The Double Mob Job

Chapter 5: Secrets Revealed

Chapter Five: Secrets Revealed

The next morning I finished putting my room together, though the bed was already put together and under the window like I wanted it. Today Sophie was taking me to get stuff for the living room, curtains, my TV and laptop. Today was also the day the whole team would hear my story. The shopping only took a few hours and Hardison got to work installing my locks and making my apartment a smart home. Meaning I could work it all from my phone, even though it was disposable.

Hardison got me the coolest TV and laptop and helped me set them up. I would love to play with them, but today was the day I spoke to the whole team. It was now or never. I paced around my apartment as Hardison was working on putting the locks on the door. "You all right Nikki?" he asked using a nick name for my new name.

"I'm nervous, today is the day I tell my story Hardison. It's a horrible long tale. If I hadn't met Eliot sixteen years ago I wouldn't be here talking to you. I would be dead," I said fighting back tears.

"What exactly did Eliot do to save your life?" Hardison asked looking up from the door.

"He was there for me at a time when no one else was," I replied leaving the room. I needed to do something else to get my mind off what I was going to talk about. I headed for the kitchen in the restaurant to cook.

Eliot's POV

I was walking up to the apartments to see if Fal- Nikki was up there. She had told me last night that she was going to tell everyone her story. She had fallen asleep on my lap while I was sitting on the sofa. I didn't have the heart to move her or leave. She would need me. If it were possible I would just let her tell me then relay it to everyone else, but if the team had questions about how to do this job we were going to do she would have to be there. She would also have to be part of this con if we were to be successful.

I noticed Hardison working on installing locks on her door. She had the lock on the door knob, dead bolt, finger print and breath lock. It seemed like over kill but when you've done the things that she and I have done there was no such thing as paranoia or over kill on security. "Hardison," I growled. He looked up at me. "Where is F-Nikki?" I caught myself for a second time in five minutes calling her by her birth name. She would need me to stop calling her Fallon to move on. She needed to bury Fallon to

become Dominique Dikeledi Griffin. "Where is she?" I asked.

"I think she went to the kitchen," Hardison said going back to the locks. I turned to walk away, "hey Eliot?" I turned to look at him.

"What Hardison?" I growled.

"I'll need you later for the finger print and breath lock. She wants it programmed so you can come in. She'll have to give you the code to the key pad though," Hardison said working with a screw driver. I nodded walking away. I went down to the kitchen in the restaurant. I found Nikki down there cooking about five different dishes, cutting up some veggies and yelling for runners. She always was a multi-tasker.

"Nikki! What are you doing down here?" I asked.

"Focusing on anything but my past because here shortly that's all I'm going to be focused on for a few hours." She turned to a shelf above where she was cutting up veggies and slammed her open hand on the table, "Runners!" She turned back to the stove.

Nikki's(Fallon's) POV

I spent a few hours in the kitchen with Eliot helping me cook. He knew I would need him. The things I had survived made some of what Eliot been through look like child's play. "Hey Eliot," I said turning over the stake I was cooking before turning to the omlet I was making.