Alright guys, it's my turn. Hope you guys enjoy and its not to rough to read. A big thank you to my beta/proofreader/the one who puts up with my b.s. - j3nee! Thanks to her, this actually makes sense. And so here, enjoy. Please review, it beyond makes my day. Trust me, it's like El is to Peter.
Webcam, Chapter 9, Small Miracles
"Alright, this is good," was all that came from Peter as he looked at the information on the computer screen. A one mile circle of possibilities to where Neal could be; A one mile circle hiding a miracle.
"Alright, Jones…" Peter called out as he turned around to face his team, "We have a mile radius to explore. Look for any buildings or structures that are abandoned or remote. These guys are sick; they'll need someplace where there is a lot of noise but few or no passer-bys." Peter saw Jones make a quick nod with an "On it, boss!" as he ran out of the conference room.
"Diana, pull every record you can from the E-bay sell. Everything and anything! We need to know who bought that watch and where it went from there. Let me know the second you find anything at all." Peter watched as the last of the agents scurried out of the room, eager to find anything to help find their missing team member. In all honesty, Peter couldn't help but feel a small feeling of pride for his team as he walked out of the office. At first, all of the agents had been uneasy around Neal but now, he was a welcomed member of the division. Now to work on getting one con man back in to the office and get their consultant back.
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Peter crossed the street to where Mozzie was sitting with laptop out and phone in hand. He was quickly and quietly talking away on his cell, almost completely unaware of what was going on around him. Maybe he has something, Peter thought as he pulled the chair out across from the little man and sat himself down.
"Yes ma'am, I'm just calling about your recent E-bay purchase." A pause.
"Yes ma'am, the watch." Another pause.
"Yes ma'am. I need to know what you did with the watch, ma'am." A short pause. Mozzie held a finger up to stop anything Peter might have said.
"Yes ma'am, the investigation involving the watch was not completely closed. The FBI will need to get the watch back for a short time." A longer pause.
"Thank you. Yes ma'am. This is greatly appreciated. You have a good day, ma'am." And with that Mozzie hung up the phone and began typing away furiously at his computer. Peter was just about to ask what the con man had found when Moz started explaining.
"That was Mrs. Cathy Anne Bergarry. She recently purchased a watch from an FBI evidence locker on E-bay. She bought the watch for her son who had just graduated 'some fancy law enforcement school." Mozzie briefly stopped typing to make quotation marks in the air.
"She stated that it was a present for him for joining the FBI." Mozzie never looked away from his computer screen. Peter nodded along with what the smaller man was saying, mentally taking notes and trying to come up with ways to get Mozzie in to 'The Man's' office.
"Okay, Haversham, that's great. Did you get the son's name or just the last?" the agent asked as he pulled his own cell phone out, hoping that Diana could quickly run whatever name he got against all incoming new agents.
"Yeah, I got the name. What do you take me for?" Mozzie mumbled to himself as he continued to type. Peter just glared at the quirky man in front of him. How Neal could deal with him for long periods of time was beyond the seasoned agent.
"Okay, got it. The kid's name is Aaron Luke Bergarry. Looks like he was transferred to the…" Mozzie paused as he scrolled further down. As he read, a look of surprise dawned on his slightly chubby face.
"No way, it states in his file that he was assigned to the New York branch." The con man finally looked away from the screen to stare at Peter, blatant astonishment on his features quickly replaced with a look of curiosity.
"Suit…" he asked is a worried tone as he took in the look of the man sitting across from him.
Peter was staring straight ahead of him, mouth agape and eyes wide.
"It can't be that easy. It can't be that simple!" Peter jumped out of his seat, Mozzie close behind him with computer in hand. Peter ran across the street in a mad dash to get back to the office building.
Please let it be that easy, Peter repeated to himself over and over. The White Collar Unit had recently added two new agents to the New York branch: one being a Karen Kay Delace and the other an Aaron Luke Bergarry, both fresh from Quantico.
Please, please be that simple. Peter dashed to a, thankfully, open elevator ready to move at the push of a button. He pushed the button to the 21st floor just as the doors barely missed closing on Mozzie.
"I'm not leaving my friend to any chance," was all the little guy said to Peter's questioning gaze. The agent could only nod in his manic state. They both dashed out of the car as the doors dinged open. Peter pushed loudly through the glass doors, rushing past the shelves of files, desks of junior agents' to a very young looking man sitting at his desk in the far corner near the stair case.
"Agent Bergarry! Aaron!" Peter yelled breathlessly as he came to a stop in front of the very startled brown haired man.
"Yes, Agent Burke? What did I do?" the junior agent asked in a very small voice. His brown eyes darted from Peter's face, slightly red from the running, to Mozzie standing right next to him looking the young agent over. The whole office was now staring at the commotion going on around the newbie's desk. Diana and Jones were half out of the own seats, at the ready should their boss need them.
"Nothing, you've done nothing. Did your mother happen to give you a gold watch when you graduated from Quantico?" Peter asked, still breathless from the possibility that they may be that much closer to getting Neal back, to getting his partner back.
Bergarry looked surprised by the question, needless to say, as he looked wide eyed at the leading agent. "Uh, yeah. She did. As a, you know, a 'good job' present for getting into the FBI. I wear it all the time," He said as he lifted his right arm up and tugged back his sleeve to reveal a shiny gold watch.
"Fantastic! I'm going to need that watch. Diana!" he called for the second time in the last 45 minutes. She quickly ran over to where Peter and Mozzie were standing around Aaron's desk the junior agent still in shock from Peter's request.
"Diana, check this against the record we have for the E-bay watch. Check it and bring it back to me." The young woman nodded and quickly moved to the file room to look for the evidence folder for the watch.
"And bring one of the tech guys with you!" Peter called after her as the glass door closed and Diana disappeared into the elevator.
Now to FIND Neal, Peter thought as he moved to Jones's desk. "Did you find anything? Anything at all?" he asked his g-man agent as he came up right behind him to look at Jones's computer screen.
"Yeah, I've gone through three quarters of the area and only 5 buildings are abandoned and one that's isolated and off the beaten path. I'm still running the last of the buildings in the area." He rattled off as he pulled up information on each of the six buildings. Peter began glancing through all of the information when he saw a little finger out of the corner of his eye. He looked back to see Haversham both pointing and staring at one of the lists of information of the buildings.
"That's- that's Neal and Kate's old apartment building! The one where Kate left the Bordeaux bottle!" Moz stated, maybe a little loudly. At his statement, part of Neal's ramblings came back to Peter's mind.
And Kate? Where is Kate?
Maybe Neal wasn't hallucinating. Maybe Peter was grasping at straws. Maybe just maybe, they had found their building.
