Walking into his office, Percy threw the folder containing the results of the surveillance op on his desk in frustration. Everything had been working perfectly until now. Everyone had been doing everything they were supposed to but a crack had begun to form.
Percy logged into his computer, leaning back in the expensive leather chair. He pulled up the file he was looking for and sat up in his chair to get a better look at the file. There had to be some kind of sign someone had missed that caused this- no allowed this- to happen. Someone had to be to blame for the disaster they were now facing.
Staring at the personnel file, Percy was sick. This man had been his technical genius since the first day and he had never questioned anything that Percy asked him to do. That was, until he fell in love. Now, even though he didn’t know that Percy or anyone in Division was aware of his situation, he was making plans to escape to somewhere he could live with his lover. Just more justification for the rule not to allow relationships in Division.
There was no way Percy was going to let this happen. There was no way he would let their secrets walk out the door and there was no way that he could betray Percy like this and get away with it. As loyal as the man had been to Division in his mean years of service, it was not anything near enough to make up for the betrayal he was about to commit. The loyalty went out the door the moment he began to make plans to get away from Division and leave them in a lurch.
Simon Sawyer had worked for the FBI, for years. He had been a loyal agent but the FBI found out that he had been using FBI resources to hack and steal money. He would have gone to prison but instead they assigned him to the new Division program. He worked tech for them on all of their ops and provided technical support for the whole organization. Just like with the FBI originally he was loyal to Division, but now Percy was going to have to cancel him. This would lead to another issue- otherwise Simon would have been dead already. Percy had never considered the possibility that Simon would betray him and never put any plans into place that would cover this happening. They had no other technicians, no one that was able to do the hacks and technical support that Sawyer was doing for them. That meant for now he lived, until they could find someone that could replace him. They were in a bind- it had been two weeks since Simon had been discovered and he could leave at any time- but there was no one on his list that had nearly enough skills to take over for Simon. Anyone with those skills would be too good to get caught unless they made some kind of mistake.
Percy rubbed his temples. He could not believe that in all the planning of Division and all the things they did to make sure Division ran smoothly, there had been no planning for backing up the tech position. It was a horrible oversight on someone’s part and once this whole thing was solved, he was going to find out who it was and there would be more cancelations in this whole mess.
For now, he couldn’t worry about how they got there he had to focus on solving the problem. Immediately he had Carla and Amanda go over the records but they could not find anyone who would fit their needs. The last two weeks had shown it was more difficult to find someone with the skills that they needed because they didn’t often make the mistakes that they would need to in order for Division to get them and keep them in Division. In the two weeks since they had first found out about Simon and had been tracking him, and Division had no leads. Percy was beginning to worry that Simon would make his break and they would have to cancel him before they get something in place to replace him, causing havoc for Division and all of their missions.
Rubbing his temples again, the sound of approaching heel clicks and an accompanying knock got his attention and Percy saw Amanda entering his office. “Yes?” he asked her, acknowledging her entrance.
Amanda brushed her hair behind her ear and walked slowly towards Percy’s desk, her heels clicking across his floor. As she stopped, she placed a folder on Percy’s desk in front of him. “I think you will want to see this.”
Percy glared at Amanda, picking up the folder. “What’s this?” he asked, opening to a picture of a young man, scruffy beard and a short blond ponytail. He was a rough looking guy.
“That is your new tech. He was just arrested for hacking the Chinese government.” Amanda told him.
Percy looked over the folder quickly scanning the information Amanda had on their newest prospect. He stopped as his eyes caught a familiar name. “Shadow Walker?” he said to Amanda.
She nodded with a smirk of satisfaction, knowing that she had found exactly what Percy was looking for and also that she had showed up her rival Carla. “The FBI cannot prove that he is Shadow Walker, but I had some of the under-techs do some digging of their own and they could see some patterns that definitely point to this young man being him.”
Percy smiled in satisfied. If they could get their hands on the Shadow Walker, they would be set. His eyes scanned the file. “Seymour Birkhoff.” He read the name aloud from the file. “Do we have something in place to recover him?”
The smirk had not left Amanda’s face. It was clear that she was quite proud of herself. “As soon as the alert came up I put in the request. I made sure that Simon is not aware of the situation.”
“Fantastic.” Percy was glad to hear things had turned for the better for them. “We will put Simon on lockdown to train the new trainee for two weeks. He cannot leave while he gets the new trainee up to speed, and then we cancel him.”
“I’ll put Roan on alert.” Amanda confirmed.
Amanda turned to leave Percy’s office. “And Amanda?” Percy commented, causing her to turn back towards him, “Good job.”
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Before the Rise
FanfictionWhere exactly did Division come from? How did our heroes get there? Birkhoff Seymour, new Division asset, is about to find all these things out as he is forced into the world of Division.
