THE LIGHT

Recovering

Jake

Beeping sounds woke me up from my deep peaceful slumber with my beautiful lady. I opened my eyes and the smell already tells me that am in hospital. I am sleeping on my side and its painful too, just how long have i been sleeping like this? i try sleeping on my back but the pain stings my back and shoots through my body and i jumped up cursing under my breath. "f**k it hurts!" i hear a chuckle and i turned to my side and its my brother. " so you don't die where you were and decide to commit suicide in the hospital" he chuckles and that pisses me off. " stop laughing and go get the doctor am dying of pain here." he laughs even harder " No you are weak boy! you don't die from what landed you here yet you die because of pain!" he says while still laughing this i***t "Shane!" i reprimand him " Okay! okay am leaving" he goes out laughing, i know this is some coping mechanism because am sure when he heard i was hear he shed some tears before coming. Shane is sensitive even though we went through a lot of s**t he still remained sensitive and i think that's one of the reasons he wasn't made the leader of his team. I like this side of him and i hope he keeps it because the day he loses his sensitivity is the day my brother Shane dies and my enemy rises. It's no secret that his team competes with ours but we have been civil about it but when that day comes am afraid my brother will be as heartless as our father. My father is only caring with our mother but with my brothers and i, his something else which is why to this day i believe he knew when we were recruited and taken for training and am sure he gave consent. My phone rings and i search the bed side table that is next to my bed and took it out of the drawer and my mother's name flashed on the screen, i wonder what Lina wants.

Jake: Mother

Voice: Jake its me..(my mood immediately changed)

Jake: what do you want Camilla?

Camilla: We heard from Shane that you were robbed and that you are in hospital because they hurt you.

Jake: So what does have to do with you?

Camilla: You are my husband Jake and i care about you

Jake: You know i don't even know why am still talking to you because you will never stop being crazy. Find a man Camilla and leave me alone!

I cut the call nx this girl will never get the picture, she will never get that i don't want her not for as long as my parents keep her at our house and keep feeding her nonsense about being my wife.

Richard

A lot happened over the past 3 weeks, my baby went to camp and am still busy investigating the person who thought its best to put a target on the cobras. The first thing we found out was that the message was send via the deep web but Buttons wanted to see who sent it so we went to one of the other gangs, they actually gave us a hard time because like Scar they thought i was still out but in the end we got what we wanted. From there Buttons wanted the direct computer the message was sent from for the trace to be easier. So we found out that the message was sent from the Reinforcement Teams head quarters. Now according to my knowledge only the commander occupies the office and no one else so this makes me confused and refuse to believe that it could be him. So now we are on our way to explore another lead that Buttons  found of a safe house in Sea Point Clifton to be exact in Cape Town. I left for the airport just after i dropped my baby girl at school, i plan to be back before school is out so that i can pick her up. We arrived in Cape Town just after 10AM and now we are on our way to the safe house. The drive from the airport to the house is not too long as the morning rush has died down and people are already at work at this time. We stopped at the beach as if we are going for a swim, wearing beach shorts, vests and push-ins. We scout the house for about an hour and the only activity that is there is kids, i mean teenagers going in and out of the house. This will be easy or we got the wrong house, well i would believe that if it didn't come from Buttons. We go to the house and knocked. One of the boys open and seems shocked to see me at the door. "Sir" he says and we looked at each other. " are you going to let us in or you going to stand there with your eyes popping out of your sockets?" i asked him when he didn't move from the door. " sorry sir please do come in" why in the hell is this boy calling me sir? or is it because am older than him and he doesn't know my name. OH well it doesn't matter. We got into the house and its not what it seems on the outside. The house is a fortress, different security systems in place, the latest monitoring camera lances, laser security, big screen TV's displaying different types of messages. The one looks like it monitoring...wait what the f**k? "Start talking" i say with a voice laced with anger. " Nick call the others now!" the boy who opened for us orders " you better not do anything stupid if you know what's good for you" i say to him " no, no, no never sir am just calling everyone here so you can meet them." he says looking scared "What the hell is going on here?" Gora asks "Permission to kill" says poison " and my snake wants to feed" says Snakes " NO NO please sir wait for us to explain please" pleads the boy while he begs 5 more boys his age come through the back running but stop in their tracks when they see us or is it me? " Sir!" they say in union, now am confused as f**k "All of you sit down now!" i say and they rush to the couches and sit, their eyes dig on the carpet in front of them. I moved around to sit on the coffee table in front of them. " Talk!" i say with venom in my voice " My name is Mike and the others are..." i cut him short by raising my hand to stop him " Did i ask for your name? or i said talk?" i asked " why don't we just kill them once" says Divan " You talking s**t straight now, do you kill kids now huh?" asked Grinder " Am not talking to you Grinder so shut up" says Divan " But am talking to you, so what are you going to do huh? no word? then let s**t happen once man!" says Grinder getting close to Divan "SHUT THE f**k UP! You start talking" i was getting frustrated by these guys acting like kids, Divan on the other hand has been a pain in the ass. " we are the operations team of the organization and.." i cut him short again, i mean what the hell does he mean they are the operations team? they are kids for God's sake! "its true Richard, this is where your father got me i was the oldest of the group" Buttons says " Oh no you shitting on me now Buttons! you bring us here knowing very well whats going on?" his got to be kidding me! " am sorry but when they took me the safe house was in Pretoria" Buttons says " His right but before the General died he moved us here saying no team should be in the same province. He said he will give us Western Cape while the Reinforcement remains in Joburg and you in Durban" says the boy " f**k! how long have you been operating without him? who the f**k has been giving the Reinforcement their missions?" this is frustrating! " we have" says the boy, am dreaming! am f*****g dreaming right now that's the only explanation i have for this madness! " what do you mean you have?" i have to ask because this cant be real "Mike and i were tasked to give the Reinforcement team their missions while we also keep an eye on the cobras and supply both teams with whatever they need." okay we getting somewhere now " okay i understand, now that my father is dead where do you get your missions from?" i need to know this because my father died more than 5 years ago " the clients have their own site in the deep web where they give us jobs and we decide which on the Reinforcement team gets which mission since we know them and what they are capable of." the boy says, this keeps getting better and better. " And the money?" this is f****d up! "My name is Sazi and i handle the accounts, the money is scattered in offshore accounts but we do have enough in the country too different provinces and banks. They are all under different corporations like your IT company which we also manage a little bit of so that the money can be clean and you wont have SARS on your back or the Hawks" Jesus! my father was more f****d up than i thought. " since you know so much who do you report to?" i asked the boys " you boss" f**k me! " what?" i really don't understand " You own everything, all this and the teams everything is yours." says the boy casually " So that means am the General?" it cant be my father didn't trust me enough "Yes sir" says the boy and am defeated. I run my hand on my face in frustration and pacing up and down because these kids are only doing the technical stuff, what if they had been attacked or worse f**k! what about their parents? " The Will said i got the cobras and the IT company which i only get the access to and all the cars and houses when am leading the cobras. Now why wasn't i told that i own everything?" this is too much! "The General had 3 wills you got one that gave you the cobras, the commander got one that told him he got the Reinforcement team but the third will states that everything is yours but we couldn't tell you about any of this because the General said Buttons will lead you here one day and you will find out then, which he did." says the boy " f**k! what if you were attacked during this time of not knowing about this?, "| what about your parents, you are kids for God sake!" my father was selfish damn-it! " The General made arrangements to keep us safe and has always done so ever since he took us off the streets, we are all orphans as you see us here, that man, your father sir gave us tutors to teach us all that each one of us was good at, made us apply for RPL and loved us like his own. When he was around he always visited us bringing us gifts. He was good to us in return asked for nothing but for us to be loyal to him and to you." said the boy Mike while the others were nodding in agreement. "You are all orphans? and what the hell is RPL?" My father had a good side after all. " Yes we are orphans, RPL stands for Prior Recognition of Learning where you register at a university for and they assign someone to come and assess you and give you credits according to experience and education you have. But some of us are in school competing the qualifications we want. " s**t! okay" there is a lot i need to find out from these kids but for now i need some air.