Waving an AirPod case at them, Pope explained, "I plant my phone in his car, and then we listen on your AirPods. Say something." He held the speaker up to Kie to test out the device. 
"Something." Kie spoke. 
"Okay, we have audio." Pope confirmed, making the first act of their plan a success in terms of spy ware. 
Pope was at the forefront of all of their planning and it seemed like everything was moving accordingly. Peering over at him, Collins chuckled. "You weren't joking about the whole ghost recon thing, were you?"
"Not when it comes to freeing John B." Pope responded, looking out the window before pointing ahead of them. "Wait, stop. I think that's his house right there."
Kie brought the car to a slow halt on the shoulder of the street, sitting just across from the house so to not make it look obvious that they were basically staking the place. It looked so normal. Collins didn't know why she figured it'd be nicer for a guy who worked as a private pilot for one of Kildare's biggest real estate developers. 
"Don't do anything dangerous." Kie said, looking at Pope with a serious look in her eyes as he was preparing to leave. It was her way of saying 'be safe' without actually saying the words and wanting to roll her own eyes at herself. 
"Don't worry, I'm not JJ." Pope sniped with a soft chuckle, earning himself a glare from the blond boy in the backseat. 
"Funny, Pope." JJ shot back sarcastically. "Love the little double date thing we have going on. It's so fun."
Pope disappeared out of the car before they could engage in more back and forth banter, slipping through the bushes to sneak over to the driveway. As he moved out of their view, they all took to their jobs as lookout for their friend, scanning the area to ensure that no one would stumble across Pope in the midst of planting his phone in the stranger's car. 
"He's been waiting for this moment his whole life." Collins said, peering out the window with her head resting against the glass. "Living out his Mission Impossible dreams."
"How's it been going, by the way? You know, with Pope and all?" JJ inquired, quirking his brow at Kie in her rear view mirror.
"It's good." She answered shortly, giving them absolutely nothing in elaboration. Collins and JJ exchanged sly glances with each other out of the corner of their eyes. 
They'd sort of been ruminating on the status of their two friends for a while now. JJ had his intel and so did Collins, but both of them knew that neither one of them could ever go back to their friends and relay what was said by the second party. And so they meddled, but they tried not to play a hand in a game that wasn't theirs to play. Shifting in her seat, Collins continued, "Yeah, but, by good, you mean what exactly?"
Before Kie could reply, JJ interjected, "Is he like, kinda freaky in the bedroom 'cause it's Pope?" Clearly, JJ's curiosity was a bit more specific than Collins's was and his questioned only reflected just how off track they were. Forget being on different pages, JJ was on a whole other book. 
"That was in fact, not at all what I was asking." 
Finally twisting in her seat, Kie faced him with a scowl formed across her expression. "Collins, can you shock him? Or flick him on the nose? Anything to control your dog."