Chasing Truths

Four: Spilt Milk

Vick's Neon Tetras' are on  their slumber with their aquarium on night mode. Vick had to leave for days, sometimes weeks in which case her pet fishes are left without someone to take care for them and the main reason she installed an aquarium light to indicate a routine of day and night. She did create particular system for it. She has also put a systematic machine to feed the fishes and for checking their water.

The meeting was confirmed and mentioned in the memo via the receiver and by the time the message reached her she already arrived in her house. The meeting was briefly mentioned after the main intel that the sister headquarter was infiltrated. It was a massive news and even though it is difficult to grasp Vick hardly doubt the incident won't have ripples in the existing systems inside the association. 

Changes, adjustments, and eliminations. The only way an infiltration to have to successfully occur is from procuring a tip from their higher-ups or it could even be one of the higher-ups. There is no other way for an infiltration to happen if there's no leak of information. Their association has secure walls, rules and hold towards their workers that anyone of the outside couldn't possibly succeed if it attempted, probably they can if they tried many times. 

If they can they had to acquire knowledge from the inside itself. One of the reasons why she was hired to be just be that person is to delve inside the association. It is a very tricky mission coming from the government for a fact that she gets no information to give them about other secrets preferably confidential ones to give. For an officer like her, even the caliber of her skills does not hold much knowledge about the association and their deep works, but some big missions that were not written or known to the world are on her and those officers with the same rank as her, at their disposal. Just not the worst ones.

Currently, Vick can't sleep like her usual nights. Her mind was working and scheming reasons and motives. Idling, staring at the sleeping forms of her Neon Tetras' but not actually seeing them. She changed into a maroon plain shirt, running leggings, and picked her running shoes on the rack all the way out of her door. She was thinking deeply as she fixed the laces sitting in the steps by the door not minding the naturely sounds of the night.

She ended up not circling in the area of her property and managed to arrive by foot at Berk Park that she always passed by on the way to work. After swinging her body forward still thinking, and abruptly stopped the momentum of her feet when she started feeling dizzy, panting. Vick realized that she haven't eaten any food since the last one during lunch and remembered there's no supply at her house. She decides to do grocery first thing tomorrow. On her way she bought bananas to aid her empty stomach. By the time she arrived home she rests for a while outside to see the skies and concluded it will rain and then finally prepared to sleep after a few minutes just staring to nothing. Coming to no conclusions with her thoughts and only speculations.

It didn't rain. It was bright outside the next morning and it perked her spirits. She did grocery early the morning and brought the supplies inside the HQ for awhile.

"Good morning," Marie greeted who Vick greeted back.

"Today will be a long day," Vick to herself.

The headquarter was buzzing off even from the halls of officers hurrying off all mumbling mixes about codes, files, missions, and all about the recent ordeal of the association. The HQ was especially spirited as well and folks are visibly extra talkie today. Saw Qethan with blank expression in the elevator on his way to the top floor. Must be hard to be a ranker's assistant. She don't really know for sure.

She went straight to her department's floor. People are busy as she expected and she saw her colleagues wearing varying expressions. She slowly approach them but remembered the supplies she was carrying and settled them first unto the pantry area way back of the main floor.