"Not make so many jokes or turn the clowning up to its usual level. You like to have fun, and that's great, but we're here as agents first, and fellow clowns-in-arms second."
Fluffy shrugs, but you're sure he'll slip up at some point.
He always does.
Wasting not another second, you both enter Speakeasy. The Timeboys are familiar with the Bureau stopping by so they allow you to enter unmolested, with a simple grunt and hand wave. You know it's just for show; they think that by being pleasant -- almost careless -- that the Bureau will lose interest in them, as guilty people have nothing to hide. You know it's a load of bunk. Besides, they taught you in training that the best thing the innocent can do for themselves is to be calm and polite, but not necessarily compliant,
and to say nothing. The guilty tend to appear overly friendly to--
"Heyyyy! Agent Young! Fluffy! You beautiful sunnuvabitches! Come ova' heeere!" You grit your teeth and, slowly, turn to your left. It's the man himself: Anthony Battaglia, commonly known as . . .
"Big Tonyyyy! Why don't
you come over heeere!" He and Fluffy practically teleport towards each other before embracing each other Sopranos style. You know -- with the one hand behind the neck and the other grasping a hand? Yeah. That. You watch at the stout-yet-sturdy man jives his way to your partner, who is, of course, working on disregarding everything you said not even two minutes prior.
"Eyyy! Fluffman. Fluffster. Fluffy: Destroyah of Woilds. Ya lost weight, ya big lug! I told ya once you get on that dietary plan my mother-in-law got me on, you'll be set. I told ya, didn't I?"
"Well, I can't help eating sometimes. You know I'm a growing boy, you sunnuva--"
"Agent Fluffy!" you cry. He snaps to a position of having sense and clears his throat. Noticing the sudden change in mood, Big Tony begins to saunter his way over to you with a shit-eating grin on his face. The one he has painted on his face every time the Bureau shows up.
This guy is good. Not that good, but good.
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