(ooc--oh, and I'm open to however many kids, whatever ages...i was only winging again. Whatever works.)
"The mission? Oh, yeah. Barrels of monkeys," Brian said, with a boyish grin. "Tracking, breaking and entering, probably sparring with bad guys, finding our targets--at which point more sparring with the bad guys will probably ensue, followed by breaking back out, running our arses off..Yeah. Typical mission stuff, pretty much, with a few little hitches. You know how it goes. I'll get to the hitches in a second."
He was purposely brushing off the envelope of "little hitches" as if that part was incidental. Actually, that was the most difficult part for him, but he'd weathered it well, every time he'd done a rescue. It was getting hard now to rescue kids because when he saw a hurting child, he always somehow saw his own children. Before he had his own kids, he would see himself in every kid that was either kidhapped or alone.
"However, you'll appreciate the humor. I'm just back from Paris tonight, and here he comes, my own father in law, who knows I've not had time to sleep or stop for 3 nights in a row now, and he's got the guts to drop this mission on me, telling me he doesn't care how I get it done, just get it done.
"Do you know how hard it is to put one over on Robert Lupin--ever? He left the door wide open for a wee bit of payback on this one. I can't just not go through it. I gotta do it," he laughed. It wasn't as if he hadn't temporarily outwitted Robert before. And he still enjoyed doing it.
"I'll pay you out of his funds," Brian said, "He doesn't care about the cash, not really. Then he'll give me that look. That thing he does with his eyebrows when he's been had. He'll threaten to get me back, and that will be that. But next time, not only will he think twice but the perks will be outstanding."
"However," he said, becoming more down to task now. "the bit that you're waiting on is the downside. This is a mission that needs to happen fast. Its a rescue mission. Its not going to be easy, but the tough part always is in the getting out." He slowly slid the envelope to them, looking at them before taking his hand off the envelope. "This is tough because the victims aren't the norm. This is about kids. I'm going after kids."