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“Wow, okay. That’s a pretty big fucking area for us to cover.” I point out completely unnecessarily because, of course, it is.
“So where the hell do we start?” Elijah asks.
Rome is the one to answer this time as he replies, “From the beginning. We find her first location and try to determine what she found there.”
“We’ll need to see the original piece of information that led her there as well. So we at least have some idea of where she would’ve been.” Riot adds.
“This operation is clearly a big one, so wouldn’t it make sense that there would be several people that the information that was stolen would have to go through before they reached the main player pulling the strings and organising all of this?” Luc asks.
“That’s an excellent point; I know I’d work it that way. The more people that it was to go through in several different locations, the more likely it is that anyone who is following the information is going to lose the trail and not be able to pick it back up again,” Cash replies.
“So what are we hoping for by starting right at the beginning?” I ask curiously.
“We want to be able to hopefully find one of these people that the information was handed to, and then we can either bring them in and question them or follow them to see if the mastermind behind this uses the same network of people for all of the information he gathers,” Trick replies.
“What makes you think that he didn’t just target headquarters?” Rip asks curiously.
“Two reasons: one, he had to find out about the organisation in that first place, and that requires some serious digging, and two, people who go to that much trouble for information tend to be gathers of it and are of the mindset that knowledge is power so they try to gain as much as they can,” Trick explains his reasoning.
Rip nods, looking impressed, and then replies, “Of course, there’s a chance that the person could be an ex-employee?”
I feel my eyebrows rise, “You know, up until this whole mole thing where our own agents were willing to kill their own people, I would’ve said that everyone is vetted so well that there’s no chance of that happening. Now, however, I’m not so sure.”
“Me neither,” Rage replies with a frown, “I mean, if it’s happened once, chances are it’s going to happen again or has happened before.”
“So we need to talk to Mr R to see if anyone who worked for the organisation before was let go under fraught circumstances, someone who might have an axe to grind with them,” Cash suggests.
“Knowing Mr Rising, he most likely already has a list of people that could cause problems in the future and has them watched closely to make sure that they don’t,” Luc replies.
“At least if he does, that will mean that we can cross off that line of thinking,” Atlas replies.
“Very true. Is there anything else in there that could help?” Trick asks.
“No, not really. There’s the communications, which consists of locations and if she needs extraction,” Peter replies.
“I’ll keep going, but there’s not much in here. I think it’s like Atlas said: all the proper information was given at the end of the case.” Peter suggests and then looks at Trick, “So what’s our first move?”
Trick looks at me and says, “We have the parents arriving in three days, the day before Christmas Eve and then Christmas. We know that this is going to take a while to figure out. Peter, could you set a program running in the background to possibly find the locations that Rylie mentioned? Then, we can pinpoint them all on a map and see if there’s some sort of correlation. We can focus on the first point and see if we can find where the information is going. It’s going to take a long time, and we’re going to have to follow each point until we are certain who she was following when she got to the last point. From there, hopefully, we can find her location.”
“I can do that. There’s a lot of information it’s got sift through though, so it’s going to take a few days,” Peter replies.
Trick smiles, “Good. As I said, it’s Christmas in a few days, and we’ve been through a lot recently. We’re going to take it easy until the parents have gone.”
“D and Alaric are coming up too,” I remind him and then smile, “I hear what you’re saying, and it makes sense. I’m not going to insist that we start now. There’s not much that we can do anyway, and family comes first.”
Jynx clears her throat, “Just to throw it in there, before I forget. Ryan is coming with them.”
My eyebrows rise, “Hang on, Ryan, as in Headmaster of Blackbreak, Ryan?”
Almost as one, all the guys realise who Jynx is talking about and then stare at her in question.
Jynx chuckles, “Yeah, that’s the guy. He is also Alaric and D’s best friend since they were kids, and they are fucking hilarious when they’re all together.”
I grin, “Awesome, I can’t wait. They all know that the parents aren’t in the same line of work as the rest of us and are normal, right?”
Jynx chuckles, “Oh yeah, don’t worry, they’ll behave themselves, although I would suggest checking Ryan for explosives on the way. He loves them as much as Ace does and has been known when he’s drunk to blow shit up.”
“They sound fucking awesome,” Jensen grins excitedly.
