Realizing Part Five

Auggie - Annie

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Annie's eyes were beginning to cross from the sheer concentration of studying the documents in her hand. She had locked herself up in a spare office near Auggie's, not wanting to be far from him, but it seemed as if he had alluded her and went off on his own for the last couple of hours. Part of her was agitated that he would leave her, but Joan had specifically wanted an update as soon as possible and so she was left to deal with that. Blowing the loose strands of hair out of her face, she scrunched up her nose in confusion as the same name kept popping up in several documents that she had managed to sneak onto a flash drive. Annie failed to notice Joan and Arthur walk into the spare office as she continued to move files about. Joan and Arthur's eye bulged out slightly at seeing Annie in what they would consider a huge mess. Both adults knew that some spy's preferred to do things this way; Lay it all out, then use pins and tacks to place it all in the correct order on big boards, and evidently this was Annie's way.

"Annie?" Joan asked, still not gaining the young woman's attention, so she called out louder, "Annie!"

"Sweet Jesus!" Annie exclaimed, the file in her hand flying out of her grasp and papers going every where. She was startled to say the least.

"I did not mean to startle you." Joan said, a teasing lilt to her voice, and a small, quirky smile graced her lips.

"It's fine, I was off in my own world." Annie answered, beginning to take her jacket off, and throwing over the office chair, "Trying to piece this together." "What have you got so far?" Arthur asked, his arms crossing in front of him, and with reproach in his voice, he added, "Other then a web of papers."

"Simon has had to be a spy all his life." Annie began, turning to the first board, "He has amassed a pile of money and land, but seems to never do anything with it, but he has been tied to several different Russian syndicates in over the past few years."

"That's it?" Arthur asked incredulously, his eyebrow raising into his hair line, "We need more then that to act Walker."

"He has a few ties to the US, and one in particular that I am interested in." Annie began, one hand coming to her neck to rub the tension out of it, "He has a female partner here, but it's not me, I don't know who she is, but what I do know is that she is referred to as 'Shining Star' in most reports."

"Relative maybe?" Joan asked, walking around the room.

"I don't know." Annie sighed in frustration, "Lena assigned him to me in order to cultivate him as an asset, but I have very little to work with. What you are seeing is compilation of everything the CIA has on him, at least that is my clearance level."

"I may be able to shed some light on this." Auggie's voice rang out, "Joan, Arthur always a pleasure; Annie where are you?"

"Your one o'clock." she muttered, as he stepped into the room, "Be careful I have a mess going on."

"It may be about to get worse." Auggie said, his laser cane bouncing off the papers on the floor, "I just came from a visit with Henry Wilcox."

"What?!" Arthur gritted out, "I thought I told you. . ." "I have the location to Jai's safe house." Auggie interrupted him, while grabbing Annie's arm, "I thought that Annie and I could do a bit of skulking this afternoon, unless you need us?" "Go ahead you two." Joan said, eyeing her husbands face, which was turning redder by the minute, then turning to Annie, "Call me with an update please, and remember tell no one."

"Yes ma'am." both agents said in unison.

AUTHURS NOTE: Guys I am so sorry it took me weeks to update. I have been dealing with a few personal issues, a remodeling of a kitchen, a hurricane and a few other things just kicks and giggles. I also did not know how to take this story to the next level and so this chapter is a bit shorter then the rest of them, but it's a nice medium. The next chapter will be longer, so I hope you guys enjoy this chapter.

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