Muirfield's Perfect Mistake
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Spoilers: All Episode but mainly Date Night and Never Turn Back
Six Weeks Later
Catherine stood in the small general store in the town they lived in, she was looking over cloth in an attempt to make a blanket for the baby. Hearing a beep she dug into her purse to find the burner phone Vincent had given her and it clearly had JT's number on it.
"Hey, what's going on there?" She went back to looking at the cloth before her as she waited for JT to answer.
"Uh I got good news and bad news, which do you want first?" JT's voice was clearly on edge.
Catherine put down the materials and leaned against the grocery cart, "just tell me JT."
He was silent for a moment before speaking, "good news is that Tess and I succeeded in taking down Muirfield's base of operation. Bad news is we now have the head of Muirfield and Cullen in the shed, the two top guys in the same place. So Tess is in the process of moving one to a different location and I wanted your opinion in how to interrogate a government agent."
"What's his name, the guy in charge?"
"Mitchell Reynolds, I swear the guy couldn't come up with a better name. Anyways once Tess and I get the info of these guys we're sending it to my buddy of a buddy and hope they pay attention. So again, any advice?"
Picking up her purse from the cart Catherine started towards the door and walked outside. "Inflate his ego about the success of Muirfield, let him know that everything he did wasn't in vain. Once you've done that, let Tess take over and she'll deflate him till he has no air left in him. You be scientific and let her do the hard work."
"Okay I can do that, how are you doing? I mean you're almost ready to pop right?"
Catherine chuckled, "Actually I have two more months to go but if you're questioning if I'm fat than yes I am JT."
"I didn't mean it like that, I swear."
Shrugging she thought of a reply, "I blame Vincent. You guys get back to doing what you do and I'm going to go try to beat the concept of lunch into Vincent." She closed the phone and headed over to the mechanic shop to convince her hard working 'husband' to eat lunch.
In New York Tess arrived back at the safe house to find JT writing down notes from files and talking about them out loud.
"What the hell are you doing because if you think I can even start to understand that crap you are wrong." She waved her hand at the table full of documents. "How Cat?"
"About to pop, so glad I'm far from her because I accidently asked if she was fat."
Tess groaned, "of all the things to say to a pregnant woman you had to say the stupid thing. Anyways Reynolds is locked up in a separate abandoned tunnel knocked out with tranq."
"Good, Cat said for me to scientifically inflate his ego and you would deflate it somehow."
"Sounds good, let's get to work. Just try not to put me to sleep before I can deflate his ego."
The tunnels were bare except for molded water and steel pipes. Both made their way through the system till they arrived at the area Reynolds was located in. Both sat on dry concrete and waited till the man woke up.
Hours seemed to pass before the man started to nod into consciousness. Reynolds looked up to see both of them but couldn't say anything because of the gag, Tess stood up and removed it. "Where am I?"
"We like to call it the Shed but you can call it Hell." She stepped back and looked at JT. "He is all you but remember, don't put me to sleep."
Reynolds looked at them both, "you aren't experiments, either of you. How the hell did you capture me, where are my men?"
"Actually you're here on the behalf of our friends and you're going to tell us everything we want to know." JT pulled two pictures from his pocket and held one of Vincent up. "Meet your 2001 experiment gone wrong and survived but I'm sure you know who he is." JT put the picture on the ground before holding up a photo of Catherine. "Do you know who this is?"
The man looked at the photo and shook his head, "I've never seen her before, is she one of us?"
"No you asshole, she's the only embryonic trial you perfected." JT let the picture fall on top of Vincent's.
"We never perfected any of the trials, they were all failures."
JT shook his head, "no they were all failures except for her and trusted me, I've seen her at her fullest and it's actually a success compared to Lowan and the 2001 experiment round. Now your hybrid project is actually going to live on, Muirfield actually succeeded because in a few weeks she is going to give birth to your natural-born hybrid. Genetic markers are present, perfect animal DNA incorporated into the human genome. I have to say I am impressed because it just means you guys knew what the hell you were doing back in 1983 and technology was really crappy back then."
Reynolds smirked, "it was a success, we succeeded. It means we can go onto the next trials, the hybrid will have to be captured."
JT walked over to Tess and shrugged, "permission granted to tear him apart."
"I'm going to enjoy this." She stood up and looked at Reynolds, "snap out of it Reynolds because as far as we know they're both gone." She bent down so she was face to face with the man. "Oh that's what he forgot to mention, your perfected success is fathered by one of your 2001 experiments. It has both DNA from the embryonic trial member and corrupted DNA from the 2001 trials. Imagine that, your hybrid isn't so perfect after all."
His glazed eyes came back down to earth, "you don't know what the hell you're talking about."
"Oh I do, I mean I understand enough about biology to know that animals like animals. I mean it was only natural that trans-species experiments find each other and have a relationship." She turned and looked at JT, "do you happen to have that photo of them, you know from the wedding?"
JT dug into his pocket, "here you go."
Tess took it and held it up to Reynolds, "now doesn't that look cozy, that looks like two people in love don't you?" He looked at JT and the man nodded, "trust him because he's seen them both till it's nauseating I'm told."
"Way beyond nauseating, they'd make Cupid sick."
Tess sighed, "weren't they over the moon too when they found out about the baby. I know she was and him, remember is reaction…said it was perfect."
JT walked over, "yeah he did didn't he. I think they'll make great parents and being both trans-species they'll know how to prevent the kid from being in danger. I mean Muirfield did increase the animal instinct, which I'm told becomes deadly whenever someone touches their kid."
"I bet if we got them word somehow, might take a few months, but I'd bet they'd tear him apart within say four minutes."
"I'd go three, four would include hesitation." JT shrugged and Tess nodded. "I think we could keep him down here for a while."
Tess looked around, "yeah, a meal a day, an intravenous line and everything is great. Not much for scenery but when you're trying to take down a corrupt government faction who needs the prisoners to be comfortable."
"You won't get away with this."
Tess shoved the gag back into his mouth and he muffled as she spoke, "we already have, you're not the first agent we've captured. We're only keeping you alive so you can be prosecuted for the crimes you've been committing since the '80s."
Both left the Shed and headed back to the safe house, where JT set to work to make dinner. Tess looked at her watched and sighed before opening up her phone and checking messages. JT eyed her, "want something to eat?"
"No I have work in a few hours and I need sleep, mind if a crash somewhere?"
He pointed to the ceiling, "your choice of rooms, go ahead. Set an alarm because I'm not an alarm myself."
"No, you'd wake me up when we have to take down Muirfield, not for work." She grabbed her jacket and headed upstairs. "Thanks Whizz Kid."
JT shook his head and made a sandwich while watching feeds of the security cameras in the Shed. Sitting down he texted a message to Catherine to tell him they'd just started breaking down Reynolds and before long he'd be just like Cullen…pathetic and useless to Muirfield.
A/N: Hope to have the next chapter up to you soon. May take a few days to a week, school is insane.