Dear Readers: Welcome Back to San Cristobel. The date is October 2, 1999. Statements attributed to Mrs. Bennie Dietz are from Sarah2. She has exclusive rights to the name, property and well being of Boom Boom (BB). I have taken the liberty of cleaning up her language in places as well we do have a refined reading audience BB!
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Bennie Dietz woke up to a sound that he was sure could be put to use as torture in some third world prison hell hole. "Bennie, honey, could you come in here and rub some of that lotion on my tuckus? I can't reach it with my arms in these darned casts?" Oh God, Dietz thought it was bad enough to be stuck in a San Cristobel hospital with a bunch of doctors probing around. But to be in the same hospital room with this abrasive, obnoxious, witch of a woman was surely more than one man should have to endure.
Boom Boom AKA BB sauntered out of the bathroom sighing and murmuring as she walked past Bennie. He noticed that even with both arms in casts, she still looked damn sexy. And somehow that hospital gown just didn't fit the right way. He could see all the way to Alabama from his bed. Her large high breasts were jutting out from the gown like two guns in a holster. She had the kind of figure most people just see at carnivals or on that Howard Stern show on the E television channel. Her bust was 40 DD, her waist 23 inches and her hips 37 inches.
Yeah, she was a lot of woman at only 5 foot 3 but with those heels she wore she sometimes topped out at 6 feet. She weighed in at only 100 pounds and she sometimes had trouble standing up straight without toppling over when she wore those darn spiked sandals. Women like Carmen Santos who most said had a nice normal attractive figure just didn't hold a candle to BB. Sometimes, just sometimes like now, he just wished that he could put a piece of masking tape across that mouth of hers and love her until the end of the day and well into the night.
There was no two ways about it BB; rang his bell, lit his fuse, blew his whistle, flew his flag, ignited his missile launcher and knew how to play his bassoon. She was one thrilling woman. Being with Boom Boom was kind of like riding one of those topsy tipsy turvy rides at the carnival. You'd get thrown to the left and then to the right, thrown upside down and all around. If you survived the ride and weren't nauseous, well the woman was down right intoxicating.
Just then she looked over at him and said, "Didn't you just wake up? You can't be sleepy, yet, my little love machine. Come on over to my bed and we'll play with the up and down button. I�ll show you what that physical therapist means by working out the kinks in that broken finger!" Dietz went over to her bed; like a little puppy dog on a leash, like a puppet on a string, like a horse thirsty for water. Afterwards when she'd yelled at him to get off of her, she turned into the cold shrew she always was after they'd had sex. This was one high maintenance woman and kind of fussy too when she wasn't satisfied.
She rang the call button, "Nurse, I think my hubby needs you to shoot some more morphine in his hiney. That last dose doesn't seem to have calmed him down much. He can still move his middle finger." Dang, Dietz thought she is up to no good again. After the nurse left, he told her his version of what' s what. Look BB, this has got to stop. I didn't ask for you to go falling off your shoes again. I'm out of here in a day or less and I've got work to do , you are going to have to fend for yourself. The kid has arranged for you to have a male nurse and doll you are on your own, okay? You know all about the bank accounts at the San Cristobel bank, take what you need, buy what you need. But I am on a job, babe. And you are a little too high profile for me to complete this assignment. I've got less than a week to save the world.
At this BB rolled her eyes. "Sweetums, the nurse is only allowed to give you the medication that the doc's say you can have. This ain�t no freaking pharmacy."
Dietz rolled his eyes at that comment. What had he ever done to cause this Boom Boom tornado to take root in his brain?
An attendant came in and asked Mrs. Dietz to come with him, it was time for her sponge bath and special massage therapy. Boom Boom checked the young island man out and decided this was too good an offer to refuse. She left with the attendant without so much as a good-bye to her husband.
Within minutes, Mr. Danny Santos arrived. Hey Dietz, how's it going? Just came by to check and see if you've got everything you need. Mother has called us back home, actually to Chicago for the last days of her trial. Are you going to be okay down here?
Yeah, sure kid, thanks for everything. I appreciate your coming down the other day to sign the insurance papers. Sometimes your mother forgets things like pension plans and insurance for her workers. But you are like your father you always take care of the details. Yeah, kid go on back to the States. I�ll be fine down here. Hey, did you arrange for my old lady to1 leave just now?
Danny Santos looked furtively around the room. Your wife? Is she coming back soon? No, no I didn't realize.
Kid, calm down. I know you've heard the stories. If you clear out in a few, you won't even have to meet her today, maybe never. Her reputation is sometimes a little worse than the real thing. But then again depending on what you've heard sometimes it is a little shocking to meet her for the first time.
Dietz continued, Danny, where is Jimmy, the security detail your mother assigned to you? The kid still didn't get it, the business down here was about as legal as selling Mad Dog 20-20 to grade school kids.
Dietz, we don't use him down here, you know that. He is back in Illinois with mother. After we determined that Michelle's accident was just that, an accident, we sent him back. You know Dietz just now, I thought I saw something flash across your face, you doubt that it was an accident that caused Michelle to�his voice trailed off. It was still painful to talk about.
Sure kid, whatever you say. You know best.
Dietz, you know something don't you? That is why you are back down here again so soon after Michelle's accident.
Danny, all I can tell you is that I am trying to find some things out right now. I am still in your mother's employee but I am also serving to find something else out. You gotta take care of that wife of yours and whatever you do and wherever you go, make sure you aren't followed.
Danny Santos asked Dietz again, what do you know Dietz, tell me now?
No kid, I don't want you mixed up in this anymore. This is a personal score for me to settle now. You know when all this started up though. You were here when it all began to unravel, like a big ball of yarn. It was at the royal ball held for Olivia and Prince Richard's impending nuptials. The big gala. And to think that the cat ate the canary way back in May/June in good old Springfield. That big old dance with everyone celebrating and wearing them fancy get ups and masquerading all around. And the whole time it was a ruse, a setup, a scheme planning the downfall of so many people.
Dietz, I've got to know my mother's involvement in all of this.
Kid, she's changed, you gotta know that there is no going back for her now. She is a different woman. It isn't her man and it isn't her. That's all I can say right now. I�ll be in touch. Go back to Illinois, live a clean safe life away from the Mafia. You're being given that chance now. Try and have some kids and don't worry about stuff down here. Things will work out, they have to work.
Danny Santos says okay Dietz, I know all of this is hard on you. Heck, I know it is hard being you. Thanks for all the years of service. I don't tell you this very often but I do think it. You've been with the family so long. You know Pilar doesn't understand but I do. You've always been there for us. Pilar doesn't remember when PaPa died, it nearly killed us all especially MaMa. And I know you've never been the same either. You know Dietz, sometimes I start to thinking that maybe papa isn't dead after all. That he is alive and well and coming back to us.
Yeah, kid, go on dreaming, its good for you. Dreams cannot hurt you one little bit.
Yeah Danny said they cannot hurt but they can't help either can they? Good luck Dietz, I hope we'll see you after the trial, after mother is cleared of the charges and we can all begin anew. I've got big plans for the businesses, I think papa would be proud.
Dietz said sure kid, I�ll see you around.
A few minutes later, Dietz looked up from the "Horse and Saddle" magazine he was reading to see a dark shadow standing in the doorway. You scared me just now, he said.
So you did good Dietz. I'm real proud of you, the shadowy figure replied. Reading about the ponies again, huh? Your great unrequited second love?
Dietz shook off an attempt to laugh and said, oh so it was you who arranged for Boom Boom to be gone while the kid came in, huh? Yeah, I should have known it. Its always you isn't it?
Yes, I'm always around Dietz. Just like you were always there for me. We are compadres man�linked forever by fate�and linked by our love for Carmen Santos. She is the star for which all evenings wait isn't she? Dietz from what I've picked up here and there, it looks like we've got less than 6 days to stop this megalomaniac's consortium from blowing up Springfield. Let's get to work shall we?
Our first step is to plot a time line of all the races that Carla Ray raced in then figure out the pattern and date line. I've already figured out the first piece of the puzzle and my men have disarmed a pretty powerful arsenal set up outside of Buffalo, that little sister city to Springfield. Our next step is going to be quite complicated.
Dietz said yeah you are right. But I already have the next piece, Boom Boom actually figured it out and told me without even understanding it. A contact she knows is familiar with the Grant family and David Grant's father let it slip at a Cedars Board meeting last week that the Hollywood Bowl surrey race was a big winner for some hospital benefactors.
With that statement both men blinked at the same time. The visitor took hold of the bed railing beside Dietz�s bed. Good God man, she is dead already. Dietz looked down and put his head in his hands. Yes, you're right, she's gone. Nothing can be done now. How did we miss those clues? You can confirm it right, just to be sure? But we both already know its over for her.
Dietz we've got to continue and get past this loss. She was a valuable resource but we've got to go on.
After a few minutes, the visitor continued. Okay let's go over what we've got right now.
1) The grape jasmine is what started it all.
2) But it isn't really the grape jasmine itself, its the essential oil blended together with the sea grapes that makes the concoction the consortium wants.
3) They've been using it with Carla Ray the race horse for months now. And stockpiling reserves for over 2 years.
4) But they were sloppy, they've left clues in every race Carla Ray has won. Its like they want us to play their sick little game.
5) Carmen and Alan Spaulding are both guilty but they don't even understand their involvement.
6) Vicki Brandon nee Lewis, nee Spaulding evidently spearheaded this whole operation for revenge but now she is even a pawn.
7) David Grant heads up the consortium or at least fronts it. It all leads back to his family, good old papa just happened to stumble upon that research work years ago and he's paid for it ever since. Now David wants revenge, no he wants vengeance.
8) The grape jasmine/sea grape essence is actually a powerful drug if distilled in a certain manner. Its price is beyond imagination. Probably in the multiples of billions of dollars. It is a new wonder drug just like those medicines being distilled down in the Amazon. Its properties are similar to Cats Claw but more invasive, more curative (author's note�this property will be explained in greater detail in JCMD part 11).
9) The consortium will stop at nothing to control this essence or the very power that was demonstrated in those races with Carla Ray and the other horses.
10) October the 8th is D-day or more likely Grape Jasmine explosion day
(GJED)�unless we can stop all of this now!
Dietz shook his head, yes, okay, so actually we've got a lot eh? We can trust the FBI but not the CIA, right? And the FDC do they even know? No, I thought not. Okay.
The visitor said this is gonna take everything we've got left in reserves and all of my cash, but I think we can do this, with the right contacts and the right people.
Dietz agreed. Yep, the way I see it give or take a few hours we've got 6 days and counting until the Santos family and the city of Springfield no longer exist.
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Later that afternoon, Bennie checked out of the hospital. Boom Boom had found out about Danny Santos' visit to "them" as she put it earlier in the day.
You'd think the kid was a God or something the way she was acting all mad; like a bee who had just been kicked out of her hive, like a wasp thrown out of its nest, like a hornet shoved out of its hovel. The male nurse whom Boom Boom had quickly approved of when she met him minutes ago, picked her up at the reception area and would take her back to the house. At least that was the plan. Bennie shook his head as he waved good-bye. Why did this woman always have to have the last word in every conversation?
Boom Boom yelled out as the attendant pushed her out the hospital doors, "Yoo Hoo Nurse! Hey you over there in the white pajamas! Yeah, you! Listen doll, I don't mean to be telling you your business, but when Bennie gets out of here, I�d be counting the bedpans if you know what I mean."