Page 14 of Seamus: Unconventional
It’s still a good night.
Chapter Two
Two days
Maestro Club
Too many voices, too close, pull me out of my house. “Brothers, get the hell out of here.” I keep my voice measured and low so I’m not waking up the boys or Leon and the PA next door.
The voices at the low wall stop as if I yelled over a megaphone. “Sorry, Pres. I was just pointing them to their section.” Circuit steps around a big guy that is clearly ex-military by his bearing.
“Thanks, Circuit. Who are they?”
Not much fazes Circuit who seems to find amusement in everything. “Trainers and handlers. The K-9s are quieter than the Brothers.”
I smile. “They are partners or K-9 and yes they are quieter.”
“What the fuck is that?”
My eyes find the man who asked, who is not an elite Brother, then follow his line of sight and smile. “Those are my partners. Every chipped dog here are our partners, mine reached colonel but we were SOF operators, not on teams, they’re your partner or K-9’s Lead. Shadow, Light, help Circuit get the new trainers and handlers to their sections.”
Shadow barks once but it’s not loud enough to get through the house walls.
“Shadow’s got handlers,” I say when he sends a hand holding a leash to me.Light sends me a list and map of the houses on the compound. “Light will get him the list. You got the trainers, Circuit?”
His smile has me smiling. “Yeah, Pres, thanks for the help. Every handler has at least one K-9.”
I nod knowing this because I got the list from Light. Four handlers, six K-9s that are new to them, then the eight chipped K-9s with no handler. With the girls and my partners, we have twenty chipped. Harky tells me there are more. As long as there is a way to make money off the K-9s, there’s always going to be more… greed never dies.
We have three trainers that will deal with re-training for the Rising Squared compound. Piper says the chipped K-9s will go out as Leads in other BSC Clubs once they’re trained with the watches. The older higher tier will retrain in service K-9 jobs for military with disabilities or PTSD. Even the older K-9s aren’t old enough to retire completely. I can’t help smiling for the older four-legged soldiers, they’re going to love the new jobs. Harky said they were wasting away in kennels or worked close to death by private firms.
The trainers were chosen by Harky and MB so I’m comfortable with them. Every one of them were military trainers from Lackland. They have the experience and years in making it a good fit for me.
“Pres Seamus, can we see the new K-9s?”
I smile turning toward the tentative little voice. “We can, Vinny. They need to get settled and we need to go over and check on Leon. I’ll take you after breakfast. Shadow has the bigger group, he’ll raise hell if I take you over before he knows the newbies.”
The kid is cute, his little dark head bobs with happy showing in his smile and through his eyes. “He will. He was mad yesterday and showed us you with big chains and locks. Mark said he’s big enough to do it and Light said he’d help.”
I shake my head but the kid’s got me smiling. “I’ll crate them both and they know it but they’d never chain me up and I wouldn’t crate them. Threats for us are meant to be funny. We have too much respect for each other to hurt our partners.”
His face changes to serious. “Leon is like that. He says we can’t have ice cream for breakfast if we pick at each other. We only had ice cream for breakfast on my birthday. We eat good food so we’re healthy and grow right. Ice cream is a dessert or snack.” That head shake has me hiding my smile for the obvious ranting of grown-up lunatics.
This is serious business the way he tells it so I agree.“So, Leon did teach you about family. Respect, loyalty and honor are big in the military, we show that always and our partners are our closest family.”
Mark pushes the door open taking the step out. The kid towers over his brother marking the four-year age difference as vast. “Badass taught us those too. Leon teaches us but Badass named it all. I’m going to train for military at the Badass Training Center. Nash took us over so we could see it.”
“I read about it but it’s not a Club so I haven’t been there. Maiyun said her brother-in-law runs it.”
The older boy nods. “The older Ford and DeSeville are the commanders. DeSeville is Badass, Ford is FBI.” Ford is Alpha-Bit names. Older must be Related to Web.
“Hamp Ford from the ABSZ?”
“Yeah, the Alpha-Bits took Web’s name and the commander is his brother.”
I learned about Web and the Alpha-Bits while stuck in what I called the hamster wheel at the medic room. “Unbelievable. I learn more shit from you. Garren came to see the partners when I was there. It wasn’t until later that Maiyun told me about her brother-in-law running training. I want to see that place. Light loves flying and she said they have UFO planes that are brand new.”
“Yeah?” That’s a hopeful look if I ever saw one. The boy is into the military.
