Loving Leanne – chapter two

IMPORTANT: Read the A/N at the end of this chapter.

Victors POV

When my eyes open today, I find myself slip a little more. With a weakened sense of conviction I bring myself out of bed preparing to immerse myself in work – again. The sound of my ringtone sounds and glance over looking at the caller ID – Xav. Sighing softly I hit decline, I didn't want to hear him all loved up, when all I could think about was my own absent soulfinder.

Fate was cruel, I don't care what people say. What I never found my soulfinder? Or worse of what if I did and she didn't wasn't me? I don't think I could cope with that, even the thought shook me to the core.

Pushing all the negative thoughts away I quickly got dressed. Grabbing my badge, wallet, keys and phone I left my apartment and drove to work.

As soon as I walk in I am greeted to chaos.

"Victor!" Tyler, my partner shouts out to me. "Where have you been?" I was about to inform him that I was in fact early, and that it would have been none of his business anyway. Then I saw the frantic look behind his eyes.

"What happened?" I asked curtly, but glancing over at the giant TV displaying the news I already knew.

"Jamie" Ty confirmed.

"Great" closing my eyes and gritting my teeth I walked to my desk and picked up James file. James Hill was someone we had been watching for a long time. He was a renowned hacker, one of the best, and we were building up a case to arrest him only yesterday. We were currently waiting for a warrant but considering the headlines were currently 'JAMES HILL - allegedly responsible for last night's cyber-attack on google' I'd say we had enough to go and pick him up now.

"Okay so here's what going to happen, Tyler you lead Monty's old team and I will lead Bens team, were going to go in through the front and split up, we will search the house, you collect Hill and put him under arrest. Okay?"

He nodded. "Sounds like a plan"

The ride to James Hill's house is a tense and nervous drive. I don't think it is due to us being scared of this particular job however, I think it's more the anticipation to finally get the bastard. 6 months of work on this project came down to our performance now, and boy were we ready.

"Hey Vic" Tyler spoke, breaking the tension in the car, we were the only ones inside this particular vehicle the rest of our teams behind us in a van.

"Yeah?" I ask, not taking my eyes off the road.

"Why are you so serious all the time, is it because you haven't found your soulfinder yet?" He asked quietly, practically whispering the word soulfinder like there was hidden cameras in the car.

Tyler and very select few knew about savants at my agency, Tyler didn't really have the clearance nor experience to know, but I demanded a certain amount of trust from my partners and felt that I should replicate that moral in return. Also Tyler understood, he didn't look at me differently or in awe after I told like any other higher ranking officials did, in face her shrugged and said 'okay man' and carried on eating his Doritos. Tyler was a good partner, though he was a pain in the ass sometimes – like now.

"No its not" I snapped. I can't deny that the word soulfinder sent a pang of pain in my chest, but he didn't need to know that.

"Whoa, okay man… chill" Tyler said, scrunching up a bit of paper and throwing it at me.

"I will give you chill in a minute 'Mate'" I said, spitting the word mate like it was venom on my tongue.

And then we both started laughing, and it was the best tension breaker any of us could have asked for.

When we arrived outside Hill's house all the easy chatter stopped. A serious, all-about-business, air took over the atmosphere and we got out of the car to instruct our teams on what we had to do. We moved up to James Hill's residence fairly quickly and burst through the door, me and my team moving straight on as Tyler's took the front of the house.

After a quick sweep of the house we had found nothing, James must have known we were coming to raid him! Everything was cleared up and it was almost as if the house had never been lived in. Looking at my deflated team, I felt my anger spark, whoever had leaked this information to Hill was going to pay.

"Okay guys, let's go, there's nothing here" Tyler sighed as we all walked towards the door. However as we began to near the exit, I found myself stopping. I had a gut instinct we were missing something- something important.

"What's up victor?" Tyler asked, glancing back to me confused as to why I had stopped walking.

"Did we do a complete sweep of the area?" I asked him, looking around the cluttered hallway.

"Yeah… we didn't find anything." He said. Once again however, I got the over whelming feeling that there was something in the house.

"Do one last check please" I ordered the boys, receiving groans from all of them. They all still went back into the house however, searching every room.

"Hey victor!" One of Tyler's guys called from downstairs. "I think we got something!" I raced into the room they were gesturing at and saw a small door on the let side of the room. How had they missed that last time?

"Open it up" I ordered grimly.

A/N: You sit at the table of the cramped coffee shop. It's a cold winter's day and you are feeling kind of down. You feel the doors to the shop open and the WHOOSH of cold wash over you. It blows your magazine of the table ad you crouch down to pick it up, at the same time someone else does to. You bash heads and you look up to glare at them.

OW!

Sorry! I'm Zed Benedict, and I think you're my soulfinder…

You gasp in shock and fall into their arms, Zed holds you close and whispers into your ear…

"You know what you have to do now, leave a review"

You know what to do guys, FindingSky4Life xx