Chapter 5
It had been 20 minutes since Quinn and Huck had left the CIA. She was driving him home and unfortunately the both of them found themselves stuck in a traffic jam. Quinn just dealt with it by tapping her foot and tapping her fingers rhythmically on the steering wheel, however, Huck seemed very distracted by something and was more on edge than usual. He was aggressively tapping his foot, so much that the vigorous movement of his thigh caught Quinn's attention and she instantly knew something was up.
He was starting to get impatient, by now Quinn was just sighing and eventually just rested her head amongst the steering wheel. Huck officially ran out of patience and made it clear by banging his fist on his side of the dashboard, gaining Quinn's attention.
"WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?" She yelled
"How much longer are we going to be stuck here?" He asked her angrily.
"Jesus Christ Huck! What is the damn hurry? We're in traffic! What do you want me to do? Pick the car up and move it myself?" She rhetorically asked.
"That would be helpful." Huck muttered under his breath
"Why are you in such a rush anyway?"
Huck ignored her question and pointed out that the cars in front of her were starting to move. "The cars are moving."
Quinn focused back on the road. "Finally!" She gasped as began to drive.
"So?" She said to Huck
"So what?" He answered
"Why are you in such a hurry? What's going on?" She asked him
"I'm not. Nothing's going on." He lied
"Bullcrap! You've just spent the last 15 minutes trying to get me out of traffic."
Huck glared at Quinn, still thinking about whether he should tell her what was going on with him or not. "Nothing." He lied again
Quinn took her eyes off of him and put them back onto the road. "Okay." she said as she continued driving. About 5 minutes into their journey. Huck started to realise that the route they were taking lead to nowhere near his home, which is where Quinn was supposed to be taking him. "This isn't the way to my apartment." He told Quinn.
She ignored him and continued to drive, turning into a desolate and isolated street. "Quinn, where are we going?" He continued to demand an answer from her but she continued to ignore him. She pulled into an alley way, where nobody would see them and stopped the car.
"Get out the car." She told him sternly staring directly at him. He continued to stare at her in confusion.
"I said get out the car!" She yelled as she pulled out her gun and pointed it at him.
"Quinn, what the..."
"GET OUT OF THE CAR!" She yelled cutting him off. Huck slowly unlocked the door with one hand in the air and stepped out, slowly walking towards the front of the car with Quinn behind him still pointing the gun. He got on his knees when she told him to stop.
"I know it was you." She said to him as she prepared the gun for use
"What was me? I don't know what you're talking abo..." Huck lied nervously
"Drop the act!" She said before walking over and pointing the gun at his head lowering to his level. "I know it was you who killed those jurists and don't you dare deny it because I swear to god I will blow your brains out right here!"
"Quinn please," He pleaded. "Rowan made me." He said with tears in his eyes
"Why didn't you come to us? You could've come to any of us, me, Liv, Jake! You could've asked for help and you didn't and now the blood of all of those jurists is on your hands! This is on you!" She said continuing to wave her gun at his face angrily.
Huck looked at her sadly and she could tell by his face that something else was plaguing him. She slowly put her gun away "What else has he asked you to do?"
"Nothing, but I have to get away from here. As long as I'm here I'm never free." Huck began to breathe out heavily after saying this to Quinn and then rose of the ground and proceeded to walk off.
"What do you mean get away from here? Huck, where the hell are you going?!" She chased after him out of the alley but when she turned the corner and noticed how far he had walked, she realised there was no stopping him. She walked back over to her car and drove back to the office.
After a 30 minute walk, Huck had reached his destination, Kim and Javi's. When he arrived, he gave three loud fist pounds to the door to get their attention quicker. "Kim! Javi! Open up! Please"
Kim came to the door and opened it pulling an annoyed, yet perplexed facial expression directed at Huck but he stormed into the house before she could even speak to him directly. He wondered around the house searching for Javi before calling out his name again. "Javi!" He yelled by the stairs leaning on the banister hoping Javi would come down immediately but Kim stopped him. She walked over to him and held onto his arm.
"Huck?! Calm down! He's out with his friends. What's the problem?" She said holding onto him and looking him in the eyes.
"I screwed up. I screwed up so bad and I'm so sorry." He let out on the verge of tears.
"What do you mean? What going on on?" She asked resting her hand on his cheek to try and calm him down.
"He got me, I let him get to me and I ruined everything." Huck continued to say in utter distress lowering his head and shaking it. He then sat down on the staircase by them and and rested his hands in his face. Kim took a seat next to him and placed her hand on his back to calm him down.
"Who got to you? Please talk to me, you're scaring me now."
"Command, he got to me."
"Command? You mean the head of that awful spy organisation? The organisation that destroyed you? That ruined your life, our lives? The same one that took you away from us?" Kim had lost her temper and was at the end of her tether. Hearing about this command individual, the man who had already destroyed so much made her blood boil.
"What did he do? What did that bastard do to you?"
"Trust me, you don't want to know, the less you know the better, but we have to get out of here or things will only get worse. I cant take it any more, I can't worry about you and Javi everyday, I cant let you and Javi get hurt any more."
"It's okay, it's okay. Just calm down, we'll get through this." They then heard Javi coming through the door and quickly got themselves together as they didn't want their son to see them so distressed.
"Hey dad! What are you doing here?" He asked cheerfully.
"Uhm, hey buddy. I was just here to see you're mother actually. I needed to talk to her.
"My friends Ben let me borrow his new Skylanders game. Do you wanna come play with me?"
"Uhm, yeah sure later."
"Yeah sweetie. Your dad will come by later but could you go upstairs for a minute we need to talk." Kim told him
"Okay" The young boy said as he went up the stairs to his room. Huck watched as he did to make sure javi was in his room before speaking again as he didn't want him to hear anything.
"We're gonna need cash and passports to get out of here. I'm gonna go back to the office to..."
She grabbed his arm to stop him leaving so quickly. "Not so fast!" She told him. "We cant just pack up and leave town right away and let these bastards get away with what they did to you, to us to our family and the thousands of other people they have hurt."
"Kim, I can't, you have no idea what will..."
"So we just let these people get away with destroying lives?" Kim rhetorically asked in anger.
"Well what else are we supposed to do Kim? We have no other choice here and I won't endanger you and Javi!" Huck reminded her
"You won't have to if you just listen to me!"
"What do you mean?" Huck asked
"There are many more ways than one to skin a cat. I'm saying if taking him down for crimes he's committed as command won't work, then maybe having him taken down for other crimes will."
Huck face began to gleam up. "You mean, frame him for something?"
"Pretty much. Clearly taking him down as command will never work, we have to get creative."
"And I have the perfect idea." Huck said with a slight smirk
"What?"
"Remember those billions of dollars I told you about a while ago? I still have it. If I transfer it from my account to his, I could give the police an anonymous tip off and frame him for embezzlement from the Smithsonian. He's worked there for years."
"And it's quick and simple too."
"Okay. I'm going to sort out cash and passports for us to get out of here. Ill be back later. Stay safe, okay?"
"Okay." Kim answered.
Huck was sure his plan would succeed and there would be no hiccups. He was ready to leave town and everything he knew behind for a better life for he and his family. Unfortunately, he did not know about his wives home being bugged and that there were agents listening to his every word.
"Yeah...it's me...did you get that?...they're planning on leaving tonight...yes sir."
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