Simpatico: Mr. Destiny (Thief)

A Story by Abishai100

Twins are Chicago specialist-thieves, but one is enroute to a special 'destiny-dance' regarding duty discovery.

One more thief-vignette, inspired by the equally-derived films Mr. Destiny and Miller's Crossing. Enjoy!

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In the great American city of Chicago, twin brothers, Algerian-Americans named Donovan and Sil, were coordinating a special heist of bearer-bonds belonging to an underground syndicate known ominously as the Chicago Outfit. However, Donovan kept yearning for a more civil life in the great Windy City and decided to visit a bar where he might divulge this daydream to the bartender while drinking rum in his cherished city.

The affable and somewhat wise bartender, Sam Markle, seemed to know much about Chicago Outfit and was wondering why the drunken Donovan, a master-thief, was divulging so much of his personal life, be it a true report or false, while expressing a deep daydream about a normal civil life of romance and spirituality. Sam gave Donovan a special rum-drink and told him to see a Cubs game in Wrigley and see if he came across a pretty American woman who might compel him to rethink the nature of human advice.

DONOVAN: That bartender has given me a new joy of spirituality, and I'm looking for a revolution in life now.

SIL: Brother, you may be a thief like me, but you remain more eccentric than me.

DONOVAN: Seriously, brother, I'm considering converting to Shaivism or Occidental Catholicism!

SIL: Well, religion does offer more socialized daydreams than our current life of anti-mob ninja-thievery!

Donovan and Sil still nevertheless had a thief-job to do, steal million bearer-bonds from the Chicago Chase Bank belonging to the Chicago Outfit and an older crime-master in the city tied to the group named Jesus Nash, rumored to be tied to blood-diamonds and weapons-running to anti-IRA rogue street gangs in the UK. Donovan and Sil were to walk in masked into the Chase Bank wielding water-guns filled with corrosive acid!

DONOVAN: First, we'll visit an Apple store and place some blogs and forum-comments on capitalism ethos!

SIL: You want to immerse us in the matrix of commercial vanities with some kind of business communique?

DONOVAN: This will cover our tracks for this Outfit-hit on underground warlord bonds diagrams.

Donovan and Sil had robbed over 20 banks in Europe before moving to Chicago. They'd robbed banks in Denver and Detroit since settling down in the USA. Born as twins, these two thief-brothers had a special 'simpatico' with underground rogue vigilantism, working as Robin Hoods of bonds-and-asset movements directed to disrupt the normal flow of crime-syndicate prestige in the modern city of Chicago, home of the Cubs and Untouchables! Donovan and Sil were considered the best thieves America had seen since the days of Dillinger.

The twins got into outrageous masks and costumes for the Chase heist of the Outfits million bearer-bonds on heist-day! The twins dressed up like theater performers ready to do some city opera-show about Iranian terrorists invading the Windy City in an annual crime-catharsis 'Purge' meant to eradicate all minority-involvement in urban terrorism, to redirect the nature and quality of American terrorism. The show as reputed to be the biggest production in politics-theater since the days of Edward Abbey himself in Chicago! The Chase manager realized these two theater-performers wanted to do some special photo-session with the Outfit's bearer-bonds to media-toast the city's great investments in modern traffic-detection. It was a destiny con!

BANK MANAGER: We were sure these two theatrical guests were linked to some kind of Interpol-dream.

Meanwhile, it was known to Chicago reporters that these modern warlords like Jesus Nash of the nefarious 'outfit' wanted to exploit the loopholes of modern economics to turn foreign terrorism-financing in their special American favor! It was up to the Robin Hood twins Donovan/Sil to use this media-exposed heist to deliver some funny message about the profundity of fat-cat dollar-traffic in a Chicago beset historically by forms of modernism dilemmas.

While Donovan/Sil took iPhone photos of the Outfit's bearer-bonds, they distracted the manager/guardsman inside the vault-room with their display of their theater acid-guns which they used to mark special fire-designs on the sides of the metal safe-box walls for the newspapers! While the manager/guardsmen were visibly distracted, Donovan switched the 'outfit' bonds with fake ones hidden in his jacket lining. They then boarded a Chicago train headed to the Opera House.

CHICAGO POLICE (CPD): We're not certain right now if this 'Outfit' has somehow 'staged' this political masterpiece.

That day in the Chase Bank, there was a special media and society event hosted with champagne and bleu-cheese at the vault-basement area near the safe-boxes holding the Outfit-bonds that Donovan/Sil lifted. It was the ultimate magazine cover, and they'd learned about it from a special 'democrat' insider named Pippi.

DONOVAN: We'll transfer these outfit-bonds for our Swiss bank endeavor with Interpol and UNICEF.

SIL: This was an endeavor in great modern socialized dogma-crossing, my good merry brother.

DONOVAN: We're the Chicago Merry Men, Sil.

Of course, the political play at the Opera House that night was actually not linked to any media-circus claimed to be by Donovan/Sil that heist-day, though neither Chase nor the Outfit pursued further inquiries about the hijacked but insured bonds, since the Opera media had generated sufficient 'dilemma' distractions not desirable to a bank/mob!

Donovan and Sil used some of their earnings to purchase robot-toys for poor children in Chicago that Christmas. They even ironically toasted the city's banking and syndicate-systems for making all this new era discourse somehow...feasible.

DONOVAN: Let's go see a Cubs game at Wrigley, good brother!

SIL: If people thought we're like Sacco/Vanzetti, we might have our own fan-box, Merry Brother.

DONOVAN: Ain't baseball great?

SIL: Only because of the Chicago Cubs, Donovan!

During that Cubs game, the destiny-prone Donovan, who'd still been daydreaming about envisioning a completely revolutionized personal life, had come across a strange and magical beautiful American woman named Shelbye who'd made him think seriously about what that 'Mr. Destiny' bartender in the city had told him earlier --- "Go with the spirit and not the flesh, and your destiny will unfold more like an unwrapping magical detention."

Donovan and Shelbye got married, and he stopped being a thief. He encouraged his brother to seek a new life too, and Sil likewise considered opening a Chicago bar for non-criminals! This was a 'Mr. Destiny' tale about the complex profundity of tangible...detouring.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)