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A Falcon Circling - Mike Sadler x OFC

You know me - have period drama, will travel. 1940s Cairo was a dandy to try and research.

Mike Sadler was bloody late for poker.

Late was, perhaps, being generous - in point of fact he'd completely missed last week's game after Captain Stirling's late night jolly had kept Mike and the other drivers of the Desert Taxi Service busy until well into Friday afternoon, when there was not a snowball's chance of making in back in time for a pint of beer and a fair shot at the deep pockets of the boys stationed at the Embassy.

Cairo, on the whole, held few attractions for him, outside of the poker game – while there was always the chance for a clean uniform and a bath and a bed, it was all too much, sometimes, with the noise and the people. There was a beauty to the silence of the desert that he missed when he was in town, and something to be desired in the way of solitude when he was pressed up to the bar, waiting for the game to open, and the rowdy crowd of fellows next to him had, twice now, nearly spilled his drink. 

His hand rose, reflexively, to his face, and the now-neatly trimmed beard - shaving it off entirely made him look about eighteen again, which he hated, and the beard itself was a badge of honor, a sign of having been in places where the discipline didn’t matter so much as being able to survive did. He’d had a haircut, too, and he looked, in the long mirror behind the bar, almost civilized, if one ignored the deep tan. That was one of the things he liked about the desert, too - that one could blend in, disappear into the sand until you were wanted or needed or neither. One could be anonymous, in places like this - but one never really disappeared. 

Mike glanced around the room and realized, with some annoyance, that not only was he not alone, but that he was being observed.

She was tucked unobtrusively into a table in the corner, blonde and wearing a particular shade of blue that stood out against the dark. It was strange to him, after being so long in khaki that bleached you into the sand, to want to be noticed. And by god, was he noticing her now. (Not a working girl, he didn’t think - she wasn’t trying hard enough for that. Rules were different in Cairo, but single women still couldn’t drink at the bar unless they wanted something. )

Mike considered his drink and the wad of bills burning a hole in his pocket and sighed. What the hell. I have some time. It had been a long week, and he might do worse. He took his drink with him and walked around to her end of the bar, taking advantage of an empty seat right next to her. "Evening."

"Hello. You must be here for Sandy's poker game." She looked amused at his surprise to be so easily found out. "Everyone else here's getting soused and you've barely touched your drink." 

Well, damn her for observant indeed. A regular here, then, if she knew that Alex Higgins - that Sandy - had a regular game here in the back room. Strange that he'd never seen her before. He wasn't sure he liked being known. "Journalist?" He gestured with his eyes at the notebook and pen next to her, the word almost accusatory in tone.

A brief smile. "Novelist."

Somehow that was even worse - someone collecting specimens for study and later mounting in prose. "Ah, Miss Hemingway, my apologies." 

She rolled her eyes. “If I had a shilling for every time someone made that joke I'd be able to buy a ticket home.” 

“And? Do you? Want a ticket home?”

She snorted. “Not likely. The war's as awful at home as it is here. At least in Cairo it's warm.” She held out a hand to shake.  "Daphne Markham-Reed, how do you do."

She sounded like Stirling's people, with a name like that. He tried not to be angry about it - it would look good in print, probably. "Oh, both barrels. You don't waste time."

“Not a lot of time to waste. There's a war on, you know.” She gestured to the chair opposite and he sat down, taking another sip of his whisky and trying to make himself comfortable.

"And what is a... young lady of the horse and hound set doing here in the tail end of Garden City?" 

"I should have thought it was obvious,” she said with a smile, leaning back a little with her cigarette, the light just catching the glint of gold in her wristwatch. “Chasing out my prey.” The way she said prey, her eyes lighting up a little, made him go cold and hot, all at once. She took a drag of her cigarette, still obviously observing him. “Do you have a name, Mister Poker Player, or should I make one up?"

He wasn’t sure he liked that, being a character she could name and shape, but he didn’t want to give her his name – not yet. "Curious to see what you think I belong to."

She sat up a little, composing her thoughts as she looked him over again - closer this time, someone looking to see and not only imagine.  “One stripe is a corporal. Scorpion on your jacket says you're one of Bagnell's LRDG chaps. A...mechanic, maybe, on the state of your hands, or a driver.” 

He suddenly wanted to hide his hands, choosing instead to tighten them around his glass. No amount of washing would get some of the oil off his nails. “Do they teach insignia recognition at finishing school?”

She chuckled at that, but didn’t deny him. “They don't let women in the Long Bar, so we have to get our intelligence elsewhere. And everyone can read a rank badge nowadays, the army's practically everywhere.”

He could see her, at one of those parties filled with people like Stirling and Lewes, or at the Empire Club in a slinky dress, surrounded by men with public school degrees and Honorables and names in the court circular. “I'm sure it's all colonels and generals where you are.”

“Yes, and they're much less fun," Daphne declared without missing a beat. "I think if I were putting you in my novel I'd call you...Paul. No - David." She laughed as his face fell, thinking, unceremoniously, of what he'd like to do to David Stirling. "Oh, not David - do you know someone by that name? Another, then."

He liked hearing her laugh - and found he liked surprising her even more. “How do you feel about Michael?”

“Michael, hm.” She rolled the name around her tongue. “Like the archangel. You might be a Michael. Or maybe it's Mike, for short,” she offered, leaning in. He caught a whiff of perfume, amber and civet, and suddenly felt a little bold.

“To my friends, too.”

She arched an eyebrow, her smile vague. “Are you looking for friends?”

“I might be.” He shrugged.  “Are you?”

But what her reply would be he never heard - someone behind him clapped him on the shoulder and broke the scene. “Sadler, you bastard! You stood us up last week.” Alex Higgins was the sort of man who drew attention to himself everywhere he went, a talent that one could attribute as much to his height and his shock of red hair as much as his personality. “Word was out you were on a regular reconnaissance jaunt, thought for sure we’d see you.”

“Word was wrong,” Mike said, rising from his seat to shake hands. ”Can’t say more than that, loose lips and all.”

“And I see you’ve met Daff,” Sandy said with a grin, turning his gaze to the woman behind him.  “Care to join us, Miss Markham-Reed? There are always extra seats for pretty girls.”

What, and he knows her? Mike took another moment to hate being in town, where people knew things he didn’t and liked to catch you out. “Thanks, but no,” Daphne said, rising from the table and collecting her notebook, obviously preparing to leave. “I like keeping my money too much. You all have fun. I’ll see you around, Mr. Sadler,” she added, draining her glass and setting it back down. “Don’t let Sandy win.” 

Several sets of eyes followed her on the way out, and Mike was ashamed to say that his were one of them. “How do you know her? Does she work at the embassy?”

Sandy scoffed and gestured for the barman, who caught his eye and went to work on a drink. “Work there, ha. You can tell you’re not posted in town. Her father’s on the staff. Only third or fourth down the list from Lampson. She’s good fun, though - doesn’t treat you like part of the furniture.”

The staff! Good god - so she really did belong with the Turf Club set. “She said she was a novelist.”

Another short laugh from his friend. “Daphne says a lot of things,” Sandy announced, glancing after her with a grin. “Sometimes they’re even true. Ought to put her in intelligence, honestly, she’s in everywhere.”

Mike made no reply as Sandy went on to flag down another friend, taking another sip of his drink and considering, anew, the calm way she’d been watching him across the bar, and the way she’d responded to his question about what she was doing. What do you think? Chasing down my prey. He’d said horse and hounds as a joke, but he was thinking of the desert again, and black-winged kites with their sudden high whistling calls, circling high in the air above their targets, wings white against the sky. Is that what you are, Daphne Markham-Reed? A falcon circling? 

But Sandy had collected all the poker players, and there wasn’t time for more thought. Mike was here now - he would not be late again.

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The Long Bar, at Shepheard's Hotel, was famous for being the place to meet people. It was a joke that if you wanted the plan for a battle in North Africa you only need to sit there long enough.

Garden City was the core of the British settlement in Cairo, slightly less exclusive than Zamelek, where houses were a bit more expensive. The Turf Club was an all-male social club that catered to the British social scene, which would have included railway and canal executives as well as the diplomatic corps.

Sir Miles Lampson was the British Ambassador to Egypt; before the signing of the 1936 treaty he'd been the High Commissioner.

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