What he wanted to do was be out with Elizabeth, by her side, making a difference. She was his field partner, and this felt like he was letting her down.
Someone had to protect her.
That someone would be him.
Unfortunately, now, he was relegated to taking one for the team and playing‘Hunter’via research.
Oh, and if you knew him, you knew that heHATEDresearch. That was exactly why he went out of his way to dump it on Callen, or to dodge it as much as he could.
Now, here he was, doing the opposite.
Having worked with both Maura and Elizabeth as a Hunter and Fed, he had the unique perspective of knowing how different both jobs were.
One was within the lines—mostly.
The other was so far out of the lines, you couldn’t see them anymore.
And he was willing to do that for his family.
Without a doubt.
Yeah, he hadn’t told them yet, but as soon asThe HuntershitDamascus, he was taking off his badge and taking one more stint as a Hunter.
For.
His.
Family.
Truth be told, he was three days beyond pissed that they were hiding in a building, as the people they cared and loved were marked with bullseyes for them.
Gene wasNOTa hide kind of a guy.
He was a‘face it down and make a difference’kind of a man.
This whole dog-and-pony show didn’t sit well with him.
Not.
At.
All.
As he was working, Gabby was doing her thing in tandem in Scotland. It was late evening there, and she’d been going non-stop.
The woman was a trooper, and one of their biggest assets. That was for damn sure.
“I need something to link to him,” she stated. “If you can find me any kind of transaction, I can get you an account, or payment, and I can backtrack it to a location where it was made. I can get the ISP, and I can find where he’s paying his people from,” she offered.
He was thinking about it.
“How about the accounts we froze?” he asked.
He could see her on the screen, and she was in her home, working on her bed.
“No, it needs to be something recent. If he has moved locations, like the boss’s notes say, I need something recent. Tracking an old ISP, or signal, will bring me to a place he’s been, not where he is.”
Yeah, he got it.
