Chapter 4
Note: Incase you have not yet guessed the identities of our MI6 crossover guests they are revealed in this chapter.
The previous day
"It has been 6 months it is time to find another one."
"I know but we have been here for work and not on the road, meeting new people. How could we expect to find the perfect woman when we know not to take anymore from home?"
"I know...I just want to find one that will accept both of us...accept, stay and look after both of us."
"I have a meeting at a hotel near the Pentagon to go to. I will call you later."
12:00 am
M wakes in a small room somewhere dark. Not allowing herself to overreact she calmly takes inventory of the room before she attempts to sit up. There could be cameras...someone went to a great deal of trouble to kidnap her before her meeting at the Pentagon.
She will have to do whatever it takes to stall for time so her people can find her. She sits up cautiously and looks around the room. It is underground but there is a small window for light once the sun does come up.
Whoever they are, they used drugs. M notices how dry her mouth feels, as she makes it shakily to her feet and moves to one of the two doors. The main one is locked...of course, but the second leads to a nice bath.
How long has she been out?
M checks her pocket for her mobile, of course that is gone. It cannot be more than midnight.
Protocol dictates that her alias is now in effect. The agents will be alerted and political implication dealt with by Mr. Tanner. She hopes he is already back in London coordinating with the Americans.
There is a sound at the door. Time to put on brave face and give these terrorist her best stiff upper lip.
A man enters the room. Not as rough around the edges as she expected, nor armed in any way. He seems well dressed, perhaps in his forties, but is he her handler or her kidnapper?
First he brings in a box with some towels and a blanket. He ducks back out of the door and brings a tray of food including two glasses and a bottle of wine.
"I am so glad to see you up. You must have been tired from your long trip from England. I have to say…I was taken with you right away...and once I heard your beautiful accent I knew you were different...that you would be the one...the one we have been searching for."
She looks cautiously confused. "I don't understand? Who are you and why am I here?"
"All you need to know is that you are here to make us the happiest men on the planet. Now, tell me your name beautiful."
M ignores his request and continues with her questions.
"What? Do you belong to an organization?"
He moves close to her. M takes one step back trying to keep an appropriate amount of distance between them.
He just smirks at her. "What...no my darling...what type of organization?" He looks her up and down as if sizing her up for something.
M realized quickly that this was not a politically motivated move. "Where you watching me? Are you military?"
"No...why would we be? Oh I see...the hotel so close to the Pentagon...you assume I am military. No, I am just someone who has been looking for love for a long time."
The man moves towards her with his hand outstretched for her face. M holds very still as she watches her kidnapper carefully. His hand cups her left cheek as his thumb caresses the side of her face. A look of longing and hunger in his eyes.
He is tempted by her...he really wants her more than the others. The others cried constantly begging for them to kill them in the end. No, this woman has spirit, and she turns him on with the haughty way her eyebrows raise when she asks, no this one makes demanding questions. It is as if she thinks she has some control of this situation.
No. They are in control and that is how it should be. If they can break this one he will be extremely happy. Everything will be as it should.
He cannot take her yet...there are rules. Then again, he just broke a rule by taking another so close to home. He did it because technically she is not from here and that will work to their benefit.
This is not what M expected...my god where is she?
How will she manage this man?
This man doesn't even understand who she bloody well is!
This is no political ransom. Why on earth would he chose her randomly?
MI6 examined the area for any threats to her well before coming...this is something more deeply disturbing...we what did he mean by we?
Is there another?
M's stomach rolls...where are the bloody bodyguards when she needs them!
This man is teetering on the edge of madness, and he has no idea that he just managed to kidnap the head of MI6.
Nor does M think he will care. The knowledge may only make him dispose of her more quickly to prevent the trouble that 007 will undoubtedly rain down upon him.
For once, M won't mind the swath of destruction her most talented agent can muster in the blink of an eye. She will just have to play this calmly and slowly, using her wits all the while hoping that she has the strength to fend him off should the need arise.
"We have been waiting for someone like you for a long time. If you are wise, you will please us and all will be well."
M feels the sudden urge to rush to the bathroom. She does and slams the door loudly. She retches into the toilet as she hear music now playing in the other room.
Oh dear God. Bond, for once please destroy anything in your path to find this place and end this insane man.
There is a knock at the door. "I have a key. You cannot hide yourself away in there. Please come to me. I promise that you will be fine. You have to meet both of us before anything more can happen."
M splashes water on her face and pulls together an illusion of indomitable spirit and personal control. She will not let him see fear, and she will fight with all her might when it comes to the end.
M is a logical woman and she know how these things usually turn out, but she refuses to play the victim. Weakness she will only show if it should benefit her for manipulation and escape.
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James Bond and Q are dropped off back at the hotel by Agent Morgan. The large handsome agent does not seem to like them, or Bond at least. There is no conversation on the ride back to the hotel.
They make their way back to the room and Q does a sweep for any listening devices that the FBI may have left behind.
"I got the distinct impression that agent Morgan didn't like you 007. Everything is fine...we can talk."
Bond paces like an angry tiger in front of him, as he pulls out his computer and attaches it to his mobile and an electrical source.
"Nothing about this is fine Q! We have to find who took M, fast! The man who took her is a bloody serial killer! The idiot actually managed to capture the head of MI6 from a public place. Right from under my nose!"
"I was worried about that. The fact that this is not politically motivated at all. We did a thorough check before coming for any threats to M. Here, come look at this. Here is all the information that the BAU has collected so far. I managed to hack into their system easily enough once we were in there. I sent the unscrambled video feed to their Ms. Garcia the computer tech. I also bugged her rather ornate pen so we can listen in."
"That will work well if she carries it everywhere she goes...I hope we get that lucky because the rest of this trip has been a fiasco. Did you manage to cover our stories well enough in case they dig deeper?"
"I have all of Q branch on that. Tanner is coming online now."
Bond, Q do you have any leads?
"Yes but they are far more disturbing than kidnapping for ransom. The FBI is working on a case of a serial killer that take mature wealthy women and then the bodies are found in the wilderness in different states along the east coast."
WHAT!
"I managed to hack the FBI Mr. Tanner and we will follow them as they work through the case...according to the documents they have received from Pennsylvania, Georgia and Florida...oh...oh my….ummm."
"What is it Q?"
"The victims were held for at least a week and then sexually assaulted...strangled and wrapped in a blanket before burial."
Bond just grimaces and looks at Tanner through the camera.
"I will not let that happen to M. We will shadow their investigation and I will bring her home Bill.
Send us everything that you have. I will have a team of agents sent within the hour.
Bond appears very angry and very serious.
"You have to keep them under the radar Tanner...the FBI does not want to share...I already inquired. Only have them contact us by mobile and we will send them where they need to be. Q send the locations of the descovered bodies to Tanner. Bill send a few men posing as FBI to each sight...have them look around. I will deal with anything in the DC area. Rent us a car and have it ready downstairs within the hour."
I will. Just find M and bring her home safely. I am not sure that having you for a bodyguard on this mission was a good thing 007.
"It was hardly my fault she had to use the WC Tanner. I will prove that it was the best thing I was here when I get her back and kill the bastard who took her."
Q has not seen Bond this riled up since Silva tried to take M from her tribunal before Skyfall. It seem natural that he is. They have all become closer to M since the incident, and Bond is the closest of all.
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Garcia points to her laptop. "Let's see what the security footage fairies have brought us today?"
The footage comes up on the large screen for all of them. They see the arrival and once they get into the lobby they can get a better look at Ms. Parker and her mannerisms.
Her husband scans the room with his eyes as the other man with the briefcase stays slightly behind Evelyn Parker.
"See her walk...it is purposeful...she exudes a casual dominance over this man here...the one who went back to London." Hotch says.
"The husband is attentive and observant...how could this have happened when he seems well aware that others may be a threat to her. It is almost as if he is acting as a bodyguard more than a husband." Rossi adds.
"It appears as though she matters a great deal to him...even if you take him as a bodyguard the physical positioning and the amount of times he looks at her making direct eye contact along with the amount of times Mr. Kincade actually touches her, gives credence to the husband or lover scenario." Reid states.
"So the age difference means nothing, and this man is actually her lover?" Morgan asks.
"I am just operating under that assumption after meeting him and seeing the interplay between them on screen. Being lovers is a mute point. There is genuine affection between these two human beings and I don't think age holds any boundary over the heart and mind."
"Such a romantic Reid. I have to agree...there is no way that man would harm her. Nor Mr. Tanner. I think his attitude of anger and frustration here today was proof of that also." J.J adds.
"Ok so they arrive...go to their room...that part is still fuzzy...what is with this it is almost as if they have personal video jammers on...they come back to the lobby and go to the restaurant to eat. An hour later Evelyn exits and goes to the restroom. Time passes...oh wait...look...a cleaning cart is being pushed out...it must have been in there before she entered. It gets pushed to the back...down the hall...and...and...nothing. No video feed."
"There has to be something more...we need to go over this more carefully baby girl."
"Look there is the husband...he walks right into the ladies room to look for her." J.J. says.
"Yes, and look at his face when he leaves. Pause that...does he have a gun?" Rossi asks.
"Yes, he runs out of the restroom with a gun...but puts it away quickly as he meets up with the….other man...who left by midnight. Garcia can you confirm exactly when all our English friends arrived and if Mr. Tanner actually left. There is something not right in all of this." Hotch exclaims.
"Sure...and I will go over the footage frame by frame for what...what should I be looking for?"
"Baby girl, I will help you."
"So will I." J.J. says.
"I think we need to head back to the hotel to talk to them...Rossi, Reid you're with me."
The three men leave them to examine the video and find out where Mr. Tanner really went.
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"Look here...I think things are just getting weirder and weirder. J.J. relay this to our boys will you."
"Sure...Hotch...speaker phone. Garcia has something more."
Ok give us the details.
"Okay dokey but be patient I am working as I am talking….Mr. William Tanner was said to have left back to London at midnight...but there were no flights."
Rossi can be heard next...He could have left from a different airport.
"No...no you see it gets even weirder...none of their passports were scanned for entry...I went directly into the airport security. On the other search I found their passports and was able to bring up their pictures but this is beyond good hacker magic...this is government voodoo computer magic."
Hotch speaks from the speaker next. Quinton...he said he was good with computers...check for unauthorised entries Garcia.
"I'm on it! Oh my...oh...oh you little magician you. He took everything on our case and then he sent the file with the uncorrupted video feed."
"Quinton and Kincade knew we would not let their government help." Morgans states.
"And they knew we needed a clear picture from the hotel to possibly identify the unsub watching her." J.J. adds quickly.
"And being brought in here directly, gave the little magician boy access to our systems...I want to get this guy back in here...to see if there was anything else taken. It was strategic...well planned and efficient. He even had a delay on the uncorrupted video file so it arrived after they left the building. The fake passports and not entering the country by traditional flight...what? It means...private jet!"
Reid can be heard next from the car. It was a well covered act but I think it likely that they are not who they say they are and therefore can only be part of the British secret service.
Hotch speaks next. Continue going over the video feed and find an unsub...use facial recognition software anything...we need to find a random person watching her. Garcia also look for any cars leaving from the rear of the hotel to try to figure out how she left. Kincade likely searched the hotel completely in the time before the reissued report on her abduction.
"Oh my god...you are not going to believe this!"
"What baby girl?"
"Facial recognition came up for our dreamboat…GQ."
"Hey...lovely...dreamboat...really?"
"You know you are the love of my life sweet cheeks, but he popped up in Miami years ago. There was an explosion near a large prototype airbus and it would have destroyed the company...he was there."
"I think he was likely the cause, baby girl."
Hotch can be heard sighing over the speaker. It makes sense...he was very highly tuned...at one point I almost thought he was going to leap over the table and hit me when I told him we suspected our unsub was a serial killer.
J.J speaks next. "Be Careful then if you are trying to bring him it...I can't imagine he will be too happy about it."
Rossi adds one more thing before breaking their connection to the office.
No he won't...Garcia make sure Quinton didn't leave anything vicious in the system and find us an unsub. I think this woman is very high up in their organization and there will be more Brits showing up to find her, no matter what we officially told them.
To be continued…