Saturday Matinee - Protection

 

 

"I'm telling you Marshal Stephens....my cover is blown....you have to get me out of here..." 

"Who are you talkin' to Sugar....you know you're not allowed to use the phone...."

"Who's that talking Tommy?"

"Help Me!!!!"

And the line went dead....

 

US Marshal Bill Stephens stared at the phone in his hand for a moment before hanging it up....it looked like maybe he had some work to do....he got up and stretched....he was probably looking at a long night....he went to the cabinet and got out the folder for Tommy DeVito....it was one of the heaviest case folders he had....

Narcotics, extortion, prostitution, racketeering, murder.....Tommy had done it all....and he really enjoyed it.....he hadn't been hard to flip though....unlike a lot of wise guys, Tommy was terrified of the prospect of life in maximum security prison....

He sang like a bird....and they'd used the information to take down the entire Cicero crime family....

It had been Marshal Stephens job to relocate Tommy.....to create a new identity for him....to find him a job and to monitor him to make sure he didn't drift back into his prior lifestyle...

It wasn't that hard really, he'd done it dozens of times before for other scumbag felons who'd made a deal.....he sometimes thought of it as a deal with the devil...their crimes were not forgiven....but they'd been given a pass....their victims hadn't had that option...

But it was his job, and if Tommy's identity had been compromised it was up to him to do something about it!

He remembered Tommy....cocky and unrepentant...a demanding little SOB that thought they were going to set him up in a mansion on Uncle Sam's dime....they had him in protective custody for a couple of months while they established his new identity....and when he was finally presented with the new life he protested loudly!!!

They'd arranged for him to live in a trailer park in Alabama....they weren't even going for the "double wide"....

He was going to work for A Septic Tank Pumping and Repair company in the town of Addison....population 749....

They supplied him with a 2005Honda Civic....

And gave him $2000 in cash to help him get started....

When he balked they reminded him that he always had the option to go out on his own....maybe all the threats on his life were just talk...reluctantly he agreed....

Sure they could have made better arrangements for him, but he was such a rotten human being that more than a few of the Deputy Marshals wouldn't have blinked an eye about taking him out in the woods where he would be killed in a terrible "hunting accident"...

Marshal Stephens made arrangements to take DeVito back into protective custody while a new identity was crafted for him....he was sure he could find a worse place for him...

A Deputy told him that he should see something and he pulled up a crime investigation television program "What Happened to Tommy DeVito?" that had aired recently....it had featured pictures of him....very clear pictures....and it had speculated that he had "escaped punishment" by being moved to rural America....

"Dammit....these producers shouldn't be allowed to do this crap....they're undoing all our work...."

The next morning he boarded the Gulfstream jet and in a few hours he landed at a small private airstrip where a car was waiting for him....

The driver was from the Montgomery office and seemed to know where he was going and it was less than an hour later they pulled into the Addison Trailer Court....

They stopped at Tommy's trailer....and got out into the oppressive humidity....a few local residents watched from a distance....they knew cops when they saw them and a lot of furtive activity was going on all around them....

A knock on the flimsy plywood door went unanswered....fearing the worst they entered with guns drawn....it only took a few moments to clear the trailer....

Stephens couldn't help but notice the women's clothes strewn about....he nodded to the Deputy....

"I guess our man's been keeping busy...."

"The two men shared a smile.....

It was then that they heard a muffled groan from behind the trailer....

They went outside and cautiously they made their way to the rear of the trailer and there he  was.....bent over and getting it hard from a mountain of a woman....

"Y'all just shut up and take it like the bitch y'all are....or we're gonna let all your EYE-talian friends know right where you are.....you're mine today....all day....and I expect to enjoy you until I have to give you to Johnny Crabtree.....just think....in two and a half weeks you'll be coming back around to being mine again!!!!"

US Marshal Stephens put his finger to his lips and motioned the Deputy to return to the car...

"Deputy....that man was a murderous scumbag who was never punished for his crimes...I think maybe justice is being served....what do you think?"

"Marshal....I never saw a damned thing!!!"