Plans Change A Story 15

So the meeting which I had expected to only have a few turned out to be a few more than a few.  There were several more congresspersons and senators who had tagged along not to mention a couple of governors, staffers and an undersecretary, which meant local law agencies and media were everywhere.  Thankfully the show that night was not a complete sell out so I paid for the remaining tickets and handed them out.  My handler had been joined by Susan and her husband, who like myself it turned out was a man who liked to work with his hands and at the moment was between construction jobs.  I gave him the office number and told him if he did not mind the cold we paid well and at some point would be on a rotating schedule but until then we would be working long shifts meaning seven days a week for months at a time.  When he asked what it was we did I told him we were an engineering firm that worked large projects mainly and at the moment most of our contracts were as consultants but that would change and even if it did not there was a lot of leg and getting down and dirty as when we inspected we checked every detail but there were also times where we would take on smaller projects and actually act as the general on the project.  When he asked why I was still working I asked if he ever wondered what happened to all those lucky people who won millions; when he said sometimes I told him most went broke withing a few years and were worse off as they had gotten lazy or some jobs were beneath them.

As his wife took him away to talk to some of her bosses who joined us in the ballroom, I found myself watching Mark who was talking to a couple of people.  When one of the men turned around I knew who his boss was and he was not my favorite person.   As I sauntered over to them Mark's wife who I did not see intercepted me and asked if I had seen the Colonel.  I told her no and she said he was here somewhere.  I shrugged and told her he always like these little gatherings. I took another route and saw the Colonel by the buffet tables.  When he saw me he offered to get me a plate and I told him no thanks, I would be eating later.  He told me he was sorry to hear about that.  I told him I supposed he would be but I was wondering if he was sorry an attempt had been perpetrated on his star pupil or that it failed.  He then asked if I knew where my wife was and smiling I asked if he had missed that I was no longer married as somehow during a hospital stay apparently someone neglected to keep her in the loop and through his minions encouraged her to divorce me and take it all.  He looked around and then told me he still had assets in the field, I nodded and said I understood that and was not about to let them hang but now it was out of my hands.  We both changed the subject as a few staffers came over.  Two of them I knew as they held real power the other was younger.  She asked me point blank if I was Mr. C.  Smiling I told her she read way too  many books as I was just a guy who came in for the food.  Her reply was she worked for a senator who was on the sub committee for and I ignored the rest and focused on the low cut top which got me to thinking about Christina.  The woman told me I was not listening and I told her she was right and if she wanted men to take her seriously she needed to take me seriously clothes.

She asked what was wrong with her clothes: I told her nothing and then said it was my turn and asked if she was sleeping with her boss.  When she told me that was none of my business I told her it might not be mine but his wife or was it her husband should be in on it.  Her face turned red and when she looked across the room I watched to see what senator looked over, it was a man and he was married.  I told the other two and the Colonel to enjoy the food and I hoped someone did not put on the special sauce on the mine hot  tacos.  I could hear one of them after spitting out his taco call me a jerk.  The colonel told him he would be too if he thought someone in his government which he had served for more than half his life had tried to end his life and did ruin his marriage.  When I walked up to the senator I told him he had a cute mistress and I thought it was convenient she worked in his office so he could slip a few through out the day.  When he told me I just said that in front of his wife, I looked at the woman standing next to him and apologized to her but I wondered why he did not deny he was playing the two step horizontally.  When he asked me if I knew who he was i shrugged and said sure he was a married man like I used to be but like me now he would soon be not but unlike me he could not claim it was not his fault and if he tried to cover it up and hide that cute young thing I would bury him, so to speed things up and keep it close he was going to do two things for me first he was going to stop immediately all extra curricular activities that his wife was not directly involved with and since we all knew she did not want to call it quits he was going to quietly get some counseling.  When he asked if there was anything else I told him yes he was going to fire that little girl and hire him someone much older and more trustworthy who knew how to keep secrets; whispering I told him it would not hurt with the misses if he was gay unless of course he was a switch hitter.  His wife raised her finger and i told her I know the girl might talk and then all the parties and dinners and the social life would go away but actually it would not as that girl was about to get a better job.  When one of the congressman asked what that would be I told him there was a certain director of a law enforcement agency who needed a personal assistant and he was in the room tonight and if they were okay with it I could make the arrangements.

The Senators wife asked who I was and I told her I was just a concerned constituent;  I did make it over to the man who was behind my arrest and subsequent two weeks of being tortured by our own.  With me I had the pretty looking thing and had told her she was about to get a better job as the senator was a has been and on his way out.  She played right into it and before I walked off she had arranged to go meet the man who I knew how to do his job but was not someone you wanted to investigate anything as he could not fill in the blanks and therefore jumped to conclusions.  He had let me know we needed to talk and I told him to have his new assistant call me as I nodded to the young woman.  How I managed to pull all that off without the few media people inside the room knowing was beyond me.  How I managed without getting arrested for something was even more interesting.  When I finally did get to sit down with the congressman whose sister had slept with my wife and her friend's husband I was candid and asked if those two women had represented my wife during the divorce hearings.  The representative tried to avoid but our host on record for the evening as it was not me said yes.  I looked at the Representative and told him I no longer needed to talk to him and he could leave.  He looked surprised and I told him I knew he was on the intelligence committee and I knew he knew that for years the company I owned had been used by certain agencies with my full cooperation to get assets into places they would otherwise not have gotten and then after saving his sister three times now someone had tried to take my life though the first attempt there were half a dozen men whose lives had forever been changed by that incident and hopefully for the better of all society.  I did not let him speak as I told him on whatever subcommittee he chaired he would have also been privy to the fact our own government on orders from one of the yes men down in the ballroom I had been illegally detained and tortured for two weeks by our own assets who were directly employed by the government because someone gave them the wrong information.

The man told me he was not to blame, I told him maybe not but what had he done to correct those issues and my guess was nothing and why we were on the subject he probably was also aware that I had been imprisoned and overly medicated throughout the course of those trials and had become aware that the case had been settled in my favor so I was curious where those funds had gotten off too or might they be the ones that were doing a lot of travelling through the network of companies my wife now owned some of which were more or less holding companies that sold nothing and were about to go public.  When he asked how I could no about that I told him funny thing about me was in order to do what I did it was easier to do so as an employee of my own company and no one had fired me until recently.  He had started sweating and asked what he should do and I told him for now nothing as I also knew there were still assets in the field but he may want to get someone else to start calling them back as I had it on good authority two things were going to happen, first was my ex had realized she was in over head and had seen some irregularities and was even now talking to buyer as we speak and I was petitioning the courts to review my divorce decree which would then bring into play why a still active intelligence agent who should not be working on American soil was or should I say two plus those that had been hauled out of my room earlier for illegally breaking in and entering.  When he sat up straight and told me he represented the US, I laughed and told him he would also get a very nice allowance when he was put to pasture next election.  When I was told I would never prove any of this in court I told him as far as he went just like that poor senator I would not have to take him to court just make sure my next court circus was in the media.  I smiled and told him not to worry I would never disclose any secrets and would deny ever being involved with the US government other than having once worked on some civil engineering contracts as well as feasibility studies for the DOD and State departments which were already available to the public.  Waving my hand I told for now we were done talking and when he was ready to retire to come talk to me and I would design him a house or rather two, one for his wife and the other for his gay lover.  The man went white, and I pointed to the door and told him that did not have to become common knowledge but he should think about telling the mother of his children.

When he was gone my host who I was actually hosting shook his head and told me he was glad he was not my enemy.  I told him no that man was not my enemy he just needed to be taught a lesson which should have been taught a long time ago. I picked up the phone and called my old handler and told her instead of standing at the door trying to eaves drop she could come in.  She walked in with her husband.  Looking at Mark I told him I know what agency he worked for and then looked at his wife and told her I hoped she was not still with the agency she had worked for when I first met her.  She looked at her husband and said no she had gone on and got her law degree which is when she met Mark and they both took jobs with the FBI but when they got married one of them had to change jobs so the both did and now she worked for the justice department.  I asked how involved the justice department was with the proceedings over the last year.  She looked around and said she had been sent back and the colonel when this all started had been retired.  I told her I wanted to know two things, first was where my money was from the settlements as I had not seen that in the divorce decree so I assumed they were settled after the divorce and secondly why was she sent to investigate me.  When she said she was not at liberty to discuss any open investigations I nodded and told her then we were done and she could go unless she had warrant and was planning on arresting me then I would be glad to talk to the FBI and the Attorney General and probably a few reporters and then they could cook me for divulging state secrets which by the way I did not do when her husband's boss had me detained in some desert dungeon and tortured for two weeks.  Mark's eyes lit up and looking at my host said it was probably time to go as this was now a crime scene.  I told Mark it did not happen here and if that was what he was supposed to be looking into I would gladly give him all the names of the men and women involved with my detainment and tell him where they could be found but that would have to wait as none of them were going anywhere.

My host interjected and said it was getting late and there was a lot to absorb,  Mark realizing information about an ongoing investigation or rather one that he was just joining was being talked about openly said we could talk later.  His wife told him she would catch up to him later.  When my host that I was playing host to maid to leave I asked if he minded staying as I needed a witness.  She asked me why I needed a witness and I told her that at the moment I did not trust her.  She looked around and then said she would talk to me later.  Before she left she asked how I knew she had been investigating me.  Shrugging I told her I guessed but given recent history it was not that hard.  She then asked if I was really going to petition the courts to review my divorce decree.  I told her yes I was planning on doing just that and I was also planning on reviewing my lawsuits I brought not long ago before the courts as we all new I did not get to be involved in and I feel I may have been misrepresented by my counsel.   She told me it could mean her job and smiling I told her that it was a good thing my good friend sitting with me was always looking for a good story to bring to the big screen.  Chuckling he said he was actually looking for small screen series material.  When she put her hands on her hair to grab her hair I told her not to worry just tell the truth if it came to that.  She said it was not that what she needed was immunity.  My eyes went wide and after a moment I told her I was definitely not the right person to tell that to.  She told me I could help; getting up I brought her over to the sitting area and told her to tell me how I could help.  Just then the room phone rang and I got up to answer it.  It was my wife who was asking where I was at that moment, I told her I was sitting with an old acquaintance and she might know him as his wife it appeared had represented her when she filed for divorce.

She told me she wished she had never done that and I told her the funny thing in life was that marriage was supposed to be permanent but divorce was forever as far as the courts were concerned.  When I heard in her voice the stress I told her what I meant was you could annul a marriage which the Good Lord intended to be forever but you could not annul a divorce.  A voice behind me asked why not, I told all parties listening it did not work that way but if they would like to try to be my guest as it would save me time and money   Taking the handset over to my one time handler and one of the few women who knew almost as well as Christina I told her to work it out and while she was at it try to figure out where my settlement money went.  When my resort handler came in with Susan to finalize the bill with my host I asked how much did I owe him.  When he said he was okay with me paying the whole bill I told him I had not intended to invite the entire congress as I just wanted to talk to the two men who might have an in with my wife's lawyers.  Nodding I sad fine I had the bill and then told the handler since I was not going to gamble how much was the room.  Susan asked if I was serious about not gambling and I told her yes I was serious unless they were cool with me just dropping a hundred and calling it even.  She told me it might be cheaper but not to worry about the room as the tribe was picking up the tab on account of earlier events but she needed to know where I was going to register my new truck so she could make those arrangements.  When I asked if that had already been deducted from my winnings she told me yes.  I asked if I could put it up as collateral.  After checking she said yes.  I smiled and told her to go ahead and open up a tab or whatever they called it and then I looked at my host and asked if he wanted to go play with someone else's money.  When he smiled I told him if he wins I keep that beast and if he loses everything I took the loss but he had to pay the taxes on any winnings.

The handler lead him out and Susan said now about the ballroom, tickets and the meal; I told her to take it out of my account as I had not yet received my card.  Smiling she pulled out a card and told me that it was actually for a line of credit as the funds had not posted.  Nodding I told her to use it then and was told I had to sign it.  I changed my signature for the first time in years on that card and then as she pulled out the bill which was discounted as the tribe was splitting the bill I told her to go ahead and put whatever the value of the truck was on that card and I would keep the truck but give the man playing the credit in his name.  She took the paperwork and the card and left.  I went to the safe and pulled out my attache case and went out and put it in the hummer.  Walking back in to the front desk, Susan was taking care of the bill.  When she was done she handed me the bill and the receipt.  I told the desk to check me out tomorrow and if there were any incidentals I wanted copies of all receipts with signatures and names printed out sent to my address.  I gave them my Vegas mailbox and as I headed for the door I told them if anyone asked I was unavailable.