4:55 pm

If you are looking for a job, sprint has an opening in their useless asshole department that Sierra vacated with his recent demise. Good luck, although you may need a lobotomy to get the job. I am pretty sure it is requisite to a position with them.

People are so gullible, or at least Sierra was. The Rage had been dreaming of the upcoming face punch for a couple of days so he was locked and loaded but how to get Sierra to open the door. I knocked. Ok, it wasn’t that easy, but when he opened the door a crack, I had a plate of brownies and a letter sitting on top of it. I told him that I moved in a block over and a piece of his mail was mistakenly delivered to me and I wanted to introduce myself so I carried a plate of brownies over. Sierra still looked a little skeptical so I added that I thought the letter looked like it had some sort of check in it. That did it, greed, deadly sin #1. The door opened and WHAM! Right in the kisser. Down goes Sierra. We enjoyed that so much that we ate a brownie, ok 3, and waited for Sierra to come to and the Rage hit him right smack in the face again. He remembered that he worked for sprint.

I will share this only once, if the Rage is on his way to get a Blizzard from DQ, stay the fuck out of his way! Sierra got off easy.

We loaded his worthless ass into the transport and headed to the Chateau. I wonder if there is a shuffleboard tournament going on today? Not likely, I think the Rage broke all the push sticks over someone’s head, I just can’t remember who’s.

Sierra was in no mood for shuffleboard anyway, he was more interested in what the Rage was playing with that had that high pitch noise like a dentist’s drill. Welcome to the Dremel son, choose your attachment. We chose for him and then chose again and again…. I shouldn’t have spent the money on the extra attachments, 3 would have sufficed. The Rage used them all. In the end, he was writing prose on Sierra’s chest with one of the attachments. When I say prose, I read “parting is such sweet sorrow” right before he dismembered him. I will say that the Rage enjoyed the rolling pin enema far more than Sierra did.

The Rage is now a fledgling mason. We found a building that they had just poured the foundation at the end of the day to allow it to set up over night. We went in after dark and Sierra wrote his initials in the cement…..from underneath it, and the Rage smoothed it right back into place. Not even one little line in the concrete.

Simon’s Warehouse, undisclosed location
2:15 pm

Simon had asked Nikki to come to his warehouse and see what she thought about it. He asked her if she would mind staying at the warehouse when he was out of town. After what happened with the Panty Snatcher, he wanted to make sure she was completely protected. While the warehouse didn’t look like much, Nikki knew it likely had better security than even the FBI building.

Nikki didn’t have much time to look around the place the night before….and most of this morning, because the Rage had other plans. Simon was finishing up in the shower and she took the chance to walk around and check it out. They were in an old warehouse in the oldest section of town. From the outside, you wouldn’t think anything of it, but inside, it looked like a modern building. The first floor was all garage and workshop and Simon’s apartment takes up the entire second floor. The floor plan was mostly open with an enclosed bathroom at the back corner that had a huge soaking tub and a state of the art rainfall shower. There was a huge chef’s kitchen in the center and one whole wall was taken up with computers and monitors. Simon’s king sized bed was at the other side. She had made good use of that tub earlier and thought with a wicked little smile how they might use it later this evening. To say Nikki was embracing her new relationship would be putting it mildly. These feelings were almost overwhelming for her. She just prayed with all her heart that Simon wouldn’t break it.

At that thought, she heard the bathroom door open and Simon walked out wearing a pair of jeans that hung low on his hips and he had a towel thrown over his shoulder, his hair still damp and curling slightly. To say he took her breath away would be admitting that she was able to hold air in her chest to begin with. She just stood there taking in all his raw masculinity until he walked straight up to her and lowered his lips to hers in a kiss that made her forget what month it is. When he pulled back slightly and had that half smile on his lips looking at her with love in his eyes, she knew there was nowhere else in the world she would rather be than right here with him.

Nikki turned around in his arms, her back to his chest, and sighed deeply while looking at the whiteboard with their notes from the Robbery case. They had managed to at least start setting up last night before the Rage had other ideas. Reluctantly, she stepped out of his embrace and walked to the board. There are 5 locations total where the missile system is being developed. All of the locations had state of the art security and video monitoring systems at them but the equipment was somehow defeated at the 3 locations that were broken into. Simon figured they were using some form of weaponized EMP (electromagnetic pulse) generator that would have shut down all the electronic surveillance systems. That would have disabled the exterior systems. Once inside, it was likely they used some form of knockout gas. The employees at each site were unconscious for about an hour it was later determined.

Simon had been going through the computer systems trying to figure out how they were accessed and what data may have been removed but it was a tedious process, even for him. He decided that they would focus on the 2 remaining locations. Simon wanted to go to each site and install his own security cameras beyond the normal perimeter they were already using so he could get footage from the exterior of the buildings as they are being attacked. If they can find a person that the Rage could make an introduction, he was sure they would be able to work their way up the chain.

One of the target locations was in the mountains at the border of Virginia and West Virginia and the other in Tennessee. Since it was a nice day, they decided to head to the locations together to install the cameras. When they walked out to Simon’s car he handed Nikki the keys as he kissed her. Nikki just smiled after him as he turned and walked around the car to the passenger side. While she hated to see him go, she loved to watch him leave.

She might have watched the movie Face/Off when Simon was out of town…..

2:35 pm

Have you ever been in a hurry and you are in a left turn lane behind a single car that can’t seem to make it the 28 feet across the road so you can continue on your way? That was probably Sierra in front of you. In all fairness, I only saw him at the illegal U-turn so I waited in front of his house, moderate rancher with a single car garage. The house is older, but has been maintained fairly well. I ran the normal background check on Sierra and found out he is 38, wears corrective lenses, and is an organ donor. Too bad the Rage doesn’t leave anything to be recycled, he is very thorough. And then I found the last nail in his coffin. I was trying to determine who he works for and wouldn’t you know I found biweekly direct deposits from none other than…. Sprint. Sierra is going down….painfully. The Rage saw one of their commercials the other day and now I have to go buy another TV when I am done with this toadstool.

Not that it was a question but you know I am thorough. We embarked on tailing Sierra to see how many new toys I have to buy for the Rage. This guy couldn’t go the speed limit if his life depended on it and, sorry to say, it does. Or did. Not once did he go the speed limit. You know how we hate wasting resources like metal and paint for road signs telling the ignorant masses just how fast to go so as not to get a Rage enema. Sorry for the recurring reference, the Rage was disappointed we didn’t get to use the rolling pin enema on the field boss. Don’t worry, we took it with us and we will make an introduction to Sierra, I am sure they will become fast friends.

Illegal U-turn, check. Driving under the speed limit, check. As if it wasn’t a foregone conclusion, he came to a complete stop, then made a right hand turn without a signal. I might add a roll of duct tape to the rolling pin to give it more girth!!

Normally I would introduce myself in an email and try to give a valuable life lesson about manners, proper driving techniques, and basically, a way to stay alive, but what would be the point? Look at our audience. I would normally come up with a creative take down for him, but I think I am just going to walk up and punch him in the face. If anyone deserves a face punch, it’s this failed abortion. I found a Big Lots and bought the Rage a new Dremel tool….with all the attachments. The bright angelic cherubic faces of happy children on Christmas morning pulling presents from underneath the tree pale miserably in comparison to the Rage when he gets a new power tool!

FBI Headquarters
3:25 pm

Nikki had just returned to her office after spending the majority of the day being read into their new case. After the resounding success of the Petrov case, their team was given access to whatever resources within the Bureau that they would need. This next case would likely require all that and then some. Speaking of then some, Nikki brought up a new email,

“Dear Simon,

I was just read into our new case and I think it is right up your alley. There have been 3 high profile break ins at government installations that are working on a next generation missile defense system over the last 2 months. Due to the secretive nature of the project, they are working at isolated locations to help keep the information secure. No one facility has the entire schematic for the system. One group is working on guidance, one armament, and so on. We were not given the details of the project, but we do have access to all of the security systems at each location to help us determine how they are gaining access to the buildings and their systems within. We have access to all personnel and their background information. You can access all of the casefiles through a secure connection that was set up for you to remotely access the case info. Rob would rather the info stay in house for additional security. Although, it sounds like the facilities that these break ins have occurred at were more secure than we are here.

Our mission is to determine who is behind the attacks, determine what data was compromised, and close the leak…. Permanently. We are doing deep background checks on all staff at each location, financial records, the works. Let me know if you need anything from us here.

Love Nikki

PS. Tell the Rage if he wants whipped cream on his pecan pie tonight to pick some up at the store, we used the rest of it last night…remember…..”

Nikki had a wicked little smile on her lips as she hit send. She knew she was going to get it for poking the Rage, she couldn’t wait.

11:30 am

 

Q&A: What is your dream car? Unless they can create a car that magically makes idiots in front of me disappear, it’s a moot point. If the Rage comes out when I am in my normal car, can you imagine the frustration level to be sitting at the controls of a high powered machine and Hazel is going 10 under the speed limit in front of us. I would have to reconsider letting the Rage pack heat!

 

Thankfully, everyone along my route the other day was on their game and no one volunteered to come visit the Chateau. Unfortunately for Sierra, who must have thought the moratorium on Dickfree driving had expired, the Chateau now has one reservation. I had forgotten how much it really pisses us off when some dill hole holds up a lane to make an illegal U-turn. Sierra reminded us.

 

By now I am sure you figured out that the Rage has a bit of a sweet tooth. He does a lot of physical activity so he needs the calories. Plus, it keeps him occupied…. We were on our way to the Krispy Kreme, pretty sure the Hot Donut sign was still on. Then, Sierra decided to cool our donuts by attempting to make a U-turn in front of us where it is clearly marked no U-turn. Sierra wasn’t going to be deterred by mere traffic laws, nope. Our light turns to yellow and when the way clears, Sierra pulled the U-turn just as our light turns red. While we were waiting for the next green turn arrow, we noticed a turn lane a block ahead that Sierra could have made a LEGAL U-turn. Funny how such a small thing might mean the difference between life and being brutally tortured to death. Remember the pecan pie incident. By the time we got to the Kreme, the last box of hot donuts was just sold. Oh the humanity…..  I was able to talk the Rage off the ledge with 3 chocolate covered, cream filled beauties, but he can mow down 8 hot glazed in a single sitting so he was not placated. We were able to make it back to the car without terminating anyones miserable existence, but he gave everyone in his path the stink eye and a mother actually pulled her children out of the way. You might ask if making an illegal U-turn deserves the Rage’’s attention. Do you want to argue the point with him????

 

I have Sierra’s information, time to do some Ragesearch.

2:45 PM

 

Hey, I saw on the news that the FBI made a bunch of arrests of some human traffickers, good for them! Couldn’t have happened to a bigger bunch of dicks. I hope they enjoy the ass raping in prison. It would be unfortunate if they put these fuckers in cells with others who don’t appreciate someone taking advantage of women and children. This is why the Rage likes to contribute money to various prisons, literary outreach of sorts…… We have several wardens who are Ragers.

 

Back to Romeo and Juliet. Unfortunately….for Romeo, she is going to be apart from her children. The pills kept going down with startling frequency and I think she is actually drinking more. Huh, it never ceases to amaze the number of people we give really quality advice to that completely ignore us. The Rage doesn’t like to be ignored.

 

The jury is in, Juliet is a decent guy. I found no reason that he shouldn’t have primary custody of his children other than he is rocking the Y chromosome. He doesn’t engage in any high risk behavior, has been dating a nice lady for the past 4 months who has a child of her own in the same age range as Juliet’s kids, and even goes to church on Sunday. Seriously, they gave the kids to Ozzy’s Roadie?

 

I waited until Romeo passed out, at 4:30 in the afternoon, and called Child Services to tell them I saw 2 youngs kids running around unsupervised. When they arrived, the boy let them in and they found Romeo passed out on the couch, pills and booze all over the living room. The children were taken from the home and Juliet was called in to take temporary custody. Juliet will be getting a visit from one of the best family lawyers in the state. Field Boss was generous enough to give us a grant for our mission so we hired the law firm for Juliet. We thought about showing Romeo more consequences to her actions, but what would be the point. She is going to do far worse to  herself than the Rage could have…. Well, not really, but she’s just pathetic and that’s consequence enough.

 

I am going home to see my lady  so now would be a really good time to stay off the road, I am tired and cranky. You can imagine the state the Rage is in. Other than some hand jobs, another weak attemept I know, he has some unrequited Rage. You want no part of that, trust me.

Nikki’s Townhouse

3:15 pm

 

Nikki had been at the office most of the day and had just returned home. Simon had sent the confession and information from his interview with Marco Bondar. Based on the confession of he and the trio, a federal judge authorized a warrant for every Petrov home and financial holding they have. The field boss was very thorough and by the time Nikki left the office, Petrov was in custody as were over 30 of his team. They found enough evidence to lock up the entire family and throw away the key. In addition, they had several of the family’s overseas associates and Interpol was moving on them at the same time. With the testimony of Bondar’s wife, it was a slam dunk. There was a lot of smiling and back slapping by the time she made her way out of the office, exhausted from this case and worrying about Simon, which she should know better. Obviously, he can take care of himself but still. This love thing is taking some getting used to. Is it supposed to feel like someone is ripping your stomach out of your nose when you are not with them? She was able to speak with Simon briefly last night so that helped. He was pretty upset that he couldn’t take care of Petrov himself but Nikki was able to talk him down. Their team needed the arrest and it would buy some leverage for them within the Bureau so he relented in the end. Nikki might have had to make some frisky promises to ensure his compliance, but a lady never tells.

 

With that thought in mind, she hit reply to his email to let him know about all of the arrests. She was also ready to have him back home and she wanted to know when that was going to happen. She knew he had unfinished business with Romeo and Juliet, she shook her head at those names, but she wanted him to hurry up. She knew he wouldn’t leave until those children were in a safe place and that just made her aching heart throb a little more.

 

After sending the email, she grabbed her range bag and a couple of boxes of shells to go blow off some steam, and some lead. Was this Simon’s influence….

12:55 pm

 

I don’t understand why you would decide to lead a life of crime and then decide it is a good idea to have children. Leverage! Thank goodness, it makes my job easier.

 

I guess having 3 body guards might make someone feel secure. I wouldn’t count on it if you run afoul of the Rage, the more the bloodier. Our next guest is the field boss of the trafficking crew so the Rage was really looking forward to making his acquaintance. First things first. We took out the 2 exterior sentries with a tranq rifle, yep, got an upgrade. Way more distance. I picked the lock on the back of the house, no security system was active due to the body guards so no one to greet me. When guard #3 came on his rounds in the kitchen, I hit him with the stun gun. I brought some pharmaceuticals with me to ensure none of the beefalos would be bothering us. I found the man of the hour in his home office and shot him with the taser. I may have held the trigger a little longer than was required, I think he might have bit the end of his tongue off. Oops, my bad.  I secured the biology experiment to his office chair and went to say hey to the Mrs. and his 6 year old daughter, the apple of his eye if all the photos in the house are to be trusted.

 

The soon to be widow field boss was a cool customer. After getting to hear her story, it came as no surprise. She was taken by the field boss when she was 15 and made his wife. She doesn’t get to leave the house very often and when she does, she is with the security team. She had no idea what field boss was up to, but she knew it couldn’t be good because he was a piece of shit basically. The only thing he cares about is their daughter. I told her what I planned to do and she was on board. Cool customer.

 

I went into the office and gently woke field boss….with a frying pan to the face. Nothing like kitchen utensils, I brought the rolling pin just in case I might need it… for his enema. I asked nicely the name of the leader of the family and details about their trafficking ring and field boss was reluctant to answer my questions. I don’t understand his hesitation so I let the Rage play with him for awhile. 3 fingers in and I knew he wouldn’t break soon and I wanted to speed things along. I brought his wife into the room, hands bound behind her, gag in her mouth. I asked again the information I needed and when I told him I was going to slit his wife’s throat he said to go ahead. So I did. He didn’t shed a tear and that pissed me off. I cut his pants off of him. The Rage loves the show Alaska the Last Frontier and we saw them neuter bulls with a small rubber band that is stretched over the bull’s testicles and it is so tight, they eventually fall off. I got the smallest rubber bands they make and showed the boss how the tool works. I don’t think he was impressed but he didn’t look like he was feeling too well either. Still nothing, so I played my last card.

 

When I came around the corner and into the office with his daughter, hands bound, gag in place, his eyes almost popped out of his head. I finally had his attention. I placed the knife at the base of her neck and pressed slightly. A trickle of blood ran down her beautiful neck and she was shaking and moaning through the gag. I finally saw a tear slide down his cheek, didn’t think the fucker possessed a human bone but who knows. I started counting down from 3 and by the time I got to 2, I had enough information to bring every one of these baby raping fuckers to their knees. The confession was recorded of course. When he was done sealing the end of the family’s fate, I woke up Mrs. Boss. You didn’t think I would kill the poor girl did you? I said I had props.

 

The knife I used on the Mrs. and her daughter has a fake blade that when depressed, releases fake blood. At the same time, I had a small needle on my thumb that can administer a small amount of anesthesia to simulate unconsciousness. The Mrs. actually heard all of the sordid details and she has readily agreed to testify as to what she knows and what she heard. We had told her daughter that we were going to play a trick on her daddy so she went along with the ploy as well. We practiced our act a couple of times and this girl has some chops. Hopefully getting her out of this life will give her a chance to find out.

 

It took an hour to get all hands on deck… get it? Don’t balk at my pun, there were 8 to cut off and those security guys have arms the size of small trees. Thankfully, I found an electric chainsaw in the boss’ garage. He didn’t seem to mind that I borrowed it….I don’t think. Who knows, he was unconscious when I left. I trussed up the rest of his team and after I left with the Mrs. and her daughter to drop them with the FBI, I let them know where the rest of the boss’ crew was. They get to have their turn as well.

7:15 pm

 

I don’t spend a lot of time lamenting the inadequacies of our legal system, I tend to just go out and fix what I see broken, usually violently. What I learned from watching Romeo is that the Rage might need to intervene in family court issues as well. Romeo and her ex, I guess we just call him Juliet for symmetry, were divorced a little over a year ago. Romeo was given custody of the 2 children, 7 year old boy, 4 year old girl, presumably because she is the mother. I get it, 9 out of 10 times the mother is the best choice. Romeo is number 10. She shouldn’t be allowed to raise a hamster let alone 2 children. She is on welfare, she pops Oxy like they are M&M’s and she usually starts drinking with her lunch. I figure the ex must be some piece of work so I did some digging and all I could tell was that from the outside, he looked like a decent guy. Obviously suspect skills at mate choosing, but he is a middle manager for a marketing company and has maintained his job there for 12 years. He pays mandated alimony and child support and has done so, on time, since their divorce. I drove by his new house and it is small, but very well maintained. I don’t get it. I’m going to have to watch him to see if I am missing a key piece of the puzzle, but regardless what I find, Romeo doesn’t need to be raising those kids. I think I should introduce myself so I opened a new email to Romeo,

 

“Dear Romeo,

 

I was behind your car the other day and saw that you were paying more attention to your kids in the back of the car then the other cars on the road. Do you really feel that is the safe thing to do for your children? Since I was pretty sure you had no business driving anyone around, let alone 2 small children, I followed you to the grocery store. There I saw you slap a 4 year old child in the face. I will say this only once, nicely, for you. If you ever raise a hand to one of those children again, I will rip your fucking arm off and beat you to death with it. It would be the third time for me so it would be best not to test my patience. If you love your children, give up the pills and the booze or your children won’t be the only thing you will lose. You have been warned which is more than most get, don’t waste it.

 

Simon”

 

Our vetting will continue on Romeo and Juliet and I will report back what I find. In the meantime, I have a night op to prep. This one is going to require some finesse and definitely, some of my props. You’re going to love this….

FBI Headquarters

10:25 am

 

The Savannah office found the trio where Simon said they would be and they were currently receiving treatment in the hospital before heading to jail. They also found the car they were using in the abductions, the physical evidence from the last girl taken, and Simon had already sent her the video confession. Nikki was busy running background on their next target, Marco Bondar, who the trio named as the lieutenant for the operation. Nikki found very little information on Bondar. He is an Ukrainian immigrant who arrived in the country 7 years ago. He has no criminal record, his employment is showing GM at a strip club north of Savannah that has ties to the Russian Petrov gang. The Petrov family has been establishing a larger footprint in the Southeast for the past couple of years. Nikki had heard about the Petrov group but no one has been able to get any actionable intelligence against the group because no one in the family will talk. Until Simon came into the picture, she thought as a smile crept up her lips. Just then, Simon’s email notification went off and Nikki was excited to hear from him,

 

“Dear Butterfly,

 

I hope the girl from the ship was ok when they found her. Were there any problems on the boat? I am paying Bondar a visit tonight so I should have more info. I am sure you found a link to the Petrov crime family by now. We need Bondar to give us something we can use and I think I know just the guy to convince him to help

 

I miss you but the more I research these Petrovs, the happier I am that you are up there. I don’t want you anywhere near these things. If half the rumors out there about this family are true, we need to shut them down permanently. Be safe Nikki, I love you.

 

Simon”