Chapter 7
At lunch Eric and Nell were sitting at one table together alone, continuing to run a little strategy session by exchanging short text messages over their phones. Nell notified him that she would have an opportunity to go to Mason's office and download his files because he would be at a meeting with the heads of the different software development department at 1:30 PM, which was written down in the Outlook Calendar of the department where Nell's undercover alias worked. I guess that I back you up then just to be sure, in the case that Mason maybe comes back earlier back than expected you know?
Thx for that Beale but I don't that will be necessary. Nell was very well aware that Eric was very much concerned about her safety out in the field, especially now after they had become a couple and she couldn't but think every time how cute that actually was of him. The two quickly let their phones disappear as Adam Marks, one of Robert Michael's co-workers who finally asked: "Hey guys is this seat free or are you waiting for somebody else?" Nell quickly switched back into her undercover identity as she replied: "No you can sit down Adam."
After Adam had finally settled down on the chair directly next to Linda, he said: "Spaghetti is really my favorite lunch ever, we can really consider ourselves very lucky that our bosses are putting so much money into good canteen food." Linda and Robert finally focused back on eating completely before Robert finally said: "You're so right man, I have eaten at a couple of canteens in the past and the food at the most was really not that good to say the least."
"I totally know what you mean." Adam replied shortly before the three of them finally focused on their meal again. Meanwhile Ron Mason was busy with his lunch in a private room right next to canteen, because he wanted to discuss some things that he certainly needed some quite atmosphere for and also wanted to avoid at any costs that someone would be spying on their conversation. "I've got the encrypted tablet securely stored in the safe of my office, till Cheng pays for the software codes at our meeting the agreed amount of money is paid. My hired cleaner is still in front of Jennifer Parker's house to make sure that no evidence will be leading to me at the very end or else I can forget about the big plans that I still have with this firm once Miss Parker has been taken care off." Tzi Ma Cheng, his contact from the Chinese Intelligence Service had been very happy to hear that Mason had proved to be a very valuable partner and had guaranteed that he would be doing anything possible to help him if anything would go wrong.
Ron Mason surely hoped that he could trust his Chinese Intelligence Contact fully, because there surely had been enough people that had been so stupid enough to try and screw him over in the past and they all had paid dearly for it in the end. "What about the NCIS investigation? Shouldn't we also take care of those Agents that are snooping around at the company before they get to be a threat to our deal with the Chinese?" Of course Mason had kind of expected that question from one of his man at least but instead of reprimanding him for even bothering to waste his valuable time with asking such a stupid question, he had a very big smile on his face as he replied: "As far as I am informed those NCIS Agents shouldn't be our concern because right now there are searching for a needle in a very big haystack which that they don't even know where they need to look exactly for the criminal insider and before they know it the deal will be already done a long time ago."
Back at the Parker's house Kensi and Deeks where finally getting ready to leave, the whole questioning indeed did take its toll on her even if she had tried her best not to cry in front of two total strangers and especially Kensi couldn't help feel so sorry for Miss Parker and also kind of helpless. Surely she could say a lot of times, how much she could imagine how difficult this loss must be for her but no words from her would be able to fully ease the pain in the end.
She put thoughts to rest for now and she asked her partner: "Do you think Mason is really involved in the murder of Jason Parker?" Deeks had to think about that question for a quite a while and in the middle of the drive he finally said: "It was quite obvious how much Miss Parker hated the guys of this guy, I also have the feeling that he has surely some kind of suspicious aura around him but a murderer? I think it's too early to make a decision on that."
"Let's just hope that Nell and Eric will be able to shade some light into the dark, by getting a hold on some information that gets us closer to the leak inside Parker IT Solutions." Kensi said and she knew for sure that the Wonder Twins from OPS would definitely come up back home for their undercover mission with their undercover mission being a total success even if Eric surely wasn't a natural undercover operative like Nell was but she would definitely make sure that her partner wouldn't screw anything up by accident. While Kensi and Deeks were on their way following their newest lead: Peter Malone, a good buddy of Ron Mason that had been also involved in suspicious activities as the former Boss of HUD Electronics the cleaner that Mason had sent for a surveillance Job to the Parker's household stayed behind and sent a text message to his employer to inform him about the newest developments.
After Linda and Robert had finally finished lunch together, the couple walked some of the way back upstairs with their co-worker Adam until their ways finally separated. Before Linda made her way to Ron Mason's office, Robert shortly held onto his wife's hand and whispered into her ear: "Good luck Rockstar and take care of yourself." Instead of saying anything in response Linda just kissed him softly on his right cheek before she made her way down another corridor to get to her final destination with a file in her hand as a little cover up for the real reason she wanted to inside Mason's office.
AN: Ending this chapter with a big cliffhanger that leaves some questions unanswered for now-
Will Nell be able to download the files on Ron Mason's Computer and plant a bug? Thanks to- AceHuntzberger for adding this story to her/his story alert subscription and her/his favorite stories list, Thanks to- Lightning's Halo for reviewing this story. Of course I don't when the update after this one will be online but it won't take that much time then the wait for Chapter 7. Please read and review
