Chapter 13

Chuck Pov

It was the day after the promotion day and it could not have gone any better. The promotion had gone great as expected but the real reason why he was really happy was because of the news that Ellie had told him last night. He still remembered every second of it and would never forget one moment of it. They had just finished talking about day to day life when out of nowhere Ellie said that she was pregnant. Well, Chuck remembered going silent for a while in shock and Ellie trying to get his attention. When he was finally able to bring himself under control and listen to her word. He asked Ellie to repeat herself.

"I am one month pregnant were you not listening. I found out just a week ago. Sorry, for not telling you earlier. We i.e. I and Devon decided that you have enough on your plate as it is, fleeing from NSA and CIA launching satellites and Operating system. You do not need to come here and get yourself caught. Don't try to deny it Charles Irving Bartowski you would have come. I hope you are not angry with me. After so many years you have started to achieve what you are capable of and I don't want anything to stand in its way" Ellie continued to rant not realizing that Chuck had stopped listening to her after first few sentence.

A loud Woo! Broke her of the rant and when she focused her attention back to the screen Chuck was literally running in the circle at the front the screen and screaming "I am going to be an uncle." Over and over again.

"Calm down Chuck," Ellie said giggling after some time.

After Chuck had brought himself in control he started inspecting Ellie as if he had seen her for the first time and said: "Ellie you should not be standing, are you feeling well, have you felt the baby kicking …"

"Chuck calm down you are as bad as Devon, Yes, I should be standing. I am pregnant not handicap, Yes I am feeling well, No it's too early to feel the baby kick" Ellie replied with both amused and angry voice how she managed it Chuck would never know.

"Sorry Ellie I was just excited" Chuck replied feeling like an eight-year-old under her glare. She still made him feel like he was her eight-year-old brother, not a 28-year-old man. It looks like he would always remain her eight-year-old brother and Chuck would not change that for the world.

After it, they had said goodnight and signed off.

Now the less exciting part no one was able to hack into Cerberus only one person even got close. He was able to penetrate six out of the ten walls he had designed around Cerberus. His call sign was Orion. Yes, his father had been only one to reach the seventh wall. At first, he was careful trying to not be identified but after he was on the third wall the computer was able to identify him and Orin flashed on the big screen placed on the roof top of the company as well as the screen on the back of the stage. After that, the three walls were quickly penetrated until he was stopped at the seventh.

He still remembered the standing ovation that the audience gave when his name came up. Some even fell to their knees in respect of just being in his presence although they will never know which of the thousand he was. Just the respect he gets from the hacker world made Chuck fell pound that Orion is his father even if he was angry at him. He was already getting orders from NSA and CIA for this software.

That was not his concern he wanted to be there for Ellie while he knew she had Devon and he had never met any men who cared more about Ellie than Devon. But still, he wanted someone from his family to be there who knew about the pregnancy and the problem she may face. He knew even though Ellie had said that she was fine but she yearned for mom. For the first time after their mother left them, she was desperately needed. He knew that if he was there Ellie would not need mom that much. She could go to him when she had enough of Devon parents. Chuck also knew him going there would cause more harm than good. So for the first time in almost 12 years, he opened the program that he had first designed to find his mother.

Unknown Ring location

Jacob Black is a high ranking Ring operative. His clearance only second to the director. He had joined the Ring when his mother was suffering from cancer although she was the few lucky one whose cancer is detected at early stages and he did not have the money for her treatment. Jacob was twenty and it was the year 1993. Jacob tried to get fund from banks but they refused, He worked two shifts but still money was short. He was approached by a ring operative who promised that if he joined the organization all his mother treatment would be taken care by the organization so he joined. True to their word they paid for all her expenses and his mother was able to overcome it. She died only in 2007 of natural causes. Jacob quickly rose through the ranks due to his hard work and computer skills. He mainly excelled at stealing high tech software without the owner realizing that they are gone. So if he and the Director were urgently called for a meeting with the elders. He knew that it was important. He had only met the elder four or five times for the 16 years he worked there and that also he had never seen their face.

So when he and the director entered the room which the Elders used for the meeting he was stage which nervous as he and director came to stand on the stage which was soon bathed with light only the small five lights which were lit in front of him gave any indication that the elders were even present here.

"Good evening, Sirs and Madams," the Director said

"Have you heard about the new operating system that Carmichael industry is about to launch. We want you to get us the original codes of the software so that our expert can understand it and can be able to hack it or all the CIA and NSA data will be impermeable. " the Elders said without returning the greeting

"Heard of it, Of course, he had heard about it. It was on every news channel in the country and after their successful promotion it will be even more" Jacob thought but did not dare to voice his thought

"You must be very careful the company has state of the art security system. Jacob, you will lead a team of ten men for this mission. Director, you will be monitoring every step of it. We do not want failures" The Elder said and left without giving them any time to say a word.

The Director turned to Jacob and said "Excited about your new mission after such a long time" as they made their way out of the briefing room.

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