Boss's Daughter
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Connor ran over to Abby to make sure she was ok. She still looked rather pale and probably needed to eat. Matt hugged Emily making sure she was ok whilst Becker turned around to his sister.
Bertie had gone deathly pale, the tan she had acquired in Afghanistan, did nothing to hide how shocked she was. She stood unmoving for a moment, Becker held her arms gently.
"Are you ok?" he rubbed her arms gently trying to get some sort of reaction from her. It took a few seconds but she gazed up at Becker and blinked. Then she shook her head trying to clear it and licked her lips.
She noticed four pairs of eyes, staring at Becker and herself.
"Becker..." she pointed with her eyes to the people standing behind him.
Becker turned to see his friends staring at him and the strange woman.
"Um... Guys... Um..." Becker blinked as four accusing eyes stared at him.
"Guys... I'd like you all to meet Major Becker... My sister."
Matt was the first to recover from this bombshell.
"Your sister, Major Becker," he said emphasizing the rank. "So she ranks higher than you?" Matt began to smile.
"Thanks for the reminder, Matt!"
Becker turned to each of the team and introduced them in turn.
Bertie sat in front of Becker's home computer. She was surrounded with files. Did she really know what she was letting herself in for when she said she would investigate this crime?
She decided that she would need to shadow her brother for a few days. A fact that he wasn't pleased with. Nevertheless, she had Lester's backing and consent and so she could follow Becker to her heart's content.
She was dressed in casual clothes, jeans and a white tee-shirt and a gun strapped across her back and to her side, underneath her pale brown leather jacket. She sat in his car as he brooded whilst he drove.
"Do you really have to come with me? Follow me around all day?"
"I need to know certain things. Part of this investigation includes a Character assessment. I can't do that at home in front of your computer." Much as Bertie hated the idea of having to do one of those assessments on her brother, she knew it had to be done. General White knew she could be impartial to any evidence she would come across and had specifically asked for her.
"If you must! But remember if we have to go out to any anomalies, I'm the one in charge!" Becker grumbled.
"I rank higher than you, I'm in charge!"
"You're completely out of your depth, you won't know what you're doing, and you could even get yourself killed!"
"Hah!" Bertie harrumphed. "You may be the one who fights dinosaurs for a living, but I'm the one who's just come back from the front line!"
Becker swiped his bio-tag to gain entry to the ARC.
"After you," Becker opened the door.
"That should be after you... SIR!" Bertie grumbled; she hated being called Ma'am. The title just didn't have the same effect with the men who worked under her. Whenever she was called Sir, the men seemed to react differently towards her, and she actively encouraged the title.
"After you, SIR," Becker grinned at his sister.
"Thank You, Captain Becker," she replied sarcastically
"Don't mention it, Major Becker," he retorted just as sarcastically. Grinning at each other they walked down to the Hub.
As they turned the corner, they saw Jess coming up the steps outside Lester's office.
Jess froze, it was her again, the woman who she had seen with Becker. How could he do this to her? How could he bring that woman to work with him? What was she doing here? Tears sprang into her eyes and she rushed off to the toilets crying.
Becker's face dropped as he saw Jess' reaction to him. Bertie looked at him. Something had just happened here.
"Care to explain bro?" she enquired.
"Jess," the word was barely a whisper; he closed his eyes and sighed. He opened them again with Bertie looking at him quizzically.
"Jess is our FCO."
"Wasn't she the one who was at your flat the other day?" Becker nodded slowly.
Bertie understood everything.
"I'll go speak to her, once she realises who I am, she'll be fine." She turned and traced Jess's path to the ladies.
She pushed the door open gently, Jess stood at the sinks dabbing her nose. She turned away from Bertie as she went in.
Cautiously she extended her hand, "Hi, I'm Bertie," she paused, "Bertie Becker."
Jess froze, this was worse than she originally thought...
This was the wife!
Fresh tears started to stream down her face.
Bertie began to panic; her brother would never forgive her if this went pear shaped.
"It's not what you're thinking" she stammered, "I'm Captain Becker's sister!" she waited for a moment for the information to sink in.
Jess stopped and sniffed, a single tear ran down her cheek, and she wiped it away before turning to face Bertie.
She sniffed and dabbed at her nose again. "You're... Becker's sister?"
Bertie nodded. Jess smiled. "Excuse me." She turned away and blew her nose properly. She used a fresh tissue to clean her face, and she scrubbed away at the mascara that had run down her face.
She turned around. "Sorry, I didn't realise."
Bertie nodded. "Would have been better if you'd have hung around the other day to find out." She smiled.
"Sorry," Jess murmured.
"It's OK; by the way, you missed a bit," Bertie reached for the tissue in Jess's hand and wiped away a glob of mascara on her cheek.
Jess smiled, and she began to feel perkier, she was beginning to like Bertie.
"Hi, I'm Jess."
Bertie smiled back, and shaking her extended hand she replied. "I know, Becker's told me all about you!" she wiggled her eyebrows.
"Oh yes," Jess stated extending the word, "so what sort of things has he told you about me?" Jess said smiling.
"Oh just that you're the Field Co-ordinator, and how good you are at your job."
Becker stood at the ADD waiting for Jess and his sister to return. What was taking so long? Where they alright in there? Becker envisaged the two girls fighting! Blood everywhere, Jess hurt, Bertie laughing manically.
Damn! The suspense was killing him! If they didn't come out in the next two minutes, he was going to have to go in there to find out. He turned to the ADD and tried to turn on the link to Jess's comms. He grunted when he realised that she'd left it on her desk. Damn! He couldn't even hear what they were saying!
He began to make his way to find out when, suddenly the door opened and Jess and Bertie came strolling out, arm in arm as if they had been best friends for years.
"You know we're going to have to get together and go shopping one day." Jess said excitedly.
"I'd love that! I haven't been clothes shopping for ages. It would be fantastic!" Bertie grinned at Jess knowingly. After their chat in the ladies, Bertie knew exactly how Jess felt about her brother. She also knew how Becker felt about Jess and had suggested to Jess that she waited for a while. Somehow Bertie knew that if she managed to clear her brother's name he would feel better about dating her.
"Morning Captain Becker," Jess smiled sweetly and walking past him, head held high, and sat herself down at the ADD.
Becker gaped as Jess walked past; he opened and closed his mouth for a moment.
"What did you say to her?"
Bertie shrugged her shoulders. "Nothing. Just girl talk." She smiled.
For the morning she followed her brother around as he trained soldiers, made sure all firearms were cleaned, checked entry and exit logs and generally checked that all was as it should be.
Finally she stood behind Jess and studied the ADD. Amazed by technology she wandered up to Jess.
"So what does this thing do?" she asked Jess, who sat tapping away at various keyboards.
"This is the ADD. It monitors anomalies that open up, anywhere, anywhere in the world." Jess turned to Bertie. "If there's an anomaly open, I'll know about it. Unfortunately, there aren't any open at the moment." She paused "Becker has told you about the Anomalies, hasn't he?"
Bertie nodded. "I don't think I'll believe it until I see it!" Bertie wondered for a moment. "Can you pull up street CCTV images up on this?"
"I can do anything here!" Jess started grinning. She tapped a few buttons and one of the screens flickered and changed showing a street scene outside Becker's flat.
"Amazing." She smiled, and pondered for a moment. "Can you access archive footage from say six years ago?"
"It's a bit harder to get, but I'm sure I could..." Jess tapped away again on her computer. She focused on the same address but with a date six years previous.
The ADD hummed, it took a minute, but an image came up, Not of Becker but of a young man ushering his pregnant wife into a car.
"I remember him," Becker came up behind the ladies and watched the image. Bertie turned to him questioningly. "He's the guy I bought the flat from; they'd just had a little one and need to move somewhere bigger."
"So this image is from six years ago?"
Becker nodded.
"Wow!" Bertie processed this information and thought for a moment. Having Jess on her side could just prove useful.
Not exactly as I'd planned, but I thought I couldn't keep you in suspense for much longer.
Sorry for the short chapter.
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