Tuesday, April 13th, 50XX
"How'd the raid go?" Maxis asks stepping into the room with Kiera in tow. It's the next day and our group are sitting around composing after yesterday's events, but also completing the miles of paperwork there is to be completed.
"You're back!" Vincent says excitedly, eyes widening realizing that their friends must have drove over or something to join them in Canada. Last they'd heard, Maxis and Kiera we're hospitalized.
"How do you feel? What was wrong with you?" Allie questions. "Uh, better. We had something called Hanahaki..." Maxis trails off.
"Ooh, LOL. Out of the company we busted, one of the members got that. His girlfriend broke up with him, his chick was one of the police officers!" Vincent laughs.
Maxis isn't impressed. "Has anyone ever pubically told you to your face that you're a dick?"
"Excuse me!" Vincent yells. "Knock it off, both of you!" Thea snaps.
"Allie." It's Kiera.
"Yes, baby?"
"We met Elliot's Mum we think..."
"What." Adam says, eyes widening. "How, when, why?"
"There was a woman called Dr Coleman. Scarlett Coleman. She runs a Research Institute and Hospital for the treatment of Hanahaki.
She looks like the female version of Elliot, but older!" Maxis tells them excitedly. "And she has the same last name as him as well, so..."
"We can check with General Peterson. He can look her up in the system and find out if she and Elliot are related. We can't ask the duck cause he ain't here!" Thea speaks up, a tad annoyed.
Maxis looks exhausted, rejected and takes a seat, Kiera following. "I wish I understood why his doing this to us. Well, not us specifically, but his going to get burned by this. He has to know that, surely."
Kiera lays her head on the nape of his neck and he brings an arm up around her shoulder pulling her closer.
"Yeah." She adds on, voice small. Then they all hear footsteps, General Peterson exiting an interview room, Clara with him. Someone else is leading Johnthan Bailey back to their holding cell.
Kiera jumps up, panicking a bit and Maxis takes her arm trying to get her to stop moving. Peterson and Clara notice the slight commotion and come over.
"Is there a problem?" She asks. "Oh, hey! You're back! Both of you!" Peterson smiles. "Kiera, Maxis."
"You can just call him your son. We all now know." Thea hints annoyed. "Son?" Clara raises confused. He sighs and gestures Maxis to come over, placing a head on his back.
"Maximillian here is my son, nickname- Maxis. Me and my late wife adopted him when he was a baby from foster care."
"Where is your wife? I haven't met her-"
"She's dead, Clara." Maxis speaks up.
"Cancer. I had to raise Maxis myself, she was a kindergarten teacher. She died when he was five-six years old."
"I'm sorry for your loss. You did get a job at raising him."
"Thank you."
"You seeing anyone?"
"No, and I intend to remain faithful till I die. I said my vow."
"Okay, well, if you change your mind, just know that I like men more my age. You have no shot with me." Clara jokes and he pushes her lightly that she almost loses her footing.
"Hilarious." But then he cracks a grin, shaking his head. Maxis looks uncomfortable and his expression now awkward. The group bursts out laughing at seeing his face.
The only one not laughing or happy is Kiera. "Kiera, what's wrong?" Allie questions.
"He was my boss."
"Who?" Clara asks.
"The man you came out the room with."
"Johnthan Bailey? Oh, shit..." She says just putting the pieces together that Kiera's name is Bailey. She forgot General Peterson had told her about Kade who identified Johnthan as his Dad and Kaylee as his Mum and Kiera as his sister.
"I was 19 and worked at a pizza chain store before RING snatched me off the streets after dark at the end of my shift. He was there, his was the boss of that location!"
"What is his name if we didn't tell you his name?"
"Nicholas Jordan."
"There was a fake I.D on him for a Nicholas Jordan. It was a very convincing fake. Could hardly tell it wasn't real." General Peterson speaks up.
Kiera looks sad. "He set me up! I've been set up since I was a kid! Did he know RING was going to take me?! Why work with me as my boss?!"
"He probably wanted to get to know you Kiera, but from a distance." Clara tells him.
"You have to talk to him again!" Kiera begs. "We can try, but we can't make him talk about the past, Kiera. And this is a big criminal trial about a alot of people regarding kidnapping, murder, slave and drug trafficking, so on.
He might not want to talk about when you and Kade we're younger. You and Kade only fit into this as a very small puzzle piece.
"You said she had a brother. Has she seen him? This Kade." Clara wonders.
"Briefly. She doesn't want a relationship with him and I can't make her."
"He got adopted, no less by an american family while I aged out the system in Canada! Kaylee gave birth to him there!"
"Ouch..." Clara trails off.
"Yes, she's jealous which is not inherently a wrong way to feel."
"Can we change the subject?" Maxis pleads. "Of course." Clara responds.
"So, what the fuck we doing to find, Elliot?" He asks when there is a scream. Everyone runs in that direction to the holding cells, a scared canadian police officer there. "Laura, what happened?" Clara asks, coming to stand beside her.
"Shit!" She says seeing Dion hanging from the light fixtures in the roof, his neck bruised and purple. He isn't breathing.
General Peterson grabs his feet lifting him up while Clara tries to undo what is around his neck.
He used the blanket from his bed. "Get her out of here!" Thea yells gesturing to Kiera. Maxis picks her up and carries her out of the room. She can't move or say anything.
And things are only going to get worse.
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