Boss's Daughter
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Is Captain Becker innocent?
Is he guilty?
Will Major Becker be arresting her brother in this chapter?
Sorry about the short chapter. I wanted to leave the chapter at a specific point again. You'll see why!
Bertie hated doing this. Deep in her heart she knew that Becker was innocent; she just had to prove it. She took it to one of the army forensic team to have it tested. The results would come back in four hours. All she could do now was wait.
Four hours later she had the results in a file in her hand. Apprehensively she stood by her desk, staring at the file; cautiously she opened it and began to read.
Her mouth fell open and she felt weak at the knees. She pulled out her chair and sat down quickly. She gulped and re-read the file. Her elbow rested on the table and her hand went to her mouth.
Captain Hilary James Becker – His DNA matched that of the DNA found in FCO Lisa Miller's vagina.
Bertie shook her head. This couldn't be right. This could not POSSIBLY be right! She put the file to one side and contacted General White and arranged for a meeting with him and General Miller later that day.
In the mean time she went to see Becker.
Becker was checking entry logs when the anomaly alarms sounded. He stared at Bertie.
"Stay here, I'll look into this,"
"No, I'm coming with you!"
"This can be dangerous. You could even get killed!"
"Since when has that stopped me?" Bertie glared at her brother.
"OK, but you stay close to me..." he regarded Bertie coolly."Stay close to me... Sir." He corrected.
Bertie grinned and together they grabbed black boxes and joined Matt, Emily, Abby and Connor.
The anomaly was in a disused warehouse on the outskirts of London.
"Are you sure it's here?" they asked Jess.
The building had been abandoned years ago and was in very bad repair.
Cautiously they went in. Weapons trained in front of them. Searching for any signs of an incursion. Boxes lay everywhere. It seemed that this building was used by vagrants with nowhere else to go.
Finally, Emily spotted the familiar orange glow of an anomaly. She spoke into her comms telling the others.
Matt and Becker arrived quickly with the Major following closely behind.
They were about to close the anomaly. When suddenly something ran out of the boxes and grabbed Bertie.
Bertie screamed as she was hauled through the anomaly and into the past. She looked around her to the unfamiliar landscape. The hills and rocky landscape reminded her of the barren landscape she had encountered in Afghanistan.
Scared and frightened she screamed for her brother. "Haitch!" The shortened form of his name that Bertie always used.
"Haitch!"
Becker heard her through the anomaly and her screams tore him apart. He couldn't bear to lose anyone else. Especially his sister!
"Don't do anything yet. I'm going after her. If I'm not back in ten minutes... Lock it!" aiming his EMD he ran through the anomaly after his sister.
On the other side of the anomaly Becker found himself in unfamiliar territory. He looked around the rocky terrain.
"Bertie!" he shouted and was rewarded with the sound if her voice echoing in the distance. He followed quickly and it was not long before he could see her being carried away by some sort of ape.
The ape stopped and Becker carried on inching forwards. Then he realised why the ape had stopped he was surrounded by at least fifty of these unusual hominids.
The creature grunted as he set Bertie down.
Becker reached for her hand and wondered if these early humans would understand what he was about to say.
"Mine!" he grabbed Bertie's hand and pulled her close.
He repeated. "Mine!" before raising his EMD challenging the Neanderthal.
The ape who had grabbed Bertie reached for Becker's EMD, grunting he pulled it, and threw it away.
"OK... A fight is what you're after?" Becker took up a challenging stance and waited for the hominid to make a move.
The Neanderthal reached for Bertie, Becker kicked his hand away and the tackled him to the ground. Quickly he stood and waited for the ape man to make his next move.
The ape man grunted and grabbed at Becker's hair and pulled. Becker shouted at the sudden pain. But with a quick twist he had managed to turn and loosen the grip away from him he kneed the ape in the groin, causing it to double up in pain. He pulled the Neanderthal's arms back into a vice like grip twisting them behind its back.
"Becker." A voice shouted from behind him. Becker turned to see Matt throw him an EMD. Deftly he caught it and then, he bent down and picked up his own EMD. Pointing it at the Neanderthal he spoke.
"I don't want to hurt you." signalling to his sister and then to himself he spoke again. "She is mine!"
Keeping the EMDs trained on the group of ape-men they slowly edged away.
They ran towards the anomaly as it began to flicker. Quickly they jumped through. Connor was about to lock the anomaly when the flickering increased and then the anomaly closed by itself.
"That... was close!" Matt muttered.
Winded Becker bent over double "Yeah... Tell me about it!" He panted.
He glanced over to Bertie. She looked as if she was in shock.
"Major Becker?" Matt tapped her on the shoulder.
"Did we just...? Was that...? Were we in...?" Bertie stammered unbelievingly.
Bertie watched her brother as he began to walk away.
"Hils..." She watched him as he turned slowly towards her. His eyes questioning. She never called him Hills or Hilary. It was always Haitch, Captain or Becker. The last time she had called her Hils was...
When he was 6 and still a little boy.
"Thank you," she said simply. Becker frowned and dug his hands into his pockets. Of course he would have gone into the anomaly to save her, why did she think otherwise? The look on Becker's face spoke volumes'. It was at that moment, she realised that her brother could never be guilty of Rape. He cared too much.
Becker walked up to her. "Your jacket's not straight." Becker carefully tidied the collar, carefully inserting a bug into her jacket.
Bertie met with General White and discussed her findings, she told him that she did not trust DI Burnside and wanted to keep him away from this particular investigation. There was a knock at the door, a moment later General Miller was ushered inside.
"Major Becker," he glared at her knowing that she was Becker's sister made him apprehensive.
"General Miller," Bertie saluted. She knew who he was and had met him once before.
General White spoke. "Major Becker is researching the FCO Lisa Miller case. She would like to have your permission to have her body exhumed and re-tested."
"Isn't it enough that my daughter was subjected to those humiliating tests before she died and now you want to subject her body to the same disgusting tests as before?" General Miller snarled.
"For our investigation to be completed this will be necessary." General White sighed. "Ben, I don't want to do this as much as you, but to have some sort of closure would be good, wouldn't it?" General White appealed to his friends more gentle nature, use of the man's forename softened him a little, and Ben Miller sighed. He closed his eyes briefly and pointed to a chair before sitting down.
"Please remind me just WHY this investigation is being re-opened?"
"You know, I DO think it's time some of these old cases were re-investigated. Lisa's is just one of them."
General Miller sighed again, bowed his head and agreed to have her body re-tested for DNA traces.
Becker sat in his car and listened. He had deposited a bug onto Bertie's jacket and followed her. He knew exactly where she was, who she was meeting with and he could hear every word.
Becker sat and listened in complete shock.
What the hell did she mean? There was no way that it was possible. There just wasn't! The evidence could not possibly be pointing to him again!
He knew that this could not be possible.
He could not have raped Lisa!
He didn't rape her!
Becker felt a lump in his throat and a knot in his stomach begin to appear as he listened.
It was possible that this could destroy his life Again.
Would he lose his job Again...? YES!
Lester would fire him immediately and would never, ever want him going near Jess!
Horror gripped him as all the past history started to drown him once more. He felt as if history was repeating itself. He hoped and prayed that Bertie would find evidence to the contrary. He could not bear going through this again!
Becker went home to his flat feeling hopeless, sad and depressed. He felt as if he'd been positioned in front of a firing squad with arms tied behind his back, unable to do anything as they fired.
This could not be happening again!
WHY was nobody listening to him!
HE WAS INNOCENT!
I'm not sure if these tests could possibly be done or whether they would have the same results as before.
Thank you to Loving this for her invaluable advice during this chapter!
Like I said before My muse is developing a nasty habit of killing off Canon Characters. Please persuade her not to. She likes reviews. They make HER happy too!