Alyssa's First Operation
"Hello," Anna said, answering her phone. It was work calling and she wasn't too eager to hear what they were calling about. "Ok... Until when?... What about Theresa?... She's always busy!... Oh... Ok... When do I need to be there?... Seriously?... Ok, ok, I'll be right in."
"Problems?" Bill, her Dad, asked her. He was sitting on the couch, working on his computer. He'd been a widower for the past ten years... ten years of raising his teenage daughter all by himself. Now at nineteen and in college, she was doing a lot for herself now.
He was lucky he had a very good paying job that helped him support the two of them. What he did wasn't exactly legal, but the men he worked for paid a large sum of money for his computer work. And the amount he was paid made sure he didn't ask what they did with his programs.
"Yeah... Stephanie called off from work so I need to go in."
"That's a bummer. Until when?"
"Five, I think, unless they get too busy," she said, starting up the stairs. "I'll go get ready. I won't be long."
"No problem," he said, turning back to his computer. He wasn't sure he wanted to drive her all the way to work and come back again, only to do it again in just a couple hours. He was... captivated. And it wasn't his work that was captivating him, it was the erotica website he'd found... one with some very delicious stories, pictures, and videos.
It was only ten minutes later when Anna came down the stairs. "Ok... I'm ready to go," she said.
"Tell you what, why don't you just take my car," he said from the couch, his computer in his lap. "I don't have anywhere to go so it seems kind of silly for me to take you and then bring you back."
"You sure?" she asked. It was pretty rare that he let her drive his car... his nice Mercedes... his AMG CLE Coupe. His red and black beautiful, beautiful car.
"Just... be careful," he said and tossed her the keys. "Not one scratch! You hear?"
"Cool!" she smiled. She was going to work in style today. She hurried into the garage, started the car, and pulled out, listening to the powerful motor roar. She started up her playlist, turned the volume louder, and danced in the seat as she drove down the street.
She didn't even notice the white van parked on the street just two doors down.
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"Ok, they're pulling out. Get ready," David said, looking out the window and watching the red and black Mercedes drive past. "Aw fuck! She's alone. Looks like he's still in the house."
"So what's Plan B?" Brian asked. "It's not likely he's going to invite me into the house."
"I'm thinking," David said. "Give me a sec."
"I can do it," Alyssa said, surprising the two men. At nineteen, she was the youngest member of the team. Her job was making sure the tech was working and to help with communications. Her job was to never leave the van.
"You're not a field agent," David said. He'd been in this business for twenty years and in all that time, never lost a member of his team. He wasn't about to lose one now.
"But that's why he won't suspect me. I don't look like I'm up to something," she argued.
"Because you're not up to anything," David said. "You're here to work comms. You don't leave the van. You know that."
"I don't know, sir. She's got a point," Brian said. "This shouldn't be that dangerous. It's just a slip in and slip out."
"And intel suggests he's into girls my age," Alyssa said. "That'll keep his guard down."
The men paused, looking at each other, weighing their options.
David closed his eyes, realizing that his window of opportunity wasn't that large. "Ok, you're on. You go in as one of her friends, looking for her. Maybe ask to wait for her or something."
"Got it," Alyssa said, typing something into the computer. "She has a friend named... Sarah... that she met at the university in the Spring. It looks like they got to be good friends. And I doubt he's met her."
"And if he has?" Brian asks.
"Then I'm some other Sarah," she said, smiling.
"Good girl, thinking on your feet," Brian said. "Ok... you just need to put this thumb drive into his computer. It'll do the rest." He handed her the drive. "The process takes about ten minutes. After that, just grab it, make some excuse, and get out. Got it?"
"Got it," Alyssa nodded curtly. She took her headset off and adjusted her clothes.
"And this will let us keep tabs on you," David said, attaching a small microphone under the collar of her shirt. "One yell and we're there. Got it?"