David Caden sat next to a hospice bed and held the hand of his lover, Mike Cera.  They had been together for over three years.  Mike learned he was HIV positive six months into the relationship.  David was tested, he too was positive.  Mike’s case was more advanced.  He was showing the signs of the advanced state of AIDS.  He had gone progressively down hill for the last two years, the first medication that helped even a little was prescribed a year ago.  Last month the new AIDS bill prohibited the insurance company from continuing to pay for the drug.  Without the drug, Mike’s condition worsened quickly.   Two weeks later he was gone.  David was devastated.  A week passed and he barely left the apartment they had shared but to go to work. 

On the way home on one evening, three weeks after Mike’s death David saw the headline on a news stand, “President’s wife and daughters to dedicate local wildlife sanctuary.”   He picked up a paper.  As he read the article anger welled up in him.  They could spend millions on birds and rabbits but nothing on people.  He read the article with interest.  The President’s wife would be there for the dedication.  His daughters would accompany her.  The dedication was to be followed by a dinner at which she would be the featured speaker.  They would be staying over night.  In this town there was only one hotel.  Finding where they would stay would be easy.  He read on.  A plan was formed.  He slept little that night.

David was a civil engineer and had been employed for over ten years by the city in the building codes division.  At work the next day he pulled the records of the Hotel.  It took only a few minutes to find what he wanted.  There was only one suite the president’s family would stay in, the executive suite.  It had one great room off the hall, three bedrooms, a sitting room and an office off the great room.  According to the plans there were two entrances to the suite, the main one from the hall and an entrance from the second best suite in the hotel, an office between them had a door to the executive suite’s office.   The layout was as he expected.  His plan would work.  The president would pay dearly for Mike’s death.