The Search
Grace woke up on Monday morning to the bright sunshine outside streaming into her windows. She got up out of bed knowing John had already left for work. Once in the kitchen she searched for something healthy to eat and pulled out a container of oat meal, "gross" she said. This was not her favorite typical breakfast but with Helen mad at her and Ashley gone she thought she should just eat what she found and not worry about going all out on breakfast this morning. Around 9am Helen had awoken and came out into living room to find Grace sitting on the sofa eating oatmeal and watching an episode of NCIS. "Why would she be eating oatmeal that is the nastiest breakfast food ever" Helen thought. She approached Grace and realized that she was crying. "Oh lovely what could be wrong now" Helen thought to herself not wanting to mutter the words in fear of Grace hearing her. She approached Grace and sat down besides her handing her a tissue. "Grace please tell me what's wrong, I can't help you if I don't know how to help" Helen stated. Grace looked up at her boss shocked cause what she actually saw was Helen smiling, how could she be smiling she's mad. "Well for starters Ashley is missing, second of all you practically hate me now because I'm with child" Grace replied to Helens question with deep hurt in her voice. Helen pondered over her response hurt and in shock that Grace would suddenly think she was mad at her. "Grace I am not mad at you I could never hate you your like my sister that I never had I need you." Helen replied taking Grace into a sisterly hug. Grace accepted and was happy. "Well boss do you want to go out for breakfast because this oatmeal is just plain nasty! "Grace said. Laughing Helen said "sure I would love to go to breakfast."
Grace let Helen pick where they would go to breakfast. Helen ended up choosing the Pirie de la francee Diner. Grace hadn't been there in a long time. As they entered Helen began to feel uncomfortable the lighting was dim and there was a very cold draft that seemed to overtake the diner. Helen thought this was very unusual and it gave her the chills. She looked over at Grace and gave her a look that said were staying I want to check this place out with that Grace nodded. She slipped on her leather jacket Helen had bought her glad she was only 6 weeks into her pregnancy so, she wouldn't be showing too bad and small enough to still zip the jacket just to the mid-section of her chest. The hostess smiled a tiny evil smirk that sent chills down Graces spine, "looks like they have something to hide" Grace Thought to herself. Once seated Helen and Grace sent text messages to each other for fear that someone would hear them talking about their plan but did try to keep a small talk conversation going so they wouldn't look suspicious. They came up with this place had something to hide and needed to be checked out the two decided Helen would be the first to leave for a potty break. As Helen entered the bathroom she peeked under each stall to make sure no one was in here, she walked to the last stall in the row and locked the door. Pulling her back pack off her shoulder and opening it she surveyed the spy tools she had a lap top, 4 guns, binoculars, rope, grappling hook, and a GPS cell phone. She pulled out her laptop and typed in the location and address of the restaurant. Then she hacked into their server and had an entire surveillance on the building. "Perfect" she smiled and thought to herself. She pulled up section 8 of the building that looked to be the loading and docking area where they take in supplies. She zoomed in and found an office with 2 people chained up in there and 4 guys outside the room holding machine guns and discussing something and on the table were 18 little bags of cocaine being put into bags of money and loaded into a box with fruit and cookies and being put into a truck. Grace pulled out her GPS cell and texted Grace her findings. She walked into the bathroom to meet with Helen, leaving a tip on the table and the bill paid. Once inside the bathroom Grace found Helen and Helen handed her a gun which she tucked inside of her jacket in one the inside pockets she had. "Now remember your training cause here is your first mission with me." Helen stated. "Now here is what we're going to do, were going to try and find an entrance to the back room from inside the diner here if we can't we go around to the back and get in through the loading area" Helen told grace. Grace nodded. " then were going to take out the four guys that are guarding the tiny room I'll let the other 2 free, you grab the drugs and we get in the car and start heading to the police. " Now we need to be sure and take out the 4 guys so make sure you remember your training" Helen carefully told Grace. "Yes mam let's do this" Grace whispered. They exited the bathroom carefully sliding around the corner and looking for the door that led to the shipping area but to their surprise wasn't any. Helen puzzled because she thought for sure there would be an entrance from the building motioned to Grace that they would have to slip out the side door and head around to the back. They found it easily once outside and entered. Grace crouched behind a stack of crates pulled out the gun Helen gave her and on the count of 3 her and Helen jumped up and shot the guys. Grace quickly went through the box and pulled out the drugs shoved them in her pocket and helped Helen get the other guys out. "Phew Helen I didn't think we could actually do that but we pulled it off" Grace panted out. Helen smiling said "I knew you could do it the whole time and perfect timing right after your training too." Grace still panting took a drink of water as they headed to the police station. Helen reached over and touched Graces shoulder and said "take it easy now I'll handle the rest of this case you need to rest after all that excitement was probably not too good for the baby, after I finish up in here we'll go get breakfast finally." Grace nodded and lay back in her chair resting her hand on her stomach. "What an adventure today was and we were just looking for some good breakfast, I can't wait till I get to do more of that." Grace thought to herself.
After work that day John was happy to be going home. As he walked in the door he smelled another delicious meal walking into the kitchen to kiss Grace, but instead he found Helen making fish for dinner. He walked over to the sink and filled a glass of water. "She's in the living room in case you were wondering" Helen told him. He dumped his water in the sink and walked into the living room sitting on the couch wrapping his arms around his beautiful wife. "Hello darling" he said kissing her on the forehead. "Hello how was your day at work?" she replied "OH just fine kind of busy today, but I missed you." He said "awe I missed you too" she said while softly planting a kiss on his lips. After dinner they all went to bed for it had been a very long day. Grace was startled awake through the middle of the night by a noise…
(To be continued)
