An Agents Life

The Aftermath

My new story Betrothed is coming out on May 1st, hope y'all check it out!  Enjoy!
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Maya and Fakrle sat in the break room at the table as they were sipping their mugs of coffee. After the paramedics finally showed up to get Saunders body, Maya had walked off to the break room without saying a word. Josh and Farkle had to stay back so they could talk to the paramedics about what had happened.

Maya put her mug down and put her head in her hands. She had shot people before, even killed a couple of them. But she had never had anyone die in her arms before. Farkle put his hand on her shoulder and rubbed it softly. Farkle wasn't doing any better with what had happened. They both felt like they had just had the wind knocked out of them.

Josh sighed as he watched his to Agents from the window of outside the break room. He grabbed the object that was in his pocket and made his way into the room. He threw the object down in front of Farkle and Maya causing their heads to snap up at it.

"Forensics found it. He took a cyanide pill and he his it in a secret compartment in his watch." Josh informed them. Farkle closed his eyes and hung his head low. Maya brought her hands back up to her face and buried herself.

"I don't understand? Was it because he was going to have to testify?" Farkle asked confused. Josh glanced over at Maya who was now sat back in her chair with her arms folded and a distant look on her face. She had been through so much in the last month or so, this had to be a lot to handle at the moment. Josh sighed as he looked back at Farkle.

"Saunders was going to jail for a very long time, and he knew that. There really is no way to tell what his motive was to kill himself. All we can tell from it was that he had planned from the very beginning that if he got caught he wasn't going to jail." Josh informed them. Farkle shook his head while just staring at the ground.

"Sir." Mia said as she walked into the room. "I hate to interrupt, but I just got off the phone with Lucas. They have all three girls and our offenders are in custody. The girls all got checked out by paramedics at the scene, not a scratch on them. They're bringing the girls here to get with their families." Mia said. A small smile came up on all three of the agents faces in the room.

"Have you informed the families yet?" Josh asked Mia. Mia shook her head.

"I was just on my way to do that." She said as she pointed behind her to where the families were sitting in the desk room.

"Let Agent Minkus and Agent Hunter do that. I need you to be on stand by for the arrival of the kids." Josh told her. Mia smiled and nodded her head before walking out of the room. Farkle got up and nodded his head at Josh as he left the room. Maya soon got up to go after him but not before stopping and turning towards Josh.

"Thank you." She whispered at him. Josh gave her a confused look and shrugged his shoulders.

"For what?" He asked her. Maya smiled.

"Everything." She answered. And by the look on Josh's face she didn't have to elaborate what she meant, he knew exactly what she meant.

Maya walked out of the office leaving a very flustered and happy Josh. He walked out after her and then sat back at one of the desks as he watched Farkle and Maya deliver the good news to each of the families. He watched as the mothers fell apart and hugged Maya while the fathers shook hands graciously with Farkle. Soon after the kids all came running in and right into the arms of their parents. The smiles, the tears, the relief looks that the parents gave. Sounds of families being put on a path to healing. This, this right here is why they do that they do.

"Well you were right." Zay informed his new boss as he came walking up to Josh. Josh straightened up his posture as Lucas handed him a folder.

"These guys have been going all around the world to kidnap and sell girls on line as a sex slave type of business. This is a list of all the girls that they have kidnapped, sold and even killed because of them not being good enough for their buyers." Lucas said. Josh nodded his head but didn't miss the clenched fists that his Agent had. Josh couldn't blame him, if he had a daughter and this happened to her he would be incoherent.

"We also found a list of where their location is and who was the buyer." Zay finished. Josh nodded his head.

"Nice work guys. Get on the phone to the police districts in those city's and inform them of the situation, then give them the locations and names of the girls and buyers." Josh ordered them. They both nodded their heads and headed to their desks. Josh gave the happy families one last glance and then looked at his watch. He sighed as he grabbed his coat jacket and turned his back to head to the door. Maya looked over to see Josh leaving and she excused herself from the group.

"Hey, where are you going? Shift doesn't end for another couple of hours." Maya told him. Josh smiled at her as he turned around and faced her.

"I just have an errand to run." He told her. Maya narrowed her eyes at him. She could tell that he was lying. Maya shook her head.

"Common Josh it's me. If you're going to lie at least make it believable." Maya told him almost in an amused voice. Josh smiled at her a little bit, but then he looked down at the ground and sighed.

"Unfortunately because Saunders committed suicide we have to inform the family, and that includes his daughter." Maya closed her eyes and sighed. She nodded her head and cleared her throat.

"So you thought that you could sneak out and do it yourself?" She asked him. Josh bit his lip and gazed into her eyes.

"Maya, you and this team have been through enough. You guys deserve to be able to deliver some good news and I'm not going to take that away from you." Josh told her. Maya watched him for a moment before smiling.

"We'll do it together." Maya told him. Josh began to protest but Maya interrupted him. "It will be just like it was before you moved to London. Just like old times." Josh sighed. They were pretty good together as partners before he moved. Josh nodded his head.

"Let's do it."
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Well now we know that Josh and Maya use to be partners together before he moved to London. Let me know what y'all think!!!