They had been meeting for weeks, discussing plans, assigning jobs and going over it over and over again. 

Today was the day, the day they were going to take the bank for MILLIONS. She called Spiels and went over it AGAIN. They could not mess this up. She was both nervous and excited. She felt like she was running on pure adrenaline.  more likely the several cups of coffee she had this morning. 

They had planned on using masks, and everyone dressing in the same clothing. That way, nothing would stand out as different for the witnesses. They did not plan on harming anyone, just scaring the daylights out of them and getting away with millions of dollars. As they all changed clothes, and carried a bag with the outfits they planned on putting on. They would each go to various parts of the massive bank building, and act like they were going about their daily banking business. Then one by one, they would go to the rest room and change into the matching outfits. They would put on the masks and they would all exit the bathrooms at precisely 11:42 am. The bank would be shorter staffed at this time, as it was lunch time, and the first group left for lunch at 11:30 and wouldn't return until 12:30. That gave them almost 45 minutes to take care of their business and move out.

The armed guard that stood just inside the door was a nice fellow, she had struck up a conversation many a time as she came in almost every day to " do her banking", all the while taking notes and getting the layout and habits of the people employed there. She actually started bringing him a hot cup of coffee from the coffee shop on the corner when she came in now. He wouldn't think anything of her handing him coffee this morning, like almost every time she came in, except this time, the coffee would be laced with enough Pentothal to knock him out within minutes.

The name of this game was cash, that's all they wanted. They didn't want to hurt anyone, because they were the mafia, they weren't monsters. They weren't in the business of hurting innocents, they only hurt people that threatened their well being, the well being of their family and the well being of their wallets. 

9:00 

• Duffel bags , pocketbooks and brief cases packed up with matching clothes and masks, and shoes
• Everyone is handed their times
  • What time to be at the bank
  • What time to go to restroom to change

9:30 

Next Assignments were handed out 

• @John_S  - Look out for the back room
  • Be  at Bank at 11:18 
  • In restroom to change at 11:32
• @King_Alucard - First teller line 
  • Be at Bank at 11:15
  • in restroom to change 11:29
• @The_Antar - Second teller line
  • Be at bank 11:01
  • In restroom to change 11:15
• @Pall - Keeping Watch on the Guard to make sure he doesn't wake up
  • In bank at 11:20
  • In Restroom to change 11:25
  • Guard duty - 11:30
• @Spiels - Main Entrance
  • Be at bank at 11:25
  • In Restroom to change

As she finished handing out assignments, she smiled. She knew they had this. "Alright.. Let's go do this!!" They piled into individual cars and started making their way to the bank. 

As they all made their way to the bank and  handled their individual assignments, Miss_Niki was pleased at the ease as to which the operation was going. Almost too smoothly, it was making her a bit nervous. There usually is a falter of some kind, and in this case, she hoped that it would be something very slight. She didn't want for all of them to end up in the slammer.

She walked up to Fred, the guard, and handed him his morning coffee, and she added a bagel, because she kind of felt bad for what was about to transpire. Fred was a family man, he had children, a wife, even a dog. They were the all american family. She hoped he wouldn't lose his job because of this, hell if he did, she would make sure he was taken care of. He was a really nice man. She stood and talked to Fred, and watched his demeanor, he started slurring his words.  She helped to a chair and watched as he fell asleep in the chair.  She nodded at Spiels. It was time. 

Spiels sprung into action, he brandished his weapon, and motioned people down on the floor with it.  She knew it probably wasn't loaded, because Spiels was a big softie, he couldn't even stand to kill a mouse, preferring to catch them in life traps and letting them go in the alley behind the headquarters.  She stayed back out of the way, and watched them do what they had all been trained to do. They cleaned out 6 cash drawers and spent a few minutes in the safe grabbing more cash. 

Once their time inside was up, they all headed out the back door, as the cops were pulling up out front. They were all to ditch their masks in the backroom make their to the alley, to different vehicles parked in different locations. None of them would be together, so that if they were caught, everyone didn't go down.  Miss_Niki stayed behind and played the victim. She gave false witness statements to the cops. They would be searching for men that looked suspiciously like the Giantoni brothers down the block. 

For some reason Spiels was extra nervous about this particular heist.  He had been on what seemed like thousands of them before, but this one seemed to have Miss_Niki extremely cautious.  She was usually so calm, with ice in her veins.  She would give out assignments and be done with it, never worrying about it again.  But with this one she went over it and over it and over it.  The last thing Spiels wanted was to let her down, so he made sure to rally the troops one last time before setting off.

He reassured everyone that we were the best at what we do and to not get too complacent.  

Spiels showed up right on time and made his way to the restroom to get his mask on.  Once he was changed he checked his revolver.  Miss_Niki thinks that Spiels carries an empty gun, but its always loaded.  Its his job to protect her and he wasn't ever going to be unprepared.  He vowed to take a bullet for her if needed, and he damn sure was willing to give one if the job warranted it. 

From that point on everything was a blur.  Almost like slow motion.  They filled the bags and rushed to the door.  Just as he was about to step into the street Spiels glanced back at Miss_Niki and gave her a wink.  He wanted to make her proud, but also wanted her to know that he realized that her work was just beginning.  While the rest of the crew was back counting cash and having a drink she would be talking to cops, pretending to be  a victim.

As his car sped away he looked over to his driver and smiled.

To Miss_Niki!!!  Without her we would all be out of work, broke bums!

As the police came in, she stood, with tears in her eyes. She talked and talked to so many officers, sometimes she cried, others she acted terrified. Then she cried some more. She put on a performance that those people in Hollywood would be jealous of.  An officer assigned to her, gently took her by the arm and lead her out to his police car.  He took her to the nicest hotel in Chicago, "because she was only in town visiting her cousin Mabel. " 

Once he dropped her off, she went to the hotel bar where she met Spiels to find out what the take was for today. She smiled at him when he came in and plopped next to her. 

"You guys just get better and better, that went off without a hitch at all.. I was nervous, I'll admit it, this was the biggest job we've ever done... but, you and the boys were amazing!, I'm thinking of LA next, but, we'll give it a little time. I don't want back to back jobs, and people start putting together that I'm at all of these robberies. What was our take today?"

She waited as patiently as she could for Spiels to put his usual dramatic flair on things, like he always did. She sipped her drink as he started in on his story of the day. 

Spiels spent some time with the guys at the makeshift Chicago HQ celebrating but knew he had to get his shit together and go give Miss_Niki the final count.  He made his way to the swanky hotel that the police put her up in and went straight to the bar.  He saw Niki sitting in a seclude corner where they could talk privately.  He stopped by the bar to get them a drink.

Bar keep.......a bottle of your finest whiskey please.  And 2 glasses.  Put it on Mis.....i mean.....put it on that lady over there's tab.

Spiels took the bottle and sat down with Miss_Niki.

YOU WON'T BELIEVE THE WEEK I'VE HAD!!!  FIRST I WAS AT THIS FLOWER SHOP AND......WELL YOU'LL FIND OUT ABOUT THAT LATER.....AND THEN I WAS AT THIS PET SHOP AND THERE WAS THIS DOG AND A CAT AND A TURT.....Niki knew her Spiels well and let him ramble for a few seconds and then put her finger over his mouth....

The bank dear heart, the bank.  Please tell me about today and the bank.

Spiels realized there were more pressing things to discuss and calmed down a bit.

Right, the bank.  We did good boss.  By my initial count....are you ready?  Somewhere between 1 and 17 million dollars!  I got to about $900,000 and then i got a telegram about there being a delay in an order back home....something about some goldfish and a turtle......shit......never mind......anyways, i went on counting but was still dealing with the telegram, but i counted and counted and counted......had to be lots of millions.

Spiels could tell his boss was not impressed by his lack of attention to detail, but he had a hunch that she was kind of used to it.

So we did good?  She had the patience of a saint.

We did good boss.  He poured another drink and held it up for her to toast.  He knew there was probably more to this meeting and it would be best if he was 3-4 more drinks in.....