"Where are you off to, Ken?" Karen scrunched her eyebrows with curiosity as she watched her husband strap his holster against his hip with his gun peeking out from it. She knew Kenneth was off duty so from the sight of his casual attire accessorized with a loaded fire arm concerned her.
"My CI got me a meeting with someone who might be able to help me with the hacker case." Kenneth said as he slipped an extra clip into his back pocket.
Karen raised an eyebrow, "I never knew a meeting required so many bullets, hon."
"It's just a precaution, sweetheart." Kenneth leaned down to where Karen was sitting on the bed and gave her a quick kiss on her forehead. "I won't be long."
"We gotta go." Beca shut her laptop and stuffed it into her bag along with the Raspberry Pi while Jesse tried to wrap his mind around their discovery.
"Well, this just gives you another good reason to call her!" Jesse said as he pushed himself up to follow Beca towards the gate.
"Or a good reason to avoid her." Beca smirked over her shoulder. When she looked forward, Beca stopped abruptly and Jesse crashed into her from the back. On the other side of the gate, with their backs turned, were two police officers listening in on their walkies.
"There was a breach in the network. Go check it out."
"Copy." One officer said before turning to the officer beside him, "Let's go."
Beca ushered Jesse back around to the back of the station when the officers began to punch in the passcode for the keypad.
"I don't think there's a way out this way, Bec." Jesse whined, bringing his hands up to his head as he heard footsteps coming closer.
Beca looked up at the fence in front of them and grabbed Jesse by the wrist.
"We're climbing." Beca lifted Jesse's hood over his head and pushed him up to quicken his pace up the fence. It was when he finally landed on the other side that Beca froze at the sight of a blinding light from a flashlight being pointed at her.
"Hold it right there!"
Beca pulled her tube mask over her nose and rushed up the fence as the footsteps behind her approached her quickly.
Jesse hid his face behind his hood as he ushered Beca to hurry. Once she landed, Jesse grabbed her and they took off in a sprint down the street, causing cars to honk and swerve.
"Suspects are on foot. Going down main street." The officers got into their squad car and drove after Beca and Jesse.
"Fuckfuckfuckfuck! We're so fucked!" Jesse yelled with a wheeze as his throat began to burn from panting and his legs were about to give. He and Beca were pushing passed people, hoping to find some sort of way to lose the cops. The sirens were wailing behind them and they heard the officer shout over the megaphone demanding them to stop.
Beca whipped out her phone and pointed it over her shoulder once the squad car's ID appeared on her screen. She hacked into the vehicle's functions and watched as the squad car was steered in high speed right into a fire hydrant.
As water bursted out of the hydrant and shot in the air, the officers were stunned in their seats while people began to crowd around the car.
Beca and Jesse smiled and high fived each other as they continued down the street, making a quick turn to make their way to Beca's house.
"Thanks for coming, Beale." Darius smirked from his place inside one of the boats. People were lingering around the dock, Kenneth could just about make out a few of Darius's men scattered around for an extra precaution.
"Let's make this quick, Lopez." Kenneth retorted, crossing his arms as he impatiently raised an eyebrow. Already regretting his decision of coming out here tonight.
Darius raised his hands in surrender as he walked off the boat, keeping his hand rested against its backside, "Now now. You need my help, remember? So you should watch that tone of yours if you ever plan on putting mi amiga, N0t3, behind bars."
"Oh so you two are friends?" Kenneth lifted his chin and took a step closer.
"No," Darius shook his head, "she just makes your life a living hell so she's done alright by me." He laughed when Kenneth gritted his teeth, nearly reaching for his gun to try a more direct approach of making Darius cooperate.
"Alright alright," Daris began, "Toby told you what my services are gonna cost?"
"He did, in fact, yes," Kenneth chuckled dryly, "and quite frankly, I highly doubt your services will be worth me risking my career to delete your criminal profile."
Darius was now leaning against the back of the boat, a raised eyebrow and a smirk on his face and a slight tilt of his head, his fingers were interlocked while Kenneth was speaking.
"I can find the hacker, Beale. Isn't that what you want?"
"Yes, but I don't want to lose my job in the process."
Darius nodded, "Well, you'll lose your job either way if you don't catch her. Demoted maybe, if they're feeling generous."
Kenneth rolled his eyes when Darius grinned at him and began to walk away. The officer's mind was juggling his chances, trying to choose his best course of action without putting his job on the line. But from the looks of it, Darius was right. Either way, his job was on the line.
"Lopez," Kenneth called out, making Darius turn back around with a smug grin on his face. Kenneth had a plan. But he needed Darius to trust him in the mean time, "I'll delete your profile. You have my word, but I need your word that you'll bring her to me at a place of my choosing."
Darius smiled, "You got it...partner."
"Why the hell didn't you call me!" Cynthia Rose shook her head but a light laugh escaped her lips while Beca and Jesse dropped on the couch from exhaustion.
"It was a simple hack. I didn't think they'd detect the intrusion so quickly." Beca shrugged as she leaned back to lay her head on Jesse's shoulder while he lulled his head back against the couch's cushion.
Cynthia Rose smirked, "Well next time, take me instead of boy wonder. Poor guy looks like he's never even had mall cops chase after him."
"Excuse me," Jesse raised his finger but his eyes remained closed, "I once hopped over a turnstile in New York and a cop chased me."
"Ever been shot at?" Cynthia Rose asked.
"...No..."
"Exactly." Cynthia Rose laughed, "Anyway, what's next? You found the cop responsible. What are you gonna do now?"
Beca sighed, "I probably made a lot of noise tonight. So there's no chance in me going back any time soon for more intel. So the only option is to get close to Chloe and see if her dad's said anything. I wanna know if they've hired more people to find me."
"What makes you think a cop will gossip to his daughter about his cases?" Cynthia Rose asked. Jesse lifted his head when Beca stood up to grab her phone from where it was charging beside the tv.
"I'm just crossing my fingers in hopes that he does." Beca pulled out the wrinkled napkin with Chloe's number and began to dial it.
Jesse smiled, "Oh this is perfect." He turned to Cynthia Rose, "It'll start as just a work thing but when she least expects it, Beca's gonna be an awkward pile of mush, wondering what came over her."
Cynthia Rose chuckled, "Should I be worried about you thinking with your vagina instead of your head, Mitchell?"
Beca gave an indignant reply, "Don't listen to him." She looked over at Jesse and narrowed her eyes, "Save your cliché romances for your romcom's."
Beca clicked on the call button and pressed the phone to her ear and shook her head when Jesse leaned forward and smiled brightly like he was watching one of those romcom's with the cliché love story.
When a sweet, cheerful voice answered the call, Beca cleared her throat and casually slipped her hand into her front pocket as she nonchalantly said, "Hey, Chloe. It's Beca."
"Oh hi!"
"I was wondering if maybe you wanted to get a drink with me?" Beca shrugged and bit her lip.
"Definitely. Where should I meet you?"
"The bar across from Cassie's in 30?"
"I'll see you there."
Beca raised an eyebrow at the subtle flirty tone in the redhead's voice before she ended the call.
"It's a date then?" Jesse asked. Cynthia Rose reached over and slapped him in the back of the head and Beca laughed at the offended look on Jesse's face.
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