Prepare for some curse words. You'd be just as angry as her and cursing if you were in her situation. Feedback would be nice. Thank you to all that have waited so patiently.
Morgan knew she was flirting with danger and as far as she knew, this was too close and dangerous. Quickly she grabbed her bag and exited through the stairs in the back. Slowly opening the exit door outside, there was a small chill, she forgot her coat. A quick glance outside, making sure no one was outside waiting for her, or a car, at that. As fast her feet could take her without giving away attention. Running towards Euston Station she checked the schedule for the next route to Stonebridge Park. Trying to be observant, looking for the man in the suit and tie, but everywhere she looked there were people dressed like him. Morgan could not relax her mind enough to pay attention to the details, she was panicking. Her heart was racing faster then she anticipated, she needed to calm herself but it was hard.
The room was moving so fast, she barely had time to register, the people who were passing her. All her senses were going against her, she could feel every fiber in her body start to shake and panic. No, she did not want to be found.
Her freedom was going to be taken away.
'This is what you get for poking and prodding, you idiot!'
Her knees were ready to give in but she broke from her reverie when she heard the chime. It was her platform and they called it.
'Get your shit together and move!'
She didn't need a second to think about it, she rushed to the platform with a group of people. If there was one thing she was good at, it was going through large groups, bobbing and weaving her way through. The height had an advantage since she was short. Grabbing her oyster card and scanning it, she ran into the train and waited for the last call. Hoping and waiting that she had not been followed. Trying to keep calm with her knee shaking, she watched and waited.
Men in suits were coming in but none that was anything like Tim or Tom- 'His name was Theodore! If you hade gotten your sense together you would remember!' he mind was screaming at her. Jerking her head to shut her anxiety up.
"Noted!" she growled to herself. Even though she perfectly knew that none of those were his real name. It scared her that he lied so casually and with ease that she was almost convinced he was just there to really do some research.
Feeling her limbs go slightly numb, she waited for the door to close. It had to happen and soon. Looking at the clock she waited. It was the most difficult 10 minutes she endured in a long time. Not the first time she had ever been afraid but the fact that feelings were coming back from made her more and more anxious. Closing her eyes, she tried to find her center.
Just when things were going out of control, she heard the announcement, making her jump.
The door closed and then her anxiety was placed at ease. Exhaling hard, finding some release, she closed her eyes and leaned her head back with some relief.
Then a phone rang.
Causing her to jump. A lady with the pearl earrings had answered. "Hello, love. I'm on my way home." she said.
'Ugh, calm down! You can't let every little thing make you afraid.' scolding herself as she looked away to calm herself.
Harry had followed the man, as he entered an unmarked car with a driver. Following the GPS, he found that he was going to Stonebridge Park. "Now what could he be doing there?"
'I manage to intercept some audio. They're following the hacker.'
"They have? How is that possible?"
'It seems that she had set a beacon and didn't know. From what I could see, they were following her connection through the library.'
"Her? Are we confirming her that it's a she?"
'They're calling her that.'
"At least it's confirmed. Now we are looking for a female but with no confirmation about how she looks like."
There was a pause.
'Harry, they're going to take the hacker tonight,'
"Are you sure?"
'Yes, they just confirmed it. I'm calling for back up, get ready to for a possible fight.'
"It's great to know that I am going in blind, again."
'It's now or never. Grab her and bring her in.'
"10-4" Harry said as the driver drove him a block away from the apartment area where the hacker lived.
"This should be interesting." he thought to himself.
Morgan didn't realize how much trouble she had placed on herself. It didn't occur to her that she had been followed by someone other then a man in a suit but a female wearing pearl earrings and flowery dress. No. Not that fact that she had followed her into the train and was seating 5 rows away. Slowly watching Morgan, as she looked at her mirror to check her makeup.
It was apparent to the women following her, that Morgan was an amateur.
This was going to be easy.
Her phone rang. Answering it she gave the code and the code was "Home" which was where Morgan was heading. Morgan had made eye contact with her. Slowly she smiled at her then looked away. Watching her as she continued her call, she saw that she didn't give herself away.
"Yes, she's coming home and I will be there on time to pick her up. I promise. We will clean up the mess before your parents arrive." she said in a calm tone. "We can't have a messy house, now can we?"
They were coming for her and she didn't even know it.
Running everything through her mind, she knew what she needed to do. This was routine and it wasn't any different. Except this time, she was so close to being found.
'Back up information, destroy it, grab money, burn all evidence of Morgan, and leave.' she repeated to herself over and over.
It was easy. Giving herself half an hour and she would be running again. So much for stability. Sighing hard, she racked her hair back. Also, she needed to get rid of the red color on her hair. It looked ridiculous. Her brunette needed to make a come back along with her curls. Oh how she missed it. Already, she was on to the next identity and next destination. Still she scolded herself, knowing she should have left Piccadilly alone. But Time Square was absolutely necessary! Good fucking grief, she was complete dumbass and she repeated it to herself.
'Back up information, destroy it, grab money, burn all evidence of Morgan, and leave. You dumbass!' her head was screaming.
'Back up information, destroy it, grab money, burn all evidence of Morgan, and leave. You are the biggest stupid dumbass I've ever seen!' she screamed to herself.
'Back up information, destroy it, grab money, burn all evidence of Morgan, and leave.' then the voice had changed, 'You piece of shit!' a deep voice, a voice she could never forget. Making her jump from her thoughts as she gasped. Again, the ambiance of the world had snapped her our of her thoughts.
"Stonebridge Park"
The sound radiated in her ear. 'Get up and get out. Now!'
Saved by the universe that was still against her.
Bolting up and heading to the door, she ran out as fast as her feet could take her. Not realizing the women with the pearl earrings had stood up to get off the same stop.
Running to her apartment and slightly out of breath, at the entry doors punching in her code, the buzz was went off, allowing her in. Running in she pressed the button for the elevator. Her patience was growing very thin but her fear had grown. Skipping it all together, she went up the stairs, hoping to let some of the anxiety cool off by running up the stairs. Eventually, reaching the floor she heard footsteps not far from her, making her stop.
'He's here!'
Quickly she left the stair case and ran to her door. Unlocking it and opening the door she quickly did as planned. Running to her laptop, she opened it and turned it on, backing up everything faster then her fingers could move but her hands were shaking. She was making mistakes faster then she could recover. Finally she did something she did not expect, she slaped herself, hard. Growling at her mistakes, "Get it together!" she told herself. Taking a deep breath, she started to type correctly. Placing the code to back everything up, she left the computer to finish, while she tossed her mattress with her clothes all on top. Grabbing the bag that was under the mattress, she didn't need to check what was in there. Everything she wanted and needed was there; money, clothes, documents, passports.
Morgan would have to die.
It was a shame, she really liked that name. It suited her.
She didn't have half and hour to spare, she only had 5-10 minutes, tops.
Just as she was about to finish, she heard a knock. Making her freeze.
"Hello, is any one there?" said a voice. None that was familiar.
The door knob had been forcefully turned. Shaking at times. It was a matter of time before they opened it. But, Morgan didn't have time to react, only when her computer made a beeping sound that she heard the door burst wide open. The door had been placed with small explosives to open the door. The force was still strong enough for her to get shoved backwards with the shards of the wooden door spray out. Three men and a women entered the room.
"Grab her now!" yelled the female with the pearl earrings, to her cohorts.
Faster then she could react, they grabbed her off the floor and lifted her up by her arms. One of them had a syringe, ready to plunge it into her skin. Quickly she kicked the syringe from his hand and pushed one of the assailants to the ground. Or at least, tried to. Three against one. This was not what she expected. Morgan was going to fight like hell and survive it.
A punch to the gut had rendered her partially in pain but quickly reacted by tripping him by placing her foot behind his knee pushing him. Then placing a punch on the other, whom had her by her neck. It was a free for all. They landed punches on her to render her weak but she fought with what she had and they had a difficult time.
"May I ask, who the fuck are you?" she yelled as soon as she able to catch her breath and looked at the women with the pearl earrings.
"We, are the new employers, employing you. Wether you like it or not!" her voice had been high pitched with a hint of sweetness.
"I'm out of commission. I'm retired." she growled at them.
"Oh no sweetie. You are far from that!" she smiled as she nodded to one of them men.
Running towards her, he grabbed her by the waist, wrapping his arms and lifting her off the floor and slamming her down. She heard a crunch from her glasses.
"Don't break any bones! We need her in one piece!" she scolded them.
"I wonder why?" said a voice from behind, a male's voice. The women didn't take long to go into defense mode, she turned around to kick the male but he reacted faster by dodging her and pushing her forwards into the wall, but she reacted fast enough to turn around bounce back. Throwing a fist at his face, he dodged it and reacted by hitting her waist then taking her down by grabbing her leg and pushing her down, landing on the back of her head, causing her to knockout.
Morgan didn't have time to react at the new greeter at the door, she was too busy trying to fight them off. One of them had their arm around her neck, the other holding her down her feet, she bucked one of them off but they punched her in the stomach. Rendering her weak and in pain. The syringe was coming but before they could get to her, she heard the third man fighting someone else.
All three of them had now turned their attention to the man whom had entered.
It was Tod!
Ted, you idiot!
Shut up!
Trying to gather her breath after they had her in chokehold she watched as they started to attack Ted.
Harry had no trouble fighting them but he was still waiting for the back up.
"Merlin, a little help here!" he said as he continued to fight them.
Morgan didn't know who he was yelling at. No one else was there but them!
Catching her breath, she found that her anger would guide her to fight and that she did. Grabbing one of the guys, she quickly grabbed him and knocked him to the ground. Placing him in a chokehold. Hearing the gurgle as he tried to get out of grip, but she was strong and angry as hell. "Sleep, motherfucker!" she yelled at him. Slowly she felt his body go limp but she waited and held on a little longer. Making sure he was going to stay down for a long time.
It didn't take long for the other assailants to find her again, grabbing her by her hair he grabbed her and slapped her face. She groaned in pain as he grabbed the syringe to place her to sleep but before she could fight him off, he suddenly crumbled to the ground. Thanks to Harry's watch, whom had shocked him before he could reach her.
Not noticing that all three men were now on the floor. One of them was her doing, the other two were Tom- Ted, whatever the hell his name was.
Catching her breath, she tried to fix her broken glasses on her face. Bloodied up, bruised and a mess, she couldn't believe it. She was alive, but did not escape in time.
"I could still look up that information if you like, Tim!" she said out of breath as she stood up. If this was how it was how it was going to go, then she would fight him too.
"But I'll have to leave you." she said as she wearily stood in a fighting position.
He barely looked untouched! He had no cuts, bruises, he wasn't even roughed up. She was up against a mighty and dangerous opponent.
"You'd do well to stand down, Morgan." he warned her.
"Can't do! I have places to be." she said as he wiped the blood from her mouth, it tasted like iron. Oh, how she missed the taste.
"Is that so?" he said in a cool tone. "Where would you go?"
Shrugging her shoulders she said, "I was thinking Timbuktu." slowly backing up, to her computer.
Quickly he took out his gun, "Don't move!"
"Why? Are you going to shoot me?" she tested him as she took another step back.
"That's not something you want to test out!"
"Is that so?" she asked in a matter a fact tone. "I'm quite good at testing people. I've been doing it all my life."
"You're in more trouble than you know. Who were those people? Why are they after you?"
"Ah, I wish I knew!" she said while shrugging her shoulder and purposely wobbled backwards. Harry could tell she was trying to get to the computer.
"Are you the Piccadilly Hacker?"
Morgan gave a small laugh, "Well fuck! I guess the name sticked." she thought as she took a chance and turned around, typing as fast as she could. She felt a pinch on the back of her neck. "Ouch!" she yelled as she touched her neck, it was two prongs.
Turning back around, a little too quickly, she felt her the world shift, "I expected a shot! Not poison-" but there was no time to finish the sentence, she fell down hard on the floor, sleeping.
"Merlin, we need a team to clean this up. I have the hacker." Harry said in a nonchalant tone, but a hint of relief.
'Already ahead of you. They're coming up the stairs. Can you connect me to her computer?'
"I can try. I took out the memory stick from the library." he told Merlin, as he placed the memory stick in the USB drive. What he got was unexpected, it was virus. Closing down the program he destroyed it.
'She killed the computer before I could get in.'
"Clever girl!" he said as he looked down at Morgan.
The Kingsmen were quick to gather her things and destroy the room of any evidence that could link them to the Kingsmen and the Piccadilly Hacker, leaving the three men and the women in the room.
Morgan on the other hand was handcuffed and placed in the care of Harry.