Undercover Family

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Chapter 28.

The boom came from a small bomb that exploded in the park just three blocks away. There is uncertainty as to how many others are out there. But, the bomb squads and the active agents of all the agencies have gone into overdrive to find them. They have already evacuated the president, vice-president and Joint Chiefs of Staff and are attempting to evacuate the other high political officials in the area. They have begun to bring helicopters to the director's lawn to begin an evacuation of the VIPs. David and Penelope have brought down all the things that momma requested and Sean had gone to the kitchen, to pack up a bag of food for momma and the family. The other personal guests have been found and are now in the room; Derek sees his sister Sarah and Penelope actually sees her boyfriend Kevin, while JJ sees Will and Henry. Although, they are seen as children to our guests they are happy that they are there.

The director comes to stand in front of Rebecca and say, "It is time to go."

"Go where."

"Rebecca, please I want you out of here."

"I'm not leaving without my children and my guests. We had discussed before this occurred what I would do. My attitude hasn't changed."

"I know, that is why we will take everyone. If you would all follow me. Momma carries Aaron and holds Emily's hand while Mr. Reid follows carrying Spencer and holding a bag of stuff. Hayley comes with Jack, Sean, David, Kevin and Penelope came next, followed by Derek and Sarah, JJ with Will and Henry and Grandma Erin with Grandpa next to her. They arrive at the helicopter and begin to get in the machine. They have brought an extra large carrier and with the children on laps they were able to fit everyone into the machine. Momma made sure that everyone was in before she got into the machine with her notes and reports. Once inside, the machine takes off and leaves the area. It appears that way in many of the area lawns that are taking away the people from the area.

Another boom rocks the area when they have gotten less than 50 feet away, this was closer and rocked the machine back and forth; people screamed and hung on for life. Getting through the turbulence was a chore but the pilot got them through the air. They arrive at the airport to get on the plane which will evacuate from the D. C. area. The vacation is over and the family will be heading back to Illinois. The guests will be heading back to their homes as well, except for those that live in the D. C. area. They are being taken to another location until the area is once again safe to be entered.

There is a lot of speculation about the bombs and what is happening. It is considered a possible terrorist hit, but there has been no confirmation towards this. So far no group has taken credit for the bombings. Because of the quick thinking of the agencies and that our government has learned a little about evacuating people and for that reason; many people were saved and sent to safety. The preventive techniques of being able to halt bomb and the great bomb squads were able to do their jobs efficiently.

Back in Illinois, the family flew into O'Hare airport and stayed one night at a hotel before they would take the train home, they didn't have clothes but momma had David get the boys toys and special things that they would not do without as well as her reports and device. Momma had Penelope get the girls toys and dolls and this as the laptop computer. Momma knows that clothes are many times not as important as a good friend. Spencer was glad to see Spunky and Emily liked having her Emily with her.

Aaron was thinking less of being his role at his time and more of what he learned in the meeting and how he respond to the director that there were a few of the people who were not being fully honest and forthcoming in their remarks and statements. That the papers did not really tell the full story of what the people were saying. He really wants to talk to the director about it, but with all that has happened it has been an almost impossible task to get to him.

Sean still has time left from his leave from the restaurant, so he has decided to come to Illinois and spend the time with Aaron and the others. He was at the motel with them now but he had to get permission from momma to continue to go to their home. It was with some trepidation that he goes to her.

"Momma, ma'am, I would like to come to your home with you for a few days, before heading back to New York and my regular job. I've enjoyed spending time with Aaron and you and would like to spend more time with him; if that would be okay with you?"

"Have you talked to Aaron or the children about it?"

"No, I haven't, should I?"

"You need to get his approval for this, I want him to choose whether you can stay or not and in what role you would be. Why don't you talk to him?" Sean goes to find Aaron, who is playing in the corner with his puppy and Spencer with his frog. Sean sits on the floor with him.

"That's a cute puppy, where did you get him?"

"I created him when we to Navy Pier and the build-a-bear store. I named him Baloney, but usually I just call him puppy,"

"Well hello Baloney puppy, and who is this little guy?"

Spencer says, "This is Spunky, I made him at the same place."

"Sounds like you have had fun being children."

"Momma has made it an interesting experience."

"I wanted to ask if I could stay with you for a few more days before going back to New York. Momma said I should ask you if I could." Aaron looks at his younger brother and then at Spencer, who was looking at the boss man with a look of "it is up to you". Aaron thought about the last few days when he first saw his brother again. He remembered being fed morsels of delicious food and then later he was lying in his brother's arms drinking from a bottle and feeling more like a baby than he had ever felt. Did he really want to have Sean there to remind him of how much of a baby he feels right now? He looks into his brother's expectant and anxious eyes and knows that the answer is yes, He'd like to have his big younger brother around for a few more days.

"Tell momma we would love to have you visit for a few days, I am sure that she will come up with a good persona for you." Sean hugs his brother and then Spencer and gets up to let momma know that Aaron said he could stay.

"Momma, Aaron said I could stay, but he said that you would have to come up with a persona for me, what did he mean?"

"It means that we have to make you a part of the family, like a cousin or something like that."

"Like I could be an older cousin, okay that sounds good."

"I didn't necessarily mean an older cousin." He looks at her suspiciously.

"What do you mean?"

"I could make you younger and closer to being a child yourself, for your own enjoyment."

"You could do to me what you did to Aaron and the others."

"Not the entire ritual because it won't be long term for you, but I could do it on a short term basis; I guess it all depends on how much older you want to be from your brother."

"You're going to keep me older than Aaron, right?"

"How often does a younger sibling get to be older than their older sibling?" They both smile.

"What age would you make me?"

"What age would you want to be?"

"Let me think on that."

The next morning, the family heads home to Harvard from Chicago after buying a new outfit for each. But there seems to be another young person with them. Sean has decided to become a young teenager. He figured that age would be young enough to enjoy being a child but still old enough to take care of his baby "cousin". Although, he was disappointed a little when he realized that under the illusion device, he could see his brother as he normally looks, except dressed up as a baby. He really liked seeing Aaron as a baby. On the train to Harvard, the kids went upstairs to the second level of seats, Aaron crawled up the steps with them, and so this time he could enjoy the upper level of train travel. The older children were admonished to keep him safe and secure in his seat. He stuck out his tongue at momma while he climbed on the seat to look out the window. JJ sat on one side of him and Sean sat on the other side, between the two he was quite safe. Emily sat on the other side of Sean with Derek next to her. Spencer sat on the other side of JJ with Penelope next to him. David sat next to Derek and momma stayed on the lower level watching her young charges.

Getting home, they all seemed to be happy, it is nice to go on vacation, but there's no place like home. Momma put Aaron down for a nap and Spencer and Emily also took short rests while the older children took Sean on a tour of the town on their bikes. Sean was interested in learning of the rituals and schedule that momma has created for the family, with family dinner and then time together before getting ready for bed. Sean would be in the other bed of the bunk beds and for the first time Momma is having Aaron sleep upstairs in the boys' room. At bedtime, she went upstairs and made sure that Spencer had his pull-ups on and then changed Aaron into a sleeper and fed him his bottle in the rocking chair in the boys' room. The girls came in and the children sat around momma during this time, because she got out the book and read to them.

For several days, our agents seemed to have fun with their cousin and just enjoying the last days of summer vacation. Momma got the older children registered for school, Sean was really surprised at that. He didn't think that they would actually have to attend school. But it was explained that the best way to put themselves into the mix of the children of Harvard and getting to know them was to do what they do, attend school. Aaron was the only one not attending school; he and momma would once again go around and talk with the families of the abducted children. It has been strange that there have not been any further abductions over the summer. Penelope has been on the databases to see if there is something significant in that. Maybe the unsub has been arrested or killed or something. She has been doing a lot of hacking into the different databases, but so far no hits.

Momma took them shopping at the mall in Crystal Lake and McHenry for new school clothes, she even bought some new clothes for Cousin Sean. They got all their school supplies and clothes and on the first day of school, were ready to attend. JJ and David would be attending the Middle School in the 6th and 7th grades. Emily and Derek would be going to Jefferson Elementary School in the 1st and 3rd grades. Spencer would once again be in the preschool class at Washington School.