I stood outside, keeping watch as the others delved into the Frog's secret box thing. It was all pretty quiet, no one walking by so when they came out pretty soon after going in, we headed away. "So where are we going now?"
"London." Dad answered simply and I blinked.
"London? Why do we need to go there?"
"It said something about ice." Sarah told me but that seriously did not help. What did she mean ice? "Incarcerate Cannot Execute." Oh I get it now.
"Wait so, MI6 have someone on ICE. Who?" They all shrugged in unison.
"We don't know yet but they've been that was for thirty two years." Dad answered quietly as we walked through security. This time I did the arranging for flight patterns since last time Marvin did it and we were held up for an hour waiting for a runway to be cleared for us. I arranged for a jeep to be brought down for us to take, making sure that my details were false and untraceable before giving everyone else the go.
The flight over to England took less than half an hour which was nice. I took a nap, seeing as there was nothing else to do and the awkwardness between dad and Sarah was beginning to affect Marvin and I. We landed, picked up the jeep then drove towards London. I read a book, occasionally looking up to see either my dad looking at Sarah or Sarah looking at my dad but never at the same time. It was kind of nerve wracking, waiting to see who would crack first.
When I felt the jeep roll to a halt I looked up. "How could she have possibly found us?" Dad asked aloud as I looked forwards to see Victoria standing in the road, wearing army combats and carrying a sniper. Slowly dad looked around to Marvin who shifted uncomfortably.
"Because I called her and told her we were coming." We all stared at him in silence. "Well I couldn't take the pressure of not knowing." I watched dad reach for his gun so I did the same, swallowing the lump in my throat.
"Why isn't she shooting at us?" Dad murmured quietly, glancing at Marvin before putting the car into reverse. When I heard the shot fire and the wheel go, we slid down into the ditch on the side of the road, Sarah falling back into my arms as we were thrown off balance.
"She's not going to kill us dad. It's Victoria." I sighed, opening the door and getting out. The moment I stepped out my eyes locked on Victoria. Grinning I waved and she smiled broadly. I jogged up the bank and called out her name.
"Aunty Victoria!" I flung my arms around her and she held me in a tight one armed hug as the other held her big sniper.
"Hello darling, oh I've missed you. Look how much you've grown!" She fussed, reaching forwards to pinch my cheek then brush away some imaginary mud. "Staying out of trouble I hope?" She questioned but I rolled my eyes.
"With a role model like Frank Moses, is there any hope for me at all?" Victoria laughed then approached the others. We all set up the crash, burning the car and putting fake bodies into the car. I refused to touch the corpses, I left that to dad and Marvin who didn't seem to mind so much.
"That should buy us twenty four hours." Victoria called back as Sarah carefully tottered down the slope to her. "Hello sweetie." She smiled as she hugged her.
"Where did you get the bodies?" Sarah asked as we turned to watch the warm flames flicker brightly before us.
"My freezer." Both Sarah and I turned to look at her, slightly shocked and a little disgusted, in the best of ways of course. Once we were all safely tucked away in Victoria's car we drove the rest of the way into London. To be honest I didn't do much, only kept Marvin and Sarah out of trouble whilst dad and Victoria went to get find out exactly what Nightshade was from the guy held in ICE.
I wish I had gone with them. Marvin was constantly trying to get out his gun to shoot suspecting agents trying to kill us. No matter how many time I confiscated a weapon from him, more just kept cropping up so in the end I just sat him down on a bench and made him stay perfectly still like a scolded toddler on the naughty step. Sarah kept on rushing in and out of shops so many times I lost track of where she was and every time she gave me a heart attack in my panic.
It was like looking after two seriously badly behaved, over excited children. When dad finally came back, without Victoria, I was glad to have him there to keep an extra set of eyes on everyone. "Who is that? Where's Victoria?" I demanded quietly, looking to the elder man as he stared in awe around him, humming absently.
"Doctor William Bailey." He informed me. "Victoria stayed behind to gather some more information."
"Yes? Someone shout?" The doctor turned around and smiled. "Hello there little one. Would you like a sweetie?" He dug into his pocket and drew out a very tatty, old, musty packet of mints.
"No…thank you." I recoiled slightly from the sight. "That's very kind of you."
"Not at all. You just let me know should you change your mind. What did you say your name was?"
"I didn't." I blinked with a frown. "I'm Natalia."
"Ah! Natalia. Are you related to my good friend? She was called Natalia too." Slowly I shook my head with a confused frown. Grabbing dad's arm I drew him closer so I could lower my voice into a whisper.
"Please tell me you haven't brought me another adult with the mind of a three year old to keep an eye on because honestly, I struggle with just these two." He gave me a weak laugh.
"Baby, it's not so bad. We just need to get to Moscow so he can show us where he hid Nightshade." I arched an eyebrow at him.
"Well then. He's your responsibility. I'm going to buy some coffee, something deep friend, calorific, smothered in grease and stuff it into my face." Turning I headed off.
"Ooh that sounds great! I want some too." Sarah called then chased after me.
"Yeah I'm hungry as well. Wait up." Marvin yanked his hat lower over his head as he followed.
"I love crumpets. Especially with butter. Very tasty." Bailey murmured dreamily then began to wander off after us, leaving dad behind with a confused and slightly lost expression on his face.