Basically the Ressler fluff you didn´t know you needed until now.The big show down between Team Ressler and Team Ressler takes place in the next chapter and maybe Ressler gets an unexpected visit and the next existenial crisis. I AM A HOE FOR REVIEWS
„Goddamn it what is taking him so long?" he groaned . Donald Ressler never being the patient one was unnerved to no end by this whole procedure. For two weeks he was now in Raymond 's safe house. For two long, exhausting weeks. Of course he knew that they needed a plan. One couldn't take down someone like Tom Keen and a whole corrupt organization by shooting every single of them down but still, in his darkest hours he imagined how he put a bullet into Tom Keen's head. He knew that it wasn't right and he felt guilty to even think about it. He didn't want to
be that person. The good ones don't kill the bad ones, right? Well, at least not if it wasn't necessary. Should that bastard even think about coming close to Agnes, so god help him it would be the last thing Tom did.
If he thought about it, he wasn't angry. He was freaking nervous. For an hour or so he had let it out on the punching back hanging in the garage of the safe house. For the first time in forever it wasn't a psychopath who made him furious. It was the bureaucratic burden. The bureaucratic burden of an adoption because of course the hospital realized someone stole little Agnes Keen from her bed and of course it all had ended in a middle sized catastrophe. Six hours long he had to convince what felt like thousands of people that he hadn´t stolen the kid. Even after they saw the video tape and Liz Will they had some doubts but after an anonymous tip – Reddington for sure – they had come to an agreement. He would officially adopt Agnes and everything was fine.
On the one hand this wasn't even a question. Of course he would take care of her. Two minutes in his arms and he was totally in love with her. But an adoption would make real. She would be his child. Well in his opinion Agnes Ressler sounded way better than Agnes Keen. So he signed paper for paper. When he finally had Agnes back in his arms and thought they could leave. He had to sign like ten other papers including the condition to stay in town for two weeks and so he had stayed with Reddington protected by Reds task force and much to Red´s grudge the FBI´s task force.
He had just left the house to go into the large garden of the mansion to take Agnes out side. For the rest of the time he had learned how to be dad. He had learned how to change diapers, how to fed Agnes, taking care of a baby in general. Two weeks later he felt exhausted and tired but also happy.
Agnes, she was a gift and he was beyond ecstatic to take of her. He had soon found out how to calm her because she could throw a tantrum when she was hungry. Especially when she was hungry. In cases like this he just needed to hum the first few lines of 'Somewhere over the rainbow'.
She seemed to love the song, sometimes she even started to giggle when she heard the song. Soon he had found out why. Red and Dembe had cleaned out Liz' apartment and found the book 'The Wizard of Oz' with some notes inside for example ' Baby seems to like it when I read this' and next to the lyrics of the song a yellow note was attached which read ' Baby stops kicking when I sing'. On the last page he had found an ultra sound pic of Agnes ' Can't wait to meet you baby. Your mummy loves you'.
That´s why Special Agent Ressler hummed and sometimes even sung 'Somewhere over the rainbow'. Because it calmed her and it calmed him too. He had done this for the last fifteen minutes and Baby Agnes who was now wide awake in her crib which was still far too big for her started to giggle. To him it was the most beautiful sound on earth. It reminded him of Liz' laugh. God he can´t remember when he jad heard it the last time. 'Well at least one of us has fun' he said to her and picked her up.
'You hungry, little one? You just slept for whole five hours which is in fact a new record and that´s more than what I got in the last two days' he went to the kitchen and got a bottle with the formula. Agnes gladly accepted it and for the hundredth time he studied her face. She was practically a Liz copy from hair to toes. The few dark hairs on her head and her stunning blue eyes fascinated him to no end.
A part of Liz would live on and that was what kept him going. Right now the baby in his arms also kept him from going insane because today was the day. The two weeks were up and today they would start their operation. Find Tom, Catch him and put him into jail. For this they still needed some papers. Red wanted to take care of it he had said when he left the house at 6 am. Now it was 4 pm and he wasn't back.
He actually thought about calling the man but then he decided not to. He was tired but Agnes wasn't. That meant another round of 'The Wizard of Oz'. He knew the book by heart by now but Agnes was the biggest fan on earth so of course he would read it again.
And that´s how Red and Dembe found them when they came back later that night, with a few cuts and some bruises. The sight to which they come home to just encouragement them to keep fighting. 'My,my,my what a sight. Dembe take a picture'. It was beautiful, really. Mr. I-have-already-lost-the-only-thing-in-this-world-I-have-ever-loved was fast asleep on the couch in the living room. A top of him little Agnes who was asleep too. Physically they may not look a like but still the similarities were astounding.' Should we wake them' Dembe asked.
'No, let them sleep, they will need it... but we should pack already. We stayed here long enough.
We should move. I think our house in Maine is perfect for our needs. We all could use some training. Oh and please send me the picture, Dembe.' Red closed the curtains and left the room.
How he wished Liz could see that her biggest dream was coming true after all. She had a beautiful little family.
Hundreds of miles away, some where in Seattle's darker alleys tears were running down Liz' cheeks.
Tay had cracked and hacked – as she liked to call it – Dembes Phone so they got all the intel Red and Dembe got and just received the picture of Ressler and Agnes. It made her feel every emotion possible. She should be there.