Army
"Mommy? What are you doing?" Raimy asked as she walked into her parents' bedroom where her mother appeared to be on the floor, rapidly cleaning it with gloves on and a sponge in her hand. AJ looked up, getting a fright as she saw Raimy looking at her curiously.
"Uh…" AJ wiped her forehead with her arm. She'd been scrubbing the blood from the floor for most of the morning, she'd worked up quite the sweat, "Mommy spilled something on the floor and I'm just… I'm trying to get it out." AJ smiled to her.
"What'd you spill?" Raimy questioned, walking further into the room as AJ sighed. She hadn't gotten a chance to clean the rest of the room and she didn't want her child's prints anywhere.
"Baby, can you please just go downstairs." AJ pleaded as Raimy paused and looked at her, "Now, please." AJ nodded as Raimy made a face and ran away as AJ sighed to herself, draping the sponge back in the bleach and water before going back to scrubbing the floor. She never thought she'd find herself back here again.
"Why is mommy mad with me?" Raimy asked as he walked into the kitchen where her father was on the laptop. He didn't mean to, but unfortunately he ignored Raimy, not being in the right head space to think about his surroundings. Both he and AJ's heads were in the clouds.
"Daddy." Raimy sighed, looking at her father who was concentrated on the laptop. She sighed to herself after being ignored once again, and walked into the living room where Vivian was sitting watching TV with her Elmo bear.
"What's wrong?" Vivian noticed her sister sad, watching her climb up on the couch beside her.
"I think mommy and daddy are mad at me." Raimy admitted.
"Were you bad?" Vivian smirked. She got a kick out of seeing her sister getting into trouble. They were siblings after all.
"No. Well… I don't think so." Raimy admitted. She had woken up and everything seemed to be different, especially regarding her parents, "Daddy is ignoring me and mommy… she wanted me to go away." Raimy turned to her sister.
"They're both crazy." Vivian concluded sweetly as Raimy looked at her, "Let's just ignore them both." She took her sister's hand as Raimy smiled and nodded. It was rare when they could show love and affection towards one another, but it was nice to see when it happened. Too bad their parents were so far gone into another planet, that they didn't even notice.
"Ok, the whole bedroom is clean. Door handles. My clothes I was wearing… burned." AJ nodded, throwing her rubber gloves in the trash as she walked into the kitchen later on, "I want the girls in the bath tonight. Raimy came into the room earlier so... just to be on the safe side." She said as he just nodded along with her, "Phil, are you listening to me?"
"Yes I'm listening." Punk nodded, "I got information on the guy who was at Coleen's and also the guy who… came here." He looked up at her as she sat down beside him and looked on, "So they work for the distribution centre." She said, "Here's a picture of the launch day. There's Teresa. There's our two guys." He pointed to show her as she nodded.
"So they're just… her heavies. They do the dirty work." AJ nodded, not unfamiliar with the scenario as Punk nodded, "Well she's gonna know that something went down when one of them doesn't return." She said as Punk nodded.
"I think our best bet is to… pay her a visit." Punk turned to her as AJ shook her head.
"You're out your damn mind." AJ hissed.
"Hear me out." Punk said, "We get the squad behind us. Back up. We'll go in and we'll see what the old bitch wants. Any shit goes down, we have back-up." He said.
"That brings attention from everywhere." AJ said.
"We don't have much of a choice right now, April." Punk told her honestly, "We either confront her or she… sends someone else to attack us or do something." He said, "I'm not taking that risk. Not with the girls here." He said as AJ looked at him.
"And what do you think is gonna happen, Phil?" AJ questioned, "I've lived in these scenarios. I've saw things like this go down. Quite a lot. It will blow up in our face and then what? We're both dead and our kids suffer the same fate we did as kids?" She asked.
"We'll talk to her, see what she wants-"
"She wants to kill us. You shot her husband. The whole family is probably after us." AJ shook her head, "She waited, she picked her time and this is it." She said.
"So what other option do you suggest then?" Punk questioned.
"We run." AJ nodded.
"If we run then your sister is in danger, my friends are in danger, anyone who is attached to us… is still in danger."
"But our kids will be safe." AJ shrugged.
"And what about everyone else? We can't leave them in a mess, April." Punk said. He noticed that she really was showing shades of her early life.
"What do you think she's going to say to us if we go and talk to her?" AJ asked him, "Huh? Do you think she'll-she'll sit us down and give us tea, ask us how we are?" She asked, "No. She wants to hurt us. You'll be first dead because you pulled the trigger. I'll be… raped and killed. They will take our children and sell them." She spat as he looked at her, noticing how frightened she was, "I don't care what they do to me but I can't…" She placed her hand over her eyes, "I can't have anything about to those girls. Do you understand me?" She said as he looked at her and nodded.
"It's not going to come down to any of that." Punk said.
"But that's what we're up against." AJ said.
"Do you trust me?" Punk asked her as she sighed, wiping her tears and nodding.
"Of course I trust you." AJ nodded.
"We need to speak to her. We'll have our back up and the girls, they can go to the CIA offices. There's no way they'll be in any danger there. Coleen can go with them." Punk nodded, "But we can't wait on something else going down." He made clear as she looked at him and nodded.
"I'm so scared." AJ shook her head, "I've never been this scared before." She admitted. She wasn't scared for her, she was scared for her family.
"It's gonna be ok." Punk nodded, leaning his forehead against hers as she nodded, kissing him softly and hugging into him just as Raimy and Vivian walked into the kitchen.
"You guys have been mean to us today." Vivian said, walking over to the table, dumping Elmo on top and climbing onto the chair across from them as AJ and Punk looked at her, "You shouldn't ignore us." She told them honestly, "Or tell us to go away." She made clear whilst Raimy stood beside her sister, "Apologise to us." She smiled to them as Punk and AJ glanced at each other.
"We've not been mean." Punk defended.
"Yes." Vivian nodded, "Yes you have. You ignored Raimy." She explained as Punk looked at Raimy, "And you, mommy." She pointed to AJ, "You told her to go away." She said, "That's not very nice." She said as AJ looked over to Raimy. This was the last thing either of them wanted, and both felt incredibly guilty. They'd been in such panic they hadn't really been aware of what they'd been saying or doing.
"Come here, baby." AJ sighed, extending her arms out as Raimy walked over and into the hug, "Oh, I'm so sorry." She kissed her head sweetly, "I didn't mean it like that." AJ shook her head.
"I didn't mean to ignore you, sweetheart." Punk said as Raimy just nodded, "We're sorry." He sighed, leaning over and kissing her head whilst AJ continued to hug her tightly.
"Better." Vivian nodded to herself. She would always stick up for her sister, even if it was against her parents.
AJ held onto Raimy, not wanting to let her go, hugging her tightly before Raimy laughed and wriggled free, "I thought I'd been bad." She admitted to them.
"No." AJ and Punk both said in sync.
"No way." Punk said, "We've just been a little busy with adult stuff. And we're sorry." Punk nodded.
"Adult stuff." Vivian scoffed, "I hate adult stuff." She informed them.
"Oh, so do we, baby." AJ smiled, "Why don't you guys go and watch some TV. We're gonna make some dinner." She said as the girls nodded and left the kitchen. Raimy had spent the day persuading her sister to go call their parents out on their behaviour, and now she felt better that she actually hadn't done anything wrong.
Punk watched as Raimy and Vivian ran away, turning to AJ and shaking his head.
"Are we the worst parents?" AJ groaned.
"To be fair, we did move a dead body early hours of this morning." Punk said as AJ sighed.
"Where'd you take it?" AJ asked him, "Where I told you?" She questioned as he nodded, "And the car?"
"We're good." Punk nodded to her.
She almost felt bad for realising that her husband and herself had almost became one. The CIA spy she first met was no more, and she felt like that was her fault.
"Come on. Let's make dinner before Viv gets on our case." He said as she smiled and nodded.
"That's the plan." Punk nodded, later that night standing in the kitchen. The girls were long gone to bed and their kitchen was full. Coleen sat at the table, still replaying everything that had happened over and over again. Frankie, Punk's friend from the FBI stood over by the door, leaning against it. Eve and Dean sat on the kitchen counter whilst Seth leaned against the fridge.
"Are you leading us into something we're not gonna win?" Dean questioned.
"No." AJ answered, "We've got a plan." She nodded.
"You know… after all these years." Dean said, "Honestly… I still don't trust you. You're still that Russian assassin, working with the scum of the earth." He said as AJ smiled and nodded, walking over to him.
"I am still that person, you're right." AJ nodded, "So you know when I say these people are going down… that they're going down." She said as Dean looked at her.
"Essentially…" Frankie spoke up, "You're both doing everything? We just need to be there in case things go bad?" He clarified.
"Yeah." Punk nodded, "You're just back-up. That's it." He said, "And since you have your FBI connections, I was hoping you could do your best to make sure that if anything does go down, we cover it up. That goes for us at the CIA too." He nodded to his friends.
"What the hell is my role in this?" Coleen questioned.
"You're going on a tour." Punk said as Coleen shook her head.
"A what?" Coleen questioned.
"You're gonna take the kids for the day and go to the CIA building. They do tours for certain visitors. I'll get you passes. Show them where daddy works." Punk nodded as Coleen nodded slowly, "You stay there until we contact you. It's the safest place for them and you."
"Ok." Coleen nodded.
"When is this going down?" Eve questioned.
"Tomorrow. Midday." AJ said, walking back over beside Punk, "I know these people. I spent time with them. They don't care. They really don't. And that's a dangerous asset to come up against." She said, "Our plan… it might take a little bit of time but… we know what we're doing." She turned to Punk who nodded.
"Well I hope so." Dean nodded.
"I saw them all go into the house." Cal said, looking across at his mother who poured herself a drink in her kitchen, "You sure it's a good idea to be poking at a bunch of CIA spies?" He asked her.
"Have I ever had an idea that's not been good?" Teresa laughed to herself, holding the glass of whiskey in her hand, "The more there are, the more exciting it becomes." She smirked to herself.
"We've still got no word on Simon. The guy we sent around to April's." Cal said, keeping his mother, the boss, updated.
"Oh, Simon is dead." Teresa laughed, already knowing, "I knew he would be. April has spent her entire life fighting off men like that. I didn't doubt for one second she wouldn't pull through." She smiled as Cal shook his head, "I was just testing her, to see if she was still the same person she's always been." She said.
She sat down, crossing her leg over and taking a sip of whiskey, "She passed." She raised her glass in the air as Cal looked at her.
"And what do we do now?" Cal questioned.
"Let them build their little army." Teresa smiled, "See how it plays out." She nodded.
"Is that really the attitude to have?" Cal questioned, "They're gonna come at us."
"So let them." Teresa smiled, "I'm excited to see her again."