Hi guys, I'm back !
My deepest apologies for letting y'all wait for so long. I've been very busy with school and stuff but it was worth it because I made it to my second year, yay. Thanks for the new followers and thanks for keeping up with me and for having so much patience. Here's the next chap, it's a little shorter than I use to do and I'm deeply sorry for that... But enough of my talking, let's read !
Have fun.
"You have a baby sister, Elsa, her name is Anna."
Elsa, a three and a half years old toddler, sits on the bed with her parents. In her mother's arms lays a tiny creature, her sister. "Anna..." She slowly repeats after her mother.
"That's right, now be a good big sister to her ok ? You'll have so much fun together." Her mother kisses her eldest child.
Later that evening, baby Anna lays in her crib. She cries, she's hungry probably. Elsa is in her room, playing with her dolls. Her parents are out, getting champagne and a pie for tomorrow's guests. The baby keeps crying. Elsa doesn't really know what to do, even though she knows plenty on how to nurse a baby, she still is unsure of it, she never practiced on a real human thing before. After half an hour of hesitating, she finally stands up and leaves her room. Slowly, she walks towards the little crib. The baby's face is red of crying all the time. Elsa leans over and brushes her hand over the baby's cheek. "Shhhhh, it's going to be alright." She takes the baby out and lays her on her parent's bed. The baby watches her as she crawls on the bed and hold her tight. "This is nice, isn't it Anna ?" The baby is quiet. Elsa cheers softly, she did it ! "You're a beautiful little girl. You're my sister Anna. Do you know what that means ?" Anna's tiny hand grabs one of Elsa's blonde locks. She sticks it in her mouth and sucks on it. "That means..." Elsa grabs her lock back and puts it behind her back. "...that you're not going to eat your sister's hair." Anna's big blue eyes watches Elsa's blue eyes. "You have such a pretty face, you're going to be beautiful when you grow up." Elsa compliments the baby. "Now, let's go to sleep, mummy and daddy will come home soon." She hugs her sister and sings it to sleep with a song she made up herself.
That morning, Elsa awakes of an arm that lays heavily on her waist. She turns around and is greeted by John's face. He smiles. She smiles back.
"Hey." John begins.
"Hi." She answers, unsure of what will happen next.
"Listen." He begins. "I'm sorry for my outburst yesterday. I'm having a bit of a rough time since the news that a long time friend has passed away... I shouldn't have yelled at you like I did, and you have my deep regards for that." He apologises.
Elsa nods slowly and understanding. "I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have snapped at you like that, and I shouldn't have yelled that I hated you 'cause I don't."
John leans forward to kiss her forehead. He tucks her under his chin and almost crushes her against his body. She pushes her face in his chest, never wanting to let go of him. He is her soulmate, her other half, she couldn't live without him. After half an hour of cuddling, John loosens his grip.
"Come on." He says. "Today you'll be going with me. I promised my the General to bring you in so that you could take a look at the inscriptions, since you're the genius here." John informs her.
She frowns. "But I have to work sweetie."
"Nope, I covered you."
Elsa narrows her eyes. "Then what exactly have you told the headmaster ?" She asks curiously.
"I told him you hated the way he treats you and that you won't come to work as a protest until he treats you like a lady." John answers deadpanned.
The young blonde gasps. "No you didn't !" She exclaims.
He chuckles. "Of course not, he thinks you're sick."
Elsa lets out a sigh of relief. "That's better. But only for one day." She warns.
"Ehm." John then begins. "That might be a problem, see, I called you in sick for two days."
Now she's really confused. "What, why ? What am I going to do the second day then ?"
He smiles nervously. "... visiting your in laws."
After they both had breakfast, they headed to the headquarters of the camp where the Major General, Martin Clark, was already waiting for them. He greets them politely and brings them to the computer hackers department. Elsa looks around her and analyses her surroundings. These rooms are new to her and she quickly scans for hidden camera's. One, two, four, six, nine... Nine hidden camera's. She sighs, of course.
"Now." Martin begins. "You are Elsa, correct ?"
She nods.
"Great. Look. We need your help, we have received a disk containing a cryptogram. None of our best hackers have been able to get into the system, none, not even a young boy with the IQ of 175. So then, 1st Warrant Officer John, suggested that he should bring in you because you're quite a math genius or so I have heard."
"Show me and I'll see what I can do." Elsa simply answers, to Martin's delight.
"Alright." He says and takes her to a desk where three monitors and a huge keyboard are resting. He places the disk in the server and immediately a number of codes are activated. Elsa narrows her eyes as she takes a seat in the comfortable chair. Her eyes hoover over the codes and she recognises a pattern. As quickly as she can she types in a few codes which brings her to the next taks; a firewall. She curses, of course, no surprise. New code. New task. New code. And so on.
Martin turns to John and whispers in his ear. "She's quite good."
John smiles proudly. "I told you."
After forty five minutes of analysing and typing in codes, Elsa turns around. "Guys, I think we have a problem... We've got a.. logic bomb*."
Martin rushes over to her. "And that's not good ?" He asks.
"No. It's bad, really bad. A logic bomb is like a time bomb but much more complex. If I fail to crack the code and put in the correct numbers in the correct order, not only will they execute certain files selected before but they will also be able to track us down, here in the headquarters..."
"Wait a minute." John interferes. "Isn't this Markus Lee who sent us the disk ? Why would he execute certain files if he wanted us to read the disk ? I don't get it."
"Markus Lee needs to be sure that no one, who is not addressed on the envelope, will be able to see the information he has gathered over the past few years. That's why he made some kind of code in a pattern that only members of the CIA will understand. But I think is that the IRA has messed with the disk before it arrived here. Maybe they put in some sort of bot that gives away our hideout. Now, I am almost through, I only need to crack this one to get to the next and with that, the circle is completed and we will be able to get inside the program." Elsa explains. The two men raise their eyebrows.
"Right." John smirks. "Imma get some coffee. Who wants a donut ?"
Martin stays behind. He bends over to the young genius who is already busy typing. "Thank you for helping us out. Our country owes you big." Then he walks away.
Elsa turns around and smiles. Yeah, they owe me big.
After hours of puzzling and cracking codes and even more difficult codes, Elsa finally can enter the system later that evening. She's been there all day doing nothing more than solving intricate codes and patterns within the computer world. The whole crew cheers as she opens the first file. She gasps as she scrolls through the photos. "No..." The whole crew is silent. The file Elsa hacked into contains hundreds, thousands of photographs of men getting beaten up and shot at. Children being rudely killed and women being raped and murdered. It even has animals being burned alive or other horrible stuff they did. Elsa keeps scrolling down and keeps opening documents, the photos never seem to end. The crew behind her gasps at the sight of the horrifying pictures.
"Shut it down" John suddenly says.
Elsa turns around. "What ?"
"Shut the system down." He repeats.
"But.. why ?"
John walks up to the desk, pushes Elsa's hands off the keyboard and frantically types in some codes. It seems like the computers errors because all the data gets deleted and endless pop up vensters with zip codes appear. Secret information about his elite investigating team leaks away under his fingers, he can't get control of them. It's like a mosquito sucking the blood out of his host. "No no no nonononooo... please don't." John begs.
Elsa pushes his hands from the keyboard and tries to stop the action by typing in a difficult code. It doesn't work. "It must be a time bomb cause it's stealing all of our information while we don't get to see any that's on the disk !"
"Shit." John curses. "Elsa what did you do ?"
"I... I don't know." The blonde genius looks at the vensters and scans them quickly. Then it's her turn to curse. "No... this can't be..."
Martin taps John on the shoulder. "Mind explaining what's going on, warrant officer ?" He asks demandingly.
John gulps. "Well, yeah, er... Els ?" As he looks over at his girlfriend.
Great, now I can clean up the mess. She thinks. "Sir, I'm afraid we've got a Trojan Horse in the system. It's a program disguised as a valid program, which makes it difficult to distinguish it from other programs that are supposed to be there. When activated, the Trojan Horse can steal information, passwords and even can destroy files that are not meant for the public eye. The time bomb then locks the information away in a certain document and sends it back to it's commander, which is somewhere in... Egypt ?" Elsa frowns. "It's a little easter egg that IRA probably left for us to find." She concludes.
The Major General frowns. "How could this happen ?"
"I'm afraid I activated it by clicking on the wrong file..." Elsa says softly.
It takes Martin and the head of the computer department a long time to shut the system down. Martin assigned John to tell Elsa to leave, she is not of use anymore. Elsa bites her lip. She should have seen it coming, it was so obvious. Then why did she miss it ?
"Elsa you should go home." John says while pushing her softly in her back to the exit.
She turns around. "No wait, I want to stay here with you. I wanna know what will happen next. Maybe I can help ?"
"You already did enough !" The Major General says coldly. He gives her a glare and then bosses some people around.
Elsa gets upset. "Wait, you asked me to come and help. I cracked that damn code for God's sake ! Do you know how many code I got in my head right now ?!" She shouts.
"We asked you to crack the code, not to open files and documents unrequested ! Do you have any idea what your actions are gonna cost us ? All our important data is just transferred to some group of assholes in the middle of Egypt !? How are supposed to get that back, going to Egypt for a cup of tea and oh, by the way we need our information back !" John spits out.
"I'm sorry ok, how could I know they had planted a boobytrap ?!" She defends herself.
"If you had done exactly what was asked from you, and nothing more, then we wouldn't have been in this situation, now would we ?"
"Ok, just go home. We'll handle this and I'll see you tonight." John kisses her goodbye.
Elsa can feel a certain pressure hanging in the air. She quickly scans her boyfriend's body language. "Bent forward, crease, lowered eyelids, hanging mouth..."
"Sweetie, are you scanning me ?" John asks, he's tired and frustrated.
"Are you mad at me ? ... for opening those files ?"
John sighs. His girfriend is standing so small and fragile in front of him. He feels a certain guilt in his chest as he was the one who suggested she should crack the code. "I-... I'm sorry Els. I never should have get you involved."
She shakes her head. "It's alright. I hope they will be able to shut down the system entirely to not leak further information."
He wraps his arms around her, hugging her tight. "You really, really should go home now."
Elsa sighs. This is really not her day. Really not.
Bani Mazar - down south of Cairo, capital of Egypt.
"What the fuck ! Some asshole hacked into our system ?!" A man with a beard screams.
Another man appears, he has glasses on and holds a cup of coffee in his hand. "Whut ?" He asks dumb.
The man with the beard grabs the glass guy and drags him over to the desk. "Look Raif. Look at it ! Someone hacked into our system. How could this be, I thought you were the expert ?!" He screams upset.
"Relax relax Basir, I put in a boobytrap with a locator. All we need to do is wait until the boobytrap is activated, find out what the location is and send some of our men. That's all." Raif answers.
"Yeah yeah." Basic says while brushing his fancy beard. "And KILL EM ALL !"
Anna is at school. But today is not her day. This morning she overslept. She didn't have anything to wear and so she had to wear something she wore yesterday already. She came to the discovery that her dad hadn't been shopping and so they were out of bread. Next, the bus didn't come and she had to wait another half an hour.. in the rain ! Then she had sprinted to school but she was too late and she had to interrupt the lecturer during his important speech about traffic incidents. So yeah, this is really not her day. Really not.
Julie, her best friend, bends over. "You didn't miss a lot."
Anna nods. "I might as well have stayed home then. This stupid lecture, I don't learn anything here !" She exclaims. A little too loud because the teacher heard her and looks up.
He pulls his glasses down his nose. Ew. Anna hates it when people do that. Well except for her sister. Somehow, her sister can pull that off making it look absolutely fabulous. But this guy just sort of ruins the day even more by making this tiny movement. "Ms Winters. If you don't learn anything here, then why did you even bother to come here in the first place ?"
Anna shrugs. "I don't know. I really should have stayed home..."
The teacher raises his eyebrow. "Well now you're here and you're going to pay attention if you like it or not." He says sternly and turns back to the board.
The girl lets out an annoying groan. She really has had it with the world today. "You can't make me !" She says daringly while sticking out her tongue and smirks.
"Ms Winters please leave the classroom ! Go to Mr Jenkins to get a detention, I don't want to see you here for the next couple of days." A teacher with huge ass glasses yells at poor Anna.
Anna raises her eyebrows. "What the hell ?"
He points at the door.
She stands up with a lot of noise and slowly walks towards the door. "Go suck a dick." She murmurs as she walks past him.
The teacher turns his head. "Did you say something Ms Winters ?" He asks.
"No no, I didn't say a word." Anna rushes to the hall and slams the door shut. Great. Stupid Nicole and her Uber bitch clan. It all started with Anna scribbling in her notebook. Then a girl from Nicole's clan, a new girl, grabs Anna's notebook and begins to tear it apart. Anna gets angry and grabs the girl's hair. The girl pushes Anna on the ground and a catfight has started. And right as Anna kicks the girl in the stomach, the teacher comes walking into the classroom. Great. Timing.
Anna walks to the office of the headmaster. Another boy is standing against the wall, waiting to be called in. He looks quite unhappy. Well who isn't if you have to go to the headmaster's office. Anna leans against the wall as she softly hums a tone. This is not the first time she has been to the principal's office. When she was in middle school, she used to visit the office very often. Because her parents were gone, her sister always came. At the age of eighteen she already was a wise person and she was of age to be responsible for her younger sister's actions. The teachers didn't like Elsa because she always outsmarted them. Anna grinned, she would never forget that moment Elsa got her first detention; and she didn't even go to school anymore !
"Anna ?! Anna what's going on ?" Elsa, who just turned nineteen past week, runs towards her younger sister, a rebellious sixteen year old. Anna looks at her sister and tells her furiously what happened. How she was just being normal during lunch break and how this stupid boy had taken her bag and had thrown it in the bin. Then she had responded by throwing his bike into the pond. And that's where the teacher had sent her to the principal.
Elsa's eyes widened. "You threw a bike in a pond ?" Anna nods. Elsa starts to giggle. "Wauw, I didn't know you were that strong..." She says admiringly.
The strawberry blonde smiles. "Right !"
"You may come in now Anna." Both sisters snap out of their girl moment and walk into the office. They sit down in the chairs.
"So, Anna you're here again. You know, I've been seeing you a lot lately. Mind explaining why that is ? ..." The principal asks.
Anna fiddles nervously on her braid. As her sister begins to talk, Elsa lets her eyes roam the room or more like scan the room. It's not an exciting office, it's rather dull. The walls are grey, the desk is grey, the seats are grey, the computer is grey, the pencil is grey, even the shirt of the principal is grey, not to mention his hair. Elsa's eyes move over to the principal, he is not tall, rather tiny. He is a little overweight and wears a shirt way too small for his body. Ew. On the shirt is a name tag; Mr Jenkins. Horrible name. On his nose are thick glasses. His mouth is pushed downwards. This man must hate his job, Elsa concludes, he looks so unhappy. Elsa's eyes have found a new spot to concentrate on, his desk. It's quite organised, the paper and pencil are laying in the middle, perfectly. On his right side stands the computer, on his left side a pile of papers. In front of him stands a glass of water, next to it lays a pill. A pill ?
"Ellis, we need to talk about your sister." Mr Jenkins calls her. Elsa blinks her eyes, aaaaand she's back in her seat again.
"It's Elsa." She says dull. "And I don't understand why only my sister is sitting here while this other... kid, is in class. He started it, is what I've heard."
"Well, he didn't throw a bike in a pond, now did he ?" Mr Jenkins says arrogantly.
"No, he threw away my sister's bag. He should learn to respect someone else's property." Elsa fires back, she's had more than enough of this childish play.
Mr Jenkins turns red with anger. How dare this young lady speak against him like that. Of course, he had heard about this child's amazing brains and that she already was teaching a college class. His own daughter, Maggie, could take some advice from her and study for once. But all she did was going out with guys and ha-... Jenkins shook his head. Snap out of it man ! He opens his mouth to speak but the young lady was first.
"Mr Jenkins." Elsa speaks. "We have to get going, I have a lesson to prepare and my sister has homework to do. Now if you'll excuse us, we'll come back when this boy has apologised to my sister." She stands up and drags Anna along.
"Bye !" Anna waves and grins at the principal. "Way to go Els !" She compliments excitedly as the girls run out of school. Their laughs can be heard from a mile away.
"Ms Winters ?" A loud voice calls. Anna's head shoots up, right, she's not with her big sister anymore, she's... alone. She swallows deeply and enters the office. Elsa was too busy anyways. The door closes loudly behind her.
"You did WHAT !?" Her dad exclaims after Anna comes home. She drops her bag, great, school called. "You are expelled from class and got a detention ?!" He asks her furiously.
Anna nods.
"You, young lady, are in big trouble ! You are going to clean your room, it's a mess and then I want you to do your homework properly. This is law school, things are taken very serious here." He says and rolls away. "I'll bring your food upstairs, you will not leave your room until you're done."
Tears well up in Anna's eyes. "I have to stay in my room for three days ?!" She shouts upset. "For three days !?"
"That's what I said." Her dad answers from the kitchen. "You're going to use that brain of yours for once !
"No. No fucking way." Anna runs upstairs, packs her things and runs back down again. Her dad is sitting in the hallway.
"What are you doing ?" He asks.
"I'm not going to stay here, that's what I'm doing." She answers and runs out the door.
"Elsa let me in !" Anna bangs on the door. "Els ! You home ?" Anna sighs as she pulls her hand back. Of course, her sister isn't home, she's at school. Ew. School. Why would you go back to school ? The most horrible place in the world. She turns around as suddenly the door opens.
"Anna ?" And Elsa appears. "What are you doing here ? Aren't you supposed to be at school ?"
"Yeah, supposed to." The girl answers as she steps inside. She drops her bag in the middle of the hallway and falls on the couch with a deep and dramatic sigh. "I think school hates me."
Elsa walks to the kitchen to get something to drink. "And why is that ?" She asks while she pulls out a bottle of pepsi.
"This may sound weird to you." Anna begins. "But... I am thrown out of class again. I got a detention for three days..."
Elsa nearly drops the glasses. "A detention ? But why ?"
"Because that stupid Nicole bitch made a new girl rip my book apart. Like it is a really important notebook, all my notes are in it, it's a fucking notebook !"
The blonde nods slowly. "I see. Well I sup-..." The phone rings and Elsa jumps up. "Wait, does dad know you're here ?"
Anna nods. "He knows that I'm out.."
Elsa picks up the phone. "Hi dad ! ... I don't know, tell me... Yes she is... No I don't think she wants to... Right... Um... " She looks over at her sister who is wildly waving her hands at her throat and pretends she's choking or something. Elsa grins, her crazy sister ! "What do you want me to tell her ? ... Yes I will, ok bye dad."
"Well ? What did he have to say ?"
"He's sad..."
Anna's eyes grow wide. "Sad ?! But why ? I thought he would be angry or something but sad..."
"Well, he's sad that he's losing you I guess. You guys always have had an amazing relationship but ever since you hit puberty, you changed. And you're not to blame for that, he knows but he just wishes you were back, his little princess." Elsa says softly, wishing those happy times repeated themselves somehow. "You know what, you're staying here for the next three days and you're going to get your shit back together. I don't want you to skip any classes. Start acting like your age, enjoy these couple of years at school. Here, in the real world it isn't always sunny and happy all the time. You can stay in the guest room."
The young girl nods. "Alright." She grabs her bag and walks into her room. I'm going to set things right, I'm not going to lose my shit and I'm going to graduate to make my family proud. She grabs a new notebook and pencil and starts with her homework. I'm going to make a difference to the world.
She works all evening and day, and the days after. Elsa sometimes comes in to provide her with a cup of tea and some sandwiches but Anna is hardcore working through the days and at the end of the week, she finishes up her assignments. She proudly walks back to college to hand her papers in personally when she bumps Mr Jenkins.
"WHOAAah !" She exclaims as she drops her papers. She immediately bends over and starts to pick them up. "I'm so sorry Sir. I didn't see you." She apologises. "I've finished my assignment. I hope it's good..." She says as she hands him her papers.
He slowly nods his head as he reads the first few lines of her essay. "Very well. I hope you've learned your lesson then Ms Winters. Have a good day." And he walks off.
Anna smiles at herself. Guess that wasn't that bad.
"So how did it go ?" Elsa asks curiously as Anna returns.
Anna nods. "It went well." She answers.
"Good." Elsa says. "Well you better change some clothes then."
Anna frowns. "Ok. Wait what why ?"
Elsa chuckles. "Cause we're going out girl !"
