Dangerous Realizations
"...dropped an entire file off with Cooper like that somehow proves that she's trustworthy. She may be on loan from Mossad but she has Reddington written all over her."
Chris risked a glance up from the files he had had his nose stuck in the better part of the evening. Their surveillance was still top notch, but without a team of analysts to go through it all, he and the other members of Grey Matters had been pulling late hours sorting through everything they needed. "At least he's entertaining the idea now. He can't ignore it when it's coming from multiple sources."
"Trust me, Cooper's not ignoring it," Liz said as she took a seat with him on the floor.
"Well, he wouldn't open it up to Grey Matters before this Navabi showed. That has to count for something."
"And if she's on Reddington's payroll?"
He shrugged, sitting back against the couch. "Then we'll deal with those complications as they come. He's facing them too, so it's not a surprise that he'd try to quietly use the Task Force."
His fiancé sighed and Chris set the file down, reaching out to pull her closer to him. She melted in, fitting perfectly against him and he tightened his grip a little. He had been out of town for nearly a week with Grey Matters on a job. As important as it was to get to the bottom of this Cabal, it was equally important to fix themselves firmly in the US government's good graces. Grey Matters needed to prove that they were the ones that had carried the load for Halcyon's black ops, and they were still the ones to call. Without contracts, they wouldn't last. Not with the kind of money it took to run the ops they did.
It didn't make being away from her in the midst of all the chaos any easier.
"What do you say we pack this up for tonight, order Wing Yee's, and have a night just for us?"
He saw a smile perk the corner of her lips and he couldn't help but echoed it. He leaned down for a kiss, thoroughly ready to forget about work for a little while, but he blinked hard as Liz jerked to the side, diving for one of the files and missing the would-be kiss. "What's this?"
"Thought you wanted me to put the files down for the evening?"
"This man. Why is Grey Matters watching him?"
Chris leaned forward to peer at a file that he hadn't gotten a chance to look at fully, but he recognized the name and photo as someone that they had been watching as a possible member of the Cabal. "Walter Martin. We have evidence linking him to Fitch, and we're trying to tie him in with Peter Kotsiopulos who we think took Fitch's place in the leadership position."
"You're watching federal agents?" Liz asked quietly.
"They're scattered all through here. Your team is pretty much the only group in the government I'm willing to trust with this. Even our own usual contacts are subject to suspicion right now. Do you know him?"
"Yeah. He's been lurking around the Post Office lately." Her tone was a mix of hesitation and uncomfortable understanding of what that meant. The Cabal could have eyes and ears in the Post Office. "I have to tell Cooper."
"Babe, it's late, and reaching out to him now might tip people off. Why don't you order dinner and I'll look into this file? We'll take it to Cooper first thing tomorrow."
He heard her make a small sound of affirmation and he grabbed the file to flip through it, eyes scanning over a few of Dumont's notes left on surveillance photos in his scrawled writing. Mixed into the paperwork was a transcript of a call they had intercepted. At first glance it wasn't more than a check in with someone, which was probably why Dumont hadn't taken a closer look or listen, but as dark blue eyes studied the text, Christopher frowned.
"Okay, Wing Yee's is on its way."
"Cancel it," Chris answered. "I was wrong. I need to call my team together and you need to get ahold of Cooper now. Is Reddington stateside?"
"Why? What'd you find?"
"The Cabal is making a move after Red."
Notes: Sorry about the slow updates over here. I think I've mentioned that I write ahead of this, and I've hit a snag on making something work, so that slows everything down. I suppose the worst that happens is I get caught up though, right? :)
So, what did you guys think about the return of the main show?
