W E B Griffin – Men at War 2 – Secret Warriors

“”Hi, Mom, I’m in the loony bin at Fort Knox’?” Fulmar said mockingly.

“Is that the reason?”

“You know the reason,” Eric said.

“You and Jimmy. My mother doesn’t give a shit for me and never has.

If that question came up, one of you should have said something.”

“You never tried to get in touch with my father, either,” Canidy said.

“”Hi, Dr. Canidy! Guess where I am, Dr. Canidy?” A “Okay,” Canidy said.

“But you can’t tell me what’s going on, right? Or you won’t.”

“I can’t,” Canidy said. “You know, for years I always talked myself into thinking, so what that my mother doesn’t even want people to know I exist, and so what that my father made it pretty clear the big mistake of his life was not using a rubber when he screwed my mother.

I’ve got another kind of family, I’ve got Sidi el Ferruch, and back in the States are my asshole buddies, Dick and Jimmy, and your good father. So what happens? The first chance el Ferruch gets, he sells me to that fucking Baker. And when I finally get together with you two, Jimmy acts like I have a swastika tattooed on the head of my pecker, and you’re not one fucking bit better; and I can’t even call Father Canidy, because if I do, I’d have to tell him I can’t come to see him, because you’ve got me locked up. He’s the only person in the world who’s ever given a shit about me, and I’m not going to have him worrying about me, or let him know what a prick his son is. “Jesus Christ!” Canidy said. “Fuck you, Canidy!” Fulmar said, and Ann saw tears running down his face as he glowered angrily at Canidy. “You know a German officer named Helm ut von Heurten-Mitnitz, I understand,” Canidy said. “Yeah, I know him. He’s just like you, Canidy. Two peas out of a pod. If Baker hadn’t beat him to it, he would have had me tied up and sent to Germany. They would trust me there about as far as I’m trusted here.”

“Now, get your fucking emotions under control and think it over carefully before you answer me. From what you know of this guy, would he be useful to us?”

“No,” Fulmar said after a long pause.

“What you’re asking is whether he would be a traitor. The answer is not any more than you would. Is that what this is all about? You think I can get to von Heurten-Mitnitz? You’re dreaming. No way.”

“One more question,” Canidy said.

“If we asked you to, would you stick your neck out?”

“You’re asking would I go back to Morocco?”

“I didn’t ask that. But would you?”

“Yeah,” Fulmar said.

“I’m not too bright, Dick. I trust people I shouldn’t. But if you tell me that it’s important that I go back to Morocco, Okay, I’ll go. just one condition.”

208 8 W.Z.B. URIFFIN “You’re in no position to ask for conditions,” Canidy said. “I want a commission,” Fulmar said.

“A real one, like Jimmy’s and Doug lass’s and Bitter’s, not a phony one like yours.”

“Doug lass is a major, Bitter’s the Navy equivalent, and Jimmy is a captain. They’re not going to give you that.”

“They made Martin a second lieutenant just because he had a college degree, he told me. I went to college, Second lieutenant would be okay.”

“Why is that important?”

“Because if I get killed going back to Morocco, I want to be brought home in a casket with a flag on it and buried as a soldier, not left over there in a ditch because I was just a dumb sonofabitch who was used by people he thought were his friends. “I’m your friend, you dumb sonofabitch. I always have been.” 44 Right, sure. Two choruses of “For Auld Langsyne But for the time being, try to think of some way to turn good ol’ Helm ut von Heurtenmitnitz into a traitor, right?”

“Yeah, and don’t tell anybody I told you to. I’ve already told you a hell of a lot more than I should.”

“Because you’re a nice guy, right?”

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