Hope

"What..what I meant was... that..this mission might take us time but it isn't an impossible mission...just hard.."

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"You okay?" Harriet asked.

It was night time, Leonard was lying on bed looking at the ceiling of the room aimlessly.

"By the way it's quite late, you should sleep now." Harriet said as she looked at the clock. The clock showed 2 AM.

Hearing this, Leonard got up and held Harriet's hand.

"How..how am I supposed to sleep.. when I know my family is in great danger...you were..followed..Sabrina shot...uncle Harry is kidnapped. God knows what condition he is kept in... Just tell me how do I sleep knowing all that?" Leonard asked as the fear to lose his family was showing in his eyes, his face, his movements.

He had kept his calm whole day in agency and then had to go to the company as well. He had pent up fear inside him, he was feeling helpless the whole time. He was feeling like crying but tears won't come out of his eyes, he was that sad seeing situation in front of him.

Harriet looked into his eyes with her love and held both of his hands tightly letting him know she'll be there no matter what happens and then said as she got closer to him and looked right into his eyes "I know Leonard you are in pain and I am here to share it with you. But you know to keep your body functioning you need rest too. Everything will be fine, I believe in you. I know you can handle all this."

The lines that came from her made Leonard smile a little..and even tears started to shed from his eyes. He pulled her closer from her waist and hugged her tightly. Harriet brushed through his hair and patted his back lightly.

"Better now?" She asked.

"Mhm-mm." Leonard said.

"Leonard, I don't wanna ruin our moment or anything but you are kinda hugging a bit too tight..." She said.

This made Leonard laugh and then he let her go from his embrace and lied on her lap.

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The Next Day

"Tyler, any leads to our Mr. Perfectionist guy?" Leonard asked as soon as he entered the HQ office.

"Well, we had sent some agents to country N and we found something interesting." Tyler said.

"Oh? What did you find?" Leonard asked.

"So our team was investigating the area and we found out from where the shooting happened, when the shooting happened Mr. Nelson (WOSDA's branch head in Country N) was sitting at his desk and working. From the building where the assassinator shot, he left this." Tyler said as he showed a bullet sealed in a transparent packet.

"That's an AR-500 bullet, what about it?" Leonard asked as he looked at the bullet.

"Yes, but.... it has finger prints of the assassinator!" Tyler said.

"You couldn't have gone with that?" Leonard said with an agitated expression.

"Well..I could've but there is more. So, the assassinator was not in agency's database but yesterday when Harry sir's accident happened he was found leaving from the same road at the same time.." Tyler said.

"So, have you caught him?" Leonard asked.

"We had...but he managed to escape even from our most advanced cells." Tyler said.

"Hmm. Did you guys at least gave him his criminal ID number chip?" Leonard asked.

The agency would put chip when the criminal would enter their cells. That chip has 2 things, one is the criminal ID number which is an 11 digit number in which first four digits are Agency code then the next two digits defines the country and then the next five digit number denote the number given to the criminal. The second thing is most important reason for which this idea was introduced, the chip also consisted a GPS.

"Yes sir. Luckily, he has not taken the chip out so we do know his location." Tyler said.

For criminals to get the chip out, they have to cut their hand. That is the only way they'd be able to get the chip out or get detached from it.

After 10 minutes.

"This is criminal no.78679112567. He is the assassinator who killed Mr. Nelson the WOSDA's branch head in Country N. He was captured by the agency last night but he managed to escape from the most advanced cell of the agency. His GPS has given us the location, so I want you to get him here alive so that we could find out who was behind this. You got that?" Leonard asked.

"Yes sir!" The team said.

"Okay great, then go get him!" Leonard said.

"Yes!" The team said.

After the team left, Leonard sat on his chair took a small sigh of relief as they finally had some lead..some hope. He was filled with hope that he could now find out who was behind this. But at the same time, he was afraid too. He kept looking at his phone screen for it to flash with any message.

saying that their only hope which could lead them to the mastermind might be killed too and then the team might be captured by them as well.

"Please be safe you guys...you are my only hope.." Leonard said in his heart as he remembered the team.