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References to Teletubbies, MASH, Candlewick Green, and the Magic Roundabout.

Chapter 10.

"All rise."

The judge walked in to the room and scanned the crowd; it was the same one as earlier, not really surprising, the cases were defiantly linked.

Case number...blah, blah, blah.

"Paige, you are here because of illegally hacking into top government agencies and classified operations. How do you plead?"

"Guilty."

"Why did you do it?" Asked the prosecution.

"Which one?"

"Okay, why did you start hacking?"

"Um, I'm not sure really. It could have been the fact that there wasn't anything else to do."

"What about joining an after-school club, or a team?"

"I did, I joined the computer club. I quit because they were doing really boring stuff."

"Did you ever take part in school productions, swimming gala's, little league or anything else?"

"Yeah, all the time when I was younger. It kind of has no meaning when your parents never turn up to watch you though." She said casually.

"So how often did you see your parents?"

"Hey, is that the President?" She said looking at the crowd.

"Yes it is; would you please answer my question?"

"Okay! My "parents" always got up really early and left for work, they would come home really late. Sometimes they would buy me presents to make up for it, but bribes aren't any kind of substitute for actual quality time together. There was this one time where I had to go to hospital for a long period of time; they'd take turns in coming to see me. Their excuse was the visiting hours are at difficult times for them, I was on the children's ward so they could come whenever they liked!" She started to get upset.

"Why did you runaway?"

"Why?" She asked in disbelief. "Because they came home one night later than usual, they'd stopped to buy me some stupid gadget that I would never use. Well I had had enough; I told them that I would rather have parents than presents any day. They said they wished they had never adopted me in the first place. So I packed my bags and I left." A tear trickled down her cheek.

"Your honour, I have managed to get a copy of Paige's adoption certificate." The man pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to the judge.

"Do you want to know who your parents are Paige?"

"I don't see the point, if they gave me up they didn't want me in the first place."

"Do you or don't you?"

"Okay, I do."

"Your mother's maiden name is Natalia Ferretti,"

"Any relation to Lou?" Jack whispered to Daniel.

"I know a Natalia Ferretti, I went out with her about eighteen years ago." Daniel whispered back.

"Your father's name isn't on here, but we could find out."

"Your honour, Natalia Ferretti is the daughter of Primo Ferretti, the suspected mafia leader."

"We'll try our best. Carry on."

"Paige, which government organisations have you hacked into?"

"The first one was the Chicago police department, I wiped my criminal record from hacking into television studios and making them play the programmes I wanted to watch. They were showing re-runs of MASH for about a week. The next one I did was the PAS department in the FBI. PAS standing for Purple Animal Scares, that was funny, a farmer's prize cow gave birth to a purple calf, very strange. I hacked into the SGC and read all the personnel files and mission reports, which were kind of weirder than the purple cows. I've done the Pentagon and the Magic Roundabout, did you know that they use children's programmes to post coded messages?"

"Well, that is quite a lot you've admitted to."

"I swore on the bible, what do you expect?"

"At least you're honest. What possessed you to hack into the NID and search for files on Kinsey?"

"The publicity. I've never been in the paper before."

"Paige."

"I was being paid, actually I wasn't but this guy I know was."

"Who was this guy?"

"I don't know, we never saw him or even new his real name, we called him Santa and got the messages from the Teletubbies Christmas site."

Sam smiled; the government were going to be all over mentions of Santa for at least the next few years.

"Do you know who you were employed by?"

"Rudolph I think."

"Stop playing games with me."

"I honestly don't know." She said crossing her fingers out of sight.

"You must have had help getting into the building?"

"Yes, let me see, there was Pugh, Pugh, Barney Magoe, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb."

The prosecution glared at the girl.

"Honestly, they called themselves that! I don't know their real names."

"Would you please explain exactly what happened and how you got into the NID building?"

"Well, it was pretty simple; I waited for Pugh, or the other Pugh, I'm not sure which one, to set up a loop in the security cameras before going to the next one. I got in through the fire exit at the back of the building, climbed the stairs to the fifth floor and found one of the computer terminals. Oh, Grubb called the security man's phone so I could get past him. I burned the hard drive after I had found the information and e-mailed it to everyone."

"Then you got caught."

"Yep."

"No more questions your honour."

The prosecution sat down and the defence took the stand.

"Paige, have you ever been to see a psychologist?"

"Yeah, once, the school sent me after I bit one of the boys in my class. I was six; the shrink said I wasn't getting enough attention so I was creating some for myself. He started spouting a load of Freud quotes and I lost interest so I stole his lighter and set fire to his chair."

"Right..."

"I was a kid, kid's do stuff like that."

"You are still a 'kid', your honour I propose that Paige sees a child psychologist before we continue the hearing, she obviously has issues."

"I'm not going to see a shrink, let alone a kid shrink!" She shouted.

"Court is adjourned until Miss Jones has been psychologically evaluated by Dr. McKenzie and her mother is contacted. We will continue at 12pm tomorrow afternoon."

"Why McKenzie?" Jack asked as Paige was escorted out.

"He's the only one with high enough clearance." Sam answered.