The Aftermath Of Secrets

"You followed her to the medical examiner's building. And exactly what did she do there?" The senior agent questions Thomas Simpson

"I followed her as she went inside. Once there she found the morgue and sneaked inside quietly. There was a technician cataloging evidence and placing it into evidence boxes. She used a needle to knock out the lab tech then she searched the files he had just boxed up. Then she opened every one of the cooler lockers and looked at every body. Do we know what was she doing there and what was she looking for?"

The senior agent turns to the junior agent "Sorry, this is all on a need to know basis and for now, I have not been authorized to read you in to this case. For now you are to just keep an eye on the girl and keep me informed on her actions. Understood?"

"Yes, sir!" Agent Simpson replies. He turns to leave then stops and turns back around to the older man. Then almost as an afterthought "By the way, did you see the pictures in the Ledger last week of that mystery writer Richard Castle and his new wife? You know she looks like she could be Andrea's sister"

The senior agent just looks over to the younger man "Dismissed"

Agent Simpson exits the office

The man sits at his desk for a few moments before picking up his telephone and dialing a number.

Obviously whoever he calls is a superior "Sir, I believe we have an issue that will require your personal attention. Yes it is her. She seems to be spiraling out of control. She was seeing a therapist and we believe that she divulged classified information to him. Then someone evidently murdered this councilor. His files were either destroyed or taken by persons unknown. But now, she is running wild and is totally out of control. She attacked a laboratory technician at the morgue. Yes sir, we believe she has had a breakdown of some type and must be controlled. Are you sure that this is the way you want to handle the case? Yes, sir. Understood! Are you sending a cleaner to take care of her? Very well. Have them contact me when they arrive and I will supervise. Very well, sir!"

He places the phone back on the hook and stares off in the distance. Orders are orders. His superiors have issued a command. He is sworn to obey lawful orders. He took an oath to…wait Lawful Orders Was this a lawful order or not?

His mind begins to churn with possible solutions. He can't do what has been ordered. No one should be faced with removal. Especially someone so important to him personally as she is. He can't do it. And he will not ask anyone else to do it and he will stop it from happening

No one in the agency knows about his relationship to her. They have been able to keep the secret from their co workers for many years.

What has happened to her? She was so stable. She was the strongest person he ever knew and just because she is family it did not matter. Up until these last three months everything was going well. Then for whatever reason something went terribly wrong with her. Did she find out about his secret? The secret he felt that he had to keep from her?

He really loved working as a team with her She seemed to love working with him. They were able to go on missions impersonating father and daughter. Well, that was easy for both of them since he is her father.

Except he is not her father. At least not in the usual sense of the word. As a junior agent investigating subversive activity and foreign agents, he is part of a team that discovers an infant girl in the hands of a doctor and his nurse. It turns out that the baby had been conceived in a test tube using stolen eggs and sperm. As this doctor is locked up for an extended period of time the baby needed a home.

This young agent and his late wife had tried to have children of their own to no avail and they agreed to take care of the child until other arrangements could be made. Days become weeks. Weeks become months. And before anyone realizes it this little girl has wormed her way into his heart and he cannot let her go. For all practical purposes, she is his daughter. He arranges a secret adoption. Case is sealed and he actually later arranges for all documents to vanish. No trail exists tracing her back to the experiments.

His life was really doing great. He raised the child and no one ever suspected that she was not his natural daughter. It didn't matter. As far as he was concerned she is his little girl.

Like many children, she decided to follow in her father's footsteps. He was opposed to her getting in involved in the things he did but she was strong willed and was going to do what she wanted to do. He figured it must be in her genes because this girl was not brought up to be a spy. Her first love was become a lawyer but something drove her to change to a different part of the law. When she told him she was going to apply, he convinced her to use his real name and not use the Richardson.

So she is known as Andrea Gregory in the company

But other demons haunt him. Another lie he has told for years. A lie that is catching up with him now. A son that he had with a woman years before the girl came into his life. A son that he followed in the newspapers. He is proud to see the accomplishments his son achieved over the years. Famous author. Best seller. He laughed every time a new book was published and his boy shows up on the front page with a new bimbo on his arm. Like father, like son.

Then one day his secret world came crashing in. Richard Castle attends the release party for his newest character, Nikki Heat. And there in the entertainment section is a photograph of Richard and his muse for his fictional character and his heart stopped.

Katherine Beckett is the spitting image of his daughter. Then he discovers there is a DNA match. They are in fact sisters

Agent Richardson now sits at his desk and trying to devise a plan to fix his situation. If he can hide Andrea. No wait if he does that, then they might think Beckett is Andrea and go after her. He can hide Beckett as well. Or worse, if the cleaner decides he doesn't know who is who and goes after them both just to make sure. Then his daughter and daughter in law are both in danger now.

The aftermath of secrets can destroy everything you love