At the Summit - Part Twelve
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by Richard Williams Copyright 2005, All rights reserved
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AT THE SUMMIT
by Prof. Richard W.
(formerly of the University of ____________)
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Part 12 - "On The Way" LATE IN 1997
Sophia and I were on our way down in the long drop ride of an elevator from her attorney's office. We were making no stops, and so she took advantage of the temporary privacy to move closer to me and whisper a reminder of her eagerness to learn more of my friend Dean's story. The paperwork to create a foundation to back my research into the paranormal had taken some convoluted twists, and it had been quite a while since I had last talked with my lover and advisor about the ex-agent's experiences in Denver.
Silently, I nodded my agreement with her.
"Let's head over to the Wynkoop and try the seasonal," I suggested. "It's noisy enough there, that we can talk." We had not been to the brewpub in a while, and Sophia accepted readily. Since we went directly from the lawyer's office, we were there before the rush, and soon we were snug in a booth. I resumed the story after the beer appeared.
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BEFORE THE 1997 SUMMIT
Dean was on an airplane headed to Denver once again. This time, he told himself, the preparations had been made, and it was time for the big show-- the Summit Conference. He found himself wondering what all the preparations had been.
Once again, Dean mentally divided up what he knew into 3x5 cards. Then, he divided up what he knew he did not know on additional mental cards. Once again, he would be meeting Michelle. They were both just to be back up for the professional security people, trolling around the edges of the event, looking for problems. Of course, the FBI guys had told his boss that if anything did turn up that way, that Dean could just let them know, and they would step in.
In other words, Dean told himself, they were just tolerating him and his agency. Humor us, he thought, and keep us out of the picture. Grade crossing patrols could handle what he was doing.
Michelle, too, was officially expected to work on a tangential security project supporting the Summit. The French government had lots of important security people there, and they were working with the important security people from the U.S. In turn, they were working with the important security people from Denver.
On his mental index cards, Dean reviewed his resource people for this assignment. He would be working with the unimportant people: Val and Deborah at the B&B might be able to help; Tony, the young man who I had introduced Dean to and his girlfriend from the park, maybe. I was not available then. He could count on Michelle, but what if she was ordered elsewhere? He was heading into unknown problems, without much help.
He knew that Michelle and he would be assigned to be in the same places as each other twice: on the First Ladies' trip into the Rockies on the Ski Train, and on the First Ladies' breakfast at the Oxford Hotel. This had sounded sooo social that certain other government agencies had turned up their noses at the assignments, booking junior staff if they had to, or passing it up altogether if they could get away with it.
He also knew from an unlikely source that there might be more to these media events than it seemed. Rose, from Accounting, had tipped him to the fact that there was an extra car being added to the train that would be set up for a meeting. And during the First Ladies' breakfast, there was an extra meeting room booked upstairs in the Oxford. Rose knew that because she had been asked to clear these expenses. And she told Dean that because, well, perhaps because her clit was still tingling from the joy of capturing the retired agent's... attention. No, Dean corrected himself, Rose would not have done that. She had told him because she wanted him to know what was going on, she wanted him to watch what he got into. Uh oh, Dean mused, she cares about me.
His wife, on the other hand, had dismissed him during his return home with little curiosity. She had other interests. He mentally flipped that card over.
What about the Lepenistes? He had figured out that they were up to more than trying to stop Michelle from setting up a link with his agency against their penetration of her bureau. He knew pieces of their activities, and his chance encounter with the entranced Maria had opened his eyes to more of what they were doing out in California. None of that fit together, though. Too many cards lay face down on the imaginary table.