Blue Hour

16.

A few days after I sat in the living room with Chris and Kat. They said they already forgive me. I was a little drunk. The house was extremely silent.

"So we decided to shut down the base." Chris said out of the blue.

"For real?"

"Yeah." Kat said.

"That's what Haley wanted right?" Chris asked. "She wanted to dismiss the rest of the gang so we did, except for a few guards. It's not like we have much weapons left so we decided to lock down the base."

"What about your stuff there?"

"We thought of clearing it out today." Kat said and stood up to go grab a glass of water.

"Can I come?"

"Of course you-" A phone buzzed. "Is that Haley's?" Chris had his eyes widened.

I was just as shocked when I saw her phone ringing beside mine on the sofa right next to me. I don't know how fast I reacted I simply grabbed her phone to see an unknown number. I didn't think twice before picking it up.

"Hello?" What kind of hope was it that I had in my voice?

"Hello?" It was a shaky little voice on the other side. "Daddy?"

"Lizzy?" That name just slipped off my tongue. I got lost in the call.

"Daddy is that you?" Was she crying? Something shattered inside me. I didn't know what I was hoping to hear on the phone I wasn't even disappointed to her the little girl.

"Lizzy I told you this is not his number. You have a wrong number-"

"She's hurting me Haley!" She knows she was talking to Haley? "No... MOM!!! IT HURTS-" and the line went beep.

"Lizzy!?" I felt stupid calling out when I knew the call was already ended. Silence was heavy for a moment until Chris yelled, "Kayden!" Chris grabbed my shoulder. "What the fuck was that?"

"Who's Lizzy?"

The mission!

"Chris! We need to find something in her office!"

Less than an hour later I was pulling through her paper work. They were all neatly stacked. Every single one was sealed 'completed' I went to her desk opened her drawers one by one. I found old polaroids of her, their father, the two of us. I was feeling dizzy with the alcohol I had on the way here. I've developed a habit of it again, I want it to numb the pain but shit just doesn't go away.

I opened the last drawer to find two files. The first was labeled 'Quinn's' the second was labeled 'Lizzy'

"I found it!" I said and Kat came running.

"Kayden can you at least explain what this is all about?"

"Okay. Okay." I flipped through the file to find birth certificates, a tiny picture of a baby girl and a family photo. I kept reading the details on the paper. Nothing much in the file. Just like she said, she could even handle this alone.

"Kayden! Hello!" Kat waved infront of my face snapping her fingers.

"Yeah sorry!" I flipped through again. The surname caught my eye. "The day before the mission she told me she had one more mission to complete and she could even handle it alone." I looked at her who was leaning on the desk. "I saw her place these two files inside and they were supposed to be her last two missions. One to take down Quinn and the other was to find Lizzy's dad."