Dreams That I Have

Project Beta

This is unedited. Hope y'all enjoy. This is a White Collar/Fifth Harmony crossover. It might become a story later on but who knows.

Eliza's POV:

I walk into Dad's office with Mom. I don't understand why I've been called in. Mom didn't say.

"What are you two doing here? Dad questions when he looks up from the file.

"We were called in." Mom replies.

"By who?"

"Me."

We all look up at Amanda Callaway standing by the rail.

"Amanda?"

"Hello Elizabeth."

"You two know each other?" Dad questions.

"We went to school together." Mom states.

I can sense the tension between Mom and Callaway.

"Why am I here?" I question the blonde.

"I've heard from sources that you're good at getting kids to open up. We have a six year old witness that nobody can get to talk. We need you to get her talking."

The source has to be Tess. She's an NYPD detective that Dad worked with on a case involving a younge witness about a year ago. Since then she's asked me for my help with a few cases involving children.

"I'll give it a shot but I make no promises, Agent Callaway. Were is your witness?"

"In the conference room. Your father can take you to her." She says and then returns to her office and closes the door.

Dad looks at me.

"Sources?"

"Probably Tess." I shrug.

"What are you wearing?"

"A crop top."

"Is that school appropriate?"

"Everybody is wearing them Dad." I roll my eyes.

I'm still mad about him missing my last basketball game. He was as always busy with a case. To busy to show up for me.

"So are you gonna take me to this witness or not?" I ask.

I'd rather not be here any longer than necessary especially if an agent has noticed that my biologicaal parents have returned to the city. They've been to a few of my basketball games.

You may be wondering how I know what my biological parents look like when they gave me up for adoption when I was four months old. Well, I had Tess look them up. They're suspected of running a crime syndicate.

"Follow me."

I follow Dad up the stairs to the conference room. I grab his arm before he opens the door.

"Give me a run down of the case."

"Her parents were murdered and she witnessed it."

"She can identify the killer."

"Yeah."

"You don't work murder cases. What did they steal?"

"An expensive painting."

I nod.

"Let's do this then."

Dad opens the door and we walk in. Diana is sitting at the table and she looks over at us. She spots us and points to the corner farthest away from us.

I release a deep breath before rounding the table. I sit down on the floor in front of the girl but leave a bit of distance between us. She has her knees pulled to her chest and her arms wrapped around her legs. Her eyes are red and puffy.

"Hi sweetheart. My name is Eliza. What's your name?"

"Seraphina."

"That's a really pretty name."

"Thanks."

"Seraphina can I talk to you about what happened today?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

I had a feeling she was gonna say that. Well I'm about to make her a promise that I hope can be kept.

"You see that man over there?" I point over my shoulder at Dad and she nods. "That's my dad and he's really good at his job. If anybody can catch the person that did this it's him. I promise."

"My dad was a cop too." She says softly.

What? Dad left that part out.

"So can you tell me what happened?"

She looks like she's contemplating it.

"Me, Mom, and Dad were in the kitchen having breakfast when somebody knocked on the door. Dad went to the door to see who it was and then he ran back into the kitchen and told Mom and me to hide in the closet. Mom took me to the closet in the living room I got in but Mom didn't before the door was kicked open. I heard yelling and peeked out of the closet. There was a man and a woman arguing with Dad and then the woman pulled out a gun. The man disappeared and I heard his footsteps on the stairs. He was up there for a little bit before coming back down. He had a file in his hand so he must have been in my Dad's office. He showed the file to the woman and then she shot my parents." Seraphina sniffles. "The man handed the file to the woman and then he took the painting above the fireplace down and they left."

"Did they say anything?"

"When they came in they kept asking Dad what he knew about project beta."

I look over my shoulder at dad and Diana as they look at each other. Something is up. I return my attention to Seraphina.

"Can you describe what they look like?"

"He was wearing a Joker costume without the makeup and she was in a Harley Quinn costume."

"Did you see their faces?" I ask.

"Yeah."

"Do you think you could describe them to a sketch artist?"

She nods.

"Okay. We're gonna get someone in here."

"Will you stay with me?"

"Yeah. Just let me step outside with my dad for a minute and I'll be right back. Do you want anything to eat or drink?"

"Can I have fries and a soda?"

"Of course sweetheart."

I stand up and exit the room followed by dad and Diana. I go down the steps where mom and the rest of Dad's team stand. I spin around and fix dad with a glare.

"So you're hiding things from me know?"

"You didn't need to know about the case file."

I pinch the bridge of my nose between my thumb and index finger with a sigh.

"So do we know who we're looking for?" Jones questions.

"The Joker and Harley Quinn." I reply. "I hate Halloween. Seraphina is gonna sit with a sketch artist. You and your boss used me to find out what case file was missing. I don't like being used Dad."

"I didn't know she was going to call you."

I roll my eyes.

"What's gonna happen to Seraphina?" I question.

"Her aunt is going to come get her." Diana responds.

I nod. At least she'll be with family and not some group home.

"I'm gonna sit with Seraphina until her aunt gets here. Might want to get some food. I get cranky when I'm hungry."

I don't wait for dad to respond and I head back up the stairs to the conference room.

Time to text my girlfriend and tell her I'll be late.

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