Unhackable (Elliot Alderson/Mr. Robot)

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A/N Chapter song: "One way or another" by Until the ribbon breaks
I'm writing this with no real thought process, so POV's shift. I'm trying to narrow down who's POV I like writing for. xD

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Thalia POV
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The next few days passed by uneventfully. After further investigation, no other information about my Facebook hacker was found.
Cross tried backtracking all IP addresses at Allsafe to see if there's a data trap somewhere to find the person, but nothing came of it. Whoever it was, wanted to remain anonymous.

The day before Angela's party had rolled around, and I still remain adamant that the bubbly blonde was responsible for the hack. She's the only person trying too hard to get me to talk to her.There's just no one else besides her idiot boyfriend who had bothered paying me that much attention.  There was the small possibility that Ollie was faking being a dumbass, but the more I started watching him, the more that just didn't seem likely.

It's a little after four in the afternoon, and I'm allowing a fellow hacker known only as The Enchantress to double-check to see if they can find a loophole in finding the hacker's URL. I was hopeful there was a chance that Cross has just been extremely busy and he wasn't putting in too much effort to find my hacker. It was a long shot, but worth a try.



I don't know the Enchantress' actual name. All I know is the tiny bit of information I have from Nolan about her. She's a former black-hat hacker turned FBI computer programmer. In order to stay out of prison, she opted to work for the feds instead.
Nolan most likely knows her actual name, but he keeps it quiet for the Enchantress' privacy. I could probably find it if I did a little digging, but I don't find myself caring all that  much.



"Not sure what to tell you, chicka. Your hacker was talented. Not a trace of them was left. If I didn't have you singing a different tune, I'd just think you logged into your own facebook site from another location." She answers over the receiver.


"So that's it? I'm supposed to be gaining intel, and Allsafe is actually doing a better job by spying on me??"  I hiss in a low voice, exiting my apartment.

"Sadly yes." She sighs. "Look, I'm going to keep working it, but I don't see a point, really. Both Cross and I did a through back log track of all IP going in and out of your server that day, and we cannot find anything other than the hidden Allsafe bar. Even with that, I feel that's what the person wanted you to........Huh, that's strange."


She goes silent after this, saying nothing more. "What's strange?"



"I back logged your URL into an entryway for a different code, and I came across something with your name on it....It's a message."



I stop walking down the busy street, a frown overwhelming me. "What are you talking about?"



"It's a date, and an address of where to be..." The Enchantress trails off, sounding alarmed. "Well I don't like that....It's a message for you."

"How do you know?"



"It has your initials, NMC. I know from CrossWire your first and last name, so I'm taking a wild strike of a guess your middle name begins with an M."


She's not wrong. My fake-name is Natalia Marie Clary. "Where does it want me to go?"



"It wants you at Ron's Coffee shop, the one on 13th avenue, tomorrow night at seven."



The Enchantress reveals no more information, causing an awkward silence to take over. I remove the phone from my ear to stare at it with surprise. Maybe I heard wrong. "There's a secret message asking me to get coffee?" I ask her curiously, not finding this right.

"I really don't like this." Enchantress sighs, furious clicking heard over the receiver. She must be going to town on her keyboard. Heavy clicking takes over. Eventually, she sighs loudly.
"This is like, really advanced....Someone hid this message in a data trap. This person was banking on you finding it."


The Enchantress plays at a slightly more dirty level than Nolan when it comes to black-hat hacking. In technical terms, she's just a bit more savvy. It doesn't surprise me she was able to find an encoded message when he couldn't.