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Chapter 20: OUR IN

Joan's POV

I pull into the parking lot of the CIA. It was about four hours after I had dropped Autumn off at the farm. She was growing up and to be honest I was hating it. The three years she's been here has been with us has went so fast. She only graduated from Yale two months ago, top of her class none the less.

I quickly make my way through security and up to my office. The DPD was in full swing now. It was about 11:00AM so I wasn't surprised. I pull some files towards me to keep my mind of Autumn. It wasn't going to be long before she was walking through these corridors as a full field agent. It wouldn't be long before she had her own desk at the DPD and I would be handing her one of these files.

I close my eyes and rub my temples. I could feel a headache coming on. Between Autumn leaving, Mack deciding to not sleep for the past few weeks which kept the whole house up (including Autumn who on some nights actually calmed him down so we could sleep) and the Ianto Seyal case my stress was through the roof.

Usually in situations like this I would call Arthur but he was in meetings till 12:30 so he was unattainable. So I would just have to get through it.

I look up as I hear footsteps coming towards my office area and see Auggie. He still looked like typical Auggie, hair ruffled, blue shirt and black jeans.

"Auggie, what can I do for you?" I say with a smile as he stops in front of my desk.

"I was just wandering how Autumn got on this morning? I heard about who her instructor was," He says.

I smirk slightly at his comment. Him and Autumn were close after him saving her that night at Rockbourne. He had gotten her into Jazz music (awful music if it's not the right kind if you ask me) and on numerous occasions had helped her with her Computer Science work while she was still in high school.

But what confused me was what her instructor was. I hadn't heard anything special about him.

"Autumn got on fine. She should be going through her first drills by now. What about her instructor?"

"It's none other than Roy Gaskin himself. It got changed last night. I had to help replace the other guy because he got stuck on a mission."

I restrain from groaning. Autumn really was in for it now. Gaskin was a hard-ass. I've worked with him before and after the mission we had to run on him a few years ago, he may not be that loving towards Campbells. Because let's be serious. Autumn is the split image of me. She's not going to be able to hide her lineage.

Before I can respond to Auggie, Annie comes running up into my office looking flustered and upset. She's been working as a handler now. Ever since the DCI put his foot down and told her she couldn't work in the field we gave her the next best thing. Being a handler. It also meant she had more time to spend with Auggie at home.

"Annie, what's wrong?" I ask.

"It's Ianto Seyal. He's found our agent," She says.

"What!? That's the third in the past year!" I say getting up.

"I know but Joan… This one didn't get out… Ashley wasn't as lucky as the other two," She says staring at the ground.

Wait. Ashley was one of Annie's agents.

"Read me in now," I say following Annie to her office.

"A video just got sent to us. It's got Ashley and Seyal in it. It doesn't end well," She says opening the door to her office.

She walks over to her computer and taps a few keys bringing up a video. It fills the screen. On it appears Seyal who's got Ashley in front of him tied to a chair. He has a silenced pistol in his hand. POinted at her head.

"Now I thought we had gone over this. I am no longer going to play nice. The next agent you send will have way worse done to her if I get my hands on her. Leave Extreme Ultra Soldiers alone or a storm is going to come to the CIA."

He pulls the trigger and Ashley goes limp.

"I'll make sure her body gets to you," He says.

Annie looks away from the screen tears rolling down her cheeks. This is the first agent she has lost. She's blaming herself.

"Annie this is not your fault," I say grabbing her arm, trying to comfort her.

"It's going to take a long time for me to believe that Joan," She says quietly.

I let go of her arm and she turns her face away. That's when Auggie speaks up.

"Can you play the last fifteen seconds again?" He says.

"What is it Auggie?" I ask.

"I can swear I heard something in the background."

Annie walks over and rewinds the video back fifteen seconds. THis time I pay closer attention. I don't hear anything but I see an ever so slight movement of Seyal's head to the right and then back again.

"DId you hear it?" Auggie asks.

"Hear what?" Annie responds.

"Someone said dad in the background," He says.

"His head also moved slightly to the right as if someone was calling him," I say.

"Seyal has a son," Auggie says quietly. "That's our in."

"Auggie are you sure?"

"Almost certain," He replies. "Annie can I use your computer a second?"

"Sure," She says and leads him over to the keyboard.

He plugs in his headphones into the monitor and starts to type quickly. I don't know how long we wait for him to stop but when he does his face has lit up slightly.

"Keegan Seyal. Nineteen years old. Engineering student at Tulane University. Works at his father's bar to pay the bills," Auggie says. "That's our in."

"But we don't have an agent young enough to turn him," Annie says.

"But we do," Auggie says. "Well we will."

My stomach drops as I realise where he is going with this. "No we are not sending her in there. Ianto Seyal just killed one of our agents. We are taking that risk."

"She knows the risks Joan," Auggie says. "And isn't that the reason she joined The Agency in the first place?"

I close my eyes. He was right but it didn't mean I agreed with him. But I couldn't fight this. I couldn't. Autumn was the perfect candidate for this. And I hated it.

"Fine. But she has to finish the training course. I don't want her to be like Annie and have no gun training before she goes in," I say.

"Of course," Auggie says.

"Keep working on this but keep it under wraps. We have no idea how Seyal keeps finding our agents. He may have a mole," I say heading towards the door.

"Of course," Annie replies.

"I'll be in my office if you need anything."

I leave the office and quickly make it to mine. I hated this but it was going to have to happen. But maybe. Just maybe, Autumn will be able to end this when she gets out of the farm. I desperately hope she can because I don't want to think about what will happen to her if she doesn't.