Scars of the past

Lecture

I woke up in the same bed with George and the twins and for a few seconds I was able to enjoy what would be a normal morning seeing the three of them in bed with me, a flame of happiness lit in my heart, but soon a flood of reality brought me back and I remembered that it would be a heavy and intense day. I got up slowly so as not to wake the twins, but I woke George, who got up gently too. I went around the bed and headed towards the bags to change, when a hand pulled me by the waist making me take two steps backwards, until my body collided with his, his strong arms wrapped around my body, I felt his bare chest on my back, and his face resting his chin on my shoulders.

"Good morning, my princess." George said whispering in my ear, and then kissed me on the neck.

"Good Morning." I replied, turning my face and pressing a kiss to his lips. "I missed it so much."

We changed clothes and I knocked on the door of my parents' adjoining room, and after hearing a positive signal, I opened it to find my father still in his pajamas and wearing his glasses, glued to his laptop looking for more clues.

"Mr. Director looking for clues early." I said joking with him, my dad looked up laughing.

"Rare, I know, but look what I found."

My dad turned his laptop over and I could see several open cases, and one of them in particular was a case led by Angus and Angelic, right before Mahamud showed up at the station and made me leave. It was a hitman case, and they were starting to dig up the Agent Muller case, and me getting them out of Delta, I got the case closed, whatever Henry wanted.

"More and more clues, more and more lead us closer and closer that Henry really is up to his neck in this."

"But it's all circumstantial, nothing concrete yet." George said rubbing his neck.

"Perhaps Angus and Angelic can help us, I contacted them to dig up this investigation, now knowing where to really look... Henry." My dad said, and knowing he was accusing his friend I knew it was getting very serious.

"I think that in order to act more clearly, unfortunately, we need to get the twins out of here." George said staring at me. "I think you should go with them and your mother somewhere safe, I'll stick with your father to settle this."

"As much as I don't want to be away from them, I can't, I need to be here, I'm the center of this." I said as my heart already clenched knowing that I needed to let the kids go for their safety, I had never been away from them before.

"And as much as I want you all to be as safe as possible, Nina's right, she needs to stay, she would have the lecture, and I think that's all about that too." My dad said taking off his glasses and leaning back in his chair.

"Mom, I think you should go back to headquarters with them." I said turning to her.

"Let's wait for them to wake up and I'll take the jet straight there."

A beep on my father's laptop interrupted our conversation, it was Angus calling, my father answered with a video call.

"Sir, we found several files on a system called "Block lock" that we don't have access to, old information."

"Block lock, it is all old case files that weren't even transcribed into digital, they are missions from my early days at the agency, but I have the code to open, I will grant you access."

"Ok thanks, as soon as we have more information we'll let you know."

Angelic and Angus were following the investigation at headquarters, with physical files as well. I had a mental snap to get the information into my software, it could process the data and maybe put it together and tell the whole story.

I got in touch with Clarck, and using our software we started cross-referencing the cases, with Henry and with Mahamud, and I remembered that Clarck said how difficult it was to find and block the file with the information of all the agents, police and feds, not knowing where it came from, but now knowing Henry's connection with Mahamud, it was probably his access. I let Clarck work his magic, meanwhile we got the twins ready and they would go straight to the airport with my mother and a few other agents, it hurt so much to see them leave, I had never spent a day away from them. Once ready, George and I bent down to say goodbye to them:

"Children pay attention, Mom and Dad will need to stay with Grandpa here, but you'll be going home with Grandma, soon we'll all find you. Is that okay?" I said already wiping the tears that ran down my cheeks.

"Are we going to see Dad again?" Junior asked me with wide eyes, and the question was enough to make me cry even harder.

"Yes they will, dad will always be with us from now on. We'll always live together, I promise." I answered and I saw George get emotional too.

"Daddy loves you, and soon we'll see each other again and I won't let go of you ever again." he said apertating them, and after many hugs they left with my mother.

The morning stretched and flew by, the lecture was after lunch, we were running out of time and no hard evidence, until Angus called again.

"Sir, you won't believe this, but it's all here, all the connection, from the time you served the Agency together, Henry was already involved in the murders for hire, I sent what I could to Clarck and the three of us are going to go there and take the evidence necessary, we will close hundreds of old unresolved cases at once."

"Angus, tell Clarck not to stop trying to block the file that is in Mahamud's hands, we need to put an end to this today."