CHAPTER 2
An Olympic Airways plane safely landed at Heathrow Airport. On board was young Cassandra Bond, although everyone called her Cassie. Once she had collected her luggage and had been through passport control she was outside the main terminal building. The early morning wind feeling cool against her face after being in a hot plane for about 3 and half hours and then inside the terminal for another hour waiting to get past all the checks. She crossed the road and entered the car park. Fumbling through her bag she found her keys and jumped into her darkgreen Jag. She left the car park and drove into the middle of London to the MI6 headquarters. Once at the gate she lowered her window so she could speak to the guard.
"Good morning Miss Bond."
"Morning Jerry. Let me in would ya?" She said as she passed her card to him.
"Of course." He passed her card back to her and then went back into his hut and raised the barrier. Cassie easily found a parking space and parked the car. Then grabbing her coat and bag she walked up to the main doors to the buildings. She took out her identity card and swiped it through the machine. A click was heard and she opened the door. She jumped into the lift and pushed the button for the 3rd floor. The doors closed and the lift moved up.
"Welcome to Level 3" an automated voice said as the doors began to open. Cassie stepped out of the lift and the doors closed behind her. She walked along the corridor and into a small office.
"Miss Moneypenny. Thought I'd find you here. Don't you ever sleep?" Cassie said as she hung her coat up on the coat stand by the door. The woman from behind the desk looked up from her paper work at Cassie. She smiled when she saw the cheery face of her young friend.
"Hello Cassie. Of course I don't you know that. I heard what you did on Santorini, great job. Did you have a good journey?"
"I'm tired as hell! Spent around 6 hours on two different planes, another 3 hours waiting at the airports for everything. And then another hour driving here from Heathrow." She said smiling at her friend.
"You'd best go in. M's waiting for you."
"Thanks." She said and moved over to the door. She opened it and then opened the second door. She closed both doors behind her and she was in a large room. Portraits of past 00 agents hang on the wall, one she was particularly proud of was the one directly behind the wooden desk. It was of her father – James Bond. James had been in the service for 40 years, a record that none of the other men had managed to break, also he was the only one who had not been killed on a mission, but had retired. Her eyes averted from the picture to the man sitting in a brown leather chair behind the desk.
"Good morning 007" he said, taking the pipe out of his mouth.
"M." She smiled. Pipes weren't used that often these days, but still this man in front of her didn't seem to want to give his up.
"Well done with the hijacker in Greece."
"Thank you sir."
"Please take a seat." Cassie moved forward and sat in the brown leather chair the opposite side of the desk from M and sat in it, placing her black bag on the floor next to her. "How much do you know about a man called Alec Trevelyan?"
"Alec Trevelyan?" M nodded his head. Cassie began to think back about things her father had said, that's where she remembered that name. "He was a 00. A Lienz Cossack. About 19 years ago he'd set up a plan to rob the bank of England with a satellite called Goldeneye. James Bond however was able to kill him before he plan was actually completed. He and James were very close friends."
"I see James didn't hold back on anything." M leant on his desk and picked up a brown paper folder. He toyed with it in his hands as he spoke. "What do you know of Michael Trevelyan?"
"I haven't come across that name before. But I'm guessing it's some sort of relation to Alec? Bother?"
"His son."
"There's a surprise." She said sarcastically. M pressed a button on his desk and the picture of James raised up into the ceiling to reveal a large monitor. A picture of Cuba appeared with a very large lake at one end of the Island. M picked up a long pole.
"Yesterday morning our satellite detected a helicopter landing in a field close to where Alec was killed." using the pole he indicated where the helicopter had landed.
"The Goldeneye station?" M nodded his head.
"That area had been made off limits 18 years ago and no one has stepped foot anywhere near that place." He pressed another button and the picture changed to a closer shot of the lake, but the water was gone and in its place was a large concrete basin. Cassie stood up to get a better look at the monitor. "Several minutes later the Lake where the station is had been completely drained of all the water and Michael along with 3 of his men entered the base."
"You think he's going to try and finish what his father was going to do?"
"That's what I want you to find out." he said using the pole to point at the young woman.Hethen picked up the brown fodler and passedit to Cassie. She tried to stifle a yawn as M spoke. "I want you out in Cuba this evening, and find out what is going on there." He noticed her yawning. "But first get some sleep."
"Yes sir." She said nodding her head and smiling.
"Off you go." Cassie picked up her bag and walked out of the room. Once she was back in the office with Moneypenny she yawned wildly.
"Meeting boring?" Moneypenny laughed.
"I'll never understand how dad was able to stay up nearly 24:7!" she said. Moneypenny laughed as Cassie walked out, picking up her coat as she left.
Cassie got home at around 4'o'clock that morning and surprisingly she was met by her father coming out of his bedroom, dresed in hisblue drsesing gown.
"Welcome home Cassie."
"Thanks dad." She said as she hugged him.
"So, how long are you home for?" Cassie pulled out of the hug and walked into the kitchen and began to boil the kettle.
"I'm off to Cuba this afternoon."
"Cuba? What for?"
"I thought all my missions were supposed to be classified information, I can't tell you!" She went over to a cupboard and got a mug out, placing it on the work surface near the kettle. She opened a jar next to the kettle and pulled out a teabag dropping it into the mug. She then opened a second jar and put two teaspoons of sugar into the mug.
"Come on, I've been in the service for 40 years! Surely you can trust me!"
"It's not really that I don't trust you dad, I just think that this mission is one you just shouldn't know about the goings on."
"Why not? A new gene therapy unit has opened up?" Cassie looked at him, remembering the mission he had talked about with Zao and Gustav Graves. "All right, Cuba… Cuba… Cuba... What else happened in Cuba?" The kettle clicked and Cassie poured the hot water into the mug. Stirring the teabag around a bit before picking it out and throwing it in the bin. She moved over to the fridge and took the milk out, pouring some into the mug. She put the milk back, picked up the mug and moved out of the kitchen with James following her. "Come on, tell me. Why are you off to Cuba?" Cassie lokked at him then sighed.
"We think someone knows the location of the Goldeneye because the lake has been drained out and a man called Michael Trevelyan has entered the base."
"Michael? How the hell would he know about Alec's movements just before he died? He would only have been three years old!"
"That's why I'm going out there to go and find out what he's doing there!" she moved out of the living room and went into her bedroom, closing the door behind her. James went and sat on the sofa and sighed. He had to kill Alec, he had to kill his best friend. He had a duty to his country and he had to protect it. Before Alec's real death he and James had shared so many missions together and had so much fun, he just couldn't believe that Alec was trying to destroy the economy of England.
Suddenly a window shattering in the kitchen caused James to stand up. Suddenly an explosion was heard and flames leapt out of the kitchen. James quickly dived onto the floor to avoid being seriously burned. Jinx and Cassie rushed out of their rooms to see what was going on.
"James?" Jinx called as she entered the room. James stood up from behind the sofa and Jinx went over to him, giving him a hug. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine." Cassie had quickly grabbed the fire extinguisher and had managed to put the flames out. The three of them entered the room and looked around them.
"I guess we won't be having any meals in here for a few days." James said as he picked up a broken pot and placed it back down onto the table. Cassie moved around near to the broken window and looked out. The dark garden was still and there was no movement. She then noticed a plastic container on the floor by her feet. She bent down and picked it up. Twisting half one way and half the other she was able to unscrew it and onto the floor feel a piece of paper.
"What have you go there Cassie?" Jinx asked as she moved over to Cassie.
"It looks like a note."
"Mum, Dad, what's going on?" a voice called from near the door. "Hi Cassie." He said as soon as he saw his sister.
"Are you all right Malcolm?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. What's going on?" He replied, moving to stand next to his father.
"It's a note all right." Cassie called as she read the paper, looking over at her father and stepbrother.
