John sat in his home going through the file he had brought home from the office.
"There is not much in here about the evidence." John said throwing down the file. "If he had it, then where might it be?"
"Everyone said that all of Hahn's things were placed in storage. If he had it at home, it was in that box that Keleigh took home tonight." Kofi replied sitting back on John's couch.
"Yeah, I know. But there is no way K is going to let me go through it. That box was the last work her father ever did. It is sentimental to her right now." John replied.
"So I guess we had better forget about it." Kofi suggested to him. "Right now is a time when you are going to have to decide which is more important. Arresting Batista or your relationship with Keleigh. Because I am telling you man, if you push her to let you see those files you will push her away."
"You're right. I promised that I wouldn't let this case come between us. She is the most important person to me and I can't let this case mess with that. When the time is right, I will ask her but not now. I just wish I knew when that time was because I know that what ever her father had would bring down the entire family."
"And that only leaves Batista Jr. to take the fall." Kofi said knowing that was the only one John cared about bringing down. He was also shocked that John actually put something before the Batista case. But it was great that he did, it showed how much Keleigh meant to him.
"Okay, I'm late now. I got to get to Keleigh's. I am still on vacation." John said getting up. "I will see you tomorrow." Kofi followed him out the door and John locked the door and headed for Keleigh's. But he still couldn't help but be curious about the box that she had in her possession.
Three weeks later, Keleigh had to go out of town with Stephanie to see about a case in San Antonio. It was a case about an accountant for an oil company who was embezzling money. They would have to stay over night in San Antonio.
"Stephanie, I have to go see John and make sure he can check on Snickers." Keleigh said getting up from her desk.
"K, it still kills me that you named your cat snickers. Why?" Stephanie asked with a giggle.
"Because when he came up to my apartment when he was a kitten, I was eating a snickers and he licked. So, I figured he like snickers so, why not name him that."
"Girl, you are so crazy. So, go see sexy super agent about Snickers."
"You are so bad." Keleigh laughed and headed to the elevator. She arrived on John's floor and headed through the door.
"There is my favorite agent." Jerry said walking up to her. "How have you been, sweetie?"
"Good, busy. I went through mom and dad's things that were in storage." She replied to her godfather.
"That must have been hard, sweetie. I would have helped you." He replied to her.
"I just really put everything in a storage building. But I did find a box out of my dad's office. I have it stored at my place and I am going to go through it probably when I get back." She said just as John walked up. He had heard her say she was going to go through it.
"I can help with that." Jerry said. He had a feeling that Trent had some FBI files at home and the evidence. He knew Trent too well and knew that those files he would have never kept those things at the office.
"That's okay. I think I should do it." She said.
"Hey, baby." He said kissing her. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to make sure you would go check on Snickers for me."
"Sure, but why?"
"I have to go to San Antonio to check out a case. Stephanie and I will be staying over night. We leave tomorrow morning."
"It's no problem. I will check on Snickers." He said. He also hoped that he could look at those files without her knowing it.
"Thank you." She said kissing very passionately.
"Okay, can you not do that here?" Jerry said. "I really don't want to see my goddaughter making out."
"Sorry, Jerry." Keleigh said with a laugh. "You have the key right?" She asked John.
"Yes. You gave the key weeks ago." He replied. They have exchanged keys a few weeks before.
"Okay. Bye, Jerry." She said walking to the door. "John, are you going to walk me to the elevator?"
"Yes." He laughed and followed her. "So, will I see you later?"
"Yes. Your place or mine?"
"Mine."
"Okay. Call me later." She said kissing him and then getting on the elevator.
He walked back to his office and got the stares from the other agents.
"What?" He asked sitting down at his desk.
"You are just a big ball of mush when it comes to that girl." Chris said to him.
"I am not." John said in his defense.
"You so are." Chris said again. "And I have to say, it is nice to see, sexy super agent."
"What? Where did you hear that?" Kofi asked shocked that Chris would call John that.
"That is what Stephanie Levesque calls him." Chris said with a smile.
"How did you hear that?" John asked wondering why Stephanie would have nick names for him.
"I have a friend who works in White Collar Crime and she said that Stephanie calls John, handsome, Mr. Hotty or sexy super agent when she is talking to Keleigh about him."
"Okay, that is just weird and too much information." Kofi said with a laugh.
The guys laughed and got back to looking over the files. John knew that looking through the files was wrong. He was going to be breaking Keleigh's trust but he had to know what kind of evidence her father had had.
Keleigh and Stephanie left the next morning for San Antonio. John planned to go to Keleigh's after work. He just hoped that she wouldn't know what he had done. She had made it clear that she didn't want her father's things touched until she herself could go through them. But he couldn't help wanting to know if Trent indeed had some evidence on Batista's dad. Something told him that the evidence would bring down the entire Batista organization.
He headed to Keleigh's after work. He let himself in with his key and feed and watered the cat first. He petted Snickers and then went into the guest room that was also Keleigh's office. She had stored a lot of the stuff there. He looked around and found the box from her dad's office.
"Okay, let's see what we have." He said out loud. He began to look through the box.
He found a file that said Dave Batista, Sr. and he opened the zip lock bag that held the file. He sat down at Keleigh's desk and started to go through it. The type notes were easy to read and understand. They pretty much told what the bureau already knew. But when he tried to read the notes that Trent had written, it was hard. He couldn't understand the writing and anything in it.
"What is this?" He asked out loud which caused Snickers to jump up on the desk. "I wasn't talking to you, Snickers." He said giving him a pet and then getting him down off the desk.
He continued to look through the files but he couldn't understand Trent's notes. After looking through the whole box he knew no more information than he had before. The evidence had to be in the notes that Trent had written but he had written it in a strange sort of short hand.
"Let's see if there is anything on these tapes." He said getting the video tapes and putting into the player that was in her guest room but nothing played. He took the tape out and saw that it had some water damage.
"Damn, I was so close." He said putting the tape back into the box. "I can't believe that because the notes are written in something I can't decode, I can't get Batista."
John starting putting things away when he thought of something. He could take one of the tapes to the lab and see if they could clean it up. Keleigh would never notice one tape because she hadn't even gone through the box yet.
"I will just take the tape and then return it once they have cleaned it up and made a copy." He said out loud getting a tape.
He made sure that everything was like it was when he came and then left and headed to the office. He did feel bad that he had invaded Keleigh's and her dad's privacy but he wanted to get Batista and he was certain the evidence was on the tape.
His guilt had not been strong enough to overcome his obsession. In his mind he had every right to every ounce of information there was on Batista. No matter who owned it. He was the lead agent on the case. It was his right. Or at least that is what he told himself.
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