Thank you all for your continued support of this story I am so sorry for the long wait on this chapter. The next chapter might involve a time jump, but all of her siblings will be introduced in it.
Chapter 5
Hannah's head whipped back at the harsh strike. "Mom," yelled Sam in panic, "don't you think that was just a little bit unnecessary?" She looked from her mother's blonde hair to her partner's dark black.
"No I do not, speaking of unnecessary things; you are grounded young lady, for the rest of your life. What was Beckman thinking? How could she hire you, didn't she know you are a minor? She could go to jail, for reckless endangerment." Almost growling in frustration Sarah turned around and put her hand to her head. Sam started working on the ropes that bound her hands with the sharp knife charm on her bracelet, a bracelet that her father had given to her for her twelfth birthday. She had obviously made improvements upon the original design.
"She might have been misinformed as to my age." Sam meekly whispered out, "I may or may not have hacked into my birth records and moved it up a couple of years. Then I manufactured a false birth certificate and routed any phone calls made from government facilities to myself for a couple of weeks, you know anything needed for a standard infiltration with a set cover."
Sarah's face was stuck in between half upset, and half bursting with motherly pride, both fighting for control of her beautiful face. Casey grunted his approval, drawing all eyes toward him, "What? I was showing my appreciation of her methods, plus she was doing what I always told her to do." He nodded to himself and refused to say more on the subject.
Sam smiled to herself remembering the time when she was nine, and had taken an older boy to the ground at school that day. She was frustrated with the teachers telling her that she couldn't do things because she was too young. Her uncle had taken her onto his knee and hugged her as hard as he could, without breaking her, and said, "Don't let anyone tell you what you can't do because of your age, or gender, or the amount of learning you have. Just do it, and then later you will look back and be glad you had the courage to take the initiative, because it makes all the difference." She hadn't understood till later how very blessed she was that this stony man had shown her more love than he usually let out of his hard exterior.
She finally had gotten her hands free of the binding ropes, standing she hugged her mother tightly saying, "I love you too Mommy." She then walked over to the other chairs and untied her partners. Hannah rubbed her cheek ruefully, smiling she shook Sarah Bartowski's hand. Anna Wu got up and smiled a megawatt smile that had been previously unseen to both of the other operatives.
"Hey Chuckles, Sarah, Casey," she paused looking at the small her who had stood by her father for the entire conversation, "Morgan."
Sam looked around at her slightly odd family and said, "I guess I am going to have to send in my letter of resignation now thanks to you guys. We can't have Beckman getting fired on my account. Hey, what are Steve and Charlie up to right now, maybe I can hang with them? Is that weird hanging with my nine year old brothers?"