I spent the day today updating my contact info with the necessary need-to-know people – basically giving them my new address, and just keeping to myself until after Donovan is awake. He’s up early, dressed a bit neater than normal, and is on the phone for about an hour – as far as I can tell, it’s all business related. Once he’s off the phone, we head to a club that is apparently another Elysium, where court is to be held tonight, so that we can pass off the milk. Things are incredibly serious, and weird. Nick turns to me at one point after the exchange, and asks some questions, then seems disappointed that Donovan hasn’t taught us Monty Python yet. He then asks Scott if he was the Energizer Bunny. Weird guy. Still, I like him better than Jackhand.
Upon leaving, Donovan passes out the five gold coins – two apiece for Scott and myself, and one for him. Each are worth about $1400, he says. There is another meeting tonight at midnight – Ben is supposed to arrive and give his information to Donovan as his end of the bargain. In the interim, however, he has a job for us. One of his subordinates, someone he’s invested in, has yet to pay Donovan back anything – additionally, sales have dropped. We are to remind him about needing to pay Donovan back. An intimidation game, really. This guy also just happens to be Scott’s sponsor for the video gaming tournament stuff.
Scott and I handle the situation tonight to get it out of the way. He seems overly enthusiastic to use a baseball bat. In any event, I got up and just before we leave, Ben arrives, a full two hours early. He and Donovan go downstairs to talk, and Scott and I head over to Jimmy’s. I do most of the talking. He’s fairly intimidated by me (what? I can’t be intimidating?) and agrees to try and get $12k to Donovan by Friday. I inform him if he’s late, he’ll be in trouble, and mumble in Latin on the way out. Scott breaks something, and follows. Halfway home Scott’s phone blows up from his buddies – no clue what’s going on, but Scott says he’ll handle it. Sounds like he lost his sponsor.
Inform Donovan of how things went when we return, and he in turn informs us that Ben came through on his end of the bargain, and that he will be headed out of town for the next couple of days, and is taking Jackhand with him.
Since we have time, he has us run some errands with him, to show us things we will be doing for him in the future, during the day, stopping at a “massage” parlor, a pub with a casino operation, and a travel agency that seems to be a money laundering operation.
*sigh* What have I gotten myself into?
Been hearing Scott lament all night about his sponsor, so to be nice, while I am writing this I am trying to track down some new sponsors for him. I’m having some luck, but it looks like I’ll have to make some more calls tomorrow.
It occurs to me now that I forgot to mention Donovan made a deal with Ben – a part of his soul in exchange for information. It won’t be a happy partnership, but will be a workable one.
Enough for now – until next time!