Dead Men Don't Press Buttons

"No, you weren't supposed to press that button! You weren't supposed to even be near it!" *frantically presses other buttons* "What on God's green earth possessed you to press it?!"

"It was an accident!"...................... "What happens now?"

"Well, for starters, I get to call the President and tell him that this was all just a false alarm. Then I get to silently and respectfully listen to him chew me out for being reckless. Then I'll do the same while he threatens to shoot me or have me incarcerated if it happens again. Heaven forbid I tell him it was you who pressed the button and not me."

"Why can't you tell him it was me?"

"Because, oh dearest friend, you're supposed to be dead. Dead men don't press buttons that start nuclear wars."

"Oh."

And that was the end of it...

 And that was the end of it. The mission was over. Now they would go their separate ways, not seeing or speaking to each other until the next mission. It was better that way. No attachments. Just meet, get the job done, and go home.It was safer too. If one person was captured or compromised, they could give very little information on their associates. Yes, it made trust a little hard; but that was they way it had to be.