Ch. 4 Recon
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"Jules, you okay?" Charlie asked against Adriana's shoulder as they lay in bed that night. Adriana rolled over so that she was facing her beau Charlie Saitz and said,
"I ache, my back, my shoulder. I'm just so sore, and I am constantly tired after work."
"You've been like this for the past month. Your worrying me. Stay home, take a sick day tomorrow," said Charlie kissing her forehead.
"I can't," said Adriana. "I have lots of important work to do tomorrow. And tomorrow is also the day I volunteer my lunch break at the orphanage."
"You are a saint, Jules," said Charlie. "I swear there can't be a bad bone in your body." He kissed her again as she thought 'If only you knew.' She snuggled close against Charlie claiming his chest as her pillow and falling sound asleep.
Adriana awoke the next morning to find the space next to her empty with a note on his pillow reading, "But soft! What through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun...My beautiful sun, I'll be in the courts in the capital all day and won't be back til 8. I'll bring steaks and wine. Your Romeo, Charlie." She smiled, then getting up dressed in a fitted charcoal suit, she left for the law offices of Bruni and Woehl.
Adriana sat behind her desk, her fingers flying across the keyboard keys translating short hand notes into legal records. Her mobile phone rang, glancing at her caller ID she answered with,
"Ladybird, Is the day so young? By and by I come." She stood up and left the office.
"Target is moving," Marcus Dixon said discretely into his mouthpiece as Adriana stepped out of her law office and walk down the street. "Following at a distance."
"Phoenix and Boy Scout are leaving for the High Street Orphanage now," said Marshall. "Both are technically equipped."
Adriana walked to a car parked on the side of the street and opened the side door, and pulled out a small package from under the backseat. Sitting down on the seat, she opened the package and extracted a pair of clear contacts which contained microchips that were tiny video recorders. Putting them on along with a wired pearl necklace and earings. Tucking the package back under the seat she got up and left saying,
"Babushka, Ladybird is on the grid and heading for Madame Tewksbury's."
Sydney and Vaughn walked up to the High Street Orphanage and stopped in front of the huge vine covered sprawling mansion that stood before them.
"This is an orphanage?" said Sydney in disbelief.
"We're in Europe, Syd," said Vaughn with an amused smile. "People and the government actually care for the orphangaes. They willingly put money into supporting the children."
"Houdini and Evergreen are moving in to install surveillance in target's flat," Marshall's voice said.
"Roger that Merlin," said Vaughn. "Phoenix and Boy Scout are entering the orphanage."
"Phoenix's ring is wired with video surveillance," said Marshall. "As well as your reading glasses Boy Scout, your glasses also have an audio recorder on them. I'm now receiving footage from the ring, you may proceed in."
"Copy that Merlin," said Sydney as she looked at Vaughn, then taking his hand they entered the orphanage.
"Hello, hello," an old woman called to them in heavily Austrian accented English, as they entered the orphanage."I'm Madame Tewksbury, I run this lovely place."
"Hello madame," said Vaughn and Sydney.
"Are you the couple who are looking to adopt or to relocate?" Madame Tewksbury asked.
"Relocate our daughter," said Sydney. "I'm Sydney Vaughn-Bristow and this is my husband Michael Vaughn."
"Come in to my office M. and Mme. Vaughn," said Madame Tewksbury, leading the way to her office." And we'll see what we can dig up."
Once seated in her office, Madame Tewksbury said,
"Do you have a name or picture of your daughter?"
"Pictures, we have one of her as a babe and one of her as she is now," said Vaughn extracting the baby picture and the computer printout and laying them on the desk, as he donned his reading glasses. Madame Tewksbury leaned forwards to study the pictures. Examining the baby picture Madame Tewksbury said,
"I have not seen this face in a long time. But I remember this sweet cherub. Her daddy's eyes are hard to forget. Such green colour, not Austrian per say, maybe French, or at a stretch Russian." she picked up the computer printout, and a smile warmed her wrinkled face. "This face I know very well and see very often..."
"Eureka! Boy Scout and Phoenix," came Marshall's voice in Sydney and Vaughn's ears. "I've solved her true identity, I know the real Adriana!"
"Her name is Juliet Donahue," said Marshall and Madame Tewksbury in perfect unison.
"Juliet V.B. Donahue by chance," said Vaughn, his voice slightly cracking.
"Yes, Juliet Vanessa Brista Donahue. She's a very sweet young woman, she works as a what do you call it?" said Madame Tewksbury. "A paralegal, for Bruni and Wohel." Then looking directly in Vaughn's eyes she said, "The same eyes. I recognize those green emerald eyes anywhere. Her daddy has finally come for her. 19 now."
"Excuse me," said Sydney standing. "I need to answer my cell phone." Once outside the office, Sydney whipped out her APO cell phone and hit M speed dialing Marshall. "Marshall, its Sydney...what were you saying earlier?"
"Adriana Greene is really Juliet Donahue," came Marshall's excited voice from the phone. "Well Juliet V.B. Donahue to be exact."
"We know, Madame Tewksbury just i.d. the photos of her as Juliet Vanessa Brista Donanhue," said Sydney.
"Photos?" said Marshall. "I only gave Vaughn one photo, and that was the computer printout that he requested."
"Are your sure?" said Sydney. "Because he definitely pulled out two pictures, the computer printout that you gave him and a faded baby picture. As in one that you have done in a studio."
"That's interesting," said Marshall.
"Wait!" said Sydney. "She bumped into us when we first arrived in Vienna, she must have taken Vaughn's wallet and somehow put the baby picture in it! She must be looking for Vaughn! Marshall run a full diagnostic scan on the current group that she is working for as well as Bruni and Wohel Law and her true identity."
"And Madame Tewksbury said that the V.B. stood for Vanessa Brista," Sydney added before hanging up.
"Target is approaching the orphanage," came dixon's voice in Sydney's com device.
"Houdini and Evergreen are extracting having posted surveillance, and are returning to base," came Weiss's voice.
"Roger that Houdini," said Marshall.
Adriana entered through the back door and headed for Madame Tewksbury's office. Spying Sydney, she briskly walked past her and into Madame Tewksbury's office.
"Here she is now," said Madame Tewksbury. Adriana turned around slowly becoming Juliet and realizing that they were not alone.
"Madame," she said; then looking at Vaughn said, "I trust you recovered your wallet, Mr. Vaughn."
"Juliet," said Madame Tewksbury. "I'd like you to meet a very special person. My dear, Mr. Vaughn is your father..." Juliet smiled then blanched as he earpiece crackled with distortion alerting her that her frequency was not secure.
"Ladybird extract!" came Babushka's distorted voice. "You are not alone. Rozencrantz picked up a tail. You've been followed!"
Juliet turned and ran out of the room at high speed. "Babushka, I'm picking up distortion, the frequency is not secure. Are their other agents present?"
"Target is running," said Sydney taking off after Juliet.
"Reason to believe she's wired," said Dixon through the com link. "And probably armed, caution Phoenix."
Juliet looked over her shoulder to see Sydney running after her and said,
"Ladybird to Babushka, I'm being chased by a Caucasian brunette American woman, my height. Have reason to believe that she is a black agent. Believed first name is Syd."
"Merlin, target is wired," said Sydney pursuing Juliet. Juliet took a sharp turn right and shoved through a door to a stairwell and vaulted over the handrail descending on to the ground floor, three floors down, and kicked off her stilettos that she had been wearing and moved toward the door. Sydney landed in a crouch with her gun drawn. Juliet kicked open the door and ran into the alley with Sydney on her heels. Juliet ran for the back fence to climb when Sydney yelled,
"Freeze!"
Juliet slowly turned extracting her own gun, she stood still facing Sydney, their stances mirroring each other.
"Ladybird report!" cried Babushka's voice through her com link.
A truck erupted through the wooden fence and struck Juliet in the back, causing her to bounce on to the hood of the truck unconscious. A masked man from inside the cab leaned precariously out the window and snatched Juliet's limp body into the cab as the truck roared past a stunned Sydney who dove to her right, nearly avoiding being hit. Vaughn and Madame Tewksbury burst through the side door as the street disapeared onto the street. Vaughn ran to Sydney and helped her up.
"Are you okay?" he asked his eyes scanning her body up and down looking for blood or a body part that was out of place. Sydney nodded and said,
"I'm fine, but she's not."
"What happened, where is Juliet?" asked Madame Tewksbury.
"A black truck came through the fence and knocked her unconscious then pulled her inside escaping down the street.