Hello, sorry for the wait, but this is a long-ish chapter so be grateful! Thank you so much to everyone who has reviewed, it means more than you could imagine! Since it's been a while, I thought I'd might give you a bit of a character map, as far as the agents and everyone go…
Agent O'Connell (as in Jerry, duh!) is in charge of the Saving Boston mission.
The other agents who are working in the Saving Boston mission are:
Agent Law (as in Jude, the A-list actor)
Agent Reynolds (as in Ryan, actor in movies such as Buying The Cow and Blade:Trinity)
Agent Reeves (as in Keanu, MATRIX!)
Agent Wyle (as in Noah, Dr Carter in ER)
Agent Duhamel (as in Josh, Danny in Las Vegas)
Ex-Agent Seacrest (as in Ryan, American Top 40, American Idol) was fired after an embarrassing situation at Woody's apartment. He was replaced by Agent McKenzie (as in Ben, The OC).
Agent O'Connell's boss is Special Agent D'Onofrio (can you say GOREN?).
Also, since they need a bit of girl power even though they are too proud to admit it, they have female secretaries to help them. Mrs Ellen O'Connell is married to Agent O'Connell, and Miss Erbe (as in Kathryn Erbe… Criminal Intent) is the other secretary, who has been making a bit of suspicious eye contact with Special Agent D'Onofrio.
Wow that took longer than I thought…
Ok just one more thing-
AB- Thanks, I actually still haven't gotten over it to tell the truth. Nobody really understands how surprised I actually was… Lol, and we haven't even got our badges yet!
Ok that's enough for now so here's your chapter!
Once again, it was time for a meeting! Looking around the table, Agent O'Connell noticed an empty chair. Never to mind, that was just one agent he'd have to fire.
"Okay guys, as you all know, last night our neurotic evil dude blew up a restaurant. Thankfully, there was only one death and the ME said there was like a bullet in his head so he was probably already dead. Anyhow, we need to make some progress." He once again took note of the empty chair next to Agent Reynolds. Who was missing? Agent Duhamel, that's who. 'He had better have a damn good excuse', he thought to himself. The situation was getting worse, and they needed as many brains as possible.
Agent Reeves stood up, clearing his throat. "Well I've done a profile on our neurotic evil dude based on his attack on the restaurant. Blonde hair, green eyes, with a vengeance for Jordan and Max Cavanaugh. I also think he grew up without a father."
O'Connell raised an eyebrow. "All that from one little bombing?"
"And Google."
"Ohhhhhhhhh." The table nodded in understanding.
O'Connell smiled. "See, that's the kind of info we need. I mean, Agent Hoyt is great, but he can only save the world for so long. We need to find out who our neurotic evil dude even is!"
Agent McKenzie sat up in his seat. "Ned!" He exclaimed.
Huh?
"Neurotic evil dude. N-E-D. Ned." He explained.
The table of agents (minus one) thought it over. Should they give their currently unnamed assassin the nickname Ned?
O'Connell nodded his head. "Ned. I like it."
Meanwhile, at the morgue.
"Woody, Shawn Oz did not die from the explosion. He has a bullet in his head!" Jordan exclaimed, pointing to the body on the autopsy table.
Woody thought for a moment. Could this man have been murdered by the same man who blew up the restaurant, the man who was out to kill Jordan? "Maybe he interrupted his evil plot?"
"And so he shot him in the head? Maybe… What if there's some connection? What if while he was setting up the bomb, Shawn comes and tries to talk him out of it? Or maybe Shawn was just a random guy in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Woody sighed, he could feel that this case was going to get a whole lot bigger soon, and Jordan could never know just how big. He could tell she was still shaken from the restaurant, how could he ever tell her that she was the target, that her and her father were on the list? The only thing Woody could do was destroy the list, by finding the killer before he could kill.
Back at the Agent meeting…
Agent Reeves cleared his throat, in that "oh I'm so high and mighty" way that he was oh so good at. "The press want a story, and I think it's in our best interest that we give them a story… or at least a few anonymously sent photos and notes… we can't blow our cover as agents."
O'Connell laughed, "Whatever, just keep it professional and don't blow any covers, unless you want to be unemployed like Ex-Agent Seacrest."
And then they heard it. It was as though the world had stopped still. The scream echoed through the hall, and there was no doubt about who it was. O'Connell ran to the voice, the voice of his wife, to find her in the kitchen, curled up in a corner. Looking around, he saw it, and so did the other agents who had also come to see what the commotion was about. Agent Duhamel was on the table, with 10 knives in his chest. Rushing over to his wife, he sat beside her, putting his arm around her. "It's okay, Ellen. It's okay," he whispered.
"Er, O'Connell?" Agent Law started. "You should probably see this."
O'Connell made his way to the table, once again cringing at the sight of one of his agent's dead, killed in such a horrible way. Looking at what Agent Law was showing him, his jaw dropped. A post-it note was stuck on Agent Duhamel's hand. It read-
Stop trying.
You can't stop me.
Jordan and Max are going to die
and you can't do anything about it
because your "Boston Hero" is hopeless
O'Connell dropped his head, taking a moment to absorb this horrible event. "This isn't about saving Boston anymore. Ned's made it personal."
Later that night at Max's house…
Max set the table as Jordan talked him through her eventful day. Okay, Woody was not dead, thank God. If there was ever a God, it was now. And of course there was Shawn Oz, who may or may not have been shot by the man who bombed the restaurant. She was more inclined to think that he had gotten in the bomber's way and had payed the ultimate price. In the afternoon, Woody had abruptly left, giving Jordan a stupid, non-existent reason. If she didn't know him better, she would have been a bit suspicious.
"I'm happy for the two of you, really." Max stated, toasting his glass.
Jordan smiled before screaming. The hotplates in the kitchen had set alight and the kitchen was filled with flames!
"Dad? The kitchen is on fire!"
As if on queue, the smoke detectors went off, filling the house with an incessant high pitched beeping. Max and Jordan instinctively covered their ears while running for the door, only to find it locked.
Just like every other door in the house, they found.
As the flames started to spread through the house, Jordan realised that they were trapped. Both her and Max started to panic, when suddenly Max collapsed. It could have been the smoke, Jordan wasn't sure, but this was bad.
"DAD!"
And then she heard the crack of a door breaking. Was someone here to save them?
It was him. She recognised him from the night before, and he was still in that stupid costume.
He ran over to her, taking her by the arm.
"You've got to get out of here."
Jordan starred at him. "You think?"
The masked man then made his way to Max, waking him and helping him to his feet. As he helped him to the now broken door, he took Jordan by the hand and led her outside also.
There was an ambulance outside as well as the usual gathering of firemen and reporters. The nurses from the ambulance took Max, and Jordan gave her father one last look before looking back at her rescuer.
"They call you the Boston hero."
He chuckled. "Do they now?"
"And they call me Jordan." She added, smiling, before frowning. "Why do you keep on saving me?"
"I guess it's because you're cute."
Jordan laughed at that, reaching up to kiss him.
It wasn't much of a kiss, but enough for her to regret it.
"Whoa, I'm sorry. That won't happen again… it really won't. I'm seeing someone, and I can't jeopardise that."
The man nodded, seeming to understand. "I'm just glad I got here in time," he said, before walking away.
Jordan was confused. Why was she attracted to this man, a man she didn't even know? And why was he always turning up to save her?
And why was she hoping that she could see him again?
wow, Jordan's going for the guilt trip, but only if she knew the truth... please review, and stay tuned for the next chapter :)