S3: Chapter 04: Breakthrough

Author's note:

Hello readers! I know many of you sometimes gloss over warnings because you have become used to the way I write and since you haven't abandoned me I assume you've come to enjoy it. Thank you :)

However this chapter, I wanted to ensure you DIDN'T scroll by it. This chapter does NOT contain the adult material you have become accustomed to from this story. This chapter hits on the ongoing nature of Stefanie Brooks' relationship with her father Eddie.

If you are sensitive to child abuse or that topic is one that causes you extreme emotional distress I'd like to ask that you skip through those parts or bypass this chapter completely. I would not want to make you uncomfortable while reading.

Thank you again,

Daijah

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S3: Chapter 03: Family Ties

Ryan waited outside of the school watching to see if Stefanie had intentions to show today. He worried more about her after their last conversation; she seemed defeated which broke his heart. He’d hate to think she’d given up because of her situation. His promise replayed in the back of his mind as she stepped off the bus and pushed her way through the crowd of teenagers to enter the building. He said a silent prayer and started up his engine to head back home.

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S3: Chapter 02: Target Practice

**Armenian translations in Italics after the sentence.**

“What does this mean?” Brett asked peeking over Yvette’s shoulder and sighing.

“It means the Company was playing games with Yvette from the start. Every mission they’d sent her on up to this point was a means to eliminate her. What they didn’t count on was her level of training and ability to see her way out of those sticky situations. Her will to survive and ensuring the safety of her men brought her out of each engagement nearly unharmed every time.”

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S3: Chapter 01: Aftermath

Brett pulled his arm from under Yvette’s head and pushed off the bed silently. He turned and looked at her; her face was calm as it had been the last four weeks. He was struggling to understand where she was emotionally and it was beginning to eat away at him.

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S2: Chapter 10: Live and On Air

Vic pulled himself up from the floor and pulled out his cellphone. He quickly punched in Yvette’s number and waited.

…“Hello…?” Brett asked sounding a little groggy.

“They took them…they took my family.”

…“What? Who took them? What are you talking about…?”

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S2: Chapter 09: The Price of Freedom

Vic hung his head heavy as he dragged his equipment into the garage and dropped onto his work bench. He hadn’t slept soundly for a week and now that he knew Yvette was alive, he didn’t expect that to change much. Now the focus would be on resolving the case and finding the person that placed the hit on her.

He was so lost in thought he hadn’t realized his son was standing beside him rambling on about the motorized car Kiara had thrown into the bathtub and ruined. He stopped talking for a minute and stared at his Daddy waiting for an answer to a question that went unheard.

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S2: Chapter 08: Bad Streak

“Pin Cushion?” Ryan called stepping into the apartment with a bag full of groceries and a pizza. “Where are you?”

“Hey Ry!” Stefanie smiled stepping from the back bedroom. Her face beamed brighter as she saw the pie in his hand and immediately relieved him of the load. “I’m starving!”

“I figured. You’re eating me out of house and home,” he laughed remembering the empty cabinets and fridge he was shocked to find the previous night. “Had I known you had a tapeworm, I would have asked it to pay rent before you moved in!”

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S2: Chapter 07: La Cosa Nostra

They pulled up to a large mansion sitting atop the hill. “You know the people that live here?”

She shrugged, “I did. There’s no telling what I’d find there now.”

Three armed men walked out to the front and pulled them from the vehicle. “Call it intuition or my sixth sense, but somehow or another I knew I’d see you again, Vette,” a man dressed in black stepped from the ornately adorned doors of the home with a glass of wine in his hand. “Missed me?”

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S2: Chapter 06: Decoy

“Where are we going Uncle?” Tao asked as he slid from the passenger seat of Dustin’s Lancer.

“You’ll see. I told you I’d bring you to my favorite place in the city.”

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S2: Chapter 05: Upping the Stakes

“If Yvette isn’t back soon, we’re going looking.” Victor said placing his weapons on the dresser and settling in. “I’ll give her thirty minutes. I don’t like the way this feels for a simple recon mission.”

“Try her line again,” Ryan suggested.

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S2: Chapter 04: Inside Man

Brett got home, showered and changed and tossed himself on the couch. He checked his machine for messages before turning on the television to catch the morning news. He smiled thinking about the night he'd spent with Yvette and got lost in the softness of her body. He let his mind wander over having her back and leaned against the cushions of his sofa feeling comfort and a sense of happiness he thought was lost the minute he heard those gunshots.

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S2: Chapter 03: Information

Dustin dropped his keys on the table near his door. He sighed heavy as he took his laptop to his desk and dragged himself back into the kitchen. Silently he grabbed a microwavable meal from the freezer and popped it in.

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S2: Chapter 02: Life After Death

“No…no, no, no, no, NO!” Brett yelled. “FUCK!” The room fell silent. The intercom started again and they could hear the sounds of the fire as the flames flickered and ran throughout the location consuming the evidence and everything else in its wake.

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S2: Chapter 01: Manhunt

Harrison stood and walked towards the screen near the back wall. “She has a known intimate relationship with this man,” he said bringing up an image on the screen. “Gabriel Tasker, a Field Operations Director for the Agency. Since removing her tracer, he too has come up missing. Now there isn’t any information proving that he is involved, but he is a person of interest in this matter.”

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S1: Chapter 10: Expendable

Murph got back to the unit room and changed. “Dust, what was with the coaching?” he asked once he was back in his jeans. “You didn’t think I knew how to talk to that guy?”

“I don’t know I figured you’ve been married for the last 8 years, you were maybe a little rusty on the game.”

“Rusty? Is that what all of you think? Yve?”

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S1: Chapter 09: Conspiracy Therorists

It was another three months and instead of working on the case that could possibly be the arrest of a lifetime the team was placed on a new assignment that came straight from the top. Pamela Maxwell, the Chief of Staff was attacked shortly after a dinner with other law enforcement officials and Scott asked that this take priority to the other cases they were working on.

“Why would the Chief of Staff hire an escort anyway?” Ryan asked.

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S1: Chapter 08: They All Fall Down

Three months had passed since the team first discovered the threat to National security and the CIA only seemed to be dragging their feet with the information. The team was placed behind miles and miles of red tape preventing them from taking action themselves. Dustin was still busy at work trying to decipher all of the data he’d uncovered on Harper’s computer and figure out the riddle he’d saddled us with.

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S1: Chapter 07: Detained

“Home at last,” Lien said as she carried Dustin’s items into the living room.

“Your home maybe,” Dustin sighed.

“And yours too until Grandma Kimura says you can leave.”

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S1: Chapter 06: Atomic

“What’s the plan?” he asked as she stood from the desk.

“Well first we have to warn the center of the imminent attack and get someone from Homeland Security on this. I have to get to Scott and get in contact with our liaison with the CIA. Grab the guys and let them know we may be making a trip.”

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S1: Chapter 05: Red Handed

The gang hopped out of the van and opened up the back. They geared up and prepared themselves, watching the scene play out on the small television screens as the men rushed through the facility.

“Ryan, you and Murph take the front around here,” she said pointing to the section they mapped out earlier.

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S1: Chapter 04: Best Laid Plans

Brett spilled a tray of drinks from an approaching waiter onto Gooding and he screamed as the heat from the coffee began soaking into his pants. “Sir, I’m terribly sorry about that.”

“Sorry?! I’m going to have your job you bumbling idiot!” he said fanning himself and wiping briskly at the area. “You’re paying for this dry cleaning!”

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S1: Chapter 03: The Mark

“We don’t have much time. Dustin, make contact with our CIA liaison. Let him know that there is a risk to National security and get us the clearance we’ll need.”

“On it.”

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S1: Chapter 02: Decryption

“Dustin…” she whispered into her earpiece.

“One sec, Boss. I got you!”

Just as the door cracked open a little, a fire alarm was sounded and advised everyone to exit the building in an orderly fashion. Ron grunted, placed his jacket back on and headed for the door.

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S1: Chapter 01: Déjà Vu

Author's Note:

At times there may be use of Spy Jargon, please refer to the Glossary for definition of the words used in this story.
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“Harder!” she yelled as he pushed the headboard into the wall. Her hands gripped his back tighter and she dug her nails into the soft flesh covering his tight muscles.

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