Chapter 6
"Who hired you," Sam asked the perpetrator before him calmly in Arabic.
The perpetrator sneered at him defiantly. Sam knew that he wasn't going to gain answers from the man before him peacefully. So he changed tactics, hopefully reason would sway the person before him.
"Do you want to see your family and homeland again," Sam asked again while rolling up his sleeves and pulling a chair up in front of the man. He sat down in the chair backwards arms resting on the backrest. "I guarantee that your brothers in arms are dead at my niece's hands. She is a very efficient assassin, I know because I trained her."
The man before him stiffened at the news of his team members' demise. He immediately began thinking of ways to avenge their deaths.
"When she escapes and she will escape," Sam continued, "She will find out who you are and target your family. She has the resources and there will be no place on Earth where you or they can hide. So I ask again who hired you," he finished.
The man started cursing and spitting. "I will not talk to some gentile." The man spoke so fast Sam almost could not understand the Arabic words being spoken.
Catherine walked into Steve's office and sat on the ledge of his desk. Steve was close behind her.
Steve was elated to see the woman before him in one piece. Without thinking he walked up to her wrapped his arms around her back and leaned in, mauling her lips with his.
It took Catherine a full twenty seconds to realize what Steve was doing. She reluctantly pushed him away. "Well that's a great welcome home."
Steve grinned, "You called her your child. Do you know how primitive that made me feel? The pride is overwhelming."
Catherine smiled, "Well what did you expect I would do? Not accept that exceptional young lady. That never would have happened. She's an extension of you. You and John did a phenomenal job raising her. I really want to be apart of the rest of her upbringing."
Steve nodded, loving the turn of events more and more. As much as he wanted to continue this pleasant conversation, he still had the impending arrival of the President, SecNav and Director Vance to orchestrate, "So the team and I have to get this place secured for the Commander-in-Chief, SecNav, and NCIS Directors, care to help us get it done?"
"Yeah, I think that I can help with that. What do you need me to do," Catherine offered.
Grace and Damon were having a stand-off neither budging with their stubbornness.
Grace was determined to stand her ground. At thirteen she was really two years away from being a freshman but with Kalani's tutelage she was able to skip two grades which was unheard of in the Hawaii Education System.
She was used to the older kids trying to intimidate her, they quickly learned she wasn't easily manipulated and backed off. It also helped that Danno was kind of deranged when it came to her safety. She swore her father was going to having a coronary one day with how overprotective he was at times.
"Listen White, you keep pestering me about this investigation I will have my Dad and Uncle Steve detain you," she stated with an arched eyebrow and crossing her arms over her chest. "They're just waiting for you to make a stupid move, nothing would give them more pleasure, then, to have your ass handed to them on a spit."
Damon gave an involuntary shiver at the thought of the two older man. Even though his relationship with Kalani gave him a truce with the two older men, they always got great delight in giving him bodily harm. He knew it was for the bullying he gave to Kalani during all the summer camps, he just wished they would let up some more.
"I just want to know if you have found any leads," he grumbled. "In case you have forgotten I do have genuine feelings for your VIC."
"What would your Grandpa say about trying to outsource this information," Grace counteracted. Then walked off without waiting for the answer. It was an early release because of the turmoil the news release caused the students and faculty. Grace walked out to the courtyard where she saw a squad car waiting.
As she approached the vehicle, she saw a figure step out which caused alarm but the feeling quickly subsided when she saw that it was Sgt. Duke Lukela. She smiled. "Hey Duke!" She greeted as she ran the rest of the way to the vehicle.
"Hi Grace," Duke greeted the younger Williams. "Your Dad and Uncle Steve asked me to pick you up. Come on and get in."
Grace smiled as she followed Duke's request. She had a feeling she wasn't going to get home to Mom or Stan anytime soon.
Kalani slept for fourteen hours. First thing she did as she got out of bed, was boot up her encrypted computer. Her mind was whirling with possible affiliations the tattoos engraved in her memory had. She recognized the insignia but wasn't sure which militant faction the members were.
She started clicking keys and going through the International Tattoo database with keywords. Images started popping up instantaneously and dread started filing her belly. "I killed Egyptian Special Forces? These guys make Genghis Khan look like a saint."
She started looking into the squad who was contracted to abduct her and see where the contract originated. This brought her to the Dark Web. Navigating the Dark Web could be tricky at best only the best hackers really knew the ins and outs of the D.W.
After a few hours of staring at a computer screen, she finally found a silver lining. "Well I must be valuable if the Eyptian President just put a hit out on Grandma for losing my abduction."
Doris McGarrett didn't stand a chance against the men that Kalani had stood blow to blow. Her body still hurt in places she forgot existed. She was going to have to go to the US Embassy to get checked out. She couldn't get her Russian cover blown by being admitted into a hospital. They would get her transported to the nearest US Medic Base.
Meanwhile she still had work to do. She smirked thinking how good she was at the job at hand. The Egyptian President wanted sensitive American Military intelligence. This wouldn't do. She needed to cause an Egyptian Civil War very discreetly and put a bounty on the President's head that was twice as large as her Grandmother's death bounty. Once more the only surviving member of the squad sent to abduct her was more than likely in police custody. She searched the only photograph she could find of the squad and narrowed down the survivor. Then she crossed referenced facial recognition and deducted that her last abductor was the Egyptian President's eldest son.
Oh she would definitely bring chaos and discord to the shores of Egypt. The Roman invasion would seem like child's play when she was through with this corrupt Government politician.
"An eye for an eye, blood for blood, brother to brother I will come," she sang to no one in particular.
