All's Fair [ A Harry Styles AU ]

ten

warning: this story will contain stalking, physical violence, and a character death. this chapter also contains smut, please don't read if you aren't 18+!

The allure of the mysterious website is enough to keep Priya and Harry rooted in their motel room for some time, wondering what it's about, but eventually they have to head to the resistance group. It's no surprise when they reach that they learn the boss of the group is ready to initiate the next phase of his master plan. They figured out early on that he never comes into the office himself, getting all the members of his group to do the grunt work.

"We're all set to go," the man with the perpetual camera tells Priya and Harry. He's holding a stack of papers in his hand that he drops to the desk with a resounding thud, a manic smile spreading across his face, "BOOM. This will be every British embassy in the world." His hands close and wave out, imitating an explosion.

The night before, the partners had a choice in leaving their motel room,  but this time they have to stay out of necessity. Headquarters  fills them in while digitally transferring all the information they have on the website and Evans' plans for the various embassy attacks. While the teams at home are combing through the information as quickly as they can, they send Harry and Priya material that can be of help to them on the ground.

"Agents Payne and Chan are working on decoding some signals that have been sent out from the area and Agent Horan is working on building a team to help you guys reach Evans," Director Tomlinson explains. "It's our last choice, but we can't let these attacks happen at any cost. We need to get you two as close to possible to him to either get a clear shot or bring him in."

"Agent Rai," Director Malik says, leaning into the frame. "We've sent along some audio files that we've tapped from what we suspect to be Evans' phone. He uses a voice decoder in each call, so they don't sound the same. Our teams haven't been able to pick up anything of suspicion, but there's lots of historical language references and smoke shields he's using."

Priya squints at the screen, "Like he's talking in code in one language?"

Director Malik grimaces, "I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that. From what we've gathered so far, he has all the dialects of the areas the embassies are in memorized. But he doesn't use the particular language associated with the region when he talks about his plans there. If he's considering the embassy in India, he speaks in Spanish and refers to Spanish history in code to give details of the attack."

"Making things more complicated than ever," Priya mumbles, sighing. She clicks on the email with the audio files and flinches when she sees there's around two dozen  attachments.

"What about the website?" Harry inquires.

The directors share a glance and Priya and Harry mirror it, albeit with more worry.

"Our intelligence tells us if we are unsuccessful with the password, it will act as an invisible detonator. The moment the 10th password is typed in, if incorrect, all the bombs will detonate."