Secret Mission

[schadeaux]

Harry pushed the pedal to the floor and the Lamborghini leapt forward.

Podo struggled to extricate himself from between the seat cushions. “Hey… ease up there, Footman! Umph! I’m a ferret, not a crash dummy!”

“Sorry, Podo, but I don’t have much leg room. Why couldn’t they have been in a Suburban…”

“Well, a sports car is bad enough, but a speeding red bullet with a giant hairy rug at the wheel is bound to draw attention. This supposed to be a SECRET mission, remember??”

“I know! I know!! But we have to be there in… “ Harry checks the dash clock… “10 minutes! After that, no chance tonight!”

Podo shakes his head and notices his tale is starting to bush up. “Oh, very well. At least turn on the head lights.”

As the Lamborghini speeds through the night Harry spies his destination. He stomps on the brake, nearly putting his massive foot through the floor, and turn the wheel in a mighty left turn. Podo squeeks… ferret in the passenger door pocket.

Harry idles up slowly, decisively and with a voice thick with hunger says…

“I’ll take the Number 1, but with double burgers, no onions, and a Pepsi. Super size it, please. Oh, and a chicken nugget happy meal for my friend.”

[Cobalt60]

i think my aphasia's kicking in...i don't know what to say at the moment...lemme get back to you.

[Clarakore]

Closing the window shut with a dull thud that also shut out the last chill of the season the cashier cancelled the order and mentally calculated the new sum that would not be rung up today.

"Another that didn't ask for a receipt?"

She spun around and winked, "Quit sneaking up on me and Shut Up trainee!"

Shifting to conspiratorial whispering tones she continued without pause, "We will share equally as long as you keep it up when it is your turn on the register, K?"

He laughed and nodded watching the last lights of the Lamborghini as it climbed the hill and went over it. Then he turned to her, "Wasn't he a weird one?"

"Huh? What?"

"The customer. Didn't you see he had some kind of animal in the car with him?"

Leaning back, his hands behind him gripping the edge of the window seal, elbows locked, he looked at her back as she stood over her register staring forward into space while he kept talking, "Do you suppose that was his friend who he ordered the nuggets for?"

She wheeled around without warning and pushed him back into the window, his hands now flailing forward on both sides as his body tries to keep balance in reaction to this surprise even if he never was in danger of falling, and her eyes locked onto his until he had enough sense to just stay still and look up to her, "Animals eating animals? Are you sick man?"

With a sick chuckle he looked up and said, "Why, we are all animals."

"That is why I like you," her hand relaxed from his collar and they stood smiling in the silence only they could hear only for a second longer. The drive thru chime signaled the end of the joke as the next customer drove up.

[schadeaux]

As the window slammed shut and he pulled the car out of the drive-thru, Harry furrowed his brow and pulled forward, ignoring the sounds of smashing glass and screams, and the smell of blood behind them. A deep rumble started in his chest...

Before they could pull out of the driveway Podo jumped on Harry's face.

"Footman!" Podo cried. "Chill, dude. There is a Taco Bell up the road. 24 hour drive thru. No rush, eh?"

Edited March 15, 2014 by schadeaux