What's stolen

The meeting

Julia had been right, as she always is. It didn't take Player long to contact her once more, telling her that ivy and Zack wants to see her. Glancing to the side, Carmen could see the satisfied smile on Julia's lips when she realizes what the hacker wanted. With a shake of her head, Carmen had told him what to do, told him what he should tell the twins and then tell them about the meeting place, a meeting place that wasn't her mothers' place. Because that's where she has hidden away Julia.

She might have acted confident about bringing Julia with her to see her mother, but deep down she had been worried. She knew she didn't really have anything to be worried about, she knew the two ladies well, but the fact remained and Player's teasing about it earlier had her worried. She was taking her girlfriend home with her to meet with her mother so early in. It did however turn out that she didn't have to worry at all, her mother and Julia got along well directly from the start.

Which had made it much easier to leave Julia with her mother when she went to meet with her old team. She had reached the destination for her meeting almost an hour early, some habits and training seemed hard to get ride of. Looking around herself, Carmen took in every single person that is walking around her. The weather is warm, which meant a lot of activity on the streets, which was both good and bad in this moment.

It meant she could talk to Ivy and Zack alone, not having people look at them if they were to be past by. But with this many people around, it was also hard to know if anyone else is hiding within the sea of people. Shaking the feeling of worry for now, Carmen tries to tell herself that so far VILE haven't been able to locate where she has been for the past two years and all she could do now is hope they haven't now.

Finding a spot where she could keep a good eye on the location and a spot that was also heavy with shadow, Carmen moves towards it. All she could do now is it wait.

She didn't see them, but she heard them. Opening her eyes, Carmen realizes she most have zoned out for a while. Which wasn't good, not where she had been standing. Looking around herself, her eyes lands on the twins and she starts to smile.

"So why isn't she here?"

"How should I know?"

Rolling her eyes, Carmen moves from her hiding spot. It's a good thing that they haven't lost the ability to argue like that since joining ACME. Moving towards them, Carmen make sure that she walks so that they can see her, however, someone else did.

"Le femme rouge!"

Hearing Chase voice, hearing the old nickname, Carmen blinks out of surprise and her eyes lands on the person who her his grates enemy. How she had missed seeing him was beyond her and she was surprised that he was even there, Player had forgotten to mention that part. But she can't stop the smile. It was after all good that he is there, this test was for him too after all.

Looking towards Ivy and Zack once more, Carmen can see that they have now located her, mostly thanks to Chase and they are smiling big towards her.

"So, Player told me you guys really needed to talk."

She speaks up as she reaches them, acting as if she has no idea of why they are here or for what reason. Seeing how the happiness disappears from the three faces in front of her, Carmen puts on her best worried looking face.

"What's wrong?"

She asks and starts to look around herself, acting as if she just now realizes that something or someone is missing.

"Where's Jules?"

She asks, looking back at agents in front of her. Seeing how they look at one another, even trying to force one another to tell her what is going on, Carmen adds to the worry act.