She pulled the warm fabric of her light purple down jacket tighter around her, as she shivered against the bitter cold. She looked up at the velvet black night sky, adorned with millions of twinkling stars, to many to count, she knew, she'd tried.
"What are you doing out here?"
She simply turned, and smiled, the stillness lasting for only a moment longer, and then the sky was filled with color.
…
Ding...
The sound of the elevator doors opening brought Kassy back from her thoughts. She closed her eyes for a moment, before forcing herself to open them, and step off the elevator.
She stepped out into the fray, Cameron and Jonathan right beside her. She took a deep breath and let it go.
Cameron went to go find Kay.
"Are you okay?" Jonathan asked, placing his hand on her shoulder, "we don't have to do this, we can go home, if you want," he told her.
"No, no, Kay said he wanted to talk to me, before they send him to jail, besides, I need to talk to him too," Kassy told Jonathan, "but thank you."
"Any time," Jonathan told her.
Just then, Cameron and Kay came walking towards them, and Kay led them to the interview room that William Jackson was waiting in.
Kassy looked in through the window in the door, her father was sitting at the table, his handcuffed hands sitting in his lap.
Taking another deep breath and letting it go, she looked back at Cameron, Jonathan, and Kay, and said, "Well, here goes nothing," and she pushed the door open.
William looked up, as his daughter entered the room, and he smiled when she sat down across from him.
"Well, I'm here, Kay told me we only have a few minutes before your transfer," Kassy told her father.
"Kassy, how have you been?" William asked.
Kassy stared blankly at him for a moment, before her blue eyes began to sparkle with unfallen tears…
"Well, Dad, let's see...um, well, you disappeared, and I went to jail, and then I helped the FBI get the Himalayan Pink Diamond back, turns out it never left the museum in the first place, then Mom showed up, shot Cameron Black, my cousin, oh, did I forget to mention that I found out I have two cousins, Jonathan and Cameron Black, that I never even knew about, anyway, Mom shot Cameron, threatened to kill him, so I end up giving her the Pink Diamond, she disappears too, turns out she's working with Bennett Chambers, the owner of the diamond, to frame me, and to sell the diamond overseas and collect the insurance money, we track them to Paris, along with my half sister, whose name I still don't know, we switch out the real diamond for a fake, but then my dear half sister tries to steal the real diamond from me, but I was one step ahead of her, and she ended up sailing away with a fake diamond."
"Woah, it sounds like you had quite a time," William said.
"Yeah, well, I would have told you about it, if you would have come back, sent me a letter...something," Kassy told her father.
"Kass, I wish I could have, but I couldn't risk reaching out."
"So why now...why come back now," Kassy asked her father, "the FBI arrested you, you had to know that was going to happen?"
William looked down at the table, "I wanted to see my daughter," he said, looking up at her, and Kassy felt brand new tears spring up in her eyes, and she smiled, "and I need you to do something for me," and just like that, Kassy's smile fell, as she blinked away the tears in her eyes.
"I'm not stealing a diamond for you, Dad," Kassy informed her father, and she turned towards the door.
"Wait, Kassy, you don't have to steal it, it's hidden somewhere, I want you to find it," William explained.
Kassy turned around, "where is it?"
William just took out a folded piece of paper from his jacket pocket, and handed it to Kassy.
Kassy took it, and quickly slipped it into her jeans pocket, before Kay opened the door.
"Bye, Dad," Kassy said, with a touch of sadness in her voice, and she turned back around and gave her father a tight hug, her blue eyes shining with tears, and she didn't care if they fell.
Kassy ran into Jonathan and Cameron's awaiting arms, she cried for a few moments, as they wrapped her in a tight embrace.
"Let's go home," Cameron whispered in her ear.
"Kassy?" Kay called, and Kassy stopped and turned back to the agent.
"What is it, Kay?"
"William, he gave you something, what was it?" Kay inquired, walking up to Kassy.
Kassy reached into her jacket pocket, and took out a folded piece of paper, "Just this."
She handed Kay the folded piece of paper, and then got on the elevator with her cousins.
When the doors closed, Jonathan asked, "Kassy, what are you doing?"
"What do you mean?" Kassy asked, innocently.
"Kassy, we know you didn't give the piece of paper William gave you to Kay, you slipped that paper into your back jeans pocket, the paper you gave Kay, you took from your coat pocket."
Kassy thought for a moment about telling Cameron and Jonathan about what her father wanted her to do, finally she decided to tell them.
"...My father hid a diamond somewhere, and he wants me to find it!"
Jonathan gave Cameron a look, and Cameron asked, "Are you thinking about trying to find this diamond?"
"Thinking about it," Kassy answered.
"Kassy, no, what did we say about stealing?"
Kassy let out a deep sigh...
"You said, 'No stealing', but this isn't stealing, it's finding...after it's been stolen," Kassy told Cameron.
~So what do you think so far, where do you think the diamond is?~