Decisions which have to be made
Chapter 7: CHERUB
A/N: Short, yes, I know, but I wanted to get the whole thing about the initials over. The next one will be longer.
Mac turned around and looked thoughtfully at Harry. Then he walked over to a filing cabinet in one of the corners of the room. He looked through different documents before, smiling, he pulled a folder out. Still not saying a word he moved back to his desk and sat down, opened the folder and began to read the papers inside.
Harry's eyes had followed Mac's every move, nervous and uneasy. What was that for a file? His own? Did Dr. McAfferty rethink of taking him in? Could he eve do that? Thousands of questions went through the young boy's mind, but he could not answer a single one of them. He started wringing his sweaty hands. Was it him or had the temperature in the room risen?
Finally did the chairman speak, breaking the silence.
"You know, Harry," he began, "that just gave me an idea." He put the folder, closed, onto his desk. Harry's eyes darted immediately at what was written on top of it: Grounding of CHERUB.
"My father, who was the one who grounded this organization, Charles Henderson, had been part of the Espionage Research Unit in the Second World War*. Although it can never be proved, I think we can settle down with the idea of the initials meaning Charles Henderson Espionage Research Unit B*. What do you think?"
Harry could only nod, relieved that he wouldn't get thrown out.
"So," Mac changed the subject. "How is you training in coming over your fear of heights going on?" At Harry's surprised face he laughed. "Harry, believe me, I know a lot of things you lot don't think that I know, this being only one of them."
* These are facts that are stated in Henderson's Boys The Escape, and Henderson's Boys Eagle Day. At the end of Eagle Day it says "The designation of the new unit shall be Espionage Research Unit B." That's how I came to the conclusion of the initials being Charles Henderson Espionage Research Unit B.
