Chapter two.
“Well we have a bit of a situation here” James said and he coughed a few times, while running a hand trough his short brown hair. Those were nervous gestures (here’s the ‘way with words’) and Stella knew them all too well. A long silence followed and while James was trying to figure out a nice way to tell her about the new mission, Stella got impatient.
“Oh just spit it out already, would you?” She said, not unkindly, but enough to get the message trough. She always despised it when he tiptoed around the stuff he was trying to say.
She knew he was trying to break it to her easy, because her temper would sometimes come out uncontrollably, but it was always better to get it out in one sentence and be done with it. “It can’t be that bad right?” She smiled a little, lifting the corner of her mouth to encourage him to move on.
“I wouldn’t be so sure of that” murmured Nick, her new partner of two months, who stood right next to her, leaning on the desk she sat on. He shot her a grin to which she replied with a glare. She then nodded to James to move on.
“Thank you” James said and he sighed, again. “Alright, they, HE is getting more popular than anyone thought or reckoned with. Sure, after they formed the band and did the X-factor tour they gained some fans, but no one thought it would get this out of control. They just finished their second album and things are insane already". He paused for a second or two and then said,
"Management is worried and with good reason. They got a ton of new security people signed up, but unfortunately last week things got out of hand, with almost lethal consequences.
Fans who got trampled, broken arms and legs, Fans who almost got suffocated and gained some serious other injuries.
Their management is desperate. So desperate-“… “-That they asked for us?” Stella interrupted him, swinging her long red hair over her shoulder.
“Alright, Ok, I got the point, so what do you want me to do? Tail them secretly, playing the big bad security guard, while guarding him and shoot anyone who gets too close?” She snorted. “ Sounds like a lovely plan”.
Nick snickered and only laughed harder when James frowned and said “Look, I know you’re a bit of a trigger happy person-“ “Understatement” Nick hiccupped. “-but you have fans to consider now, not some thug in a back alley, who you will have down in less than a minute and behead him for good measure. Those fans probably will be your main focus.
Supportive fans are amazingly good for business, or so I heard, but there are some who don’t always follow the safety guide lines. Last week is a perfect example for that.
Protecting the band is one thing, their fans is another. When a giant herd of enthusiastic fans run at you, your normal response would be to pull your gun and yell at them to get down on the floor. The ones who would’ve gotten to close would be knocked out. That is your instinctive reactions and I understand that, but knocking down fans in plain sight, even the crazy ones, is just a whole can of shit you just don’t want to open”.