Note: This chapter explains Hetty's reasons for not going home. After this, I'm canonically on my own until the end of Hit List.

'Hello, again. If you listened to the last recording, you already know who I am. So, no need to explain anything.'

'Here's why I stayed in Mexico…'

'That day, while I was waiting for something to happen, my friend from the CIA talked to me again. He brought up that trafficking ring again, I told him I fell asleep and didn't remember him mentioning it.'

'Here's how he described it as?'

'It's a huge ring that has dozens of connections throughout Europe. They had been trying to track down the perps behind it for 2 years, but have only succeeded in apprehending 2, and they refused to talk.'

'He told me that I had the exact skill set they needed to track the evil people down.'

' I told him that my team could assist in helping, but he said that it was a secret mission, no one else could know about it. I told him I would think about it.'

'I thought long and hard about it. If I accepted the offer, I would not be able to go home until the mission was complete. And I would not be able to contact anyone on my team about anything.'

'The last part really bothered me, because last year, I did something big and risky without telling them, and I almost died because of it.'

'But, there were a lot of victims because of the ring. Good, innocent people who didn't deserve to suffer.'

'I asked my friend how long the mission could take, he said it could be a couple of months.'

' The added bonus of taking the offer: I wouldn't have to go to Washington to face questioning about Mosley's recklessness. And I didn't think I could see her again and resist the urge to beat the crap out of her.'

'I then asked him that, if I took the offer, the politicians would get some kind of explanation regarding my absence. I was asking this because I wasn't about to risk my team being disbanded because I couldn't show up for questioning.'

'He said there would be.'

'I then decided to accept his offer. I would start after my team was safely out of Mexico.'

'This looks like a good stopping point. So long for now.'

End recording 2

Endnote: This writing format, I just remembered I use a similar format in my The 100 fic: Survival of the Boldest.