James & Caffrey

Chapter Thirty Nine - Neal Steal this

Jones was giving us a briefing on what Neal was supposed to acquire for the Pink Panthers. It was a stamp and thats all he knew is that this was his assignment.

"This is the Treskilling Yellow. A Sweedish stamp from 1855. Now, it's usually printed in blueish green. But someone made a mess up one day and made a small print run in yellow" Jones explained

"An error printing. Extremely sought after in the collectables world." Neal added

"Yeah well, there are only two of these stamps left  in existence, and one of them was sold a few years ago to a private collector for $2.3 million" Jones continued

"None of my stamps were worth more than 60 cents." Peter commented

"It's a stamp a really old stamp and this is your excitement? Oh that is a sugar drop if a ever did see one. Twin of the Hope diamond next a stamp." i held out my arms for once really baffled

"We've found your kryptonite ." Neal joked "The one case Kara doesn't feel the adrenaline rushing." I stuck my tongue out at him

"The other specimen, the one Woodford is after is being actioned off my this woman, Bianca Esteverena, 32, and immigrant from Argentina. Now her father left the family when she was five. So she was raised by her Grandfather, a Professor who laundered art stolen during World War 2." Jones showed us her picture

"Nazi profiteers sounds like a sweet family." Peter commented

"Yeah seems as if Grandpa Esteverena taught his granddaughter the ropes of the business 'cause now she's the Southerbys of the black market." Jones added

"Thieves bring her stolen art. She actions it off and takes a healthy cut"

"Exactly the actions are opulent, organised and incredibly secure. These events are totally secret. We have zero intel on where these events go down or what what the security looks like."

"We did however get a warrant for Bianca's phone records. She screens any potential client in person before sending them an invite to the auction. The text messages we intercepted show she's vetting five new clients today." I added to the conversation

"Now most of the individuals are highly visible and would be difficult to impersonate because Bianca does her research. But we got lucky." Diana smiled and Jones clicks onto the next slide

"This guys a different story Nathaniel Ditrick comes from an incredibly private family in orange county. Put it this way there are more photos of big foot than of him. It's even hard to find photos of his family because they're camera shy." Jones continued

"Dietrich left California when he was 18 all we know is that he's spent years in the turks and canto's drinking, spending his family's money." I roll my eyes

"And now he's back and wants to take over the family business."

"The prodigal son returns." Neal comments

"He arrived back at JFK Today at noon. He's set to meet Bianca in a cafe at three." I summarised

"He's not going to be there. Let's have airport security pick him up when he comes off the plane" Peter stated

"Keep him busy with a interrogation." Diana added

"In the Meantime..." Peter trailed off

"Say hello to Nathaniel Dietrich, playboy extrodinare ." Neal smirked

"If your playing a playboy, I will need to hold onto your jewellery, heartbreaker." I held out my hand. He sighs and removes his wedding ring handing it over. Don't worry I will keep it safe." I took of my necklace and looped it through  onto the chain then fixed it back around my neck.

"Good Luck." I walked out of the conference room and back to my desk.

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I was fixing up Neal's bowtie he was going to an event with Peter who was playing his Dad.

"You do know that the two of us should milk even Mom and Dad reference to Elizabeth and Peter for as much as possible right. It would be rude not to. There." I finished fixing it

"Yeah, you're right. I'm gonna lead with that. Which make you their daughter in law." I laugh and grab his jacket

"How funny is it to watch Peter play Grandpa. It sucks that I'm missing it." I pout handing him his jacket 

"Not as amusing as you would think. But it does let me off a few hooks since Bianca is more intrested in him." I hummed and then Thea started to cry.

"Okay, you go and please take as many cheap shots as possible. Love you." I give him a sweet kiss.

"Love you too." I head into the nursery to sort Thea out

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Thea was ill and I didn't want to leave her so I had some time off. Neal was off making sure his deal to get the Panthers was not a lost cause. Which probably meant causing some trouble. Which he did and the next night he returned he was a lot more in the know.

"So Keller is working for Interpol. Well I have to admit that's kind of ingenious." I comment wiping, Thea's nose. "But Keller would never go clean he's more slippery than you are. He's has another plan."

"That's what I think. But in better news." He pulled out the contract  "The attorney general signed it."

"They did that's great." I smile

"I see you smiling but it's not your normal smile. What is it?" he wonders and I exhale loudly

"It's probably nothing. I just, in all the time I've worked for the Beauru, and been apart of it. I've never had this sinking feeling of something wrong. Yet hearing they signed it. That's all I feel. I helped write it and they signed it and that's great but I feel like something is going to ruin it." I shake my head "Like I said probably nothing." I brush off

"Yeah Probably nothing." he repeated "Elizabeths pregnant. Peter told me."

"Oh my god. That's amazing news."

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