, "YEAH, MEN!"
 
Both Bink and Angelica set the table for everyone to eat on. Marco kept on putting burgers on the grill for Charles to cook up well done, with a few done medium well. One by one, those in the house started to gather about outside by the grill, sitting down on the large outdoor bench/table combination. Everyone grabbed onto at least 1 burger to start lunch with. Priscilla, Ferro and Rose brought out wine and soda from the refrigerator; Olga bought out the pasta salad, and soon everyone was having their lunch time meal outside in the open. Even Hillshire/Triela and Jean/Rico, who had just arrived after leaving the compound medical facility were there.
 
Tammy felt uneasy since Fernando was not there, thinking that he should be there since it was his place and all. Marco explained it that it was his idea for them to have this meal while he and Hondo were out on another excursion. This still did not put Tammy's mind at ease. At best, she could only eat 1/2the burger and very little of the pasta salad, leaving it up to Bink to have the remains after she had had her fill. Tammy goes back into the house, unsure as to what to do with herself. Gadget went in after her after several moments of not seeing her coming out. She finds Tammy in her room, laying in bed staring at the ceiling.
 
Gadget: I thought Fernando told me that this was a guy thing to do.
 
Tammy turns to look at Gadget.
 
Tammy: What are you talking about?
Gadget: You, laying there, staring at the ceiling. Fernando told me that it was a guy thing. Last I remember- you're a girl.
Tammy: I still am a girl.
Gadget: So what's bothering you?
Tammy: Nothing.
Gadget: Atlas would say the same thing and he carries the weight of the world upon his shoulders.
Tammy: I rather not talk about it.
Gadget: And why not?
Tammy: Because its about something said about you and Fernando.
Gadget: I don't care what anyone has to say about us, for I told you what needed to be said.
Tammy: Answer me this- was he a 'willing participant'?
Gadget: Huh? Where did that came from?
Tammy: Somebody told me that though you tried to seduce him, he was not fighting you off, that he was allowing it to happen.
Gadget: I can assure you that he fought me off.
Tammy: Then tell me, what was the furthest you got with him?
Gadget: Uhm... You really want to know that?
Tammy: Yes.
Gadget: Uhm... OK. It was one long passionate kiss we had. Don't know where it would have went because we were interrupted by Rose and Hondo.
Tammy: How far would you have allowed it?
Gadget: In God's awful truth, I don't know.
Tammy: And why not?
Gadget: Well.... Tammy... it was one of those kisses that you get lost in, and I got lost in it.
Tammy: I see.
Gadget: But Tammy...
Tammy: Yes?
Gadget: I pushed him to do it. So it was not exactly his fault. And he stated that there was no emotion in that kiss for him.
Tammy: If that is any consolation, then so be it.
Gadget: Why are you being so mean?
Tammy: I am just so tired of everybody bad mouthing Fernando, and trying to prove that he is such a low life, but they should look at themselves first. No one here is an angel except for maybe the girls, and that because we adults push them into doing our dirty work for us.
Gadget: But I said I was sorry.
Tammy: And you are forgiven, but even if I wanted to forget about it- which I don't, others wont let me. In just stepping out and looking at the situation from outside, nobody does not want Fernando around. And the only reason I can see why is because he was able to do what was needed to be done as far as unifying Bink and I together, rearranged the SWA into a stronger agency and managed to but open this case I was sent to do. In truth Gadget, I think I was set up to fail.
Gadget: Why would you say that?
Tammy: One dead Tammy and one dead Bink, and the agency no longer has to answer to anyone but themselves. If they have failures, they get swept up under the rug. If they have successes, then they celebrate on how good they are- I was just in their way of mostly everything they believed in. And Gadget, I had too many close calls in the short time since I started.
 
Several miles away, just North of Rome. Fernando and Hondo were driving on highway A-1.
 
Fernando: I just hope that the sunrises tomarrow as soon as it can.
Hondo: Why do you wish that? Most people want to day to be longer.
Fernando: The bombing raid happens tonight. After all is said and done, and the reports come in during the night while we sleep, hopefully this will be all over. Now, we got a few things to deal with, things to see and people to do.
Hondo: You making it sound good does not make it easy.
Fernando: It never is.
 
Fernando gets off the highway makes a couple of turn, and gets back on the highway, heading towards Rome. After driving around, Fernando parks the car just a couple of blocks from the Vatican. They walk towards the Holy City/Nation but stop just from entering. Fernando shows the Swedish Guard at the gate, his ID and then whispers to him. The guard points down the street and gives directions: 2 blocks, turn left, third building on the south side, cant miss it. Fernando shakes the guard's hand and give him thanks before leaving. Hondo follows right behind, asking questions.
 
Hondo: I though those guards are sworn to silence, never to speak.
Fernando: They are never to speak to anyone but their own.
Hondo: You're one of them?
Fernando: I'm one of many things. Something you have to be when playing this game.
 
They reach to their designation, entering into a building that looks like one of many others on the exterior. On the inside though, things were different, as if they had just walked into Buckingham Palace just after it was refurbished. Fernando signs the log-in book and speaks to the guard. He tells them to have a seat in the waiting area. The two of them sit down and wait.
 
Hondo: Where are we?
 
Fernando points to one of several magazines on the table, by its title 'Opus Diem.' In fact all of the magazines on the table were titled 'Opus Diem,' as the rest of the books were inscribed in Latin.
 
Hondo: Who, or what, is this Opus Denim?
Fernando: Its Opus Diem, which is Latin for God's Day.
Hondo: Still does not answer my question.
Fernando (sighs): Within the Roman Catholic Church, there are sections- sects, if you will, where each sect has a specific task to do for the church. Opus Diem, The Free Masons and The Knights of Columbus are just three. So in short, its just like any government with pigeon hole agencies filled with people who believe that only they can do the job.
Hondo: Well, in thinking like that, that guy at the gate you spoke with must be the police, so where are we?
Fernando: In speaking in those terms, The Central Intelligence Agency.
Hondo: The CIA?
Fernando: Well, their version of it. But the CIA you know is more not like what you believe them to be. This place is more true to the meaning of the words 'Central Intelligence'. This is the network of spies and intelligence gathering personnel, who sit and gather information from around the world. What they do with this information- well, that's on them.
Hondo: And we're here because?
Fernando: For Intelligence Information- what else?
Hondo: I see.
 
The two of them wait for a while until a priest comes to them. However, this priest was decoratively more dressed than one would expect at a church. In fact he wore an expensive Armani suit similar to what Fernando wore, though it looked new.
 
As they followed the priest to an office in the rear of the building on one of the higher floors, deliberately taking the long way through the maze of halls, they had passed many rooms which doors were open. Hondo glanced into each room out of curiosity, witnessing what one could describe as individuals undergoing various torture techniques, with each one being worse than the one before. When they got to the office and took their seats, Hondo looked a little green.
 
Priest: Is your friend alright?
Fernando: Lets just say, he's not used to the sights.
Priest: Then maybe he's not suit out to be in this type of work.
Fernando: Give him time, and some training to toughen him up.
Hondo: I'm already tough.
Fernando: Uhm... Hondo. What you saw back there were not prisoners being interrogated. They were agents going through their punishment routine.
 
Hondo's eyes grew wide open as Fernando continued explaining.
 
Fernando: Opus Diem agents undergo daily torture because Jesus Christ was tortured before being put to the cross, and he did not sway from his task. Neither must they. So you see, if they were ever to get caught, you cant torture information out of them. Nor can you bribe, or threaten them or their families and friends. They are true to the cause.
Priest: If one of our agents are captured, you are to either release them or kill them. Either way, you are getting nothing out of them other than "This is the path Jesus took, and so will I."
Hondo: You're joking.
Fernando: You should see what they do to prisoners, they break before the sun sets for the night.
Priest: Lets not get into the internal workings of this place. Now, what can I do for you?
Fernando: I need some information on the whereabouts of Onyx's leaders in Rome. Would you have that?
Priest: And what it is worth to you?
Fernando: I need to give them a message.
Priest: Give me the message, and I will send one of my people to give it to them.
Fernando: I prefer to give it to them personally.  
Priest: Why put yourself in harms way?
Fernando: Why did Jesus did the same? Answer- to save them.
Priest: Even if in doing so, means that you will not come back alive.
Fernando: My life is not an issue, neither is that of my friend here.
Hondo: Now wait a minute!
Fernando: Relax Hondo. You will be protected. Just stop being selfish of yourself and your well being and things will come out for the best.
 
The priest types a few things on his desk's built in keyboard. In a couple of minutes, a fine looking female mouse dressed in a robe enters the room from another room, handing the priest a thin leather bound folder. She then walks over to the space between the chairs Fernando and Hondo were in and the priest's desk, kneels down and takes off of robe, showing off her nakedness. The priest walks up behind her, puts the folder on the desk, and then a leather whip. He then proceeds to whipping her. Hondo jumps out of the chair, and manages to catch whip on the 5th blow. For a while both the priest and Hondo stare at each other.
 
Priest: No good deed goes unpunished.
Hondo: STOP IT!
Priest: Are you going to be like Solomon, and take her place instead?
 
Hondo stares at him, and then at the young woman who is knelt beside him. Fernando gets up and stands beside them.
 
Fernando: Let go of the whip, Hondo.
Hondo: Not if he is to continue whipping her!
Fernando: Its their way, Hondo. We can not participate, unless like the Priest said of Solomon- you are to bare carrying the cross for her.
 
Hondo stares at Fernando for the moment. Then he takes his free hand and places in front of the woman for her to take. She looks up at him, then shakes her head.
 
Hondo: Take it!
Priest: Are you going to take her place as Solomon did for him?
Hondo: If anything I had learned from bible school- Jesus did not allowed women to be punished. He revered them, put them in a place above man because they bare life, though it is we men who give them that life to bare.
Priest: An interesting answer. But what if, Jesus was a woman? Would she not undergo the same trials and tribulations to save our souls as he did as a man?
Hondo: I'm not here to speculate on such things. All I know is that Jesus was a man, and he put women as his equal on all things but one and on that one on a higher plane. So, I'm telling you, to stop.
Priest: If Jesus were to have been a woman, among all other things that had happened to him as a man, she would have been raped but the same guards who are assigned to protect her. But we here will not violate her as to keep the sanctity of her virginity intact. But she, like all the other followers here, will undergo what Jesus did as a man.
Fernando: Because it is their way, Hondo.
Hondo: I'm not here to witness this... torture!
Priest: Then why are you here?
Hondo: I'm here with him, doing a mission for god knows what reasons anymore.
Priest: So you are an apostle?
Hondo: A what?
Fernando: One of the 12 followers of Jesus, or in my case- one of my followers. And before you answer it with your own words, your actions says you are.
Hondo: Then so be it.
Priest: So before the rooster crows in the morning, you will betray him three times?
Hondo: I will never betray him.
Priest: They had said the same thing, and did differently.
Fernando: I suggest that we keep to business, and lets leave the rewarding of this fine young lady for another time. Hondo- let go of the whip.
 
Hondo stares at him before slowly letting go of the whip. As the whip falls harmlessly upon her back, she takes his hand and uses it to get up. Fernando takes the robe off the floor and puts it on her shoulders, where she takes it and covers herself up with it.
 
Priest: Thank you, Monica. We will continue this in private.
 
Hondo just stares at him, almost wanting to growl. Fernando turns to him as Monica nods at the priest before leaving the room from where she came in.
 
Fernando: Its their way, Hondo. Leave it be.
Hondo: Its unnatural.
Fernando: Its their way. Besides, they are so beaten that they no longer feel it, thus is the reason why torture will never work against these people- they are already used to it.
 
The priest gives Fernando the thin leather folder.
 
Priest: All that you require is in there.
Fernando: Thank you. Uhm... as there another way...?
Priest: Third Door on the left, take it straight down.
Fernando: Again, thank you.
Priest: Thank the lord, and may your mission go well.
Fernando: Yes, thank the lord.
 
Fernando starts to walk out of the room. Hondo follows. Together, they take to the stairs, with Hondo wanting to same something. Fernando stops him from saying a word.
 
Fernando: You need to learn to keep quiet when on other people's property. I know you do it at their homes, but you also have to do so in office buildings, classroom halls,  and places of residences. Remember this above all- the walls have ears. So save what you have to say until we are well clear of this place.
 
Hondo remains quiet, almost feeling indignant about the whole thing. But for the time being, he remains silent. In a couple of minutes they are sitting inside the Porsche. Fernando reminds him it is safe to talk.
 
Fernando: You can speak now.
Hondo: I don't like what I saw back there.
Fernando: What are you going to do- rescue her?
Hondo: If I knew how.
Fernando: Don't even think that you can.
Hondo: And why not?
Fernando: There is a difference between a person who needs rescuing, and a person who voluntarily put himself into the situation. Its like the whores by the Coliseum. Tabi and Sabi were forced to be there, the others have a choice and choose to remain there. Only Tabi and Sabi needed to be rescued, the others did not. Monica is willing to go through the torture everyday, and because she is willing, she does not need to be rescued. That is where the difference is.
 
Fernando opens the thin leather folder and pulls out the only sheet of paper inside. It contains an address and a name, though inscribed in Latin. Fernando takes a moment to himself to decipher it. Then he closes the folder, stuffs it between the seat and the center console, and drives away. In less than 15 minutes, they were parking inside the garage of the Gran Roma Hilton. They walk to the elevator and take it to a private keyed floor, which Fernando jammed a heavy steel key into and twisted it until the lock gave out.
 
Fernando: You take the one on the right.
Hondo: Wha.... Oh, yes boss squirrel man...
Fernando: Cut it out with the boss thing. Jesus I swear... And don't kill them, just break an arm and a leg.
Hondo: Will do... sir.
 
Fernando just sighs. After a couple of minutes, the elevator door opens to a dimly lit hallway. They both step out quietly, with Fernando taking the lead and signaling to Hondo to follow him. There were two guards at the end of the hall guarding a single door, they slowly approached it. The two guards pull out their hand guns and at it at them. They continue to walk, with hands raised.
 
Guard 1: That's far enough. State your business.
Fernando: We have business for your boss, Francois.
Guard 2: We don't have a Francois here. You should turn around and just walk away.
Fernando: I was told this would be it: Gran Roma Hilton, private room 3690.
 
The second guard approaches Fernando, giving him a slight shove to step back.
 
Guard 2: I told you there was nobody here by that name. Now you hard of hearing or maybe it's a learning disability?
Fernando: Well, I'm sorry...
 
The guard give Fernando another shove, harder than the first, but Fernando grabs onto his arms and spins on the heel of his pivot foot, sending the guard fast and hard unto his friend. They both fall hard onto the floor. Fernando draws out his gun and nods at Hondo who does the same. Fernando grabs onto the door knob, finding it unlocked. They walk in, finding a round table discussion going on, and many body guards about the place with their guns aimed at them. Fernando aims his at the one who those were paying attention besides himself. Hondo just aimed at the largest body guard, who had a small canon for a hand gun pointed back at him.
 
Fernando: Tell your guards to back down.
 
The room full of men laugh.
 
Fernando: Seriously, tell them to put down their guns, and we will do the same.
Mouse who Fernando was aiming at: I like this guy, he's some kind of comedian. Now, squirrel boy, what is it that you want?
Fernando: Me, nothing. But I do have some information for you... Francois.
Mouse who Fernando was aiming at: And what would this information be?
Fernando: Leave Italy while you still can. Stop your drug shipments while you still can. Continue to do so will only promote your demise.
 
The men in the room continue to laugh.
 
Mouse who Fernando was aiming at: What make you think that you are going to get away with this?
Fernando: Simple. Shoot me, and my partner will shoot you. He get shot and then everyone will be shooting, simply put- my partner and I may be dead when all is said and done, but so will you. In fact, it would be to your best interest that no body shoots, so that you don't get killed in the 'accidental' cross fire. Now are you going to listen to my deal?
Mouse who Fernando was aiming at: And if I refuse?
Fernando: If you refuse, it will be too expensive to be worth it for you to deal in Italy.
Mouse who Fernando was aiming at: Who says that the price of things aren't already set?
Fernando: Lets just say that the price of doing business will suddenly increase to the point where it is not worth it. Now, if you do not want to listen to my warning, then by all mean, continue as normal. But do not say that you were not warned.
 
Fernando signals to Hondo to start withdrawing from the room. Fernando starts walking backwards to the door with him. He sneaks a few drops of crazy glue onto the door knob, and slams the door behind them.
 
Fernando (as he runs to the nearest fire escape stairway): This way, Hondo....
Hondo: But aren't they going to be right behind us?
Fernando (showing off a tiny tube of crazy glue stuck on his finger): I crazy glued their doorknob so its going to take them a while to open it. Meanwhile, lets get some distance between us...
 
They continue down for a few more floors until they get out to catch the elevator, which they take to the basement garage. Along the way, Fernando manages to take the tiny stuck tube of crazy glue off his finger.  In a couple of minutes they were in the Porsche, its engine idling, Fernando cleans the remaining glue off his finger and puts the tube and paper napkins into the trash bin in the center console. Fernando takes the gear shift and puts it into reverse to get out of the parking space. Hondo puts his hand over Fernando's  and puts the gearshift  back into neutral. Fernando turns to face him.
 
Fernando: What is the big idea?
Hondo: I don't know- you tell me.
Fernando: Tell you what?
Hondo: Why are you going to the enemy's side and helping them out and giving them warnings and information? You did this with the SWA on the last mission, you just did it now. Now explain.
Fernando: It's the rules of the game.
Hondo: This is not a game.
Fernando: Look Hondo. I don't expect you to understand but this falls into the 'not in my back yard' mentality that many people have. Societies want and need prisons and mental health facilities, but communities do not want them inside their spaces.
Hondo: What does that have to do with anything?
Fernando: If we eliminate the Italian Branch of Onyx and their association with Padania, Padania will simply get another, though less powerful group, to take their place. If Onyx gets a warning that their operations would be too costly to maintain in Italy, they will leave and spread the word that Italy is not worth it- making all other groups to stay away and thus making the Padania problem more manageable for the Italian law enforcement to deal with. In short Hondo, you don't destroy evil, for it another will take its place if you do. But if you force evil to go away, it or any other will never return because they will choose another easier place to do their deeds at.
Hondo: But that puts others at risk.
Fernando: But at least, "it wont be in my back yard..."
 
Hondo gives Fernando a mean cold stare before giving a response.
 
Hondo: I understand.
Fernando: Then lets go home. I'm tired of everything that is going on above all else.
Hondo: Hmph... you're tired...?
 
Fernando put the Porsche into gear and drives is out of the parking spot and out of the garage. Within minutes, they were doing triple digits across the Italian highway, going home. They get home within the hour, pulling into the parking spot. From there they can see that almost everyone was by the grill and picnic area as they stood up from getting out the car. Hondo takes the few bags of store bought items and takes them to the crowd. Fernando just stands there looking at the activity before deciding to stay out of it. He walks to the house, and then up the stairs to his room. Tammy was on the bed staring at the ceiling. He walks over to the bed and sits on the edge. Tammy slowly sits up next to him.
 
Fernando: I thought I did not see you outside with the others.
Tammy: Would you ever lie to me?
Fernando: Why should I?
Tammy: Would you hold back the truth against me?
Fernando: Again, why should I?
Tammy: Because you don't want to hurt me.
Fernando: I would not want to ever hurt you, that is true, but you and I are now we, not just you and me and thus if we are to continue as 1 and not just 1 and 1, we have to be honest with each other on everything.
Tammy: Then, what happened between you and Gadget?
Fernando: Nothing.
Tammy: Fernando... others had told me that something happened between you two. Something private and intimate that should have been behind closed doors between you and I.
Fernando: I did not have sex with her, though she tried to push the subject on me.
Tammy: Then did you touched her?
Fernando: She was all over me. Besides, I told you that I would take care of the Gadget problem.
Tammy: Did you kissed her? Do you love her?
Fernando: No I do not love her. Not in the way I love you.
Tammy: Then explain how.
Fernando: Explain? She is a friend, with an admiration of a sister at best. Look Tammy I don't know what the others told you but if you have doubts about us, then maybe we should all leave.
Tammy: No... Don't...
Fernando: I'm not leaving, this is my place. But maybe everyone else should.
Tammy: What?
Fernando: Including you.
Tammy: Wait a minute!
Fernando: Why?
Tammy: No- I'm not leaving!
Fernando: Those are the choices. Leave and continue on your own as best as you can without me, or...
Tammy: I'm not leaving. I just wanted some answers from you. Honest answers.
Fernando: I am a squirrel of absolute reasoning, absolute judgment, and absolute actions. When I say I love you, I do so absolutely. I do not need to question why, I just do. And not anyone, not even Gadget is going to take that away of me for you. But when you start to question and doubt everything you thought were absolutes, then you start to get trouble.
Tammy: I just want to know if you were a willing participant or were you forced into doing something you did not want to do.
Fernando: No guy would pass up the offer of free sex, Tammy. Not even I, but until then, I wanted to be left alone. Gadget pushed herself on me to where I had little choice but to accept, but Tammy- I did not have sex with her. I don't know what the others had told you, but we did nothing in those terms.
Tammy: What about everything else leading up to sex- you know- foreplay?
Fernando: We did not do much of that if you can call a single kiss that.
Tammy: Then you kissed her?
Fernando: That was as far as it went.
Tammy: Would it went further?
Fernando: Probably not.
Tammy: Would you have if she offered?
Fernando: She was offering, Tammy. I did not take it.
Tammy: Then...
Fernando: Look, Tammy- when we get married, I would not allow myself to have any physical contact with any other female for as long as we are married.
Tammy: What about before?
Fernando: That's only about a week.
Tammy: And, are you going to go after any female to get your jollies off with?
Fernando: As long as you are that female I'm getting my jollies off with. Nobody else need to apply.
Tammy: Then, I do not want you to have any physical contact with other females, ever.
Fernando: That is not going to easy, considering some of them are the huggy / feely type.
Tammy: Hugging is allowed, but no kissing, no touching, and nothing more advanced than that.
Fernando: And if they strut around in their underwear in front of me?
Tammy: No touching, not even hugging then. You cant even look at them.
Fernando: But...
Tammy: You want to look at somebody in her underwear- you got me.
Fernando: Hmmm...
Tammy: What?
Fernando: Look Tammy, All I can say is that I will do my best for you in loving you and not hurting you. But there will be things that I have to do for this job that may break what ever promises I make to you, and I am sure that the SWA is going to try to make you do the same. The important thing is that we have each other, we love each other and that we are honest with each other about what happens.
Tammy: You want a way out of this, don't you.
Fernando: If you think I am, then you can leave.
Tammy: I'm not leaving.
Fernando: And why not?
Tammy: Because I love you. But I don't understand why is it that I do or why does it hurt when I think you are cheating with others behind my back?
Fernando: Love hurts when you start to believe that you are being betrayed. But I would never cheat behind your back, nor in front of it. And if the agency forces me to take a mission where I have to seduce a woman during a mission, I will do my best to keep it to a minimum and only seduce her heart and mind and not her body. I would understand if the SWA had forced you to do the same. This is not an easy job that we do, Tammy. It forces us to go beyond our personal beliefs in what is right for what they want done.
 
Fernando places his glasses on the night stand before reaching over and taking a bottle of aspirin that he has laying there. He then fills a glass of water that was there from a nearby pitcher of water, swallowing the water with the aspirins.
 
Fernando: Ugh...
Tammy: What?
Fernando: Its not fresh.
Tammy: Oh... (She starts to get up and reach for the pitcher) I'll take care of that then.
Fernando (taking her hand and pulling it towards him): No, it can be done later. Right now, I just need a nap to deal with this headache. Maybe have lunch later.
Tammy: OK, uhm anything else? Want to be left alone? I'll make sure you will be left undisturbed.
Fernando: I would like for you to strut around in your underwear, but you don't have too if you don't want too.
 
Tammy takes her hands and starts unbuttoning her shirt, but Fernando stops her on her third button, midway down on her cleavage.
 
Fernando: I was just joking.
Tammy: Oh...
Fernando: Look-this headache is getting worse. As much as I would love you for you to do what I ask, I would be distracted from the pain, and I would not want you to feel rejected. You're beautiful Tammy, in ways I can not explain, but I would not want you to feel bad because I'm not up to being interested in you.
 
Fernando crawls over and around Tammy to his spot on the bed. He then takes another pillow to cover his eyes with it.
 
Fernando: Good night little one.
 
Tammy leans over him until they were nose to nose.
 
Tammy: I'm not that little.
Fernando: You are to me.
Tammy: HMPH....
 
Then she kisses him on the lips before getting off the bed and walks out of the room. Quietly she closes the door behind her and starts walking to the stairs, but finds Gadget just a couple of feet away.
 
Tammy: How long you been there?
Gadget: The whole time since I hear Fernando walk into the room.
Tammy: So you were listening in on us the whole time?
Gadget: So what if I were. You need to know something about him.
Tammy: I don't want to hear it. Not from you.
Gadget: The reason why he gets those headaches is because he time traveled from the future to alter the past. The bigger the headaches, the larger the alterations. I noticed that he has been getting lots of headaches lately, so he must be making slight changes to make sure that this mission ends without problem for all of us.
Tammy: I said I did not want to hear it.
Gadget: The worse the headaches, the larger the alterations. Maybe one of us got killed and  he just saved us, we will never know, but he does. Maybe that one who gets killed is you?
Tammy: I said I did not.... What? Me?
Gadget: You told me earlier that the SWA wanted you dead. Maybe he saved your life once again. We will never know, but he does. And those conflicts of memories in his head is what gives him the headaches.
Tammy: But how can he? I mean, he was always with somebody so he could not have time traveled without anyone seeing him.
Gadget: I can not explain it, but it's the only thing that would answer the questions.
Tammy: Well maybe he did have sex with you when you tried to seduce him and you got pregnant, and somehow traveled through time to stop that from happening- haven't you thought of that maybe?
Gadget: Uhm...
Tammy (grabbing Gadget's wrist and taking her to the stairs): Look, he's not feeling well, and I'm going to make sure that he gets the peace and quiet he needs to feel better with. Now lets go and do something that wont bother him or get in his way.

Fernando and Tammy sleep through most of the day, leaving Marco to take care of Bink while the SWA, CIA and USA Naval Officers receive verification of their work and further instructions to 'return home.' What further complicated things is an UN Inquiry to the attack, and what was the intended targets. They would be given all detailed intell to satisfy their questions, but the hassle to go through such an inquiry was not worth the time being spent on it. At least for now, there was a small celebration of sorts at Fernando's CIA hide out as more news of their success continues to flow in from restricted channels.
 
Unfortunately, this celebration left 2 very uncomfortable with themselves, as noted by their actions during the day. As such, Priscilla tries to intervene, despite being told not too by the others. She starts with Hondo who was sitting at one of the single chairs of the living room, furthest from everyone.
 
Priscilla: Why in this time of celebration are you not happy of the results.
Hondo: I don't know who you are miss, but out of all due respect, I would like to be left alone.
Priscilla: As soon as I get some answers and help you out, then I will leave.
Hondo: With all due respect, I want to be left alone.
Priscilla: It has something to do with Rose, isn't it. A couple of weeks ago you two were a couple, and then you two were not. Not to worry, this angel of love can set things right.
 
Hondo gets up and looks at her and almost begins yelling at her.
 
Hondo: Can it miss. I don't want no one interfere with my relationships, nor would I want anyone to go to Rose and start shit with her. We're just friends, lets leave it at that.
 
Hondo walks out of the living room, going upstairs to the room from the sounds of his feet traversing up the double set of stairs to get there. Everyone turn to Priscilla as she looks at everyone a bit nervously before heading towards Rose. Before she could begin, Rose gives her an answer.
 
Rose: You heard him. We're just friends- leave it alone.
 
Gadget steps in between the two, facing Priscilla.
 
Gadget: You should be more concerned about Tammy and Fernando.
Priscilla: Why? They seem to be doing just fine, sleeping with each other upstairs.
Gadget: They should not be sleeping with each other, that's living in sin!
Priscilla: Maybe it is, maybe its not. They seem to be doing fine without me at the moment.
 
Gadget takes Priscilla by the wrist and drags her out of the dining area and towards the rear exit.
 
Gadget (in a loud whisper): Those two are sleeping together upstairs!
Priscilla: So? Tammy's a big girl and she's going to get married to him in just a few days.
Gadget: We Rangers do not approve!
Priscilla: I don't remember this being a Ranger Mission- this is, err... was a SWA mission where Fernando helped out with some American Agency and Military Might he was able to bring with him. And if I remember, this is his place, not ours, and definitely not the Rangers.
Gadget: But we Rangers don't approve!
Priscilla: Then you talk about it with them and not with me. Again, Tammy's an adult, and she can decide where she sleeps and with who. Besides, they looked too tired out to be fooling around, and if they are- more power to them... besides we squirrels do tend to sleep about with others when possible but it does not mean that we are involved in some kind of sexual relationship. Sometimes we do because we need protection. It's a squirrel thing, you may not understand.
 
Gadget gives Priscilla a long mean stare as she tries to think of a response but cant. Marco approaches them with Angelica and Bink.
 
Marco: Priscilla, you mind watching the girls while we guys go out to get a few things for celebration?
Priscilla: Oh sure... wait- there's paperwork to do!
Marco: Then get it done before we return! I already finished mine weeks ago!
Priscilla: That's because you had little involvement!
Marco: I had to oversee and supervise Tammy- DUH! And Tammy's finished with her reports for now... its just up to you and everyone in Support and Logistics.
 
Ferro joins in the conversation.
 
Ferro: What about the others?
Marco: Others, who?
Ferro: That young squirrel from the CIA, his dragon friend, that American cowboy mouse and the American Naval Mouse-Woman Officer?
Marco: Tell them they too have to write something up for our records.
Ferro (looking at Gadget): You too, Miss. I'll get a few laptops from upstairs and we can all start typing.
Gadget: Why do I have to...?
Ferro: Even if you were here as a JAFO, you still were involved and you still need to write up a report for somebody. We want a copy of that report for our records. You can have a copy of ours in return.
Gadget: But...
 
Priscilla grabs Gadget by the hand and takes her to the dining room table. Ferro gets Amedeo and Georgio to go upstairs to get the laptops from storage.
 
Priscilla: Lets get this done and no complaining... if you want to write about how you don't approve how Tammy and Fernando are sleeping together in the same bed, you can do that too.
 
Marco leaves, telling Angelica and Bink to be with Priscilla. The other handlers tell their cyborgs to be with Angelica and Bink during their absence. With little planned for them, Priscilla gives Angelica the TV Remote and tells them to sit in the living room and watch TV or play video games. As the handlers leave, Ferro approaches Alex II, Agent 47 and Charles to write up a report of their involvement in the mission as Amedeo and Georgio hand out the laptops for them to write with.
 
After some discussion, all remaining members of the house are typing away on the laptops that were handed out. Rose protested on the sake of national security, but her argument was null and void since they all shared the same information base on the mission; besides, she was going to get the copy of the reports from the SWA. Hondo hunted and pecked on the keyboard, wishing there was a better way to write up his report.
 
For some, the reports were short, only taking a few minutes to do. For the rest, they sit down for hours typing while they had breakfast and then lunch. Hondo went to wash up once he finish his report before making a steak sandwich from yesterday's left overs. He sat down with his food and drink with the girls as they watched TV.
 
Rose tried to keep her information to a minimum as possible, not disclosing locations of ships involved or of their crews in person, even though the SWA may already have this information. Gadget did not know what to write, as she stared at the blinking cursor for a long time. Priscilla got up to make lunch for the girls when her report was nearly finished. With Ferro's help in serving lunch, the girls sat on the floor of the living room and ate while they continue to watch TV.
 
Tammy arrives downstairs at a few minutes to 1PM, looking a lot better in her regular clothes having washed up a few minutes before. She heads to the kitchen to serve herself a very late breakfast. Ferro and the others stare at her as she puts her food on the service island so she could go to the refrigerator for some juice. She looks back at them.
 
Tammy: Well?
Ferro: You're up... early.
Tammy: it's a new day, cant waste it sleeping it off.
Ferro: You know that your mission is over, right?
Tammy: Yeah. I know.
Ferro: You have to submit your report before we head back to the compound.
Tammy: Its already done, Marco has it.
Ferro: He does?
Tammy: Yeah, Marco explained it that handlers should have their reports done before, during and near the end of every mission. Makes it easier to finish it up, and gives you a lot of free time when its over.
Ferro: I'm going to have a talk with Marco when he returns.
Tammy: He left?
Ferro: Yes, and he took all the handlers with him. Something about getting something or other.
 
Tammy notices that the girls/cyborgs were all in the living room watching TV.
 
Tammy: Oh. Its one of those guy things again.
Ferro: I'll need a report from Fernando too.
Tammy: His is also done, he'll turn it before you leave.
Ferro: I see.
Tammy: Will that be all?
Ferro (nodding): Yeah, that will be all.
Tammy (grabbing her breakfast and takes it to the dining table to eat it): Alright then.
 
Tammy begins to eat her breakfast.
 
Ferro: You know that we all have to return to the compound after this.
Tammy: And?
Ferro: I'm just stating that after tomorrow, you my not see Fernando for a long while to come.
Tammy: If you are questioning whether I can handle my personal life with my job- the answer is yes. Besides, there is a wedding in a few days, and the chief has given me a few days off for that. I'm not going to be the only married SWA worker the agency has, nor am I going to be the only married handler either. So if you don't mind, my life is more important than this job and right now you're getting in the way of living.
Ferro: Why I never!
Tammy: Maybe you should every once in a while, and just maybe you would like it.
 
A few of the SWA member there 'Ooo' at Tammy's comment. Tammy continues.
 
Tammy: You're just the head of Support and Logistics. You're the boss of me in this organization, Marco is and Jean above him. Then there are the other handlers who I have to look up to for advise, but as for you, you are to support my requests and help out with the technical aspects of the mission. Now that this mission is over, we can let all personal grudges lay on the table for all to see. I'm showing you mine, where's yours?
Ferro: You're a brat, a scaredy cat little girl who is afraid of everything and who is unwilling to conform to what the job requires, and who has an unrealistic view of the world. How you became a handler, Tammy, is beyond me!
Tammy: You put me on a prostitute drug mission when I found out later on I was not supposed to be on one, you used me Ferro!
Ferro: All the SWA female workers has to do that mission at least once. Including you!
Tammy: I am a handler- I was not supposed to be on one!
Ferro: And who told you of this?
Tammy: Marco did, after it was over!
Ferro: He was not supposed to tell you anything. I'm going to have a talk with him.
Tammy: Talk to Jean too, since he was there, agreeing with what Marco had to say! Its bad enough that we handlers voluntarily put our lives on the field with our girls everyday, we do not have to add to it by putting more dangers on to it! Like you stated to me that day- I could have been raped, strangled and cut open like some fish to be gutted and left for dead!
Ferro: It was part of your job.
Tammy: It was not. Next time, I wont do as you say unless I get verification from Jean and Marco first!
Ferro: You are part of the SWA, you are a handler and you are a law enforcement agent of the Italian Government.
Tammy: And I an American Citizen!
Ferro: I was wondering when you were going to say that...
 
Hondo approaches the table and puts his balled up fists on the table gently, look at both Tammy and Ferro.
 
Hondo: Excuse me, ladies. I'm trying to enjoy the peace we now established, but I cant with the two of you arguing. First off- Ferro- Tammy is an American Citizen and a Rescue Ranger, and as I remember the deal, it was for her to join the SWA to get her sister back. She operates as one of your agents as long as it does not conflict with the limits the Rescue Rangers had given her to follow. Tammy- you willing joined the SWA to get Bink back and therefore are subject to their rules but within the limits the Rangers had established. Now if the both of you can not see that, I'm sure Fernando can get the head of both your organizations and have a 3 hour meeting with them about this. Now if you don't mind, I'm going back to my chair in the living room, and want no further disruptions.
 
They both look at him as he walked back to the chair, where he jumps over the back and onto the cushions in a relaxed seated position. Then they stared at each other for a moment. Tammy gets up and cleans out her plate before heading upstairs.
 
Tammy (to herself but loud enough to be heard): Fernando was right, I should have remained in bed asleep like he is.
 
Ferro gets up and follows her upstairs, where she tries to get her attention on the second floor.
 
Ferro: Tammy!
 
Tammy stops at their room door and turns to face Ferro.
 
Tammy: What do you want?
Ferro: Look. Even though this mission is over, there is still work to do.
Tammy: My work is done, and I wont do anything unless Marco or Jean tells me what to do next.
Ferro: I think they have something planned for the day but not sure what it is.
Tammy: And what you want me to do?
Ferro: Just be ready for what ever it is they are planning to do.
Tammy: This places needs to be cleaned up and organized. Stuff has to be replaced that we used, this place has to be as if we were never here.
Ferro: I'll get the support staff to do clean up after we leave. Until then...
Tammy: Until then nothing. I did my job, Marco has my reports, everything now is on Logistics and Support.
Ferro: So that's it?
Tammy: Look, I know there is a chain of command to follow, but you do not pull on my chain. Marco does, Jean does, and if necessary the chief does. You are not part of that list. And at best I can do for you is take your words into advisement, but you do not order me around as I do not order you around. I'm a handler, not Logistics or Support.
Ferro: So you finally learned your place here.
Tammy: I have and I don't like it but I do as I must as best as I can. Now if you don't mind, I wish not to be disturbed until after Marco returns, and even then, it better be important.
 
Tammy opens the door to the room and steps inside, closing it behind her. Dumbfounded, Ferro stands there for the moment before leaving for downstairs.
 
Three hours later Marco, Jean and the other handlers return. They call to their cyborg girls to arrive to the cars, where they help unload assorted packages of food, wine and assorted party goods to the bench where they had dinner before. Hondo steps out to watch the activity being held outside. Marco tells Bink to get Tammy downstairs. Bink follows her orders, going upstairs to Tammy and telling her to go down stairs to Marco who was at the BBQ Grill. Tammy washes herself up and tries to wake up Fernando, giving up after a while. She then goes with Bink to see Marco.
 
On the bench at the rear of the complex by the BBQ Grill, Tammy finds Marco with the other handlers and cyborg girls. Hondo was also there sorting things out.
 
Tammy (to Marco): You called?
Marco: Well, yes. First off, if it has not been said before, I'll say it now unofficially- Congrats on a job well done Tammy.
Tammy: What for?
Marco: Busting this case wide open, though it almost cost you your life, you basically saved Italy from the scourge of an LSD wave hitting the country.
Jean: I'm sure there will be some kind of governmental award for you. The SWA can only give you a promotion in title and a rise in pay.
Tammy: And if I refuse them?
Jean: At least take the promotion, it will give you some freedoms in the SWA and people wont be breathing down your neck like before. In fact you will be more well respected by those who doubted you.
Tammy: You mean those like you?
Marco: She got there, Jean.
Jean: Every new handler joining the SWA must go through my doubts.
Tammy: So what's going here?
Marco: Nothing really. Just a little celebration later this afternoon for a mission well done.
Tammy: You usually don't do this. Why now?
Marco: Most of our cases we take on terrorists and their attempted threats. We do not take to the entire organization like you did.
Tammy: It was all an accident.
Marco: So? That accident exposed a vile and wretched attempt on our fair Italy. Without taking actions against it, Italy would be in the grips of a major drug epidemic. You discovered that, you help stop that that. Despite you not wanting to use a gun and kill bad guys, you did what you had to do within your abilities to take actions, and those actions brought on the results of a new safe society...
Tammy: Oh spare me the insults. I could not have done it without Fernando or Hondo's help here. They in turn got the US Navy to help, so this is not a 1-person job. It was done by many, and if it were not without them, it could not have been done.
Marco: Point taken, but you help exposed it. You were the start of all this, and the catalyst for its continual success. In short Tammy, you might get a medal or some other kind of reward and recognition.
Tammy: So?
Marco: The SWA cyborg program still operates in secret. We just want to make sure that it remains a secret.
Tammy: If that is what you are worried about, then I can see the reason for the concern. You need not to worry about that from me or Fernando.
Marco: Good. Now I'll be here with the handlers and cyborgs setting up. What are the others are doing?
Tammy: I think they are doing reports.
Marco: Including that cowboy... what his name again?
Tammy: You mean Hondo? No. He's done with his work.
Marco: Do me the favor and tell him to come out here and help us. I will need to talk to him too, among other things.
Tammy: He's right over there with the others on the bench helping unpack things.
Marco: Oh... Ok. I'll talk to him later then. What about Fernando?
Tammy: He's sleeping the day away.
Marco: Cant you wake him?
Tammy: Believe me, its best that he sleeps and wakes up on his own.
Marco: Well, I would like to see him before we start the celebration.
Tammy: I'll see what I can do, but no promises.
Marco: Please make sure that you do.
 
After a brief pause.
 
Tammy: All this is for me then?
Marco:  Some of it is. Don't get it into your pretty little head of yours that is it, because it is not. It's the celebration of the end of a big mission, and the end to the scourge that we all stopped. And maybe now we can all sleep a little better- that is what we are celebrating about.
Tammy: Oh... OK, I wont dress my best for it then.
Marco: You should dress in your usual business attire. At least look professional.
 
Tammy just smiles at him for the moment. Then she starts to walk back to the house.
 
Tammy: well, I got things to do. I'll see about getting Fernando up for you.
Marco: Yeah- see you later.
 
Marco then turns to the group and calls to Hondo to speak with him. Tammy returns to the kitchen and makes Fernando some breakfast and coffee which she brings upstairs. Once in the room, she puts the food tray on the table in the room. She takes the coffee mug to the night stand and sits on the bed next to him. She gently tries to shake him away.
 
Tammy: Fernando, wake up. Come on Fernando, its time to get up. Its after 2 PM. I brought you some breakfast and coffee...
 
For a while he does not stir as she continues to try to wake him up. Eventually he wakes up from his slumber.
 
Fernando (in a groggy tone): Is the house on fire?
Tammy: No, but it is getting late. You should be getting up. I made breakfast for you...
Fernando: You know I'm going to kill you after my nerves stop yelling at me.
Tammy: I know. I'm sorry.
 
Tammy hands him the coffee mug as he tries to sit up. He takes it from her and slowly sips from it. He pauses for a second to take a deep breathe and then he drinks the rest of it down as quickly as possible. Then he sits there quietly for a moment.
 
Fernando: What time is it?
Tammy: Its after 2 PM. (looking over to the clock on the nightstand) 2:12 to be exact.
Fernando: I could have slept until at least 5.
 
Tammy quickly goes over to the rest of the food on the service try on the table and brings it over to Fernando. She starts to cut up his food as how he has done in front of her and tries to serve it to her. He stops her and slowly make her put the fork down.
 
Fernando: I can feed myself, Tammy.
Tammy: I'm sorry...
Fernando (taking the fork from her and starts to feed himself): What's going on?
Tammy: Marco wants to talk to you for some reason and he's planning some sort of celebration too.
Fernando: Marco can wait. Anything else from anyone?
Tammy: Nothing. Well Ferro and the rest of the support staff is in the dining area typing up their reports. She wants a report from you and said that she would give you the SWA copies.
Fernando: That can wait. How's Hondo?
Tammy: He seemed to be fine. Why?
Fernando: Nothing really. He and Rose broke up, and well, you know how it goes.
Tammy: Awww...
Fernando: Leave it be. As long as Hondo is behaving himself, I don't care. Nor do I want to put blame on anyone about this break up, but for now, at least for now, they will pretend to be together for our wedding because it was planned before the break up. In the least, we can always move them around so they can still be apart of it but away from each other.
Tammy: If they don't want too...
Fernando: Its too late to have either one of them quit- the dresses are done, placemats are set, everything is just about ready for anyone to get up and leave like this. And not that I'm going to force anyone into anything but not only promises are made, but contracts have been signed and money spent. If it were just a promise- I'd let the both of them go, but this goes beyond promises.
Tammy: But....
Fernando: No Butts. I will take care of Hondo, and after I clear it with the Navy, you will take care of Rose.
Tammy: OK.
Fernando: Don't be so down about it. And most importantly, don't talk about it with anyone, especially them! I already made clear to Hondo that this subject is dead and is to be left alone. Neither he or I have spoke of it since. As such you are to stay out of their break up and make no attempt to make them reconcile their differences. Notice that I'm not saying not to be friend with them- you can have them and who ever else as your friend, I'm just saying that the subject of their former relationship is off limits.
Tammy: I understand.
Fernando: Good. Now, about us and the rest of the day?
Tammy: What about it?
Fernando: You want me to kill you now or after I talk with Marco?
Tammy: Uhm... Talk with Marco first and then forget about killing me.
Fernando: Alright then, we'll see what happens then.
 
Fernando finishes off the few final bites of his breakfast. Tammy takes the tray from the bed and puts it on the table. Though he did not wanted too, Fernando forces himself to sit up on the edge of the bed. Tammy hands him a robe, towel and other items of personal hygiene, before picking up the tray to take down stairs.
 
Tammy: Though everybody is downstairs, I would not walk naked through the halls.
Fernando (not wanting to answer): Hmmm... yeah, right, sure...
Tammy (as she leaves the room): Ta Ta for now...
 
Fernando just sits on the bed looking out the doorway. After a while he gets up and heads to the bathroom to take care of his personal needs. In under 1/2 hour, he was in this room getting dressed. Giving another 5, her was already dressed.
 
Pretty much Fernando did not want to deal with the events of the day, it was another day that he would rather sleep away if he could. But he know has little choice but to seize what's left of the day and make it his own. He started his way downstairs, making his way to the kitchen. Along the way, Ferro tries to intercept him, but he steps around her and into the kitchen area where he started to refill his coffee mug.
 
Ferro (to Fernando): That was not nice.
Fernando: I do not want to be bothered, Ferro.
Ferro: I was going to ask you about writing up a mission report.
Fernando: Its already been done...
Ferro (interrupting him): When can I have it?
Fernando: You cant have it. You'll get a copy of it instead, when I feel like giving it. Now is not the time. Tomarrow does not look good either. But one day, you'll get it. Until then, I like to be left alone.
 
Fernando gulps down the coffee and puts the empty mug in the sink. He then goes around the kitchen area, towards outside in the parking lot, where he can see the others by the BBQ Grill and picnic area, including Tammy. Once again, he does not want to be bothered, but needs to know what they wanted from him. In under a minute, he gets to the picnic area.
 
Fernando: What's going on here?
Marco: Oh, you finally arrive.
Fernando: What's up? What's going on here?
Marco: In case you have not heard, the mission was a success. Reports from all over says that the drug deliveries have ended. Slovenia wants to meet with us in making a treaty to stop future shipments from starting.
Fernando: Is that so?
Marco: There is more.
Fernando: Look, no disrespect to you, but I don't want to hear about.
Marco: Wha...?
Fernando: I don't want to hear issues of politics or reforms of countries or nations. I don't want to know about possibilities of rewards. I just want some peace and quiet while I deal with this headache. Now if there is a reward for me to be had, then I'll collect it when its time for me do so. Just tell me where to stand to get it, and later on I'll deposit it in the bank for my daughter to get access too. Now, what is all this?
Marco: Uhm... We were going to celebrate on the success of the mission.
 
Fernando momentarily looks up a the sky.
 
Fernando: Alright, that would be fine. Just keep it down so that the neighbors wont complain.
Marco: Huh? There is nobody around for 1/2 a kilometer...
Fernando: I don't want unwanted attention to this place. It is supposed to be a secret. (he lets out a sigh before turning around and walks away) It is also supposed to be cleaned up when we leave.
 
Marco gently drops what he was doing. In the background, Hondo was nodding to himself, knowing that somebody has to be in charge of this place and it was not the member of the SWA as they would think they are. Marco trots over to Fernando as he was walking away.
 
Marco: Wait a minute! I thought it was made clear that we would send a cleaning crew to take care of the mess.
Fernando: Look- I don't live in a pig sty. And though your people have done their thing to be nice about it, some of them are too messy for my tastes. This is a house, and for now we are a family in that house, so everyone have to pull together to do our part in making it livable, and not force the gunslinger girls to do house keeping chores. Everyone is responsible for their own mess, now make them responsible for cleaning up their mess.
Marco: I see. I'll let the others know and deal with it right away.
Fernando: Good.
 
Fernando starts to walk away. Both Tammy and Hondo catch up to them.
 
Marco: Hey- where are you going?
Fernando: I don't know yet.
Marco: But, we'll be having our celebration...
Fernando: I told you that I don't care for the celebration. Just make sure that your celebration- you- does not disturb the peace of the neighbors- me.
 
Marco can only stand there dumbfounded. Fernando walks over to his Porsche, opening the door and steps inside, closing the door behind him. Both Tammy and Hondo shake their heads at Marco and walk over to the Porsche, letting themselves inside through the passenger door. After a few moments, they drive off.
 
Hondo: That was unnecessarily cold of you.
Fernando: I'm not a glory hound Hondo. Why would they be celebrating this mission's success when as far as I know they have not with others.
Tammy: Because it is their biggest mission ever that they had done and were successful in.
Fernando: They? Or you?
Tammy: Err...
Fernando: That's the point Tammy. They are taking credit away from you.
Tammy: Marco told me that I would be getting some sort of an award.
Fernando: Oh whoopee do! What is it? A medal? A gold plated gun? No, Tammy- you risked your life, you and Bink almost lost your lives because of this mission. Sorry for being cold, but I intervened for you and not them. If they are in such denial where they could not have dealt with a simple drug dealing cartel, then there is a problem. You should not have been involved in this, you should not have gotten hurt in the process.
Tammy: But...
Fernando: But what?
Tammy: I... uhm... It was my mission.
Fernando: Was it? As far as I remember, you were to be their search and rescue part of their agency. Not law enforcement, intelligence gathering, or investigations and evidence gathering. And you are definitely not to have owned a gun. Look and understand that they broke their end of the bargain, and frankly I do not know what to do about it at the moment.
Tammy: Is that what this is all about?
Fernando: Yes, and more.
Tammy: More?
Fernando: More, because I would not have to have had saved you, taught you how to use your gun, turn you into a gunslinger, have killed, and mostly not to fall in love with me and us to become married in less than a week.
Tammy: Listen here- I put myself in that so that I can be more with Bink, and I would have eventually killed whether you were there or not. And as for me falling in love with you, I was since the first mission when we rescued the girls, because I thought that you cared.
Fernando: I do care and love you too. And I will continue to do so. But I have to ask, when is all this going to end? When one of us is dead and buried? I don't intend to die nor if I do, I wont be for long unfortunately. You do not have that option.
Tammy: When it is my turn to die, I hope I face it with all the bravery and tenacity that I can mustard. Until then I want to live a life with the squirrel I have, and if is to be allowed, to have his puppies, raise his family and keep his house.
Fernando: With me Tammy, nothing is mine, everything is ours. We share everything, our lives, our bodies, our belongings; everything. It will be our puppies, our family, our home.
 
Tammy smiles to her self for the moment.
 
Fernando: But you're the female and I am the male. I expect you to be at your place in our relationship and I will do my best in mine. It will not be you and I, but rather us. I will make some heavy demands on you Tammy, and I expect you to do them to the best of your ability- none of this agreeing to doing things that has to be done for it will be done!
Tammy: I see...
Fernando: Good. Look, I don't expect you to be a Nazi-Wife, nor would I want you to be. Just be yourself, and everything else we can take care of, including Bink.
Tammy: Bink is my responsibility.
Fernando: She'll be ours. Though she is your sister, she needs to be treated like our child. You still want her in the SWA?
Tammy: I don't have much of a choice in that.
Fernando: How so?
Tammy: They provide her the medical treatments to keep her alive with the cyborgnetic implants she has. Without them, she would die a painful death.
Fernando: But they would still want her, and ultimately you, to gun sling for them.
Tammy: Then I will deal with it when it comes.
Fernando: I just want you to do one thing then.
Tammy: Whats that?
Fernando: Be careful when you go out on missions. It is no longer you going out there, but as a part of us.
 
Tammy thinks for awhile.
 
Tammy: Yeah, I will be careful out there.
Fernando: Good.
Hondo: What about you, mister?
Fernando: Huh?
Hondo: What about you? You know- gallivanting about the world, rescuing damsels in distress. Well?
Fernando: I will do that needs to be done to right the wrongs of this world, Hondo. And you will be there with me if you want. Or you can take on those mission challenges on your own. Either way, it will be done.
Hondo: I'm just saying, what is good for the goose, is good for the gander.
Fernando: Again, it will be done. And when Tammy is not with the SWA, she will be with me on those missions. You will be on those missions. It all depends on what, when and where.
Hondo: I wonder about you sometimes.
Fernando: How so?
Hondo: Knowing who you are, it is the why you do things that I wonder about. You stated to me that you do not go about lightly doing rescues unless there is some recognition in it. Yeah- you blame Chip for the same thing, you too want something out of it. All men do.
Fernando: Ha! Hondo- I want people to remember what was done and by whom for why. I don't care about medals or money or recognition. I want people to remember the mistakes that were corrected so that they can not make them again. Chip on the other hand wants the medals, the money, the recognition so he can say- Yeah- I was there, I did that, look at my medals and awards for doing it! Please- I prefer to get a kiss from rescuing a fair maiden in distress than something that gets pinned on my chest. Now what was your question again?
Hondo: Then how do you afford all this?
Fernando: I would lie if I told you they were not from rewards of saving people and countries. But for the most part, they were after thoughts of rewards. Like this Porsche- I bought it after the last mission. The SWA wanted me to join them, I refused. Then they try to buy me. I took a small part of the money to think about it, and bought this Porsche with. Then I returned to them and said 'No' to their offer. The house- it's a left over of the cold war, yes it still belongs to the CIA, but its been empty for the past 20 years. Who do you think has kept up with its maintenance? The same applies to the other safe houses through out Europe. In short, I'm thinking of buying it from them, and the others, but they wont know it is me that bought it as it will be hidden under an LLC under another LLC and several more until my name eventually shows up. But as for affording it- I'm a time traveler, Hondo. Money is the least of my worries.
Hondo: You will have to show me in what you mean there.
Fernando: One day you will.
 
Hondo does not say a word at this point. At least for the moment.
 
Hondo: So, where are we going?
Fernando: Look, I don't know why you two are in here, but I wanted to be left alone and away from that mess they are creating back there.
Hondo: Sounds good to me. I too did not want to be around those fake people.
Tammy: Fake people?
Hondo: You know- they make themselves out to be something that they are not. That's them alright.
Fernando: You noticed that?
Tammy: I think all of Italy has that problem. Most of them still think they are from Caesar's Day, still under the Empire of Rome.
Fernando: Italy lost several great wars, not that it matters, but the days of the Roman Empire are far since over.
Tammy: I know that! But they still think in those terms.
Fernando: Then they are all lost- not just the people, but the whole nation.
Hondo: Are we no better?
Fernando: We, as in Americans?
Hondo: Yep...
Fernando: We are no better, but we are not definitely worst than they are.
Hondo: Explain it then.
Fernando: If it were not for us, mankind would not have flown, split the atom, gone to the moon, have cars, computers, radios or television or any other achievement that the rest of the world relies on today. We would still be running 8bit computers made by Atari, Apple and Commodore, listening to Morse Code on long distance ham radio equipment and still connected to almighty Ma Bell- AT&T for our communications! And you know- things just might be a better place if it were like that. But Hondo- Without America, the rest of the world would not have all the technology it takes advantage and for granted of. That is how we are better and not worse, we gave to the world, what has the world given us?
Tammy: Strife, grief, wars, high oil prices...
Hondo: I get your point.
Fernando: Had it my way, the USA would be an isolated country, with flying cars, space stations, moon bases, and starships while the rest of the world is sitting on their asses wondering as to what we are doing and why we are not buying their oil.
Hondo: That's a rather cold attitude to have.
Fernando: It's a reflectionary attitude to have.
Hondo: Reflectionary?
Fernando: We are only doing for ourselves because the rest of the world has given us the cold shoulder. Thusly, we gave them back what they give us: a cold shoulder. Now that is only a reflection of what they did to us, nothing more. If we profit from our own successes, then that's on us.
Hondo: I see.
Fernando: Now, where too?
Tammy: Shopping?
Fernando: Hmmm... OK, you go shopping, Hondo and I got a couple of things to do.
Tammy: Like what?
Fernando: Have not figured it out yet... I'll park the car by the river near the shopping mall, and we meet up a couple of hours later.
Tammy: OK.
 
Less than a half hour later Fernando parks the car as where he stated. After saying goodbye, a hug and a kiss, Tammy goes to the shopping mall district while Hondo and Fernando stand by the Porsche.
 
Hondo: So, where too boss?
Fernando: Cut it out with the boss stuff... I swear... how about some lunch. (he tosses the car keys at him) You drive, I'm getting a nasty headache.
Hondo: You've been getting a lot of them lately. Are things alright with you?
Fernando: I'm fine. Its just too much going on in too little time. Stress you know.
Hondo: Oh... I thought it was something else.
Fernando: Like what?
Hondo: Gadget stated that every time you time travel and change something in history, you get a headache. The bigger the headache, the bigger the change.
Fernando: Gadget should learn to keep her mouth shut.
Hondo: Then its true?
Fernando: No its not entirely true. OK, I'll be honest with you but you must keep it a secret from Tammy.
Hondo: I don't know about that.
Fernando: Just do so.
Hondo: Alright then... shoot.
Fernando: Gadget managed to get into my chronoserver and tried to alter time on several occasions to get Tammy and Bink back to the café. Those attempts failed and she managed to get all of us killed on one form or another, and I had to correct them, thus is the reason why I'm getting the headaches. So yes, I did some time travel, but not to alter this time line, but to correct the mistakes Gadget has made with hers.
Hondo: DAMN that mousey bitch... I knew she was all too interfering!
Fernando: Well, I time locked her so she wont be able to time travel again. At least not with me unlocking her first.
Hondo: So these headaches, I see... I'm not particularly hungry. What you had in mind?
Fernando: Some sort of meat sandwich, Pastrami if anybody around here has it.
Hondo: Hmmm... Pastrami... I had not had Pastrami in a long while. I just might join you on that.
Fernando: Come on, I think there is a deli at that outdoor staircase that may have it.
Hondo: You mean that Piazza di Spagna?
Fernando: Ah, I see you remember. Lets go.
Hondo: That's a long walk from here.
Fernando: It will make the Pastrami all that better.
Hondo: Hmmm....
 
They walk together to the Piazza di Spagna, finding the deli that Fernando was talking about, and yes, they did serve pastrami. They made their order of Pastrami sandwiches and soda, where they took to the staircase and sat down to eat at one of the many outdoor tables that are set there. For the next hour they sat and slowly ate while talking.
 
(Hondo & Charles posts after this...)