Sorry about the wait….hard to get my brain into gear for this one. Thankyou for they great reviews – Apollo199199 I agree, I half expect the last episode of this series for Harry to say "Lucas…I am your father."
Disclaimer: Insert witty comment about the fact I don't own Spooks, never will and how sad I am about it.
If the man hadn't sworn loudly Tariq would have walked straight past him, he was mentally going over the infra-red facial recognition scans and nearly had a heart-attack at the profanities uttered seemingly at random by the large blonde man.
"Are you…oh Home Secretary sir?" Tariq didn't know whether to bow or shake his hand, so settled on a sort of curtsy. Smooth as always.
"Why I seemed to have suffered from some sort of hideous amnesia and forgotten who I am, thank God for you!" Snapped the HS, before returning to his phone, muttering curses under his breath.
A lesser man (or possibly just one who spent less time with Lucas) might have been hurt, but Tariq was already more focused on helping the HS with his current, fixable, crisis.
"Sorry sir, but you phone looks like it has a technical glitch of some kind….I might be able to work it out for you…."
The HS grunted "No offence kiddie, but I have important stuff on this and I don't need a tea-boy fiddling around with it."
"I'm not a tea-boy, I, I work for Sir Harry, I'm his technical expert actually."
The HS started at Tariq, taking in the casual clothes, the youth, the hair.
"Really?"
"Yes, sir."
"Oh, in that case here, knock yourself out. Can't receive a text message that's the problem."
"Yep, your problem is the amount of memory on here, it's too much for the phone to handle, causing it to overheat and slow down significantly….I would suggest stop downloading the amount of apps…or I could build you a bigger memory disk."
His eyes had gone slightly glassy but the idea of more apps lit up the HS' face.
"You can do that?"
"By the end of your meeting with Sir Harry if you leave it with me. Are you here for long sir?
"Just an informal visit to check up, snoop around etc. In fact while you are here if you could show me to Section D before my minder finds me, there's a good boy."
Harry rose to greet the HS, only to find him already grinning.
"Harry, your people are marvellous! Lovely blond made me some coffee and your techie is fixing my phone. He's probably gay considering he curtsied to me but you can't have everything."
"Yes, well, they're a great team." Said Harry quietly, inwardly reminding himself to tell them all more often.
I love the idea of the HS snooping around the Grid….he's my favourite to date methinks.
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