Rogue

Chapter 3:

A few days had passed since the two friends had formed an alliance with Payton.

Both of them, mainly Andrew, expected to go straight into action.

He had wanted to build a plan.. a strategy

Something solid that would work perfectly while in action.

Of course, instead of planning with some of his spare time at work... Andrew found himself training with Danica between hours of working on his new tech project.

After their little training session, the two of them separated for lunch, agreeing to meet once more that afternoon.

"You look depressed. I could see it from the moment I walked in," Alpha said as he placed a coffee mug on Andy's desk.

"Thanks." He responded with a dry tone.

"What is it?" Alpha leaned across his desk and picked up one of the many tech parts scattered across the table.

"Life is just dull.. I love making stuff but." He sighed. "A change of scenery would be nice.."

Andy took the coffee and sipped it, "Why do you seem so... alive?"

"Oh, well...Payton invited us to dinner to talk over catching Jake.. she's clearly too scared to ask me out alo-"

He was cut off by Andrew's laugh..

"You like a different girl every week, not every single one will like you back, you know?"

"But look at me! I'm beautiful, why wouldn't they?" He pouted.

"Your ego."

"Hmph. Look who's talking."

Andrew was offended. What did he mean ego? It was just honesty!

"Anyway... when is this dinner happening?" Andy asked, hoping to change the topic.

"Tonight, at 8. she said that it was last minute and we should bother to dress nicely as it is a nice place."

"... Oddly specific."

"Indeed."

"Look into it," Andrew said. "I'll keep looking into it as well... when we do go after Jake, we don't wanna go in unprepared."

"Oh Andrew, such a leader" Alpha mocked.

"Just get to work already, you never join a case without knowing what's going on, and you know it."

Alpha nodded with a sigh before walking off to the main tech lab, leaving Andrew alone in his office.

Muffled chatting and shouting could be heard through the glass door separating Andy's little tech lab from the rest of EDG.

There was always constant chatting and phones ringing in the background, occasionally even a few shouts. It was never quite there... kept things interesting.

Andrew pulled out his phone and opened Jake's file.

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Andy spent the next hour Thinking at his desk... Attempting to memorize as much info as he could on Jake.

Andrew looked at the clock. The day had passed so quickly... it was already 7.

Grabbing his bag, Andrew left his little office space..

He made his way past the tech lab and waved to Alpha, who was currently testing a new gun prototype he helped make.

Passing through the secret exit and just exiting the building, a small hand grasped Andy's arm and spun him around.