A/N This chapter skirts into the M category for some colorful language. Sorry that I still don't own the characters. Kudos does.
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(Ruth) I shouldn't have been surprised but there was a hacking attempt on the grid's mainframe earlier. Needless to say, Harry was really pissed off when the lights started flashing and a racket loud enough to wake the dead began assaulting our ears. Pissed-off Harry is something to behold…he strides out of his the office with an angry look on his face and demands, not asks, demands answers. Woe be unto anyone of us who asks a stupid question or makes a stupid remark. What is somewhat curious to watch is how he quickly he reins in (or at least attempts to rein in) his anger. I've seen him do it more than once since I've been here and anyone trying to suppress their emotions like Harry does is going to make themselves ill.
I felt like I was being dismissed from the team meeting after Harry accused me of being inflammatory in one remark and Tom said I was misquoting Harry about rape versus grope. Harry told me to go work on the Homeric quote and I felt like a schoolgirl being sent from the room to let the adults talk. Well, I came through in the end, didn't I? I put all of the puzzle pieces together and showed them what the incursion was about. Done, dusted.
(Harry) Ruth did very well on this op. She really cares about the team and the work we do and that care showed itself in the passion she displayed concerning whoever was trying to "…take us down." She impressed me too when she stood up to Tom. I felt bad sending her out of the team meeting to work on the Homeric quote as I could tell she was embarrassed.
When Ruth is given a task, especially when it concerns some obscure quote, she is determined to squeeze every nuance and meaning out of the text and she did that and more. It was her knowledge of the classics that led her to the recording of a failed op and she was able to put all the pieces of the puzzle together, leading us to the culprit behind the electronic incursion into the grid. She's only been here a few weeks but already I can see we can't do without her.
(Ruth) Danny was sent undercover into an old family bank today to try and find out about a quite large amount of stolen government funds. The team was not thrilled about doing this op but it is felt that government is hiding something and Harry wants to find out what it is. I gave Danny a quick course on being a trader and he did really well. I just hope I've encrypted my emails to Amanda Roker well enough. I hate having to send the government information on our work here but it was a condition of me getting my transfer here.
(Harry) We have a leak in this department. Amanda Roker has learned that we have an agent undercover in the bank and she wants our agent out. Now. I've talked to Tom and he is going to find the leak. I will not be surprised if it is Ruth Evershed.
(Ruth) Shit! My encryption wasn't as good as I thought and Tom found out and he told Harry. Shit! Tom has given me a second chance and I am determined to show him that I am worth it. I hope to god that I haven't ruined my chance here. After a lot of digging I did find out that Maxi Baxter is a fake…with a fake birth certificate and a fake passport and this led to the discovery that Maxi is the daughter of a Russian mobster. These findings, I think, reminded both Tom and Harry of what I can add to the team. My role as a double agent is now over. I will not, will not, ruin my chances of staying in MI-5!
(Harry) Ruth is the leak and I'm very disappointed in her and for the fact that she didn't come to me about being required to tell information to that Roker woman. I could have helped her. I wish she knew she can come to me with any concerns she has and I will be glad to try to help her. She is such a wonderful woman.