Farce
Ros looked at the sleeping baby wondering what type of world she had brought her daughter into. She felt sick at the thought Jean Daniel was still pulling the strings. That he was on the same planet as her beautiful baby girl.
"Ros?" Bethan handed her a mug of tea. "You look like you need this."
"Thanks." She took the mug emblazoned with 'Geeks Rule!' across it. "How's Alex?"
"Doing her mean and moody routine. I think she gets it from Beckett. You? I mean you had the baby this morning and now you are back to work?"
"A man out there wants to kill me and those I love. No doubt that includes her too." She nodded to the baby. "I'm a hormonal mess and I'm exhausted but there is no way I'm going to sit around and do nothing. I've had a baby; not a labotomy."
"Ok." Bethan paused. "With Beckett not here that makes you the most senior officer here. What's the plan Boss?"
Ros sighed, her hands gripped the mug tightly.
"Get me an earpiece. I need to be able to hear what the boys are doing." Ros decided. "Alex? Check the tracker on Jan's car. Is it still active? And get an address for Smythe's ex wife." She narrowed her eyes. "We throw everything at getting Jan back. If Jean Daniel is playing dirty then I say we go after him the same way."
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Ed watched his friend as they walked through the prison grounds. The Victorian building was suitably frightening but he had a feeling he wasn't going to find a Victorian style security system in the building.
"Beckett?"
"Yeah."
"You ok?"
"No, I'm not." Beckett turned to him. "When is this going to end?"
"If Jean Daniel gets his way; when we are all dead." Ed glared. Beckett stared at him. Ed was his best friend, the annoying younger brother he had never had. To see the affable Australian as bitter and vengeful as he was in that moment worried him. "He killed Adam. He killed Clare. He would have killed my daughter as well as you and Ros. He's evil, Beckett. Pure evil and he doesn't care who he takes with him."
Beckett nodded as they approached the governor's office. Neither men knew what to expect from the other side of the door but Beckett had a feeling whatever would great them was not going to be friendly.
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Alex closed her eyes as she thought of her friends walking into the lion's den. She huffed; realising comparing Jean Daniel's lare to the king of the Jungle was insulting to lions. She glared at the file, ignoring the woman from Section D who was also in the record room. She had to find everything she could on the prison where Jean Daniel was being held as well as the man himself. She froze as she held the paper file in her hand, glad that Ros had insisted paper copies were kept - after all there was no way the hackers could have access to a paper file. It was the ultimate security. Swearing as she opened the file she knew she had to get the information to Ros and the boys as fast as she could. Jan's life depended on it.
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