AN: Here's another one shot in the series! Gives us a bit of background on Gwen. Hope you like it.
"Finch, here's the file on the girl. Just take it." Creedy snapped throwing the heavy tome on his desk. The large thud the red binder made irritated Finch. Looking at the binder, he let out a little sigh. The inspector pulled it towards him and looked up at the man.
"Creedy, just so you know, I didn't ask to take charge of this investigation," he informed him.
"You think I'm upset?" Creedy sniffed, a snarky grin spread across his face. "Hardly, I'm glad to get the little bitch out of my hands. I have better things to do with my time than sort out this filth."
Finch wanted to roll his eyes at the condescending tone Creedy put on but decided against it. It would surely induce an argument and he'd rather not have Creedy around any longer than he had to. Finch knew Creedy would like nothing better to do than track down the terrorist himself so he could tear her apart inch by inch; he enjoyed playing with his prey before devouring it. Suttler reassigning the project over to Finch was like taking Creedy's fun away.
Finch opened the file and a picture of a young woman stared up at him. He raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Yeah," snarled Creedy. "That's what I thought when I first saw it. Have fun."
Finch's stomach knotted at Creedy's implication of having fun. He didn't even want to begin to think about what Creepy Creedy would do to this woman if he actually was able to catch her.
The order came out about a year ago that this young woman in the file, Gwen Stockman, needed to be taken in for processing. She had already killed at least three government agents in the pursuit of stealing government property, all of whom had families. What was more than the loss of life was the embarrassment she had created for the state. Every day she went free was another day the underground mocked them. Although the opposition was next to none nowadays, any interference with government procedures must be immediately rectified at the threat of looking weak.
Flipping through the file Finch found several surveillance photos and an inch thick volume of an informational profile. Reaching into the plastic jacket he took out the 8X10 of his suspect and studied it so he could make her out in a crowd.
She didn't look like a killer, nor did she look like a terrorist. However Finch knew that appearances were often misleading. The first thing he noticed about her was her eyes; they were the saddest eyes he'd ever seen. They told a story, he thought to himself, perhaps it's all in the file. They were large and wide. Although the photo was in black and white he could tell that they were blue because they showed up as a lighter grey on the paper. She stared at him through the photo; a strong person, but burdened with so much sadness… like all the suffering of the world had been dropped on her shoulders.
Sighing, Eric put down the photo and turned to the file. It said that Gwen Stockman was born in London and protested the war when she was only 16. By the age of 19 she started her own humanitarian aid group up in Richmond University where she studied. After St. Mary's and Three Waters the group branched out into the medical field, trying to help the victims and their families. After Suttler was elected to office and the cure for the virus was found three weeks later Gwen Stockman became political and things started to get ugly. The humanitarian group she headed also turned political, soon becoming a violently radical student group.
Then Suttler instituted the detention camps which began rounding up undesirables. Many of Gwen's members left for fear they'd be hunted down. A few months later the group was forced underground. They had no one left in the government to support them and the people were running scared. After Norsefire took over, Gwen Stockman all but disappeared off the map. 2 years later an underground group called Prospero emerged, the leader being rumored to be Gwen Stockman. She had a small but intensely loyal following.
Suttler assigned the problem of arresting the members of Prospero to Creedy who had just been given a promotion in the government. Creedy rounded up the group one by one by weeding them out and sent them to processing. Gwen Stockman was never found. She became nonexistent again for 15 years, only to appear once more one month prior to the incident at the Old Bailey. As a punishment for his many failures, Suttler took Creedy off the job and transferred it over to Finch at Scotland Yard. Now this fat red binder on Finch's desk was the signal of the beginning of his problems with Gwen Stockman.
"Another girl?" said Dominic as he entered the office, coffee cup in hand. "What's gotten into these women's heads?"
"I don't know," Finch said, his attention turned to the surveillance photo of codename V. Only one month prior, he thought to himself, there must be a connection. "You wouldn't have anything to do with this would you?" He asked the photo of the mask man who only continued to mockingly smile back at him.
Short I know but tell me what you think :)