Micah first went to his rented flat. He decided against using his car and opted to walk to the park. It took him a good 40 minutes but to him it was worth as he was expecting a good payback for his effort others deemed reckless.
When he entered the park it was already dark. He stood outside the park for a minute or two trying to scout possible positions for a sniper but he found none.
"If someone hits me, may my soul rest in peace but they'd be jolly good."
With that said to himself, he felt assured and walked straight for the supposed bench he was supposed to wait on. At exactly seven o'clock, Micah took out his revolver and put it beside him so that whoever would be watching him, if there was one, would see he was not a threat.
After about twenty minutes, he was even debating on whether to leave or to be patient, a young teen couple who had been making out in the park approached him.
He tensed seeing them approach him and said, " Sorry I'm late, Boss told me to delay by 10 minutes to test your patience, the extra five were my idea." He smiled at Micah.
Micah then pointed at the girl and said, "Then I'm guessing she also added added her own five, classic move. I like that, pawns with minds and who can't be fully tamed. If you want a job call me, I like free minds a lot." He winked at the guy then became serious then asked, "Now what do you have for me?"
"Well actually, nothing. Boss wanted to test you to see if he can trust you but I think with you passing, I guess I will be making a drop at the same spot as yesterday if it is okay."
The girl quickly said to the boy, "Or he can give us a spare key, I'm sure his flat has two bedrooms, we can use one." The boy just stared dejected at me.
"I heard it but my answer is NO. Yesterday's spot was good for a delivery. If I give you a room, your boss whoever he is would think I'm trying to buy you out. Also you may spy me for him, but like I said, if you need help just contact me. The best I can do is if you have a problem, leave a note at the spot for deliveries. I'm a cop but I'll help."
The girl said, "I told you, he's a cop but he's mafia cop. You can just see he's used to dealing with gangs."
Micah stood up and said, "But that doesn't mean I smile in the face of crime. Now would you mind sharing your names."
"I'm Amad, she's Clara."
"It was nice meeting you though I'm sure you weren't supposed to exchange a lot of pleasantries with me." Micah turned and started walking away and shouted, "Bye Amad and Clara."
After Micah left, Amad pulled put his phone and called his boss."Boss I think you're going to like him, " he paused listening to the voice at the other and and then said, "He came alone, and left safely. Never asked anything." After listening for a moment he then ended the call and looked at Clara, " So what do you think?"
Clara said, " All I can say is that meeting went well."
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After Micah left the park, he got into a taxi and went home. At the point where a delivery would come, he put some cash and left to go to a bar down the street.
The bar was crowded with a lot of people. What amazed Micah was that the majority of the people were actually students from the nearby university, the University of Zimbabwe. He just shook his head and went straight for a table in a corner. He waved for a waiter and he asked for just something to drink. He gave her cash and said, she'd have to bring something everytime he waved at her.
As Micah was dreaming, all he could think of was how he would survive in this country, what would he do as this was his last mission with Echo. Yep he was still young but the maximum duration one can work for Echo was five years. After 5 years, there would be a lot of new faces and sometimes even zero survivors. So it was five years then retirement, he had even been lucky he had done 10, courtesy of the fact he had been very good but they refused him another term. He had been aiming to be one of the big guys who call the shots but well, a black man is still black even with a citizenship of Great Britain. That's when he had thoought about his roots back in Zimbabwe. A country he had never visited and luckily at that moment, his investigation was leading to Zim and Zim happened to have asked for an agent from Echo to help root out corruption and the shadow government.
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"Sir, Sir, it's closing time please." Bruce woke up staring in the face of that waitress from earlier. He was still in that same dark corner of the bar and he noticed the crowd had thinned amd the bouncers were shouting that five minutes and everyone should be out.
"For how long was I out and how many drinks did I take? Keep the change like I said earlier. Don't worry." After the second question he'd seen the the girl frown hence the last remark.
"Well its now 2 am Sir and I'm sure I served you maybe 11 or 12 glasses but I'm surprised you're already sober."
"Jesus!" shouted Micah shocked by the number of glasses , "You know what Lady, thanks."
Having said that, Micah half ran half walked to the door. Outside the moon was already disappearing. He casually walked home surprised by the fact he had gotten carried away in his thoughts. He arrived home and sure enough there was a package waiting for him and the cash was gone.
He took the package opened it, and smiled. He said to himself as he jumped on to the sheets, "The things I do for justice."