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24 hours later Rollie, Angie, Leo and Jenna were sitting in the workstation discussing their plan of
action. Rollie and Angie were seated in their desk chairs, Jenna was sitting cross legged on the desk
behind Angie and Leo was standing kitty-corner to Rollie. “All right, here’s the deal. We’ve got ‘till
6 PM tomorrow to pull this off.” Leo stated. Rollie sighed exasperatedly. “Leo, we don’t have the
equipment to pull off what you’re suggesting.” He said. “What don’t we have?” Leo demanded.
Rollie leveled him with a stare. “The airport suits, for one thing. where are we suppose to get those?”
Leo waved the comment aside. “I’ll handle it. What else?” Angie shifted in her chair. “Well, we can’t
do exactly what you had in mind, but we do have stuff to do the basic idea.”She said. “Okay good,
that’s all I’m asking. So you can-” Leo was cut off from a knock at the door. Angie turned around
to the computer monitor behind her, which already had the camera display for the alleyway on it.
“Who ordered pizza?” Jenna asked, leaning into the screen for a better look and finding a man
holding a box waiting at the doorway. “I did.” Leo replied, walking towards the door. Angie and
Jenna looked at Rollie in confusion, who just shrugged. He had know idea what the cop was up to
either. Leo walked up to the door, opened it, took the box, thanked the delivery guy and closed the
door as the man walked back to his car. “You didn’t pay him.” Jenna said in confusion as the cop
walked back to the group. “No I didn’t. Guess why.” He said as he set the package on the desk.
“He took over 30 minutes?” Rollie asked bemusedly. Leo shot him a look and opened the box.
“Nope. I didn’t pay him because it’s not pizza.” He said. Jenna groaned in disappointment as
McCarthy pulled out a baggy grey custodians outfit out of the box. “Ta-da!” He said triumphantly as
he shook it out. It wasn’t all that spectacular, just a dull grey jumpsuit with a couple of ‘NYC
Airport’ patches on it. “I told you I’d handle it.” Leo said smugly. Rollie stood up, walked over to
the cop and took the article of clothing out of his friends hands. He smiled. “Um , that’s great Leo.
Just one thing, though; how do you expect all of us to fit into one suit?” Leo opened his mouth to
speak, then paused. He had obviously overlooked the little fact that there were five people in this
project. Angie began laughing and gave the cop a sarcastic thumbs up. Jenna grabbed a small
container of fake blood and held it over her head like a wine glass. “A toast to Leo McCarthy- God
knows his heart’s in the right place, but his mind is elsewhere.” She lowered the blood and set it in
her lap. Rollie rolled the suite into a ball and prepared to throw it at his sister. “Nice try Leo. So
much for that plan.” He threw the bundle at Jenna, who wasn’t looking until the last minute, and in
order to catch the jumpsuit she had to drop the container of blood. Unfortunately, the top wasn’t on
tight enough, and when it hit the girls chest the top came off and Jenna ended up with a puddle of
bright red and streaks down her front. She lifted the outfit in her hands over her head to get a better
view of her once-white shirt, then made a sound somewhere between a grown and a squeak.
“Rollie!!” She shouted before jumping off the desk and throwing the suit back to him. “This earned
me an A in Home E.C., you idiot!!” Rollie backed away from the girl, who now had a finger up to
his chest. “If this stains.....” Angie cleared her throat and everyone turned to look at her. “You made
that, Jenna?” “And now it’s ruined.” “What else can you make?” Angie said, taking a minute to get
to the point. “Yes. Lots of stuff. Why?” Angie looked her in the eye and something clicked in the
girls head. She turned back to her brother and began taking the janitors outfit- which had
miraculously escaped the blood- out of his hands and inspecting the insides. “What’re you doing?”
Leo asked after a minute. “Well,” Jenna said, holding the jumpsuit at arms length, “If the pattern is
simple enough then I may be able to make the suites you failed to get.” She looked at him pointedly.
“How much time did you say we had? Until 6 tomorrow?” The cop nodded. Jenna handed the outfit
back to Rollie and sighed. “Well it’s worth a shot. Call Lucinda for her measurements and then get
me a measuring tape.” She said, turning and walking towards her stairs to change her shirt. The rest
of the group watched her disappear and then looked at eachother. Finally Angie spoke. “I hope one
of you guys have a sewing machine, because I sure don’t.”
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Denny looked out the passenger side window of the car nervously. He couldn’t see anything
anyway- it was after 1 AM and it was dark save for the lights of the city they were fast approaching
on the highway. “ I don’t like this, Joseph. It’s too risky.” He looked over to Joseph, who had been
driving the car for the last hour with not so much as a word. “I mean- that guy you shot, he had a
wire on him. Somebodie’s gonna know. I don’t like this.” He finished, turning back to the window.
Joseph coughed and cleared his throat. “When I give a damn I’ll let you know.” He said.
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Chapter ten
