Countess Basset was glad that this whole mess of a mole being in MI 5 was over with. Her little sister will be taking her team back to America and be on vacation for a while. She had to work late and was walking to her car when she hears a familiar voice come from the shadows.
“You couldn’t leave things alone, could you? You and your freak of a daughter are a disgrace to this institution.”
Countess Basset slowly turns around to face the person. As she faces the person, a smirk appears on her face. She looks directly at Lord Alexander Windsor. She hasn’t seen him in years.
“So, you were behind this whole mess all along. Why ain’t I surprised?” The Countess slowly slides her hand to her concealed handgun.
Lord Alexander walks forward towards Countess Basset. He couldn’t believe this Irish slut and the people she brought in were able to ruin his carefully laid plans. How did she learn about there being a mole in the agency?
“I should have killed you and your freaky daughter when I had the chance.” He looks at her with hatred in his eyes.
“Well, like my brothers always say. There no time but the present to handle things.” As she fires her gun at him.
Her brothers weren’t the only ones who could be sneaky. She walks over and kneels next to Lord Alexander “you should have blown me up instead of facing me as you did.”
Countess Basset stands up and pulls out her cellphone to call for a meat wagon. She looks down at Lord Alexander and she should have known he was behind everything. He’s had it out for his relatives for a long time.
She waits around till the paramedics show up. She knows there was going to be some explaining to do, but that shouldn’t be a problem.
Alexa’s Garage:
Terry and Alexa had gotten the drone back to Alexa’s shop. He looks at the design of the drone and was impressed with the design. The crystal-clear body, electric motor, and special design propeller would cut down on the sound detection of the drone.
“He did a good job on building this drone.” Terry looks at Alexa as she jumps down from inside her box truck.
“Yes, he did, but the fool didn’t encrypt his signal. If he had, you would have been forced to destroy it.” Alexa couldn’t believe a smart person like that would forget something so simple.
“True, let’s get to work dissecting this thing and see how it was programmed.” Terry pulls out her laptop and camera as he and Alexa dig into the drone.
Alexa couldn’t believe how the microdrones that were loaded in the drone had been loaded with a liquid explosive. She had to be careful with those. When it came to the other liquid explosive, she had to be careful, because there was enough binary liquid in the warhead to blow her,
Terry and the shop up and leave a nice carter in its place.
They stop occasionally, to see how Carl Herman connected or fitted something. The electric motor was easy enough for Carl to get his hands on. So, were the batteries to and solar cell.
Alexa and Terry only stop long enough to eat and afterward they go back to work on the drone. By the time morning comes around, Terry was sore from bending around and under the drone. He glances over towards the table where Alexa had been sitting and notices she had her head resting on her arms and was sound asleep. A smile forms on Terry’s face as he scoops Alexa up and takes her to the spare bedroom she had over the garage. His place was across from the main garage.
He shuts the door gently and heads over towards his room. He doesn’t bother undressing as he lays down to get some shuteye. He knew the rest of the team would be leaving at the end of the week. He would follow with Wraith next week. The cab’s computer system has already been backed up and prepped to be shipped back to her family garage to be fixed. Nobel and Anika’s Jaguar was going back with them. Plus, Wraith and she thinks Hatter wants to take one of her vans back with her.
Hatter and Dakota’s Safehouse:
Hatter looks over the van she has been using since being back in England. She leaves a note for Dakota and takes off in the middle of the night. She heads out to the private cemetery where her mother is buried.
She gets out and goes directly to where her mother’s family crypt. When she walks in, she finds her mothers and her own. When her father had her declared dead, he had her supposed remains place next to her mother’s. she places her hand on her mother’s name.
“I miss you mom and I know you know dad lied about me being dead. I don’t know if you are proud of me or not, but I do miss you and I love you.” Tears stream down from her eyes as she lays on the cold concrete and cry.
Dakota watches from the shadows. She heard the doors open and Hatter driving off. She found the letter and followed her on her motorcycle. She couldn’t let anything bad happen to Hatter or let her get arrested either.
She wanted to go over and pick Hatter up and hold her in her arms. However, she didn’t because Hatter wanted to do this in private and she didn’t want to interfere in that. She watches Hatter until she stops crying. When Hatter leaves the crypt and starts heading back towards where they were staying.
Dakota walks over towards Hatter’s mother nameplate “we’ll take care of your baby. She is also growing up to be a fine young woman.”
Dakota walks back to her motorcycle and heads back towards their safehouse. They were leaving next week, along with Anika, the girls, Shigeko and Bart. She keeps a safe distance back away from Hatter. The thing is, what will Hatter want to do when they get back home? She thinks about it as she follows Hatter.
Bart, Anika, Shigeko and the girls:
“It’s nice having everyone homes for dinner.” Shigeko had cooked dinner for everyone, with Julia’s help.
Laila was watching her big sister and was sitting next to Bart. She was excited that they were heading to Texas. They enjoyed talking to Bart’s wife Caroline. They couldn’t wait to meet her in person.
Shigeko already has plans and told Anika not to call her. Mia was doing a fine job of doing her work. She wanted to spend a week with her husband.
Anika looks over towards the girls “so, are you girls ready to become American citizens?”
“Yes, ma’am.” Julia looks towards Anika.
“I’m going to miss England.” Laila wonders if she could come back or will come back.
“Don’t worry, Laila you’ll be allowed to come back when you get older. How about next summer we come back for a visit?” Bart looks at the girls.
“Really?” Julia would love that.
“Yes, really. We’ll come back as a family.” Bart knew his wife would love that.
“Cool.” Julia was happy.
“What are going to do, Anika?” Bart looks towards his friend.
“Spend time with my boyfriend and introduce Hatter to him. I know Hatter might feel uncomfortable being around him, but I want my boyfriend to meet him.” Anika wanted the two to meet.
“You’re not going back to work?” Shigeko looks at Anika.
“No, I’ll be back at work too. Jack would kill me if I didn’t show back up. I’ve been kept up on what has been going on. Jack said he’ll be in New York to finish up on a deal.”
“What did he buy now?” Bart wonder what Jack was buying now.
“Who knows, knowing Jack. But he did say he’ll be in New York when we land.” Anika was surprised her brother was going to be there.
“I wonder if Gina is going to be with him?” Bart knew she normally traveled with her father.
“Who’s Gina?” Julia and Laila were curious.
“She’s Jack’s second oldest daughter. She and her sister are Jack’s oldest daughters and have wolves for bodyguards.”
“They have wolves for bodyguards?” Laila wonders what they look like.
“Yep, he breeds wolves, like most people breed dogs and cat. Me personally, cats are easier to take care.”
“Not if you don’t clean their litter box.” Bart hates cats. He was a horse person.
The rest of the dinner goes by quietly. After dinner, Shigeko brings in the desert. She sets it in the middle of the table.
“I called my husband for this recipe. I think it came out alright.” As she starts cutting it into slices and serves it.
Mouse:
Mouse took a cab home since her mother was working late. It had been an exhausting day at work. Not only did she had to write a report up for her involvement in finding the mole. Also, she had a few computers that she had to reset because someone had open emails containing a virus inside a picture.
She had to custom write an anti-virus program for it. Once, the infected computers were fixed she had them placed back on the network. Once she had everyone up and running. She sent the anti-virus program she wrote out to eliminate anyone else’s computer that had been infected.
Mouse heads into the kitchen to fix herself something to eat. She had her tablet out, just in case someone at work needed to get hold of her.
Once her dinner is ready, she sits down to enjoy a movie and her dinner.
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Tying up loose ends
There are always a few loose ends that have to be taken care of when a job is completed. One major end was the person behind it all, who now isn't going anywhere soon.
In this chapter Hatter was shown to have a side she vehemently guards against being seen by others. She does this because of her extreme lack of trust after what she was put through as a child. Dakota seeing this side of her let her know there is hope that Hatter can be helped, if anyone can get Hatter to lower her shields.
Everyone involved in this operation will need extended down time in order to process what they experienced, come to terms with it, or get help to deal with those aspects still bothering them.
Others have feelings too.