Sam's squeak of surprise gets me moving to the door of the jet fast gun out. I look out to see Twitch coming with four guys behind her. I recognize one, a somewhat annoying FBI agent assigned to the new branch. The one next to him I don't know but is wearing the same black suit. The other two guys are carrying big cases, I look at Sam she looks back and shrugs.
We get out of the doorway when Twitch's daughters come through. Twitch stops at the steps up looking a little unsure the four men come on board and drop their luggage. After a moment of looking at the steps and testing one Twitch comes up and looks around. She pads toward the back then comes back looking around and letting out a breath, her daughters take that as a command and land on her.
"Nia I figured you would get on one of those jumbo jets to go home." Twitch says lying down, trying to look calm instead of nervous.
Once you get to know her you realize Twitch has very expressive eyes. Anger and fear are easy to pick out, nervous is harder but once you figure it out you can't miss it.
"I got a private jet, not really mine but on loan from the FCI branch of the FBI. Constance and Ben are in the bedroom, new coffins with a TV in it, Constance laughed herself to the floor when we looked for them." Twitch laughs and shakes her head. "Twitch once we are airborne you are free to go up to the cockpit and watch us fly. We talked to the crew already, our stewardess is busy getting the food, she left half an hour ago." Twitch looks up surprise in her face and lets out a breath.
"That is unexpected, and welcome. I've never flown high enough to see clouds from the top. You two never try, the air gets thinner the closer you get." There are two yes moms from them as I move toward our unexpected passengers.
"Falco what the hell are you doing here and who are the rest of these guys?" Field Agent Falco looks up at me and sighs.
"We are assigned as your backup the upstart over there is my partner and fresh from training, Field Agent Benjamin Franco. These two back here are the other half of your team minotaurs both, one is called Linus the other is Charlie." I giggle, I can't help it I always loved the Charlie Brown specials.
"Well all we need now is Snoopy and Lucy. Falco I think your Snoopy.' He smiles and chuckles.
"I always liked Snoopy." I sigh and think of calling him Lucy instead.
"I'm not Lucy." Field Agent Franco says holding up his hands.
"Nope he's Ben-Ben." Twitch says getting me to laugh.
"My husbands name is Benjamin, Ben for short, Twitch's farm owner is named Ben so when we are there we call them both Ben-Ben." I say turning when the stewardess comes back finally pulling up packages from a cart.
In all four packages get on the plane, Sam and I trade a look. I walk closer to her as she gets the packages set into the kitchen.
"I don't think we are going to eat that much." She looks up and smiles.
"Some of these are packages of blood, they are flash frozen all I need to do is toss them in the microwave and any vampires aboard have food. I have an assortment of alcohol and OJ for you. Salads, sandwich materials, and of course steaks and roasts in case anyone decides they want to eat a meal. The food will be fine on the jet for a week, the blood until I thaw it or a year whichever comes first." I smile at her rather impressed.
"Well then I guess I want an OJ and when are we taking off?"
"Soon as I get this packed away and the door shut. I'll give you your OJ before I shut the door. Oh Twitch if you would please move into the recessed portion of the floor, it is there for when we take off and land to keep you from breaking the jet." Twitch laughs and gets up to move into it.
I go and sit across from Sam wishing there were two seats a side. Sam smiles at me then gets up and leans across me to lower the window covers on the ones I can see easily. Before she sits she gives me a kiss getting us some hoots from behind us. I twist to look to see Ben-Ben and the minotaurs smiling at me. Snoopy is looking bored and tired.
"Snoopy you're slipping, Sam kissed me and you didn't say a thing." He sighs and looks up.
"I got yelled at by the director, called my wife even. Not doing that again she's pissed already we're moving to Phoenix."
"Damn and here I was thinking I was rid of you." Sam giggles and I get my OJ.
"Now, one chance for a drink before we leave I'll do food in the air." The stewardess says after shutting the door.
"Prissy and Dissy would like some water." Twitch says getting a confused look from the stewardess.
"I knew there was something we forgot. I'll give you a bowl of water and refill when it's low or spills. Small bowl apologies on that I'll be sure and get a big one in Phoenix."
With a bowl of water for Twitch's daughters, they come out smaller than you would expect considering how big Twitch is, the engines roar to life. I squeak as we move to the runway and take off. Twitch is looking over at me giggling then sends her daughters over. Prissy and Dissy buzz me playing games of don't touch Nia, this gets me to calm down I'm not looking out the windows by Sam I'm watching them.
When we level out the stewardess comes back leaving the door open for Twitch. Twitch gets up and walks that way the new card stuck in her wing flashing as she goes into the cockpit. Sam gets up and follows her squeezing past the stewardess busily making up a salad and sandwiches.
"I never would have believed it if I didn't just watch it, the mighty Nia afraid of flying." I turn around to look at Falco.
"I'm not afraid of flying I'm afraid of heights. I gotta have one flaw otherwise I'd be to perfect."
"Some think you have two flaws, married to a vampire sits way up there on the hate list of many surprisingly well funded groups." Ben-Ben says getting a sigh out of me and a shaking head from Falco.
"Ben-Ben they only have a price on my head for right now, I've called Europe they won't touch it. No one here will touch it I've asked. They will drop it just as soon as I remind them I'm called perfection for a reason. Don't forget your not in class anymore this is the real world where I'm top dog." Ben-Ben opens his mouth to say something until Falco touches his arm and shakes his head.
"Don't argue with Nia, the military uses some of her suspected sniping jobs as tests for their snipers. No one can do as well as she did, some of them are called impossible."
I squeak when the jet rolls to the right and left, Sam in the cockpit is laughing. Twitch seems to be enjoying herself. I get up and head that way wondering how our stewardess did not even bounce off the other side. I find out when I reach her, she has a strap around her holding her there I call her a cheater and head into the cockpit.
"What was that?" Sam looks at me, Twitch is to busy with her front paws on two chairs behind the pilots.
"Twitch wanted to see what turning would be like up this high. She's calling the experience incredible." I sigh and shake my head.
"Nia this is amazing, I wish the jet moved better this is more like gliding than flying that I remember." Twitch says peering out at the clouds.
"I wonder if the military would modify one of their fighter jets to let Twitch ride on it." I say with a sigh, Twitch is lost in her own world of remembered flying and seeing clouds.
"They would not, Twitch is to large to fit in any of the current models. Even attaching a clear bubble to the underside would deteriorate the flight capabilities to much. I've heard talk they are working on a prop plane sturdy enough to support a dragon. There was talk of trying to make a plane a dragon could control themselves, that one is on the back burner until cockatrice are approved or not." The pilot says turning to look at us with a smile on his face.
"The FDA is saying good things on cockatrice they are looking into all of them to see if there are any medical uses in them. I lost four more the day after I laid the twins, they want to do physical testing, see how well they can see and so forth. They didn't explain it all to me. My sister has a male for us to take along in case there is a large pack of cockatrice. No farms in easy walking distance of there so dragons are unknown to any there." Twitch says finally looking back her eyes excited with an undercurrent of worry.
"Great don't worry Twitch I have a semi auto Barrett now, Sam is getting my AK and we got those four back there. Not taking Ben and Constance, the gang was last seen leaving for the area with enough time to be there for an hour before it got dark. Wasn't vampires and we need to be active during the day." Twitch nods and turns back to the clouds.
I catch a glimpse of the earth so far down there and sit fast on the floor, Twitch doesn't look the pilot does along with Sam. I get pulled back up looking down getting a giggle out of Sam. Feeling silly for almost yelling about the ground so far below us I head back to my chair. Our stewardess hands me a plate with a sandwich and salad on it. Feeling happy to be not overfed for once I sit and eat watching the light disappear outside. Ben comes up next to me and touches my arm, chuckling when I jump.
"Could you go see Constance, she wants to try something with you. I think the fame has gone to her head." I look at Ben and sigh, he just points with a grin.
"Is it sexual?" Ben shakes his head so I get up and drag Ben-Ben with me.
He's trembling at the door I look him up and down then take his gun away and toss it to Falco. Inside it is dark, barely any light showing, I can make out the two coffins. With him pressing in to my back we move farther in calling to Constance. We both jump when the coffin lid bangs open with Constance coming out hissing and coming toward us. Ben-Ben turns and runs I turn to watch him go, Constance leans against me and laughs.
