"...bin Laden is there! Ninety percent, fifty percent, thirty, I'm sick of probabilities. We need decisive action," said the fuming secretary of defense.
"Evaluating the risks against the benefits, storming the cave complex could save far more than it could possibly kill," said the president's advisor, far cooler than the last. "What say you, Mr. President?"
Bush's teeth were clenched, knuckles white on the table, eyes staring fixedly at the image projected ahead: the face of Osama bin Laden.
A trickle of sweat ran down his face.
"Let's... let's hold off deciding anything for now," muttered the president. His staff exchanged uncertain looks. "I need some time... some time to think."
He backed away from the table, gaze still unbroken from the robed form of the enemy. Bin Laden's eyes scorched him as he retreated, until he bumped clumsily into the door. His staff watched as he fumbled for the handle.
He heard half a murmur as he left. "...president's going soft," someone said. But the truth was just the opposite.
When the door of the Situation Room was closed behind him, he let out a ragged breath. This hunt needed to end, but how? He looked to the ceiling, imagining what was beyond it, and knew that there was only one way to find truth. He walked to his office and closed the door. He found the key in his pocket, and it took him nearly thirty seconds to lock up, because he could feel him in the room.
He didn't turn, but stood plastered against the door, like a cowboy-suit-wearing deer in the headlights. "Your Oval Office looks empty, Mr. President," came the nearly melodic rasp from behind. "I think you need somebody to fill it."
At those words, shivers coursed through his dick. "I'm... I'm not here for that," said the president. "I need to pray."
Bin Laden was silent -- always an ominous sign. The president could feel the man scrutinizing him, eyes judging, up from his feet, to his thighs, to his -
"Then pray," said bin Laden, lips inches from the president's ear. Bin Laden could move in absolute silence when he wanted to. He was always so hard to find...
The president turned, gaze averted, until he felt the lustful breath of his Imam. "Meet my eyes," bin Laden demanded. The president obeyed, slowly -- bin Laden claimed that he could see sins in the eyes of men, and the president had made many transgressions. But then their eyes had met, and if bin Laden was displeased, his eyes did not show it. They held something of a different nature.
"To your knees," demanded bin Laden. The president obliged, till his torso was flush against bin Laden's legs, trembling lips just below the man's waist. "You learned the meaning of the words I taught you, I trust?"
The president nodded. He was ready to give himself to Allah.
"Good," said bin Laden, and without further word, he stepped aside and allowed the president's head to touch the ground, so the beautiful poetry was pouring from above. Bush lost himself in the prayer, connected for minutes, feeling only the love of Allah and nothing else.
Until he felt something else.