Yes, it is I. I have returned to try this once more.
That is all I have to say, I don't own anything.
Hope you enjoy!
"WHAT HEART!?" Both Hood and Regina yell at the same time.
"The day after you left for your trip, a human heart was sent to your apartment with a note saying 'this represents my heart that will forever be yours.' Now back to what I was saying, I work for the FBI, therefore, I do not need a CPO. I can and have taken down a man twice my size, and I have a better shooting range than any other agent in the FBI office." I say and I regret it as I can practically see the puzzle pieces in Regina's head fitting together.
"Follow me please and you as well Hood." Regina says.
"Why? And to where?" I ask.
"To the basement so you can prove you don't need a CPO."
In the basement there is a large fighting ring,some punching bags, and six treadmills. I take off my suit jacket and hand it to Regina .
"Don't wrinkle that okay." I say as I climb into the ring.
"Hood I'm sorry." I saw squaring up to him.
"For what?" He asks as he starts to walk around the ring.
"Just know, you brought this on yourself." I say as Hood begins to run towards me. As he goes to grab me I grab his wrist and pin it behind his back, applying a little bit of pressure so he drops to his knees before I let him go.
"You saw that right? And I'm not even trying-" I'm cut off by Hood grabbing me from behind.
"Big mistake Hood." I tell him before elbowing his ribs enough to cause pain but not hurt him.
"Okay you got, you win no CPO. And agent Swan if you ever find yourself in need of a job you come find me."
"Thank you, I might have to take you up on that offer Hood. Now that that's settled how about we go find the woman stalking you?"
"How do you know that it's a woman stalking me?"
"Are you gay?" I ask looking him square in the eye hearing the guys behind me chuckle.
"Excuse me?" She says stepping a bit closer causing me to take a step back.
"If the person stalking you was a woman that would make you gay because a woman would not send a straight woman a heart no matter how crazy they were it's the first rule in being a lesbian or being gay period."
"Are you gay Agent Swan?" She says taking yet another step closer to me, and again I go to step back only to be stopped by the wall.
"Excuse me? You have no right to ask me that." I say pushing her away from me and off the wall.
"So you have the right but I don't? How is that right or fair?"
"First of all, life isn't fair. Second of all, I am a federal officer sent here to keep you from getting killed. Therefore I can ask you that question and many more, Ms. Mills." I tell her pointing my finger at her as if I was speaking to a child. As she goes to say something my phone starts to ring.
"Excuse me Ms. Mills." I say as I step away to answer the call.
"Agent Swan." I answer in all professionalism.
"Agent Swan there has been a development in the Mills case and you need to get her down here right now." I hear Director Blanchard say.
"May I ask what the development has been?" I ask Director Blanchard.
"Her mother, Ava Mills was just rushed to the hospital. She sustained multiple stab wounds to the lower and upper abdomen. We believe her attacker was the same person who is stalking her daughter." She says and I can feel my heart drop.
"Oh my God. Should I tell her?"
"Not unless you want a whole nother problem on your hands. She will want to go to the hospital to see her and she can't do that, we don't want her statement to be compromised." She says slightly rushed.
"Okay we will be there shortly."
"I will see you when you get here Agent." She says and hangs up.
"What was that about?" She asks before I can say anything.
"We need to go the Boston FBI Headquarters right now, that's all I can tell you Ms. Mills." I say trying to remain calm.
"No. You will tell me what is going on right now." She says raising her voice.
"I have been advised by my superior not to inform you of the development until we have reached the headquarters Ms. Mills." I say, picking at a piece at thread on my shirt, not daring to look her in the eyes.
"Hood, bring the car around." Regina says and I can feel her eyes on the top of my head.
"Yes ma'am. Will we be following you in your car Agent Swan?" Hood asks me.
"No. My car is back in Seattle, where you go I go so let's get going please." I say as Regina and I head for the front of the building.
"How long have you worked for the government?" She asks me looking in the opposite direction.
"Almost eleven years." I answer her question knowing she meant how long had I worked for the FBI.
"You have worked for the FBI for eleven years?" She asks visibly stunned by the answer I had previously given her.
"No, I have worked for the FBI for four years. When you say government you are including the year I was a patrol officer, the six years I worked in the homicide division, and the four years I have worked as an FBI agent." I say just as Hood pulls up in a black SUV with tinted windows.
"Where to Agent Swan?" Hood asks once I am settled in the passenger seat.
"201 Maple Street." I say receiving glares from them both.
"Really? That's just two blocks away, should we just walk instead?"
"No, there is somewhere else we need to be after and we will need the car." I say trying to keep my mouth shut until we have reached the first destination.
It does not take that long for us to reach the Boston headquarter and we are soon after standing in the elevator heading for the 23rd floor.
When the elevator doors open Director Blanchard is standing directly in front of us.
"Agent Swan." She says as a greeting.
"Director." I answer back.
"Ms. Mills, follow me to my office please there is something we need to discuss ."
I am not sure what to do so I go to sit but Director Carson stops me.
"Agent Swan I do believe you are suppose to go where Ms. Mills goes." She says holding the door to her office open for m to follow.
"Hood, you are to not let Mills out of this building until I say other wise. There will be other Agents to help you." I whisper to Hood so Regina won't hear.
"May I ask why?" He whispers back.
"Swan." The Director yells from the other side of her desk.
"Just do it, you will find out soon enough." I say as I step in the office and close the door.
"Ms. Mills as you may know there has been a development in the case of you're stalking, correct?" Director Carson says as I step into the corner opposite the chair Regina has chosen to sit in.
"I know of the development but not what the development is exactly." Regina says looking me directly in the eye.
"I'm not sure how to say this to prevent you from barging out of here, so I'm just going to say it. Your mother was attacked an hour ago." She is barely able to finish her sentence before Regina is up on her feet shouting."
"You knew my mother was attacked and you didn't tell me!?" She says rushing towards me, but before she can two other agents come in and just barely hold her down in her chair. "Why can't I go see her? What hospital is she in? Who did this to her?" She asks once she is calm and is released from the hold the agents had her in.
"You can't see her because our agents in Seattle have requested that no one speak to her until they have spoken with her and she has given a full description of her attacker. She was rushed to the nearest hospital which was Cray Medical Center. She sustained multiple stab wounds to her upper and lower abdomen. Her doctors say she is doing remarkably well for a woman of her age Ms. Mills. She will be ready to go back home once the doctors are certain there is no sign of an infection, so your looking at maybe two to three weeks in the hospital and one to two weeks of bed rest."
"When can I go see my mother?" She says shifting her gaze onto the Director.
"As of right now I can't be sure so I won't tell you what I think."
"Thank you. That's much more than Agent Swan has given me." She says fixing her stare back on me.
"Ms. Mills there is something else you should know." She tells him looking-for the first time since she was a teen probably- slightly uncomfortable.
"Are you going to tell me are not?" She asks in something close to a growel.
"We believe that the same woman stalking you is the woman who attacked your mother."
"YOU WHAT?!" It is at this point in the conversation that she gets up and heads towards the door before the Director or I can stop her. Once she is out of the room Hood is standing in front of the elevator doors stopping the escape.
"Hood move! NOW!" She says, her loud voice ricocheting off the wall around us.
"I was told to not let you leave this building until I am told otherwise. Ma'am."
"Hood you get out of my way right now or you will no longer be protecting me, but yourself from me." Her voice barely above a whisper, anyone else would have been frightened by it but I have been through and seen worse than Regina - rich-greek goddess-like, stop it Emma,-Mills' menacing whisper.
"No offence, but she scares me a little bit more than you do ma'am." Hood says causing Regina to turn back in my direction.
"You do what you have to Swan." Director Blanchard says as Regina starts to come my way.
"You have been nothing but trouble since you arrived here!" She screams making to grab me by the neck. I wait until she is almost inches away and grab her arm pinning it behind her back, twisting it just a bit to inflict the right amount of pain causing her to drop down on her knees. She stops struggling for a few minutes so I release some of the twisting on her arm, as I do she rolls onto her back causing me to lose my footing and fall landing on my back. Giving her the opportunity to get on top of me pinning me to the ground by my wrist. Someone must have moved to remove Regina as I hear the Director say,
"No leave her, she is trained to handle situations like this. If you help her she will never learn not to provoke Agent Swan into this state of mind anymore." As she says this I remember being taught that when you are on the ground with an attacker above you ALWAYS go for the eyes, if that doesn't work go for the nose. And if your hands are bound use your head the same way you would use your fist. So that's exactly what I did, I bring my head up as hard as I possibly could causing her to jump back off me in pain or shock I don't know. I get up ready to take whatever she throws and notice her nose is bleeding, dripping onto her white dress shirt. I look over at the Director and see her smirking at Regina's bleeding nose.
"In all due respect Director, I did give her a fair chance-" But before I can finish my statement I feel a sting pain on the right side of my face. And as an FBI agent I am taught in self-defence and I was taught by my adoptive father Neal to hit back and hit hard when hit, then ask questions when the person who hit me regained consciousness. So that's what I did as I brought my right fist up and connected it to her left eye socket then following right after with my left connecting just below her chin effectively knocking her out cooled.
"Smug arrogant bitch." I say stepping over her body to look at my face in the mirror by the elevators.
"Swan! You made your point and made me feel like a proud mom a little." Director Blanchard says just as the phone in her office starts ringing and the fax machine starts printing out something.
As I go to retrieve the fax, Director Carson comes out of her office looking deathly pale.
"Emma, my office please." She says and I know with her using my first name that this is personal and very serious. Before joining me in her office she retrieves the print out.
"What is it?" I ask reaching for the paper but she pulls it out of my reach.
"You should sit down for this Swan." I do as told and I sit down in front of her desk and she sits in the chair next to me.