AN: Again updating sooner than expected (I should really get back to my homework), I just really wanted to get this out cause I'm tired of Rowan. This was really exciting to write, and also a bit hard, I mean bringing down command can't be easy ;) Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it, and as always thanks for reading :)


Tom walked inside the office, and saw command standing in front of his desk instead of sitting behind it, that was never a good sign.
"You wanted to see me" Tom walk with caution
"Don't play dumb, you know why you are here, where are the files" Tom pulled them from under his coat and gave them to Rowan. He took them and quickly started reading them.
"So, I was right, something was off, my daughter is not with Ballard and he is just drinking his life away, being totally useless" he said bitterly "I guess I was expecting these, but what's really got me confused, is why were you trying to keep me from finding out about it"
"I was just…" Tom started talking but Rowan held up his hand
"I am not done" he said angrily "You knew i'd find out eventually, so were you making time for something or were you just trying to pass this information to someone?" Tom saw an opportunity
"Yes, the president wanted to know what Ballard was up to, so I planned to show this to him and turn them in tomorrow morning" He tried to sound convincing
"And you keep lying" Command said even angrier "If that was the case, you could have just read them while you waited outside, gave them to me and I wouldn't have known, do you know where my daughter is agent Larsen?" Rowan got really close to him.
"No, I swear I don't" That part was true "Mr President wants to find her so he asked me to look into Ballard, I didn't have the time to do it so I figured I could just borrow this for a little while." Rowan looked at him warily. "Also I thought it would put more pressure on him to get something out of her friends and that way it could help you find her" He was trying hard to sound convincing "After I saw she was not with him, I just wanted to make sure he actually didn't know anything"
"And why the hell didn't you just tell me when you came in here" command asked angrily
"Because I didn't have time to check them before I came in, and I didn't think you would let me borrow them" Tom was getting even more nervous
"So you are telling me, you used agency resources to make yourself look good in front of your other boss" Rowan was dangerously close to him
"I guess I did" Tom said defeated
"And you have no idea where my daughter is?" He asked again
"I swear I don't" Tom replied

Command walked to his desk and pressed a button on his phone to call a couple of agents into the office. He looked at Tom with a scowl on his face and ordered him to sit. Tom obliged, then the agent Rowan called walked into the office.
"Jones, Nolan, please make sure this gentleman doesn't go anywhere while I'm out" Both agents nodded and pointed their guns at Tom.

Rowan left his office in a rush, he wanted to know if the people Adams had sent to the Bahamas were still there, to have them do a little work on Ballard and see if he knew anything. Tom's story wasn't totally crazy, it could have happened that way, but he knew it didn't. He considered throwing Tom into the hole, but that took time and he needed the information fast, he had a gut feeling something was going on and he didn't have much time.
Command stormed into one of the offices and found Adams there clutching his side and talking to someone, he went straight to him and grabbed his arm violently.
"What the hell did you do!?" Rowan screamed at the guy
"I had no idea Larsen would keep the information to himself, I thought he could be trusted" He replied trying to calm down the monster
"It seems like he can't and if I give you an order, you don't pass it on to someone else, you see it through, but that is not important now, are your guys still down there?" Rowan had released his arm.
"They are in Miami, but I just ordered them to go back" Adams was trying to act like he wasn't scared.
"How many?"
"There's three of them"
"You think they can subdue him?"
"If he is as wasted as he looked I'd think so"
"Well they better, it would take about 4 hours to send more people from here and I don't want to take that long.


Tom sat in the office feeling a great deal of anxiety, all their plans were in jeopardy and he couldn't warn anyone, he couldn't go anywhere and couldn't place the call without spilling the beans. Time was passing, but Huck was still at least four hours away from Olivia; Fitz had issued an order to let that car ignore speed limits across the country saying it was national security and couldn't disclose more info, so Huck could just over speed all the way to Houma without being bothered by cops, but still it would take him at 12 hours to get there, plus the time he spent getting gas or going to the bathrom. He had left DC before 4pm and it was almost midnight, Tom just wanted to call Huck and warn him so he could tell Olivia to move somewhere else just in case before he got there.

Around 1:30 am the agents finally had Jake and they were dragging him to an empty warehouse to perform the interrogatory. One of them was on the phone with command so he could listen to everything. The beating started a few minutes later, Ballard kept saying he had no idea about anything, they had given him the drug they give people during interventions to keep them sharp and avoid withdrawal symptoms. Rowan asked the guy who had him on the phone to grab a tablet so Jake and him could see each other. Once he had a clear visual of the guy, he told the agents to hold him in place and started talking.
"Ballard, my daughter is missing, and you have been deceiving me for a while, making me think she was with you, that just makes it look like you planned it with her all along" His voice was calm and clear, which made it even more frightening.
"I have no idea, she just hoped off the plane when we were leaving and never came here" Jake told him.
"And why didn't you just tell me sooner?"
"Tell you I lost your daughter and face your wrath, she was the only reason you didn't end me for trying to take your place" Jake said bitterly "No Olivia to watch after, I was of no use, after I told you I lost her you have jet killed me or worse, thrown me in the whole. So I figured I should just enjoy it while it lasted"
"You useless piece of shit, at least you were right about that, now, I need you to tell me something useful and I will kill you fast, but if you don't then I'm afraid it will be slow and painful" He screamed to his tablet screen.
"I really know nothing and you don't even scare anymore I got nothing to loose and I am going to die anyway…"
"Give him a little encouragement boys" He ordered the agents. They started beating him up again, he was all covered in blood already, his eyes were almost swollen shut.
"Are you sure you still know nothing?" command inquired
Jake stayed silent for a moment seeing if he could come up with anything, he was in pain and a fast death was looking quite good at the moment. He opened his mouth right before Rowan ordered a new round of beating.
"I think…" he pause to spit blood " I think she found out what you were responsible for Jerry Grant's death"
"What" Rowan said in disbelief
"She… she seemed to be up to something" Jake stopped to catch his breath "But I thought it was just about her mom"
"How did you know?" Jake chuckled
"Don't forget I was command too" he said with a smirk. Command was getting angrier by the minute, he wanted to know how he found out, but he was more desperate to know if his daughter was up to something. He was going to resume his questioning on tom when another agent ran towards him saying he found something weird.
"What is it?" He nearly screamed at the guy
"We were just going through the internet seeing if anything from the president's recent activity popped up like you asked"
"And?" he was in no mood for suspense
"Someone tweeted they saw a doppleganger of Jerry grant, in Houma LA" The gears started turning inside his head, was that the reason she had gone into deep hiding? There was only one man who knew what went down that day and he was sitting in his office. After he gave the order to trace the whereabouts of the kid who tweeted it he went back to his office; he went in and slapped Tom with the back of his hand so hard Tom thought he had cracked his neck.
"What did you do!" Rowan was getting tired of saying that, it seemed like people were determined to screw up his orders. "Did you kill Jerry Grant?! Did you do what I ordered you to do!?" He yelled, he was clearly loosing it.
"I did!" Tom answered without hesitation.

Rowan didn't know what to believe, considering recent events it was hard to trust Tom, and the tweet was not really solid evidence. He told his agents to give Tom a little warm up and he leaned on his desk just watching. About 15 minutes later a guy came rushing into his office.
"We may have something" he exclaimed
"Spill!" Rowan said exasperated
"So the kid is a delivery boy for a grocery store, so we hacked into the store system to check his deliveries he had only done 4 that day before the tweet. We checked the addresses on the federal database, three of those had people who had been living in town for years, but the fourth one, and last before the tweet, but the fourth, the order was placed under the name Sheila Green, and the name listed for the owner on the federal database is some guy who died months ago, so we looked through the city records for the sale of the house and it was bought by a Lucy Wilson, we checked the dmv and the only Lucy Wilsons that pop up are nowhere near the city. We are checking if any of them looks suspicious, but there are too many" The guy explained. Rowan stood there for a moment going over the information, the house was only recently bought, and there is no information on the new owner. Based on his own personal experience it looked like someone was hiding in it but he couldn't be sure, then he realized they could do something. He ordered the guy to try and place the name on people entering the country right after her daughter left, with all their resources it too them no time to find a match, but the woman in the photo was not Olivia. Huck had hacked the database and changed the photo on Lucy's file after Olivia came back into the country and her image no longer needed to be there. Rowan cursed.
"Sir"
"What"
"This is a fake identity file, it looks legit but once you track it's origin… it was only created a couple of months ago, it's an expert hack, but a hack after all" As careful as Huck was, those people were trained just like him and had even more software to use and knew what to look for.
"Did you people get my plane ready?"
"Yes sir, you just have to go to the hangar, it's ready to leave"
"Be gone, tell Adams he is coming with me" The guy left the office. Rowan ordered Nolan to go get some of his tools. Tom realized he was fucked, but luckily for him it was Nolan the one asked to leave, he knew Jones had a weak spot on his right leg from a recent injury and command was unarmed. Figuring it was his last chance he went for it.


Tom caught Jones by surprise and his just the right spot, then he tried to pry the gun from his hands, but he was grasping it tight, also command had reacted fast and attacked Tom. It was all moving too fast, he was using every last bit of strength he had, he got the gun, but he couldn't shoo without calling too much attention on himself, so he just hit Rowan in the head with it and started running. He made it out of the office, it was late, there weren't many people left there and they were all on find Olivia duty, he ran for the exit, he thought he had made it but command was tougher than he thought. Rowan had recovered from the blow pretty fast and he went to find one of his guns, he stumbled out of his office and went after Tom while screaming for reinforcements. Tom was almost at the exit when he felt the first shot, it grazed his right leg, felt like karma; he turned around, the second shot hit his abdomen, the third hit his arm, none of them were fatal because of the distance and the bow to the head Rowan's aim was off.
Command saw Tom getting weak so he lowered the gun and started moving toward him again. Tom saw a las opportunity to escape, with the adrenaline rushing through his veins he managed to start moving again and opened the door behind him, he started running despite the burning pain in his leg he heard fast steps coming he rushed to his car and took off.


Tom made it to the White House gates by some sort of miracle, the guards at the entrance saw he was hurt and tried to call an ambulance, he demanded to talk to the president first he said it was a matter of life and death. Some of the agents on call rushed to help hi, and tried to control the bleeding while the president arrived, he was on the lobby propped on a couch.
Fitz finally got there still in his pjs looking completely panicked.
"What the hell happened" he exclaimed
"Sir he knows, command knows Liv is not with Ballard, he knows where she is, he is leaving as we speak,but I couldn't get the location" Tom said through ragged breaths. "I wanted to reach Huck but one of the bullets destroyed my phone" Fitz got a phone from his agents and called Abby, she said she only had the city, Houma, in Louisiana but said she would call Quinn, but she didn't have the address either, Fitz decided to get there and figure things out along the way
"Prepare air force one, we are leaving" Fitz said to no one in particular, the agents got to work and Tom was being rushed to an ambulance almost unconscious, but he yelled at Fitz before he ran back to get dressed.
"Your son" Tom whispered, Fitz tensed at the mention of Jerry "He is alive, he's with her, we were just trying to protect him and your family"
"What" Fitz felt again like he had been punched in the gut by a bus. Tom lost consciousness and left Fitz standing there in shock, but he snapped out of it fast enough, if it was true he had to do everything to keep both of them safe

Fitz changed in record time, he ordered to not let any non essential personnel in the White House that day and put extra agents guarding the residence. Marine One was waiting for him at the south lawn already, and Air Force one was ready to leave at the hangar. He was airborne about 45 minutes after Tom arrived at the white house, he couldn't believe how fast people had moved to get things ready. While he was traveling there he called the secretary of defense to tell him to have troops ready to go into action in Houma, he said he couldn't tell why, but to do it. He didn't want them going around the city or to make a big deal yet; he was avoiding putting command on alert, or pushing him to do something rash. It was already 4am, Huck was about two hours away from her, he would get there just a bit before they did, Fitz was just praying he called them so he could know the address and tell him to take them away.

Fitz spent most of the flight thinking about Tom's words, he couldn't wrap his head around it. How could she put him through so much pain, she was with him afterwards, she saw how broken he was. He was just feeling hurt and confused, a part of him didn't want to believe, to not get his hopes up for no reason and because he just couldn't understand how could she have held him while he cried the loss of his son and said nothing if it was true; that she just let him suffer through the worst that can happen to a parent and just sit there without telling him, he couldn't even understand how she even decided to do it, knowing what it would do to him. He remembered David's words and figured she found out her dad's plans, but why didn't she say something to him, and just left him, ran away with his son and left him there hurting worse than ever.


Rowan had some advantage on Fitz since he left almost an hour earlier, he arrived at his private hangar in new orleans a little before 6am, it was under one of his alias, Elijah Reed, just in case anyone went looking for Rowan Pope, they weren't going to find him. However, being the president has it's perks and Fitz pilot was going as fast as the plane could go, he got there only 15 minutes after Rowan and there was an unmarked chopper waiting for him there.

The chopper was over Houma in no time but they still had no idea where to go, a second chopper was there too for back up and the secretary of defense told him he had people close enough just waiting for an order. It was almost 6:30 am and no one remembered David had orders to get homeland security on the case at 6am, no one told him to hold off until Olivia and Jerry were safe, any moment one of commands guys in DC would find out and tell him.

Huck was pulling into Olivia's driveway at 6:30, he got out of the car and went for the door, he knocked softly and Olivia rushed to open, both her and Jerry were already up, none of them could sleep thinking it was finally "the day". He got in and told her good morning before running into the bathroom. Rowan was just a few minutes away, Fitz was still hovering the city, and he had agents speeding on suv's from new orleans, but still no idea where to go. Finally huck came out of the bathroom, he sat at the kitchen with Olivia, exchanged a few words about the trip, then he looked at the time and realized David must have started the process already so he at last, called Abby.
"Hey Abby how" he was interrupted by a very desperate Abby.
"Good god what took you so long, I need Liv's address, command knows, Fitz is hovering the city as we talk but he needs an address" Abby ranted. Huck was quiet for a second too long out of shock. He told Abby the address while Quinn called Fitz. He told his pilot the location, one of his agents called the ones on the ground and another called the secretary of defense. Huck ran to his bag while he was talking and strapped on a bulletproof vest, then he slipped on his hoodie, Olivia looked at him with panic. They were so close to her, but command was already there. Huck told Liv there was no time to explain but they had to leave, they started moving when they heard a loud banging on the door, it was too late the three of them froze.

"Olivia I know you are in there!" They heard him scream, he wasn't even sure, but he could always fix it if he was wrong. He ordered his people to knock down the door. Huck told Olivia to run, she grabbed Jerry's hand and ran out to the backyard. Rowan went in, Huck started shooting at them, but he knew he was just delaying them there were six guys plus Rowan and there was only one of him; they shot back, he had knocked out three of them, but it was no enough, they got one of his legs and two on the chest he stumbled and fell on his face. They ran past him, he heard command ordering them to chase after Liv and Jerry before he lost consciousness.

Fitz landed on a field near the house and a couple of SUV's were just getting there, he got on one of them and they went to her house, no one really knew what was going on so they just followed Fitz orders despite the fact that it was so risky for him. They pulled up on her driveway and saw the other SUV and the knocked down door, he almost stopped breathing, he ran out and went inside Huck was trying to wake up. The agents turned him over, he couldn't even focus, but he managed to get out they had ran out through the backyard on the left side. Fitz started running before his agents could stop him, he jumped the fence; the land around the house wasn't so packed with trees so he could see far away and they were not there, but there was a road not to far so he ran that way and crossed the road. He ordered his agents to fan out around the house just in case.


The woods on the other side of the road were full but he heard noises, he tried to make as little noise as possible himself to not be spotted by them. Some of his agents were trailing behind him, but he was so desperate he was going way faster than they were.

Rowan had Olivia cornered, his agents had already informed him he was being arrested as a terrorist, that the feds were already at his office making arrests. This was his last stretch, he had nothing to loose and he wanted to finally kill Jerry at lest, but Olivia wouldn't move out of the way.
"Olivia dear, I don't intend to kill you, despite the fact that you are a treacherous bitch, you are still my daughter, also I want you to live with the guilt, but the point is, I need you to GET THE FUCK OUT MY WAY" He screamed the last part, he was truly very angry.
"I will not move, you will have to go over my dead body" Olivia screamed back at him
"Come on Olivia, don't be an idiot, you know I will go over your dead body if I have to" She still didn't move. Jerry was scared, but he told her she didn't have to do it, if she moved one of them could Liv.
"Listen to the boy, he's not as dumb as I thought" Command said bitterly
"Would your dad move away" She half turned her head to talk to him so her dad wouldn't listen. He nodded no "Well it's about the same with me, I will not move"
"This is my last warning Olivia" He raised his hand aiming at her. She turned around and hugged Jerry.

Fitz could hear them clear already, he panicked, he started running faster, he could see Rowan raising his gun. His agents were trailing right behind him trying to keep up and updating the others on their location. Two of commands guys were a several feet away, his agents brought them down with their knives before they even knew what had happened. He just kept running. Only Rowan and one of his guys were left, with all that was going on he didn't notice he was too focused on killing his daughter and Jerry. He was so close.

"Don't say I didn't warn you" Rowan stated right before he shot.

Olivia kept hugging Jerry tight with her eyes shut tight, a million things going through her head, but mainly she thought about Fitz and the pain he would feel when he found out, and the fact that they had been so close to making it. She braced herself for the shot, but it didn't came, just as she heard the shot, instead of feeling excruitiating pain, she felt someone pushing her out of the way.

AN2: Wow so things got heated, so many things happening at once, so much at stake... What do you guys think happened?

I hope you guys liked this chapter! please let me know what you think I love reading your reviews :)