KIM THE UNDERCOVER BARTENDER by Hamlet The Roebuck Inn a Wetherspoon pub in the centre of Nottingham could not exactly be described as a dive, it was a cut above that, but it certainly was not a smart uptown saloon either. It fell somewhere in between weighted more heavily toward the dive end of the scale. It was located near the main square on St James' St near the Old Market Square where most of the theatres and restaurants in the city were located. The clientele was a mixed group of theatre goers but also it had its fair share of drunks and troublemakers out to become as inebriated as possible especially on Friday and Saturday nights as well as some management types from time to time during the day. The usual assortment of prostitutes that an establishment like this attracts were there also. The topic of conversation the last three days had been about the new Norselandic female Bartender whose name was Kim the owner Mike O'Connor had hired. It had been a long time since a woman like this had been seen in a place like the Roebuck Inn. She was the tallest woman customers had ever seen, towering at 6'6", her beautiful face was framed with thick blonde hair that hung down to her shoulders. She had full red lips and lovely green eyes that always seemed to have a twinkle in them as she bantered with the customers. No one had obtained a good look at her except from the neck up. She always wore a tight leather jacket, loose fitting leather trousers and thigh length high heeled boots every night when she reported for work. Her prominent breasts could be seen clearly outlined through the leather jacket. She talked easily with the customers covering a wide range of topics from sports to football to politics, to almost anything they could bring up. No matter what the subject she seemed to be exceptionally well versed in it. She smiled easily and often, and obviously had a photographic memory because not only could she quote obscure statistics on a variety of topics but she could remember customers' names and what they were drinking so she never had to ask. Ii was clear she was actually highly educated far more than the customers there having obtained a PhD in her own Nation What was more she having an extremely assertive manner with customers expecting them to address her as Ma'am at all times or she would refuse to serve them and expected them to treat her with the respect she deserved She had gone so far as ordering drunken customers out of the bar for the slightest misbehaviour and even barring them from the pub altogether and they had dutifully obeyed.. Mike stood in the back and grinned as he saw his bar business increase each night in the short time she had been there. On her fourth night, three young managers from one of the local solicitors stopped in after work and sat at the bar. They were on their fifth round of drinks and deep in a very animated conversation when one of them, Roy Wooten gestured with his hands as Kim happened to be walking by. His hand brushed against her breast. Now Roy was usually very shy around women, especially for a reasonably good-looking young man and had he not been well under the influence of alcohol he would have never done what he did next. "Wow! What are you hiding under that leather jacket?" Roy asked his words slightly slurred. "Keep your hands off me and what's more you address me as Ma'am or else." Kim said very quietly and tried to turn and walk down to the other end of the bar. "Aw come on, honey, we just want to have some fun." Roy said and reached for her again. His hands never got to their intended target. Kim reached out and grasped his shirt front and tie in her right hand, pulling Roy towards her. Her left hand formed a capable looking fist and became a blur as she snapped in a short, powerful hook that smashed into Roy's jaw. CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!! Still holding his shirt in her right hand, she again smashed her left fist into Roy's jaw. CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!! He slumped unconscious in her grasp. Slowly she lowered him to the barstool and gently propped him up against the stool back. The whole event happened so fast that no one except for Roy's friends saw what happened. . "When he wakes up, I'll buy him a drink just to show that there are no hard feelings but he'd better behave himself the next time or I will break every bone in his body and bar him from this pub forever.", she told his friends. " He should be a lot more sober then." About twenty minutes later Roy started to stir. Kim stood in front of him with a small smile playing at the corners of her mouth. "I asked you not to touch me." she said in her low, throaty voice. " I had to hit you as you misbehaved and tried to touch me, I'm here to serve you drinks, talk to you, and laugh and have a good time, but not to touch. I expect customers to treat me with respect as well as obedience and to address me properly as Ma'am at all times My body is off limits unless I say otherwise!". Roy smiled ruefully at her as he rubbed his swelling jaw. "Well, you definitely made your point. I owe you an apology. I had a little too much to drink". While Roy was apologizing the Kim had wrapped some ice cubes in a towel. She handed it to him and said, "Put this on your jaw, it will help reduce the swelling and bruising. She brought him a cup of coffee, and picked up his beer glass.' . "I'll save this for the next time you come in. I think coffee is what you need tonight." Roy said, "I think you're right, I've had enough in more ways than one. What do you say we start over again, beginning with me? Apology.". He held out his hand. "My name is Roy Wooten." Kim's eyes held his in a steady gaze for several seconds, then she smiled and accepted his hand. "You can call me Kim I'm from Norseland which you can probably tell from my accent". she said as they shook hands. "What in the world did you hit me with, you sure pack a wallop.", he asked as he kept the towel wrapped ice pressed to his jaw. Kim smiled at him again. She seemed to smile a lot. "A Woman has to learn to take care of herself,", she said. Roy spent the next several minutes ignoring his friends and attempting to talk to Kim as she worked. She would give him no information about herself except that she came from Norseland where she was worked as a Personal Banker for a multi-billion bank called the Bank of Domination from a city called Dannesborg. She worked as a chambermaid during the day at the Premier Hotel in Nottingham .Roy finally gave up and asked for the bill. Kim returned with the bill and tore it up. "This on me," she said. "I think a sore jaw and a bruised ego is enough for you to pay for tonight." She handed him a fresh towel filled with ice cubes. "This is your one for the road." Roy thanked her, apologized again, for his behaviour and left with his friends. "He is quite sweet" Kim thought as he left the pub. She could tell that his friends were already kidding him unmercifully about being knocked out by a woman.! Roy told his buddies about his conversation with the beautiful Kim. He related everything she had told him', Although that was the story, she had given Roy and everyone else, she had not told him the whole truth. Kim also worked undercover for the Royal Overseas Judges the Norselandic Police Force that operated throughout the world She had been told by her Supervisor Judge Miranda Haarderqvist that large amounts cocaine was coming into the UK from Eastern Europe through the Roebuck Kim was one of a team of agents assigned to work the case trying to find out how the cocaine was being shipped. The Roebuck Inn appeared to be the perfect place to pick up information with of the location of the cocaine with its wide mix of customers. She had already heard snatches of conversations that possibly implicated a drug dealer of Albanian background. One way the cocaine was transported was to pick it up at East Midlands airport and bring it into Nottingham to the Roebuck where it would be sold in the bar itself by drug dealers from the city's cosmopolitan population. Kim diligently pursued any scrap of information that she could glean from the contacts she was starting to make at Mike's. Mike was thrilled with her. Since Kim had become a bartender business had improved markedly. The more customers who came in, the better for Mike's business and better for Kim to gather information. Slowly a pattern began to take shape and some names started to surface. Kim had developed a routine for each day. She had bought a membership in a gym or the other side of Nottingham so it would be unlikely that she would bump into any of the people from the area around the pub. She worked out very hard every day as she had at the Gym and Fitness Cantref back in Dannesborg She had a beautiful but very muscular body a result of years of athletics and weight lifting. Her legs were huge columns of muscle, her thighs forming large teardrops of muscle. Her belly was flat, hard, and rippling with abdominal muscles. Her back was wide and powerful, her chest deep and thick. Her shoulders were broad and capped with muscle. Her arms were massive as a Woman of her size. When extended her triceps looked like they would explode from under her skin and when she flexed them her biceps pumped into large, round, hard balls. With all that muscle most people thought she must have had breast implants because they were large with prominent nipples. They were wrong, however. She was just a "freak" of nature as Kim called it. She was skilled in all types of fighting arts and multilingual as well. All of that added to her fabulous looks made her a very special package, especially in her line of work. . Shortly after becoming an undercover agent for the ROJ she had helped break a major case. She also developed a reputation within the agency for interrogating drug dealers. When she finished with them, Kim always had the information she wanted and the drug dealers were usually candidates for the hospital and plastic surgery she beat them so badly. This was her first case after helping to bring in one of the biggest Colombian cartel members and his American contact when she worked in Miami also as a bartender She was anxious to bring this case to a close but that did not appear likely at the moment. So, Kim established her routine. When the Roebuck closed at 3:00AM she hung around trying to pick up additional information from the now inebriated patrons. Then she went to the flat she was renting and slept. In the early afternoon she would get up and eat breakfast while catching up on her paperwork and phone calls to potential informants and colleagues. After that she would head to the gym and work out. After the workout she would head back to her flat for a shower and change of clothes. She would have a quick dinner and head for the area around the Roebuck. She would make the rounds of other bars in the area searching for contacts or information until it was time to get to the Roebuck to work her shift, charming the customers and trying to gather any scrap of information that would help her investigation. TO BE CONTINUED Any suggestions to norselandic@hotmail.com