Chapter 2
A few days have passed and they still try to figure out who the murderer is and what the equitment was part of. There also has not been a fourth murder yet, thanks God.
Peggy walked through the street. She had a day off, had been to the beach in the morning and even had called with Angie who had told her she had an audition planned next week. Peggy looked forward to seeing her friend in a few days time again.
Peggy needed to do some groceries so she walked to the supermarket close by her house, that's when a car started to drive next to her, slowing down.
She looked at the car and was ready to ask what this person wanted from her when she saw Jarvis driving the car. "Mister Jarvis, why are you still driving the car. Do you not have to pay attention to the road?" she asked him and she walked further through the street.
"I can drive very well Miss Carter. May you get in the car. There is something we need to discuss." That made her stop. She looked around, no one noticed her, so she stepped towards the passengers' door, her head through the window.
"What is it Mister Jarvis?" she looked at him as she had one hand at the handle of the car door. He just looked at her and so she stepped in, she was a bit annoyed that he hadn't told her what this was about.
Jarvis drove off. "Miss Carter" "Mister Jarvis." Both of them said. "You first." Peggy said to him while she waited for him to start talking.
"Tonight at around 9 PM Mister Stark has a party in the Hollywood Hills and he insists you go as his date to the party." She looked at him, dumbfounded. "You can't be serious?"
"I am very serious. Mister Stark expect you to be there at 8 PM tonight to be exact." He paid attention to the road and stopped at a red traffic light. He looked over at her and back at the traffic light once again.
Peggy rolled her eyes and looked out of the window before she spoke again. "Can he not get a movie star to go with him. I am not really someone who falls for the charms of America's Casanova."
Jarvis looked over at her once again, he scratched his ear. He is lying about something. She thought to herself. But about what… "What is it Mister Jarvis. What are you not telling me?"
Jarvis was nervous and not looking at her anymore. "You have to ask Mister Stark that matter." Peggy got a bit frustrated by that, but well Jarvis takes orders from Howard, he is his butler after all.
Why am I going to to insist on this matter? She thought, before speaking. "Fine. I'll go. He has to pick me up at my place at 8 PM." "Very good. Mister Stark will be delighted." He answered.
It was past 6 PM and Peggy made herself ready for the party when there was a knock on the door. Bloody hell. She opened the door once she had put her bathrobe on. She opened the door.
Hello Peggy." He smiled and stepped inside. "Howard it is not even 8 o'clock and what I also want to know is why you bloody wanted to have me to go with you to the party. Mister Jarvis hided something. Well what is it?" she wanted to know and sure was going to answer her.
"Come on Peg. I asked Jarvis to keep quiet so you and I would go together, because it may can help you lead to the person that had left that equipment object thing on the scene." That caught her attention immediately.
"What? I can get in trouble for this." She only said, a bit frustrated. "Don't you worry Peggy. It is not an undercover operation." He touched his tie.
"No? It looks like it Howard. If we find something related to it tonight I can get in trouble. I can't walk in and say – Look what I found at the party I attended. I found a connection to the object and I have seen the person we are looking for – really sounds like a good idea." Sarcasm present in her voice. She was mocking him slightly as well.
"Fine it may isn't such good idea… but we are doing it now anyway." Howard said to her. Peggy putted her hands on her hips and looked at him, both her eyebrows upright.
Once Peggy was ready the both of them had gone to the party. The mansion was very pretty, pillars everywhere and candle lights. Flowers hanging on the lanterns that lighted up the driveway that was curling like a snake from the street all the way to the house.
The house was from white stone. The door was from mahogany wood with beautiful details carved in it. Like the work of an artist.
"You really have friends with nice taste in houses." Peggy said as Howard helped her out of the car like gentleman. "I certainly do." He responded. They both walked to the door, a bodyguard looked at them.
"Mister Stark welcome. And who is this beautiful lady you brought with you tonight." The bodyquard asked him. "This is Miss Smith." Howard answered him. "You can call me Sioban." Peggy said and smiled politely.
She was undercover. She had a wig on her hair that was reddish, natural reddish hair color withsome soft waves. A beautiful silver, gray, long dress with purls stuck on it. Howard just had a black smocking with a blue, silver tie that would match with Peggy's dress.
"You really look like someone Irish." Howard said as they entered the house together. "No wonder." Peggy said in a sarcastic tone.
Once they stood with drinks in their hands they looked around the room. There where a lot of people here. Men in good looking suits, women in nice dresses, dancing on the music, laughing, drinking. Really the party kinda people.
"Look we got here, Mister Stark and." This man had come over to the both of them and he looked at Peggy. "Hello, who may you be?" he took her hand and kissed it. "Hello sir, I am Siobhan, a family friend from Mister Stark's family. Who may you be if I may ask?" she asked him in return.
She looked at Howard from the corner of her eyes and the look on Howard's face said enough. This is the person he had talked about.
"I am Mister Rodriquez, but you can call me José my lady." His spanish accent filled the air. Carter had to play this character well enough, because she had to found out who and what he did and if he is really the man of the equipment that was found on one of the murder scenes.
"Thank you sir. José is such a wonderful name may I ask what the meaning is behind yours?" she used her voice, made it more flirty. Why the bloody hell did Howard bring me into this. She thought to herself. And why is he smirking at us. I so will have a word with him once this night is over.
"The meaning behind my name is God will increase." He answered her. "Wow that is amazing!" she put her hand on her chest to show him she likes it, while in her mind she doesn't. She has to act.
"Siobhan, Mister Rodriquez. I go get a drink. I'll be right back in a moment." And Howard walked off, into the crowd. "So… What do you make as an inventor like Mister Stark sir?" He answered her as he took her hand.
"I make inventions that are going to make the future better, more easy. I even make equipment that that do things for you. Like for example searching people, doing your work. But it is still in the process until it works efficiently." He told her with his spanish accent.
"That sounds amazing. May I can see what you make?" she asked him. "Sorry amor, that is not safe and it is not for women's eyes." She looked at him, made herself look disappointed. "It must be very dangerous. I hope I may be allowed to see it someday." She smiled sweetly at him.
Peggy looked away for just a moment and saw Howard looking at them from the other side of the room. He stood in the corner drinking some vodka pretending he was enjoying the taste of it.
She had to get to the room of his inventions. She needed to use the camera pen. "I have to go to the bathroom, excuse me sir." She said but he grabbed her arm softly. "Let me guide you."
She smiled at him lovingly. He guided her through the house into the basement. "Is the bathroom here?" she knew it wasn't but she had to play it off. That's when he touched her inappropriately. "This is not really nice." She said and she pushed him away.
"I am sure you will love it amor." "I am sure I will not." And she punched him in the face. She didn't got knocked out and he punched Peggy in the face and in the wall, he tried to choke her, but she kicked him in the balls.
She saw a vase on a table and picked up, smashed it hard ob his head. He fell down, unconscious on the floor and used the robe of her dress to tie him down, hands combined together. Peggy moved away from him and got out of the door and locked him in the room, putting a chair under the door handle.
"Really mature." She said under her breath. She knows she has around 10 minutes until someone notices he is missing from the part upstairs so she worked fast. She did open a lot of doors until she came into the room she was looking for. "So here are the things."
She picked up her camera pen, made a few pictures and once that was done she did go upstairs, trying to find Howard.
Howard was talking to a dark skinned lady, she was really pretty, but Peggy knew they didn't had much time, grabbed him by the arm and took him to the front door. "Peggy I was enjoying my time. I almost had her adress." He said with a bit of pitty in his voice.
"Howard if we stay longer we probably can get a bullet in our heads." She said. "So you found out I suppose." He said to her while walking fast.
"I did. He was not as charming as he pretended to be. I made pics, now come one, before they notice he is bound on the ground of the basement." She said quietly.
When they entered the door the bodyguard wanted to know where they run off to this early in the night. "My friend is… I am so embarassed to say it." Howard said. "I just had my lady thing. I have to change." She said with a smile, but the bodyguard wasn't buying it.
He grabbed both of them by the arm and Peggy punched him with her elbow in the face, making him crumble to the floor. He was still awake and grabbed her dress, ripping the bottom of her dress. She turned around and punched him hard in the face and he didn't move after it.
They ran to the gate that was open and Jarvis was waiting in the car. They got it. "Drive!" Peggy and Howard said together in a hurry.
"It was a splendid evening?" Jarvis asked. "It was. Now go to the villa." Howard answered him and they drove off into the night, leaving the mansion behind.
Peggy had showed her boss the information of the night before. She had expected a bit of an negative reaction, because she did this investigation on her own in her free time, but they at least have a lead now.
"Agent Carter you could have ruined this investigation!" her boss yelled at her, frustrated. "Sir I did…" she wanted to say but he cut her off. "You did something without discussing it with me first!"
"I did what was needed to get more information and I am sure Mister Rodriquez has something to do with it." Her boss looked angry at her. "Sir if I hadn't done it, we still wouldn't have had a lead to help us solve this case. I do not regret it."
Her boss was silent for a moment. "Fine Agent Carter. But from now one you are coming to me." She answered him. "Yes sir, thank you sir."
She walked out of the office towards her co workers. Howard had called her before she had gone to her boss.
"I called with Mister Stark. He still has no clue what the equipment is used for. Only that it is used to build something that can do something on its own like we knew already. He will try to figure it out and will call me when he knows something of it that is new information." Peggy said with a frown present on her face.
"Maybe we should check all the stores in Los Angeles that deal in equipment like that one. So we can find out if it comes from the white or from the black market." Brandon said. He had worked for hours. Even longer than the rest of them. He wanted to show them he can solve this case and that he does a good job.
"That seems like a good idea. Mister Rodriquez is our first suspect in this case, he makes inventions, but we still need to figure out how he get's the material and equipment for it." Thompson said.
So that is what they all did. Trying to find out more.
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