Bendict Cumberbatch Imagines

Enigma (Part 3) - Did We Just...?

After many long hours and tiresome weeks, you finally break Enigma.

This is after Helen helps Alan figure this out; it's a long part and it's boring to write and I want to keep y'all engaged.

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Your POV

"Alan! Slow down what are you doing?" You call after him as you hastily take your heels off to run faster after him. The rest of the team follows behind you as Alan runs into the hut. Carefully, you run after him - trying to keep in mind the fact that he was sensitive - to see him grabbing a box of previously decrypted messages, pouring them out over the floor.

"Alan?" You ask, walking into the room as Hugh, John, and Peter come behind you, looking just as confused as you were as he started to spread the messages out in some sort of unspoken pattern.

"What if Christopher doesn't have to search through all the settings? What if he only had to search the ones that produce the words we already know will be in the message? Repeated words! Predictable words..." Slowly, we begin to get it and start to search through the messages with Alan, who was too much in a flustered state to realize we were even there.

"It's the same one she read earlier. Like this?" You begin, holding up a decrypted message, reading it aloud. "'0600 hours. Weather today is clear. Rain in the evening. Heil Hitler.'" 

"Yes!" Alan yelled, getting up and looking at the message you were still holding in your hand. "That's it! They send a weather report at 6AM. Every day. That means there are three words we already know will be in the 6am message." He was going off now, and for some reason you loved it, but you tried to focus on the task at hand. "'Weather' obviously, and..."

"Hiel bloody Hitler." Hugh says, looking down at Alan with a look of both confusion and realization on his face - something told me we had the exact same looks. 

You - once again - start looking through the messages once more and suddenly we all run out Hut 8 and sprint to Hut 11, taking the messages with us. "(Y/N), what's the last 6 am message?" Alan asks frantically as you lean over to him and begin to read the last message.

"H - W - A - U - Q - X - K..." The rest of the team stand back as you continue to read the message. The machine clicks and clacks loudly and we look hopefully as Alan processes the message. Finally, the machine stops; silence. Complete silence. But quickly, a series of rotors on the side snap into place, displaying a set of letters. "What happened? Did it work?" Alan begins to scribble down the letters displayed; EXBAO. 

"Quickly, give me a fresh message. The last one we intercepted." Peter hands Alan one from a nearby folder; Alan starts typing one of today's gibberish encrypted messages into Enigma. 

"KMS Jaguar... Is auf punkt — is directed - 53 degrees, 24 minutes north... And auf punkt 1 degree west... Heil Hitler." Peter reads the message quickly, looking from Alan to the machine with nervous eyes. "... Heil Hitler." Alan and Peter look at each other: Oh my god. 

"Turns out that's the only German you need to know to break Enigma." Alan says, with a few moments of silence between it; but Alan starts to laugh and his eyes begin to water. You breathe out a sigh and your eyes begin to water. The rest of the team exploded with joy, laughing, eyes watering and jumping around the room; they cheered as if it was the best day of their lives. Which it probably was right now, we just broke Engima! You put your hands on Alan's shoulders and pull him into a hug, which he awkwardly responds to and kisses the side of your head. You squealed with joy and hugged the rest of the team, jumping up and down in excitement as you could barely contain yourself.

If only you knew the problems you would encounter with this gift.

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Yay! Again, I'm so so so excited for this series and it's moving pretty quickly, like EVERYTHING that I write.

Have a great day my lovelies xx