"That was the best night ever!" Maddy said as the trio walked into school, Jack nodded his head in agreement, "Have you two ever experianced an eclipse before?" the pair nodded, "We went to the fair in the centre of the villiage and then spent it on the moors with Jana." Rhydian said, "I wish we could've gone to the moors, imagine the fun." Maddy and Rhydian nodded, but they both knew that Maddy's parents would never allow such a thing to happen again, they only allowed it last time because they had to get Jana away from the townspeople and their classmates.
Carrie met them as they walked towards their lockers and pulled the three of them towards the dark room, when the four of them were in there, she locked the door saying that she didn't want to be disturbed, the trio of wolfbloods looked confused, but before they could ask what was going on, Carrie spoke,
"We need to talk to your parents," she told Maddy ,
"Why?" Maddy asked, Carrie looked as if she wanted to tell them something, but wasn't able to,
"It's classified." Carrie eventually said before Jack could ask anything, Carrie turned to him and said, "You're wanted at HQ by the way, the point of a communicator is so that we can get hold of you." Jack shrugged as he left the dark room and ran down to HQ. Back in the dark room, Maddy and Rhydian wanted more information, "Look," Carrie said, "I can't tell you, but they know stuff that you guys and Jack don't know and we need that information."
"Look." Maddy said getting defesivley, "No one is supposed to know about us, our wolf pack has not been spotted in Stoneybridge for over 400 years, Jack shows up and suddenly MI9 know about us." Rhydian nodded along to this statement, it was true, they had managed to keep it a secret from even Tom and Shannon and now there were suddenly a whole load of people who knew about wolfbloods.
"Maddy just listen to me." Carrie begged, "I can't believe I'm going to say this, this could get me fired, but, our boss wants to stick Jack into what could be a really dangerous situation, yeah, so we need as much information as we can get because we sure as hell don't want to lose him."
"Oh." Maddy said deflated. She nodded her head and called her parents, "how will they get to your HQ?" she asked, "We'll come and get them." Carrie replied hesitantly, but before Maddy could tell her parents, Mrs King burst through the dark room door as Jack hadn't locked it on his way out,
"Right!" she said loudly, "I do believe you should be in your history lesson with Mr Jeffries, would one of you care to explain what on earth you are all doing in here instead of in your lesson?" the three of them shrugged and looked at the floor,
"Maddy? Are you there?" Emma Smith said out of Maddy's phone, Mrs King took it off her, ended the call and put Maddy's phone in her pocket, "And you can have that back at the end of the day. Isolation, all of you." She said as she pointed out of the door, grudginly the three of them went with her.
Down in HQ Jack and Oscar were being briefed on the upcoming mission, Frank had layed out a colourful presentation explaining the dangers that they might be in, but also what would come if they did not succeed. The mission was to infiltrate the Mockingbird programme, a programme that was designed to find the richest and most cunning young people in Britain in order to help House Baelish end up on the throne. The King or Queen did not hold much power, but as Head of State, they were able to push through or reject certain laws or in theory they were able to abolish the current governmental system and rule as they once had, creating empires and colonising the world. House Baelish was a small House with only one surviving person, but Lord Baelish was clever and cunning, using other people to do his dirty work and tricking people with false loyalty. The Mockingbird programme recruited young people who were then able to be placed in service at the homes of the other larger Houses to tear them apart from the inside out, they were also trained in financial matters, bankrupting larger Houses in order for them to be reliant on the richer House Baelish.
"MI9 has been monitoring the movements and communications of Lord Baelish, and they believe that he is being financed partially by SKUL in return for some form of power once the war of the kings has been won." Frank told them.
"So where do we come in?" Oscar asked him, Jack too had been wondering this, there was no way that he would be able to get into the programme, Oscar maybe, but himself? Definately not. "Oscar, you will be playing the role of the son of an oil baron, it's a character an old agent, Blane, started when he and Rose had to try to buy back a spy plane." Oscar nodded, "Wicked."
"So, you are Sajid Al Flatley." The boys both looked confused, "Al Flatley?" Oscar questioned, Frank sighed, "Apparently, Blane forgot his last name, saw a photo of Mr Flatley and changed the name of the character, anyway, that will be you, so here is the character profile, you need to memorise it, the Mockingbird programme does extensive background checks, so you need to be able to answer any question," he said as he banged a large dossier onto the desk before turning to Jack. "Lord Baelish has a thing for House Stark, who's banner is a dire wolf. He believes its a status symbol, something of power. You'll be able to hopefully help Oscar get on the good side of Lord Baelish. We've worked it so Sajid Al Flatley used to side with the Starks, that will be where he picked you up, but after their downfall, he thinks he should back someone who... well, who in the characters words, knows what they're doing." Jack nodded, "Sounds alright." He mentioned, suddenly a claxon started to go off and the computer monitors changed from Frank's presentation to Mr Flatley knocking on the cupboard door, and Frank went straight up the lift shaft to answer the door.
"What can I do for you Mr F?" Frank asked, Mr Flately smiled, "The air conditioning in the food room has stopped, you'd better fix it fast before Mrs King finds out Frank." The boys watched Frank and Mr Flatley leave before they too left HQ and headed up to the school, the bell had just gone for break and Oscar had a lot of reading to do.