Agent Simmons spun her chair around to face her keyboard. She tapped three keys and pulled up Don Eppes' file once more. She had never cared much for internal affairs. Sure she understood its importance, but that didn't mean she had to like it. Now here she was digging through a fellow agent's file. She had been through it before and had found nothing and in fact didn't expect to find anything. She had been ready to give up on that path until the shooting. Now she couldn't help but be certain that there was some connection.
"Anything interesting?" Don Eppes saw his name at the top of the file. For some reason the fact that she was looking through his personnel file made him angry. In the back of his mind he knew that this was probably not the first time someone had been through it, but it still felt like an invasion.
Simmons could feel the glare on the back of her neck so she didn't bother to turn around. If she hadn't wanted him to know what she was doing she wouldn't have opened it when she was expecting him. In fact, this was the reaction she was hoping for, "Not much…I was hoping you could tell me what I am looking for."
"How so?"
"Well, you were the one who what almost shot this morning, I figure by this point you must have some theory."
Don settled into the hard plastic chair and ran one hand through his hair. "So you are not trying to find some leak through me…"
Simmons finally turned and chuckled, "I doubt it, that would make my job too easy." She glanced over his appearance, he looked older than when she had last seen him. This case was getting to him. She doubted it was the shooting, he had undoubtably been shot at before. It must be his brother…
"My only theory, if you want to call it that, is that I was getting close to something, but I haven't done anything yet."
"Well, let's start there. Where have you been today?"
Don paused, he didn't want to bring up the second lap top or the fact that he had brought in Larry and Amita.
Simmons could see the discomfort on his face and decided to rescue him. "Did you find anything on Charlie's other computer?"
Don shook his head it seemed it wasn't a secret after all, "Except getting though the security, I didn't really know what to look for. Agent Lake is looking through his files, she called a little while ago and told me that Charlie had not checked his email account in a while. That is unusual because he uses it to contact his students."
Simmons nodded. "What would cause that do you suppose? Maybe someone was contacting him that he didn't want to hear from?"
"I suppose, but wouldn't it be easier to block the sender? Besides he has been on that computer a lot lately, if he wasn't keeping in contact with his students, what WAS he doing?"
Simmons glanced away, this was where she had to take the investigation away from the other agent. As great as his instincts might be, it was very possible that the reason he had lost interest in his students was that he had something else going on. If he was leaking information from the FBI then he was getting something for it. She knew that Agent Eppes would never reach that conclusion, no matter what the evidence said he would believe his brother was innocent.
"I know what you are thinking Agent Simmons, but there has to be another answer."
"Then I suggest that we find it."
